Sunday, October 05, 2008
NY Times obituary of the day.
For Stalin's favorite political cartoonist.
I don't remember any sympathetic Times obits for Nazi cartoonists or the like. (It sort of brings to mind how in Manhattan there is a KGB Bar that's become so popular with the literary set that it now has its own literary journal -- but there is as yet no Gestapo Bar).
But all that and the deceased's life work as a totalitarian propagandist aside, there is something to be said for living to 109 while enjoying vodka, cognac, beer and outliving your wives all the way.
For Stalin's favorite political cartoonist.
I don't remember any sympathetic Times obits for Nazi cartoonists or the like. (It sort of brings to mind how in Manhattan there is a KGB Bar that's become so popular with the literary set that it now has its own literary journal -- but there is as yet no Gestapo Bar).
But all that and the deceased's life work as a totalitarian propagandist aside, there is something to be said for living to 109 while enjoying vodka, cognac, beer and outliving your wives all the way.
