Politicos in the KNOW will pickup the September 10 Newsweek and turn to page 19. There you will find in the UPPER LEFT (no pun intended) corner an editorial cartoon I first saw a few days ago in the State Journal-Register. It was drawn by the SJ-R’s and Springfield zone Christ Britt.
Chris is the best reason to visit the Editorial Page since Molly Ivins died. Aaaaaaaaaaaaayand, he’s a superb abstract painter as well. The cartoon in Newsweek demonstrates how incredibly hip the man is (though he looks like your Marine Corps drill sergeant). It also shows the most laudable hipness of the editorial staff for nurturing Chris’ considerable talent with regular paychecks. Kudos to the mall — make that Kudos to them all.
Pictured above are two gifts from Bloomington songstress and friend Marita Brake. Her name on a CD is gold. Trust me. We traded songs back in the late 60s coffeehouse era. When she came to Springfield a few years ago to play she gave me the hand crafted peace neckwear, and today a fantastic card arrived right on time, re my big day and a reminder from Bob Gilbert, long cherished high school chum (and I don’t mean shark bait) now living in Roselle. Was so delighted by the custom crafted card and nice note that I took a photo of them to share with youse. If a guy can’t brag about his friends, he parbaly (as #43 might slay) shouldn’t brag at all.
Today’s Barry Tempest pointless fact: The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet used most often by the people of most western world countries.
Today’s Job Conger’s pointless fact: It’s true: “Hey, did you know that the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” also contains every letter of the al’bet used most often by people of most western world countries.
Live long . . . . . and proper.
