Although he's not in any way (that I know of) associated with Gargoyle he's nearly as old and certainly influential -- Al Jaffee is 91 and CNN has a nice piece on his impact.
We now have an official "stamp" by Adrian Choy, so you know it's getting serious...
The 2011 reunion will be Friday, November 18 from 5:30 PM to 11:00 PM in the Koessler room at the Michigan League in Ann Arbor and you are invited!
We will be having dinner, wine, and the traditional fortune cookie and
champagne toast to the founders.
Price is $50 per person before September 15, $60 afterwards. Please
send your number of attendees, choice(s) of chicken or vegetarian
entrée, and payment either via Paypal (jfwambaugh@gmail.com) or mail:
813 Bluestone Rd., Durham, NC 27713.
Dinner menu consists of either sauted boneless chicken breast with
rustic artichoke, zucchini, mushroom and herb marinara sauce or fresh
seasonal vegetables skewered on a rosemary sprig and served on a bed of
quinoa with chive oil. Sides will be roasted vegetables and garlic and
shallot mashed potatoes. Wine, soft drinks, coffee, appetizers, and
sundae bar, and gratuity are also included.
Hi, all--don't know if I'll make it to the reunion, but if you have an idle moment, check out my new(ish) webcomic, "Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman" at http://www.hardboiledshaman.com . Happy summer!
I'm on a team for a virtual liver project at EPA that got a nice write-up in the local news this month:RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK
Forget virtual reality - the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is building virtual human organs. The EPA's "virtual tissue" researchers are developing a set of computer simulations that may one day be able to identify the risks posed by common industrial pollutants such as pesticides without testing them on animals. Dr. John Wambaugh, a physical scientist at the EPA [and Gargoyle EiC '98-99] says, "the liver is like the Secret Service agent that jumps in front of the bullet."
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John Dobbertin passed along this New Yorker blog post about the King James Bible. Why the King James Bible, you ask? Because the tail end of the article mentions GargAlum Janet Malcolm, who edited our humble Gargoyle in the early 1950s:
And Dan Chiasson springboards from James 1:23 ("For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass") into a poem about how he interviewed (or didn't interview) Janet Malcolm, whose new book "Iphigenia in Forest Hills" originated as an article in the magazine:
She'd interviewed herself, I realized later;
I was bystander to a rendezvous.
I stared at my reflection in the mirror.
Janet Malcolm wrote the questions she had answered.
As mentioned in the article, Janet has a new book out, Iphigenia in Forest Hills.
'50s Garg editor David Kessel had this to add:
Janet was one of the more successful of the alumni (along with Arthur Miller and David Newman) and remains the only prominent one still alive. She turned out such a successful satire on the New Yorker that they promptly hired her (and her first husband Don Malcolm) when they finished up at the U of M.
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