As always, click to enlarge. For more Tom the Dancing Bug, Ben Sargent, Pat Oliphant, Calvin and Hobbes, Tom Toles, and Zippy, go here, here, here, here, here, and here...
Just A Song: Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan's lovely and subtle interpretation of "Now Westlin Winds", a song written by the poet Robert Burns in the 18th Century...
Greezy Wheels have been making great music in Austin since, it seems like, the times of O. Henry in the waning days of the Arthur administration. Now vocalist Lissa Hattersley has released a solo album called How I Spent My Summer Vacation, well-reviewed here by Foxessa. Citizen K. concurs with her review: Summer Vacation is a delight from beginning to end...
Our friend Lynn Shelton's award-winning film Humpday, which won a prize at Sundance, makes its Seattle premier next month at the Seattle Independent Film Festival...
Will Ferrell reprises his role as George Bush one more time ("I'm not scared of you now, Dick')...
On Tuesday, the Criterion Collection releases The Friends Of Eddie Coyle, with Robert Mitchum giving his last great perform as a small-time hood to whom being a standup guy is everything and nothing. Alex Tallis writes that it is the best Boston movie ever...
Original Poetry Sunday: "Ghazal 5/16" (John Hayes)...
New Orleans Daily Photo: Pavement pounding in Audubon Park...
Speaking of photos, the lion sleeps tonight...
Trudie Wall...
Sunday Gospel Time: I'm not sure who this is, but they're great. Daniel saw the stone/A lily white stone rolling down to Babylon...
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