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Saturday, 25 September 2021
Friday, 24 September 2021
That was just a lie!
Yesterday, regular reader Uptonking said: "I need me some disco ball fairy dust magic, dammit."
Who am I to argue?
Let's boogie our way into the weekend with this selection of fabulosity - and Thank Disco It's Friday!
Have a great one, daaaahlings!
Thursday, 23 September 2021
False memory syndrome
Childhood was an idyllic, carefree time where everything was wonderful. Or was it? Here are five lies your brain tells you about it:
The sun always shone all summer long
Bollocks. Your brain can’t be arsed remembering the endless days of incessant rain, and why should it? No one wants to dwell on being bored shitless stuck in the house before they’d invented the internet and all you had to entertain you was Connect 4.
Subbuteo was brilliant
Even in the primitive world before Playstations, Subbuteo was unrealistic rubbish. Have you ever seen a real life footballer shoot from 30 yards out and somehow end up flying into the back of the net before the ball did? Let’s face it: Subbuteo was shit.
We’d graze our knees playing and it wouldn’t bother us one bit
The truth is you bawled your eyes out every time you came off your bike and skinned your knee, just like any other child. Not least because you knew it meant your mum would scrub it with TCP that stung worse than the original injury, after first giving you a clip round the ear for being so clumsy.
Christmas was such a magical time
Christmas as a kid was about hoping and praying you’d get the new BMX you wanted so desperately, and then experiencing crushing disappointment when your parents had fobbed you off with a Care Bear. And they made you eat lunch while the Top of the Pops Christmas special was on, the vindictive bastards.
School days were the best days
If you were at school during the 70s, 80s or 90s bullying was basically part of the curriculum and if you told a member of staff about it they’d give you detention for being a tell tale. In those days the teachers could fling chalk, blackboard rubbers or even chairs at you and nobody would bat an eyelid. It was Grange Hill on steroids.
Of course.
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister
RIP, Miss Sarah Dash, the "least scary" of the estimable ladies of LaBelle!
[More Sarah here, on the occasion of the death of her collaborator Ari Gold earlier this year]
Monday, 20 September 2021
Isn't she cute, isn't she sweet? An eyeful you'd die for, a pleasure to meet
Groo. Another weekend bites the dust.
To ease our troubled minds and weary bodies back into the fray, yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the birth of the faboo Mama Cass - and on this Tacky Music Monday (rather than play the obvious), here is the lady herself as you've probably never seen her before!
[Shame the video is such crap quality, but it is over half a century old, after all!]
All hail Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen, 19th September 1941 – 29th July 1974)!
Sunday, 19 September 2021
Our memories, well, they can be inviting
RIP, Jane Powell
After a sultry and warm day yesterday followed by a grand night out, today has brought things down with a bump with the return of the rain and mizzle.
Hey ho, we have a welcome return to celebrate - that of the magnificent Postmodern Jukebox! Perfect "Sunday Music" on a grey day, and doing a magnificent job on one of my fave songs of the late 1990s, to boot...
Ah, that's better...
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