
Month: October 2016
A Little of Annie
Thanks to Annie Little’s Facebook page, I’ve been keeping tabs on her career ever since she appeared in the Amazon commercial for the second-generation Kindle. She was on last week’s episode of </scorpion>, playing a museum director and not, thankfully, a murder victim.
Thanks to YouTube, I haven’t had to do much video capturing and editing for a long time. But I needed to do it for this post, and I must say that the process sure is a heck of a lot easier and faster, with much better resulting quality, than it was ten years ago. One quirk, now that video can be embedded directly with HTML5, instead of relying upon a Flash plugin, is that each Web browser has its own style of player.
Look out, Elon Musk!
The European Mars Lander crashed, and now the Martians are coming here before the Space X mission can get there!

The Top 0.00001%
The other 60’s Jackie
The more I listen to Jackie DeShannon’s records the more in awe of her I am. Even if she had never done anything more than writing this one song, her place in music history would be assured.
Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got nothin’ on him
A couple of years ago I wrote about a chance meeting with Donovan. He was in Boston last month for a show that Denro and I attended. Donovan’s singing voice may not be what it was, but the groovy vibe is the same as 50 years ago.
