I learned about it from the tweet below.
The Cylburn Mansion in Baltimore is now part of an arboretum. It was in an episode of The Wire – see the Wikipedia article I linked to.
R. Crumb is the subject of a fine New York Times article. He is best known for his comic art which was most popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
He also is a musician and plays old blues songs. He designed a deck of cards of blues artists. I have included pictures of a large poster and small print based on them. I bought the poster from his website.
A new biography of Crumb was issued in 2025.
He was also the subject of an excellent 1995 documentary, Crumb, available on Blu-ray and DVD from the Criterion Collection.
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The one I remember is from the 1960s with William Talman who had been on the Perry Mason TV program and who died soon after the commercial was filmed. This tweet reminded me of the commercials
We didn’t know how bad smoking was until the Surgeon General’s report in 1964. I had pot before tobacco. I only smoked about 15-20 cigarettes ever and never bought a pack.
“So You Want To Be A Rock’N’Roll Star “ (recorded in 1966) is my favorite Byrds song. That’s Hugh Masakela on trumpet. Tom Petty covered it.
Hardee’s is in the news because of the seizure of Mike Lindell’s phone there.
The media is too busy covering Trump to give it to him
he gets worse and worse
Sad! 