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Two obituary posts in a row, and I didn’t even mention Tony Gwynn. My favourite cartoonist, Charles Barsotti, has died from cancer at the age of 80. My favourite Barsotti…

My sister in Italy, again this year

doug rogers June 21, 2014

My sister in Italy, again this year My sister is travelling again through various places in Italy again this summer. Here is the blog posting pics and notes, most writing…

Fleeing the conversation

doug rogers June 21, 2014

Filed under: art Tagged: Cat

This how I cure headaches

doug rogers June 20, 2014

Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, upside-down

An old Italian postcard

doug rogers June 19, 2014

While traipsing around #ldnont Dundas Street Festival, I filed through a box of antique postcards of various scenes of Italy. Accidentally beginning a drawing later with a few lines of…

This graph shows the shape of our economy

doug rogers June 18, 2014

Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, red line

ruby dee, 1922-2014

laura k June 18, 2014

Ruby Dee was a towering figure in the American theatre. She was a great actor, a poet, playwright, and screenwriter, and a steadfast voice for equality. Along with the actor…

Octopussy kitten beneath the sea

doug rogers June 17, 2014

A reworked version of the original, now with added background. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, kitten, octopuss

The Robocop Remake Skips its Elysium Class Warfare Moment

Stephen Elliott-Buckley June 17, 2014

Don’t bother with the Robocop remake. The original–campy, sensationalized, mildly intolerable–still succeeds in one key element: examining class warfare. You’d think that in an era of post-2008, the 1% being…