Acres of Snow

A Daily Cartoon by Jonathan Rosen. #NewYorkerCartoons

Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely?

in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood

People ask me how I feel on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, when bombs began to fall on peaceful cities and columns of RU tanks marched on Kyiv. To be honest, nothing special. Just another day of war, which has become part of our lives. And destroyed everything we call normal life.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.

We shot the tariffs!
We did not kill the deficit!

On the morning of February 20, 2014, we began receiving calls on the Euromaidan SOS hotline. People were calling to report that peaceful demonstrators were being shot on the Maidan.

Perhaps, Not Event

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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

John Prine
#LookAndSee

The Frying Pan
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#musicchallenge #musicsky

Definitely, great parenting.

“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” ― Lone Alaskan Gypsy

Saul Leiter

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell Cover YouTube video by Jacob Moon

I recently heard a young woman cover this song and she was sooooo good. She said it was the best song ever written, in her opinion. m.youtube.com/watch?v=neq4...

Just my dad’s stern old school thundering after a rejection would have been worth a million views though.

“a waitlist! Such are the wages of sloth!”

Sing Out: On the Singer-Songwriter and Protest Music Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 02/13/2026 · 1h 9m

NEW EPISODE! We caught up w/ @rollingstone.com Senior Research Editor @jonbern.bsky.social about his recent interview with Lucinda Williams on her (and Dylan's) take on "the female Bob Dylan" label. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Perhaps, the sanctity of marriage.

Second blooming

OK, claiming property rights in a new term (I think). I just did a Substack live with Catherine Rampell, in which she suggested that young men may be pivoting from Bitcoin to prediction markets. And it just popped into my head: the Testosterone Trade.

Masquerade (Official Video) from Stereophonic: Live on Broadway YouTube video by Stereophonic: Live on Tour

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

Concepts of central planning

Concepts of central planning

Costco hot dog & a pop is only $1.50

It is very good.

Crypto bros lost in the blockchain, like tears in rain.

Need to modify the Nineteenth Amendment, so land owning white men are denied the vote for a century or more.

Why did Putin not allow himself such brutal strikes on civilian infrastructure under Biden, whom Trump calls “weak,” but totally destroys peaceful cities and disregards the “strong Trump”?

Photo Liz Landers