Robert Zimmerman is 71 years old today. And if George Zimmerman had followed Bob’s advice, he would have just watched the parking meters and not the whole neighborhood in Sanford, Florida. My opinion on the Trayvon Martin case hasn’t changed. I still think that if the stand your ground defense applies it favors Martin.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Guess the girl
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May is Beatless month
It had been my plan to be at an in-theater screening tonight of the Beatles concert from February 11, 1964 at the Washington Coliseum. Unfortunately, “last minute issues” came up, and the shows were postponed.
MAY 2012 LIMITED ENGAGEMENT OF “THE BEATLES: THE LOST CONCERT” POSTPONED
New York, N.Y., May 8, 2012 — Screenvision announces the postponement of the May 17 and 22 limited engagement of “The Beatles: The Lost Concert.”
The new 92-minute documentary charts the birth and impact of Beatlemania and includes, in its entirety, their first U.S. concert from February 1964 at D.C’s Washington Coliseum.
According to sources at Screenvision, the film’s distributor in the U.S., the postponement is the result of last-minute issues which are being resolved by the documentary’s producers. The distributor hopes the issues will be resolved in short order so the attraction can be rescheduled for an even longer theatrical run in late Summer 2012.
“It’s regrettable that these issues have caused the cancellation of our planned limited engagement” adds Darryl Schaffer, EVP of Exhibitor Relations, Screenvision. “We are looking forward to their resolution so we can bring ‘The Beatles: The Lost Concert’ to even more Beatles fans and theaters in the U.S.”
Anyone who purchased advance tickets can obtain a refund through Fandango, MovieTickets.com or their local exhibitor.
For updated information on the film and future screenings, please visit www.lostbeatlesconcert.com
Universal Ap-peel
The banana. Recognized worldwide as the standard size by which new technology is judged.
Speaking of technology and size, I’ve edited the blog’s template to make the text bigger. On high res screens it was getting too tiny, and I didn’t want to buy stronger reading glasses.
Beatroute on the router
Here’s a super-duper instrumental I heard today on BBC Radio 2 that I meant to post when Paul O’Grady played it weeks ago. It’s Jools Holland’s Beatroute. He really captures the 60’s theme song sound.
[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2012/05/Beatroute.mp3|titles=Jools Holland – Beatroute]Holland was in the British band Squeeze, later becoming a big band leader like his contemporary Brian Setzer did after the Stray Cats.
While I was away
These are a couple of NPR reports that caught my ear while I wasn’t blogging. Paul Krugman is always worth hearing, which is more than I can say for a lot of economists.
[audio:http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2012/04/20120427_atc_15.mp3|titles=NPR: Paul Krugman]Operation Tiger was a practice run for D-Day, with a disastrous outcome.
[audio:http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2012/04/20120428_atc_05.mp3|titles=NPR: Operation Tiger]