THIS MODERN WORLD

I’m still contending with the Dread Mailchimp Payment Glitch. In short, if your subscription is up for renewal but your credit card on file has expired or been cancelled, you will be repeatedly, automatically unsubscribed — even after you update the cc info. Mailchimp has been informed of this bug many times but shows no sign of addressing it.

If you get an unsubscribe notice, DO NOT TRY TO RESUBSCRIBE without contacting me first. I have to manually re-set your account to keep you from falling into the unsubscribe loop.

Apologies for the hassle.

A flea market find: a cookbook of favorite recipes from the wives of military personnel stationed at Guantamo, circa 1964.

What Digby said:

In recent years, Roger Ebert did something else that was revolutionary: He showed us how to live with a terrible illness and, despite a disability that would have destroyed most celebrities, stayed as relevant as ever by engaging the public through social media. His writing became even more feisty and aggressive than it had been when he was younger, particularly when it came to politics. He was an inspiration.

This is a photo contest for those of you who own plush Sparkys. Send in your pics of Sparky in odd locales or strange situations, or simply in his native habitat in your home. Winner will be chosen at random (unless there’s one I really, really like) and will receive your choice of a Droney shirt, a copy of the new World of Tomorrow compilation, or a Sparky’s List subscription. Send entries to tomtomorrowATgmail.

Cartoon flashback from March, 2004.