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Ball point pen on today’s newsprint

Ball point pen on today’s newsprint

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Painter, author and leader in the surrealist movement Leonora Carrington passed away Wednesday from pneumonia. She was 94.

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Ashton Kutcher in today’s times.

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Israeli Prime Minister spoke before a very receptive US congress. Reminiscent of a State of the Union, Netanyahu rejected President Obama’s proposed border as the assembled house applauded.

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The President traces his roots. Sláinte!

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Citing his family, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels decides not to run for the republican presidential nomination.
Song of the Day

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An interesting glimpse inside the IMF, where laws and social mores don’t apply.

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French finance minister, Christine Lagarde, is the favorite to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the I.M.F.

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They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad
They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad
Wednesday’s worse, and Thursday’s also sad

Song of the Day
one more time
keep it goin
and finally the incomparable Etta James

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In the wake of the earthquake and subsequent disasters in Japan, GM quickly identified 118 parts made by Japanese manufacturers it needed to keep up with production. And while many auto makers were harmed by the tragedy, GM’s CEO predicts no material impact to it’s earnings.

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This is a follow up to a doodle I did in 2009. The wheels of justice sometimes move slowly.

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Interesting interview in the NYT with Stephen Hawking. Aside from his achievements in understanding of the incomprehensible, motor neuron disease notwithstanding.  I like that he wasn’t afraid to enter the US heath care debate. Someone at Investor’s Business Daily apparently didn’t do their homework when they wrote an editorial saying Hawkings wouldn’t have a chance in the UK., “where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”
In fact Stephen Hawking is British, lives in Cambridge and credits the National Health Service with  saving his life.

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Here’s a followup to a doodle I did back in 2008 of the brave writer and critic of the Chinese government, Liao Yiwu. In the latest crackdown, Yiwu is barred from traveling to a literary convention in Australia.

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Animal Kingdom, winner of the Kentucky Derby, looks to the second leg of the triple crown, The Preakness Stakes.

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On the subject of thoroughbreds: While fans debate if the Yanks should send Jeter to the glue factory, Derek hit two home runs in yesterday’s 12-5 win over Texas.

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Elvis drawn on 1956 newsprint

Last month I saw this article in the New York Times, Arts Beat. Elvis Presley Enterprises was looking for art to help celebrate the 55th anniversary of the release of Heart Break Hotel.

I’ve been drawing on newsprint for years. I like how the underlying text of the articles adds context but until now, all the subjects have been as current as my daily newspaper. Drawing Elvis circa 1956 was an opportunity to search for some old articles written before history had a chance to put Mr. Presley’s life into context. As the authors of the 1956 news articles could not have predicted the legend that Elvis would become, the underlying text becomes as innocent as the young Elvis, helping to anchor the drawing to that specific time.

I was just informed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, that my drawing was selected as one of the 56 finalists in the Elvis in ’56 art contest!  Fans will get to vote for their favorite piece at The official site of the King of Rock and Roll

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Click here to read the New York Times Art Beat piece
Click here to view Elvis sing Heart Break Hotel

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Prayer demonstrations, calls for proof and more questions for the Pakistani Government. Things are heating up.

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The next in line to lead al Qaeda is likely Ayman al Zawahiri.

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I’ll never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Or fortune given me measure of revenge.

William Shakespeare, Henry the VI, Part III

Justice has been done.

It was cathartic, drawing bin Laden’s face this morning on the news of his death.

Click here to view a drawing I created  nearly ten years ago to raise funds for the 9/11 victims and their families.

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On the presidents short list to replace outgoing director of the F.B.I. Robert Mueller are James B. Comey and Patrick J. Fitzgerald.