Category Entertainment
Monday’s Words of Wisdom
I’m typing this on Sunday night at the end of a busy weekend. I have half a dozen posts that are ready to go, but none of them feel quite right for a Monday morning. Or maybe it is just that I don’t feel like reading them over to make sure they make sense sometimes […]
Jerusalem Dragnet
As a radio guy I have a great appreciation for the traditions of the medium. I missed the golden age of radio drama. By the time I was born television, though still in its infancy, was beginning to take off. Pictures were replacing the aural landscape that dominated North American entertainment for three decades. Some […]
From Background Vocalist to Superstar
Shania Twain has announced the dates for her farewell tour. Seems strange to call it quits at 50, but I know touring is rarely as much fun for the musician as it is for the audience. I must confess I’ve never seen her show. It’s not that I dislike her music, but I’ve never been […]
20 Feet From Stardom
I missed that the 2014 Academy Award for best documentary film went to a movie about background vocalists in pop music titled 20 Feet From Stardom. But I made up for that recently and watched the film, attracted to it because I recognized the names of the stars. I am an voracious reader. If it’s […]
Ode To Joy
I was planning on taking the day off from posting, then came across this video. If you are receiving this by email you’ll have to go to the actual post for it to work. The bank that sponsored this has benefited from the publicity – more than 61 million views on YouTube. I don’t mind […]
Beatles III – My Beatle Encounter
I met a Beatle once. It was the late 1990s and Pete Best, the band’s drummer from 1960-62, was touring Canada fronting the Pete Best Band. He had retired after a career as a British civil servant and was just playing for fun, and really what amounted to spare change. I think the tickets were […]
Beatles II – Concert Memories
I never saw The Beatles in concert. I blame my parents for that. It was 1964 and they were playing at the Forum in Montreal. All my friends wanted to go. My parents, like most other parents of the day, said no. I think the only person I knew who actually made it to the […]
Beatles I – 10,000 Hours in Hamburg
Sometimes stories take on a life of their own. Author Malcom Gladwell, in his book Outliers, makes a point about the importance of repetition, the idea that practice makes perfect, which is something I agree with him about for the most part. He says if you practice something for 10,000 hours you will become really […]
Live Long and Prosper
Leonard Nimoy died yesterday, at age 83, felled by tobacco even though he quit smoking 30 years ago. Star Trek’s Mr. Spock is dead, for good this time – unlike in the movies. Although I never met Leonard Nimoy, I did meet James Doohan, one of his co-stars in the original Star Trek series. In […]
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