Happy Life Day Thanksgiving! Welcome to the latest regular feature here on FOG!, the Geek Screening Room which will showcase rare films, television pilots and more several times a week here on the site! Today's screening is the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special which aired just once on Friday, November 17, 1978 and which was instantly deemed a critical and fan failure. The special, which reunited...
What the #%*@ was that? I don't think there's anyone who still takes this seriously and how bizarre is it? Very. Still, here we go. . . . We find our heroes Han and Chewbacca are on the run from the Imperials and heading to Kashyyyk for Life Day, a kind of holiday with gifts and some psychic space ceremony, before settling into the family home of the Chewbaccas, Malla, Itchy and Lumpy. Luke and R2D2...
les fleur de lys - "circles" (download) Les Fleur de Lys were a British psych-rock band from the '60's. Very poppy, catchy sing-a-long mod-rock. Their keyboardist went on to join Jefferson Starship. Good music for a sunny day. Recommended if you like The Beatles, The Pretty Things, etc. buy
Filed under: News , Politics as Usual Grace Slick -- of Jefferson Airplane , Jefferson Starship and Starship fame -- is urging Congress to end experiments on chimpanzees. Slick, whose 70th birthday is today, recorded a voicemail inviting politicians to a Capitol Hill multimedia exhibit about chimps with the hope that they will move to phase out the use of the animals in invasive experiments and retire...
John Cole at Balloon Juice has become one of my go-to daily reads. For an example of why, here's his latest evisceration of Sarah Palin : Umm, guys? SHE’S. A. GRIFTER. She quit her damned job to go on the wingnut welfare circuit. Seven in ten people think she is unqualified to be President. She’s just in this for the money, and she is currently having a public feud with the father of her...
Sunday Oct 25 (9am–6pm) @ Speedway Meadow Hundreds of musicians come together to celebrate and re-launch the free-lovin', free-thinking, and downright free (as in the money you won't have to spend to attend) ethos of Woodstock on its 40th anniversary for SF's West Fest. Artists such as Country Joe McDonald and Jefferson Starship share the stage with speakers ranging from Ben Fong-Torres to the...
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship – Blows Against The Empire I have to mention Spotify because I think it might be a glimpse of the future. Suddenly I can listen to almost anything I want to on demand. This last week I've listened to Merle Travis, John Prine, Emily Smith, Paul Kantner, Rosanne Cash, Miguel Poveda, Tomatito, Gerardo Nunez and Marcelo Mercadante. Oh yes, and Neutral Milk Hotel. The...
Roger McNamee treasures his cache of memorabilia from more than 180 Grateful Dead shows. Another point of pride: his Silicon Valley venture capital firm, with its $1.9 billion investment fund. So how does he merge his pride with joy?
Gimme Something Better The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day By Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor (Penguin; 489 pages; $18 paperback) There's a punk music store in Southern California whose...
"Seasickness is mostly mind over matter," said Capt. Joe, adding that he used to get sick as a boy when he went on fishing trips with his father and uncles. "You grow out of it."
Over the past week, the Saloon has been a-buzz about food. And why not, we all enjoy eating, right? While I have been absent for most of the conversations, I thought I would weigh-in on my prospective, and give our readers something of a behind the scenes look into the brilliance behind the minds of the Saloon. So I give you the food topics, that TMS may or may not endorse. Sweet Corn Oh, how the battle...
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