From 100 to 0 in one paragraph ...

There are two errors in the final paragraph of this article from Macon, Georgia's The Telegraph, my hometown newspaper, that a spell-check tool probably wouldn't have caught—"movies stars" should be "movie stars," "in the box office" should be "at the box office"—but "movies star" Vin Diesel might argue that a third error trumps the others: he's given third billing for the latest sequel of a franchise he's headlined since 2001 (minus the first and second sequels, for the sake of accuracy).

From the archives (i.e., piles of newspaper clippings on my dusty studio-apartment floor) ...

Terje, you might find this interesting. It comes from Miriam Di Nunzio's interview with veteran music producer David Foster, published in the Chicago Sun-Times on October 16, 2009.

Q: Is it getting harder for you to make albums today?

DF: I really love the music of today. I love Beyonce, Rihanna, producers like Tricky Stewart, Kanye, Jay-Z, Sean Kingston. I love those records but I have no clue how to make these records; suddenly, you're 60 trying to think like you're a 16-year-old. I know my place. People who complain about the music business as they get older and say they "had to leave it" are full of it. The business leaves them. Nobody leaves the business. I'm still getting [excited] musically, even more so now that I don't have the pressure of radio. Now I just have to make albums.

four by four

Because I like meta-humor, comic strips that are funny and smart, newspapers, and, last but not least, clipping comic strips out of newspapers, here are four of Garry Trudeau's Sunday Doonesbury strips from the past four years.

April 3, 2010:

July 31, 2010:

February 24, 2013:

March 3, 2013: