"King of America" is my favorite album of his. So much so that the one time I met Costello he signed my CD copy of the album.

"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions?'"

According to the biography of Charles Schultz published about four, five years ago the antagonistic relationship between Charlie Brown and Lucy was Schultz's way of commenting on his disintegrating marriage to his first wife (particularly in the mid to late 60s). After his divorce and second marriage, which apparently…

At the time? Sure. I was talking about now, 12 years later that it's mainly the media and non-Cubs fans who bring up Bartman.

It seems to this Cubs fan that it's mainly the media and disgruntled White Sox fans that keep bringing up Steve Bartman. Other Cubs fans I know put the blame for Game 6 where it belongs - on Alex Gonzalez flubbing a routine double play ball that would otherwise have ended the inning. Oh, and Dusty Baker refusing to…

It was the dance sequence that Brooks said couldn't be filmed today just for the reason you said, not the breaking the fourth wall.

Five years back the American Cinematheque here in Los Angeles did a screening of "Blazing Saddles" with Mel Brooks in attendance. He said there are parts of that film that couldn't be done these days, specifically mentioning the musical sequence at the end after the fourth wall gets breached.
Seeing the movie again, it…

Dickety? Highly dubious.

"We're the performers you thought were dead,
like Bonnie Franklin and Adrian Zmed.
Branson's the place where we all can be found.
They took Nick at Night and made it a town…"

Read the review.
Read the comments.
Puts "The Roaring Twenties" onto my Netflix list…

Those were some awfully big water tanks to put at the top of a skyscraper. I found that odd, and whether it was done just as a plot point so there was a way to, you know, put out the inferno.

I figured architects wouldn't like the movie because it's set in a building where the water tanks are at the top. Who does that?

Bought my first bootleg way back in 1979 - the single disc "Get Back Sessions" by The Beatles that included the non-Spectorized "Long and Winding Road" among others.
Would pick up other Beatles bootlegs over the years on vinyl and CD.
While The Beatles selection mentioned in this article may be the most complete of the…

I watched at least five seasons of "Rockford" from Netflix and always enjoyed the locations used. Especially when filmed in my part of Hollywood. I recognized quite a few places that are still around in one form or another.

"Keep in mind that anyone who would have been able to vote for Reagan-Bush in '84 is now at least 49 years old now."

"(Listen) }To What the Flower People Say (and a great take off of "Get Together" by The Youngbloods)

"The Martian" is a great read. I don't know if all the science adds up but Weir makes you believe that it does.

Spent Saturday afternoon drinking beer and watching college football. The end to that Notre Dame-Virginia game was a nail biter.
Continued reading two books, "Blaze" by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman, my September entry of my one-Stephen King-book-a-month project; and "Above the Law: Police and the Excessive…

Tapioca Tundra!
Tapioca Tundra!

"Come back, Zinc! Come back!"