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http://www.37signals.com/svn/images/album_covers_lg.jpg Love it. I spent three years working in Toronto’s best record store, and could probably draw our entire budget rack (heavy on J.Geils and Tom Waits) from memory.

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Typesetting and paste-up, 1970

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/woverbeck/dtr5.htm The process of creating a newspaper page, circa 1970. Digital natives will probably assume this is some kind of Look Around You-type spoof. It’s amazing to think that, will all the man hours modernization has freed up, the result is more and more stories about Britney Spears.

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Seven Great Talk-Show Trainwrecks – The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-13/seven-great-talk-show-trainwrecks/2/ Norman Mailer jousts with Gore Vidal, Dick Cavett, and a shamefully unnamed tough broad disguised as a lady (complete with elbow-length gloves). A reminder that late night talk shows used to be capable of intellectual discussion, witty repartee, and keeping an audience’s interest for both. Ironically, the clip below (unwatched by me, but I […]

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24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot – CollegeHumor video

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161 In the high-speed, full-content world, we quickly forget what those early Internet days were like. This reminded me, and had me howling as well: “Dammit, George, you picked up while I was doing the Internet!”

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The Evolution Of Alex Trebek | TV | The A.V. Club Blog | The A.V. Club

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-evolution-of-alex-trebek,22212/ The early ’80s were something of a shaky time for Trebek, career-wise. While suffering through Battlestars, he was also hosting the syndicated Pitfall back in Canada, and trying unsuccessfully to liven up one of a wave of gimmicky game shows that emerged around that time (weighed down by elaborate sets and complicated game-play). The […]

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http://junkii.vox.com/library/post/qotd-best-christmas-present-ever.html From childhood ’til now… What’s the best Christmas present you’ve ever received? It’s not an easy question to answer, but one that definitely stands out was the year I got the Star Wars Imperial Walker – also known as an AT-AT – originally seen in The Empire Strikes Back. Ultimately, the toy proved to […]

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Film – Disney Prepares to Use Its Marketing Magic to Bring Back the Muppets – NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/movies/21barn.html?pagewanted=all “Disney Prepares to Use its Marketing Magic to Bring Back the Muppets”? Erin Prepares to Have Her Childhood Nostalgia Eroded by Overexposed Muppet Crap. First George Lucas goes and vaporises my love for Star Wars, now this? Somebody find me a balcony. Now Disney is giving it another go by revving up the full […]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_en_mu/music_donovan_1 At a festival question-and-answer session, Donovan told how George Harrison suffered stiff knees while learning the sitar. He even sang an unrecorded verse of “Hurdy Gurdy Man” written by his old Beatle chum. He talked about leaving a private audience with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as the Grateful Dead were walking in and how […]

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The Plug – The Writings On The Cake

http://theplug.net/30/cakewriting.htm This reminds me of my old University common room, which offered delicious muffins topped with little decorated tags revealing their flavours. Standards were “chocolate chip”, “M&Ms”, and “non-salmonella-causing kiwi/apple”. Sometime in my third year, a mysterious “salmonella-causing kiwi/apple” appeared for a day. As it was exam-time, I didn’t venture to try it. (For all […]

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MST3K – Last Clear Chance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naix-f6KSIg I made mention of MST3K in an earlier post, and Frannyy, being an Englishman with, no doubt, higher concepts of comedy, asked me what it was. The show is a simple set-up of three guys watching terrible movies and throwing out one-liners, and it’s hard to explain its appeal. But my friends and I […]

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