Moby Grape and Procol Harum. They don't name 'em like they used to, v.c. 

The Mothas of Invention. Ah, memories, v.c. 

They don't make 'em like they used to, v.c. 

The Back cover of Ram, Paul McCartney's second solo album. I loved "Monkberry Moon Delight" on side two. Also has "Uncle Albert." If you look at the right hand corner of the l.p. [ long playing ] you will see two beetles [ bugs ] gettin' it on. The symbolic message was simply: "Fuck the Beatles." John Lennon followed with his song, "Hiow Do You Sleep?" One line was: "The only thing you done was Yesterday. And since you've gone, you're just another day." Acrimony in the ranks of the former members of the Fab  

One of the Mothas of Invention

Phi Zappa Krappa. One of their albums had pictures of the band members scrunching-up their lips. With hairy moustaches and beards, the effect resembled-sorry about this-anuses. What innovation! Eh? 

The other night I watched the old "What's My line." A rerun from back in the day. Not only did they have a mystery guest but also a mystery panel member, who was intoduced last. There was Arlene Frances, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf ( from Random House )-the regulars-and the mystery panel member was....Jerry Lewis. The mystery guest was none other than Walt Disney. It's a small world, v.c. 

Bark at the Park

From the Fla. Marlins:

Bark at the Park
All dogs are welcome to attend the annual Marlins Bark at the Park which includes a pre-game ceremonial Blessing of the Dogs. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for kids, and $6 for dogs. Dog tickets must be purchased through either the Humane Society of Broward County at (954) 266-6816 or the Humane Society of Greater Miami at (305) 749-1832. Tickets may also be purchased in person at either location.
All Dogs
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I needed a post for vee cee's golden pond. See the day blogger pulled the plug on the original G.P. The above photo is from "The Concert for Bangla Desh." See Ravi Shankar for more details. While my sitar gently weeps, v.c. 

Malapropism, eh. Should be sleeping like a log, v.c. P.S. Good night! Sleep tight! 

The Concert for Bangla-Desh. With Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton. Layla, you got me on my knees, v.c. v.c. 

One picture from Alan Aldridge. The one where John is walking back into his head is a great illustration. And the one for "Helter Skelter" is awesome. I got blisters on my fingers, v.c. 

Casey at the Bat

One of the great characters in the game, Casey Stengel. He managed the N.Y.Yankees for 9 years and was fired after 1960. He changed burroughs and managed the newly-formed N.Y. Mets. An expansion team, the Mets set the all-time major league record in losses. Circa 1961.  

Casey with Mickey Mantle. Circa back in the day. Charming and quotable, here are some of his gems:
"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in." "All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field." "Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself." "Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking." "Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before." "It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living." "Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits." "That kid can hit balls over buildings." "There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them." "They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank and he plays gold with millionaires. What's funny about that?" "Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers)." "You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane." "Nobody knows this [yet], but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City." ...to Outfielder Bob Cerv "They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them." ...after being hospitalized for two weeks "You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living." "I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression." "All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height." "You got to get twenty-seven outs to win." "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." "Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane." "I couldn't have done it without my players." ...on winning the 1958 World Series "They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again." "My health is good enough about the shoulders." "The team has come along slow but fast." "Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it." "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa." "The trick is growing up without growing old." "The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three." "You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls." "When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out." "Now there's three things that can happen in a ball game: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain." "You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp." "Wake up muscles we're in New York now." "They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera." "Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant." "The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss." "Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to." "Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? " "Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits." "The Mets are gonna be amazing." "I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice." "I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill." "If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are." "If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army." "I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink." "I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense." "I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three." "They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games." "I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball." "Lefthanders have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed and their head gets more stagnant on that side." "It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like." "The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off." "If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. " "Most ball games are lost, not won." "We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'." "I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many." "I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon." "You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them." "All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."
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I have always been a big sports fan. And baseball has always been my passion. Loved playing it; loved watching it; and loved collecting baseball cards as a kid. "Life Magazine" was a big deal back then, but as time moved on, Life went the way of VHS, dinosaurs, Beta, 8 track tapes, drive-ins, etc. One of the featured articles is about JFK, so it had to pre-date November 1963. Tomorrow more pix of my boyhood idols. There's a drive....way back....that ball is gone, v.c. P.S. I remember getting cards off cereal boxes and even in Kahn's Hot Dogs. Go figga, mon trigga! 

Mad Magazine-one of my favourite mags as a youngster and even as an adult. Katlin and Charlie Jr. would bring them home when they were in high school-no they didn't follow in their dad's footsteps and attend Rowdy High-and I would peruse them. Ain't it time we said goodbye, v.c. 

Old Comics and Inflation!

The DC comics were the best imho. I couldn't wait to get a new one each week. I would ride my 3 speed bike to the Heights and check out the rack at Brown's Drug Store. The trip was a mile and all uphill. But after buying the comics it was all downhill going home. Childhood memories, eh? v.c.

P.S. Brown's served cherry sours and lime sours. And the sodas were the bomb. They don't make 'em like they used to.

Superman's x ray vision couldn't see through lead, hence Lois' lead mask. Even tho I'm getting old and my eyesight is limited when reading small print, the caption reads from Lois: ".....I'm leaving Metropolis for good." Seems there's a story underneath that mask.  

I loved the Superman comics. They weren't all action like the Marvel Comics that followed. They were ingenious and well thought out. At least I thought so. This issue of Lois Lane cost a dime. Kids in today's society would find it hard to relate. A candy bar back then was a nickle and a gallon of gas was 20 cents during gas wars, and a pack of ciggies: A quarter. Living in the material world, v.c. P.S. Apologies to George Harrison. 

The popularity of DC comics was at its zenith in the early 60's. There were all kind of spinoffs. There was Superman, Supergirl, Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen. Don't know which came first. Perhaps Action. The above comic cost 12 cents. Unbelievable! v.c. 

Even Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter, had his own comic. He was the youngest member of the "Daily Planet." Great Ceasar's Ghost," v.c. P.S. This episode featured the sarcastic but talented, Don Rickles. He and my Uncle Gene share an uncanny resemblance.  

Tomorrow's foray into the infantile will include comic book heroes from back in the day. Holy Spiderman, Batman. Gimme shelter, vee 

Call for Phillip Morris. The last call will be from the mortician, eh? And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get, v.c. 

Mr. Gary Nelson, famed member of Rowdy High's band on the run, corrected me the other nite at Rowdy High's Reunion. Gary was indeed on the ball when he told me King Crimson penned "21st Century Schizoid Man," not Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I stand corrected. In the hall of the mountain king, v.c. P.S. Peer Gynt was it?  

Can anyone guess this man's identity?  

Thanks to all of you. We just received a beautiful thank you letter from a guy in Atlanta, Ga. And a beautifully typed email from Maza Lickem. Maza, you're the greatest. You're a true American. Thanks, Corporal Militia and PFC Benny Henn. P.S. From whence [ foreign country ] do you hail? 

My most favourite theatre when I was a kid. For the most part they showed nothing but sci-fi thrillers. Too bad it's not there today. But it was torn down in the mid-60's. Progress? Gimme shelter, v.c. 

Shine on Brightly. Play this tune to savor the essence of the 60's and back in tha day. v.c.