Peter Gabriel performs Red Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwG2Pg0X1o

Great song...

The Guess Who perform These Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mra9aUOwwfA&feature=related
I've written about it before, but it bears repeating. Back in '71 I'd go cruising with my cousins in my (future) cousin-in-laws hot rod up and down the streets of Montrose, Colorado, (Thanks, Rob!). Sooner or later, we'd end up at the Tastee Freeze, and the Guess Who's Greatest Hits album was ALWAYS playing there - it must have been the only tape they had for their deck. As a consequence, those songs are all burned into my DNA.

ELO video for Don't Bring Me Down

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

I always like these guys. ELO = Chuck Berry on Guitar + John Lennon on Drugs

Steppenwolf perform Born To Be Wild

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o

The song that sold a million Harley's..

Aretha performs Until You Come Back To Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zw6VSjfhPk
A perfect song for a slow Summer day.

The Moodies perform Tuesday Afternoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjBvPHqO9KU

One of my faves.

John Doe performs 4th of July

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgzruM7g24w

Great song at an appropriate time by one of our best songwriters.

Extra! Extra! French Army FINALLY Get A Military Victory!

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Sarkozy_vows_punishment_after_soldi_06302008.html

tee hee!

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/06/30/picasso-school-of-cosmetic-surgery/

the world's smallest park

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/06/30/worlds-smallest-designated-city-park/

A Rose By Any Other Name...

http://www.kansascity.com/450/story/682656.html

The Rescue...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1030279/Pictured-The-moment-wildlife-officer-risked-life-save-drowning-bear.html

Thanks Goodness It Spared The Crabs!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25396517/

Moonlight Madness!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/the-lunatic-fringe-is-moonlight-the-miracle-cure-854991.html

The Aztec Whistles Of Death!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25391041/

The Friendly Skies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080626/wl_sthasia_afp/indiaairlineincidentoffbeat;_ylt=Akxl9PHzBlWbfbrdUHOilcqs0NUE

Happy Birthday Flo Ballard!

The lost Supreme. Very sad...

http://www.florenceballardfanclub.com/

http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/b/Florence%20Ballard/florence_ballard.htm

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

http://www.searchforvideo.com/music/f/florence-ballard/

The VW Beetle...

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Stella Schindler online

http://www.myspace.com/stellaschindler

My old workmate, Stella, has a wonderful new album out, called Distant Hums. You can listen to cuts at her myspace site. Very beautiful and cool music.

The Hollies perform Carousel on the Mike Douglas Show!

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/06/mike-douglas-show-with-guests-hollies.html

Classic...

Lovecraft in stained glass!

http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2008/06/lovecraftian-stained-glass-by-airn.html

Upcoming Cons

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

Count Gore has a great listing here.

Happy Birthday Ray Harryhausen!

http://www.rayharryhausen.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366063/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4

Genius.

the twisting skyscraper

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080624/480/0157a2bf2b1947448b33702ba5ebc2f3/

Your oil dollars at work...

Happy Anniversary to Where The Action Is!

http://www.tv.com/where-the-action-is/show/4470/summary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Action_Is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBA5B_jStDo

I loved that show...

Happy Birthday Mel Brooks!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/
http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/

A fave....

The Bush Tetras perform Things That Go Boom In The Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gze5hap2BOI&feature=related

A true cult fave.

The Slickee Boys perfrom You Gotta Tell Me Why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTPpGz8SXd0

DC's finest. Memories....

the intro and theme to Coronet Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvof8Hvm3B0

The coolest show you've never heard of. Elements of The Prisoner and The Fugitive.

Conway Twitty performs It's Only Make Believe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLf1IGLb_BQ&feature=related

Great tune. I remember loving this as a kid.

Chuck Berry performs Carol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgEc0hzTH7I&feature=related

The real King of Rock'n'Roll.

the Stones perform Street Fighting Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJVS5n6t5I

Cool...

Monsoon performs Ever So Lonely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5-DITnIlw

Wonderful. The perfect fusion of Indian and Western pop....

The Door To Hell

http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/06/27/the-door-to-hell/

There are a couple of less dramatic examples that I've heard of; and a minor one I've seen. Just North of Montrose, Colorado there was some sort of sawdust fire that I remember seeing as a kid. My memory of the cause is kind of cloudy now, (maybe one of my cousins out there can help me out), but I think there was a large dumping of sawdust from one of the local lumber mills out in the 'dobes. It filled in the numerous caves and crevices that are found there and caught fire, (it wouldn't surprise me if it was spontaneous combustion like you get in grain mills...). I think it gently burned through the compacted sawdust for several years; and I remember driving by and seeing the reddish glow at night from the ground.

Joe Cocker - captioned

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Tee Hee!

the winged house

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_AIRPLANE_HOUSE?SITE=NJASB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-06-27-06-55-56

a great quote from my boy, Mencken

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/257.html

let this be a lesson to you, kids - stick with bourbon...

http://acrosstheboard.blogspot.com/2008/06/dude-dies-after-downing-23-shots-of.html

WOW! Sailing to the North Pole!

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-855406.html

Mini-Me in the news!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2205045/Mini-Me%2C-star-of-Austin-Powers%2C-sues-over-dwarf-sex-tape.html

Octopus intelligence and ape rights

http://www.slate.com/id/2192211

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080625/sc_nm/spain_apes_dc;_ylt=AsvXQQrD3mpxjp7tuxzmrcgPLBIF

I keep thinking that we're on the verge of a much more subtle, nuanced and sophisticated defintion of intelligence and consciousness than we've had in the past.

computer face-off

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625073737.htm

what a croc...

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/26/australia.crocodile.pub/index.html

If I had a nickel for everytime this has happened...

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2742741320080627?feedType=nl&feedName=usoddlyenough

Happy Birthday, Dark Shadows!

http://www.darkshadows.com/
http://www.darkshadowsonline.com/

http://www.collinwood.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mDkh2BH424

Looking at it now, it was terribly cheesy and slow paced. But at the time, we'd race home from school to catch the latest bite! And there was always the beautiful Lara Parker and Kate Jackson...

Happy Birthday Captain!

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/K/htmlK/keeshanbob/keeshanbob.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Keeshan


For my childhood mornings, it was always Captain Kangaroo, followed by local favorite, Ranger Hal.

just another day in DC

http://www.examiner.com/a-1459604~Recent_charges_latest_in_string_of_embarrassments.html?cid=rss-Washington_DC

http://www.examiner.com/a-1459606~FBI_rescues_Montgomery_girl__arrests_19_in_sweep_targeting_child_prostitution_rings.html?cid=rss-Washington_DC

http://www.nbc4.com/news/16715160/detail.html?rss=dc&psp=news

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502615.html

great moments in medical history

http://www.wlbz2.com/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=89622

Chinese commerce!

http://static.iftk.com.br/mt/2008/06/chinese_fake_brands_and_produc.html

tee hee!

http://www.yeah-oops.com/pic/show.php/1365_smartvicepresident.jpg.html

The "Genius"

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=191707&in_page_id=2

Obviously, the word "genius" has deflated singificantly since I learned it...

new book on Britain's involvement in/with Ireland during WWII

http://www.herald.ie/opinion/comment/hitlers-irish-escape-plan-1420845.html

I hope it's good, I've been waiting for something like this. A very little known part of military history.

they figure out glass

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25335806/

more wearable gadgets...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371724,00.html

neat online magazine devoted to British horror movies

http://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/

Happy Birthday Peter Lorre!

One of my faves, a true original.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/

http://www.geocities.com/weaselkreep/plfan/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNYZdQaC44

Happy Ratification Day!

The Old Dominion ratified the Constitution on this date in 1788.

http://www.consource.org/index.asp?sid=9&comid=289

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/const/ratva.htm

Bruce performs Thunder Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngiJUNdsu0

The soundtrack of '78. Deep truths. Time for another three fingers of bourbon. See you tomorrow...

The Everly Brothers perform 4 tunes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LexgZTJOD54

Wonderful. All I Have To Do Is Dream and Bowling Green are two of my fave songs. Absolutely beautiful. Some nice Summer tunes.

REM perform Radio Free Europe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA57Pafq_NU
Wonderful!

Jo Dee Messina video for Heads Carolina, Tails California

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

Great song. Great lyrics. But I'll stick to Colorado...

seaweed power

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/23/ireland-seaweed-ethanol.html

Cool!

the Arctic race

http://www.military.com/news/article/russia-bolsters-arctic-claims-with-war-games.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

This could become interesting, and dangerous...

a little bit of military history discovered

http://www.military.com/news/article/brit-rifles-from-1880-massacre-found.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

some classic horror MP3's

http://k3ywords.info/horror-suspense-otr.htm

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of descriptions or organization here...

avoid the snoops!

http://www.yeah-oops.com/?p=6423

As soon as my aluminum foil helmet wears out, I'm going to get one of these....

Poop Freeze!

http://acrosstheboard.blogspot.com/2008/06/poop-freeze-dumb-idea-or-genius.html

Vengeance

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3236

Smokey Gets Tough!

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3227

the cutting edge of high-speed chases!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=191102&in_page_id=64

Tragedy

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=189330&in_page_id=2

Rent-A-Cake

http://www.cakerental.com/?cnn=yes

The Tricorder

http://io9.com/5019019/one-step-closer-to-tricorders-with-handheld-device-that-identifies-life-forms

our feathered friends

http://www.en.rian.ru/world/20080624/111860536.html

All You Need Is Love...

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

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

Today is the anniversary of the first global telecast of the Beatles in '67; over 30 years ago....

Anniversary of The Omen

The Omen premiered on this date in '76... It's all for you, Damien!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuIBNLOeEU

Sniff'n The Tears video for Driver's Seat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwcmU6Ql0A&feature=related

I've always loved this song, great for a midnight drive.

The Sugarcubes perform Birthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69R_Uf57R0U

Great song. Quirky, but great.

The Electric Hellfire Club cover Calling Dr. Luv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Z7R9Cdc5o

Fun stuff!

The Doors perform The End

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbI5K0AzNHI

Wonderful song and imagery. The hours I've listened to this...

Suzanne Vega performs Marlene On The Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FQoiqa_A9A

Beautiful...

Liz Phair video for Extraordinary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAVmj8E3sM

One of the best performers/songwriters going.

buns & guns

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7468729.stm

labor issues

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/sacked-real-estate-agent-tortures-boss/2008/06/24/1214073187110.html

Happy Birthday Amborse Bierce!

One of my faves. A classic American curmudgeon.

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

http://www.biercephile.com/

the robot chair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dgaz6NIUFk
This was sent to me by my friend, Mathew (Thanks!). These things creep me out. His message to me is better than anything I could think to say:
"Here, we see a design prototype for a nightmare future from some students at the Design Academy of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. It's a robot chair that follows you around a library - like a Dalek from a Doctor Who episode. These chairs will clearly be the advance guard in the robot uprising, doggedly trailing humans and encouraging them to take the weight off their feet, leading to a tendency for sloth and idleness that will leave mankind too chubby and indolent to fight off the mechanical hordes. No matter where you run, the robot chair will follow you. It will follow you to your grave. "

As a comic book-reading kid, one of my faves was Magnus, Robot Fighter. It seems quite applicable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus:_Robot_Fighter

leave it to the Swiss to attempt a resurrection of nazi Germany

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23893271-1702,00.html

Am I the only one disturbed that fascism is just a verse away when one starts singing their anthem? Can't they find something else? (Of course, Virginia is in the same poisonous situation with its own deplorable anthem, more reasons at to why I'd love NoVa to secede....).

Cellphone Cuicides!

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/49330/Suicides-linked-to-phone-masts-

choice cheese chants

http://news.smashits.com/264064/Gregorian-monks-39-chanting-produces-prize-winning-cheese-.htm

A mother's love...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026801/Amazing-rescue-mother-duck-went-extra-mile.html

Palm Friday?

http://www.wpbf.com/news/16668473/detail.html

skateboard police!

http://www.en.rian.ru/world/20080620/111428636.html

Frankly, I am looking forward to the pogostick police....

Remember - The Testicle Festival is coming up!

http://www.testyfesty.com/
I gotta get to this sometime...

(Thanks for the link, John!)

RIP George Carlin

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=avd8IiyNuA6M&refer=muse

Very sad.

(Thanks for the head's up on this, Missy & Linda!)

Happy Birthday Stuart Sutcliffe!

http://www.stuartsutcliffeart.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Sutcliffe

Deluxe DVD of The Great Pumpkin being released!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Charlie-Brown-Peanuts-Specials-Great-Pumpkin-Remastered/9667

earliest known computer music

http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2008/06/earliest-known-computer-music_20.html

cakes for game geeks

http://www.dungeonmastering.com/dd-links/dragon-cake-and-geeky-desserts%22

Chutzpah

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=177581&in_page_id=64&in_a_source=

I can survive 1 minute, 17 seconds in the vacuum of space!

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

How long can you?

Super Paper!

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=128420

Happy Birthday Howard Kaylan!

http://howardkaylan.com/
http://www.theturtles.com/turtles.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkVM-jGNn04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0-raymymU&feature=related

The Turtles were great. I always looked forward to their appearances on shows like Where The Action Is...

Happy Birthday Peter Asher!

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

http://www.peterandgordon.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6l4i-zA_Q

Great performer and producer.

the cloak of silence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7450321.stm

Misogyny Sells!

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/988382.html

Britain Shrinks!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_island_independence

ZZ Top performs La Grange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQs1m5imLxg&feature=related

So cool, you can almost feel the hot, lonely, expanses of Texas in their playing. This song was unbelievably popular at places like This Is It, Clancy's, and Good Guys in the summer of '74. Wicked stuff...

The Pretenders perform Middle Of The Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdd0PJqslfE

Wonderful....

Graham Parker video for Protection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ETAZSFWWs

One of the most pissed off and most under-rated artists going. Graham rocks!

The Supremes lipsync Stoned Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mohVkuoIQ4E

One of my fave songs, ever. Beautiful driving tune on a Spring night - full of hope.

Sam & Dave perform Hold On, I'm Coming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHvwk

Classic. Perfect Soul.

Keith Carradine performs I'm Easy (from Nashville)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZ8PRWChb8

Great song, reminds me of that summer of '76. An interesting time.

John Waite performs Missing You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYz5pgZDQbA&feature=related

Great song of longing and loss...

Madonna video for True Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb8akXtOCaI

Nice reinvention of the Leslie Gore sound...

I finally want an ipod...

http://charlesandmarie.com/lifestyle-gems/details/product/phonofone-ii-limited-edition-black-1/?tx_ttproducts_pi1[backPID]=321&tstmp=1213553563

Dragon Skin - the next body armor?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KS0pSwdQfbY

new way to board a moving train

http://deputy-dog.com/2008/06/17/how-to-safely-board-a-train-that-wont-stop/

I'm extremely disappointed with this method. Mine is much more interesting and entertaining. The train simply roars past the station with all the doors open, and simple Darwinism determines who gets on, and who doesn't....

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh on November 11th!!!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Disneyland-Dr-Syn-Scarecrow/9050
If you're of a certain age, THIS was one of the coolest movies/series, ever. I've been waiting decades for this to be available. Neat stuff!

CRIME!

Man Charged in Silicone 'Pumping Party' Sting Associated Press, June 19, 2008MIAMI --
A Miami-Dade County man has been charged with practicing medicine illegally at parties where women take shots of silicone to maketheir butts bigger.The Florida Department of Health announced the arrest Thursday ofAnthony Donnell Solomon for the unlicensed practice of a health careprofession. Investigators said they learned Solomon was providing cosmetic procedures for women at so-called "pumping parties" in May.Authorities set up a fake party at a hotel and arranged for Solomon to attend. Investigators said he was arrested after he agreed to inject an undercover detective. It was not clear if he had an attorney.The state said Solomon has never been licensed by the Florida Departmentof Health, which has warned that silicone injections can be harmful and potentially cause serious infections.

Happy Birthday Ray Davies!

http://www.myspace.com/raydavies

http://kinks.it.rit.edu/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GmzyeeXnQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXuJXPd8C14

Genius. Essential.

Happy Birthday Nils Lofgren!

http://www.nilslofgren.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Lofgren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMdG1Q7sSO0



The hometown boy who did made good...

Happy Birthday Berke Breathed!

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/index.asp

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

Scam Baiters...

http://www.thescambaiter.com/


Cool!

3-D TV

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/06/19/hyundaitv.ap/index.html

Yawn, I'm unimpressed.... Channel 20 was broadcasting in 3-D decades ago. I still have the glasses they provided. I watched The Creature From The Black Lagoon in 3-D on my wedding night, (just call me a sentimental old fool....)

When Tumble Dryers Attack!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/tumble_dryer_bites_woman/

Trailer for the new Mummy movie!

http://papajohns.com/mummy3/

Happy Birthday Brian!

What can you say, but another individual who needs no introduction. Is the intro to California Girls the most famous, and best, of all time? And is there any prettier love song than God Only Knows? Essential.

http://www.brianwilson.com/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-jMKeB8qc4

Happy Birthday Errol Flynn!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001224/

http://www.inlikeflynn.com/

http://errolflynnestates.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwKj7S-ysA

THE swashbuckler!

RIP Shalom Stefan Grayek

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992981.html

The Enema Monument

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_fe_st/russia_enema_monument

(Thanks for the link, Peter!)

Happy Birthday Spanky McFarlane!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jR-n_aEJfE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzu-ujCg0Vk


Wonderful voice. I loved Spanky & Our Gang, and own everything they ever recorded.

Happy Juneteenth!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
http://www.juneteenth.com/

Happy Birthday Alan Cranston!

The only man Hitler ever sued!

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

Remember kids - don't drink and steamroll

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_steamroller_death.html

Amazing (if true) new fuel cell

http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-fuel-cell-system-generates.html

Happy Birthday Linda Thorson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861771/

http://theavengers.tv/forever/bio-thorson.htm

Happy Birthday Sir Paul!

I heard about some awards show recently, where Ellen DeGeneres was to introduce Paul. She got up in front of the microphone, and simply said "And now, a man who needs no introduction...", and then walked off! Brilliant - and true. I'm sure it seems silly to most outside of my generation the importance, and indeed the reverence, that the Beatles are still held in. It is a complicated explanation dealing with such factors as lost youth and innocence, as well as rebellion and exploration. In the end, it just comes down to a simple point: you had to be there.... As for his later work, I know, it's inconsistent. But Paul has always been in there pitching. I think the failures have been sincere ones - an artist experimenting, not always successfully; but never a cynical attempt to cash in, (Maccaw hardly needs cash...). And as I get older, I also see new things and gain new appreciation for things I was once pretty disdainful of. Once in awhile, at the end of a hot summer day, coming home from work, I can enjoy a silly love song...

http://www.paulmccartney.com/

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

http://www.macca-central.com/default.php

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtT5tscgtM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjTN11CnNY

new Facebook group dedicated to Karl Wagner

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22207258267&ref=nf

One of my all-time fave writers. Master of horror and sword & sorcery.

Watson! The game's a foot!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_ca/canada_mystery_feet;_ylt=AkxMd_zpmzAxQCZCIxmup3RvaA8F

This is the strangest damn thing I've been hearing about for the past few weeks. Why ONLY feet? And I love the quote: "there's no evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims' legs by force." Okay....how else does one remove a foot??? Did it rot off? I need some help here, I'm not some sort of forensic guru; but if a body is falling apart enough for a foot to become disengaged from it, isn't the foot itself so far gone that it's falling apart too, and unlikely to make it to shore before being torn apart by fish, bacteria, the current, etc.? If we're talking a foot in good condition, then how could it NOT be torn from a body with great force? I clearly need expert opinion on this, probably from a ghoul. I only know one, but he owes me a favor...

NoVa Brewfest coming up!

http://www.novabrewfest.com/

Happy Bunker Hill Day!

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

Have You Seen Me?

I'm preparing the milk carton announcements now...

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00current.htm

We had to destroy the village to save it....

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2891209.html?menu=

the perfect TV audience

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/05/16/woman-sat-dead-in-front-of-tv-for-42-years-86908-20419070/

Sing Free Bird!

http://www.lep.co.uk/manchesternews/Orphaned-birds-given-karaoke-lessons.4188579.jp

Happy Birthday Stan Laurel!

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

http://laurel-hardy.org/newsletter.html

a die for The True Gamesman

http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4205385


(Thanks for the link, John!)

Happy Anniversary to the Monterey Pop Festival!

Wish I'd been there, wonderful collection of artists, maybe the best ever.

http://members.tripod.com/Yelnats_Yarkled/Monterey/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPgj4bviKY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsv9g06jac

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Itnkgbjvv8

more Cthulhoid jewelry!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5260408&order=&section_id=&page=3

The Hitler Stamp

http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/loughborough-news/2008/06/12/hitler-stamp-used-for-warfare-73871-21063440/

That's a neat little footnote to the war. Very odd.

fantastic sand sculpting

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/06/extreme-sand-sculpting.html

Watch It Shred

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/watch-en.htm

I don't really know why, but I find this sooo neat!

If you can see images of Jesus on a wall, or a tree, or a tortilla,

Then I can see Cthulhu in a crepe

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/06/08/crepe-cthulhu/#comment-114757

Happy Birthday Harry Nilsson!

http://www.harrynilsson.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86KHSYkgIU

Poor Harry, troubled genius...

Welcome to my house....

Today is the anniversary of the premiere of one of my fave horror movies - The Legend of Hell House (1973). Very cool...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070294/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDF9vZVd_s&feature=related

Happy Birthday Black Adder!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084988/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmqbO-lY0LM

Great show!

it begins...

Lennon & McCartney first met on this date in 1956....

http://www.thebeatles.com/core/home/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HcqW-TDLMk&feature=related

Happy Birthday Jim Varney!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/
http://www.jimvarney.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ED_5eiccE

I always liked Ernest....

Happy Magna Carta Day!

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/

Happy Fathers Day!

I've written before that I know that family relations and politics are always tricky. For those of you who are fathers, I hope you have a fun day with your family. For those of you whose fathers are still around, I am supremely envious.

cute commercial

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

here's a weird little film

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

I'd never heard about this until today. Sounds like one of thsoe things we'll have to wait until a bunch of people die in order to view it.

new REH collection!

http://www.wordsworth-editions.com/jkcm/default.aspx?pg=/book%20more%20details/&showkey=587&pnum=1

Cthulhu Fashions For The Baby!

http://www.cafepress.com/seabeast/5578815

Cthulhu Jewelry!

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

Happy Birthday Jr. Walker!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jr._Walker
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Junior%20Walker.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub5qqWCtmdw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xzcavGrj4&feature=related

One of the greatest, and one of my faves. Although he was on Motown, he could play a gritty soul as cool as anything on Stax or Atlantic. And his later "mellow" hits are pure beauty.

Happy Flag Day!

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

an honest pint...

http://www.crispyontheoutside.com/2008/06/09/how-many-ounces-of-beer-in-that-pint/

life in DC...

http://whyihatedc.blogspot.com/2008/06/all-hell-breaking-loose.html

the return of zeppelins

http://www.airshipventures.com/

Oh, the humanity!

the new version of D&D gets a good review

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/dungeons-dragon.html
That's nice, I'll stick with mine...

Condiment Violence!

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3170

for the golfer in your life...

http://blameitonthevoices.blogspot.com/2008/06/pissing-on-golf-course-just-got-easier.html

the thong bandits

http://www.topix.net/news/weird/2008/06/the-thong-bandits-metrosexual-casebook

Losers....

The Gnome Bandit

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=175369&in_page_id=2

the bionic hand

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=128072

The "Water Pourer"

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=171640&in_page_id=2

Some of you reading this must be awful thirsty...

Lennon's guarded glasses

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=167989&in_page_id=2

unsafe sex?

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=167979&in_page_id=2

paper airplane dunk...

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=166616&in_page_id=2&in_a_source=

MANOS - THE REMAKE?!?!?

http://deepape.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/next-on-the-remake-list-manos-yes-manos/

What's next, Robot Monster? The Creeping Terror? They Saved Hitler's Brain? First Plan 9, and now this! If you've no idea what I'm talking about, consider yourself culturally deprived, (as opposed to those of us who are culturally depraved), and google on "Manos - The Hands Of Fate" - one of the most intriguingly bad movies ever made, featuring Torgo, the Igor-like minion who some of us are absolutely obsessed by.

you used to get a tiger in your tank...

now it's a parrot in your engine:

http://www.lep.co.uk/weirdnews/Parrot-found-in-car-engine.4178275.jp

Poopie Face for Dollars

I love it when someone comes up with a ridiculous new way to relieve the stupid rich of their money.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bird-and-beautiful-use-bird-poop-for-better-skin/66996-19.html

new uses for confessional boxes

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1146430020080611?feedType=nl&feedName=usoddlyenough

Happy Birthday Paul Lynde!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001489/
http://www.classicsquares.com/lyndesquares.html

http://www.paullynde.info/

The Center Square...

Happy Birthday Basil Rathbone!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/
http://www.basilrathbone.net/

One of my faves!

Happy Friday the 13th!

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-11-2008/0004830711&EDATE=

chicken of mass destruction

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_fe_st/odd_chicken_bomb;_ylt=AlH6ji1ATxVUyT0cfRwxsNPtiBIF

what is the definition of "dead"?

http://www.theweirdpost.com/wordpress/2008/06/back-from-dead-case-stuns-doctors/

New England's Dark Day explained

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606145620.htm

Magic Missile in a LARP

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=517361

What a ween.....




(Thanks for the link, John!)

Happy Anniversary to the Marx Brothers' A Day At The Races!

Premiered on this date in 1937. Essential.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028772/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccO0pvSqgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBk5Ne5x1hQ

Happy Anniversary, True Grit!

Premiered on this date in 1969. One of my fave Westerns. Filmed in and around Ridgway Colorado and the beautiful San Juan Mountains. One of John Wayne's best roles; the kind an actor needs a lifetime perfecting a given image to portray well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbSwBwO52E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUP9rOLf30&feature=related

Blow...The Candles...Out!

Happy Birthday Gene Wilder!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOPTriLG5cU

giant earthworms!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZig6EL5B6A&feature=related

Neat!

some creepy little stories

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Creepypasta

evolution demonstrated in the lab!

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html

Fascinating!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

the solar car...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/09/lab-drives-car-100-miles-gallon/

Voodoo Wasps & Zombie Caterpillars!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14053-zombie-caterpillars-controlled-by-voodoo-wasps.html?DCMP=ILC-tabView&nsref=dn14053%20

Fascinating stuff!

Spew, the toad...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23839727-13762,00.html

Happy Anniversary to Tales From The Crypt (the TV show...)

Premiered on this date in '89...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096708/

http://www.warnervideo.com/talesfromthecryptdvd/card.html

Happy National Yo-Yo Day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo

A bad day in Byzantium...

It's hotter than a whore on nickle night here - at least 98 degrees. In addition, I had to drive into Old Town this afternoon by means of Braddock Road. And the radio, for once, was playing great tunes, but here I am, shuffling along at 15mph with uncoordinated traffic lights and stuck behind drivers who knew Moses personally and whose licenses are personally signed by King Nebukenezer and then Radar Love comes on the radio, and it's all I can do to hit second gear behind these sclerotic geezers and then I get home to discover (horrors!) that we're nearly out of Virginia Gentleman. Well, there's only so much a man can take...
At any rate here are some tunes for a stinker of a day in NoVa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXh4EuJa2TU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgssdCS8VpU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeRa3RtBiIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhiqI6PlTo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm2Mdma2dXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiPH3kVnHPc

marketing for the cad...

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

the cutting edge of designated drivers

http://www.wlwt.com/automotive/16494990/detail.html

burning weirdness...

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16484194/detail.html

e.coli, burnt pancakes and living computers...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24880713/

Alert Douglas Adams!*

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080604/od_afp/healthjapanoffbeat

*Award yourself 3 pop culture points if you get this reference...

priorities...

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66191

the cutting edge of Freudian iconography....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html

cancel my appointments...

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21597/texas-sect-leader-doomsday-begins-next-thursday-june-12

nice spoof of Google news

http://www.fugue.com/pics/goodnews.html

(Thanks for the link, Nick!)

Happy Birthday Jackie Wilson!

One of the greats. Mr. Excitement!

http://www.jackiewilson.net/

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

http://www.history-of-rock.com/jackie_wilson.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nEfuE8Pw4U

Happy Birthday Lin Carter!

http://www.angelfire.com/az/vrooman/

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/lin-carter/

A hack writer, but THE best editor and promoter of modern Fantasy literature, ever. An entire generation of fans of the genre owe Lin a great debt for helping keep alive and increasing the presence of Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard and dozens more.

Bruuuuuce!

Springsteen was signed to Columbia Records on this date in '72...

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

http://www.backstreets.com/

The History Channel's Haunted History of Halloween online!

http://davesworld56.blogspot.com/2008/06/history-channel-haunted-history-of.html

RIP Charlie The Tuna

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/charlie-the-tuna-vanishes/

Dunwich Horror radio drama on CD!

http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=32918

gift for the insane cultist who has everything

http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=32851

I want one of these puppies...

The Horror Mall

http://www.horror-mall.com/

Neat stuff for sale!

Nazgul VS Labradoodle

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/06/03/the-nazgul-epic-fail/#more-272

Happy Birthday Nancy Sinatra!

http://nancysinatra.com/index.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OU7Nezg7Ls

Wonderful singer, great Lee hazelwood production and tunes.

Psychedelic Furs video for Pretty In Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvy2LSPf1_o

Silly video, GREAT song...

Poco performs A Good Feeling To Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVdacsMUz6M&feature=related

My fave song by them. Another tune that reminds me of my beloved Western Slope.

Reba performs I'd Rather Ride Around With You

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

Fun song.

The Lovin' Spoonful perform Summer In The City

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

Summer has hit DC, and this seems a perfect soundtrack for today...

asteroid defense!

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=127725

sheep desecrators

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=164154&in_page_id=2&in_a_source=

when spell checking goes wrong...

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=160754&in_page_id=2

What a cheap-ass publisher....

the slime that kills....

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=159105&in_page_id=2

newly revamped MST3000 website

http://www.mst3k.com/

Robert E. Howard Days

http://www.rehupa.com/?p=225

some upcoming movies of interest...

Hellboy II - The Golden Army
http://www.hellboymovie.com/

Journey To The Center Of The Earth
http://www.journey3dmovie.com/

X-Files 2 - I Want To Believe
http://www.xfiles.com/

The Mummy - Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
http://robcohenthemummy.com/

little article about Antwerp in WWII

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/05/antwerp-port-wwII-tech-logistics08-cx_mg_0605antwerp.html

I would point out that as impressive as it was, the V-2 was not without substantial downsides. While terrifying and deadly, it was notoriously inaccurate. What the article doesn't point out is that the reason that London and Antwerp were targeted was because they were two of the few places big enough to guarantee some sort of hit! The monetary costs were staggering too. Perhaps newer and more accurate information has come to light in the past twenty years, but a while back I saw comparisons that showed the average monetary amount of damage from a V-2 was slightly LESS than the cost of the rocket to the Germans! It could still have tremendous psychological value, (they were starting to talk about evacuating London, a real blow to British pride and governmental effectiveness), but when one starts talking about throwing money at each other in late '44 and early '45, America alone trumps Germany by a factor of, oh, let's say 25-1.

The Blitz Continues

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2080557/Army-Royal-Engineers-to-disarm-largest-World-War-II-bomb-found-in-East-London.html

A dear old friend of my family's was a British bomb disposal expert during the war. Unbelievably calm gentleman. Hell, I guess you'd have to be.

Happy Anniversay El Dorado!

One of my fave Westerns. (And my fave poem by Poe!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061619/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjb0TwdPlpo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXz9haK63bY&feature=related

Happy Birthday Prince!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)

Abandoned & Little Known Airfields

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/index.htm

Listed by state, an amazing resource for local history buffs.

Squirrel Taxidermy Art!

http://extremecraft.typepad.com/extreme_craft/2008/06/death-and-taxidermy.html

I have fond memories of all the tacky souvenir shops in Florida selling similiar stuff, but featuring baby alligators.

(Thanks for the link, Nick!)

Stella Schindler's new CD!

http://cdbaby.com/cd/schindler2

Wonderful voice and material. Stella and I used to work together at the record store, and had a lot of fun discussing religion and music. There are nice snippets at CDBaby for you to listen to, please check it out. Buy hundreds!

Happy Anniversary Pigpen & Rubberduck!

The events in the song "Convoy" took place on this date....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5XQwDJz7ws

Happy Birthday Levi Stubbs!

What a great name! And one of the shing lights in the Motown Universe. Wonderful singer. Essential.

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

http://www.history-of-rock.com/four_tops.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt89ZLRkgdE

Happy Birthday Nathan Hale!

American Hero.

http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan.htm

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

Happy Birthday Gary "U.S." Bonds!

http://www.garyusbonds.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_U.S._Bonds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMp9qf9A5vw

One of my faves!

Happy Birthday Damien Thorne! It's All for You!!!

According to the Omen movies, lil' Damien was born on this date... ;)

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

Rock Around The Clock Hits #1 !

On this date in 1955, and pop culture changed forever....

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sXSg-1ITR4

D-Day Anniversary

Another extraordinary event in Human history, and another magnificent victory for the Allies in WWII.

http://www.army.mil/d-day/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

http://www.dday.org/

fan video for Reunion's Life is A Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU&feature=related

Another guilty pleasure. With god as my witness, someday I'm going to learn to sing this damn thing!

Eric Burdon & War perform Spill The Wine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_U-zj2gfE

Ah yes, hot sultry summer of '70. Vacationing in Madison, haunting its wonderful bookstores and head shops. Back to DC, going into Gtown with Edmund and Millie to canoe at Fletcher's boathouse and then stop off in town to pick up the latest issue of the Quicksilver Times. Going out for records on Friday night at Giant Music. With this tune and the Temp's Ball of Confusion playing constantly on the radio.

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts cover Real Wild Child

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONFeMNXW0U&feature=related

Soooo coooool.....

Beach Boys video for Wouldn't It Be Nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--cqAI3IUI

Beautiful...

REM perform Cuyahoga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svs0icmIv00
Murky sound, but a brilliant beautiful song...

Vicki Sue Robinson performs Turn The Beat Around

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/postrapture-document.html

A guilty pleasure (blush), I've always loved this song.

Happy Festival of Popular Delusions!

http://www.katcaverly.com/mt-static/archives/2006/06/festival_of_pop.html

I'm waiting for the rain of toads...

Moses would be proud. Just to update folks, NoVa seems to be getting rocked by a variety of storms. We had a horrendous squall hit our neighborhood, at least one 150lb tree limb is now sitting in our backyard. There are conflicting reports that a tornado touched down in Annandale, and another in Falls Church; and there are hail stones supposedly as big as baseballs (!) in Fredericksburg. But as of now, we and the Manor are safe, sound, and unrepentent...

neat book cases

http://www.anyamountofbooks.com/bookman.html

Olympic Accupuncture!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2068311/Chinese-man-sticks-2008-needles-in-his-head-to-mark-Beijing-Olympic-Games.html


(Thanks for the link, Nick!)

Run Away!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/80542

Only 150 Days Until Halloween!

Happy Birthday Gordon Waller!

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

http://www.gordonwaller.com/

http://www.peterandgordon.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6l4i-zA_Q

Great performer. Great memories...

Anniversary of the Battle of Midway

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm

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

An amazing and important battle in a war that was full of them. One of the greatest American victories - ever. And a turning point in the war in the Pacific. Japan lost the war in June of '42. After that, nothing was going to save them. The first sea battle between fleets of ships that never saw each other.

nice article on optical illusions

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080602-foresee-future.html

the future...

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_wearable_feedbags_let


(Thanks for the link, Roger!)

Sci-Fi TV, Films and Serilas Online!

http://www.rimworlds.com/classic%20science%20fiction%20channel.htm

Babylon 5! Flash Gordon! This is soooo cool!


(Thanks for the link, Nick!)

short history of AM radio in DC

http://earlyradiohistory.us/hist-dc.htm

(Thanks for the link, Erik!)

cool interactive photo of Paris

http://www.hyper-photo.com/grandes/paris.html
One could tell a story with this type of a process. Some sort of Where's Waldo/Rear Window/Clue type thing. There's potential here, particularly for young people.




(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Death & Pringles...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/usa2

Unbelievable...


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Tallahatchie Rendezvous...

Today is the day that events in the Ode To Billie Joe took place... Great song and a great mystery...

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

http://www.filibustercartoons.com/billyjoe.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

Happy Birthday Leo Gorcey!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329832/

Happy Birthday Curtis Mayfield!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqTxK7VhSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHezTLex2s

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/curtis-mayfield

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Curtis%20Mayfield.html

Genius. Essential.

Happy Birthday Suzi Quatro!

http://www.suziquatro.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwos1Dxc_iI&feature=related

Suzi is cool....

Happy Jack Jouett Day!

http://www.americanrevolution.org/jouett.html

RIP Bo Diddley

One of the Greats...

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e4654e1b-ea07-41f5-ab79-a9cf1f74a438

http://members.tripod.com/~Originator_2/

(Thanks for the head's up on him, Peter!)

Suedicide!

Last year News of the Weird reported on an organic art project, "Victimless Leather," in which artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr attempted to grow embryonic stem cells of a species onto an artificial platform, in this case creating leather from mouse cells without the need to kill cows. However, in the latest demonstration of the project, at New York City's Museum of Modern Art this spring, the exhibit apparently grew so rapidly that it overwhelmed the space available, and curator Paola Antonelli said she was forced to kill the organism. She told the Art Newspaper that it was a difficult decision. "I've always been pro-choice, and all of a sudden I'm here not sleeping at night about killing a coat." [The Art Newspaper, 5-1-08]

In the old days I was told to worry about the unborn, now it's the unworn...


(Thanks for the story, Roger!)

Neil Young's "green" Lincoln Continental

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/06/02/young.electric.car.ap/index.html

great medical mysteries of our time....

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=159058&in_page_id=2


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Muddling Along...

What do you do for a wedding anniversary where one of the partners is dead? You really can't ignore it. And "celebration" doesn't make it at all. It would have been my folks' 62nd tomorrow. I'll take my Mother to dinner, and it'll be sad and strange and full of awkward silences, and next year will be the same and so on until the inevitable passing of one of us. Life is often a matter of failures and losses. Some of them one never gets past, and my Father's death is the one for me. I find that growing older becomes largely a matter of tallying up those losses, whether it is loved ones, favored places, opportunities or health. So be it. See ya tomorrow...

George Thorogood video for I Drink Alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4

More fun stuff!

Herb Alpert lip synch's This Guy's In Love With You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WZjqdPVaI0

Another great Bacharach tune.

Lulu performs To Sir With Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSNKO0fdjA&feature=related

Great song, (and film).

The Small Faces perform Itchycoo Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE

Fun stuff by a great band!

Happy Birthday Le Petomane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=202

His legacy continues, just listen to AM talk-show radio....

a fish sticker for Trekkies!

http://www.zazzle.com/wwckd_bumpersticker-128088610465725237

Cute!

Cthulhu Does DC!

http://www.zazzle.com/cthulhucthulhu/product/228796615687957072

Che Cthulhu - Revolutionary!

http://www.zazzle.com/cthulhucthulhu/product/235275835360002421

I gotta get one of these....

The Werewolf of Washington!

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

My fave ghost host, Count Gore, is showing The Werewolf Of Washington this week on his webcast. It was a rather poor attempt at making a horror movie satire about the whole Watergate-era government. But one always feels drawn to films about their hometown. As always, I highly recommend Count Gore and his site for news and reviews in the horror field.

June is Fireworks Safety Awarness Month!

Yea, right....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9uL8iRL6nI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0PYcg1NbRg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5KDdweB0Q&feature=related

June is National Accordion Awareness Month!

I always remember that Gary Larson cartoon - "Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion..."

Happy Birthday Sgt. Pepper!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfw7TrTVtVs

Magic...