We open today with something for the many librarians I know and cherish. Our libraries are just reopening for a quick browseroo for now, but I hope they will be back to full service soon. And I hope too that we go back to the old days with total silence observed. Call me old-school, but I think there should be a certain level of quiet in the cathedral of knowledge. I hear more loud chatter in a modern library than I do in a hamburger stand. Perhaps this signal would help.
This used to be a beautiful theater. Do you know what ruined it? Too many people talking during the movie!
Sonny and Cher, circa 1965. Someone should make a movie about them and tell the fascinating tale of Salvatore Bono, a man who sold meat door to door and became a hustler in the record business, learning the ins and outs as he worked as factotum for the great Phil Spector. At 28, he met 16-year-old Cherilynn Sarkisian and soon they were wed, at least unofficially. She became a backup singer for Spector's great Philles Records by the Ronettes, Righteous Brothers, and Darlene Love. Sonny got them a record deal, and soon they were world-famous for "I Got You Babe" and other pop hits, which led to a weekly tv show in which Cher played the glamorous model for extravagant gowns and Sonny played the fool for huge paydays. They broke up, she went on to solo shows and records, and Sonny became a mayor and, as God is my witness, a US Congressman. Only in America.
I'm going to go ahead and guess that the owner of this car wash has had his troubles finding and keeping good workers.
There were great tunes on this 1970 album by the Grateful Dead, which somehow gets left out when we talk about early versions of country music by rock and rollers. And officially the record was named "American Beauty," but look closely...you could just as soon see "American Reality" on the cover.
The little town of Groningen, Netherlands looks like a nice place to live!
Hello, weather buffs! If you called this one a west Texas mature supercell thunderstorm, you advance to the head of the class! Looks like it was a bad one.
It was quite prescient of this cartoonist to foresee all the "advantages" of having a pocket telephone. It's even more amazing when you consider this was in an English newspaper in January 1923!
I'll drink tea for the rest of my days and be happy about it! If only coffee tasted as great as it smells!
Our cats are Piscean. Like all cats, they don't give a rat's asterisk about what we think that means.
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