Anne Winter, R.I.P.

Virtually everyone that cares already knows this, but Anne Winter died recently. She owned a wonderful record store-Todd and I stole a lot of ideas from Recycled Sounds when we opened Elf's Head. When she closed, that was it for record stores in Kansas City.

I didn't know her well, just enough to say hello on the rare times we ran into each other. Best wishes to her family and close friends.

St. Makarios the Roman

From a 17th Century tempera painting on wood, from Skete of St. Anne on Mount Athos. Fabulous stuff.

Graves & Goth

The reliable Travis Fox has posted a cartoon in the Pitch reminding everyone that Sam Graves generously opened the doors to the Treasury so that some fools in Blue Springs could blow through some taxpayer dollars wanting to eradicate their goth crime problem.

Graves is one of the most powerless Members of Congress now since he's in the minority but he had little power even under Bush. He couldn't even keep the White House from firing his brother as U.S. Attorney.

Read the story: http://www.rickross.com/reference/goth/goth4.html

And I should put in a link to where Fox (and others) post their work: http://comicstripjoint.blogspot.com/