Tuesday, February 01, 2005
I'm going to cheat a little on the 50 books challenge and start including books I haven't read cover to cover.
yesterday, after a good nmeeting with my lawyer, i was downtown with time to kill so i stopped into the library, looking for books about the kennedies, and wound up reading "the funnies", a book about newspaper comics. several chapters on krazy kat and ignatz, and a chapter by walt kelly.
http://www.dcexaminer.com/
Instapundit points to a new DC newspaper.
Katharine Graham's "personal history" was a story about how her father bought the washington post, nursed it to health, and how her husband then she made it the dominant paper in town, rivaled only by the washington times, an openly conservative paper.
Maybe there's soemthing local that caters to the black community that makes up more than 1/2 of DC, I don't know.
So it's interesting to see a new paper. In the post-drudge world, I think it would be easier than ever to start a paper. Do it online first,then print and deliver one you have a fan base established. This isn't too different from my great great grandfather hiram's newspaper, the switch - it's always been possible for one person to get ahold of a printing press and crank out their own paper.
I remember trying to explain circa 1980 to the folks at Delaware Alternative Press how much easier it was to typeset an article online rather than with a manual typewriter.
I'm reminded another thing about "the funnies." Ben Franklin didn't invent them.
There were comic book versions of punch and judy in the 1600's, and comic art from roman times. But he was an innovator, a pioneer of the modern american editorial cartoon.
January:
7 1L. still on chapter 1.
6 The Funnies. [edited anthology]
5 The Kennedeys, David Horowitz
4 Speaking Truth to Power, Kerry Kennedey [cuomo]
3 Personal History, Katharine Graham
2 American Gods, Neil Gaiman.
1 Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.
yesterday, after a good nmeeting with my lawyer, i was downtown with time to kill so i stopped into the library, looking for books about the kennedies, and wound up reading "the funnies", a book about newspaper comics. several chapters on krazy kat and ignatz, and a chapter by walt kelly.
http://www.dcexaminer.com/
Instapundit points to a new DC newspaper.
Katharine Graham's "personal history" was a story about how her father bought the washington post, nursed it to health, and how her husband then she made it the dominant paper in town, rivaled only by the washington times, an openly conservative paper.
Maybe there's soemthing local that caters to the black community that makes up more than 1/2 of DC, I don't know.
So it's interesting to see a new paper. In the post-drudge world, I think it would be easier than ever to start a paper. Do it online first,then print and deliver one you have a fan base established. This isn't too different from my great great grandfather hiram's newspaper, the switch - it's always been possible for one person to get ahold of a printing press and crank out their own paper.
I remember trying to explain circa 1980 to the folks at Delaware Alternative Press how much easier it was to typeset an article online rather than with a manual typewriter.
I'm reminded another thing about "the funnies." Ben Franklin didn't invent them.
There were comic book versions of punch and judy in the 1600's, and comic art from roman times. But he was an innovator, a pioneer of the modern american editorial cartoon.
January:
7 1L. still on chapter 1.
6 The Funnies. [edited anthology]
5 The Kennedeys, David Horowitz
4 Speaking Truth to Power, Kerry Kennedey [cuomo]
3 Personal History, Katharine Graham
2 American Gods, Neil Gaiman.
1 Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.
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