Bits & Pieces (Monday Evening Bag of Randomness)

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Kevin S. Willis

This a whole page from The Daily, but I’m mainly pointing you at Dull But Significant at the bottom. Basically, there’s been a study that shows talking about politics makes you cranky. If the subject is politics, everybody is automatically angrier. Hmmm.

Our backgrounds and perspectives prompt us to look at the world in different ways. Kitteh sees fish different than babeh. There’s a lesson there.

Paypal now processing over $315 million in payments per day. I dunno, this just sounds dangerous and worrisome to me. Hey, you kids get off my lawn!

Do you remember The Five Man Electrical Band? You know, “signs, signs, everywhere a sign”? They had a song called “Werewolf” that I listened to hundreds of times as an impressionable 6-7 year old. It only made #64 on the Hot 100, but was featured on K-Tel’s 1974 compilation 8-track tape, Dynamic Sound. I remember listening to some of the songs a lot–some of those other songs, I don’t remember at all.

(someone, please go get this image for me and post it here: Dynamic Sound (8 Track) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!) . . . I cannot, alas. And it’s really important.

I’m having a nostalgia-gasm right now, because I’m listening to “Hearbeat (It’s a Love Beat)” by the DeFranco Family, a song I probably haven’t heard since I was 7 years old, yet it sounds deeply, deeply familiar. Strange how the brain works. BTW, that link is to the DeFranco’s appearance on the Jack Benny show. God, I’m old. 😉

This is the cover to my 2009 album, Two-Fisted Tales of True Romance:

Although I picked those images up off the interwebz, at one point in time I actually had each of those comic books.

Which of my once vast comic collection do I still have? I have a lot of Richie Rich.

I always loved Richie Rich. No wonder I’m a Republican! — KW

Kevin, you’re scaring me now!

JK (I think).
Deep question for the day: now that living people can be put on postage stamps, who would you put on one (and why)? — Michigoose

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