I have great sympathy for what Mark Evanier’s been going through getting WordPress working for his popular NewsfromME blog, having been through all of this myself.
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77 if
Elvis Presley would have been 77 years old today. The age my mother was when she passed away.
http://youtu.be/I4PiLpl8Flg
The many faces and facets of Stephen Colbert
The New York Times has this must-read feature article about Stephen Colbert and what he’s doing with his SuperPAC money.
Hunter Davies chats about the lads from Liverpool
BBC Radio 4 has this interview with Hunter Davies, who wrote the only authorized telling of the story of the Beatles, other than their own Anthology, and he did it while they were still together as the Beatles.
[audio:http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/openbook/openbook_20120101-1750a.mp3|titles=BBC Radio 4 podcast: Hunter Davies]Nifty gifts
I don’t consider myself to be a particularly good gift giver, but a couple of my sisters can have a knack for finding fun and/or unusual presents. For Christmas my sister Jean gave me a Peanuts wall clock that plays the “Linus and Lucy” theme on the hour, but not when it’s dark. It’s hanging in my office now.
My sister Marianne found some cool things this Christmas. 3D Holiday Specs look like 3D glasses, but when you look at Christmas tree lights with them you see them transformed into Santa’s face, or snowflakes, or stars, etc. It’s fun seeing which patterns give the best effects.
Something else Marianne found, that’s both fun and practical, is a type of wallet I’d never seen before, made of a folded sheet of Tyvek. Mighty Wallets come in all sorts of designs, including some with Star Trek themes. Highly recommended!
Party like it’s 2009!
It’s already New Year’s Day in Belgium and the Netherlands. Three years ago K3, the Flemish Europop queens, recorded this New Year’s message.
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“United As One”? Well, no, because a few months later in 2009 Kathleen Aerts quit. She was replaced by “Josje” Huisman, who seems to have been the perfect choice for the girl group.
For you K3 fans here’s a recent picture of Karen, looking sort of like Lindsay Lohan did before she discovered meth, or whatever it was that wrecked her.
This was Karen about twenty years ago.
