Sad news 1: the great Anita O'Day died earlier this week. "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" remains one of the oddest tunes in the divaville genre, and one of my favorites. I also love the album of Cole Porter tunes she did with Billy May.

Sad news 2: excellent memorial to Robert Altman over at Roger Ebert's site. Includes several interviews and Ebert's reviews of most all of Altman's movies. I was pleased to read his four-star review of Cookie's Fortune which I thought had been unfairly dismissed in a lot of the other Altman obits.

Well, that's enough sad news for today. I may have had to work but at least it kept me out of the mall. I'm pretty sure this guy wasn't doing any shopping either.