This is news I’ve been hoping to read for several years.

“Bloom County” was always about the daily strips and bizarre storylines for me, which is why I never really warmed to “Outland” or “Opus”. Evere since the “Peanuts” and “Calvin & Hobbes” collections appeared, I’ve been hoping Milo and Binkley and Opus would get a similar completist treatment, so if anyone is looking for that perfect Hallowe’en gift for me, this would be it.

Don’t Box Me In
Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgeway (1983)

The important part of Wall of Voodoo meets a third of The Police at a rumble(fish). This is one of those songs I always really loved, but that no one else ever seems to remember or think about.

Why, yes. Now that you ask, that big standoff/shootout in Pittsburgh yesterday was less than a mile from our prospective new house, and was actually going on at the precise moment I was at said house for the home inspection. I even had to pull over on the way to let a line of six cop cars with wailing sirens pass me.

Otherstream.com: your close-up source for breaking news. A day or so after it happens.

The inspection, by the way, went very well. Apparently, the place is in really good shape for a 105-plus year old house.

Upon reading this article, I’m not sure which is more frightening: the fact that there’s enough demand for methadone clinics in West Virginia that they’re operated as for profit businesses, or the fact that the state sees them as such a great potential revenue source.