Sun Shine
1. Did anyone else hear an incredibly loud boom about 2 o’clock in the morning? Like shake-the-foundation, end-of-the-world, they’ve-dropped-the-big-one loud? Me and my dog heard it (and believe me, blind dogs hate sudden, loud noises). I figured the end was near, so I went back to sleep, but when I got up this morning, it was a normal, rainy Sunday morning. I looked on the local blogs, I looked on the (very cool) USGS earthquake site. No news. I can’t believe it’s not all over the intarweb - it was that loud.
2. I love cvillelaw’s “Today in History” bits on Democratic Central. Do you remember Jimmy Carter’s epic battle with the aquatic killer bunny?
3. From Bedazzled: I have a pretty strong memory of this song. My sisters had a record of “Up, Up and Away (in My Beautiful Balloon)” that I loved when I was about seven or so, so I knew The Fifth Dimension. Then, in the eventful year of 1969, The Fifths had a huge hit with a medley from the musical “Hair”, “Age of Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In“. The song was played all over the place, and put them on teevee variety programs. I have a really vivid memory of watching them on some show (Flip Wilson maybe?), and my dad making fun of the song by saying “I wonder what the title of that song is?” (the second half of the medley basically repeats the phrase “Let the sunshine in” about six hundred times).
I’m not sure if the video here was the same clip, but it could have been. I love the 60’s styling on this one - you can bet some director somewhere was really proud of the effects in this clip.
(Trivia: according to the site classicbands.com, The Fifths recorded the single in a Las Vegas studio that was close to some railroad tracks, and you can supposedly hear a train going by at the end of the master tape).
4. From Boing Boing, the legal way to be a drug dealer. Oh, Morley S. Preppernau, where are when we need you?
5. Dead ladybugs, caught between a screen and a storm window.
I heard the boom. Scared the shit out of me. I thought it was thunder, though. Either that or mortar fire landing near Scott Stadium.
Comment by Justin — Sunday, 20 April, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
I heard it, and assumed it was thunder. It woke me up, and thunder doesn’t usually wake me up.
Comment by Sean Tubbs — Sunday, 20 April, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
It was thunder. We were having a party and were out on our front porch with our guests when there was an intense flash of lightening–the kind that you feel in your chest and that makes you feel like your hair is all standing on end. The giant thunder boom happened a split second after. It scared the crap out of us, and the weird thing is, we had been talking about electrocution when this happened. I feel like we just missed being electrocuted ourselves.
Comment by patience — Sunday, 20 April, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
Re: The Fifth Dimension
In third grade at Padonia Elementary School in Cockeysville MD, we learned to play “Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine” on our little black song flutes. I’m sure, for our parents that particular song has never been the same. Not to mention the bus driver and Mr. Balmages, our music teacher. We also ruined “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and “It’s a Small World, After All” for them.
Comment by Foust — Monday, 21 April, 2008 @ 8:15 am
So THAT’S how you spell “Balmages”…it always sounded like you were saying “Mister Bowel-Majors”, LOL!
I did not hear the boom.
Comment by Golly Pete — Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 @ 11:12 am