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Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: “Monkberry Moon Delight”
Ran across this in the comments at the always-entertaining Dangerousminds.net, and felt moved to share. When Paul asked, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins obliged. My life has been taken over by Bystander, but I hope to post more in the coming months. Carry on.
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Imagine Beatles chocolates
NANCY CARR * Spring is finally here, and the holy people are out smelling the grass in the meadow. It’s the perfect time to have a Monkberry Moon Delight chocolate, courtesy of the folks at Imagine Chocolate. Appropriately, it has plenty of nuts. And it’s part of the “Sir Paul” assortment, of course. If […]
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Ram’s Resurgence
[After the millionth insightful comment by our indefatigable Nancy, we asked her if there was anything Beatley burning a hole in her well-furnished brains. This is what she wrote; give her a warm Hey Dullblog welcome.–MG] NANCY CARR • When it was released in 1971, Ram was hated—really hated, to the point of practically being […]
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That was your first mistake
ED PARK • Here’s a simple/brilliant/catchy thing by Geoff Geis: FAST RAM. Which is exactly what it sounds like: Ram played at 45 rpm. Geis writes: I’ve listened to Ram on 45 a whole lot, but I’ve barely listened to it on 33. And while my initial love affair with it was a few years […]