As noted last month, a color Sunday Barnaby ran from 1946 to 1948 – apt, because the original Barnaby strip that helped Crockett Johnson sell the comic to PM was also a Sunday strip. Courtesy of the generous Colin Myers, here’s a Christmas Barnaby from 63 years ago – December 21, 1947. (Don’t forget: clicking
Quick post from Amtrak heading north. Â On the way back from the Diane Rehm Show (now archived on website), I passed the person at right, who was selling copies of Street Sense and who kindly granted me this photograph. Â I always enjoy spotting signs of Seuss in the world. Â And, here, I suspect that Seuss
A holiday classic for misanthropes: “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.”
This post is for my fellow intellectual laborers – be you academics, teachers, authors, artists, carpenters, curators, architects, doctors, plumbers, web designers, or… well, any job that requires you to use your noggin’. Â If you think about it (and people reading this blog probably do think about it), intellectual labor covers many jobs – you
These days, I don’t talk much about my first book. I wrote it when I was 7 years old, in collaboration with Dr. Seuss and Roy McKie. As you can see, I improved upon their artwork with the aid of stickers from the United Fruit Company (of whose bananas I was then an avid consumer)
Film Score Monthly’s newly released 3-CD original motion picture soundtrack to The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) is a must for fans of Dr. Seuss, composer Frederick Hollander, or the film itself. The rest of you might want to see the cult classic before purchasing. And, for the record, if you’ve any interest in
The Record: Contemporary ART and VINYL, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker (Duke University Press, 2010), is both beautifully produced and delightful to read. Meditate on the photographs of phonograph-inspired art, or on the dozen or so brief essays, which are – to a person – all interesting. No kidding. I often just skip around in a book like
Robert Krulwich has many ideas on how to celebrate 12/12 (today), including paying a visit to the Dozenal Society of America’s website. Â Here are two more contributions to the “12” party. Â First, it’s “Rocks Number 12,” a 2-minute animated film that aired on Sesame Street in the early 1970s. Â This is my first memory of
Is reporting on one’s editorial process the height of self-indulgent blogging? Join us in one man’s journey to find out.
As noted in my last Christmas music post, I’ve made a lot of these mixes, each one different. Last year, I decided to make a mix of downbeat – even somewhat depressing – holiday music. This is it. 1. Blue Christmas Bright Eyes (2002)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2:22 Elvis’s version has been so overplayed that it’s no longer