About Michael Gerber

is Blogmom of Hey Dullblog. His novels and parodies have sold 1.25 million copies in 25 languages. He lives in Santa Monica, CA, and runs The American Bystander all-star print humor magazine.

A Momentary Lapse of Reason

By |2019-09-04T11:19:38-07:00April 23, 2010|1969, 1970, Breakup|

The happy newlywed? Shirley Tilloch over at Beatles Til I Die has written a very interesting post originally inspired by one over here at Dullblog. This post of mine began as a lengthy comment to her post...until I got to the point where it was too long and went off in too many directions. So apologies in advance if what I'm about to say is a bit (or a lot) scattered. I think it's sufficiently original to be worth saying anyway. Briefly—and Shirley, please correct me in the comments if I mischaracterize you—Shirley writes that the presence of a 1969 [...]

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Attention Millionaires: Beatles for Sale! (including John and Yoko’s Sexual History)

By |2015-02-15T12:22:32-08:00April 19, 2010|auctions of note|

One of the more intriguing items at auction. Roger over at WogBlog has an excellent head's-up on a massive collection of Beatle personal items/memorabilia from Beatle author Geoffrey Giuliano and one-time Beatle designers The Fool. (A lot of this stuff—which is really mind-blowing—seems to have originated with Derek Taylor, or directly from George and John.) I don't know what I think about memorabilia. On the one hand, I definitely feel the attraction of it—what Beatles fan wouldn't want a letter from George to the other Beatles asking them not to break up the group? On the other hand, memorabilia also [...]

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The hits just keep on coming…

By |2014-07-07T16:19:12-07:00March 4, 2010|John Lennon|

http://www.youtube.com/v/4Ph4rZU0Ns4&h What's with the weird autotuning/dubbing? It makes him sound like that guy from The Beatles cartoon.I've written some thoughts on this at my blog, mikegerber.com. (Someday, I'll investigate cross-posting.) [Sorry, folks: in 2012, mikegerber.com was hacked by Azerbaijanis, if you can believe it. I couldn't fix it, so I put up a generic landing page. Unfortunately at present I can't link to the old posts. Revisiting this John Lennon Citroen commercial five years later, I think we can assume the mikegerber.com post was probably some typical MG whinging about not selling John Lennon to the highest bidder. And frankly? With John [...]

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Yoko in Cyberspace

By |2014-07-24T09:32:42-07:00February 27, 2010|Yoko Ono|

Yoko Ono as (an amazingly cute) child. Yoko Ono's on Twitter, how awesome is that? To celebrate this I tweeted (mgerber937) the following: "So I went to her Twitter feed, and it said, '...' Nothing else, just '...' and I thought, 'Wow, that could be anything. Could be 'yes,' 'no', 'piss off', whatever you wanted it to be. It reflects your own internal monologue--you're Twittering yourself. And that's really quite brilliant, because that's what cyberspace is all about." (In celebration of Yoko in cyberspace, I'm riffing on various breathless run-on Lennon interview-quotes about meeting Yoko at the Indica: This was near [...]

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Aspiring or inspiring?

By |2014-07-07T14:11:45-07:00December 21, 2009|books, John Lennon, Paul McCartney|

John Lennon The Life by Philip Norman The New York Times Book Review sent Philip Norman's new biography John Lennon: The Life to singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, and her very positive review is written in the manner of Lennon the prose stylist. Did she pull it off? I'm of two minds, myself. On the one hand, the review is a chore to get through, in a way In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are not. As I read, my delight was heavily diluted by frustration. But that's at least in part a genre problem: a book review, [...]

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No comment necessary

By |2013-08-11T00:48:18-07:00December 8, 2009|1963, John Lennon|

John and Julian Lennon. I'm not even going to attempt to date/source this photo (we know what happened the last time), but I discovered it yesterday and wanted to pass it along today. Spare a thought, and be good to the people who love you.

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Nutopia: Threat or Menace?

By |2014-07-07T14:01:12-07:00December 4, 2009|John Lennon|

Now that's a Great Seal! MIKE GERBER • Hello folks--Dullblogger Mike here. Sorry I've been silent, but it's for the best of reasons: I've just finished a comic mystery about a rock star who survives an assassination attempt, and has to go incognito to find out who did it and why. I'll let everybody know when it comes out; I trust it will meet with your Beatle-bonkers approval. As part of my coming-back-to-life I forward the following from my boon companion Jon Schwarz, proprietor of the very fine progressive blog A Tiny Revolution. It's a good reminder about just how crazy [...]

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The best dancer

By |2014-07-06T23:37:38-07:00September 10, 2009|alternate history, comedy|

  And again ED PARK • This sort of I've-been-living-under-a-rock thing shouldn't work...but I think Klosterman pulls it off! It is not easy to categorize the Beatles’ music; more than any other group, their sound can be described as “Beatlesque.” It’s akin to a combination of Badfinger, Oasis, Corner Shop, and every other rock band that’s ever existed. The clandestine power derived from the autonomy of the group’s composition—each Beatle has his own distinct persona, even though their given names are almost impossible to remember. There was John Lennon (the mean one), Paul McCartney (the hummus eater), George Harrison (the best [...]

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