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It was a fascinating place—but it was his. Other than comic books, a Hitchcock film is the only place where it makes sense for a wrongfully accused man to have to catch the real villian. Yet, the plots were never the point, were they?
I loved Doug Marlette. His political cartoons were so sharp that I almost always laughed out loud—even when he slaughtered some of my sacred cows. I suppose that's one of the signs of really good political humor, since all of us can laugh at the other side's foibles.
It's 4:59pm. Ariel walks into my office and waves a hand.
"I've got a test," he says. "So, I'm getting out of here."
I smile and shake my head. "I would hate to have to take a test after a day like today."
We've been busy.
"Yeah," Ariel says. "And it's Psychology."
I give him a look.
"I didn't know what kind of summer job I'd have when I was applying for classes. I thought, 'Whatever, I might be working at a restaurant.' I didn't know I'd have a cool job."
I smile. "Well, I'm glad you think it's a cool job."
"I do. I feel…
On the eve of the release of The Simpsons movie, Ian Jones explains when and why the TV show began to suck (he says it was in season 9, 1997). Will the movie reflect the glory of the first eight seasons or will it disappoint? The trailers have not embiggened my enthusiasm.
Harry Patch, the last survivor of Passchendaele, did something 500,000 of his mates didn't: He survived the three months of carnage. He's the last WWI Tommy.
"A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains—unveiled layer by layer—by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging."
There's video.
It's too bad the word "jam" was ever invented, much less the concept it implies being attached to music.
Once, jammin' wasn’t all a horror. Like in the simple, non-indulgent reality of, "Duane Allman jammed." But then the evil spawn of the Grateful Dead took over and now it's oozed like so much poisonous Chinese toothpaste into every kind of music imaginable. And sorry Phish fans but the jam outbreak was still relatively localized until the Good Ship Trey made it okay for everyone to stop practicing their instruments, forget about songwriting and arranging and just, you know dude, jam…