Followers of the comic strip "Doonesbury" may be wondering anxiously what happened to Alex. Alex, daughter of central character Mike Doonesbury, had just received her doctoral degree at MIT when she went into labor--with twins! Classmates crowded around her, calling, "Is there a real doctor in the house?"
We won't know until September. Garry (Garretson Beekman) Trudeau, author of "Doonesbury," is spending the summer working on another project. Doonesbury fans--and Alex--hold your breath.
And today is the seventy-fifth birthday of Canada's premier jazz trombonist, Ian McDougall, longtime Boss Brass heavyweight, head of U-Vic's jazz program, and found most often in the company of guitarist Oliver Gannon and pianist Ron Johnston. To guide people in the spelling of his name, the trombonist wrote a number, available on the album "The Warmth of the Horn," titled "Mc, not Mac, and Two Ls."
As the great Bob Smith, of CBC's "Hot Air" used to say "God bless jazz fans everywhere."
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