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Diner, Santa Monica 2018

My Favorite Cartoonist, Today

Whitney Darrow, Jr.

New York City Street Photos

These were taken last June, mostly downtown in the neighborhoods around the South Street Seaport, Brooklyn Bridge and Chinatown.

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Helen & Hercules, 2014

My Favorite Painting, Today

Franz Marc, Three Cats 1913

Toonerville Thursday

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Plaza de America, Seville 2013

My Favorite Movie Scene, Today

This Weeek's Playlist & Podcast

Statler Brothers

This week saw the airing of the 110^th edition of the Idiosyncratic History of Rock, with a theme of Big Screen/Little Screen—songs related to movies and television. You can see the playlist below, and by clicking here, you can listen to a recording of the full broadcast.

TV Party, Black Flag

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Hugo Montenegro

Prove It, Television

A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles

Western Movies, Olympics

Ringo, Lorne Greene

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott, Statler Brothers

Rowdy, Clint Eastwood

My Rifle, My Pony & Me, Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson

Celluloid Heroes, Kinks

Silent Film Star, Grandpaboy

The Curley Shuffle, Jump n the Saddle Band

Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley & the Comets

Highly Illogical, Leonard Nimoy

Dinner With Drac. Part 1, John Zacherle

TeleVee-Shun, Stan Freberg w/ Billy May & Orchestra

I Hate the TV, Violent Femmes

Rock’n’Roll High School, Ramones

A Million Miles Away, Plimsouls

Don’t You Forget About me, Simple Minds

Moving in Stereo, Cars

I Melt With You, Modern English

Hooray for Captain Spaulding, Groucho Marx

I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat, Mel Blanc

Cruella DeVille, Replacements

Wake Up Little Susie, Everly Brothers

Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey

Kung Fu Fighting, Carl Douglas

The Barney Fife Song, Gums and Moses

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron

Bonanza, Johnny Cash

Hawaii Five-O, Ventures

She Loves You, Peter Sellers

King Tut, Steve Martin

Let Her In, John Travolta

Everybody’s Talkin’, Nilsson

Stuck in the Middle with You, Stealers’ Wheel

57 Channels (and Nothin’ On), Bruce Springsteen

Television, the Drug of the Nation, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

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Art Lovers, MASS MOCA 2014

My Favorite Song, Today

Lowell, Mass.

Last July my sister Sara and I visited Lowell, Massachusetts more or less on a whim, while heading for the Atlantic coast.  It's an old (c1820s) industrial town which was also the hometown of one of my literary heroes, Jack Kerouac.  The whole town is now a National Park, commemorating its role in the industrial revolution. We had a good time wandering around and checking out various museums and memorials-- and I even ran into a former student who works there as a park ranger!  A very nice morning overall, even despite the intermittent rain. 

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On 42nd Street, New York 2018

My Favorite Photographer, Today

Lee Miller, Two German Women Sitting on a Park Bench, 1945

The Los Angeles Zoo

Pictures collected during my visit to the Los Angeles Zoo last March.  That was my first visit to the Zoo, but I hope to return sometime.

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Buffalo, 2018

My Favorite Cartoonist, Today

William Steig

Some Forest Abstracts

These were collected at Chestnut Ridge Park near Orchard Park, NY.  If you look closely, you can tell that they are woodsy scenes, but I like the abstract effect created by cropping them close, converting to black and white, and in most cases employing some double exposures.