A new biography on Claude Rains!

https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com/products/claude-rains-an-invisible-man-paperback?syclid=cc4dsi039i7oars0870g&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_130430140450&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email 

A new book coming out on Jim Henson''s early years!

https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com/products/sam-and-friends-the-story-of-jim-henson-s-first-television-show-paperback?syclid=cc4drjg39i7oars03ub0&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_130430140450&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email 

A mini Cthulhu!

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/how-brit-scientists-rediscovered-430million-27818322 

Horror Bookmarks

https://www.uirtqr.com/products/horror-bookmarks?spm=..index.product_list_1.1&spm_prev=..product_b5fc0d73-345b-4adb-85ad-50513b97d390.header_1.1 

The most rat infested cities in the U.S.

https://www2.cbsnews.com/americas-50-most-rat-infested-cities-ranked/48?utm_subid=11071715&utm_adset=4748895&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=1608731&ftag=ACQ-07-10adj1f&fbclid=IwAR3sw_ZgoBq2e6rUr3n5DGfV0XczV25FI3xRrcrR55X4N6o2tiGY0shehdc 

I can't believe that DC on made it to #4,  Come on, Washington - time to up your game!

Pubs are in trouble!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/23/pubs-winter-energy-costs-soar?CMP=GTUK_email 

(Thanks for the link, Ed!)

A nice article about the record They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha

https://bestclassicbands.com/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-5-22-177/?fbclid=IwAR1B2dtO6NCrK_i81kepT-_YLwq0J3K3OhoHXeIsgAzusmVN7ORZUx3e2Pc 

Nice article about the makers of crossword puzzles

https://newrepublic.com/article/167270/crossword-labor-market-times?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_weekly 

Tee hee!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/08/05/mofi-records-analog-digital-scandal/?fbclid=IwAR0BGSj4AMvxO_4BUDMJL8WrrKg_bKlGMbp8-Gqh1OE7Nog7KEX-e18By64 

From working at the record store for many years, I viewed the majority (but not all) so-called audiophiles as a bunch of pretentious pricks.  People who were only interested in sound, and not the music itself.  I still remember numerous turds bypassing Beach Boys albums to buy some knock off by a cover band named Papa Ooh Mow Mow (or some such spelling) - just because it was an "audiophile" recording.  No doubt they thrill to their virgin vinyl half speed LP of the musical Beatlemania.  And now, oh joy of joys, they've been shown for the sham that they are!  Masturbating away while listening to heretical digital recordings on their $100,000 dollar sound systems with their supposedly "golden ears".  Well done, Mobile Fidelity!