Still under the gun writing The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide, your humble blogger reached into his sketchbook and pulled out a reference drawing I did in charcoal pencil during one of our trips this year. I think it may be from Chicago, but I can’t say for sure because I didn’t date it and when I use charcoal pencils I jump around in the sketchbook so I don’t smutz up all the pages.

Anyway, it’s a pencil drawing of what I think are HVAC units on the roof a building across the street from whatever hotel I was in. I seem to remember considering this scene for a Hopperesque painting, then deciding against it for unremembered reasons.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland we are having some server maintenance done this week on The AIR.  There will be times when the station may go down for an hour or three, and we won’t know exactly when it’ll happen and what shows will be scheduled.  So, to take advantage of this uncertainty, this week I will be skipping Radio Free Charleston for the first time this year (I’ve done a new show every week going back to last December), and will be tossing together some non-vital marathons of our shows that will be great if you can hear them, and won’t be too big a deal if you can’t.

Everything should be fixed by next week, and the plan is to have all-new musical specialty programs during the last week of The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide, which, coincidentally, continues later today.