If you’ve been faced with taking a long, strange trip by plane into San Francisco, now you know why. This shows the locally named flight paths in and out the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). TRUKN (Truckin’), GRTFL (Grateful), TYDYE (Tie Dye), COSMC (Cosmic Charlie), HYPEE (Hippie) and DEDHD (Deadhead) are all Grateful Dead-related names or references.
I wonder what the vending machines at their airport looks like.
From Kurt Vonnegut’s introduction to his short story anthology, Bagombo Snuff Box, here are his 8 tips on how to write a good short story.
This simple advertisement takes a minute to watch, but it will change the way you see the world.
Here’s the Find The Fish scene, taken from Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life called “The Middle Of The Film.” Terry Jones picked this as part of his Top 10 Monty Python Movie Moments for Esquire Magazine. He says, “Originally, we were going to have a load of stars—like Sean Connery and Julie Andrews—saying, ‘This is the middle of the film,’ but it was too hard to organize. But it turned out all right, because this is the inside of the Battersea Power Station, with those beautiful parquet floor and magnificent ceiling, and it doesn’t exist anymore. I think this is Python at its surreal best.”
After a brief, surreal piece in which a drag queen (Graham Chapman), a gangly long-armed man (Terry Jones), and an elephant-headed butler eerily challenge the audience to find a fish in the scene, all six members of Monty Python appear as fish swimming and chatting to each other in a restaurant fish tank.
https://youtu.be/lW5RD90o3WA
The Tefifon is a German-developed and manufactured audio playback format that utilizes cartridges loaded with an endlessly looped reel of plastic tape (much like the later 4-track and 8-track magnetic audio tape cartridges) with grooves embossed on it, similar to the ones on a phonograph record. The grooves were embossed in a helical fashion across the width of the tape, much similar to Dictaphone’s Dictabelt format, and are read with a stylus and amplified pickup in the player’s transport. A Tefifon cartridge can hold up to four hours of music, therefore, most releases for the format are usually compilations of popular hits or dance music, operas and operettas.
On this March 26 edition of the News Hour Plus, the Global BC anchors discuss how to deal with hecklers after Kristi Gordon received a hurtful letter from an unhappy viewer. And then another one. And more. WHO DOES THIS?
“Global is actually GOL..”
Without ruining the surprise too much, let’s just say Notts County gives some artful misdirection to score a goal.
In 1977, Ken Adam was working as Production Designer for the James Bond film, “The Spy Who Loved Me.” One of the sets included the villain’s secret lair that was located inside of an enormous tanker ship. Adam struggled with lighting the massive set, and called in a favor from his old boss… Stanley Kubrick. Under an agreement of total secrecy, Kubrick was snuck onto the empty set, where he spent 4 hours setting lighting and advising Ken Adam.
https://youtu.be/MFI-UvmxN1Q
Want to see the most adorable wedding that John Legend has ever sung at? Check out Puddy and Pippa’s ceremony, where the multi-platinum singer serenades his pooches. He’s actually doing this for a good cause: raising money for a school in Springfield, MO. This specific cause campaign is over, but a small donation, you can enter a raffle to win amazing opportunities like Ty Burrell will be your Dad for the Day, and be there for the final taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was at Q103 radio station in Albany, New York recently and was asked if he has ever poured sugar on anyone. Joe responded:
“No. But when the [Def Leppard] song [‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’] first came out… It [was] kind of a ‘mishit,’ really. When it first went to radio in 1987, it kind of got ignored, but in 1988, it took off again. And then it became the most important song on the record and we started shifting silly amounts of records and tickets and stuff, and by then, the song was, like, top of the charts, and people were throwing packets of sugar at us on stage. I mean, it was like trying to avoid shrapnel. It was kind of comical, really.
“Actually, I think once we did a competition, in fairness… I’m just thinking now, ’cause you catch me cold with questions like that. I think we once had a competition backstage to actually pour, like, a pound of sugar over some poor girl’s head who had been saturated in hot water. It was written in the contract that it had to be done, no doubt. So, yeah, I think maybe about 25 years ago, we did it at one time.
“She seemed to enjoy it, from what I can remember. You know, sugar is better than coal. [Laughs]”
Here’s the original song and still great video. Gotta give props to a band who wears their own concert tour shirts on stage. Love IS like a bomb, baby, come and get it on.
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