Edgewater Inn Hotel, Seattle, August 21, 1964
September 3, 1964, 5 pm — Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis
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2 comments September 3rd, 2010
My “real” e-mail address is on Verizon. Everything sent to a DogRat.com address is automatically forwarded to my Verizon mailbox. Verizon doesn’t provide its own web mail access, but instead uses Yahoo!
Two things about using Yahoo! for web mail are:
Many of the ads feature this woman’s face, selling all sorts of different, always questionable, products. Sometimes she’s called Julie, or Candy, or whatever.
Obviously she’s not officially endorsing anything, and her image is being used without permission. She looks French, and she’s apparently a newscaster, so using that Yahoo! search field that I’m always forced into, and entering “french newscaster,” the name Mélissa Theuriau is the #1 result.
1 comment August 31st, 2010
Snoopy is still on the job, pitching for MetLife…
… but why is he reading The New York Times, a newspaper that has never had a comics page?
Add comment August 31st, 2010
Glenn Beck is an ex-DJ turned talk show host with a gift for off-the-cuff BS, like Rush. He’s a man with a supposedly former substance abuse problem, like Rush. Divorced, too, like Rush. These are people who are calling for a return to traditional values? Sounds like “do as I say, not as I did,” to me.
But unlike Rush, Glenn brings a religious element to his illogical rants. Do the Evangelicals who constitute a lot of Sarah Palin’s base of support know that Beck joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? [Note: this site is currently being hosted in Utah.] As someone who used to attend an Assemblies of God church, I assure you that Evangelicals don’t consider Mormons to be Christians. If that’s no longer the case, then Mitt Romney is your man, folks. He came up with the health care plan in Massachusetts that was the model for the national plan.
The way Beck talks sometimes reminds me of Jim Jones. Why would anybody find some sort of assurance in his bizarre, disjointed tirades? A return to honor and values? What values? What does that mean? I really don’t get it.
10 comments August 30th, 2010
We turn our attention yet again to Mitch Miller, this time for a British perspective on the late musician/talent scout/record producer. As the English news outlet The Independent said in its obituary of Mitch…
Miller loved coming to London. One of his slogans was “Thank God for the British” because he always felt that a record that had failed in America might get a second chance when it was released here. “Cool Water” (Laine), “Christopher Columbus” (Mitchell) and “Where Will the Dimple Be” (Clooney) had been overlooked in the US, but became successful in the UK. “I like the British,” he told the New Musical Express in 1955. “They are not in as much a hurry as we Americans are. They take time out to really listen.”
Russell Davies on BBC Radio 2 (who isn’t BBC TV’s Russell T. Davies) spent fifteen minutes of his Sunday programme talking about Mitch, and he played Rosemary Clooney singing a very odd novelty song, “Where Will the Dimple Be?” which was a #7 hit in England.
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Davies points out that Thurl “Tony the Tiger” Ravenscroft (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch”) is credited for singing bass, and thanks to 78s4FR on YouTube we can see the original record label as it appeared in England in 1955.
Add comment August 29th, 2010
Denro and I have various catch-phrases we like to use, and at least a couple of them are Beatles-related quotes. One of them is, “I can say no more,” from HELP! Another is “Touring became intolerable,” from an 80’s documentary, now out-of-print, called The Compleat Beatles. Here’s the complete Compleat. The quote is at 1h 10m into the video.
Add comment August 29th, 2010