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Looxury!: The Four Yorkshireman Sketch
One more sketch from pre-Python days from At Last The 1948 Show, which was later revived for the Pythons. I think I like this original version best.
For some reason, the punch line is missing at the end. “And you try telling the young folk that today… and they won’t believe you”
Tim Brooke Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
Thanks to YouTuber BritBox
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Kurt Vonnegut’s humorous and fantastical novels are all still in print today. Certainly, if you were a college student of the 60s, 70s or 80s, you probably know lines from Vonnegut novels by heart. Producer, director and writer Robert Weide has come out with a new documentary on Kurt Vonnegut, which includes Mr. Weide’s personal relationship to Vonnegut, called Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. I was happy to interview Robert Weide for Arts Express.
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Robert Weide, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
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Friend Of The Devil
Monday morning, Grateful Dead wake up with some unexpected friends.
Live from the Fillmore East in 1970.
Thanks to YouTuber Omra Sky
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Covid Crime
This is a play by Lionelle Hamanaka concerning the wave of anti-Asian hate crimes that have occurred in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The play was performed live on the streets of NYC. The cast also got together to do a radio version which I helped put together. This radio version was heard yesterday on WBAI FM.
You can hear the radio version of “Covid Crime” by clicking on the triangle or mp3 link above.
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Honda Car Illusions
Not Anymore, Though
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Plumb Beach,
Brooklyn, New York
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Red Rubber Ball: Nellie McKay
A Paul Simon song written for The Cyrkle sung here by Nellie McKay with a Dylanesque harmonica.
More at Nellie McKay
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The Bookshop
The pre-Python Pythons in another classic sketch from the At Last The 1948 Show television program.
Thanks to YouTuber BritBox
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Gold, Oil, And Avocados
Leftists who have followed the recent fortunes of socialist governments in Latin America can’t help but be both heartened and chastened by the ups and downs in those economies and in their social development projects. The dynamics of building socialism in the midst of an imperialist world presents enormous challenges. I was happy to interview journalist Andy Robinson who succeeds in demystifying much of the politics of the area by getting down to basics in his fascinating and illuminating new book, Gold, Oil, and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities.
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Andy Robinson, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
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Vega Seeks A (Check) Mate
Monday Morning, Suzanne Vega’s “Knight Moves.”
I hadn’t heard this song for decades before hearing it again yesterday. Vega had fame with “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner” but this is one song of hers from 1985 that I particularly liked.
Thanks to YouTuber ponchsanta
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The Professor of Music: Danny Kaye
From The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Favorite line: “Chocolate Malto”
Thanks to YouTuber Dean Mason
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The Railway Carriage: Marty Feldman and John Cleese
John Cleese, Marty Feldman from pre-Monty Python days on a tv program called At Last The 1948 Show. Feldman was hired as a writer as he was not yet a performer, but Cleese thought that Feldman would be great in sketches. And he was.
Thanks to YouTuber inedibledormouse
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Low Tide
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Old pilings that had been submerged make their re-appearance.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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I’m Looking Through You: MonaLisa Twins
Mona’s voice seems especially suited for this Beatles song from Rubber Soul.
More at MonaLisa Twins
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The Opposite Of Hair-Raising?
A Jaw-dropping illusion to say the least…performed by 15 year old Kawakami Ikuko
Thanks to YouTuber shnubyfluby and Tom Stone of the Genii Forum for pointing it out
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The Real Chaplin
It’s the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature, The Kid, and that’s as good an excuse as any to celebrate all of his films. But who was Chaplin off-screen? A new Showtime documentary, The Real Chaplin directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney purports to get to the bottom of the real Charlie Chaplin…does it?
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my review, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
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Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Monday morning, Joan Baez with the Bob Dylan song that took up a whole side of vinyl on the Dylan album, Blonde on Blonde.
Dylan’s wife at the time was Sara Lownds; but as for the rest of the lyrics, you’re on your own…
Singer Tom Waits said of “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”: “This song can make you leave home, work on the railroad or marry a Gypsy.”
Thanks to YouTuber vpolynha
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Salt Marsh Impressionism
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The combination of a drizzly day, a long zoom across the marsh, some camera shake, and autumn reeds made this photo turn out like an Impressionistic painting.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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A Letter From Kurt Vonnegut Read by Ian McKellen
Thanks to YouTuber ClairdelaLune
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Expiration Date
Pheasant-Under-Grass
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I’ve been looking for this guy all year! A year ago, I caught a fleeting glance of him, but way too briefly to get a photo. With the advent of autumn, however, the Marsh bushes where he hides have been cut back–and this week I saw him running across his former stomping grounds to some still remaining bushes further off.
Ring-necked Pheasant
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Seventh Inning Stretch
Party On!! The worldwide staff at Shalblog® Industries is taking a moment off from their usual Culture Conveyor Belt activities in order to select twenty of their favorite original interviews, reviews, stories, and poetry from the past year that you may have missed as we approach our seventh blog anniversary:
Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story
“Tried To Suffocate Us, But We Are Air”: Louise Dessertine
Dancing Through Tap History: Rusty Frank
“Oh God, And This Is Only A Metaphor!”: Molly Peacock
Everyone Was Beautiful: Paul Hostovsky
Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
The People Vs. Agent Orange
“A White Heron” by Sarah Jewett
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster
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2121: A Tale Of The Near Future
For Halloween, an original update of an old-time radio show, we call 2121: A Tale of the Near Future.
In a world where efficiency must be maximized, are poets and artists non-essential workers to be imprisoned and exterminated?
Featuring Mary Murphy as Caroline, Rick Tuman as the Guard, Julius Hollingsworth as the General Manager, and myself as James T. Randall. With music from Kojiro Miura.
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear the story, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
