Friday, January 26, 2007

Readers agog over Lay tribute to Pollock

In advance of the Jan. 28 anniversary of Jackson Pollock's birth, cartoonist Carol Lay posted a tribute in her regular Salon.com slot. but literal minded readers couldn't hack Lay's -- hello?? -- impressionistic use of the elements of Pollock's birth, career and death. Either that, or they're just put off by the image of a baby shooting like an artillery shell from between his mother's legs.

No relation, but I wanted to be sure I posted about this great story about a woman who fought off a mountain lion that was attacking her husband, using only a pen and a stick. Extra style points to the victim who, while his head was in the lion's jaws, was able to tell his wife to remove the pen from his breast pocket and use it against the cougar.

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