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Not that anything can improve George's image.....
Postcards and photos from my collections, drawing I've done over the years and cool stuff people have sent; all mixed together in a random scrapbook.
Doodles Weaver and Spike Jones:
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While visiting Stowe, Vermont, I discovered this sign in the backwoods of some place called "Jeffersonville." We quickly took this picture then hightailed it out of there because the banjo music was scaring me.
I paid a visit to Soupy at his home back in 2008. The photo is a Daguerreotype taken by Blacktooth and developed by White Fang.
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We went to a marvelous party.
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Justin Bieber vomited during one of his performances. Now he knows how I feel.
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Monsters on the Loose in Regal Theaters
Now let's hope Universal schedules a 3D showing of "Creature from the Black Lagoon" doubled billed with "It Came From Out Space" sometime soon.
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Zappa: “That song was pretty white...”
Davy Jones: “So am I; what can I tell you?”
-HEAD (1968)
The man knew his limitations – and his strengths. Given the right support, Davy Jones created some great pop music. The Monkees in their prime were nearly as influential as The Beatles, thanks mostly to week-in week-out exposure on a hit TV show. Sure, they were the "Pre-fab Four", a manufactured group, but then, many were. Peter, Paul and Mary were created by agent Albert Grossman, who always lived up to his last name. They many not have come together by chance, but they still brightened up AM radio for a few years. Their 1967 lp, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. was their one near-perfect album, with a title that was a clever admission of their second-class status. "Head" is one of the best films about Hollywood’s star-making and -breaking philosophy. Good-bye, Dave, and thanks for all the good music.
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In my neighborhood we seem to honor our war dead on Memorial Day by cutting our lawns
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There's an interesting discussion of Cigarette advertising at http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html. Here's one featuring W. C. Fields. But where's is nephew Chester Fields?