Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Andy Warhol's "200 One Dollar Bills" was on the block at Sotheby's last night. The opening bid was $6 million, with an estimate of $12 million but sold for a staggering $43.7 million, marking an end to the 12 month slump in the contemporary art market. The seller turned a huge profit having purchased the pop work for $385,000 in 1986. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Remembering the 13 fallen at Fort Hood Chief Warrant Officer Michael Grant Cahill (Ret.), Cameron, Texas, 62 Major Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, Woodbridge, Virginia, 52 Army Staff Sergeant Justin DeCrow, Plymouth, Indiana, 32, Captain John Gaffaney, San Diego, California, 56 US Army Specialist/E4 Frederick Greene, Mountain City, Tennessee, 29 US Army Specialist/E4 Jason Dean Hunt, Tipton, Oklahoma, 22 Sergeant. Amy Krueger, Kiel, Wisconsin, 29 Private First Class. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, West Jordan, Utah, 19 Private First Class. Michael Pearson, Bolingbrook, Illinois, 22 Captain Russell Seager, Racine, Wisconsin, 51 Private. Francheska Velez, Chicago, Illinois, 21 Lieutenant. Col. Juanita L. Warman, Havre De Grace, Maryland, 55 US Army Specialist/E4 Kham Xiong, St. Paul, Minnesota, 23 Also: Last years Veterans Day post remembering my Da ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Major Nidal Hasan stands accused of killing 13 at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army base. An Army psychiatrist, Hasan believed that US Muslim soldiers should be released as conscientious objectors from serving a military that constantly engages fellow Muslims. This was no secret. He gave a Powerpoint lecture on the subject to his superiors in 2007. Terrorism investigators also learned last year that Hasan was communicating with a radical anti-American cleric in Yemen. After investigating they decides Hasan was not a threat. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint The 111th Senate is made up of 58 Democrats, 40 Republicans, 1 Independent and 1 Joe Lieberman, who calls himself an Independent Democrat. With 60 votes needed to pass the Health Care Bill, Lieberman has threatened to filibuster any plan with a public option. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Mahmoud Abbas's rise to Prime Minister and then President of Palistine was greeted by the US with hopes for peace in the middle east. A moderate who denounced terrorism, Abbas was willing to concede far more to negotiate peace than his predecessor Arafat. But it must be difficult to negotiate peace while his political rivals in Hamas preach a different course. Did Secretary of State Clinton underestimated said rivals when she stood with Netanyahu last week? Did she create insurmountable political problems for Abbas with Palestinians? Abbas announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection as the Palestinian President. Stay tuned, ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Hideki Matsui had six RBI's and was the World Series MVP, big game pitcher, Andy Pettitte came up big again on 3 days rest and the New York Yankees captured their 27th World Championship at Yankee Stadium last night! A medley of previously posted doodles ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz has passed away at age 73. Don's work is familiar to everyone having created the first Star Wars film poster, the cover of the Doom video game, science fiction book covers, campaigns for Exxon, Anheuser-Busch and Pepsi, illustrations for Playboy, Esquire and Rolling Stone as well as classic National Lampoon covers. Punchatz suffered cardiac arrest without having health insurance, To help his widow pay his medical bills, donations can be made to Sandra Punchatz, c/o Lewis Glaser, TCU School of Art, TCU, Box 298000, Fort Worth TX 76129 ...
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