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a very scared abandoned dog was saved off of the streets and regained her happiness

video by @hopeforpaws

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At first I thought I’d be seeing the scribes’ backup team coming in to relieve them after a long shift.

Relief of Scribes at work

A fragment of a wall relief showing scribes intent on writing, probably under dictation, holding their tablets in their left hand and their pens in their right. The relief was part of a more elaborate composition from the memphite tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1336-1292 BC. Limestone, height: 24 cm, width: 31.5 cm. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence. 2566 Read more

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A Splendid Wedding Reception

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AppleFest 2022

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A Sunday afternoon wedding

A Sunday afternoon wedding

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Upcoming caricature gig

Yup, that’s me! I’m the caricaturist Ms Arendt mentions in this clip. On Saturday, September 10th I’ll be drawing caricatures at an elegant fundraiser— the Hospice of Jefferson County’s Masquerade Ball at the Harbor Hotel in Clayton, New York. My manager, Marie, will be on hand to keep my operation moving along smoothly!…

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He's a lumberjack and he's okay

He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay

What if you could make paper out of something cheap, that’s not cloth? Cloth rags are expensive. Cloth rags have fiber that can be made into a pulp. What else has fiber? I mean besides broccoli. Imagine living in North America—in Canada—and you’re surrounded by literal millions of big humongous huge growths that are nothing but fiber. I’m talking about trees. Pine wood is soft enough to break…

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Worth the paper it's printed on

Worth the paper it’s printed on

Those newspaper printers wanted to make a buck. They needed to pay close attention to that ol’ bottom line. ‘Bottom line’ is a jokey way of saying what you get when you subtract how much you spent from how much you made. You get a bigger bottom line (more profit) by reducing what you spend. Take paper, for instance. Paper is one of the expenses of printing a newspaper. Making paper hadn’t changed…

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You gotta be authorized!

You gotta be authorized!

Newspapers provided news, information and opinion at a reasonable cost. As we saw in past cultures, the big-shots in charge like to exercise tight control on news, information and opinion. The early newspapers of the 1600s & 1700s had to be ‘authorized.’ Authorized newspaper printers were given permission to publish by the government. Maybe the government covered some of the costs of running an…

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Newspapers and coffee

Around the same time that newspapers first appeared, coffee houses were becoming a thing in London, England. Coffee is a hot beverage that was first imported from Turkey. People (okay, men) gathered at coffee houses to meet, talk, exchange ideas and gather news. It was natural that newspapers were sold there. For the cartoon up top, I redrew part of this wonderful drawing pretty much as is. It’s…

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And now, the news

And now, the news

We talked about pamphleteers and pamphlets. The mechanized printing press made it feasible (you wouldn’t go broke doing it) to write up an essay or an article and get copies of it printed, distributed and sold. There were enough literate (they could read) customers to support a pamphlet business. Some of those pamphleteers got rich and famous. It must have become clear after awhile that news…

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Okay, where were we?

Okay, where were we?

Oh, yeah—we’d started to talk about newspapers. What is a newspaper?: a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertisinghttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspaper Back to the beginning of The Western Civ User’s Guide to Reading & Writing. Don’t forget: I wrote another Western Civ User’s Guide! Back to…

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A few more caricatures from last weekend

A few more caricatures from last weekend

Here’s a tiny handful of photos from my gig last weekend—the community event in Utica, New York. Thanks again to Michael Purcell at A-1 Entertainment for hiring me!

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Drawing faces

Last weekend I got to draw caricatures at a lovely community celebration in Utica, NY. Michael Purcell of A-1 Entertainment hired me and was kind enough to take this video—https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPQZdqkj1hwhsH9lWRYZtWFELJZhHt6lsUTuIdHZKmo30C1EAo6X04tol4ZhdfcvQ?key=Sk9FSjJmVkNFR1pHOHlnV2VMb010TzczU05JN3hR Here’s the couple holding their finished caricature: If you’re looking for…

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My dad

I’ve been taking care of my elderly dad—at his home in Syracuse, NY and then here at my house in Pennsylvania. He did a gradual decline in that time and finally departed this old world around lunchtime on Thursday, June 2. My sister Marian was by his side when he closed his eyes. Now he’s reunited with our mom.I’ll post links to the official obituary later. Pop was a beloved husband & father;…

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The Chilly Saints

I did a sloppy job of writing this. It’s not that these 3 days are cold, necessarily, but that after they’ve passed there’s no danger of frost.

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