The Day-Glo Brothers

 

Howard Zinn

 

Bob Schaeffer

NON-CRYPTICAL ENVELOPMENT

Good gawd, it’s January sixteenth.

Seven months away from 50.

Jack say in MexCityBlues

want gold

want gold

of eternity

Or the eternal present, one.

Seven degrees Fahrenheit.

Salt and sand and depository of

human wretches from NYC.

Blood money for ale,

40 oz. Ballantine, only 2 bucks and change

Warmth against the cold and spiritual

blood

transfusions

-Bob Schaeffer

A WWII story by The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling is published for the first time

Rod with his father Sam Serling c. 1943.

Esther Cooper Serling/Courtesy of Anne SerlingNot long after he returned from the war in 1946, Serling attended Antioch College on the G.I. bill. There, in his early 20s, he penned "First Squad, First Platoon," a short story which is being published for the first time Thursday in The Strand. It was one of his earliest stories, starting a writing career that Serling once said helped him get the war "out of his gut."

"I want you to know what shrapnel, and "88's"and mortar shells and mustard gas mean. I want you to feel, no matter how vicariously, a semblance of the feeling of a torn limb, a burnt patch of flesh; the crippling, numbing sensation of fear; the hopeless emptiness of fatigue. All these things are complementary to the province of war and friction, and they should be taught in classrooms along with the more heroic aspects of uniforms and flags, honor and patriotism."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1248501666/rod-serling-twilight-zone-new-story-wwii 

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The thousand-year-old mystery of the giant snake found in drawings across the world

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/colombia-venezuela-rock-art-giant-snakes-b2556860.html

Archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s largest collections of ancient art

Why are newspaper comics so terrible?

  "Today, the few remaining comic strips with any wit or originality can be found online, free of censorship, deadlines, or panel restrictions. It's hard to blame them for sticking with a format that allows for both more creative freedom and more creative control. But it's frustrating and baffling that newspapers, for all their reach, haven't even attempted to draw on the explosion of talent you can find online."

https://theweek.com/articles/442090/why-are-newspaper-comics-terrible

photography

 Alexei Navalny/Reuters

Sunset, Allegheny River

M. Hill                

MODERNMAN 10 cover art