What Evanier said about Paris. Ditto. This is the second time this year my cousin Anne, currently working there, has had to report that she is safe.
Marilynne Robinson warns against utilitarian trends in higher education.
Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prisoner Re-entry.
The First County Clerk in the US to Approve a Same-Sex Marriage License. In 1975.
Egypt’s women-only taxi service promises protection from male drivers.
A New Alcott Emerges From The ‘Annotated Little Women’.
Now I Know: How Matthew Broderick Helped Shape American Computer Law and The World’s Most Prolific Author.
Berowne’s participation in the French Revolution. No, not that one.
A tumor stole every memory I had. This is what happened when it all came back.
Renaissance Geek: Eddie is 51, which is divisible by three.
Simply Red: The Con-Man Behind the Rightwing’s Starbucks Cup Freak-Out.
Wondermark: Throw Back the Dead Man’s Coin.
Stop expecting artists to work for free — or worse, for “exposure”.
Tosy has 10 opening sentences to short stories that do not exist, yet. But one of them could.
David Kalish: My imagined contract with cockroaches.
The new music video Weather the Storm by Rebecca Jade, the eldest niece.
Allen Toussaint – seven of his greatest songs. Plus Top 10 Allen Toussaint Classic Rock Covers, and finding a big hit in Toussaint’s trash can.
K-Chuck Radio: The WABC Sonic Experience!
Dustbury’s Feel Bad songs. Plus Connie Stevens (!) sang the original of a soul classic.
The Beatles: A 5 Minute Drum Chronology – Kye Smith.
“Love and Theft” – The Veiled but Tangled Roots of Jimmie Rodgers and Tommy Johnson.
Confessions Of An Idiom. What happens if the Elephant in the Room decides to make the Skeleton in the Closet bring the truth to light?
Mad magazine: Overheard at the New Amazon Bookstore.
The Absolute Best Way to Reheat Pizza.
Mark Evanier continues to list the twenty top voice actors in American animated cartoons between 1928 and 1968, including Jackson Beck (Bluto, King Leonardo) and Dick Beals (Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Davey of Davey and Goliath) and Clarence Nash (Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie) and Bill Scott (Bullwinkle J. Moose, Mr. Peabody).
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the first-ever Disney character and a long-eared precursor to Mickey Mouse, features in this long-lost animated film. Another, obscure, Disney film, John Henry.
The finale of a recent episode of Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, a program I forget was even on the air.
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What comics creator has most changed the way people think about comics?