“Argument Against Socialized Health Care” (via Married To The Sea - 2,000 comics by Drew & Natalie Dee - Updates daily at midnight)
Elsa ~ print by Louis Prang & Co. Artist: Ferdinand Wagner, 1819-1881 (Boston Public Library)
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18Keep hoping machine running.
For the new year, I’ve decided to revive some old habits—foremost among them the act of writing on paper. This is not that. But in my experience writing just begets more writing, so it’s likely that…
Happy Birthday ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 - June 7, 1963)
“I adored ZaSu Pitts. Everyone did. She had so many friends - close friends like Thelma Todd, Frances Marion, Barbara La Marr, and, of course, my mother, Leatrice Joy…ZaSu was a brilliant, brilliant dramatic actress in silent film. Did you ever see her incredible performance in Erich von Stroheim’s Greed? She was remarkable. Her face was so mobile and expressive. Those unforgettable eyes of hers…”
~Leatrice Joy Fountain, daughter of silent screen stars Leatrice Joy and John Gilbert
(excerpt from ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career)
Computers, cocktails.
Last night D and I watched Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), a charming technothriller in which a Scientist makes a supercomputer, the US government hooks up all its missiles to the…
Dreamin'.
Typically transparent anxiety dreams all night: university presses have started up for-fee self-publishing lines to supplement flagging sales, and, having no word on the status of my manuscript in…
What babies are for.
This is a question that, as you might imagine, has been on my mind lately. Fortunately, this excellent TED talk by Alison Gopnik has largely answered the question for me. In short, babies are for…
Give a dog a bone.
D bought Daisy this gigantic, meaty, brontosaurus-sized bone at the pet store this morning. She’s been working on it all morning. She didn’t even want to abandon it to take her walk. Then, a few…
