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Face Front and Drink Up!
A wine that the late Stan Lee could have appreciated. Only two bottles were left, and at only $5.99 each I bought ’em both.
Explicit Lyrics: Parental Advisory
The very adult female complaint expressed in yesterday’s Hägar the Horrible comic strip was stated musically — and explicitly — ten years ago by British bad girl Lily Allen.
Sibley on Capra
I’m repeating something I posted here three years ago. Brian Sibley on BBC Radio in 1997 talking about Frank Capra, using “It’s a Wonderful Life” as his starting point.
Put a Rocket in Your Back Pocket!
The Bollywood epic you’ve been waiting for, featuring the secret power of Captain Ching!
I REDD the News Today
REDD was the Recording Engineering Development Department at EMI in London. Most Beatles recordings were made using a custom-built REDD.51 mixing console. Their first 4-track console was a REDD.31. Much later, after Magic Alex — the self-proclaimed genius of Apple Electronics — was revealed to be a fraud, the Beatles borrowed a couple of REDD.31’s to begin recording “Let it Be.”
Here’s some history of what happened to one of the consoles, starting ten years after the Beatles were done with it.