Awesome. Jim Lovell’s summary of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission can be found here. Although Tom Hank’s movie was great, the book it was based on, Lovell’s “The Lost Moon,” is a must read.
Recently there was a clever cartoon meme called “Tetris From Hell.” Now you can play it.
Wowie zowie. Chicago Transit Authority, live in Japan in 1972 with crappy video gimmicks. Chicago was talented and underrated, but at least they brought horns back into rock and roll. Later on, they became just another run-of-the-mill sappy woosband. Instead of this excellent jam…
…we ended up with “If you leave me now you’ll leave the very best part of me — oooOOOOhhno, baby please don’t go” garbage. Fuldkommen Gak.
Ricki Lee Jones got me going in the early 80’s with such a sultry sleazy hip coolness. She could have had me cheap. Hell, she could have had me quack. She could have had me, but she threw it all away, and I never looked back.
Don’t know what this is all about? Hint: 1st Amendment, foreign-imposed censorship and imposition of world-wide sharia law. Click here and follow the links. Related googlesearch here. We cannot and should not kowtow to radicals of ANY nation or religion PERIOD. –Bunk
UPDATE 3 October 2021: Swedish artist who survived two murder attempts after drawing a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed has died in a horror car crash. Lars Vilks, 75, was killed Sunday when the police car he was traveling in veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a truck. [LINK]
There’s a little bit of set up involved with this, but once you’ve done the hard work, it’s a blast… except for the player who has to sit on the platform and judge the competition. No bathroom breaks allowed.
Some folks just get better looking with age. According to Wikipuddlia:
“Mason Reese [45] is an owner of Paladar, a Pan-Latino restaurant located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He opened an establishment named “Destination Bar and Grille” located on Avenue A in the East Village.”
1931 Cartoonists at the Trib. I love that style. [Found here.]
“Run Rabbit Run” by String Bean (aka David Akeman) the inventor of gangsta pants and sporting early metal makeup, playing with Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs. Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973.
I’d forgotten about this song until I heard Bunkessa singing it. It reminds me of a high school roadtrip when Dave Borracho decided to relieve himself through the open rear window of Mike Pupshaw’s family station wagon and we learned about aerodynamics.
Chet Atkins was amazing. Here’s some chickin’ pickin’ on “Yakety Axe,” a riff on Boots Randolph’s classic, “Yakety Sax,” more commonly known as “The Benny Hill Theme Song.”