A 2010 death I think I neglected to mention at the time was Captain Beefheart. His heavy blues record “Click Clack” starts out by evoking the bizarre silent movie era theme of a villain tying a woman to railroad tracks. “Click Clack” got a lot of airplay on WBCN in Boston when I was in high school, around the same time the J. Geils Band album “Full House” came out, in 1972. Ah, 1972. A year of firsts, starting with my first stereo system.
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L.A. Law – Real Estate Edition
This link from the Los Angeles Times is interesting, with a long scrolling list of real estate transactions showing how the top 1% live. I recognize some of the names, but they are mostly rap and sports stars who mean nothing to me.
Get cultured!
This year we’ll catch a Handel and Haydn Society performance of Handel’s Messiah, one of the greatest achievements of Western culture.
From Amazon to the Ganges
The prime minister of India? Ben Kingsley as the younger Gandhi? No, it’s Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos in Bangalore at, somewhat ironically, a shopping mall.
Intruder alert!
Here is video showing how the White House intruder managed to slip past the Secret Service.
http://youtu.be/-jO1EOhGkY0?t=2m
Before and Afterthought
Political cartoonists no longer have the influence that they enjoyed for many decades, if not a century, but the ones that remain continue to ply their craft. Jerry Holbert of the Boston Herald did this cartoon, about the recent lapse in White House security, which saw publication locally.
But before it reached national syndication, the editor at Uclick requested a change in wording.
I checked, and watermelon-flavored toothpaste does indeed exist.