Then look here for everything from Lou Dobbs canned to Woody Allen exposed, plus "Super" tunes from The Beatles, Fountains of Wayne and Tom Petty. But what's with those Lady Gaga cookies?
Thanks for this blog, Greg. It's a real treat. And, way back in the day, Crawdaddy was my favorite. More so than Rolling Stone. Glad you're keeping the spirit alive.
I was at that incredible Super Bowl in which the Giants ruined the Patriots perfect season and saw Petty's great halftime performance standing next to Chris Berman of ESPN playing air guitar together. Unforgettable.
Greg - Any thoughts about that Rolling Stone link to the Led Zeppelin 4 hour concert at Earls Court in May 1975? I remember them constantly plastered on the covers of Creem, Crawdaddy and even Tiger Beat. But I came away after watching with the same opinion I had when I was 15. A bit self-indulgent, except for Bonzo.
Organic food for the QAnon Shaman- really? His attorney argued in court that he had lost 20 pounds in one week. Unless he was running back to back iron-man marathons in his jail cell this is a biological impossibility- and his attorney should have been called out on it. Let's label this one cruel and unusual Bull*&^%.
Lou Dobbs dismissal is surely just the beginning. I've wondered if Joey Ramone would have written a different Maria Bartoromo ,now, given her conspiracy ,rightwing, 45 ball lapping leanings
That Woody Allen documentary trailer from HBO is pretty cheesy. They seem to be giving it a full formulaic "true crime story" treatment that turned stale long ago. It feels like a parody.
I had no idea how "All Kinds of Time" could be a football song! I know nothing about football, anyway. So I did some research and found this piece written by Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne:
Adam Schlesinger wrote: "With the song “All Kinds of Time,” I had the title and the concept first. The title is a cliché used by football announcers when a quarterback is well protected. I thought it would be fun to take it literally, and see if I could write a song in which time actually seems to slow down during one tiny moment in a football game. It was admittedly sort of a hokey idea on paper, but I remembered a wistful Paul Simon baseball song called “Night Game,” which is not really about sports at all, and I strove for a bit of that feeling. I worked on the lyrics to my idea first, and then tried to set it to music that implied slow motion. When the N.F.L. later licensed this song for a spot featuring classic slow-motion footage of quarterbacks, I could not have been happier, because I felt like that idea must have come across."
Some years ago, attended a session on Wall Street reform featuring Lou Dobbs and then Congressman Barney Frank. It was a fascinating exchange, but Mr. Dobbs, astute as he is (was) on some business issues, was completely overwhelmed with Congressman Frank’s facts and historical data.
Presenting mostly high-level cliches, Mr. Dobbs was clear aware he was being humiliated, finally retreated to acknowledging good-points-Congressman-responses. He exited immediately when the event concluded. Congressman Frank stuck around for a while to chat with attendees.
Thanks for this blog, Greg. It's a real treat. And, way back in the day, Crawdaddy was my favorite. More so than Rolling Stone. Glad you're keeping the spirit alive.
I was at that incredible Super Bowl in which the Giants ruined the Patriots perfect season and saw Petty's great halftime performance standing next to Chris Berman of ESPN playing air guitar together. Unforgettable.
Greg - Any thoughts about that Rolling Stone link to the Led Zeppelin 4 hour concert at Earls Court in May 1975? I remember them constantly plastered on the covers of Creem, Crawdaddy and even Tiger Beat. But I came away after watching with the same opinion I had when I was 15. A bit self-indulgent, except for Bonzo.
Organic food for the QAnon Shaman- really? His attorney argued in court that he had lost 20 pounds in one week. Unless he was running back to back iron-man marathons in his jail cell this is a biological impossibility- and his attorney should have been called out on it. Let's label this one cruel and unusual Bull*&^%.
Lou Dobbs dismissal is surely just the beginning. I've wondered if Joey Ramone would have written a different Maria Bartoromo ,now, given her conspiracy ,rightwing, 45 ball lapping leanings
That Woody Allen documentary trailer from HBO is pretty cheesy. They seem to be giving it a full formulaic "true crime story" treatment that turned stale long ago. It feels like a parody.
I had no idea how "All Kinds of Time" could be a football song! I know nothing about football, anyway. So I did some research and found this piece written by Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne:
//opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/whats-the-story/
Adam Schlesinger wrote: "With the song “All Kinds of Time,” I had the title and the concept first. The title is a cliché used by football announcers when a quarterback is well protected. I thought it would be fun to take it literally, and see if I could write a song in which time actually seems to slow down during one tiny moment in a football game. It was admittedly sort of a hokey idea on paper, but I remembered a wistful Paul Simon baseball song called “Night Game,” which is not really about sports at all, and I strove for a bit of that feeling. I worked on the lyrics to my idea first, and then tried to set it to music that implied slow motion. When the N.F.L. later licensed this song for a spot featuring classic slow-motion footage of quarterbacks, I could not have been happier, because I felt like that idea must have come across."
I feel so enlightened!
Reading Campaign of the Century and love it. Lou Dobb’s dismissal is decades late.
Some years ago, attended a session on Wall Street reform featuring Lou Dobbs and then Congressman Barney Frank. It was a fascinating exchange, but Mr. Dobbs, astute as he is (was) on some business issues, was completely overwhelmed with Congressman Frank’s facts and historical data.
Presenting mostly high-level cliches, Mr. Dobbs was clear aware he was being humiliated, finally retreated to acknowledging good-points-Congressman-responses. He exited immediately when the event concluded. Congressman Frank stuck around for a while to chat with attendees.
Just an observation.