There are a few things that I will always be backing:

• Snowboardering
• Feingold
• The New Yorker
• Bikes
• Agua Clara
• Clara
• Coffee
• Booze
• Wisconsin
• Spanish
• the Cyberspaces

So after a full day of thinking about snowboards and consulting my uncolorblinded people about what may or may not work for proper costume this year I settled in for the evening with a copy of the New Yorker. For those of you not in-the-know there is a proper way to read the NYer.

First you flip through, peeping the articles and reading the cartoons. Then you read The Financial Page, because Surowiecki is a goddamned beast. Then Shouts and Murmurs. If you’re reading before you go to sleep, I suggest hitting up the Talk of the Town or the Cinema/Theater/Music articles in the back. After all that, you get into the feature articles.

Anyway, I’m ripping through el NYer and take note of an Edward Koren cartoon, because he’s got a distinctive style. Then I move on with life. Then a couple days later I’m watching some webcast of Frends running around some condo in their underwears and I can’t help but think that Jack and/or Luke Mitrani are going to have to start paying likeness rights to Edward Koren.

Now, Burton, INC, circle R, circle C, Superscripta TM, wholly owned subsidiary of JOCK SHOES, will claim the Mitrani’s owe nothing to Eddie K, but they will also tell you that the 3-hole insert pattern was the best, so was the 2X,  until we invented the ICS rev/slider system. Also winged highbacks are the way of the future. But I’m just going to drop this sizzler here and let you decide for yourself:

It’s pretty obvious now isn’t it?

Oh what’s that? You want more proof? Well I did some top secret research and found this picture of Jack or Luke (there’s a lot of noise in the picture so I can’t be sure which one it is), taken in the Mitrani home about ten years ago. Check it:

I’m pretty sure this case is closed.