Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Send a Xmas halloo!
Hey! Say hi in the comments so I know you are alive, everyone!
[pic because I had meant to use it and have not til now and because it's tuff! And, no, there will be more posts tomorrow, alas...]
"Empire State of Mind"
This song is SICK. Love it. Also, nice that a song about New York goes out at Number One in a decade where New York did not have such an easy time of it. I like the "New York's still the place to be" vibe which is so 70's. Also, respect to Jay for sitting at Knicks games with weird Jarvis Cocker specs on.
Nick Eddy Regrets: Don Trachte
I had a post some time this year, maybe, about how shitty the comic strip Henry was and how poor Don Trachte (who drew it on Sundays) was a sad character because all his wiki bio had to say was that he had produced an exact copy of Norman Rockwell's breaking home ties - my supercilious assumption being that, y'know, so what?
Well, I found out recently that this was quite intriguing, in reality - his kids found the original stashed in a wall and the one that was on display was an exact copy that Trachte had forged, maybe to fend off lawyers in a divorce settlement. Or something like that - not even Don T's kids knew for sure, and they certainly never knew Pops could paint like that.
Original:
Forgery:
Crazy, right? So, anyway, I owe poor Don Trachte a mea culpa from Nick Eddy Relents and whoever wrote his misleading Wiki bio should have thumbscrews applied, etc.
Also, I tried my hand at a counterfeit of the counterfeit:
Salut!
This Cheap Star record is ace, as well - they're French, but the tow main Posies played on it or produced it or something.
Snow pig
I had one of the three side doors open this morning at about 6:50 am est - for all of, I dunno, thirty seconds? - and who was standing there already when I looked down on the step in the falling ice/pellety crap but Picci!
She was all "This is cool! It's like Lord of the Rangs!"
Is it, Picci? Is it?
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