P-Funk. Uncut Funk. The Bomb.
The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership First, there comes the Brides, followed by stretchin' out with Casper the Holy Ghost and some Horny Horns. Next, with people standing on the verge,...
View ArticleSpots Before Your Eyes
Spots Before Your Eyes, an award-winning series of animated shorts promoting tolerance and human relations, produced in the 1950s by the American Jewish Committee (at AJC Archives)
View ArticleTally Ho and Chocks Away!
Top-hole! It's the First International Talk Like A Pilot Day!
View Article"When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away'"
Charles Nelson Reilly (1931-2007)If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that...
View ArticleMy Crazy Roommate
At the beginning of this year, the new guy at work needed a place to live. I ended up letting him sublet one of the rooms in my house. After only a couple of days it became obvious that he is totally...
View ArticleTo Boldly Go Where No Batman Has Gone Before
Star Trek vs. BatmanChristopher Allen brings two icons of Sixties television together in a three-part, 51-minute epic adventure. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 at Google Video. MPEG downloads and audio...
View ArticleHarlem-13-Gigapixels
On a summer afternoon in 2006, New York photographer Gerard Maynard captured his neighborhood from a rooftop at 7th Avenue and 110th Street. The resulting 2,045 photographs, stitched together,...
View ArticleHollywood Chinese
(official site w/Flash)FilmmakerArthur Dong covers the good(YT), the bad and the players(link to Flash video clips) in his latest award-winning documentary. Related MeFi post.
View ArticleJack Sheldon...Oh Yes!
Who is Jack Sheldon? You may remember him as Merv Griffin's comedic trumpet-wielding sidekick, or the indelible voice on SchoolHouseRock (etc.), but musicians know him as a jazz giant. Unlike his close...
View ArticleShe was a woman, she could sing the blues
more than once said she hoped that when she died, it would be on stage(YT), doing the thing she loved most: Singing the blues(YT)...
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