UK Top 5 is All-American. Has that ever happened?

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        In the 60’s it was pretty common for the US top 5 singles to be entirely British, and in one week in 1964, it was all Beatles. But I don’t recall there ever being such domination from the Yanks on UK’s singles charts…



Just A Test To See If The New Facebook Works

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                     Bachmann-Palin in 2012!  Fox News features intelligent, non-biased reporting!  The global economy is just fine!!  OK, now that I got your attention, I…



Sick Humor at Ground Zero?

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                    One of my favorite anecdotes of the UK comedy scene is the one from late 2002 of an American having a bad time at a gig in London (not me, BTW, I ALWAYS do well!).  A…



Been A While, But There They Are Again

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                      Here they go again, San Francisco 49ers heading for their sixth trip to the Super Bowl, scoring the winning touchdown in the final quarter to win 28-24 after at one point t…



Time To Let It Go, Giants Fans

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             I

haven’t written about baseball or The SF Giants for awhile, and was thinking about holding off on it for another week or so, especially in light of Michelle Bachmann making TWO, count ’em, 2 i…



Think I’ll Just Drop Out and Live in the Woods

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                  After a lovely two-week jaunt to USA where I had fantastic gigs and got to hang with a lot of people I’ve known and loved forever, the reality of life as a human and functional c…



So I leave London, and look what happens

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                  So London’s burning, or at least parts of Tottenham, Hackney, Brixton, Walthamstow, Ealing, Enfield, and Croydon are (sorry if I’ve left any communities out), with parts of Birmi…



Banks Are Assholes

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                     I haven’t written an extended note for several weeks, and any number of excuses will fit here. This morning I decided I was going to write SOMETHING, but wasn’t sure what…



Survival of the Fittest

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              “This is how we

do it,” sang Montell Jordan in 1995, and I took those words in stride as I had another Jongleurs gig that had all the earmarks of disaster, but the emcee, showcase act, and…



John Lennon a Right-Winger? Imagine That!!

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                  A week ago, Fred Seaman, a former personal assistant to John Lennon, divulged that the late ex-Beatle had turned Conservative in his final years, professing an admiration of Rona…