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The Outpost Cafe / And where the hell are they here?
« on: April 13, 2024, 09:02:26 AM »
https://daily.jstor.org/shes-all-about-that-bass/
I blame it largely on Tom’s presence, once you have a Proggie in your midst, any meaningful female participation goes out the window.
I blame it largely on Tom’s presence, once you have a Proggie in your midst, any meaningful female participation goes out the window.
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The Outpost Cafe / If the gloves don't fit ...
« on: April 11, 2024, 10:00:23 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/oj-simpson-dies-cancer
That trial was a prime example how one lying witness you carelessly nominated can lethally contaminate your case no matter how good it objectively seemed. Once no one believes you, it doesn't matter anymore if you're telling the truth. Cochran did a stellar job tripping up the prosecution.
That trial was a prime example how one lying witness you carelessly nominated can lethally contaminate your case no matter how good it objectively seemed. Once no one believes you, it doesn't matter anymore if you're telling the truth. Cochran did a stellar job tripping up the prosecution.
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The Outpost Cafe / Scaling new heights (or lows) of coldblooded moral depravity ...
« on: March 19, 2024, 10:50:56 AM »
Jeez, reptile group sex enlivens the pythons, we never had that when I was young ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/florida-burmese-pythons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/florida-burmese-pythons
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The Outpost Cafe / Went up to see him ...
« on: March 18, 2024, 05:29:09 PM »https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/18/steve-harley-obituary
Very much a Brit art rock phenomenon, I saw him twice in his later years. Really dug his non-singer's voice.
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The Outpost Cafe / Eric Carmen ...
« on: March 12, 2024, 06:48:44 PM »
.. the power pop magician has sadly pulled his final disappearing stunt.
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The Outpost Cafe / This is disconcerting.
« on: February 29, 2024, 04:25:47 PM »
Imagine this happening to your wife, girlfriend or daughter.
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The Outpost Cafe / The sins of our youth ...
« on: February 27, 2024, 09:07:18 AM »
Alas!, didn't the percussive wordsmith go by the name "ole velvet handcuffs" among his band mates based on some of his recreational preferences? At least he called someone and the girl didn't overdose to death.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/26/don-henley-arrest-trial-eagles-hotel-california-lyrics
Henley pleaded no contest in 1981 to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine, and he requested a drug education program to get some possession charges dismissed.
I doubt that would be the outcome today. "Poor decision" is one way of putting it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/26/don-henley-arrest-trial-eagles-hotel-california-lyrics
Henley pleaded no contest in 1981 to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine, and he requested a drug education program to get some possession charges dismissed.
I doubt that would be the outcome today. "Poor decision" is one way of putting it.
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The Bass Zone / Never heard it like that ...
« on: February 12, 2024, 07:31:38 PM »
... that sounds pretty darn close to a bowed instrument!
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The Outpost Cafe / It's 2024 ...
« on: January 30, 2024, 09:32:11 AM »
... and I can't believe that length of male hair - whether black or white - can still be an issue anywhere. Some culture wars never stop.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/30/black-kids-hair-identity-school-darryl-george-discrimination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/30/black-kids-hair-identity-school-darryl-george-discrimination
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The Outpost Cafe / Betty finally joins Jimmy ...
« on: January 30, 2024, 07:22:57 AM »
Mary Weiss is with her Leader of the Pack now.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/20/mary-weiss-brought-streetwise-realism-to-the-shangri-las-and-let-60s-girl-groups-flirt-with-danger
Always loved this track especially:
Incidentally, The Shangri-Las' producer svengali Shadow Morton, who left us in 2013, also produced the great second Dolls album:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/20/mary-weiss-brought-streetwise-realism-to-the-shangri-las-and-let-60s-girl-groups-flirt-with-danger
Always loved this track especially:
Incidentally, The Shangri-Las' producer svengali Shadow Morton, who left us in 2013, also produced the great second Dolls album:
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The Outpost Cafe / I somehow missed this when it happened ...
« on: December 28, 2023, 10:39:00 AM »
... but man does the mind boggle:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/28/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-2015-murder-mother
Creepy. It's been a popular horror film trope ever since Misery, but imagining it in real life ... Of course, killing the mother was a mix of self justice and overreaching self defense, but I do wonder whether 10 years for her and life for her then boy friend (abetted by her) were the only judicial possibilities to deal with this.
The irony is that the eight years of prison time for her were probably the first time in her life when she was not abused and actually treated like a human being.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/28/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-2015-murder-mother
Creepy. It's been a popular horror film trope ever since Misery, but imagining it in real life ... Of course, killing the mother was a mix of self justice and overreaching self defense, but I do wonder whether 10 years for her and life for her then boy friend (abetted by her) were the only judicial possibilities to deal with this.
The irony is that the eight years of prison time for her were probably the first time in her life when she was not abused and actually treated like a human being.
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The Outpost Cafe / A happy ending for an octopus ...
« on: December 12, 2023, 03:14:42 PM »
I'll never eat another one.
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The Outpost Cafe / Noddy doing well ...
« on: December 07, 2023, 09:09:39 AM »
I didn't know this (I had just noticed his general frailty attributing it to his age), he's only gone public with it now. We always commemorate people here once they have not survived illness, he now did for a change after a five year battle: