Bruce Spizer is a very good friend of mine, and he’s written several highly-detailed coffee-table books on the history of the Beatles’ American-released recordings.ย They’re quite good and very informative.ย You can order copies of them through his website. He also enjoys playing a type of “What If…” game with the Beatles.ย Such as, “What…
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Found this slide while going through an old carousel of 35mm slides from the 1964 New York World’s Fair.ย It needs a caption.ย Anybody?
Read MoreYour betting sheet for the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Laugh if you want, but five of these fifteen performing acts will be in the Class of 2011 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Your potential inductees are, in alphabetical order: The Beastie Boys Bon Jovi Chic Alice Cooper Neil Diamond Dr. John Donovan J. Geils Band LL Cool J Darlene Love Laura…
Read MoreThe worst game show to ever air on FOX is coming back???
Sometimes the FOX network puts a show on TV and it just stinks up the channel.ย Sometimes the shows get fewer viewers than an Albany City School District board meeting.ย For every “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader” or “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” there have been some “which moron green-lighted this program” fare, including:…
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That’s where I’m located.ย Me and eventually 999,999 other people.ย In fact, you can see me here. This is part of a new book called “One Million People,” and it’s an upcoming book which will feature the pictures of one million people in our current digital world. This is the brainchild of Alex Tew, who…
Read MoreMockingbird Marathon: Buying my copy of the book
So I’m getting ready for the November 6th “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill A Saturday” fundraiser, in which a public reading of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will take place to benefit the Literacy Volunteers of the Greater Capital Region. Since I’m one of the readers for the event, it pretty much behooved me to actually go…
Read MoreA Prayer for Tyler Clementi
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I still can’t stop thinking about this horrible story.ย I’ve been sick over it for the past day or two. An 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University killed himself.ย Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge.ย His body was recovered last Wednesday. And we instantly found out that he…
Read MoreWeek 4 of the $2,500 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
It was a tough three weeks in the tournament.ย But not this week. In the fourth week of the Elbo Room big money trivia tournament, my Street Academy team had a full compliment of trivia teammates – myself, Jeremy and Alexis. I should also note that after a one-week hiatus from the bar, the team…
Read MoreReplacing my Saturn Ion with … the Batmobile???
There is no argument.ย The five coolest TV and movie cars anyone could ever own are the 1973 Ford Gran Torino, red body with white checkmark a la Starsky and Hutch; the black Pontiac Trans Am that Burt Reynolds drove from Texarkana to Atlanta in Smokey and the Bandit; the 1971 Dodge Challenger from the…
Read MoreDickie Goodman – the music pioneer you never heard of
Once upon a time, back in the 1950’s, two struggling New York City songwriters, Bill Buchanan and Richard “Dickie” Goodman, came up with a musical concept that, at the time, was controversial and litigious – yet today, is as much a part of popular music as an auto-tune machine.ย Today we call the concept “Sampling,”…
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