13 July 2008

R.I.P. Solve


The work survives. The killing confounds. There's a video here.

04 July 2008

PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT


As seen through a Moscow shop window at 3:30 a.m. in December 2005. Say what you will about the economic stratification of the Russian state, but at least the trains don't stop running at midnight.

03 July 2008

LATE GREAT


Despite the numerous obits I read last month, it didn't really dawn on me (again) that Harvey Korman was the voice of The Great Gazoo. Has there been a more absurdly ingenious cartoon bum-rush?