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  • Paul Newman

    When I was a member of the Pelican skydiving club, back in the early seventies, I had the honor of meeting Paul Newman & his son Scott. The latter was a member of Pelican skydivers, a club that in 1971 under the captainship of Mike Schultz contributed with some 70% of USA team members to the World Skydiving Championship in 1971, in Belgrade, ...
    Posted to Obit by Germania on September 28, 2008

  • Dodecahedral WHAT?

    Ah, the idle, mis-spent days of youth. Reading science fiction, doing calculus for fun, programming with punch cards and Fortran 77. The good old days. And, on the weekends, a rousing four or five hours of clashing swords, drinking adult beverages like Pepsi, or Mountain Dew, and spending time with some of the best people I have ever known. ...
    Posted to Obit by BoyHowdy on March 6, 2008

  • Led Zeppelin

    I didn't like the band initially, but after a while I warmed up to them and eventually grew to consider them the greatest rock band ever (I definitely prefer them over the Beatles). However, all this discussion about how ''Stairway to Heaven'' ruined them or made people think differently about them is just so much hubris. Given my background as ...
    Posted to Music Box by luv2playthegame on December 5, 2007

  • Re: The Dead and Deadheads

    Plus, I'm sure many people would agree that your statement, ''With nothing to strive for and no musical goals to attain, the band lapsed into a creative torpor for the last 15 or so years of its career...'' is inaccurate at best. There was some amazing music after 1980. One only need to listen to their live shows from the good years to prove it...
    Posted to Music Box by sravaka506 on November 21, 2007

  • Slide 8: That's no Magic Wand

    That is no Hitachi Magic Wand Ms. Dodson is hoisting in slide 8, it is the legendary Panasonic Panabrator. It hasn't been sold in years, but I still have the one that was my parents' when I was a teenager in the 70s, and it still works like new. I have a Magic Wand, too. No comparison in terms of power. The Panabrator is a jackhammer!
    Posted to Recycled by berserker on September 29, 2007

  • Thanks.

    A hearty thank you to Erik Davis & Slate for ''The Freaky Origins of Christian Rock.'' Most importantly for the objective treatment of Christianity. A rarity. But also for shedding light on an obscure topic of great interest (to me, at least). More than any other sub-genre of music, ''CCM'' (a saccharine haystack in which some jewelled ...
    Posted to Music Box by UniversalistX on August 3, 2007