My desk calendar reads as follows: "Easter Monday (Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, UK - except Scotland)"
So, what's up with the Scots that they don't take Easter Monday off?
Read more…My "Unread Books" pile is down to around twenty, so I'm getting antsy that I'll run out of things to read in the next few days, and these books look like potential candidates for future reading material. I'm not so much interested in the film(s) rig
Read more…Okay , I'm going to do something I've thought about doing a long time , a thread for " soda/soda pop/fizz " , whatever , concentrating , anyway , on such beverages ( & related ??????? to be worked out in use , I guess . ) .
I've hesitated a little
Read more…(Deleted the old thread as I didn't want to clutter the board.)
If anyone is curious and would like a free pdf of the introduction and first two reviews in my opus, The 100 Best Movies Ever Made ...Mostly Suck, e-mail me at satanism@hotmail.com ! Hey
Read more…Happy Valentine's Day to all of you out there who have found true love!
The Baron honors your love, and urges you to celebrate it in all its truth, beauty and diversity, wherever it may take you...
...and he urges you to remember just this o
Read more…Fans of ERB may be happy to discover (as I just did) that Fall River Press has begun issuing reasonably-priced paperback collections of the Tarzan and Mars series (3 volumes of each in print right now), with a 1-volume collection of the Caspak novels
Read more…A LOT of American based Internet companies (including Google and Wikipedia) are planning to take tomorrow "off" and go dark in order to protest two pending bills in Congress.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from the House of Representatives and the
Read more…If you were trying to put a topical reference to the " SPIDER-MAN " musical into a new recording/performance of Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart's song1920s song " MANHATTAN " where earlier versions have references to:
1920s much-disliked by the self-des
Read more…Well, we're heading to a mountain resort for Christmas today - think subtropical rainforest, rather than a snowbound ski chalet - so I probably won't be able to post much from there. So this is just to say Happy Christmas one and all. Thanks for bei
Read more…Side A:
1)A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer
2)You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft (It should be illegal for anyone else to sing this song. I've never heard anyone else do it justice.)
3)Snoopy's Christmas - The Royal Guardsmen (A favorite
Read more…"In the year 1969, intrepid astronaut Major Tom was launched in a tin capsule atop a glimmering rocket into the vast reaches of extraterrestrial space. Halfway through the mission, the Major exited his floating ship and was never heard from again. Wh
Read more…Side A:
1)Doctor Who Theme - Mark Lambert/Ian Hu arrangement
2)Stayin' Alive - Ozzy Osbourne, with Dweezil Zappa
3)Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
4)Smells Like Nirvana - "Weird" Al Yankovic
5)Gitarzan - Ray Stevens
6)Star Trekki
Read more…Side A:
1)Doctor Who Theme - Eric Winstone and His Orchestra
2)The Fury of Godzilla - Akira Ifukube, from the Godzilla vs. Megaguirus soundtrack
3)Captain Lou's History of Music/Captain Lou - Captain Lou Albano, with George "The Animal" Steele
4)Fogg
Read more…I just got an email message this morning from Lee Houston Jr. who is presently in London. He was mugged and now cannot leave because although he still has his passport, he has no cash and the hotel won't let him leave until the bill is settled which
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To all of the women and men who have made and are currently making sacrifices to keep us safe...thank you.
Everyone:
If anyone has gotten an e-mail about or allegedly from me claiming that I was stranded somewhere in the UK without funds to return home, DISREGARD IT!
Sometime between late Sunday night November 6 and the wee hours of Monday morning (the 7t
Read more…Because no one demanded it!
(If this doesn't interest you, you may also be uninterested in Volume One, Volume Two, and Volume Six. Coming eventually: Volumes Four and Five.)
Volume Three, Side A:
1)Doctor Who Opening Theme - McGann version
2)The
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