This week: Back for Christmas starring Peter Lorre on Suspense. Playlist Intro Alleee1 Back for Christmas 1 Tex Beneke * Sleigh Ride Back for Christmas 2 Peter Wood Singers and Orchestra * Winter Wonderland Ferrante and Teicher * Good King Wenceslaus Back for Christmas 3 The Glad Singers * Good King Wenceslaus Big Tiny Little * When Santa Claus Does the Polka Back for Christmas 4 Guy Lombardo Trio...
Here are a few tasty nuggets fresh from the Hot Stove: Adrian Gonzalez might be off of the table according to Buster Olney: Spoke with an executive who was told flat-out: Adrian Gonzalez is not available. Timing isn't right; that might change before July 31, 2010. The Red Sox are looking at Justin Duchscherer according to Fox Sports: The Red Sox are interested in Duchscherer as a starting pitcher,...
Last Sunday at The Ear Inn, November 22, 2009, the compact, eloquent quartet — The Ear Regulars or the Earregulars, depending on what region you come from — performed two lovely Ralph Rainger ballads, PLEASE and WITH EVERY BREATH I TAKE. (In case you are new to this scene, The Ear Inn is at 326 [...]
Billy … But if I may ask a question regarding your languages: What is happening when you have to translate my works into them? Ptaah Our main language leads back to the old Arjn language, from which on Earth the old German languages have come forth, and from which the German in use today developed, through which everything can be expressed just as precisely as in our language. We can, therefore,...
It has been rumored that Tigers mainstays Curtis Granderson, Edwin Jackson and Gerald Laird are on the trading block. That may be. But Dayn Perry of Fox Sports has a different idea of what the Tigers need. In a piece labeled "10 offseason moves that need to happen" he writes: "You can make a compelling case that the Tigers haven't had a consistent shutdown closer since '84...
Billy Mays may be gone, but the spirit of salesmanship lives on. For instance, just take a look at Glen "Amazin Blaze" David Thornton of Heatin’ ana Beatin’ Welding Service. By the end of this short video clip, I was so ready to fork over my wallet to buy whatever it is he’s sellin’: Link [embedded [...]
So apparently it is the law that you can't go to IKEA without buying tealights and napkins (see yesterday's comments). Well, I may be incriminating myself here, but we didn't buy either of those. In the interests of full disclosure, this is what we came home with: * A steel vegetable dish with a ceramic lid * Four white pasta bowls * A washing-up brush * A sieve * The famous salad spinner * A shower...
MTV sometimes doesn’t know when they have a good thing going. Case in point, BOILING POINTS . BOILING POINTS was a CANDID CAMERA like TV series that aired on and off in the mid 2000’s. Yet, MTV aired it at such erratic times, with little promotion that it is no wonder it never really caught on and has disappeared. It stands as one of the funniest shows ever to air on the network, or even...
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This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 4 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great biographies of important artists. Daws Butler and Stan Freberg accept the Grammy Award for "St. George and the Dragon-net". Archive supporter, Rich Borowy has been contributing some wonderful material to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Here's another...
erome Brown shows us another handset design, after the great iPhone Slim and Sony Ericsson Walkman concept, but this time we’re dealing with a future BlackBerry. Dubbbed BlackBerry Blackout, the handset keeps the shape and design of a RIM product, but it also comes with advanced features, like an 8 megapixel camera with 2x optical [...] Related posts: Mozilla Concept Phone Uses BlackBerry 7130...
Watching Mick Jagger face off with Bono and Bruce Springsteen backing up Billy Joel may have given fans at the two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concerts a thrill, but the musicians onstage got a jolt from their all-star team-ups, too. Case in point: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, who gushed to Rolling Stone [...]
Beijing is fascinating with its contradictions. A Chinese speaker at the conference, Zu Dake, stated that China is torn between two value systems: the authoritarianism of the pre-reform Communist China and the commercialism of contemporary China. This was made most...
I see dead people ... Best of the Web mentions this South Park park episode today ... (Billy May's clip above) “ Life Imitates 'South Park' * "The spirit of Michael Jackson plays with Ike, while the rest of the dead wait in purgatory."--episode description, "Dead Celebrities," aired Oct. 7 * "Michael Jackson Talks to His Macaw From Beyond the Grave Says Sister La Toya--Exclusive"--headline,...
So Billy May's kid (Billy Mays III) has decided to hold a Halloween costume contest in "honor" of his dad. Billy Mays III, who recently launched a Web site called Where's Billy Mays? to honor his father's legacy, has even decided to hold a Hallow-clean Contest in which he's asking people to send in photos of themselves dressed as his dad for Halloween. He'll select three winners to receive...
Last Sunday, I again saw a procession of hearses in Cavite. I concluded that one of my closest friends probably, and yet again, passed this world into the next. My fears were validated. Yesterday, I heard the news of the passing of Colonel Billy Bibit. If you google his name, there are some online entries about him. I was looking for his photo and not one showed up. Yet, two decades ago, his photos...
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