Brian Snyder / Reuters
Arizona lawn sign
Tuesday, November 08, 2022
Rocking the vote
"I'm going to bed ... wake me
if all the polls turn out to be wrong."
Sipress / newyorker.com
Fat Girl Boogie
Rob Rio has recorded more than a dozen albums and is in the Boogie Woogie Hall of Fame.
Below, some boogie woogie scenes ...
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Monday, November 07, 2022
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Sunday, November 06, 2022
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Hooray for the Hellscape
The Seventh Level of Social Hell
Nicholas Konrad's riff on Elon Musk's Twitterscape
Illustrator: Nicholas Konrad
Art image: The Last Judgment, Jan van Eyck
_Saturday, November 05, 2022
Friday, November 04, 2022
Election fever in the U.S.
"It'll be so nice to have that extra hour
this weekend to dread the fall of democracy."
PERFORMANCE: Ari Shaffir
If you consider yourself a comic soul or creative person, Ari Shaffir's virtuoso riff on religion will delight you.
Is it a comic hour? A one man show? An extended standup? A theater piece?
A conversation?
Yes. All of these.
It's the perhaps most comedic turn up on Youtube, up a day ago. Unique.
Be prepared for a very secular ending.
To watch it later, you'd search, or go to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2YtIBYM4w0
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Thursday, November 03, 2022
Godzilla ate the Toronto Star
_It's Godzilla's birthday!
On November 3rd, 1954, Godzilla made his first appearance in Toho's Godzilla, a classic monster movie widely regarded as a masterpiece. This date is officially Godzilla's birthday, with a Godzilla Festival held in Japan each year to celebrate.
Godzilla comes from the Permian period of prehistory which makes him more than 252 million years old.
Godzilla ate the old Toronto Star digs
on King Street in 1972,
after he got a bad bagel
at Stoodleigh's.
He damn near choked to death.
Then Godzilla went to
the Lord Simcoe for a birthday drink.
Then the Prince George.
Then the Swiss Bear.
He destroyed those places too.
Soon he will come for 1 Yonge St ....
LOST SONGS: FLIP, FLOP AND FLY
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Forget the Blues Brothers.
There are 100 alternate versions of the mid-century Chicago blues fave.
Jerry Lee Lewis, above. Big Joe Turner below.
And Downchild.
Song: Charles Calhoun & Lou Willie Tucker
Wednesday, November 02, 2022
_George Booth ( 1926 - 2022 )
George Booth, the legendary New Yorker cartoonist, died yesterday in New York City.
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