It’s still Father’s Day in the West, so this will also count as my post for that.

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I’ve mentioned elsewhere that my dad was a session musician in Nashville in the 1950s/60s, and also played with The Bluenotes (sort of the de facto house band for Colonial Records in North Carolina). His biggest claim to fame is working with Roy Orbison, but according ( Read more... )

Yes, well, okay.

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Unlike “Sad Eyes”, I pretty much got what the song was about, although I found it odd that the narrator and his “old lady” had been together all that time and didn’t even know each other that well.

Then again, I found the term “old lady” odd too. I knew what it meant. I just thought it was strange to call yr girlfriend/lover/wife ( Read more... )

With Vitamin B1!


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It might look like this.

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Okay, not really.

But that was more or less the premise - two androids have a flying saucer that, like the TARDIS, can travel in time as well as space. They pick up a couple of Earthling kids for a joy ride, lose control of the saucer and go whipping back and forth to different periods of Earth’s history as they try to get ( Read more... )

You know by now that David Letterman announced his retirement. And while he won’t be leaving the air for at least another year, I might as well post this now.

For obvious reasons (location) I haven’t watched Letterman for a long time, apart from a short period where one local station struck a deal to run The Late Show for about a year.

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I had one of these.


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I understand a few of you are interested in this Doctor Who bloke.

As you may have heard in passing somewhere, the Doctor Who series is now 50 years old as of Saturday (albeit that includes 16 years of inactive service, interrupted once by Paul McGann in 1996).

And what with everyone posting all kinds of Doctor-Who related stuff (even Google and ( Read more... )

ITEM: Photographer Michael Galinsky has published a book of photos of American shopping malls circa 1989 - complete with trendy teenagers.


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This was the coolest thing ever in 1979.


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Messy Nessy Chic has some wonderful photos of the inside of HMV in the 1960s.


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