40 years later, Annie Haslam still has it.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun -- the original version.

This might shock a few people:

In honor of a couple of spaced-out billionaires...

If you listen to "Pet Sounds" as the narrative of a relationship...

... and listen to all the cuts on the album in that light, then it becomes evident that the answer to all the questions the narrator asks in "Caroline, No" is "You, bro."

-- Mal

Big Brother IS watching...

I had occasion this morning to start up the electricity in the apartment to which I am moving. Previously, all bills had been in my roommate's name: I have no credit record whatsoever, since the last thing I paid for myself was a car that was paid off in the previous century. I had been living in a boarding house for the past six months while I waited for better digs; this is germane.

As I filled out the form, the phone number I had *before* I moved to the boarding house was already filled in. Now, I never did business with this company before, I am using a different computer from a different location... yet somehow, they knew that phone number had been associated with me. It makes one wonder.

Can't be the chip from my Covid vaccine, because I just got that.

-- Mal

The Big Bopper does Little Red Riding Hood...

... and she will never be the same.

Shouldn't we start calling the Oath Keepers the "Oath Breakers?" n/t

Song for the Times

A song for 2021

The great Emperor Norton, of blessed memory...

... was just as delusional as Donald Trump, but at least he was harmless.
And, unlike Mr Trump's Wall, the bridge the Emperor ordered built now spans the Golden Gate.

-- Mal