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by kara on July 30, 2011

Heartfelt and sincere thanks to Alexina, Bonnie, Victoria, Teddie, Samantha, the old coot, Lesley Ann, Andre, Julia and Jane for always reading my blog(s). Knowing I am not writing/ranting/pontificatng into a void is the only thing that keeps me going day in and day out. And Chelly!

by kara on July 29, 2011

    candy colored phones from Sweet Bella

And crown thy good with brotherhood

by kara on July 25, 2011

by kara on July 24, 2011

  She was a beautiful girl

Music for the Eyeballs.

by kara on July 23, 2011

  Six months ago, I began the search for the person who created the iconic cover art for Frank Sinatra’s 1955 concept album “in the wee small hours”. A friend was producing an album, and wanted something similarly evocative for its cover. The cover is a painting, deceptively simple, but able to precisely reflect the […]

by kara on July 20, 2011

from “drip-along-daffy”, merrie melodies, 1951

The Boys of Bummer Summer.

by kara on July 19, 2011

  Roy Campaella said: “You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too”. That said, you’d think the Congressional Republicans would have decimated their Democratic counterparts when the 2 parties squared off at the 2011 annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park […]

quick 2010 emmy nomination rundown

by kara on July 14, 2011

for my shows, I don’t care about all others: The Cleveland Show Best Animated Program for ‘Murray Christmas’ Family Guy, Best Score, Christmas show, Ron Jones Family Guy, Best Score, “And Then There Were Fewer”, Walter Murphy, Family Guy, “Christmastime is Killing Us” Best Original Song (Seth, Danny Smith, and Ron) Family Guy, Christmas show, […]

From HELL

by kara on July 13, 2011

Title: Oil Portrait of Elizabeth (Betty) Bloomer Ford, Felix De Cossio, 1977 Betty Ford’s death makes me sad in a history marching on kind of way, a kind of nostalgia for a time when political personalities tried to present a face to the public that wasn’t shrieking, moronic, ugly and loud. No Republican politician before […]