Friday Ephemeraren’t
Yes, a chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with the power of gift bags; a girl who’s got volume; cows and VR, together at last; and a great question of our time: Snake and Tetris – can you play them simultaneously?
Oh, and a perfect illustration of how to be cool about it.
I remember most of the music in my life came through the speakers of car and transistor radios.
I listened to music late into the night for a couple of years on my crystal radio set when I was 10 or 11. I could only listen in bed because its metal frame served as my attenna. Now that was bad sound.
Det. Sgt. Mulready with the facts
The radio station was 1050 CHUM AM. Here’s a “CHUM Chart” from April 1970:
Imagine the Beatles, Johnny Cash, CSN&Y, Neil Diamond, Bobby Shermann, the Supremes, Chicago, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Van Morrison and Simon Garfunkle all on the same chart. Certainly explains why the playlists on my iPod are so eclectic.
I find all this talk about MP3s and lossy and bitrates amusing when I remember most of the music in my life came through the speakers of car and transistor radios.
Through the 80s and 90s I had a fairly decent stereo. However, I listened largely to punk, hardcore, new wave, alternative, industrial and garage bands, which mostly they weren’t even recorded in anything like decent quality. I used to laugh at hardcore punk fans with very expensive stereos.
While I still listen to a lot of the old stuff, I generally listen to various sub-genres of electronica. That I can’t hear the full audio range of an electronically generated “beeb” is of very little interest to me.
I also listen to a bit of ambient. Many of those tracks add hiss and crackle e.g Boards of Canada.
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
Front page local paper 1971. Gold lame with dark blue satin hot pants underneath. White gogo boots.
Giggity-goo!
Alas, I would have been 12 and over a thousand miles at the time of the photo.
Sigh.
If I had written this…
Alas, I would have been 12 and over a thousand miles away at the time of the photo.
…my comment would have made some sort of sense.
Because there aren’t enough stupid things, competitive vaping.
On a recent long-haul flight I read a history of MTV called, naturally, I Want My MTV. I don’t recommend this book, but I did use the bookmark feature of my Kindle so I could look up videos that were described as “groundbreaking” or otherwise exceptional on Youtube when I got home.
Worth a look is “Take on me” by Ah-ha (wonderful rotoscoping), but the best clip of all was “Kiss” by Prince (featuring Wendy).
Something to do if you have time on your hands.
Morning, all.
[ Admires shockingly tidy closet. ]
And here I thought ‘Click’ was an internet stage name…
[Arousal intensifies]
[Arousal intensifies]
[ Sprays PiperPaul with hamster urine. Fetches bag of weasels. ]
Worth a look is “Take on me” by Ah-ha (wonderful rotoscoping), but the best clip of all was “Kiss” by Prince (featuring Wendy).
I assume this isn’t the video for “Kiss”?
Front page local paper 1971.
WooHoo…Surcharge on it’s way.
…dune buggy show…
Of course.
WooHoo…Surcharge on its way.
Bless you, sir. When halfway through preparing a meal, may you never be faced with the realisation that you have every necessary ingredient except for the one that you almost always have in, in abundance, and therefore didn’t bother to check.
[ Reaches for hamster-urine spray bottle. ]
So you’re saying hamster urine is the necessary ingredient in all your meals?
Canada tells Sweden, “Hold my Labatt…” as they trot out a 12 year old climate expert.
California’s Governor Noisome is reported to be seeking a six year old expert saying to the visibly distressed state assembly, “Gentlebeings of all genders, we cannot afford a pre-adolescent climate hysteric gap”.
12 year old Ben Pickles…He… is a community leader
I think I see the problem here.
“Many of those tracks add hiss and crackle”
Given that vinyl has to be mastered differently, I often wonder if those acts bother to include the artificial degradation when they do an analogue release.
“Alas, I would have been 12 and over a thousand miles away at the time of the photo.”
I’d have been about six months old. But yeah… pretty high on the Lynda Scale there, Darleen. 🙂
“He exhibits a strong social conscience and is a community leader.”
I blame the parents.
Laura has a sad.
So does this clown.
“…was there any need to kill the man?” Surely they could have shot him in the hand. Or used the Vulcan Nerve Pinch.
I demand that Friday ephemera(ren’t) be re-designated ‘photos of Darleen from the 1970s’!!!!
pretty high on the Lynda Scale there, Darleen. 🙂
I demand that Friday ephemera(ren’t) be re-designated ‘photos of Darleen from the 1970s’!!!!
I wonder if the local pet shop will sell me hamster urine in bulk.
Your florid description of intensive cleaning is what’s to blame for all the hot-and-bothered denizens, dear host, myself included.
Cast not the first weasel, or somesuch.
Front page local paper 1971.
Why do photographers always put the hot girl in the middle?
Mmm.. 70s Satin Hot Pants.
My HS girlfriend wore a pair of scarlet satin Hot Pants under her graduation robes. Yow!
Unfortunately she had dropped me by then, and given she had a pair of, uhm, difficult Sicilian brothers, I refrained from persisting.
(Autoscrewup really really wants to write “Not Pants”.)
And MP3s are both lossy and retain even less audio range than CDs.
I’ll get around to this sooner or later.
I wonder if the local pet shop will sell me hamster urine in bulk.
Maybe I should open a competing establishment next door, and decorate the walls with Darleen photos.
3D illusion art of note.
Maybe I should open a competing establishment next door,
The massage parlour is closing down?
Guardian CEO is a sex pest.
https://order-order.com/2019/11/29/guardians-ceo-sex-pest/
Guardian CEO is a sex pest.
I’m surprised he didn’t quote Karl Marx: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…and I’ve got needs baby”
And speaking of sex pests…
I wonder whether the Pemsel fellow from the Guardian is now going to take the next logical step, claim to be a woman in a man’s body, and accuse the woman of a hate crime for turning him down?
“3D illusion art of note.”
Just to further dehydrate the hamsters, #36. Yowza. That’s about 0.95 Lyndas right there.
Ear Worm
I wonder if the local pet shop will sell me hamster urine in bulk.
Contagious urine shipment leads to evacuation of Washington State movie theater.
Contagious urine shipment leads to evacuation of Washington State movie theater.
My lawyers have advised me to make no comment at this time.
So this is what eating camel hump fat can lead to.
Regrooving in the latest Scold-O-Mat.
Regrooving in the latest Scold-O-Mat.
At first glance, I thought it was a chinese Dahlek.
After watching, I thought, this is what an interview under advisement will soon look like for using the wrong pronoun with a “Trans Person.”
The County of Brant will…
*cough*meth town*cough*
…what?