If you haven't treated yourself to Carl Sagan's old tv series Cosmos (recently and beautifully re-released on DVD!), you've missed one of the finest delicacies the medium has ever offered up. The elegance of Sagan's prose attached to subjects of such intrinsic charm is, as an intellectual and philosophical activity, something to be savored. Here is a bit!

Meanwhile, our sketch drive goes on! Just about a week left to go! Ten dollars - to a guy like me that's three comic books that I'm reading just to keep up on continuity. To them, it's the chance to stand up in front of a community and assert their right to existence. So let's help 'em out!

- Count Dolby von Luckner