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Tuesday review: Tangled Tangled (I) (2010) PG 100 min The long-suffering wife and I were all tucked in, her on the couch with her blankie, me on my recliner nearly nodding on Christmas day afternoon. We had watched all the … Continue reading →

My Blackberry Curve 3G takes the WORST photos ever: Unless you hold the camera perfectly still and the subject is also motionless that is what you get. Louis Jacques Mande DAGUERRE (1787-1851) developed the The Daguerreotype Process. His photos are … Continue reading →

Sunday Wrap 12/19/11-12/24/11 Monday 12/19/11 Blog Post More about the protests-Trouble coming every day-including the Frank Zappa tune. Tuesday 12/20/11 Blog Post Don’t touch that dial…Best and worst TV ads of 2011 Wednesday 12/21/11 Blog Post A possible projection of … Continue reading →

Some of the stuff on my Christmas music playlist: in no particular order: The Waitresses. As my radio blog “Radio DaZe” unfolds there will be a Waitresses story. Bob “Humbug” Geldof told Australia’s The Daily Telegraph in a 2010 interview: … Continue reading →

Saturday Aggregate: SO more than ready for Christmas and this year to be over with. Really. Put a fork in it. It is done. – Having said that…I am ready for feasting. This will be a stupendous, over the top, … Continue reading →

This is just wrong. Not because it’s not the right of any American to say what they want, where they want. It’s because if you infringe on the rights of others to say what they want, then it’s wrong. This … Continue reading →

Captain Beefheart was (is) an acquired taste. Working for Frank Zappa must have been a trip in and of itself. Frank “discovered” Captain Beefheart, Wild Man Fischer, and Alice Cooper with mixed results. I have no clue what this new … Continue reading →

Tears in the batter… My Aunt Mary and Uncle Haven always seemed sort of different to me. At least to me they were when compared to my parents. Uncle Haven loved beer and made no apologies for it, yet never … Continue reading →

Radio DaZe: WACKY 102 and the porno bust: Don Wilkes and Mike Schwartz, the owners of WACKY 102 were salesmen first and foremost. They would sell ice cubes to the Eskimos, talk a dog off a meat wagon and had … Continue reading →

Ralph MacDonald, a Grammy Award -winning percussionist and composer whose understated Afro-Caribbean rhythms were known as “the ghost” behind the hit records of a multitude of 1970s and ’80s pop stars and who was a co-writer on the hit songs … Continue reading →