November 18, 2004
Rolling Stone Magazine - Top 500 Rock Songs of all time
Some
interesting choices, and as with any list, mucho room for argument.
I put their top 50 in the extended entry (still looking for a link to the whole thing).
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Do you think that the top two names show any, I don't know, bias?
Posted by: buckethead@perfidy.org at November 19, 2004 08:42 AM (2c+XF)
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You can argue about songs that should've made the list, but I tell you I wouldn't mind having an album with all of those songs.
Posted by: buckethead@perfidy.org at November 19, 2004 08:43 AM (2c+XF)
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Oh I know what you mean. The first time I went over it, I was mentally sorting it into several categories to make my own discs.
Posted by: Ted at November 19, 2004 08:58 AM (blNMI)
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November 12, 2004
It Came, It Thawed, It Conquered
TV Dinners celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Thanks to Rand Simberg at Transterrestrial Musings for the pointer.
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I still remember as a kid being excited about nights when my dad had to work late, because it meant we could have TV dinners. I hate to think how that must have insulted Mom...
Posted by: nic at November 12, 2004 04:40 PM (etHvD)
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That is so awesome. happy aniversary.
xxoo
remember when tv dinners used to be made of tin foil? lol
Posted by: vadergrrrl at November 12, 2004 06:17 PM (LhmlK)
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Funny; Even though Swanson may have dropped the name "
TV Dinners" in '60 or '61, I grew up eating what my mother called
"TV Dinners".
We were required to eat them on fold-out trays while watching TV...
NEVER at the kitchen table!
Now I know why I've spent my adult life trying to learn how to cook a decent meal. They were godawful, weren't they?
I'll buy frozen veggies, but not a frozen meal. Them things'll tighten yer arteries like a vice on butter.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at November 12, 2004 11:05 PM (7741C)
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Does any one know the history of the spider pool estate. I had a friend who lived in the only building left standing at the time, We used to explore and collect the tiles that covered most of the structures. This was in the early 60's when I was in elementry school. In fact, I sometimes walked to school taking a short cut through the area. The place allways looked like it had housed some kind of cult (even to a kid in elementry school).
Anybody know anything about this?
Posted by: Kirk at November 13, 2004 02:52 AM (JpIJX)
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November 09, 2004
An amazing thing happened at the Spider Pool
In September I
posted here about a search for the mysterious Spider Pool. Seen in numerous vintage nude photo sets, some members of the newsgroup
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.vintage have been piecing together clues and photographs like a long-forgotten puzzle. Photo archives have been searched and sets identified, sometimes with little more than the pattern on a ladies skirt in two different photos. The fact that the pool may be dated from the 1930's or even earlier only added to the challenge.
Slowly, the pieces started to fit, and then last weekend, the Spider Pool was found.
(more in the extended entry)
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Your Amazing Ted.
*hugs*
Posted by: vadergrrrl at November 09, 2004 11:37 PM (Gmc2U)
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I'd like to know who owns the property it's on, and, as you said, who built it.
Posted by: Susie at November 11, 2004 10:21 AM (+5GK3)
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It would be great if the owner of that Spider Pool site could be determined,
and permission obtained to do like an "archaeological dig" there, and unearth
all of the rest of it which slid down the hill and got buried many decades ago.
Posted by: Tzek at December 12, 2004 04:22 AM (NF3+q)
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While my heart is obviously with those in CA who have recently lost loved ones and/or their residences, I hope the heavy rains & subsequent mudslides didn't obliterate what little remains of the Spider Pool.
Posted by: Bardieu at January 14, 2005 12:53 AM (1GH1n)
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Spiderpool research has shifted away from Usenet and since the rediscovery of the site considerable work has been been done on this topic by the members of the Spiderpool Research Society (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spiderpool). It turns out that the pool was built in the 1920's by legendary silent film director and screenwriter John W. (Jack) McDermott and was part of his equally fantastic estate. The pool was most likely razed by the City of Los Angeles in 1962 but the spider still remains. Unfortunately, the site is on private property and is very, very difficult to access.
Why a spider? You can find out by visiting the group which mixes mystery with popular culture and pin up photos.
Posted by: Spiderpool Historian at September 22, 2005 02:55 PM (U0zaK)
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Today my grandmother and her sister told me about the time when they lived with Jack Mcdermott who they called "Mr. McDermott" who owned the spider pool. Upon them telling me the oddities of the home, i rememebered their description of the spider pool and began to look online for this man and his home. Their father who worked for Mr. McDermott built the spiderpool.
Posted by: vanessa cruz at May 03, 2009 03:27 AM (4JM9K)
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November 05, 2004
T+ 25 years and counting
Twenty five years ago today, radical Islam declared war on America by attacking the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Sixty six Americans were taken hostage and held for more than a year.
We didn't start this war, and it took a while for most of us to actually believe it was happening, despite the evidence right in front of our eyes. Beruit, USS Cole, Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the bomb in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, Khobar towers bombing and many many more. 9/11 was the date of their most successful attack, not their first.
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