Bits and Bobs: The Final Frontier Edition

The space news keeps coming. Here is a NYTimes piece on Alan Bean - astronaut cum painter - and some of his work. It's really breathtaking, at least for this space junkie.


And of course an obligatory Michael Jackson tribute. I strangely don't recall the growing up to the sounds of MJ. I think I was too engrossed in the Disney Channel and they weren't showing Thriller. But I have memories of the moonwalk and Catholic grade school. See, MJ at his best - bringing two worlds together. Here's my favorite, some classic Jackson 5.