Obscure to all but the more than merely casual Beatles fans, is George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music, from 1968.
It’s actually the soundtrack album to an obscure movie.
Wonderwall the movie is now less obscure, being available for free streaming on Tubi.
DJ Trump, convicted of 34 felonies, and with six business bankruptcies on his resume, wants to control the Federal Reserve Bank. The charges against Trump were for falsifying financial statements. His accusing Lisa Cook of being dishonest from a single, as yet unproven, instance of that offense is beyond ironic.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts
His actual problem with Cook are the two words that he sees as being presumptive of incompetence and criminality — Black Woman.
Debbie Daughtry says Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks is back with a new “Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon.” According to Debbie, he’ll be spinning the tables at 78 rpm!
Here’s the show schedule:
https://www.bossradio66.com/2025/08/78s-from-back-of-station-wagon.html
Here’s a player:
Get listening!
Turn it off! Turn it off!
A great record, but enough is enough.
Never liked it.
Irritating, despite that super organ sound.
BONUS: Not on my pal Samjay’s playlist is this favorite of mine:
You won’t need Superman’s X-Ray vision to see who the bad guy is in Perry White’s office.
At the NCS Reuben Awards dinner, I had the pleasure of being seated with artist Joe Staton and his wife Hilarie. Also at table #20 was Boston cartoonist Dave London (no relation to Bobby). Seated next to me was an 80-something gentleman, retired from a career in advertising, whose father worked at the MIT Radiation Lab during WWII.
Sy Barry is a retired expert practitioner of the classic comic book art style I appreciate so much. He received the King Features Elzie Segar Award, in recognition of the enduring influence of his art.
Sy had a humorous and very warmly received acceptance speech. He lives north of Boston, in Andover.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/08/18/celebrating-sy/
