Month: September 2009

Unsigned, unsealed, and undelivered

Beatles
Photo by Albert Marrion, 17 Dec 1961

I sort of assume that everybody with more than a passing interest in the Beatles has heard the complete recording session held at Decca on New Year’s Day, 1962, but maybe you haven’t. It’s a day that lives in infamy, of course, because they didn’t get signed to a record contract. But the fact is, at that point they still sounded — and looked — like amateurs. Brian Epstein got them into suits in March, but they still needed the ear of somebody who could hear their potential. Listen and decide for yourself. Would you have heard the greatness that was missed by Decca?

Wise words

Today’s Boston Globe has a short editorial called “Aging Boomers: Hit the pavement slowly.” This sentence says it all, for guys like me, because I’ve been there and done that:

Training all-out to overcompensate for fading physical gifts often leads to injuries.

After decades of seeming to be immune to running injuries, the last few years have taught me that exercising smarter, not running more, is what I need to do.

On the Colbert of the Rolling Stone

Since the January inauguration, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have shown they aren’t just about knocking Bush. Did they have a choice?

For the midterm elections a few years ago, Colbert shared the cover of Rolling Stone with Stewart. But now Colbert, who is in the second of three weeks away, has the cover all to himself. But what happens when there are no more print editions of magazines? There won’t be any covers of anything anymore. BTW, this blog turns three years old on Saturday, and this is post #1700.

A tip o’ the DogRat toupee to Denro for the tip.

Laura Ingraham’s wilder

I’d never heard Laura Ingraham before today. I didn’t even know who it was on the radio when I came across her program, until she went to a break and said her name. I’m a liberal, and I think Keith Olbermann goes overboard sometimes, but Laura Ingraham is very scary. I’ve seen clips of Glen Beck on The Colbert Report, and he’s even scarier. And that’s why I think Keith Olbermann has to go overboard. Because being willing to compromise is seen as a sign of weakness, and Olbermann knows it, so he doesn’t compromise.
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