Zanny Minton Beddoes is the editor of The Economist. The publication that, a year ago, declared America’s economy was the envy of the world. What about now?
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A Beatles Cellarbration
Yesterday’s Jeopardy! made me wonder how much longer Beatlemania will continue to linger in the public’s collective consciousness. In the Double Jeopardy round, under the category of “In Da Club,” the $1600 answer was, “You went down eighteen stone steps to enter this club, the home of the Beatles, at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool.”
Kudos to yesterday’s winner Tom Devlin for his interesting, but incorrect, guess. “What is the Quarrymen’s Club?” With no glimmer of recognition from the other two contestants, host Ken Jennings explained, “They played a lot of early gigs in the Cavern Club.”
The Cavern was demolished only three years after the Beatles broke up, when I was graduating from high school. Today’s Cavern in Liverpool is, like Fort Ticonderoga and the Star Trek Tour, also in Ticonderoga, a recreation.
https://www.cavernclub.com/history/
Beatles bonus: Walter Cronkite remembers the Beatles.
Not Even Remotely Interesting
I recently commented that I am clinging tenaciously to broadcast TV with my over-the-air TiVo. Of absolutely no significance to anyone else, I wouldn’t be able to do that without a NOS (new old stock) remote. After nine years, the remote that came with the DVR had some worn out buttons. Ebay to the rescue.
Side Door Man
A couple of years ago there was this little project on the side door of the garage.
Today, I was hoping to get by with painting the casing on the other side of that door. But in the process of scraping, I saw the wood on the lower half was getting spongy. Having a section of pre-primed casing on hand from the previous job, I decided to replace, rather than paint.
Mannix Women
It’s been six years since the last great pre-Covid movie, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. One of my favorite scenes shows Cliff Booth livin’ the trailer life. It reminds me a lot of how my brother lived for years, minus the dog, but with the cigarette and denim jacket.
Two Marvel Comics are shown — Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos and Kid Colt Outlaw. On TV, Cliff is watching Mannix, a show that’s mentioned earlier in the movie by Marvin Shwarz, the agent who meets with Cliff’s pal and ostensible boss, Rick Dalton.
As seen in the opening credits, the first season of the series had a computer gimmick, that was later dropped. On Facebook, actress Leslie Parrish was asked, “Are you the girl in Mannix who’s twirling around in tennis whites?”
Before Leslie appeared in an episode of Mannix, she had been in the Star Trek episode, “Who Mourns for Adonais?”
She even wore the same costume in Mannix.
Leslie’s reply to the question? “No, that isn’t me. That’s Thordis Brandt.” Brandt is also seen kissing Mike Connors in the opening credits.
Leslie is now 90 and Thordis is 85.
My Pretty Stick-On Necklace
Second post-afib week* wearing a heart monitor. First week was in July, third and final will be in April. That will leave enough time for my chest hair to regrow. 😉
* I have been informed they would like me to wear it for two weeks, this time around. Fine, whatever.