TFI EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION TOUR 2014, PART 3: DAVID BOWIE IS ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS

re: our US tour in October (which I was supposed to be doing a series about, but was too busy with other things to get around to until now):

The tour began in Chicago, which was notable for a few things:

1. Devil Dawgs, which is perfect when yr jetlagged and in need of hot dogs at 1am.



2. The White Palace Grill, which made for a nice brunch thanks to Mr John Meadows.

3. The David Bowie Is exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, which we saw with Mr Rich MF Hall.





It was pretty cool – it’s only part of the full exhibit, but it does a good job of showing how Bowie’s various influences ended up shaping his shift from David Jones to Ziggy Stardust and beyond.

So you get lots of costumes and handwritten lyrics and interactive exhibits playing videos of performances and interviews as you walk up to them and so on. There’s also a section for his film activities, which includes his Goblin King scepter from Labyrinth and a letter from Jim Henson, etc. I confess I was expecting more guitars. But that's a mjnor quibble.

All up, it was well worth the price of admission and the exorbitant parking fees.

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TRUTH IN COMICS

You know you’ve reached a certain milestone in journalism when comic strips qualify for fact-checking.



Okay, Doonesbury is an exception, since it’s more of a political cartoon satirizing current events. Still, I find it interesting that people find it necessary to check the validity of a claim in a comic strip.

But then some of us already insist on applying objective journalism standards to comedians and novels. So why not comics?

The PolitiFact article doesn’t show the full strip, but you can read it here.

As for the CIA spending $81 million on torture lessons … well, that’s the country the majority of Americans have decided they want to live in, so I don't have anything to add that I haven’t already said.

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