that I had forgotten about Gary Grimshaw

who was an artist and White Panther Party member from Detroit. He did a lot of posters for bands playing in town in the '60s. Here's his website: http://www.garygrimshaw.com/

Check out the gallery.

I got there by reading the Free Press (freep.com) and seeing that they are going to tear down the Eastown theater which made me think of the Grande Ballroom. I found a website about the Grande which had a link on it about Grimshaw's recuperation from a serious illness.

about chimeras and more

I learned about Blaschko's Lines which led me to read about chimeras who carry two sets of DNA because they are made up of two embryos that fused at some point during development. Chimeras are made up of four parent cells (two fertilized eggs or early embryos fused together. Then, I read about Lydia Fairchild who is a chimera -- and it nearly cost her custody of her children. Despite my fascination with medical mysteries and with conjoined twins, I never watched the television show about Fairchild called "I Am My Own Twin." Incredibly fascinating, even if I don't understand much of the genetics.

that the actor who plays Freddy Rumsen

on Mad Men -- Joel Murray -- is the brother of some guy named Bill Murray. And Brian Doyle-Murray. Had no idea.

that Microsoft created the Arial typeface

Yeah, I should have know this but I did not. Arial was designed in 1982 for Monotype Typography and Microsft used it so it would not have to pay for Helvetica.

Sayeth Wikipedia:

Arial is held in disregard by some professional typographers and type enthusiasts, for reasons relating to its similarity to other typefaces and the involvement of Microsoft in its development and distribution. It is reinforced by Arial's apparent status as a de facto Helvetica stand-in, but without paying royalties, or credit, to Helvetica. Arial's glyph widths are nearly identical to those of Helvetica, rather than Monotype Grotesque, on which Arial is otherwise based, and many people are unable to tell the difference between Helvetica, Arial and other similar fonts.

Some thought the SCDP (Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce) logo used on Mad Men was Arial, but the font is Akzidenz-Grotesk, which is a period-correct choice.