Comic Book-style Illustration

Headline: BANGUS

Drawing of a Saxophonist, Vibraphonist, and Drummer in colorful suits against a background of stylized cannabis leaves

Caption: B.A. Rosenblum - Tenor Sax; Tim Heuer - Vibraphone; Angus Forbes - Drums

Dec 10, 5-7 PM, The West Town Bakery, 100 Chicago Ave, Evanston

2 people can be seen in a night scene with the Andromeda galaxy, many stars and a blush of red and blue tint in the sky

The image is from a Thomas the Tank Engine picture book. A mechanic is putting a new smokestack on Thomas with a crane. Thomas looks up with an expression that can be read as surprise or wonder. Underneath the image is the following text: Thomas didn't enjoy his time at the Works. "It's nice to feel mended again," he said afterwards, "but they took so many of my old parts away and put new ones in, that I'm not sure whether I'm really me or another engine."

Jazz big band comprised of high school students in dark suits.

Vintage acoustic coupler in action

A person stands in a bright red space, holding a yellow flame. Rather than appearing brightly lit, the space feels more like a dark room lit by a fire, with shadows pressing in all around. In front of the person, mounted on a pillar like a sculpture, is a vast and weird object: part asteroid, part machine, with organic folds and striations. The parts of the object closest to the flame glow yellow, fading into red and purple. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

A Facebook post. A screenshot of a NYT story is headlined "Trump Calls Somalis 'Garbage' He Doesn't Want in the Country," with the subhead, "President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement." The last line is highlighted, and the post reads, "The man cannot keep his dick out of the furniture."

Wendy Carlos poses with a large bank of synths

A statue of a bear, in bronze or bronze coloured resin. It is seated on a black marble throne on top of a plinth. Robes, also sculpted, hang off the back and sides of the throne in a regal manner

It is very large: perhaps 2 or 3 times life size. It has a neutral posture, as if that's its rightful place. The dramatic effect is somewhat lessened by the whole being surrounded by construction fencing

Doorbell cam shot of a man holding an orange cat on a porch, with trees in the background.

the grinch smiling

Photograph of a woman's hand holding a cookie. It's been cut out using a plane-shaped cookie cutter and has red sprinkles on it in roughly the pattern of the famous Abraham Wald aircraft bullet hole image.

Debbie crouches in thigh boots

A white-gloved hand holds a cassette tape. On the generic J-card cover, written in red marker, is the following:
Marland Prod 989-4841
Ben Margulies
Mariah Carey 254-5476
Brenda K Starr 865 7382

Photo of a letter to the editor.

Saved by Stoppard

Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of _Arcadia_ by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of _Arcadia_, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival.

Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

Gray severed roots on a sidewalk

Four images of a cavity cut into a tree stump

A plush toy shaped like. Along green dog with grinning teeth, its torn-off ear and white cotton stuffing arrayed on a wooden table beside the hole that has been torn in its head.

Reasonably decent picture of a Barred Owl perched in a mostly bare tree on an overcast Winter night.