Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Archival Revival (Minneapolis TV Edition)

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  1929-2021 ( It's been almost a week since my last post, and if I were to go through Ed Asner 's long and impressive list of acting...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Quips and Quotations (His Work Glimmers for Itself Edition)

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  1941-2021 I never filled the stereotype of a rock star. Back in the '70s, [ former Rolling Stones bassist ] Bill Wyman and I decided t...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Bye Bye Love

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  Country acts aren't generally referred to as cool kats, so maybe that's why brothers (in order of appearance in the above photogra...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Quips and Quotations (Silk Roadblock Edition)

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  So, our empire has once again lost another war. We won our last one 76 years ago this past Sunday. At some point, don’t they relegate us o...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Vital Viewing (That's All There Is, There Isn't Any More Edition)

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  Actress Ethel Barrymore, sister to Lionel and John, great-aunt to Drew, was born on this day in 1879 (she died in 1959, her life having sp...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Photo Finish (Street Musicians Edition)

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  I'm sure a good many of you can identify the above photo. Obviously, it's the famous cover of the Beatles 1969 album Abbey Road , ...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Vital Viewing (Mammon Mechanics Edition)

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Today we again take up technology. Not the kind that you find in your home, but the machines out in the public sphere that just like any sto...