Carol and I have just finished watching Up In The Air. Yes, it’s recommended, but it’s a little too obvious that Sam Elliot serves the same purpose that he did in The Big Lebowski.
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Elvis @ 78
How about a couple of Elvis singles from YouTube fave 78s4FR? The comments are hers.
I’m not sure how long England continued to produce 78 rpm singles, but apparently it was much later than America’s adoption of the RCA 45 rpm format.
Happy vending
The vending machine at work had a surprise. A huge 5-oz package of cookies for only $.90. That couldn’t be right, I said to myself. It had to be a mistake. But here I sit, eating Basil’s Bavarian Bakery Duplex Sandwich Cremes. No, I’m not eating the whole package in one sitting!
Saturday Morning Beatles
Ah, Saturday morning TV in the 1960’s. A sublime mixture of awful-to-pretty good cartoons. During the Summer of Love, 1967, Marvel Comics featured this centerfold ad for ABC-TV’s “America’s Best TV Comics”. The Fantastic Four and The Amazing Spider-Man were being introduced, having not been a part of the syndicated Marvel Super Heroes cartoon series from the year before.
The Beatles first appeared as cartoon characters on US TV in 1965. How Brian Epstein cut the deal is explained in a book, now out of print, called Beatletoons, by Mitchell Axelrod.
I have a fondness for the cheaply-produced Beatles cartoons, but it’s been said that John Lennon, persistent curmudgeon that he was, disliked them. This photo of Lennon contemplating some layout drawings seems to back that up.
The third season of the show would be the last to include some new material. Two of the titles — ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘Nowhere Man’ — were later animated again, with strikingly different interpretations, for Yellow Submarine. It’s hard to believe that some of the people who worked on the Saturday morning cartoons were also involved with Yellow Submarine, but you’ll find some fab bits of surreal creativity in there.
By 1967 the Beatles looked nothing like they had in 1964-65, yet their character designs didn’t change. The producer of the series, Al Brodax, more than made up for that with Yellow Submarine.
Colbert Battles Minotaur!
After Eric and I watched Tuesday night’s Colbert Report, Carol wanted to know what we were laughing at so loudly. (Note: I had to explain to Eric who Steve Guttenberg is.)
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BBC School
Did you know that the BBC has an online school site?