Face Front, frantic Marvel fanboys! The Avengers are here, along with Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner.
All of the Marvel Super Heroes theme song records from the 1966 cartoons are out, and I’ve got ’em! They’re assembled here in this YouTube playlist, presented in the order the characters appeared daily in the syndicated TV series.
An album version will be released on Record Store Day next week.
That’s McIntosh Labs in Binghamton New York, not Apple’s line of Macintosh computers. McIntosh dates back to 1950s-era hi-fi tube amps, and this is big audio news that’s coming from out of nowhere.
I frequently drive past the Bose headquarters, and the chairman of the Bose board lives near here. As a privately held company, he must have approved, if not initiated, this very surprising move to acquire McIntosh.
If I were to lose all sense of financial perspective and buy a McIntosh product that I don’t need, it would be the integrated amp in the picture. As it is, I own only one Bose product, the now-discontinued Wave Music System I bought in 2008, that I continue to use every day.
I was about to leave to visit a Stop & Shop, in search of a particular item that I can’t find at my usual supermarket. Then I saw this TV report.
It’s very unlikely the non-food item I’m looking for will be out of stock, assuming it’s something that’s normally carried at the store. If all else fails, there’s Amazon, of course. I might explain later what it is, and why I’m searching for it, depending on how the story turns out.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts prohibits clothing, shoes, towels and sheets, etc., from being thrown away.
https://www.mass.gov/guides/clothing-and-textile-recovery
How much of an effect does my small state’s initiative have on the global problem of textile waste? A safe guess is not very much. But as we did with same-sex marriage, we’re setting an example for other states to follow.
This was premiered last weekend at James Cawley’s Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York. Present on the bridge of the Enterprise was Robin “Saavik” Curtis and, in Captain Kirk’s chair, William Shatner.
Here’s the background on the video’s production:
We have a neighborhood visitor. He’s welcome to any mice he can find. I suspect there’s one trying to escape the cold night air and set up residence in one of the porch walls.
“A bat! No! wait! A hawk! That’s it! It’s an omen! I shall become a hawk!”
