Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and Half-Price Books are teaming up to help kids in need of a book.
On Monday, they kicked off the 12th Annual Half-Pint Library Book Drive.
People are encouraged to drop off a lightly-used or new children’s books to bins set up at the two Half-Price Book locations in Madison.
Mayor Dave donated a book called, “The Very Silly Mayor.”
It’s about a penguin that unseats the mayor.
“This is the strength of education.” said Mayor Dave, “If kids read enough books, hopefully they’ll come to the conclusion the current mayor is ok, regardless of what they read in one particular book.”
(One small nit: the penguin does not unseat the mayor — because “you can’t just declare that a penguin is mayor! You have to have an election!”)
This Friday, Feb. 5 I’ll be speaking at a fundraiser in New Haven along with a friend of mine, a very talented illustrator and cartoonist named Michael Sloan. The event is at Luce Hall Auditorium at 34 Hillhouse Ave., and tickets are $25 ($10 for students). We’ll both be presenting slide shows of our respective work, followed by a Q&A and a silent auction of a copy of the Backspacer vinyl signed by Eddie Vedder. There will also be signed copies of both Michael’s books and The Very Silly Mayor for sale. The event raises money for a local day care program, so all funds raised are for a very worthy cause.
… adding: at 7 p.m.
Update: many thanks to my co-presenter Michael, and to all who attended. It was a great evening, and we raised a bunch of money for a good cause.
My friends at Credo have given away almost all the free stickers they’ve printed so far. We may be back with a different design at some point, but for now the plan is to shut the offer down when the counter hits 5,000. That’s not very far away, so if you want to get in on this, you should probably do it sooner rather than later.
*By “given away” I mean “promised to give away” — I don’t think the actual mailing has gone out yet.
James O’Keefe, the filmmaker behind the notorious ACORN videos, has been arrested by the FBI and charged in a plot to wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phone tamper with phone lines.
I’m sure that all the conservatives who took those videos & jumped immediately to every conclusion will now be telling us we should not jump to conclusions. And of course we should not, for who among us has not been arrested by the FBI while attempting to wiretap a US Senator? Oh the crazy things you do when you’re a kid.
Or maybe the FBI is controlled by ACORN. They are all-powerful, as I tried to warn you all in this cartoon.
As Haiti continues to make painfully clear, some people have real problems, and I don’t really want to make too much of personal transient difficulties. Suffice it to say that any week encompassing a root canal, a death in the family and a surprise stay in the hospital is mostly a week I would have rather avoided, if given the option. Which oddly, I was not.
But the only real reason I mention any of this is by way of explanation and apology: as a result, the next cartoon up will be a rerun from 2001. (There aren’t that many people who have my entire life’s work committed to memory, right?) After that, not sure — hoping to once again start providing the cartoons you have come to expect, cartoons so timely they seem to have been ripped from, you know, relatively recent headlines. But things are a little bit up in the air for now, so bear with me.
