Open thread 9/20/22
What a distinctive voice lead singer Gladys Horton had in this song, which was the first Motown offering to reach #1. Here’s the story of The Marvelettes:
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Roundup
Here we go again with another roundup: (1) Scott Johnson of Powerline has a post on Jan Karski, the Polish officer who tried to warn the US about the Holocaust in a timely fashion, to little or no avail. I … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/19/22
Such composure and musicality:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/17/22
In particular I remember those metal skates:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/16/22
I am surprised at how tiny some of these actresses are/were:
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(1) Anyone can make an error, but I think the most interesting thing about this one is that she appears to be reading all these names and titles. I would think a presidential press secretary would know them all by … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/15/22
This has been around quite a few years, although I’d never heard of it before:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/14/22
Interesting:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/13/22
Open thread 9/12/22
There’s so much we don’t know about the past. But it’s also amazing how much we do know about the past:
Continue reading →Tomorrow it will have been 21 years since 9/11
Tomorrow is 9/11. Twenty-one years is a long long time, and a lot has happened since then to America and to the world. And yet 9/11 still marks a kind of turning point. Never such innocence again, after 9/11. Here’s … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/10/22
This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced. It seems not only from another time, but from another planet. Here’s the part where a woman goes on and on explaining much more than you ever needed to know … Continue reading →