The Darkest Hour
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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Rest Stop
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Deshaies, Guadeloupe
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Just Like Romeo And Juliet
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Monday morning, my first exposure to the classics at age eleven via the one-hit wonder group, The Reflections. It would not be until a few years later that I found out that someone else had written a similar story about lovers with the very same names. Imagine that.
Thanks to YouTuber MusicMike’s “Flashback Favorites”
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Making Allowances
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Bernie Sanders kicked off his campaign yesterday at Brooklyn College to a quad-filling crowd of over 10,000 people on a cold snowy day.
Best Bernie line: “I didn’t come from a family who gave me an allowance of $250,000 every year—from the time I was three years old.”
“As I recall, my allowance was twenty-five cents.”
Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York
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The Magic of Li King Si
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The performance of magic by Caucasians in yellow face has a long history. The most famous practitioner was William Robinson, who performed as Chung Ling Soo, though he was by no means the only one. Throughout the 1950s and 60s in America (and other Western countries) it was a common trope. Here’s a clip from a 1957 television magic special hosted by Ernie Kovacs with a performance from a magician who called himself Li King Si.
I’ve not been able to find out too much about him or his assistant, but Magicpedia says he was a Frenchman whose real name was Edouard (Georges) Cassel He does a credible Zombie, but the most interesting effect to me was the banner waving that his assistant does in the middle of the act.
You can see the entire 1957 television special (it includes the famous television performance of Cardini) by visiting the YouTube channel of Todd Karr.
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Big Shots: Bob And Ray
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Bob and Ray host one of the greatest circus acts of all time in their radio studio.
Thanks to YouTuber Paul Bellefeuille
