Just as British Antiques Roadshow >>>> US Antiques Roadshow.

In my effort to find out if you are putting me on - it wouldn't be the first time, so ha ha on me, I'm cool with it - I checked some of your recent posts and saw you might understand the subtleties of what's going on. Holland is a small country, tightly organized. These guys can't get up to speed for too long, and…

White women and businessmen who voted for him have something in common: they mistakenly think they can control him towards their own ends. Damn fools.

Lady Soul would be among my 10 desert island discs. Aretha Arrives and Aretha Now are very similar but not quite as exciting. Young, Gifted… is erratic, but the best songs are unique. I still haven't listened to Spirit. Of course, I Never Loved a Man is practically a Greatest Hits album.

I will be checking out Countdown this weekend - thanks!

Here's a typical "chase." There's a motorcycle pursuit which eventually ends in a reasonable scolding - one of the perps has a "condoms are easier to change than diapers" sticker on his tank. I'm sorry there aren't English subtitles - my Dutch mom tells me the key things. Basically it's the cops catching the bad guys…

Oh, and the Dutch reality cop show where cops catch speeders. The police are clean-cut, thin, and business like. They show video and ask in a gentle voice, "Do you see what you did there?" It's incredibly well-mannered.

I love the British game show Pointless. It's a battle of guessing the most obscure facts.

That's a nice one!

The 1st CD of Diana Ross and the Supremes Gold is awesome. It's their Holland-Dozier-Holland period, and those 20 songs flow like any classic album (it was originally on vinyl as Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2). The second disc has later hits both with Ross and without. It's spottier - think of it as a bonus disc.

You're right that a couple of the Dusty songs are same-y. What I like is how she inhabits the songs psychologically. Breakfast in Bed is great - you can imagine her letting her man look down her blouse one moment and tearfully begging him to stay the next. My secret fave is "In the Land of Make Believe" - she's so…

Bobby "Blue" Bland was a national treasure. I found out about him through listening to Van Morrison, Bob Seger, and Gregg Allman. He sang from his knees with confident force and sensitivity - when he wasn't howling. "Little Boy Blue" is the least stately song from the classic Two Steps From the Blues album. His Ain't…

I'm a huge Stevie Wonder fan. My input:

Right up there with A Hard Day's Night if I want 35 minutes of smart fun.

I used to manage a winery in Western New York State. It was in an old barn with lots of metal poles, and I could only get two stations on the weekends, one of them being Hamilton, Ontario's, oldies station CKOC. Being an oldies fan, and the music being work-appropriate, that was usually my station of choice.

"Prisoner" is all right - I think it worked well in the movie. If I heard it some more, it would probably grow on me.

Olivia had range. She was sexy as a lonely, horny divorcee…: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Hah! So that's how he got to duet with Van Morrison a few year later: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

She's funny, too - she was on one of those 90s docs for CNN.

I see through you. And I'm not the only one.