Can’t claim to have ever been a Deadhead, but I liked a lot of their early work, and I certainly understand why fans loved the Grateful Dead. Bob Weir has died. He had a band called ratdog. A long time ago, somebody from a law firm contacted me, asking if I would sell the domain name dograt that, obviously, I didn’t do.
Category: Music
Ok go Go GO!
A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to tastewar for tipping me off to this one.
Produced in Hungary, as was the Death by Lightning miniseries on Netflix.
OK Gone?
This was SIXTEEN YEARS AGO?? This blog is almost twenty so, yeah, that must be right. Is OK Go still going, I wonder?
Parlez-vous Bed-in?
A few posts ago, Petula Clark explained a personal crisis she experienced in 1969. Performing a bilingual show in Montreal she tried, and failed, to please both the French and English speakers in the audience.
Reduced to tears, on a whim Petula visited with John and Yoko at their infamous Montreal bed-in. She explained the cause of her distress and John’s advice was, “fuck ’em!”
The split between French and English language music in Quebec in mid-1969 can be heard in the two most recent ’88 Rewound’ programs on WMBR, the MIT radio station.
French Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59020
English Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59104
Birds of a Feather
Maureen Starkey is missing from this Sixties portrait of ladies who had Beatles, Stones, and Donovan personal relationships.
What’s a TLA?
I like today’s installment of Dennis the Menace, but can’t legally embed all of it. So, follow the link below.
https://comicskingdom.com/dennis-the-menace/2026-01-04
Also good from King Features today:
https://comicskingdom.com/dustin/2026-01-04
https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible/2026-01-04
I wonder if King Features retains some rights to the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine?
