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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Affärs- och Kapitalnytt reports that the Scanian bank Sparbanken Syd has given an $8300 grant (SEK 50,000) for archaeological fieldwork and research: "a first instalment for excavations" at a cemetery in Ravlunda parish. Well done! Unfortunately, the bank has chosen to give the money to our old friend Bob Lind, a homeopath and amateur archaeoastronomer with really wigged-out ideas. Bob has neither...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Amateur archaeologist Bob Lind, whom I have often mentioned here in connection with his wild archaeoastronomical ideas, issued me a challenge today (and I translate): Hello Martin! I saw a statement of yours in yesterday's Sydsvenska Dagbladet , where you encourage researchers to blog more, which you have certainly done yourself both regarding Ale's stones and Heimdallr's stones. And what rot it all...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Local newspaper Skånskan recently published a highly credulous account of amateur archaeologist Bob Lind's outlandish interpretations of an Early Iron Age cemetery in Ravlunda parish. I wrote them to complain, and staff writer Karsten Bringmark asked me for a statement. Which made it onto the paper's web site , and possibly into print as well? Read the comments on this post...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Yesterday I did 5.5 more man-hours of metal detecting at the "Hall of Odin" site in Västmanland with Per Vikstrand. No prehistoric finds: just a piece of a 15/16/17th century brass cooking pot. Bob Lind's craziness is once more repeated uncritically by a local Scanian newspaper. I had a nice chat with the panel of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast this morning. At 9 pm EST, i.e. 3 am local...
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Boring Like A Drill (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
At last, Magic 693 1278 has posted its final tally of the 500 Best Songs of All Time , as voted for by Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006, You . The complete list can be downloaded in a convenient Microsoft Excel workbook. Before doing so, take a little test and see if you can correctly rank the following ten songs on the list, from highest to lowest: Bob Lind, "Elusive Butterfly" Sue Thompson,...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
As chronicled here in many entries over the past months, computer consultant, New Age author and homeopath Bob G. Lind har carved out his own niche in Swedish amateur archaeology with controversial interpretations of Scanian archaeological sites Ales stenar and Höga stenar . Another Bob Lind is a famous US folk singer . Yet now I've learned that Bob G. Lind is a singer and a song-writer too! My Malmö...
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historymike (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
We all have a song or two (or twelve) that make us cringe, or dive to change the station before we are subjected to aural torture. With this thought in mind, I have assembled some of what I believe to be the worst-ever moments in pop music. Feel free to chime in with a comment about your least favorite pop songs, or to offer a vehement defense in favor of a maligned song. "Honey," Bobby Goldsboro -...
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kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
As Hollywood inches closer to an end to the writers' strike, I hear that a new cable series may be in the works based on the unlucky-in-love queer protagonist of writer Arthur Wooten 's "On Picking Fruit" and its just-released sequel, "Fruit Cocktail." The novels follow the trials and tribulations of Curtis Jenkins, described by reviewer Bob Lind as "a successful middle-aged writer in New York City,...
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Neanderpundit (Free subscription) | 12/15/2007
Stumbled onto a song I haven't heard in ages- “Elusive butterlfy” by Bob Lind. If you've been bad, you might deserve to have this stuck in your head for a few hours. Anyway, it struck me, that though this was sappy and annoying in the 60’s, today it's sappy, annoying and illegal. Consider: You might wake [...]
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 12/08/2007
Bob Lind chalking some apparently quite genuine cupmarks, a ubiquitous type of Bronze Age rock art. Alternative archaeoastronomer Bob Lind (note that I do not call him an unhinged man with crackpot theories) felt himself vindicated this past summer by the Swedish Heritage Board. On a set of new visitors' signs , the Board didn't actually endorse Lind's alternative interpretation of the stone ship...
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lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
I played with Bob Lind last month which was a real honor. I grew up with my dad playing his records such as ‘Elusive Butterfly’ and ‘Truly Julies Blue’ He is a lovely bloke and his new songs are better than the ones he had hits with in the 60s. [see also Christopher Denny] Share this | Email [...]
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Rifftides (Free subscription) | 09/19/2007
Finally, there is a Carmen McRae web site. It's creators call it a tribute site....
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Tom McMahon (Free subscription) | 08/28/2007
Bob Lind: From The Bright Elusive Butterfly Of Love To Writer For The Weekly World News You might wake up some mornin'To the sound of something moving past your window in the windAnd if you're quick enough to riseYou'll catch...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 08/27/2007
I was contemplating the unplanned obsolescence factor built into pop music stardom. Some artists are lucky enough to score enough hits, or a big enough single hit, to be able to fashion a lifelong career touring on past glories or...
