Weirdness: April 2008

http://www.tommyjames.com/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2rqVKDppA

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

One of my fave TOP40/Bubblegum performers.

Happy Birthday Carolyn Jones!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427700/

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

Morticia...

Fire & Sound - Fun Stuff!

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

I've just gotta get one of these hooked up to my stereo and then play some Arthur Brown!!!

Sinead O'Connor & Shane MacGowan perform Haunted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oyxrrEk58&feature=related

Two legends perform one of the most beautiful songs to come out of the 80's. Forlorn times and lost thoughts. I need a drink...

Blondie performs X Offender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ6fpSdQQKc

So cool. I remember first hearing 'em on GTB back around this album's release. What a great station.

The Moody Blues perform Tuesday Afternoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLWBhNW3FM

One of my fave bands. Those seven "middle period" albums are all classics. I remember one summer (72?, 75?) going with my cousins up to Telluride to attend a hang gliding festival. Just lying in a field, surrounded by the most beautiful mountain scenery I've ever seen, colorful gliders lazily drifting overhead, and the Moodys playing on my little Sony cassette player. A perfect day.

Johnny Burnette covers Hound Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auZsxwqsx7k

Great, great rockabilly.

The Radiators From Space perform Television Screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1DXxxIBrM

One of the greatest bands you've never heard of. A great pub rock/proto punk band from around '76. I think they recorded on the late great Chelsea label, (along with the Count Bishops, another band that should've made it...).

Should've been bigger. Cool band.

Paul Revere & The Raiders perform Kicks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYeUZJdrTwQ
A staple on Where The Action Is, I think this was their biggest hit. One of the first Top 40 anti-drug songs.

Happy Birthday Frank Belknap Long!

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

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/frank-belknap-long/

One of my fave dark fantasy writers. Huntmaster of the Hounds of Tindalos...

Fanny performs Special Care

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmPprVESlZw&feature=related

Great all-female band from the early 70's; almost forgotten now. They were cool.

the determined dog

http://www.yeah-oops.com/?p=5995

a chapter from my youth

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/04/26/make-love-not-war/

France's Air Force

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2008/04/french-air-force-blues.html

Not good, guys...

Clockpunk Sci Fi Blog

http://davinciautomata.wordpress.com/

Happy Birthday Stevie Nicks!

http://www.nicksfix.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3w5fttedA&feature=related

I know Stevie's range is kind of limited, but I've always liked her; and Rhiannon is one of those songs where over exposure has probably hurt it, but it really is a great tune, and using Welsh mythological imagery in a pop song is pretty neat too.

Happy Birthday Carol Burnett!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000993/
http://carolburnettfan.com/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aRMZ4ePmMM

Genius. Essential. One of my faves.

Happy National Pretzel Day!

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

geomagnetic suicides

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news9_head_dn13769

Interesting...

How Many Cannibals Can You Feed?

http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/cannibal_lunch

Happy Birthday Meadowlark Lemon!!!

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

The only guy to ever get me interested in watching basketball. Genius.

Welcome to Sherwood!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/
Today marks the 70th anniversary of one of my all-time favorite movies - The Adventures Of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn. I've been watching this masterpiece since I was a kid - at least 40 times, and love it more and more. A swashbuckling classic! And it features one of THE best entrances in all of filmdom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwKj7S-ysA Brilliant!

Phantom Dan Honored

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=253523188&p=z535z3894

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufR3r5Z7aas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRQbVoK8BFo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRzDKaPXb5M&feature=related

http://www.thedannyfedericimelanomafund.com/

I know, I suppose it's silly to think of a celebrity in a personal manner. But that's how we always viewed Bruce and the E Streeters, just the way you would with any other friend you'd hung out with back in the day. You'll be missed Danny. "Sandy" will never sound quite the same.

company logos...

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/04/24/when-the-company-logo-didnt-come-out-as-expected/

this person has got to live in NoVa...

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/04/23/eat-the-what/

the fish/bird tank

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/04/23/fish-bird-tank/

fly in an ME262

http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262program.htm

This would be quite an experience...

the cutting edge of finance

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/04/22/5358021-ap.html

new prosthetic hand

http://www.livescience.com/technology/080422-prosthetic-hand.html

Wow! Cool!

I guess cigarettes are good for you!

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=144355&in_page_id=2

Don't Talk During The Show!

http://www.komando.com/videos/4-23.asp

Great stuff!

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

The Lone Ranger To The Rescue!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhB4kDwZu7M

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

the future...

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/can-soldiers-be.html

"Forever" Drones

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/forever-drones.html

laptop privacy

http://acrosstheboard.blogspot.com/2008/04/ultimate-laptop-privacy-why.html

Hershey's Army

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/04/21/hersheys-kiss-brigade/

My Life...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgQkKogqHDQ&eurl=

fun street performance trick

http://ahboon.net/2008/04/04/secret-of-johan-lorbeer-still-life-performance-tarzan/

Suitable For Drunk Driving!

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3001

The Russian Army Faces Its Gravest Challenge!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v67n2VkseR8

Imagine! The horror of a beast that can nearly travel 2mph! Only that rarest and mightiest of weapons can stop it - a hand grenade! IT'S THE END!!!!

The Blessing...

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=144093&in_page_id=2

Myth-O's! The Cthulhu Cereal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAU7JT6Qlk

Folger's Commercial: Make Me Some Coffee, You Stupid Bitch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5idyptK15w&eurl=

Sheesh!

Haunter Net

http://haunternet.com/

move over, Barbie & Ken...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/22/whitler122.xml

Happy Birthday Roy Orbison!

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/roy-orbison

http://royorbison.musiccitynetworks.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPK_5yJZScQ&feature=related

Essential.

Happy Birthday Ed Walker!

A legend of DC radio - one of the Joy Boys!

http://www.thejoyboys.com/

http://www.wamu.org/programs/bb/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/radio091399.htm

The Addmas Family Online!

http://www.hulu.com/the-addams-family

the smallest transistor

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/04/18/scitrans118.xml

Amazing...

birth control...

http://www.theweirdpost.com/wordpress/2008/04/man-superglues-condom-to-penis-to-save-on-safe-sex/

fascinating brain disease

http://www.e-hq.co.uk/mysterial.co.uk/web/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=printtopic&id=845&curcatname=Parapsychology&img=parapsychology

Alert Sally Fields!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24244282/

Neat New/Weird Computer Possibilities!

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13656-ten-weirdest-computers.html?feedId=tech_rss20

I definitely want a Slime Mold computer!

Motorcycling/skydiving

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/04/21/10289_gold-coast-lead-story.html

Stealth Technology Car...

http://www.theweirdpost.com/wordpress/2008/04/man-arrested-after-pumping-gas-into-imaginary-car/

Happy Birthday Peter Frampton!

http://www.frampton.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjFk7i4hyg

I know, he's a great and under-appreciated rock guitarist, and was an important member of one of the great British bands - Humble Pie. But we'll always remember Peter for his live album - an inescapable soundtrack to the Summer of '76. In the long run, it probably hurt his career, and I'm sure he's had his regrets regarding it, but it was a fun album, (and actually represented a nice recap of a multi-album solo career that had been lackluster in the States); and how many artists can lay claim to so dominating a particular time period?

Happy Birthday Rondo Hatton!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369061/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_Hatton

Happy Earth Day!

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

Snoopy Wins!

The Red Baron was shot down on this date in 1918.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk8B4PyRgpk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqq1SmoGAo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E

Happy Birthday Iggy Pop!

http://www.iggypop.com/
http://www.iggypop.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12FrfQazG84

One of the Immortals. Essential.

Happy Birthday George Takei!

http://www.georgetakei.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001786/

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

Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o! Get along little doggies!

As many of you know, my maternal grandparents were small-time dirt farmers and ranchers out in Western Colorado. Their brand was the Lazy W Quarter Circle, (reproduced below with a big thanks to my friend John for the jpeg!). The brand is still active in that state. It's registered under the names of three of my first cousins once removed, (a fact I am mighty jealous of). But it turns out that the Old Dominion also allows registered brands, and I (and my brother) have done so - Registry #125). The Lazy W Quarter Circle rides again! I even had a couple of smaller brands constructed by these nice folks: http://www.bbqblanton.com/bmwCattleIrons.htm

I confess that it's amusing, sitting here along the Beltway, filling out a questionaire about exactly what part of the cows I plan on burning the brand on, etc. Meanwhile, there are plenty of stray cats and children in the neighborhood; round-up time is going to be amusing..

Dog Armory

http://www.pitbullarmory.com/dog-armor.html

Goth Bowling!

http://www.gothbowl.com/

Happy Birthday Phlorescent Leech!

http://www.theturtles.com/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuRz1w_8ss&feature=related

Happy Record Store Day!

http://www.recordstoreday.com/

Record stores and radio - those were the coolest things. Radio is shot to hell, (at least in terms of broadcast radio), and record stores are going fast, (at least the good ones). I consider myself so fortunate to have worked at one which, at least for a time, was one of the best. (So did quite a few of you (maybe) reading this - Here's to Pete, Carol, Chris, Doug, Paul, Stella, Debbie, Jane, Sarah, Andrew, Richard, Charlotte, Erik, Mathew, Karl, & Geoff - we had some fun, didn't we?)

Happy Patriot's Day!

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

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/patriotsday/timeline/index.html

Generally celebrated on the third Monday in April, this is the official day. There are quite a few events in the Revolution that I find quite moving, this is one of them.

Nunchuck...

http://www.accoutrements.com/products/11580.html

nice little article on the Gurkhas during WWII

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560391&in_page_id=1770

RIP Phantom Dan

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWBL8bwtky7ejPHSACIDibAWnHwAD90424SO0

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxj6_eOQhsY

I am seriously bummed. Danny was there from the beginning.

Listen My Children...

http://poetry.eserver.org/paul-revere.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1261.html

Today is the anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride...

Rat Fink Album Covers by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth!

http://www.vsrnonline.com/BDR_Ads/RothAlbums_1.htm
Roth was sooo cool!

Cool variation on sky writing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24162063/

Happy Birthday Senor Wences!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1or_Wences
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920777/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJiYZ6QIAtY

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

People think they're so god-dmaned hip these days. NO ONE is cooler than Senor Wences! The man was a surrealist genius. A guy just talking to a box that says "S'alright". Brilliant. Essential.

Chesapeake crab news

http://www.nbc4.com/news/15893394/detail.html?rss=dc&psp=news

Sad news. I see no end to this. Too much of everything - people, chemicals, etc., around the Chesapeake. You'll be able to tell your gandchildren about the fun we had at a crab feast, and they'll wonder what the hell you're talking about.

Godzilla Worship

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2996

Rejected Tire Commercials

http://www.yeah-oops.com/?p=5893

Unbelievably Cool Retro-Future T-Shirts!

http://www.printfection.com/retro-future

Interview with one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/14/europe/EU-GEN-Poland-Ghetto-Leader.php

I'm in awe of those people.

Happy Birthday Gerry Rafferty!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi2h5lD4yl8

Most folks think of Gerry as a one, or maybe two, hit wonder, which is too bad. While not a prolific recording artist, he's put out some very good albums and tunes over the years. And Baker Street is wonderful - Summer of '78, thinkin' you own the world, tearing down Indian Head Highway...

Happy Birthday Dusty Springfield!

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/dusty-springfield

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

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

One of the great blue-eyed pop/soul singers. Really moving.

Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin

one of my all-time fave TV ads!

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/939417.html

I love this sucker! We used to make fun of it at the record store - talking about how many great porno themes were actually from the Old Masters, etc. The English accent is perfect, (everyone knows we Colonials are incapable of appreciating anything beyond some inbred grit banging away on a banjo). So cool - get the 8-Tracks!

Where Are My Robot Slaves?

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/10/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/

more wuss America

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402988_pf.html

I am soooo glad I grew up at a time when a kid was allowed to be a kid... I don't know why all these worthless prisses just don't make a law permanently encasing children in three layers of bubble wrap and smothered in antibiotics. No tag! No dodge ball! Man, I was the KING of dodge ball. Oh, I couldn't throw worth a damn, (no accuracy and all the power of an enraged hamster), but I have a highly developed sense of self preservation and could dodge like there was no tomorrow. Dunder-headed jocks would collapse from exhaustion trying to hit me. And I'm still dodging them today...

Beach Art!

http://jimdenevan.com/images.htm

Neat stuff! Reminds me a little bit of crop circles.

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Happy Birthday Dave Edmunds!

Another fave. One of the great Rockers.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/2674/

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/DaveEdmunds1.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdO81OKATgE

Happy Birthday Leonardo Da Vinci!

http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

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

Happy Birthday Hans Conreid!

One of my fave character actors/narrators.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175788/

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

wuss America

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-old-sexual-2016809-year-officials
I'm fascinated how Zero Intelligence is now renamed Zero Tolerance.

parental woes

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851207/detail.html
I've always felt that potential parents need to openly and honestly discuss the religious upbringing their children will receive BEFORE conception, and reach a consensus early on that everyone finds acceptable. Sometimes, compromise is essential. In this case, perhaps the child could join the Bloods. Another possibility is that he could deal crack for each group on alternating weeks. We are all adults here and should act accordingly.

Vidal Sassoon - Anti-Fascist!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/14/nsassoon114.xml
I'm familiar with the 43 Group, but had no idea Sassoon was a member!

Happy Birthday Tony Burrows!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Burrows
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/salaryman/asada/burrows.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kyqdNhk9k&feature=related

One of the great voices in pop music. King of the One-Hit-Wonders!

Happy John Hanson Day!

http://www.trivia-library.com/a/first-1st-us-president-john-hanson.htm

HWY - An American Pastoral now available online!

http://www.subcin.com/jimhwy.htm

A very rare art film starring Jim Morrison

Ginger VS. Mary Ann - A Scholarly Examination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wrEqsTJCmg&feature=related

Rock On!

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1242512920080413?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041101091.html

Worst Movie Scenes

http://www.yeah-oops.com/?p=5864

Neat Vehicles!

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/worlds-strangest-vehicles-part-4.html

interesting little footnote to Himmler's crackpot research

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/11/watlantis111.xml

Just finished reading Himmler's Crusade which talks of the nazi expeditions to Tibet. Mildly interesting. One interesting thing that comes across during any study of the Ahnenerbe is the dichotomy in Himmler - bloodless, detail-oriented master bureaucrat of death on the one side, and woolly headed romantic crackpot on the other.

Only 200 Days Until Halloween!

Happy Birthday Mighty Max!

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Max_Weinberg.html

http://www.angelfire.com/on2/maxweinberg/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knk1dZnxCbw

Happy Birthday Al Green!

http://www.algreenmusic.com/

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/al-green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjBChRG-nok

Essential.

Happy Birthday Harold Stassen!

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

The only Presidential candidate I've ever met.

and yet another recall of a deadly Chinese product....

http://bitsandpieces.us/?p=2297

I'm left devastated....

the feathered threat to our military

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/birds-bomb-f-22.html

Saturday Morning Cartoons - 1966

http://cool-mo-dee.blogspot.com/2008/04/nbc-saturday-morning-1966.html
I had pretty much gotten away from cartoons at this point, don't even remember some of these. But the cool thing is the YouTube presentment of Super 6 features their theme song, performed by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. When I met Gary, many years later, and many years ago, he was amazed when I brought that up.

Spring Cleaning

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/10/closet.body.ap/index.html?eref=ib_topstories

Escargot!

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2807917.html?menu=

Neat stuff on The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/04/ghost-and-mr-chicken-19.html

I find that a little Don Knotts goes a long way, but have always enjoyed this movie. The Vic Mizzy soundtrack is great - one of the best. This site has a wonderful rendition of the Haunted Organ piece on it.

very nice article on the film, "The Mystery of the Wax Museum"

http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2008/04/pre-code-horror-mystery-of-wax-museum.html

Rock Around The Clock Anniversary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqYctXgM

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/rockclocktribute.html

Bill Haley & His Comets recorded this Classic on this date in '53.

more fake British invasion rip offs

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/04/fake-beatles-no.html

The Redcoats are a VERY good Herman's Hermits fake!

failure of Army's killbots....

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/killer-ground-b.html

Guess they should have tested 'em first....

interesting article on subs VS carriers

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Submarines_Versus_Aircraft_Carriers_Part_Two_999.html

the turtle catcher....

http://bitsandpieces.us/?p=2313

Everybody needs a hobby...

Tee Hee!

http://www.yeah-oops.com/?p=5830

elephant in a bubble

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=139242&in_page_id=2

when parrots go bad...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=137256&in_page_id=34

Beachcombing

http://www.local6.com/news/15849506/detail.html

Thanksgiving's Revenge

http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/odd/2008/04/07/ODD.Postal.Turkeys/

Happy Alferd Packer Day!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/MEATpacker.html

http://www.amazon.com/Alferd-Packers-High-Protein-Cookbook/dp/1882418190

Happy 8-Track Tape Day!

http://www.wiredstudios.com/gadgets/8-track-players-gadgets-from-the-70s.html

Happy Birthday Richard Berry - Happy Louie Louie Day!

http://www.louieday.org/default.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~tdg/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF_bM8JU57w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhM5k_EGzaQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5nppa3cEjM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0V4NRBQ7as

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSyIcOmupmc&featur
e=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiDbB-Ur8c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxt9ZdnP0Fs&feature=related

Instant Sumo!

http://www.bouncemart.com/sumo_suits.html

Pipecleaner Monsters!

http://www.chenillemacabre.com/

Neat!

another interesting heart transplant story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=558256&in_page_id=1774

the cutting edge of delayed luggage

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/04/08/funeral-airline.html

Does any airline really work well anymore? I don't travel that much by air, some of my decision is based on previous experiences and hassles. At times, my flights have seemed like the slave galley scenes from Ben Hur....

nice article on the moral problems of presenting Germany's WWII missile technology

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=germans-shun-space-race-l

And for my view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

Happy Birthday Tom Lehrer!

http://www.tomlehrer.org/

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

Genius. Essential.

Happy Birthday Carl Perkins!

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/carl-perkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4lWYGM6rM

Hirohito Saved

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080405a9.html

Should've hanged him in '45...

nice little article on Ian Fleming during the War

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3694989.ece

The Ramones perform I Just Wanna Have Something To Do

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

Great song by one of my fave bands from one of my fave movies, Rock'N'Roll High School.

The A's perform CIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kTXNRPkaM

A great power pop band out of Philly. Wonderful song, perfect for DC...

The Flying Lizards perform Money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHs-6xnMEdE

I love it! Fun stuff!

Easterhouse perform 1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJUceq6RsYI
Great 80's British New Wave.

The Guess Who perform Star Baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KPiFmKW7A

Cold, cold nights in the Winter of '74 playing pinball down at the Electric Circus in the bowels of Hybla Valley. Horrible pizza. Fun song.

Advertising a la Rube Goldberg

http://producten.hema.nl/

(Thanks for the link, Nancy!)

the divorce settlement

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=134314&in_page_id=2

The Suicide Heart

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23984857/?GT1=43001

Interesting set of coincidences...

(Thanks for the link, Linda!)

Happy Birthday Ravi Shankar!

http://www.ravishankar.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWCiLexilY

The Kingsmen sing the real National Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0V4NRBQ7as

bug killer...

http://bitsandpieces.us/?p=2132

Intro to Secret Agent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSRX7ghxiU

A very cool intro and theme song, (performed by the great Johnny Rivers). The TV show was and is one of my faves, and starred my boy Patrick McGoohan. Despite his denials, it WAS the precursor to my all-time favorite TV shos - The Prisoner.

my next bumper sticker

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/cthulhu+2008/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.80555150/pNo_80555150/id_6087011/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_

More Cthulhu Cakes!

http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/cthulhu-cakes.html

So cute!

my ancestor

http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=776

Happy Tartan Day!

http://www.tartanday.org/

Happy Birthday Phil Austin!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042494/
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XfXECpU6w&feature=related

Genius. Essential.

The "Grid" - a new internet?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece

Brian sings California Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGRdCHZlCXI&feature=related
One of the best and most famous intros in the history of music. I believe that's the Wondermints backing him. Should be the state anthem for California.

Jerry Jeff performs LA Freeway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvrbEOWXKg&feature=related

One of the great "Escape" songs. Essential.

Labelle perform Lady Marmalade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uLbTkqaxc

Sweet.

The Stranglers perform Get A Grip On Yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jGqx3sqq-4

Sinister carnival music. Winter of 77/78. Dank and dark skies and times. And the Stranglers...

Count Gore interviews P.J. Soles!

http://www.countgore.com/gore/rack.htm

So cool!!! Riff Randle!!!!

the cutting edge of mistaken identity

http://mangoat.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/babyburrito.jpg

The Barbarians perform Hey Little Bird

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

One of the great garage bands, featuring Moulty, the hook-handed drummer!

the playpen....

http://www.yeah-oops.com/pic/show.php/438_04050808BabyBox.jpg.html

Martha & The Vandellas perform Nowhere To Run

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

One of the great, great Soul songs.

Ace performs How Long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48LeQjmHPA

Early pub rock, and one of the few tunes to break into the American market, back in '75...

Spooky Tooth performs That Was Only Yesterday

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

A minor classic.

The Raspberries perform Go All The Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VG2e0z0h4I

Power pop gods.

The Go!Ream perform Keys to The City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1Ki1QsqLg&feature=related

Very cool!

The Dick Cavett Show with George Harrison & Ravi Shankar!

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/04/dick-cavett-show-with-guests-george.html

Wuss America

http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2008/04/sharpie-drug-fi.html

a nice partial recounting of Swiss "neutrality" in WWII

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/34950/format/html/displaystory.html

The Swiss have always had an easy run of it. I always believe we should have invaded in the Summer of '45 and cleaned out that nest of parasites, (for all the talk of an armed citizenry and vast "mountain fortresses", Switzerland's military situation was and is laughable). What the author does not recount is the still semi-secret history of Swiss POW camps where Allied prisoners were tortured. Nor is there any recounting of the many Swiss allowed to volunteer in the nazi military machine. One of the continuing and most nauseating myths of the War is about the so-called "neurtral" countries. Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal - they were all pro-nazi, they all actively helped Germany and they all lie like rugs about it.

Happy Birthday Nigel Hawthorne!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001329/

http://www.yessirnigel.com/

http://www.yes-minister.com/

The Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister series is one of my all-time fave TV shows. Brilliant.

Happy Birthday Robert Bloch!

http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/bloch.html

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Robert_Bloch

http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/RobertBloch.html

One of my faves.

Happy Birthday to the King of The B's - Roger Corman!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/

http://video.movies.go.com/rogercorman/

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/06/corman.html

car stereo

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2956

the seriously friendly skies...

http://startelegram.typepad.com/sky_talk/2008/03/woman-files-law.html

(Thanks to Infidel 753 for the link!)

capering carp's carping causes calamity!

http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/miracles-or-madness.html

great moments in wrongful death suits...

http://www.rareverhalen.nl/wp_eng/2008/04/02/belguim-widow-claims-22-million-after-hubbies-death-in-brothel/

Batman Bin Suparman

http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2008/04/meet-batman-bin-suparmen.html

Happy Birthday Muddy Waters!

http://www.muddywaters.com/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIT0mKJ7D0

the psychological paradox

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/this_delusion_is_fal.html

the ressurectionist...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19726493.400-modernday-body-snatcher-pleads-guilty.html

social losers waste government's time

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23918395/

Sorry, I'm much more concerned about what real people do in real life. As for the mimicking of terrorism - yawn. I've played wargames for years and mimicked Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler, and Attilla the Hun. BFD. Real guys with real weapons are what worry me, not some dweeb pretending he's Osama Jr. in a silly computer game/business that's pretending to be important. Go ahead and mess with me in your little electron fantasy, come over to my house and I'll blow your fucking head off. Let's see who laughs last....

(Thanks for the link, John!)

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