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More Great TV News: New Episodes of “Mock the Week”
If you’ve been playing the home game of “How Many UK Television Shows Does Roz Watch Anyway?” you’ll be pleased to know that one of my favorite shows has new episodes out in the US. (BritBox) “Mock the Week” is back in a covid manifestation with perspex partitions between the comics and a Zoom audience. […]
In Context—More Pep Talks from the Archives
Still organizing scans and papers here. This scan from January contained a note Dick left for me when he went off to work and I was left at home trying to cope with “the Zombie Eye.” (Which is what we call the super large contact lens meant to control the shape of my oddball left […]
Almost Speechless
It has been an intense and difficult two months in the US since the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. Last week I saw something I never thought I’d see. (As a child I was out of the country in 1968.) Masked Federal agents putting people, who were exercising their right to protest, […]
Killer Mike Says It Best…
“Plot, Plan, Strategize, Organize, Mobilize,” Killer Mike On May 25, 2020 George Floyd was murdered by four policeman. You can watch a video tape on online of the final nine minutes of his life. You can read the New York Times reconstruction of the murder here. Because this killing happened in my home town I […]
Protected: In Context: No Political Comfort From Howard Stern
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Protected: In Context: Whacky Sketching Mistakes
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Protected: In Context: Page from My Green-lined Journal
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Protected: Introspection and Gratitude
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Protected: In Context: More on the Politics of Hair
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The Truth Matters; Freedom of the Press Matters; Vote Today
Today, nothing matters more than getting out to vote. By November 3, 2018 there were literally 6,420 reasons to vote against President Trump. That was the current tally of misstatements Trump had made in the 649 days of his presidency. Misstatements which have been misogenistic, racist, and simply insulting to caring, compassionate, and responsible humans. […]