Archive for December, 2007

Crow and Kitten are Friends.

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JiJzqXxgxo] Here’s a story about a crow who adopts a stray kitten. I like this story. It makes me happy. I hope we can all take a cue about how to treat people and other creatures from this clip. Thanks George… Happy New Year.

Writer’s Guild Strike

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Our new episode, “B Train Blues,” is brought to you without the benefit of any writing. I sat this one out. Here I am in a photo taken by the superlative photographer and great friend Linda Gale Gellman, standing on the picket line last week with striking Writer’s Guild members in South Beach, Florida. Frozen […]

What is it?

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I was struck by this picture of “Zip the What is It”. Zip was born William Henry Johnson in Liberty Corners, NJ in 1857 to William and Mahalia Johnson, former slaves. He was hired by Barnum into the American Museum in 1860. Zip’s stage intro came mere months after the publishing of Darwin’s “Origin of […]