The author will be publishing excerpts all week at Rands in Repose. Buy the book at Amazon.com.

“ When we buy a pet or even shop at a store that sells puppies, we contribute to a heartless underground industry that forces dogs to spend their entire lives in cages constantly breeding to support consumer demand for puppies.”

By Rhett Dashwood.

Today, the first day of summer, “public spaces in all five boroughs will become informal musical stages for all New Yorkers, amateurs and professionals, to perform for friends, neighbors, and passers-by, turning the city into a festival of live music making.” Could be good. Could be bad.

I wish I could do this at my office.

“When he died on June 9, Martin J. Weber was 102. You may not know his name. I didn’t. Like other toilers in the art service bullpens of New York who lacked a modernist pedigree, he was never celebrated by the AIGA or inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame. But his contributions helped define the look of mid-century American commercial art.”

Photographic representations of massive statistical facts.

Awesome dorkitude in full effect.