Harry Nilsson's charming fable is set in the land of the Pointed Village where everyone has a point, with the exception of our hero, Oblio.
Dustin Hoffman narrates this original version of The Point.
Can only be viewed on You Tube.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Funniest of the Funnies
Leading off with the greatest and most sharply satirical of 'em all - Garry (Don't look at me; he's the one who can't spell it) Trudeau's Doonesbury.
The First Strip - B.D. Meets Mike October 26, 1970
Where Richard Nixon was concerned, Mark Slackmeyer never stood for journalistic fair play. - May 29, 1973
Trudeau always carried a deft needle to puncture Trump.
This is from 1987.
And 1999.
One of the only strips in which the characters aged in real time, this is 40 years further on down the road, May, 2013
Al Capp's L'il Abner - Sadie Hawkins Day
Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick ain't no Dick Tracy
And, of course, Charles Shultz whose Peanuts were filled with compassion. Here he relates the sad tale of Willie McCovey and the 1962 San Francisco Giants as told by Charlie Brown in 2 parts.
The invention of the asphalt roller paved the way for highways. Now if they would only invent the gasoline engine.
Beginning in the early 1930s, the trailblazing Dick Tracy was the first and only detective slick enough to have a device, in his case a wristwatch, that actually connected to the internet. It took the rest of the planet 60 years to catch up to the square jawed Dick. And his Crimestoppers textbook foiled many an evil minded villain intent on larceny. Guard your social security number!
The forerunner to comic strips peopled by animals observing the foibles of humans, Walt Kelley's Pogo was not only funny, but it actually mattered.
Continuing along with the funniest of the Funnies, a look back at Berke Breathed's Bloom County.
Running from 1980 through 1989, Breathed was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. Milo, Binkley, Steve Dallas, Cutter John, Bill the Cat and, of course, Opus the Penguin combined the best elements of Doonesbury and Pogo in a gentle, satirical and utterly charming world of silliness.
Forty Years Later - May 18, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
It's a Good Day for Peggy Lee (Wherever She May Be).
"It's a good day for singing a song and it's a good day for moving along."
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Cleo Laine indulges in Mozart's Turkish Delight
Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth indulge in Mozart's Turkish Delight
Rondo Alla Turka - 1978
"Many years ago, centuries ago, long before the Beatles ever had a single fan,
There was once a guy called Mozart and he was a keyboard man."
Thursday, May 2, 2013
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