Good Clean Funnies

The dudes who think up the Sunday morning comics – I think they call them “comicazes” – are really just writers with good penmanship, storytellers with a picturesque imagination. Every Sunday they give the human race the rare chance to walk on the sunny side of the street. I always seize that opportunity. It’s the highlight of my week, actually, a fact that is either a sad commentary on my life or an indicator of a guy preoccupied with stick figures and captions.

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Gregg Allman Leaves Us One Final Gift

The music of the Allman Brothers Band has always given us a bluesy something to jam to, a level of musicianship and Southern song mastery that can only be a gift from the gods. And in his final days, as his body surrendered to liver cancer, as old age and the road and the bottle took everything but his voice, Gregg Allman – the sensei of the Allman Brothers Band – gave us one final gift, ten songs on an album called Southern Blood.

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