~ Leonid meteor shower visible in North America November 19. If it weren’t a Tuesday, I’d drag my family to my elementary school again.
~ The Guardian gave Pete Townshend a forum to review Kurt Cobain’s “Journals” and rebut Cobain’s “Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend” line. And did he ever. “These are the scribblings of a once beautiful, angry, petulant, spoiled, drug-addled middle-class white boy from a divorced family who just happened, with the help of two of his slightly more stable peers, to make an album hailed as one of the best rock records ever.”
~ Speaking of petulance, Mad Magazine turns 50 this fall. The Sunday New York Times ran an article compiling some of Mad’s greatest letters to the editors. “I have been reading Mad for several years now. Mainly, the first issue I ever bought. I just couldn’t see wasting a quarter on another.”