Concrete and Nexus for me.

I believe @Arex was (pretty cleverly) taking one of each author's most famous stories and showing how the other might have written it.

They keep turning in my mind…
That radio show I mentioned to you a while back did a whole show on Stars on 45 (track 3 here):
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I'll be honest: when I was a kid I couldn't tell whether the lead singer of Yaz was male or female. So for me the ambiguity was part of the appeal. Such a great unique voice.

This is early "cool" music for me too; Yaz was one of my older brother's favorites and everything he liked was cool to me. Listened to this so many times on LP and cassette that hearing In My Rooms automatically cues up Only You, the next track on the album, in my head. Great sequencing on those Yaz albums.

Looking back I could probably say the same (about silent film). And I remember it being a really big deal at the time, at least in my two biggest media outlets: MTV and Starlog magazine.

Leopold? Leopold? LEOPOLD!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Great write-up. The part about familiar network TV faces showing up reminds me of the later seasons of Boston Legal, which became a haven for aging stars, most of whom (Bergen, Larroquette, Selleck, etc.) really made the most of the opportunity and did great work.

On reflection you're right, of course. "Bone" is at least amusing. "Think" is insufferable, if still catchy. The podcast is Crap From the Past. Recent shows are streamable from KFAI.org and there's a vast archive at crapfromthepast.com.

Yes they do. I listen to a radio show/podcast out of Minneapolis that's devoted to obscure music and plays both of those maybe once a year.

They're maybe topped by "Put the Bone In," the flip side to Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun." Supposedly created deliberately as terrible as possible to prevent DJs from flipping…

Correction: Just so you will know and, someday, your children will know:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Ah, that was nice to revisit. Almost didn't get to see the movie because of that sequence. Grandma wasn't sure what sort of movie she'd brought us to and seriously considered making us all walk out.

Seconded. Every time they mention Grodd on The Flash I get so giddy. Trying to explain it to my wife is half the fun.

"Well, there's this secret city of super-intelligent gorillas in Africa…"

Wait, the old one wasn't for adults? What was I doing watching it late at night, sleep-deprived, drunk, and depressed in my late twenties then?

I'm not superstitious but that was my first thought too.

Your music is bad and you should feel bad.

Heinlein's Red Planet got loosely adapted as a cartoon miniseries on Fox in 1994.

Tunnel in the Sky seems like a no-brainer in today's YA-dominated marketplace.

Of course, it's also the reason I constantly annoyed my wife during the run of Lost by shouting, "You have to write a constitution!" at least once an episode.

A little voice inside my head said:

"Don't look back, you can never look back."

Ah, but then we get into the boots vs. ballet slippers debate.

The best part of that costume, to me, was the decision to shrink the S-shield down and move it to the side. Works so much better with a female character.