Nellie Blog

Moving Day Getting ready to vacate the apartment this weekend. I think I've got most of the important stuff boxed up ...

Sadder but wiser Forty years ago, at the age of 19, I became sadder but wiser. My first serious romance, an astonishingly beautiful woman, r...

Ten (plus 30) Years After A warm thank you for Ten Years After! A few posts ago, I alluded to an article I had written on Woodstock 10 year...

On the 40th anniversary of my first glorious and tragic romance, Groucho sings of a lady who was equally memorable and, alas for me, easier ...

Getting Woodstock right I promised to post something about Woodstock that was more authentic than the blah-blah-blah we've all heard for...

A giggle of cartoonists (Click on images for larger versions) Yesterday, Dartmouth College gathered, in Jules Feiffer 's terminology, no...

Among the anniversaries I hadn't intended to post anything about Woodstock because (A) I didn't go and (B) it quickly grew into some...

Whatever happened to the world of yesterday? I've kind of kept quiet about this , but we're two weeks away from the 175th anniversar...

I hate using this cartoon again As the dust settles, a little bit of good news. Apparently, the Cambridge Police are going to look into thei...

Can't believe they still do this There are certain things you just assume don't happen anymore, and having large chains of pet store...

Red Rabbit from Egmont Mayer on Vimeo .

Back in the saddle again Well, I'm employed, or, at least, I will be as soon as the start-up starts up, or, to be more precise, as soon ...

Go-fer wanted. College degree preferred. (A look at what's out there. At least the job title is honest.) Position: ...

Behind the Laughs I have long linked Sandra Bell Lundy's blog on the rail, and I know some of my readers are also her readers (and one ...

"Anybody can steer the ship when the sea is calm." One of the things I have discovered since I was fired six weeks ago is that for...

When the "crisis" is in our attitude "The culture of aid treats Africans like they're idiots, like they don't know wh...

Timothy Leary's Dead (No, no, no, no -- he's outside, with the fish) Maybe you have to watch a lot of cable to have this Visa commer...

If all a cappella arrangements were pulled off with the success of this Slovenian jazz choir's live shot, I'd be much more of a fan...

Well done I do a lot of carping over stupid, derivative, obvious images. This cartoon by David Simmons of the Arizona Daily Star is an examp...

Quote of the week: I don't know who Jon and Kate are, and I pray to God I never learn. -- Peter King, Sports Illustrated