As I approach the 20th anniversary of this blog, I don’t have much of anything to say. But I have this animated GIF I made of Linda Ronstadt.
Category: Music
Day Tripper: Toke 1
I haven’t decided yet which package of the Rubber Soul reissue to get. In this preview track, John and Paul giggle their way through a practice session.
The Pre-Fab Four @ 60
ABC-TV had Batman kick off 1966 with a BAM! and a POW! NBC-TV had the knock-out one-two punch in September, with Star Trek and Hey, Hey, The Monkees!
The Monkees TV series is now available for viewing on the best free streaming video service, Tubi. The premiere episode, ‘Royal Flush’, features family friend Vince Beck as Sigmund.
Dark Pink
For the second time, I have enjoyed seeing and hearing the fantastic ‘Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon – Official Planetarium Show’ at this venue.
I wasn’t able to confirm the model(s) of the two video projectors, but they’re the JVC DLA-NZ9 and/or the newer NZ900 model. Special lenses are used to fill the image across the huge dome ceiling.
The audio quality was just as good as the image, and easily the best I have ever heard playing The Dark Side of the Moon. An album that was released — ulp! — just as I was about to graduate from high schoool.
The sound was effortlessly loud and completely free of harshness in the way that professional grade systems can be. The bass was massively powerful and deep, with no breakup whatsoever. Such an audio/video treat!
Wayno, No Relation to Waymo
In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.
Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.
https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno
Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.
Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.
