Inspired by this meme:
…I asked the question: “Never mind 50 years ago. How about 60 years ago?”
So here’s the first of such considerations:
Monday – Friday for the next two weeks…
Month: June 2023
Monday Funnies
So blowing up the week with Teh Funneez…
And speaking of those things:
Now get off your ass, and go to work. It’s Monday, FFS.
Classic Beauty: Peggy Cummins
Baby-faced (literally: she appeared in her first movie at age 13) Irish actress Peggy Cummins was often turned down for movie roles because she was too young. (Nowadays, of course, she’d be Polanski-bait.) But enough of that; here’s a sample:
Gun Crazy (she wasn’t — that was just the name of her most famous movie).
Remembering The King
Throughout history there have been many kings, and many “kings” (King of This, King of That).
But there was only ever one Nat King Cole.
Enjoy the next hour and a half or so.
Bygone Broads 8
Some have you may have been wondering what kind of posters I had hanging in my dorm room back at Hogwarts St. John’s College. Wonder no more (right-click to embiggen) — behold the Austin Healey Mk III from the late 1960s:
And for the Healey’s companion on the wall over my bed, the exquisite Claudia Cardinale:
I still feel stirrings, all these years later, on both accounts. A fitting end, I think, to this series.
Friday Night Listening
A couple-three hours of soft listening music for your Friday night. Pour yourself a glass or so of your favorite brown liquor, sit back and enjoy.
