See you in a week!

We're off for a short trip to New England. Will be visiting my mother's family's hometown as well as attending Dougstock! See you Tuesday!

Fingerboarding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvyIfeevW4

hand soap...

http://foliage.myshopify.com/products/handsoap

Gothtober!

http://www.gothtober.com/
With just a few days to go, I want to remind folks to visit the Gothtober Halloween countdown site during the next month. It's always fun and interesting. (You can also view last year's Calendar).

Crue's video for Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sEBBCIZ54

Silly band , but a great pop song.

Blondie perform Picture This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcTyWaXtivQ

Great band, those first three albums are classics.

The Outsiders perform Time Won't Let Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQbZEdBHdQ

Great tune.

The 1910 Frutigum Compnay - Indian Giver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL25Ik_wnmQ

I always loved this song...

Happy Birthday Rocky Horror!

Debuting on this date in 1975.

http://www.rockyhorror.com/

http://www.cosmosfactory.org/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCcb3zRl8U

Washington Psychotronic Film Society (now in Arlington!)

http://www.wpfs.org/

The Spooky Movie Film Festival (in Fairfax!)

http://www.thespookymovie.com/

And the Festival is opened by Count Gore De Vol!!!!

some Halloween sites of note

There are probably hundreds of thousands of sites devoted to Halloween. Here are a few I’ve found useful at one time or another. I’ve stayed away from most of the commercial sites dealing with costumes and special effects. One can find them easily enough. Someday I may post some of my faves for house decorating – but not this season. I’ve tried to concentrate on places that might be of use to folks who aren’t experts, and have divided these listings into several broad categories. If you’re aware of any pro or home haunts in the DC region (that have a web site) that aren’t listed here, please let me know, I’d be obliged.

First of all, here are some sites of general interest, with lots of links, some history of the holiday, sound effects, recipes, costumes, pictures, etc.

http://forbiddencrypts.250free.com/ForbiddenCrypts.html

http://www.operationlettertosanta.com/halloween/halloween_index.htm

http://rats2u.com/halloween/halloween_index.htm

http://www.halloween-online.com/

http://www.halloweenforum.com/

http://www.halloween.com/

http://www.samhain.com/

http://www.halloween-l.com/

http://halloweenmaster.gotop100.com/

http://www.hallowfreaks.com/

http://www.hauntedhalloweencastle.com/not4kidz.html

http://www.halloweenlinks.com/

http://www.oct31st.org/

http://www.thehalloweennetwork.com/

http://www.geocities.com/jimhoward300/

http://www.victorianhalloween.com/

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bannatyn/articles.html#victorian

http://halloween.lisamorton.com/books.html

http://www.chalicecentre.net/samhain.htm

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/halloween/halloween.asp

http://halloweenalliance.com/

http://www.halloweenmagazine.com/

These are home pages for commercial, semi-commercial, and inspired yard haunts in the greater DC region.

http://www.darkwoodmanor.net/main.html

http://www.creepynights.org/

http://web.mac.com/markoff/PICS/WELCOME.html

http://www.themonstermaze.com/

http://www.goatmanhollow.com/

http://www.bennettscurse.com/

http://dc.about.com/od/childrensactivities/a/Halloween.htm

http://www.nightmare-manor.com/

Here are some sites dedicated to listing pro & semipro haunts (and corn mazes) around the country.

http://find.mapmuse.com/re1/interest.php?brandID=CORN_MAZES

http://www.findahaunt.com/

http://www.googhoul.com/index.cfm

http://www.halloween.tv/

http://www.hauntfinder.com/

http://find.mapmuse.com/re1/interest.php?brandID=HAUNTED_ATTRACTIONS

http://www.hauntedhousenation.com/

http://www.hauntedhouse.com/

http://www.hauntedhouses.us/

http://www.hauntworld.com/

http://www.horrorfind.com/Haunted_Houses/index.html

http://spookhouse.proboards19.com/index.cgi

http://www.darklinks.com/dhaunthouse.html

http://www.maggotmuncher.com/

http://www.theroadtofear.com/index.php?option=com_directory&page=viewcat&catid=20&Itemid=42

Haunting Pro sites

http://www.hauntedattraction.com/

Sites devoted to Home Haunts

http://www.hauntclub.net/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dc-haunters/

http://halloween.necrobones.com/dc-haunters.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YardHaunts/

http://members.tripod.com/~Motomom/index-2.html

http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/

http://www.pumpkinrot.com/index2.htm

http://www.ahh-halloween.com/home.html

more on Wuss Nation

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122640.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301278.html

more on nano recon vehicles

http://www.atl.lmco.com/news/2006/072006.php

Judge Seuss

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/09/21/769684.html&cookieattempt=1

Phil Ochs performs The Highwayman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB5vnpzm86g
Have never seen this video before. Ochs is one of my faves.

The Counter-Revoltuion Begins Against Wuss Nation!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_he_me/diet_doughnut_debate
"We show them how to make good choices" says the bureaucratic nanny....my ass.....

The Necronomicon Tarot

http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=1132

It was 40 years ago today that Hey Jude reached #1...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3ovfZXO5Q

40 years, my gods....

Happy Birthday Jim Henson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001345/

http://www.jimhensonlegacy.org/

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Henson

The Muppets Rule!

German forgery efforts in WWII

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/live/live.html?in_article_id=483118&in_page_id=1889

An interesting footnote.

Happy Birthday Ray Charles!

http://www.raycharles.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc

Genius. Essential.

Happy Birthday Bruce!

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/

http://backstreets.com/

http://www.brucebase.org.uk/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccKzusBCZKc

Happy Equinox!

I've always suspected this about those Texas vegetables...

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/490340.html

new DVD documentary about Bruce

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/21/072854.php

cool t-shrits and drinkware!

http://www.sighco.com/index.html

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is coming!

http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/

Happy Birthday Professor Kingsfield!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002144/

http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/John_Houseman/197016

new book on Conan coming soon

http://www.darkhorse.com/downloads.php?did=696&qt=dhnl114s

cool little animated film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jfcpa_x4Lg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emangoat%2Enet%2F

Heart perform Crazy On You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcAn3z7D1Pc
Always thought this was one of the best songs from '76. I always thought the Wilson sisters should've done better and stayed away from mainstream formulas that engulfed them in the 80's. Oh well, that first album was wonderful...

The Buckinghams perform Kind Of A Drag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1fpN1qWv8&mode=related&search=
Under-rated band. Great sound, one of the first to integrate horns successfully into rock.

The Standells perform Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKvxe9sz_Ng&mode=related&search=

Great mid-Sixties garage rock. I love this song.

The Beau Brummels perform Laugh Laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBf38X16KM
Great Top 40 band.

CCR performs Travelin' Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtO5SJZvOpk
One of the greatest R&R bands. Amazing.

Gravestone Girls

http://www.gravestonegirls.com/

Some beautiful art here.

A-12 spy plane unveiled at CIA HQ

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/supersonic-aircraft/secret-a+12-spy-plane-officially-unveiled-at-cias-headquarters-no-x+men-found-inside-302164.php

that vacation house...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092002194.html?nav=rss_print/asection

a nation of poison

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3634281&page=1

I'm just curious, is there anything from China NOT made out of lead, rat poison or engine coolant?

Proof that you can't get smart at MIT

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3634458
What a dumb fuck.

the next birdbath for the Manor!

http://www.frightcatalog.com/Halloween-Props/Decorations/Reaper+Bird+Bath-1006044/

good article on one person's Halloween decorating ideas and sources

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-etlede5380836sep20,0,7228544.story

With the Equinox upon us, I'm now getting in Full-Halloween mode here. Will try posting up a list of valuable links for the Holiday in the next two weeks.

Happy Birthday Chuck Jones!

http://www.chuckjones.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005062/

http://www.coldbacon.com/jones.html

Genius. Essential.

Happy Birthday H. G. Wells!

http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/

Happy Pig's Face Day!

"Pig's Face Day is celebrated every other year in the village of Avening in the Cotswolds. A story of unrequited love, it goes back over 900 years when Matilda fell in love with an Englishman, Brittic, who was on a mission to Flanders. He did not reciprocate. She later married William the Conqueror and when she joined her victorious husband in England, almost her first act was to have Brittic, who lived at Avening Court, thrown into gaol, where he died. Overcome with remorse, Matilda commissioned a church to be built at Avening which was completed in 1080 and in celebration, she feasted the builders with boar's head - colloquially Pig's Face."

Happy Devil's Nutting Day!

http://www.learnenglish.de/Temp/September/SeptemberDates.htm

Another obscure holiday I'm resurrecting.

My fave "Start of School" commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqI4xfsdv7Y&mode

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes perform I Don't Want To Go Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNCiEGZbLk&mode=related&search=

I've seen at least one weak performance by Southside, but I've also seen some great ones. One of the best White R&B singers and bands - ever. When he's cooking, Southside can take a song and add a depth of emotion to it that is almost painful. Linda and I caught the Jukes at Merriweather about twenty years ago and they opened with the old Supremes hit of Stop! In The Name of Love. It was unbelievable - one of the most energetic and joyful performances I've ever seen - a near religious experience. And the Jukes are one of those bands that can play for hours and get better and better. You never leave a Southside concert early.

The Sex Pistols perform God Save The Regime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2M_hpoPwk

One of the great kicks in the ass to pop culture! Charming lads! Perfectly timed and executed.

Bowie performs Changes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSTfaQytLEU

My second favorite Bowie song, (after Heroes). Great song to have out on the radio when you're a teenager...

Ze Mad Dogs & Ze Englishmen & Joe Cocker perform Delta Lady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz6Mt2t084

Man, I wish I'd seen this tour. One of the best bands ever assembled. Leon Russell wrote this little love song to Rita Coolidge, (both were in this group).

Spencer Davis video of Gimme Some Lovin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxA3atHD2QM
With Little Stevie Winwood. Ow!

the trophy

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3627619

The Skull of Frankenstein!

http://frankensteinia.blogspot.com/2007/09/skull-of-frankenstein.html

Happy Birthday Jay Ward!

http://www.rockyandbullwinkle.com/jwt/
http://www.toonopedia.com/jayward.htm

One of my faves. Genius. Essential.

another gonzo ad

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/484905.html

I swear this looks like a Glen Baxter model: "Rupert lectured for hours, but was unable to convince the wooden fish to vote Tory" or "Even the wearing of his best ascot couldn't get Lance noticed by the carved haddock".

THE tacky album cover

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/485622.html

Wonderfully repellent and compellingly sleazy. And by all that is Holy, what the hell is the Open Face Sandwich Club?!? My mind reels with the possibilities!

The Hipster PDA ;)

http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda/

Cute.

getting old

Linda and I walked into a local Burke & Herbert Bank to do some business, (I demanded tens and twenties and told 'em not to sound the alarm for at least 5 minutes...); and she alerted me to a long-lost sound - the clickey clack of someone actually TYPING ON A TYPEWRITER!!! I watched in amazement as an actual human being pounded away on one of the old contraptions - and it sounded great! The old days came flooding back. I felt like Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Past - I was a child again! I wanted to pelt someone with a snowball, go sledding, watch a TV show in black & white, listen to a 45, play murder ball, order a Chicken Delight and drink Tyrolia. It was amazing.

The Thief

http://funhouse.bubble.ro/1035/Seagull_Chips_Thief/

Hello, Darwin Awards....

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ROOGT81&show_article=1

Bruce joins Joan Jett to perform Light of Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN39ERJzr_w
Jersey's finest son meets Rockville's finest daughter. It doesn't get any better than this, comrades. THIS is religion.

Jane Wiedlin's video for Blue Kiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7maUtUoMc20

Known mostly for her work with the Go Go's, Wieldin is a wonderful songwriter and recording artist. Her tunes can be beautiful, sensitive, cute, and fun. Another in a long line of underappreciated performers.

Dave Edmunds performs I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock & Roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_cLQ2-QCU

One of the great British rockers. Our wedding song....

Deep Purple perform Smoke On The Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WX_4FNoto4
Yes, it's dumb; but you just can't get it out of your head. Classic high school rock...

Los Lobos video for Will The Wolf Survive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJVsUMKftMo
Great band and song.

nice article on up & coming radios for soldiers

http://www.defense-update.com/events/2007/summary/soldiertech07_radios.htm

nice article on "battle batteries"

http://www.defense-update.com/events/2007/summary/soldiertech07_power.htm

LolCthulhu

http://lolthulhu.com/

Obviously based on the lolcats site (http://lolcats.com/)

Some rare Beatles footage

Fab!

4000 Years of Chinese culture, wiped out....

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3621677&page=1

Gerbils In Space!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6996671.stm

Insert Richard Gere joke here...

Beware of Eyebrow Bandits!

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20070917223321218C604354

new (to me) horror & Cthulhu review blog

http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/

Looks pretty neat!

Arrr Matey!!! Happy Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

The Cat Lady

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770399

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

dying languages

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1251231

At some emotional level, I consider this quite sad; but I also consider it inevitable. It wouldn't surprise me to see only 10-12 languages commonly spoken by the end of this century.

Johnny Rivers performs Secret Agent Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9toYaZZKHA

So cool. Theme to the American release of Patrick McGoohan's Secret Agent TV series. My personal theme song in the mid Sixties, always running in my head - cause the odds were I wouldn't live to see tomorrow...

The Circle Jerks video for I Wanna Destroy You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APgg9LYbLu0

A good cover of an old Soft Boys tune (which I couldn't locate any footage of). Punk meets neo-psychedelia. Neat!

38 Special perform Hold On Loosely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMxqPRdR36I

A guilty pleasure. Most groups like this do nothing for me, but I've always liked 38 Special's music.

Leon Russell covers Jumpin' Jack Flash & Youngblood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_u72N4Ojcc

Another great cut from the Concert for Bangladesh. Leon is one of those living legends in pop culture, with a resume a mile long. The Master of Space & Time...

Ringo sings It Don't Come Easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ86Y1f3ppQ
My favorite Ringo song; this is from the Concert for Bangladesh.

Homemade laser

http://lifehacker.com/software/diy/turn-a-flashlight-into-a-handheld-burning-laser-287252.php

Wishbook Web - Christmas Catalogs from the Past

http://www.wishbookweb.com/

I wish they had the ones from Sears in the 60's. For those of you too young - there was a real sense of ritual and excitement to these things, much like the childhood memories evoked in Sheppard's Christmas Story. They'd be dropped off on your front doorstep around the second or third week of October. As far as we were concerned, that was the official start to the Christmas greed-fest. Within 72 hours the whole catalog would be memorized, underlined, bookmarked, and cross referenced. A merciless 24-hour-a-day lobbying effort would be directed at the parents, backed by vague threats and allusions to blackmail and extortion, only ending on Christmas morning with the inevitable sack of coal and stack of switches....

a Yahoo group devoted to Unviersal Monsters

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/UniversalMonsterArmy/

a blog devoted just to Frankenstein

http://frankensteinia.blogspot.com/

We're #2 And Growing Stronger!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091800777.html?nav=rss_metro

Watch out, L.A.!

True Gamesman

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/17/internet.death.ap/index.html

going to school

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2512456.html

Happy Birthday Rochester!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026655/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Anderson_(comedian)

Brilliant.

Happy Play-Doh Day!

http://www.hasbro.com/playdoh/

Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOuDAjbxcV4&mode=related&search=
Another great and forgotten band. They, and this song, should have been huge. It's like some sort of pop Frankenstein monster - with parts from all sorts of 60's & 70's sub-currents.

Lesley Gore - California Nights

My fave Lesley Gore song. A truly bizarre presentation of it on an episode of Batman!

The Lovin' Spoonful perform Do You Believe In Magic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQpZysa7UA (followed by You Didn't have To Be So Nice)
Essential. A great version from the legendary TNT show. John and his autoharp, Zally clowning around. One of my all-time favorite songs and bands. To be successful, R&R and R&B had to capture more than the usual boy/girl thing. They had to encompass the whole of our lives, successes and failures, danger and daring, and also a certain innocence and longing. The Spoonful provided that last part. I can only echo some old liner notes from one of their albums, listening to these old tunes and when they were written and wonder how the hell we got to where we are today.

Johnny Winter covers Johnny B. Goode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbK_wo1mMNs
You gotta have guts to cover Chuck Berry, and you better be damn good - Winter succeeds. This is a fun version.

The A's perform CIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kTXNRPkaM&mode=related&search=

One of the great lost power pop bands. Saw 'em once at the old Ontario Theater and thought they were great. They played this tune, a perfect little DC number...

RIP Jake Einstein

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501513.html

(Thanks for the link, Pete!)

Cruel & Unusual Punishment

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66473&in_page_id=2

life in Albania

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66398&in_page_id=2

All Hail Norton I!

On this date in 1859, Joshua Norton proclaimed himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. A Discordian Saint and a personal fave of mine. Long live the Emperor!

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html

http://www.knauer.org/mike/discordia/norton.php

http://www.notfrisco.com/nortoniana/index.html

And here's to you, Anne Bancroft!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000843/

http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/aa092301a.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8o3lYWGfZI

Happy Birthday Friedrich von Steuben!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben

http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/VONSTUB.HTM

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/steuben.html

One of my heroes.

Happy Birthday Fee Waybill!

http://www.thetubes.com/waybill.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8nGNbk7oQ

Happy Birthday Elvira!

http://www.elvira.com/

Happy Constitution/Citizenship Day!

http://www.patriotism.org/citizenship/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_(United_States)

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html

The first UAV kills for the Army

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/09/army_UAV_kills_070915w/

Get A Life! er, uh, Get A Death!

http://crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070914/REG/70914008/1009/breaking

Cthulhu Jewelry!

http://www.badalijewelry.com/cthulhu.htm

Happy Birthday Lauren Bacall!

http://www.laurenbacall.com/

http://themave.com/Bacall/

So very very cool. One of my faves. Center of one of the best erotic scenes Hollywood has ever come up with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8

Classic Schlock!

http://www.countgore.com/Lab.htm

That Ghost Host With The Most, Count Gore De Vol, does it again! This week he's showing that Classic Mexican horror film, The Wrestling Women Versus The Aztec Mummy. THAT'S Entertainment!

America perform Sister Golden Hair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqYMalSiOvk

I know that 70's soft rock is waaay out of fashion, but I've always enjoyed America and this is probably my fave tune by 'em. There are times of simplicity in everyone's life, generally early on; when both the successes and the failures, the good times and the bad are very instinctual and basic. These guys' songs remind me a little of that.

NRBQ perform I Got A Rocket In My Pocket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-s8JFTt-vo&mode=related&search=
One of the great rock bands, underappreciated, as usual. I wish I could play a piano like Terry. Soooo cool!

Paul & Paula - Hey Paula

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8YNqGoL8I

Go ahead and laugh - I always liked this balled. Very sweet.

ZZ Top perform La Grange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDZgydwj2Y

Great stuff! Take John Lee Hooker and stick him out on the desert plains of West Texas and this is what you get!

The Wish...

Essential For Oktoberfest

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11727.html

critical essays on Fritz Leiber now available

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2972-0

new book - High Seas Cthulhu

http://www.eldersignspress.com/?p=36

Awww, Mr. PotatoHead gets ready for Halloween!

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?prod=1&ts=2007091501&number=HP02547

Happy Birthday Torgo!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0721786/
http://www.torgo.org/torgo/

Happy Felt Hat Day!

I'm a slave to fashion...

The Mamas & Papas perform California Dreamin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHTWS4au9k
Perfect vocals; but where's John's hat?! I just found out a few months ago that Cass grew up on my street, about seven blocks down!

Frankie Valli & The Four Season perform Let's Hang On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BjhYAbskHo

People tend to forget how big these guys were in the early and mid 60's. They had some great songs, and this is probably my fave.

Golden Earring - Radar Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF01SpB6joI

One of the the GREAT driving songs. May the gods help anyone in front of me when this comes on the radio at night...

Ian Dury & The Blockheads perform Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBLeVcP_JQg

Maslow's Pyramid for the modern ages.

The electric Prunes perform Get Me To The World On Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeD4qvP2e9U&mode=related&search=
Lousy video quality. But one of my fave garage/psychedelia songs and bands. Brilliant stuff!

Dingo Killed My Baby

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/467368.html

GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1247849

Happy Holy Nut Day!

This old and forgotten holiday, (which I am hereby resurrecting) is sometimes combined with another - Devil's Nutting Day; but the two traditions are slightly different. Today, any Hazelnuts eaten will posses "magical powers" . Good luck!

King Arthur on trial!

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1247770

My next bed!

http://www.mooncostumes.com/item/3609

Pass the pea soup!

Happy Birthday Clayton Moore - The Lone Ranger!

http://members.tripod.com/~ClaytonMoore/index.html
http://nimst.tripod.com/cgi-bin/UC1.html

Probably my first/earliest childhood memories of television. And one of my first heroes, (along with Zorro and Robin Hood).

Getting Old

I was in a HALLMARK store yesterday and the sound system was playing the Stones' Street Fightin' Man...

The Dream Syndicate perform Tell Me When It's Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5DJjiH_zQ&mode=related&search=
Noisy psychedelic music of despair - I love it...

video of Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra's Some Velver Morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4
In a decade literally crammed to the rafters with interesting songs, this was one of the most. Fascinating and mysterious lyrics, a beautiful combination of baroque pop/country goth/paisley pop pyschelia. One of those tunes that gets better around the fourth or fifth drink. Hazelwood was a weird little genius and is sorely missed.

Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Loving Feeling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7827EMkm5ko

Probably the best example of blue-eyed soul, ever. Perfect vocals and great Spector production. This is an example of everything clicking just right.

The Barbarians play Hey Little Bird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akyb8StzqbA

Another good garage band, featuring Moulty on drums (who had a hook for a left hand which he used to drum with - how cool is that!?!). Created one of the first odes to guys with long hair - Are You A Boy, Or Are You A Girl? Fun stuff!

The Count 5 perform Psychotic Reaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWn9s0piexc

Wonderful first generation Garage Rock, just when it was turning to psychedelia.

Dion sings The Wanderer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoI1gXoivhE

Classic.

When Damian Satan Sold Pork & Beans

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/464064.html

Wuss America

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122478.html

Ask A Ninja - Ninja Babysitters

http://askaninja.com/node/4935

Classic...

the church of Dr. Who

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19351/dr-who

Arrest the usual suspects...

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65993&in_page_id=2

Etch-A-Sketch Art

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65922&in_page_id=2

The Vampire Star...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070912/sc_space/bizarreparasiticstarfound

The Invisibility Cloak

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12611-invisibility-cloak-turns-you-into-ray-of-light.html

Isn't this how "Day fo the Triffids" begins?

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/gardens/story/0,,2167082,00.html

Bud probably will buy Bud

http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=639

Sad. I wouldn't use that swill to flush with...

Happy Anniversary to The Muppet Show!

It premiered on this date in '76. One my fave, and one of the best, TV shows of all time. Jim Henson was a genius, and is sadly missed. Timeless. Essential.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074028/

http://www.kermitage.com/html/epguide/tms/tmsseasons.htm

http://www.muppetcentral.com/

http://muppets.go.com/

The Star Spangled Banner

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/spangle.htm

Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem on the night of Sept 13-14th in 1814. I confess that I've never liked it. No one can sing it, no one knows all the words, it's too slow, the tune is stolen from the Brits, etc. I think Yankee Doodle would have been a good choice, or better yet, this little gem. Cheers!

Scrambled Eggs

Yesterday was released on this date in '65.

Whew! Cancel my life insurance policy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/science/space/12cnd-planet.html?ex=1347249600&en=ae3c30c42be5d102&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

My Pope of Cthulhu Credentials Questioned!?!?

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122455.html

I hope this so-called judge rethinks his decision soon. I certainly wouldn't want any tentacled "accidents" to happen to him. ... Meanwhile, I now hereby pronounce you all Spawn And Wife. Amen.

Rod Stewart & Ron Wood perform Every Picture Tells A Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkj7k8_J4bs

Fantastic song from one of the best albums - ever. Rod & The Faces could rock!

The Byrds perform Chestnut Mare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT8iwE3r7Tk
Unfortunately, it's only a partial recording. I was going to say this was one of my fave Byrds' tunes; but hell, I love everything this band has ever done! Essential.

Badfiner perform No Matter What

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsVPThOPlX4
Probably the national anthem of the modern power pop movement. Great song and tragic band.

Dylan & Harrison perform If Not For You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdvjoIfGViU

Wonderful...

Burkittsville to ignore the only reeason anyone would want to visit there

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=1245938

Halloween is coming, and so is Boo at the Zoo

http://dc.about.com/b/a/256607.htm

You'll take my chainsaw

http://www.wftv.com/news/14096503/detail.html?treets=orlc&tid=2654358485813&tml=orlc_strange&tmi=orlc_strange_1_10000509122007&ts=H

When you pry it from my cold, dismembered hand...

The Return of Led Zep

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2167509,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Play Freebird! Er, I mean Stairway!!!!

The Daily Caption

http://www.dailycaption.com/

If you like this kind of humor, be sure to check out Glen Baxter's comic books - He's THE MASTER.

the ultimate ceiling problem

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1410

great moments in museum realism

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2504860.html?menu=

Awww, a timely birth

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=52741

cute Irony t-shirt

http://www.despair.com/ironictees.html

Happy Defenders Day!

http://battlenorthpoint.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenders_Day

Happy Birthday H. L. Mencken!

One of my faves...

http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

http://www.mencken.org/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken.html

Here We Come...Walin' Down The Street...

http://www.monkees.net/default.htm

The Monkees TV show debuted on this date in '66.

The Counter Revolution

http://nosoproject.com/

Lou Reed performs Walk On The Wild Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TceFKz2DZ9M

Ah, that's it - a little East Coast decadence. High school games, cheap wine, and full of worry. Amusing that one can get nostalgic over early 70's Weimar America...

John Mellencamp's video for Check It Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5XCVCvmalo

Sometimes Mellencamp's rural Midwest schtick gets a little too much for me, (I was born in a LARGE town...). But I do enjoy quite a few of his tunes, and this is my favorite. Good instrumentation and a weariness in the lyrics I can identify with more and more.

The Saints perform I'm Stranded

http://bedazzled.onlinestoragesolution.com/im_stranded_2.mov

One of the first punk/new wave bands to get a major contract. Unjustly ignored by the public. They were a great group.

The Hollies perform On A Carousel

http://bedazzled.onlinestoragesolution.com/on_a_carousal.mov

Cool band with a great sound.

fun & fancy wine labels

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=3580526&page=1
Linda and I were noticing this in our shopping more and more. Three weeks ago I purposefully went down the aisles of Total Wines just picking up bottles based on the cleverness of their labels - and they ended up being pretty good! No great finds, but no duds either.

The Pint Lives!

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=105&sid=1244748

a bad day for muggers

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65586&in_page_id=2

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65599&in_page_id=2

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65612&in_page_id=2

Ringo!

He replaced Pete Best on this date in 1962...

http://www.ringostarr.com/

Only 50 Days Till Halloween!

The Seekers perform Georgy Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHM8tmYyrI

Interesting movie, great pop song. I don't know if folks much older OR younger than me would really appreciate this tune, but it captures the times it was recorded in nicely.

The Moody's video for Nights In White Satin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

Wonderful band and sound. Those mid-period seven albums are Essential.

The Ramones perform Blitzkrieg Bop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7Nt5qnBsw

Perfection.

Nick Lowe & Rockpile perform Cruel To Be Kind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJ7oGHwMTI
The Jesus of Cool with one of the best bands ever.

Cockroaches - The Ultimate Solution

http://www.wftv.com/news/14080332/detail.html?treets=orlc&tid=2654358485813&tml=orlc_strange&tmi=orlc_strange_1_10000209102007&ts=H

The Right Stuff: Buzz Aldrin thinks crazed diaper wearers are A-OK!

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1243649

There's something very wrong with NASA....

I miss the old days...

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/09/dayintech_0910

Solar Plane News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6916309.stm
Neat!

Vincent advertises shrunken heads!

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/459187.html

The Inflatable Haunted House!

http://halloweenmagick.blogspot.com/2007/09/inflatible-haunted-house.html

For All MST Fans: Manos - The Rock Musical!!!

http://manos.nmtchicago.org/

Stevie and Lindsey perform Landslide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNrrrCCTdA
My fave Nicks tune. Beautiful. Written in Colorado, of course...

The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooPBuFoJCM
One of the most moving and saddest songs I know. The anthem of the Irish diaspora. This is for Cathy O'Brien...

REM perform Cuyahoga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svs0icmIv00
Wonderful wonderful song. (not the best sound quality...)

Spike Jones In Hi-Fi

http://davesworld56.blogspot.com/2007/05/spike-jones-in-stereo-spooktacular-in.html

One of my fave Halloween records!

The Return of Indiana Jones!

http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html

computer keyboard fun!

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1371

neat business cards!

http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs

the world's most beautiful libraries

http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html#more

Fantastic! (I am only slightly miffed that they left mine out...)

Kirk in HD DVD

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_coming_to_hd_dvd_with_phaser_remote/C157

Imagine...

Was released by john on this date in 1971. One of those albums I played nearly every day for a year or two. Essential.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

Happy Birthday Otis Redding!

Probably my favorite R&B singer. Unbelievable.

http://www.otisredding.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Redding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGlKJDEI1Nk

Happy Teddy Bear Day!

http://shop.vermontteddybear.com/index.html

Happy Grandparents Day!

great book reviews ;)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0833030477/cliffordpickover

Gel- Cookery

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/

You won't be hungry after viewing these...

Bestiality as an advertising tool

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/457273.html

By Hook Or By Crook

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1242685

The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IzVbuGHXY

Another group that I feel is much more interesting than most folks give them credit for. Some of the best songwriters of the era wrote their hits, and Nesmith was no slouch at early country rock.

Peter & Gordon perform I Go To Pieces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpS0GlpMuE

Beautiful.

Bad Company perform their signature song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ryRksbQvU

Another great Paul Rodgers band.

Vanesa Paradis video for Sunday Mondays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIG9gIlsBM4

Nice, vaguely sixties girl sound.

review of the film, Cthulhu

http://www.dreadcentral.com/index.php?name=Reviews&req=showcontent&id=1613

The Japanese Air Guitar Champ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6vUsumUmdeY

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Get A Life!

Star Trek premiered on this date in '66.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/index.html

Happy Birthday Sid Caesar!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128377/

http://sidcaesar.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM

Happy Birthday Peter Sellers!

http://www.petersellers.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000634/

http://www.petersellers.org/

The Blues Magoos - We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj1_YqnORE
And yet another fave. Fantastic tune from '67. Listening to Cousin Duffy on WPGC...

The Byrds perform 8 Miles High

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up6Xh3Gme1w

Love this band. Another essential.

The Jam's video for Going Underground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whSYTSXm8wo

Great band and song. Pity they never made it in the States.

Aerosmith perform Back In The Saddle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYn8TdFS9o

Classic.

the rolling hamster

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65144&in_page_id=2

the next "Great Pyramid"?

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9770535-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Revenge of the Pets!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html

There's a horror movie in all of this...

Square Watermelons

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_square_watermelon.htm

more info on the new Prisoner box set!

http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/network40th.htm
Very cool! Essential!

news from Star Trek - New Voyages

http://trekmovie.com/2007/09/05/new-voyages-latest-episode-back-online-team-planning-new-episodes/

I like these guys.

Help!

Something for Beatles fans... Apple Corps Ltd. has just announced that EMI will be releasing Help! on DVD as a 2-disc set on 10/30. The film has been restored and will feature a newly-created Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Extras will include the 30-minute The Beatles in Help! documentary, a missing scene featuring Wendy Richard, the The Restoration of Help! and Memories of Help! featurettes, 3 trailers for the film and 1965 U.S. radio spots for the film hidden as Easter eggs in the menus. This 2-disc set will be released in TWO different versions - a standard Digipack version and a special deluxe boxed set. From the press release, the deluxe box will contain: "a reproduction of Richard Lester's original annotated script, 8 lobby cards and a poster, plus a 60-page book with rarely seen photographs and production notes from the movie.

(Thanks for the notice, Pete!)

Happy Birthday Chrissie Hynde!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrissie_Hynde

http://www.pretendersarchives.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9txBYBwLTew

Brilliant, Beautiful, Essential. I still remember the first time I heard that debut album - walking into the old Kemp Mill Records off of Braddock Road. The thing had just been released and the clerk put it on their sound system. Ten seconds into their cover of Stop Your Sobbing and I was hooked. Great sound.

Happy Birthday Buddy Holly!

http://www.buddyholly.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko0qw3nHwdU

Essential.

Time to learn hot key commands!

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/03/226528/wife-severs-husbands-ties-to-the-internet.htm

Wow!

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Pete Shelley's video for Homosapien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVDzCHqlqg
Cool 80's dance tune, with a nod and a wink. Fun stuff!

Jim Croce performs Operator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03nUBEE9FM
One of my faves. Beautiful ballad.

Janis performs Ball & Chain at Monterey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGJynZNr7rk
Wonderful. Essential.

From The Crow - NIN covers Dead Souls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er2KEEuQdoE

Fantastic version, (as is the original by Joy Division).

a nation of wussies

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/09/annals_of_zero_tolerance_eradi.html#more

Kinkiness in Ads

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/450251.html

Here's something your kids will never see:

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/454356.html

LOBSTER FIGHT!

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2363

Life In DC - "Coming Together"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402132.html

neat article on Pulsallama!

http://seminars.torontoghosts.org/blog/index.php/2007/09/05/weird_wednesday_with_chris_laursen_40
I thought I was the only one who remembered this song! (Yes Missy, I own the fabulously rare 12" of it....). The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body gets played on Halloweens here at the Manor! (You can listen to it at the above site). Neat!

Film Wars!!!

My friend Vanessa just wrote me the following: "There's a new movie coming out in Russia called Mongol. Part of the promotional campaign is a contest to "win a DNA test to see if you are a descendant of Chingiz Khan." Supposedly 1 out of 200 people is a descendant. Where else could you win a medical procedure by seeing a movie?"

I love William Castle-style film promotions! And I can't believe we'd sit back and let the Russkies win this "Promotions War". I suggest we immediately up the ante by offering:
1. Free VD shots for anyone viweing the Happy Hooker, etc.
2. Glow-in-the-dark crucifixes for attendees of vampire flicks. Roast garlic could be served on the popcorn.
3. Cans of pea soup for Exorcist fans.
4. Outdoor thermometers to be handed out at all showings of An Inconvenient Truth.
5. Free flea collars for all patrons of werewolf movies.
6. Coupons for Fava Beans at showings of Silence of the Lambs.
7. Pet chameleons handed out during Godzilla movies.
8. Free gerbils for anyone attending a Richard Gere film.

I tell you, we must win this race, and we will!!!

Happy Birthday Lafayette!

http://www.marquisdelafayette.net/
One of the greats.

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMjzBgMnLFk

Ah, summer of '78... Very cool sound. Reminiscent of my boy Al Stewart. I know I am alone in this opinion, but I believe this song is based on a rather obscure Discordian sci-fi story called the Clam of Catastrophe by Arthur Cover.

Cheap Trick perform Tonight It's You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c70UZWtWWV4
Great power pop.

Free perform All Right Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuxb-m4-ng

Wonderful rock'n'roll! Good Paul Rodgers vocal.

Kevin Ayers performs May I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvG5-UB7_0
Great forgotten artist and song from the 70's. Very pretty.

Cheetos - Dusty Death Device

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=3557562
A nation of wussies...

Horror & Sci Fi flics on TV

With Halloween approaching, we can now expect to see an upgrade in darker films on TV:

http://www.tv-now.com/stars/horror.html

http://www.tv-now.com/stars/scifi.htm

Halloween Themed Garden Plants

http://plantsbulbs.suite101.com/article.cfm/halloween_themed_garden_plants

The Friendly Skies

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-09-05T062243Z_01_EIC470860_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEPAL-AIRLINE-odd.xml&src=nl_usmorningdigest

Happy Birthday Al Stewart!

One of my faves. Some of the most literate and interesting lyrics in pop music. Cold & dark nights in Gtown with my friends, contemplating a crime...

http://www.alstewart.com/

http://www.things.org/music/al_stewart/

http://www.famousfolk.com/alstewart/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6UVbz4QL4A

Happy Birthday Bob Newhart

http://www.bobnewhart.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627878/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627878/

Wonderful comedian. Master of the one-man phone conversation.

old habits are hard to break, eh Fritz?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6978500.stm

a revolution in battery technology?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NO_MORE_BATTERIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-09-04-09-19-38

Very exciting, if true...

Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo6HONeuT-M
Classic mid-70's cock rock. So stupid it's fun, and a great sound you can't get out of your head. Great to go with that second six pack...

Sonny & Cher perform I Got You Babe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVtbFXm2E6Q
All the soap opera drama and glam got in the way of the fact that this was one of the better folk rock groups. Sonny could combine a pseudo Phil Spector sound and commercialism with Dylanesque pretensions and come up with some pretty neat Top 40 tunes.

Chad & Jeremy perform A Summer Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Sq88gG2Qk&mode=related&search=
A very pretty song, I always liked it. Another good end of Summer song.

Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul - Under The Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-5Nlxa59g
One of my faves - very cool song.

get that Christmas shopping in!

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=64593&in_page_id=2

Because nothing says you care more than panda poo...

MMMMMMMMM, Steamed Crap!

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/nationworld/ci_6769410

Hidden Songs

http://www.hiddensongs.com/index.html

Pretty neat!

Yea, like I need this...

http://www.sarcasmsociety.com/

There's A Fungus Among Us

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/09/fungus-lichen-moss.html

neat pics!

a rose by any other name...

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=64558&in_page_id=2

Steely Dan - My Old School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj9Rs56u8YY
A nice start-of-school song! In its day, the unofficial anthem of William & Mary. It's always neat hearing this song sober, very different from the days when it was released... To all of you about to start classes, I wish you better luck than I ever had. As for me, time for some Virginia Gentleman...

Frampton - Baby I Love Your Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjFk7i4hyg
Yes, yes, I know, I know. Throughout the mid and late 70's this was overplayed and he was overexposed. But I still think this was a very pretty love song and it still reminds me of more innocent and hope-filled days. Another good end-of-summer song.

Jay & The Americans - Come A Little Bit Closer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDm9mR-dOZ8
Fun song by a fun group.

Star Trek, New Voyages - The Return of Sulu!

http://startreknewvoyages.com/weat_streams.html

Pretty cool!

Sly & The Family Stone perform Hot Fun In The Summertime (and others)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYEK4zuNOqU

My fave Summer tune. If I'm home, I always listen to it every Labor Day, and have been doing so since its release in '69. Beautiful, beautiful song.

True Grit Days in Ridgway!

http://www.gjsentinel.com/search/content/features/stories/2007/08/31/9_2_wwwl_true_grit.html
(you might need to log into this site to view the link - sorry)

A celebration of one of my fave films in one of my all-time favorite spots on Earth. I've been in and around Ridgway dozens of time over the course of my life, and been stopping in and eating at the True Grit Cafe for at least twenty years now. As many of you old-timers know, I consider that whole region a second home. Just beautiful....

(Thanks for the link, Dolores!)

Papa Was A Rolling Stone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2lSZ_BfR_U
The events in the song took place on this date...

Treaty of Paris Day!

It was signed on this date in 1783, concluding the Revolution.

http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/paris.shtml

Happy Labor Day!

http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm

The Shangri-Las perform Give Him A Great Big Kiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOdP_VvPKHU&mode=related&search=

So cool! Along with the Ronettes, THE best of the girl groups.

The Stranglers perform Get A Grip On Yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jGqx3sqq-4
They never got much respect, but I always considered The Stranglers to be one of the better and more interesting bands to come out of late 70's Britain. A mix of Doors-like danger and intelligence.

Jefferson Airplane perform Somebody To Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOjxtrpwR9I

Classic. Essential.

Ricky Nelson plays Travelin' Man & Lonesome Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoSVj0cfWq4

Sometimes, too white bread, but very good with ballads.

Happy VJ Day! (Official)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day

Happy National Beheading Day!

Speed Demon Photography

http://www.crestock.com/blog/photography/speed-demon-photography-76.aspx

Pretty neat!

A Slogan For DC...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/08/random_friday_question_whats_d.html#comments
There are some good suggestions here, (mostly the rude ones), but I'm sorry, "Bitch Set Me Up!" is the only appropriate one...

alien demon women sell bras!

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/440918.html

How To Hide An Airplane Factory

http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=2350

Neat!

Star Trek film rumors...

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Strange-Star-Trek-Rumors-6221.html

New Ultra-Box Set of The Prisoner Being Released! (at least in Britain...)

http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=481

new studies of lightning "Sprites"

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/local/local_story_243003946.html

interesting genome discovery

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070830_gene_transfer.html

site devoted to the events in Europe leading to WWII

http://members.tripod.com/dailytrh/ww2.html
Reasonably good resource, (the maps need better captioning and descriptions).

new Kinky Friedman DVD!

http://www.kinkyfriedmanstore.com/product.php?productid=16277&cat=253&page=1