Lasorda was an interesting character here in Los Angeles. He was rivaled in his bombastic coaching manner only by Billy Martin of the New York Yankees. Los Angeles has lost a beloved icon in his passing.

I believe the sad thing that might of happened with Tanya Roberts is that when she was rushed to the hospital feeling very ill, the hospital (Cedars-Sinai near Hollywood/Beverly Hills) which is one of the BEST private hospital in the Los Angeles area, but like all hospitals here in the Los Angeles area are totally overwhelmed by people coming in hourly in mass with covid infections--- they probably didn't right on diagnosing her actual problem. Therefore the worry right now is limited care, delayed care, and with a sepsis infection not even attended to for several hours, the results can be quickly fatal. I had a friend die about 10 years ago from sepsis due to a leg wound he left unattended for too long. By the time he drove himself to the hospital, he quickly went into a coma, and was dead within 12 hours. I know quite a few people who work in healthcare who have told me that people coming in with things like heart attacks who might have had a good chance at survival, are now dying in larger numbers just because the staff is so overwhelmed with critical care patients.

He definitely marches to the beat of a different kazoo that guy...

The Big Chill (1983)

That scene seems appropriate to the last 24 hours doesn't it?

Nice!

Classic pen and ink style illustrations, like so many we used to see in all of the classic books we read as kids.

Put the battery in my 20 year Motorolla flip phone and turned it on the other day because I had a grocery delivery coming to the house and wanted it on in case the delivery person need directions . There were 127 messages when I turned it on, mostly just notification updates from various sources. Pain in the ass listening to the phone beep and beep for 10 minutes, and if you try to make a call the beeps keep coming. I hate cell phones. I saw on the news today where the Governor of our state was saying there is some AP you can put on your cellphone which helps track covid people, especially people you have come into contact with. I guess it knows the location of where people are, and then tracks them and their health data. Yeah sure, like I want the government tracking me and tracking who I am around. This is very nefarious shit. No reason to own a phone like that.

Thank you RB. All good here, hope the same for you and everyone else. Lots of covid spikes here in the Los Angeles area. News said today that 1 in 5 tested here are positive for covid. I am holed up inside like the uni Bomber. It's going to be long winter here in sunny SoCal.

Eleanor Powell

Just a wood stove? Any context to that? When I think of R. Crumb I think of the line from The Doors song.... "brain is squirming like a toad". Like this drawing, only what is in his mind he knows what this means.

I remember his stuff from Cracked magazine.

This year: Robert Plant turns 73 Jimmy Page turns 77 (actually just in a few days) and John Paul Jones just turned 75 yesterday

I guess he is related to Eldridge, so it makes sense.

I used to have a few R. Crumb comic books, but when my mother found them she burned them. I almost bought a R. Crumb statue of one his many different female characters, the school girl one. But where would I put it?

This year I will resolve to just try to stay alive. Which basically means keeping distance from all the stupid people out there, which isn't easy.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/emanuel-cleaver-awoman-amen-prayer/

There was a documentary a few years ago, he came from a very weird family. His brother and mother totally wacked out. I thing the brother talked about all kinds of perverted shit he used to do.

We'll see.... Something makes me thing it will be at least to 2022 before things are better off.

I was looking into the availability of the vaccination here is Southern California, and according to info I found the priority for vaccinations is still with medical workers, first responders, nursing home workers and residents which all makes sense. But then I heard they are now prioritizing above other people, including many with some health issues in favor of prisoners in jail cells and street people/vagrants. Now how does that seem fair? The rest of us who have staying home in isolation and being careful need to be behind people out using heroin on the streets or prisoners in jails??? And aren't people in jail cells automatically "social distanced" anyway?