I just watched a bit of Gimme Shelter (the Rolling Stones documentary) and a particular section got me thinking, namely the moment when a stage announcer boomed...

ARE YOU READY FOR THE GREATEST ROCK N' ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD?!I think I thought "pffff, whatever, maaan... it's not figure skating." I didn't think the figure skating bit, but what I ( Read more... )

Sometimes comment threads are just so rewarding that they need to be promoted beyond footnote status. This happened. I am not going to quote anyone, except to reproduce the series of fascinating links that were shared on my facebook page over the last few days. And speaking of reproduction, that is also the theme of the day:

In biblical summary form ( Read more... )