Little did we realize when we gave Eric an Xbox 360, that he would be recruited by The Baron to help save the world from the extraterrestrial terrorism of ZANTHUE!
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Hillary Clinton As a ‘Peanuts’ Character
This seems to be the gist of what Hillary Clinton is telling Barack Obama.
Movie Money In A Flash
Here’s another good link from tastewar. The New York Times has put together an interactive Adobe Flash player with 20 years of movie revenue. This is box office money, and doesn’t include video rentals and sales, yet I think the influence of video on the movie industry is apparent. Get a feeling for how it works, spend some time with it, and see what conclusions you come to. Here’s the link.
Garfield-less
Previously on DogRat, I featured the Garfield parody Lasagna Cat. Now I would like to draw your attention to a site that was pointed out by my friend tastewar, Garfield Minus Garfield.
As the English like to say, “brilliant.”
Walter Cronkite and The Beatles
A few weeks ago I posted a picture of two sisters, backstage with The Beatles at the Ed Sullivan Show. Who at CBS, I asked, would have had enough clout to arrange such a meeting? I received several e-mail requests for the answer. Here are the girls, Nancy and Kathy Cronkite, with their father.
Walter Cronkite takes credit for having shown a news clip about The Beatles that caught the attention of Ed Sullivan. And the rest is, of course, history. I extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to CBS News for providing this video.
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Curvebender’s Kaleidoscope Eyes
One of the most impressive and praiseworthy objects I have ever beheld, held, and owned, is the RTB Book: Recording The Beatles, by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew, published under their Curvebender Publishing imprint. As I said a year or so ago, at $100 this book is a bargain.
Curvebender has a new Beatles book coming out, called Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Day In The Life of Sgt. Pepper. It’s a collection of photographs, taken during the day in 1967 when recording began for “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.”
Limited to 1967 copies, it costs a whopping $495, and at that price I would consider this book to be an extravagent indulgence, so I won’t be buying it. Nevertheless, I hope it sells out and goes up in value.
Over at one of the Wired blogs is this item about a Beatles exhibit at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA. The show is curated by Kehew and Ryan, and features original recording and playback equipment that the Beatles used at Abbey Road Studio 2.
You can hear the classic songs coming out of the same speakers used in the sessions, and gawp at the original technology, some never before seen in public.
Gawp indeed! This is almost irresistibly tantalizing. If the exhibit were in New York, I would go.
In other Beatles related doings, we watched Across The Universe with a younger person who commented that The Beatles are “eternally cool.” That’s good to know. Our enjoyment of the movie benefited greatly from watching it with the Panasonic PT-AX200U video projector.