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Buzz buzz!
The was one of the earliest bossa novas to surface in North America.
Norman Gimble did the English lyric for the popular Roberto Menescal-Ronaldo Bôscoli Brazilian tune Stan Getz grabbed for an early album.
And launched Astrud Gilberto's career.
The University of Surrey cyber-security expert is talking about his new satellite broadband service from space entrepreneur Elon Musk's Starlink company.
The outages, he thinks, may be caused by a lot of "pesky pigeons", which "have taken a fancy to sitting on the dish".
That small grey dish sits on the kitchen roof. To the curious pigeon, it might conceivably look like a modern bird bath rather short on water.
Said you'd be at their wedding, but no-showed?
Here's your bill, sucker.
Is this the start of a new trend?
See the hilarious reactions to the idea at...
"I’ve never been one for politics and i’m not going to start now.
What I will say is that my beautiful, intelligent, beat-to-the-sound of his own drum, annoying, charming baby brother was killed yesterday helping to save lives.
he was a fucking medic.
there to help people.
and now he is gone and my family will never be the same."
--Marilyn Soviak Instagram post, sister of Maxton Soviak, US Navy corpsman at Kabul airport
"Yes indeed, these are trying times..."
Watercolors--SiriusXM's jazz-y channel 66--has been playing the hell out of this tune all week.
Leo Sidran recorded his bouncy ear-worm more than a year ago, during the height of co-vid madness.
But this week, a little up-lift goes a long way.
Yes, Leo is jazz vocalist Ben Sidran's kid.
Leo's a drummer. God loves drummers.
"It's a long, long night til the stars align..."
Click it above.
I bet you click it again...
Leo's done five albums without a "click."
Click.
If you have never danced the Grizzly Bear, you're not much of a dancer.
Yes. This exists.
The Big Yin will be 79 in November.
Yes, you old kids!
It's Reddy Kilowatt, the singing, lightning-bolt hydro hero of your nightmares.
Bad spellers can't spell kilowatt without kill.
One zap and you die.
Show this to a grandkid and poison their dreams.
Clue: Not the new Jeopardy host.
Answer: Who is Mike Richards.
Sony cancelled tapings of Jeopardy, and said the search is on--again--for a new host to replace Alex Trebek.
Richards' comments from seven years ago prompted viewer backlash and the production company pulled the plug on its announced pick.
Richards will remain in his off-camera job as exec producer. So crude comments about women and Jews are enough to lose a host job, but not management? Hmm. We shall see.
Full details of how the new host got spiked at...
"This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you love it for its crazy, feverish charm..."
--Roger Ebert
Don't Box Me In--the main theme from Rumblefish--has been knocking around in my head for decades.
It's the lyric about the goldfish.
In a jar. At the end of the bar.
The song clip above captures some of the flick's premium teen gang moments. Matt Dillon, Nic Cage, Dennis Hopper, Larry Fishburne and Mickey Rourke as "Motorcycle Boy."
Francis Ford Coppola. Say no more.
It was an angst film. It was an art film.
It seems to be nowhere on streaming services, tho it was on U.S. Netflix.
Copeland's percussive soundtrack, and his ear-worm song stalk the decades.
Every kid has been that goldfish.
Every old kid knows about the chilly moment bartender Tom Waits voices. "I've got 35 summers left. Just 35 summers."
What day did you start the count?
Many clips on YouTube. The fight scene is here...
And the goldfish lyric is below...
You walk I'll run And follow right behind you
You call I'll come And I won't remember where I come from
Over there At the end of the bar This fish keeps swimming In a jar
I feel A tug on the line Which end Will I be on this time?
Don't box me in Don't box me in
One day I'll show them Just what I'm made of
There'll be A time When I won't remember what I was afraid of
And I'll be swimming In the sea
No banging on this glass For me
My eyes saw red When my world turned blue
So I'm leaving Everything that's true
And I'll jump into A brand new skin
And then you won't be able To box me in
Don't box me in Don't box me in Don't box me in Let go!
There's a few places 'round That I've never been
There's an ocean out there That I gotta swim
There's a river that flows Right past my door I wonder... I wonder... What?!
And if sometimes I can't seem to talk
You'll know this blackboard lacks A piece of chalk
Don't box me in I told you not to Don't box me in
Don't box me in
Don't box me in
Let go!
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"There's a world unknown to daytime
That's forever goin' on...
The airwaves of our nation
Between midnight and the dawn..."
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