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The linked obit strangely doesn't really make it clear that Barrett did the voice of the Enterprise computer in the original series as well as TNG and other spinoffs. I loved her in that first pilot, where she played the first officer to Jeffrey Hunter's Captain Pike. Her character, though human, was intellectual and unemotional, qualities that Spock's character would take on when he became the first officer in the second pilot. In the first pilot, Spock was still played by Nimoy, still a Vulcan, but was third-in-command at most, and just as emotional as any human (he even smiles!)

I like a lot of the early Warhol covers, like this: But I find the later style, like the one below, to be just plain ugly. Yuck.

And man does he sound good! I love that album.

Is that select Mosaics or Mosaic Selects?

Completely undistinguished, bland, middle-of-the-road pop. Actually, it's so incredibly bland that it's almost not there.

Wha? It's set in a near-future Allston/Brighton/Brookline/Cambridge! And it's actually a brilliant, moving book, albeit with numerous Pynchonesque passages of too-clever-for-its -own-goodness. Infinitely more heart than Pynchon, though! Must read it (or take a stab at it anyway.)

The Office (U.S,)

Who's got the money to buy a new car these days?

That's a lotta lateral.

"2 hours a day?" indeed. When I was a teen I remember listening far more than that. But the question of what ancient need or appetite it fulfills is a valid one.

I know this is humorous parody with heavily sarcastic intent, but is it really hitting a nail? I ask because surely people don't buy such a message. MG You'd be surprised.

Nat 'King' Cole---After Midnight

Not with modern laser removal. But your point is well taken.

I would love to see scanned issues of SI during that "Golden Era" made available on DVDs, as has been done with the complete runs of both the New Yorker and Rolling Stone. The company that was doing these, Bondi Digital, unfortunately seems to have slowed down their output dramatically, with nothing further since the 50s run of Playboy a couple of years ago. I'd love to check out that last...for the articles, of course.

I'll have to keep that in mind, the next time I see someone trapped in a burning car.

It IS about the music but, for some of us, it also about the complete aesthetic experience. I agree on both counts, but I do lean more into the original artwork/aesthetic camp. I have some sympathy for this view, historical context and all... Then I thought: would you only buy books that reproduce the original jacket art? (Would you care?) I might... (But not usually.) Giving it some thought, I'd have to say that the original cover of an album (vinyl) is a far more prominent and important part of the "complete aesthetic experience" of the album than any book cover is to the experience of reading a book. And I say this as someone who's been known to be kind of into books. This may all stem from the fact that you don't stare at a book's cover while reading it. But growing up and in college I almost always displayed an album's jacket while listening to it. In short, you know an album by it's cover (if the cover is any good), you know a book by it's text (what it's about.)

"Yah boo"?

"Hot housewives in action!" Truly, the wisdom of the mysterious East.

Wow. The 5 Royales (or the remaining ones) in 1992. That was really....something. I'm not crying...I'm not! Just got something---caught in my eye.

Not too likely. Great books should not be out of print either, but it happens anyway.

Ah, now THIS one I've heard.

Check out Lee Wiley, the Liberty Music Shop Recordings--- Sings the Songs of Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart and Harold Arlen " George & Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter

There's one dog that's not afraid of snow!

I used to love his chain of mid-western pizza parlors as a kid.

Cheapo Records is still around?? That's nice.