Nov. 29, 1969: Mariano Rivera is 56 cherry-picked years old today.
Now go and try to save your fucking soul.
Now go and try to save your fucking soul.
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Nov. 29, 1969: Mariano Rivera is 56 cherry-picked years old today.
Now go and try to save your fucking soul.
Now go and try to save your fucking soul.
Sorting through my unholy mess of fanzines & a number of Estrus Records Update Newsletters fell out of an issue of Sniffin' Rock fanzine!
A 1991 ad to join the Crust Club of limited edition singles
$20 for 6 45's and it came with a free Mummies single. You can't beat that with a Pointed Sticks EP!
A 1991 ad to join the Crust Club of limited edition singles
$20 for 6 45's and it came with a free Mummies single. You can't beat that with a Pointed Sticks EP!
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sorting through my unholy mess of fanzines & a number of Estrus Records Update Newsletters fell out of an issue of Sniffin' Rock fanzine!
A 1991 ad to join the Crust Club of limited edition singles
$20 for 6 45's and it came with a free Mummies single. You can't beat that with a Pointed Sticks EP!
A 1991 ad to join the Crust Club of limited edition singles
$20 for 6 45's and it came with a free Mummies single. You can't beat that with a Pointed Sticks EP!
The extra long and the short of it.
I have no idea what is going on in this 1977 photo, nor do I want to.
That is all.
I have no idea what is going on in this 1977 photo, nor do I want to.
That is all.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The extra long and the short of it.
I have no idea what is going on in this 1977 photo, nor do I want to.
That is all.
I have no idea what is going on in this 1977 photo, nor do I want to.
That is all.
Nov. 29, 2018: Bleecker Bob Plotnik gone 7 yrs now.
That time I bought Wire's "Dot Dash" 45 in 1978:
Bob: "Last "Dot Dash" 45 is the window copy."
Me: "Doncha have a picture sleeve without all these thumbtack holes in it?"
Bob: "Wadda you one of those fuckin' record collectors or something!?"
That time I bought Wire's "Dot Dash" 45 in 1978:
Bob: "Last "Dot Dash" 45 is the window copy."
Me: "Doncha have a picture sleeve without all these thumbtack holes in it?"
Bob: "Wadda you one of those fuckin' record collectors or something!?"
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Nov. 29, 2018: Bleecker Bob Plotnik gone 7 yrs now.
That time I bought Wire's "Dot Dash" 45 in 1978:
Bob: "Last "Dot Dash" 45 is the window copy."
Me: "Doncha have a picture sleeve without all these thumbtack holes in it?"
Bob: "Wadda you one of those fuckin' record collectors or something!?"
That time I bought Wire's "Dot Dash" 45 in 1978:
Bob: "Last "Dot Dash" 45 is the window copy."
Me: "Doncha have a picture sleeve without all these thumbtack holes in it?"
Bob: "Wadda you one of those fuckin' record collectors or something!?"
Nov. 29, 1986: Hard-berled Herb Vigran, who used the vaunted Stanislobski Acting Method to play such characters as Georgie Gleap, Legs Lemmy, Mortimer Murray and Mugsy Maple all exactly the same on "The Adventures of Superman", gone 39 yrs now.
Here as glib Gleap in the classic "Mr. Zero" eppy.
Here as glib Gleap in the classic "Mr. Zero" eppy.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Nov. 29, 1986: Hard-berled Herb Vigran, who used the vaunted Stanislobski Acting Method to play such characters as Georgie Gleap, Legs Lemmy, Mortimer Murray and Mugsy Maple all exactly the same on "The Adventures of Superman", gone 39 yrs now.
Here as glib Gleap in the classic "Mr. Zero" eppy.
Here as glib Gleap in the classic "Mr. Zero" eppy.
Nov. 28, 1967: TV actor & WWII hero, Theo Marcuse, gone 58 yrs. Took a car accident to finish him off at age 47.
Partial list roles he played:
Col. Friedrich von Heiner
Roudin the Great Mystic
Copper Mako
Hugo Dobsa
Citizen Gregori
Von Schlepper
Dr. Gamma
Korob
Zoltan Schubach
Clem Bleepo
Partial list roles he played:
Col. Friedrich von Heiner
Roudin the Great Mystic
Copper Mako
Hugo Dobsa
Citizen Gregori
Von Schlepper
Dr. Gamma
Korob
Zoltan Schubach
Clem Bleepo
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Nov. 28, 1967: TV actor & WWII hero, Theo Marcuse, gone 58 yrs. Took a car accident to finish him off at age 47.
Partial list roles he played:
Col. Friedrich von Heiner
Roudin the Great Mystic
Copper Mako
Hugo Dobsa
Citizen Gregori
Von Schlepper
Dr. Gamma
Korob
Zoltan Schubach
Clem Bleepo
Partial list roles he played:
Col. Friedrich von Heiner
Roudin the Great Mystic
Copper Mako
Hugo Dobsa
Citizen Gregori
Von Schlepper
Dr. Gamma
Korob
Zoltan Schubach
Clem Bleepo
Eddie Gaedel-sized Jim Jordan endorsing punchable GOPeahen pus puss Mark "Blowfish" Teixeira for Congress.
Bill Conlin and his endorsement...you are now on the clock.
Bill Conlin and his endorsement...you are now on the clock.
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Eddie Gaedel-sized Jim Jordan endorsing punchable GOPeahen pus puss Mark "Blowfish" Teixeira for Congress.
Bill Conlin and his endorsement...you are now on the clock.
Bill Conlin and his endorsement...you are now on the clock.
Nov. 28, 1974: 51 CREEPy yrs ago...Bowie Kuhn suspended George Steinbrenner for 2 years following his conviction for making illegal campaign contributions to Nixon. Steinbrenner was later pardoned by Reagan in 1989.
Steinbrenner: Kuhn, Nixon, Reagan & Trump.
Now there's the REAL Enemies List!
Steinbrenner: Kuhn, Nixon, Reagan & Trump.
Now there's the REAL Enemies List!
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nov. 28, 1974: 51 CREEPy yrs ago...Bowie Kuhn suspended George Steinbrenner for 2 years following his conviction for making illegal campaign contributions to Nixon. Steinbrenner was later pardoned by Reagan in 1989.
Steinbrenner: Kuhn, Nixon, Reagan & Trump.
Now there's the REAL Enemies List!
Steinbrenner: Kuhn, Nixon, Reagan & Trump.
Now there's the REAL Enemies List!
1965: Phil Spector on fame:
"I go over to Gristedes & the woman at the cash register has to start in. So I tell her, 'There's a war in Viet Nam, they've fired Khrushchev, the Republican party is falling to pieces, the Klu Klux Klan is running around loose & you're worrying about my hair!'"
"I go over to Gristedes & the woman at the cash register has to start in. So I tell her, 'There's a war in Viet Nam, they've fired Khrushchev, the Republican party is falling to pieces, the Klu Klux Klan is running around loose & you're worrying about my hair!'"
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
1965: Phil Spector on fame:
"I go over to Gristedes & the woman at the cash register has to start in. So I tell her, 'There's a war in Viet Nam, they've fired Khrushchev, the Republican party is falling to pieces, the Klu Klux Klan is running around loose & you're worrying about my hair!'"
"I go over to Gristedes & the woman at the cash register has to start in. So I tell her, 'There's a war in Viet Nam, they've fired Khrushchev, the Republican party is falling to pieces, the Klu Klux Klan is running around loose & you're worrying about my hair!'"
Another find in my '70s Punk/Psychotronic stuff...
From a 1973 issue of Phonograph Record Magazine: February's Best/Ho-Hum Albums!
Neato...a Big Star listing! But Eric, poor poor Eric.
From a 1973 issue of Phonograph Record Magazine: February's Best/Ho-Hum Albums!
Neato...a Big Star listing! But Eric, poor poor Eric.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Another find in my '70s Punk/Psychotronic stuff...
From a 1973 issue of Phonograph Record Magazine: February's Best/Ho-Hum Albums!
Neato...a Big Star listing! But Eric, poor poor Eric.
From a 1973 issue of Phonograph Record Magazine: February's Best/Ho-Hum Albums!
Neato...a Big Star listing! But Eric, poor poor Eric.
So far, another perfect Thanksgiving Day...not a blessed soul has asked to watch football!
But somebody did ask that I replay Wilmar Walker's smashing "Stompin' Roaches" single...and that somebody was me!
But somebody did ask that I replay Wilmar Walker's smashing "Stompin' Roaches" single...and that somebody was me!
Wilmar Walker - Stompin' Roaches (Philips) 1962
YouTube video by DJ Pete Pop
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So far, another perfect Thanksgiving Day...not a blessed soul has asked to watch football!
But somebody did ask that I replay Wilmar Walker's smashing "Stompin' Roaches" single...and that somebody was me!
But somebody did ask that I replay Wilmar Walker's smashing "Stompin' Roaches" single...and that somebody was me!
Happy Rural Purge Day!
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy Rural Purge Day!
Asbury Park: Before it became the horror of The Stone Pony...it was called Mrs. Jay's Beer Garden (now with Go-Go Dancers!) in the mid-'60s!
"The Beer Garden went out of business in 1968, allegedly over a waitress wearing a see-through blouse."
"The Beer Garden went out of business in 1968, allegedly over a waitress wearing a see-through blouse."
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Asbury Park: Before it became the horror of The Stone Pony...it was called Mrs. Jay's Beer Garden (now with Go-Go Dancers!) in the mid-'60s!
"The Beer Garden went out of business in 1968, allegedly over a waitress wearing a see-through blouse."
"The Beer Garden went out of business in 1968, allegedly over a waitress wearing a see-through blouse."
Happy Holidays from Pepsinful Joan Crawford and her disturbing Saarinen architextured eyebrows...on how to throw a thoroughly cranked hippie-free holiday party!
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Happy Holidays from Pepsinful Joan Crawford and her disturbing Saarinen architextured eyebrows...on how to throw a thoroughly cranked hippie-free holiday party!
Another find in my stuff...
An '80s ad for Passaic's Two Tone Clothing/Record store...which was a studded step down from crampy Things From England in Cliffside Park.
And it certainly wernt no Montauk Porn Theatre in Passaic, I tells ya that, bub!
An '80s ad for Passaic's Two Tone Clothing/Record store...which was a studded step down from crampy Things From England in Cliffside Park.
And it certainly wernt no Montauk Porn Theatre in Passaic, I tells ya that, bub!
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Another find in my stuff...
An '80s ad for Passaic's Two Tone Clothing/Record store...which was a studded step down from crampy Things From England in Cliffside Park.
And it certainly wernt no Montauk Porn Theatre in Passaic, I tells ya that, bub!
An '80s ad for Passaic's Two Tone Clothing/Record store...which was a studded step down from crampy Things From England in Cliffside Park.
And it certainly wernt no Montauk Porn Theatre in Passaic, I tells ya that, bub!
Sabermemory - 2014
Blogging Non-Blogger Murray Chass blogged:
"Baseball-Reference's Hall of Fame statistical headings includes WAR, WAR7, JAWS and Jpos. Nowhere is there a column headed I for Intangibles."
I for Eye Test.
Blogging Non-Blogger Murray Chass blogged:
"Baseball-Reference's Hall of Fame statistical headings includes WAR, WAR7, JAWS and Jpos. Nowhere is there a column headed I for Intangibles."
I for Eye Test.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sabermemory - 2014
Blogging Non-Blogger Murray Chass blogged:
"Baseball-Reference's Hall of Fame statistical headings includes WAR, WAR7, JAWS and Jpos. Nowhere is there a column headed I for Intangibles."
I for Eye Test.
Blogging Non-Blogger Murray Chass blogged:
"Baseball-Reference's Hall of Fame statistical headings includes WAR, WAR7, JAWS and Jpos. Nowhere is there a column headed I for Intangibles."
I for Eye Test.
Another pull from my '70s+ Punk/Psychotronic crate...a week of CBGB shows, Nov. 1980:
The Gears, Lynn Messenger Band, The Cooties and less!
Plus, Deadline a short-lived, post Voidoids supa-group with Robert Quine, Fred Maher, Bill Laswell, Phillip Wilson and Michael Beinhorn...with DNA opening!
The Gears, Lynn Messenger Band, The Cooties and less!
Plus, Deadline a short-lived, post Voidoids supa-group with Robert Quine, Fred Maher, Bill Laswell, Phillip Wilson and Michael Beinhorn...with DNA opening!
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Another pull from my '70s+ Punk/Psychotronic crate...a week of CBGB shows, Nov. 1980:
The Gears, Lynn Messenger Band, The Cooties and less!
Plus, Deadline a short-lived, post Voidoids supa-group with Robert Quine, Fred Maher, Bill Laswell, Phillip Wilson and Michael Beinhorn...with DNA opening!
The Gears, Lynn Messenger Band, The Cooties and less!
Plus, Deadline a short-lived, post Voidoids supa-group with Robert Quine, Fred Maher, Bill Laswell, Phillip Wilson and Michael Beinhorn...with DNA opening!
2021: Greil Marcus on who was more full of shit in R&R than Lou Reed:
"Eric Clapton? Lucinda Williams? Patti LaBelle? Jerry Garcia? John Lydon? Ryan Adams? Beyoncé?
I could go on Gene Simmons, Kanye, myself, Christgau. Dave Marsh, Ellen Sander, Nick Tosches (but he made you want to eat it), Yoko."
"Eric Clapton? Lucinda Williams? Patti LaBelle? Jerry Garcia? John Lydon? Ryan Adams? Beyoncé?
I could go on Gene Simmons, Kanye, myself, Christgau. Dave Marsh, Ellen Sander, Nick Tosches (but he made you want to eat it), Yoko."
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
2021: Greil Marcus on who was more full of shit in R&R than Lou Reed:
"Eric Clapton? Lucinda Williams? Patti LaBelle? Jerry Garcia? John Lydon? Ryan Adams? Beyoncé?
I could go on Gene Simmons, Kanye, myself, Christgau. Dave Marsh, Ellen Sander, Nick Tosches (but he made you want to eat it), Yoko."
"Eric Clapton? Lucinda Williams? Patti LaBelle? Jerry Garcia? John Lydon? Ryan Adams? Beyoncé?
I could go on Gene Simmons, Kanye, myself, Christgau. Dave Marsh, Ellen Sander, Nick Tosches (but he made you want to eat it), Yoko."
2003: Early days of my baseball HOF Gizmo ballot collecting.
Crusty BBWAA Member: "Why are you collecting HOF ballots?"
Me: "I want to get a ballpark figure of how the vote is trending."
Crusty BBWAA Member: "But that might ruin our announcement of the HOF results."
Me: "𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐋!"
Crusty BBWAA Member: "Why are you collecting HOF ballots?"
Me: "I want to get a ballpark figure of how the vote is trending."
Crusty BBWAA Member: "But that might ruin our announcement of the HOF results."
Me: "𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐋!"
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2003: Early days of my baseball HOF Gizmo ballot collecting.
Crusty BBWAA Member: "Why are you collecting HOF ballots?"
Me: "I want to get a ballpark figure of how the vote is trending."
Crusty BBWAA Member: "But that might ruin our announcement of the HOF results."
Me: "𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐋!"
Crusty BBWAA Member: "Why are you collecting HOF ballots?"
Me: "I want to get a ballpark figure of how the vote is trending."
Crusty BBWAA Member: "But that might ruin our announcement of the HOF results."
Me: "𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐋!"
Sabermemory - 1969
Jim "Jumbo" Nash on MLB having lowered the mound and seeing his ERA jump from 2.28 to 3.67.
"It's a rule thought up by decrepit old men. They ought to punch the guy who thought up the rule right in the mouth!"
Jim "Jumbo" Nash on MLB having lowered the mound and seeing his ERA jump from 2.28 to 3.67.
"It's a rule thought up by decrepit old men. They ought to punch the guy who thought up the rule right in the mouth!"
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Sabermemory - 1969
Jim "Jumbo" Nash on MLB having lowered the mound and seeing his ERA jump from 2.28 to 3.67.
"It's a rule thought up by decrepit old men. They ought to punch the guy who thought up the rule right in the mouth!"
Jim "Jumbo" Nash on MLB having lowered the mound and seeing his ERA jump from 2.28 to 3.67.
"It's a rule thought up by decrepit old men. They ought to punch the guy who thought up the rule right in the mouth!"
𝐖𝐍𝐄𝐖-𝐅𝐌 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬!
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
𝐖𝐍𝐄𝐖-𝐅𝐌 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬!
November 25, 1977: 48 sold-out yrs ago....unreadable Rolling Stone Magazine had their ghastly, testicular atrophying Beatles-beating off 10th Anniversary television special.
Watch at your own peril!
The Reason For the Punk Revolution Was Televised!
Watch at your own peril!
The Reason For the Punk Revolution Was Televised!
"Day in the Decade" Beatles tribute segment from 1977 Rolling Stone Anniversary
YouTube video by The Media Hoarder
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November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
November 25, 1977: 48 sold-out yrs ago....unreadable Rolling Stone Magazine had their ghastly, testicular atrophying Beatles-beating off 10th Anniversary television special.
Watch at your own peril!
The Reason For the Punk Revolution Was Televised!
Watch at your own peril!
The Reason For the Punk Revolution Was Televised!
Derek Jeter having 5 GG's is almost as silly as Gregg Olson having 3 G's in his name.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Derek Jeter having 5 GG's is almost as silly as Gregg Olson having 3 G's in his name.
Nov. 25, 2020 HEADLINE: "Trump Trying to Reinstate Execution by Firing Squad Before He Leaves Office"
Y'know, for once he might have been on to something here.
Y'know, for once he might have been on to something here.
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Nov. 25, 2020 HEADLINE: "Trump Trying to Reinstate Execution by Firing Squad Before He Leaves Office"
Y'know, for once he might have been on to something here.
Y'know, for once he might have been on to something here.
More from my bulbous-nosed Crime File...
A couple of 1974 pro-Nixon letters to the NY Daily News' always dumbellian "The Inquiring Fotographer" section:
A couple of 1974 pro-Nixon letters to the NY Daily News' always dumbellian "The Inquiring Fotographer" section:
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
More from my bulbous-nosed Crime File...
A couple of 1974 pro-Nixon letters to the NY Daily News' always dumbellian "The Inquiring Fotographer" section:
A couple of 1974 pro-Nixon letters to the NY Daily News' always dumbellian "The Inquiring Fotographer" section: