hnnnnnnh x_____X

my head is pounding I can't stop the pounding I think it is going to explode
there are pluses and minuses to sinusitis like sometimes I get to go home
But mostly it sucks and it feels like I'm dying
I just blew my nose and now I feel like crying


Kimya speaks so clearly for me sometimes.

Now for a tab dump.

And now, for a tab dump!

This artist makes people-paintings. The concept is amazing but I can't help but think she's incomplete without including their hair. Which is also why her dude on the subway is the best one.



Alan Greenspan would like his successors to have less reach than he did, because humans are fallible. Stunning assessment there, old chap. And so timely!

Once up on a time, Mr. Rogers defended PBS to Congress. The year was 1969. Their $20 million budget was going to be halved in order to help finance 'Nam. Mr. Rogers went forth, and did his Mr. Rogers thing. Senators who were mocking him at the start were humbled very quickly.

We have all these parodies and imitators of the man now, but nothing comes up to the real McCoy. I'm thinking here of the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, and Mr. Rogers' actual views on cartoon violence. What he must have thought of Batman, Transformers, all of them. What he might have thought of the idea of fandom deathmatch, much less that he emerged the victor.

In the end I think maybe the cartoon discourse won us over; this impression that the winner is the one who stands last on the battlefield, bloody and triumphant. But Mr. Rogers won our hearts, and we want him to come out on top even within the framework he tried so hard to take apart.

I hear he's no longer being shown in New York. :(