L.M. Boyd

My mother, if she could fathom computers and see my humble blog, would shake her head, tut and say "Why, anyone can see you fancy yourself a cyber-era L.M. Boyd! This is a disgrace!"

And, man, would she ever be right!

How I miss the daily trivia column that ran for the years of my youth! Easily cuttable for the editors of the amusement pages (should Ann Landers go long with a particularly hot one) but always full of great facts, bluntly stated, such as "Skunks eat bees." or "The guitar is a popular instrument for the starting musician because it's easy to start, but then you can never get good enough" [papaphrase] or "It was illegal by decree in bygone Cambodia to insult a rice plant."

SO megaglad I thought of writing this because I found the picture above (the only other photo I'd ever seen of the great man [a Seattle native, if you wondered] was the one that ran beside his column for years, where he looked like a Johnson Space Center employee on break, flattop and all, oh, and btw: England's terminally sick kings traditionally pardoned all prisoners except murderers and thieves) where L.M.(d.2004) sits around all old-guy hip/casual (though I'd have preferred something more Look Book); also, it lead to my finding THIS!:
http://www.walknet.net/boyd.shtml