Have you experienced this yet? You pull up to refuel your car and just as soon as the gas pump is activated a small but loud TV built right into the pump comes on and begins assaulting you with frenetic inanity. The future is already…
OK, here is a purely hypothetical situation. After reading, please select the proper course of action. It's 1977 and you are fresh out of college, working as a general assignment reporter for $140 a week at a small daily newspaper. Let's call it The Arizona…
www.si.com This is the issue dated Jan. 24, 1977. Pretty modest, isn't it? I love the idea of someone coming up with "Zowie, it's Maui!" "What do you think, Phil?" "Sounds good. Let's go with it."
Happy birthday to Neil Diamond. He's 73. Have a favorite song? I'd have to go with "Cracklin' Rosie." You are welcome to say "Sweet Caroline," but perhaps that song could use some rest. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-diamond/2005/spokane-arena-spokane-wa-bddad7a.html
Yes, Moon was a longtime Dodger. But he started out in the Cardinals' organization. If he had put in a AAA stint here, perhaps some kind soul in the Lilac City would have taken him aside and spoken to him about the unibrow. "Uh, Wally.…
www.dvd-covers.org If you decide to watch this charming old movie, be prepared to stumble about your home for several days mumbling lines from the catchiest of catchy songs. "See the baby." "See the baby." "See the baby." "See the baby." "A-a-men, a-men, a-men."
And other fun stuff here in The Slice column from this date in 1997. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/24/the-slice-it-is-not-nice-to-pick-your-teeth-in/
Almost four years ago, I might have tipped my hand about my opinion of Facebook when I wrote this: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/feb/03/the-slice-lone-holdout-prefers-face-to-facebook/ But last year, after The Slice Blog got briefly embroiled in what came to be known as "Anal-gate" (you had to be there), I had…
In the summer after my sophomore year in high school, my friend Jim Wolvington and I had a plan. We were going to work hard and make a lot of money painting houses. We placed a classified ad in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press and…
http://www.thejacksons.com/history/the-jackson-5-1974/ Though, it doesn't show up on some other lists I occasionally consult. Perhaps you know. Did it actually take place?
www.last.fm It is my understanding that I was not alone. My excuse for posting a photo of that album cover for the umpteenth time? I never tire or seeing it, and assume at least a few Slice Blog readers feel the same way. If you…
You hear some stations you might not ordinarily check out. That must be how, years ago, I came across this Christian pop song. I liked it then. I like it now. www.musicstack.com What have you discovered when you set the radio tuner to bounce from…