Thanks to Randy Rendfeld for this very funny link.
I remembered this ad vividly, but had no recollection that it was for Alka Seltzer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQhwNtY3N2k “You ate it, Ralph…”
Randy Rendfeld sent in this photo of guttercropping, a simple and easy way to increase the area available for growing things in an urban setting. Says Randy, “I should note that isn’t my photo. My friend Linda T. found it on the Net. Here is another page showing something similar: http://ballardfresh.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/gutter-lettuce/“:
http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=FCJ2CMNU
That sounds positively infernal, Jay, but I’m glad persons, beasts and buildings have thus far been spared! And I certainly agree with you about the climatic insanity of The Hi-Line. With Havre’s record temps ranging from 117 above down to 52 below zero, I think we’ve got a spread that’s unmatchable, at 169 degrees! Nowhere …
In the year since this vid first came out, I hope these solar bottle lights have moved across the Philippines and across the world. A while ago, I asked a very wise university professor who thinks about these things professionally if there was any way to cool down the sun-battered corrugated tin shacks in which …
When I was young, my father, an attorney, often worked pro bono for the poor and marginalized. My mother volunteered and helped start a preschool for low income children in Tulsa, OK. My parents took us on civil rights marches when we were very young. We were middle class, white. We were not oppressed, but …
“I put out a song about the way things are called ‘Troubled Land’ to give folks the news like Woody Guthrie used to do with his music,” John Mellencamp said in a statement on a political blog. Woody Guthrie? Really? Ironically, that’s the sense I felt about this song when I first heard it. “Troubled …
He’s a shoo-in for the GOP nomination. – Claude Iosso http://youtu.be/bE2m355-JRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayYNAEs0few
Seattle pop-punk band Quickie, who most recently penned a song celebrating Emerald City superhero Phoenix Jones, is taking a stand against domestic violence by teaming up with Phoenix Jones and his wife Purple Reign. The Healing Reign Music Benefit and Auction will take place May 12th at Nectar in Fremont. Ghost Town Riot joins Quickie …
LORD OF THE FLIES at Havre High! With All-Male AND all-Female Casts!, By Tom Kipp and Jay Schuschke
I most certainly read Lord of the Flies at Havre High School, very likely mediated by Mr. Axel Schmaing, though in just what course escapes me at the moment. I also had the great pleasure of seeing the truly harrowing 1963 Brit film during the Spring of 1980, as part of Prof. Robert Arends’ infamously …
I suppose we humans like our numbers rounded. There’s a reason there’s no 49 dollar bill. But when it comes to age, it seems rather pointless to place emphasis on an event simply because it ends in a zero. But society has protocols with which we must comply, so I shall do my best to …
This is very long, and very media savvy, but my 15 yr. old daughter asked me to share this as far and wide as possible. Never heard but now I know. It’s going viral in her age group… wild! – Anne Seymour Mette
Robert Sherman, WWII (Europe) Army combat veteran, painter, and one of the most remarkable composers of the post-War era. Besides a lot of family movie soundtrack work (Disney, Snoopy Come Home, Charlotte’s Web, etc.) Robert and his brother wrote the fabulous “You’re Sixteen,” made popular by Johnny Burnette, and later, Ringo Starr. I highly recommend …
http://youtu.be/pgVL-rBq9Fw
The esteemed Mr. Mason painted on the moustache so we’d know he wasn’t serious. It’s the 50s version of air quotes:
I was sorry to hear that Ronnie Montrose lost his battle with cancer. Saw him at least twice with this band and once as a solo artist right after he’d released the album with the great instrumental version of “Town Without Pity” on it (he was opening for “Terrible” Ted Nugent and Rex Smith‘s “metal” …
“[March 1] Justin Bieber’s birthday; banks are open. Post Office delivering but Middle Schools all closed.” – Jan Erickson http://youtu.be/vkSmjkI50ew
Davy Jones, the diminutive “cute one” of The Monkees, has died. He was 66. There was a time in the mid-’60s, roughly following the releases of “Rubber Soul” and “Pet Sounds,” when the rock audience grew up. Or, at least, we thought we had. In any event, we became rock-snobs and started looking down our …
From MSNBC: “Singer Davy Jones of The Monkees has died of a heart attack at 66, the medical examiner’s office in Martin County, Fla., has confirmed to NBC News. A statement issued by the medical examiner’s office says that Jones complained Wednesday morning that he wasn’t feeling well and was having trouble breathing. He was …
An organization called Organizing Against the War On Women has recently formed in protest of all the legislation being introduced and passed to restrict women’s access to birth control, from having a legal abortion, and mandating invasive medical procedures for any woman seeking an abortion. Women all over the country have had enough of a …
Steve Stav has an excellent interview with Gary Oldman here.
Facebook is so strange, when you stop and think — so unlike anything we knew in pre-FB life. I’ve been trying to come up with an analogy for social networking, if it were a “real” thing. How’s this? You decide to send out invitations to every person you’ve ever known to a huge party. The …
I have no idea if this is true or not, but it’s just odd enough to be real: http://www.sonnyradio.com/airfactory.htm