I saw this band the other night. They're really great live (and on the CD I bought) and sweet guys to boot. If you like Shoegazer or Madchester stuff at all, definitely check them out!
Photoset documenting the building and launching of a replica of the Bushnell Turtle (a 1700s submarine), launching it from Red Hook, and getting in trouble with the Coast Guard.
Not only did he help save the Jefferson Market Library (one of the best buildings in New York City), "Mr. Cavaglieri worked every day until he was 93, when he badly injured his right arm in a fall. He then learned to paint watercolors with his left hand, fulfilling his first ambition, to be a painter."
OK, never mind what I said a few days ago - Lesley Blanch led a relatively dull life. My jaw repeatedly dropped further than expected reading about Kate Webb.
This is a good little rant even if you don't know care about any of the dead comic-bookers mentioned. "The habit of casting heroes and villains in the story of art is a habit of low minds, of schoolyard punks (in the original sense of the word) and thickheads."