Nov - 23rd
Beatles New Year
Posted at 12:58 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
For us Beatlenuts, today is the first day of the year, as it is the day after the Beatles released their self-titled album in 1968, more commonly referred to as "the white album." Have a drink for John, George and Ringo. No, not Paul.
Oct - 11th
Best of Bowie
Posted at 8:23 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I have never been a major fan of greatest hits albums, or best of's, or whatever, at least in general. When I was discovering the music of the Beatles in high school, I didn't go out and get the red and blue albums. Instead, I purchased the white album. And Abbey Road. And Revolver, Rubber [...]
Aug - 7th
Bonds Countdown
Posted at 10:50 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Staying on top of my pursuit of Bonds...
The dream is over, yesterday.*
* From John Lennon's "God."
Jun - 4th
In the News
Posted at 7:44 am | Filed Under In the News
- There are many types of U.S. visas, including "the 'John Lennon-Albert Einstein' O visas reserved for 'workers of extraordinary ability,' the P visas for athletes and entertainers and the R visas for religious workers such as priests, imams, rabbis and monks. L visas go to multinational managers, TN 'treaty visas' admit Canadian and Mexican [...]
May - 24th
Liveblogging the Bush News Conference
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
8:00amNo arrival yet. And your bird can sing.*
8:02amBirds still singing, no sign of Bush. Oh, there he is. "Please be seated."
8:02amBush: "My members of Congress." Huh?
8:03amBush quotes the Iraq Study Group. What has happened over this past year? Oh yea, the Democrats regained control of Congress.
8:06amBush mentions a catch-and-release immigration policy, similar to the fishing [...]
May - 16th
Johnny and the Moondogs
Posted at 8:20 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I have created what I consider the ultimate Beatles playlist, titled, "Johnny and the Moondogs."
This playlist tries to capture the raw varietal essence of the Beatles.
I had only my albums to work with (everything since and including Help!). I tried to stay away from A-sides and singles (the only number one song included is Ballad). [...]
Nov - 22nd
November 22, A Day For The Beatles
Posted at 12:19 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Hey, I just realized it is November 22. You know what that means? Yes, forty-three years ago to the day, the Beatles released their first album Please, Please Me in Britain. And five years later, to the day, the Beatles released their infamous self-titled album, better known as the "White Album."
Oh yea, and John F. [...]
Nov - 21st
Happiness Is A Warm Lap
Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I've just received an email from my credit card company. It included the following picture...
Image: Chase
The two look very happy, don't they? Well, that's because they're paying their credit card bill online. Can you believe it? It is so easy, and so much fun, you'll actually enjoy paying your bill every month. Go ahead, give [...]
Nov - 16th
Good News, I’ve Been Cleared
Posted at 11:49 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
When I recently upgraded to Blogger Beta (which was going to be mandatory sometime in the near future anyway), I was marked as a SPAM blog (I know, someone told on me) and was forced to key-in word verification in order to post. And what a harrowing few days that has been.
But, no more. I'm [...]
Mar - 27th
Apple v. Apple
Posted at 10:16 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
My first use of an Apple was in first grade. I believe it was the Apple IIe. By third grade, as I recall, we were playing the Oregon Trail ("flip disk over"). It is interesting, however, that Apple made an agreement with Apple Corps, the Beatles music label, that the computer company Apple, which was [...]
Nov - 22nd
The Beatles JFK Assassination Theory
Posted at 10:24 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Forty-two years following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the nation's thirty-fifth president (and the nation's first Catholic president), one question still persists... Did the Beatles have anything to do with it? And I say, yes.
I developed this theory in the late nineties (I say that as if it were a long time ago) as [...]
Jun - 8th
Bush For Sale
Posted at 7:30 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
One of the very few original Beatles' albums I do not own yet (okay, I admit it, I own the CDs and not vinyl, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let it Be, Past Masters Vol. 2, Anthologies 1 through 3, and the recent re-release of [...]
Nov - 24th
Income Tax In America
Posted at 5:44 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
The Beatles had a song, okay it was George Harrison's, called "Taxman," in which they decry the ridiculously high tax rate in England. "One for you, nineteen for me."
But what about the United States? We never have had such high taxes, right?
In order to help pay for its war effort in the American Civil War, [...]
Nov - 22nd
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?
Posted at 12:41 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Forty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States under the Constitution, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The subsequent investigation (Warren Commission) resulted in the lone-gunmen theory, a theory that prescribed Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing. However, in the late 1970s, an official investigation by the House Select [...]
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