Category Archives: Too good to miss

“Don’t lose your head….

Posted on 7 January, 2012 by jb

…to a woman that’ll spend your bread” Rod Stewart – “Every picture tells a story” Possibly the best rock song ever written. Probably not “possibly”

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Dalektrifying

Posted on 5 January, 2012 by jb

And then there’s this  

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Belting it out

Posted on 3 January, 2012 by jb

  Quote “I am the embarrassed angel in the middle with the gold tinsel halo. You can’t really miss my little sister with her humongous wings” Or voice…

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Willy DeVille is America’s loss

Posted on 2 January, 2012 by jb

Willy DeVille is America’s loss even if America doesn’t know it yet. The reason is simple: Like the very best rock and roll writers and performers in our history, he’s one of the very few who got it right; he … Continue reading →

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Pen. Nae pen.

Posted on 31 December, 2011 by jb

NSFW

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That’s the way

Posted on 29 December, 2011 by jb

Truly too good to miss Billy Preston, the 6th Beatle, at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 40 years later at the Concert for George. BIG BIG HT to @WillieWisely for triggering the brain cells

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The reindeer—that plague species

Posted on 28 December, 2011 by jb

The horrors of December in a one-party state. I used to harbor the quiet but fierce ambition to write just one definitive, annihilating anti-Christmas column and then find an editor sufficiently indulgent to run it every December. My model was … Continue reading →

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I beg your pardon…..

Posted on 27 December, 2011 by jb

Not to be confused with “Bobby Brown” [Listen] by Frank Zappa, of course. Or this. Historical footnote: A (German) company I once worked for did a major rebranding with a slogan “Thinking in new directions”, predictably pronounced  “Sinking in new … Continue reading →

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Christmas Story 1.0

Posted on 20 December, 2011 by jb

  HT VJ

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Happy Hannukah. Or Kwanzaa. Or whatever

Posted on 20 December, 2011 by jb

President Obama celebrated Hanukkah at the White House last night. He lit the menorah, and then Vice President Joe Biden came in, sang “Happy birthday”, and blew out all of the candles. HT Jay Leno

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