The birthday boy is wide awake!Oh, gorsch! (blushes)
Mr Dale: Miss ONJ and friends will be on their way in the morning - hidden track on there 2.
Notes amended.
As a teenager I also listened to Dr. Demento for a while.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWW!!
HERE'S A BIRTHDAY DANCE FOR YOU....
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What I am sick of is oldies radio stations. Philly has a ton of them. There's supposedly no market for a 24/7 classical station, but each week it seems there is a new one playing the hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Gaaagh!
I think der B. wants to take advantage of my having the day off tomorrow...uh, today. (And I just bought him a new broom he's been asking for!)
Dr. Demento fans are very welcome - I need the company :D
der demented Brucer
When I was in my early teens, I remember listening almost every day to CBS Mystery Theatre and the Bob & Ray Show on WOR from NYC.
I am waiting for men in boots (but not tights) to come and work on my air conditioning system.
Push, push, push
During the summer of 1949 Lowell, and his son, decided to make a trip across the Himalayas to Liasa, the little-known capital of Inner Tibet, to meet the Dali Llama, the Living Buddha. Loaded down with supplies the expedition began on July 31 and in Tibet Lowell made the first radio broadcast ever, with battery equipment. Then disaster hit with Lowell taking a fall from a horse that caused him to break the bones in his hip. At 17,000 feet he was in bad shape without any aid, only his son and he had to get back to civilization. Which he did and he continued broadcasting.
Around the end of 1949, the American Lowell Thomas roamed Tibet in the guise of a "radio commentator" to explore the "possibility of aid that Washington could give Tibet."
In the 1950s the movie industry was facing a tough foe called television. Among the gimmicks that the movie industry put forward was Cinerama that Lowell had a part in. Since it had been through motion pictures that Lowell had gotten his start, film was a logical place to be. However, it wasn't to be and he sold his share of Cinerama to Mike Todd who went forward with Todd/AO. Toward the end of 1954, he bought some television stations that turn out to be a good bet and this would evolve into Capital Cities Communications
A Panni Frenzy? (A Panzy)
- whose owner (or "guardian," according to PC terminology) .
"Gee, Dad! It's A Wurlitzer!"
I am amazed, simply amazed, that none of the dear readers out there with a penchant for double and triple entendres have used the title of today's notes for any wordplay.
Bless you all for showing some restraint! (Though I am always up for innuendo.)
Thanks, DR Panni, for posting the opening night pictures.
It was great to see Elmarie Wendel. She appeared in the first revue I ever saw - The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter. The last time I "saw" her was in a Seinfeld episode. She played Kramer's creepy LA landlady - a decrepit actress who hadn't worked in 50+ years. She looks much better in the What If pictures.
E Power Biggs never played a Wurlitzer ;)
der Brucer (half expecting Jay to pull out some obscure 78 of Biggs at Radio City Music Hall's Great Wurlitzer)
Great pics! But the mystery remains: who are "Jason" and "deMarco"?
Great pics! But the mystery remains: who are "Jason" and "deMarco"?
I was wondering the same thing.
If you combine their names, they sound like a soap opera character. Jason deMarco, now on All My Children (or Days of Our Lives, or Passions or One Life to Live or take your pick).
When folks doff duds, drivers brake on I-77 crossing Lake Norman
ERICA BESHEARS
Staff Writer
Lake Norman boaters gathered near Interstate 77 have found a way to stop traffic: baring all.
"They get right up to that riprap, and they take their clothes off," Iredell County sheriff's Deputy Phil Jones told the Lake Norman Marine Commission this week.
Boaters -- nude ones and those wearing bathing suits -- have attracted the attention of drivers in recent weeks, at times halting traffic at the causeway between Iredell and Mecklenburg counties and sparking complaints, Jones said.
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Marine commissioner Mark Lancaster of Iredell County confirmed Jones' report. He said he was in the area setting up for the July 31 Lake Norman Raft-Up, when he heard the honking of tractor-trailers and saw stopped traffic. Then he saw three naked women in a boat near the causeway.
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But marine commissioners and law enforcement said the traffic problem wasn't limited to the Raft-Up or naked people. Drivers reported a southbound traffic jam Sunday caused by drivers watching boaters on the lake.
"I've seen traffic jams looking at the sunset," Reece said.
Is the CBC running the Olympics all day?
Panni's Repairman take a quick dip before work:
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(Troy Dumais, foreground, and Justin Dumais compete in the men's 3-meter synchro diving event at the 2004 American Cup diving championship.)
Which just goes to show you, a determined invader can outwit any number of security officers and safeguards.
Wish I could get away with a simple jig-for-the-day.Fat chance, since we never go to that kind of place!
I must comtemplate the Birthday Dinner.
Hmmm....Mickey D's, Pizza Hut, or splurge on Applebee's?
der Brucer
I love the pics, DR DerB. Nothing is as terrific as the unrequited love of a dog, or four. (except possibly a toddler's hand disappearing into your own palm....) I only learned this late(r) in life.Der Brucer and I switched to two beds some time ago. I toss and turn too much for him.
Now, do the 4 of them, and the two of you, all repose in that (apparently) full-sized bed? Surely that must make for some interesting snuggling!
E Power Biggs never played a Wurlitzer ;)No, E. Power Biggs played some of the greatest organs in the world! He knew how to get a great fanfare out of some of those pipes!
der Brucer (half expecting Jay to pull out some obscure 78 of Biggs at Radio City Music Hall's Great Wurlitzer)
I toss and turn too much for him.
Panni's Repairman take a quick dip before work:Oops! They forgot their boots!
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/134201/0_21_diving_siblings.jpg)
(Troy Dumais, foreground, and Justin Dumais compete in the men's 3-meter synchro diving event at the 2004 American Cup diving championship.)
I am amazed, simply amazed, that none of the dear readers out there with a penchant for double and triple entendres have used the title of today's notes for any wordplay.
WBAI in NYC used to have a terrific show music show (I think it was called "Anything Goes") hosted by Paul Lazarus, who also served as musical director for a few Sondheim evenings, as well as many other things
I was once asked to sing Happy Birthday at an audition and to do it with the various emotions the director threw at me. ("you're angry... now you're sad... now you're drunk"...etc.). I got the part.
Was this for a role in a musical?
Not another Broom reference!
Did anyone read the story about the 3 year old boy who choked to death on popcorn at an R-Rasted movie with his parents? What the hell were his parents thinking taking him to an R-Rated movie in the first place, and were they so engrossed in the screen that they didn't realize their son was choking before it was too late? I'm sure this will be considered an accident, but in my mind the parents are totally at fault for putting their pleasure ahead of their child's welfare.
Shenanigans! Does anyone remember that game show for kids that used to be on Saturday mornings?
As for today's TOD, I haven't been a big radio person since my early childhood, when my father used to play tapes of "Mrs. Bush's Storytime" (a show he produced for ABC radio where the former first lady read children's stories) at bedtime every night. For some reason, her rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk really terrified me, and it's something I'll never forget. We almost always have ABC Radio playing somewhere in the house. My sister and I like to go to sleep listening to WQXR (the New York Times classical station), so for the past five or six years we've been listening to that.
The cable radio show is live at nine. Don't know if it's just LA or further, but it's called the Cable Radio Network and the host is Gregg Hunter. Maybe someone can figure out where to find it and post. We start at nine.
Dan TM - I downloaded it but can't get it to play. How did you do that?
I just clicked on the box on the right that says CRN 1 Linda Salvin's "Visions & Solutions" and another little web page pops up and the radio program begins to pley. But it's only working intermittently for me--it keeps breaking up and buffering.
BK gets to share the stage with a New Yorker with the author of a new book on Elvis Presley. A HEAVY book. Is that good?