News you can lose!…
From PR Gnus, an illustration of what one can do with the digital equivalent of scissors and some tape: NPR News, remixed:
They’re all amusing, but one might start with, say, #90… (TotH to our friends at Laughing Squid)
As we choose our thank-you gifts, we might recall that it was on this date in 1970 that the first true Heavy Metal rock album appeared– the eponymously-titled Black Sabbath. (The band– which introduced the world to Ozzy Osbourne– had originally been called Earth, but changed it’s name to avoid confusion with another band playing under that name; they chose “Black Sabbath” in homage to a Boris Karloff horror film.)
“the worst of the counterculture on a plastic platter”
– Robert Christgau, Village Voice
Your correspondent is off to realms currently under a communications-inhibiting blanket of snow and ice. Thus these missives may be sporadic for the next week or so… with apologies in advance for any interruptions in service, he notes that readers will have curling (and the rest of the Olympics) to amuse them during any such interstice.