The Popovich Cat Circus in Moscow.

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The original Batmobile from the 1966 T.V. series Batman is in Winnipeg for the World of Wheels extravaganza. Actually 3 versions are in town. The 1989 Batmobile and the 2005 Batmobile. But the best Batmobile is the original Batmobile. This is a replica however, as the original is held in a private collection.

 

In October, 2010, DC Comics authorized Fiberglass Freaks in Logansport, Indiana, to build officially licensed 1966 Batmobile replicas. These replicas have been sold to customers in England, Italy, Canada, and across the U.S. One of Fiberglass Freaks’ 1966 Batmobile Replicas sold at an R & M auction for $216,000.

The Batmobile at the Winnipeg Convention Centre yesterday.

 

And not only is the Batmobile from the original T.V. series in town, Batman and Robin from the series are here as well, Adam West and Burt Ward!

Some behind the scenes photos from the original series:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adam is a real trooper at the age of 84 still coming to theses shows.

 

 

Burt at age 67 is a pup beside Adam.

 

 

 

 

 

I guess the Batmobile was undergoing maintenance by the trusted butler Alfred, so the Caped Crusader had to find alternative transportation.

 

What Michael Jackson did look like.

 

 

 

 

 

Sudbury Saturday Night

 

Charles Thomas “Stompin’ Tom” Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 –  March 6, 2013) was one of Canada’s most prolific and well-known country and folk singers. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, Connors is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly 4 million copies.

 

 

 

He was born Charles Thomas Connors (known as Tommy Messer) in Saint John, New Brunswick to the teenaged Isabel Connors and her boyfriend Thomas Sullivan. He was a cousin of New Brunswick fiddling sensation, Ned Landry. He spent a short time living with his mother in a low-security women’s penitentiary before he was seized by Children’s Aid Society and was later adopted by the Aylward family in Skinners Pond, Prince Edward Island.

At the age of 15 he left his adoptive family to hitchhike across Canada, a journey that consumed the next 13 years of his life as he travelled between various part-time jobs while writing songs on his guitar. At his last stop in Timmins, Ontario, which may also have been his big “break”, he found himself a nickel short of a beer at the city’s Maple Leaf Hotel. The bartender, Gaet Lepine, agreed to give Tom a beer if he would play a few songs. These few songs turned into a 13-month contract to play at the hotel, a weekly spot on the CKGB radio station in Timmins, eight 45-RPM recordings, and the end of the beginning for Tom Connors.

Connors released music on no fewer than seven different labels. His earliest foray into recording was on the CKGB Timmins radio station label. These 45 RPM singles were pressed by Quality Records in Toronto, and distributed (and paid for) primarily by Tom. His first two albums (and two subsequent 45 RPM singles) were released on the Rebel Records bluegrass label, under the name “Tom Connors”. These two albums were subsequently re-released on Dominion Records under the Stompin’ Tom moniker and had to be totally re-recorded due to a dispute with Rebel Records owner John Irvine.

Most of Connors’ well-known albums were released on Dominion Records (1969–70), and after 1971 on the Boot Records label that he co-founded with Jury Krytiuk and Mark Altman. His releases on Dominion (and all subsequent releases) were done under the name “Stompin’ Tom Connors”. Most of the Rebel and Dominion albums would be reissued (and in some cases, re-recorded) under the Boot label, and would represent the bulk of his recorded material. It was released on 33¹⁄₃ RPM record albums, 45 RPM record singles, 8-tracks, and cassette tapes.

After his retreat from the music business in the late 1970s, he started the A-C-T (Assisting Canadian Talent) label in 1986, and released two albums: “Stompin’ Tom is Back to Assist Canadian Talent” and his comeback album, “Fiddle and Songs” in 1988. A-C-T also re-released Tom’s back catalogue on cassette tapes only.

All of his subsequent releases (and re-releases) have been through Capitol Records / EMI. Most of this work is now available on Compact Disc. In recent years, many of his album releases have included at least one re-recording of one of his earlier songs.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

The girls are out to Bingo and the boys are gettin’ stinko,
And we think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.
The glasses they will tinkle when our eyes begin to twinkle,
And we’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.

With Irish Jim O’Connel there and Scotty Jack MacDonald,
There’s honky Fredrick Hurchell gettin’ tight, but that’s alright,
There’s happy German Fritzy there with Frenchy getting tipsy,
And even Joe the Gypsy knows it’s Saturday tonight.

Now when Mary Ann and Mabel come to join us at the table,
And tell us how the Bingo went tonight, we’ll look a fright.
But if they won the money, we’ll be lappin’ up the honey, boys,
‘Cause everything is funny, for it’s Saturday tonight

The girls are out to Bingo and the boys are gettin’ stinko,
And we think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.
The glasses they will tinkle when our eyes begin to twinkle,
And we’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.

We’ll drink the loot we borrowed and recuperate tomorrow,
‘Cause everything is wonderful tonight, we had a good fight,
We ate the Dilly Pickle and we forgot about the Nickel,
And everybody’s tickled, for it’s Saturday tonight

The songs that we’ll be singing, they might be wrong but they’ll be ringing,
When the lights of town are shining bright, and we’re all tight,
We’ll get to work on Monday, but tomorrow’s only Sunday,
And we’re out to have a fun day for it’s Saturday tonight. Yeah

The girls are out to Bingo and the boys are gettin’ stinko,
And we think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.
The glasses they will tinkle when our eyes begin to twinkle,
And we’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.

We’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night.

 

 

 

Lady Gaga’s former personal assistant has accused the pop superstar of invading her privacy by forcing her to sleep in bed with her on tour.

Jennifer O’Neill, who spent 13 months working for the Poker Face star, is suing the singer and her tour company over allegations she is owed $380,000 for 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime during the 2010 Monster Ball trek.

Gaga had to give a sworn deposition as part of the legal proceedings, and during her expletive-ridden testimony, she branded O’Neill a “f–king hood rat” and accused her of failing in her duties by leaving her to carry her own luggage and unpack her own bags.

O’Neill has also testified as part of the dispute, and during her deposition, obtained by the New York Post, she claimed she was never given her own hotel room while on tour and was forced to sleep in the same bed as her boss.

She says, “I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did not sleep alone… Unlike anybody else on that tour, I did not have my own hotel room. I was not asked if I wanted my own hotel room… I had no privacy, no chance to talk to any family, no chance to talk to any friends, no chance to have sex if I wanted to have sex. There was no chance to do anything.”

When asked if sleeping in the same bed as Gaga was part of her job, O’Neill replies, “I felt it was.”

O’Neill also alleged the singer expected her to be available to work every hour of the day, adding, “(Gaga said) ‘I expect you to be working and to be available 24/7.”

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

In my opinion one of the best songs performed by The King.

(words & music by scott davis)
As the snow flies
On a cold and gray chicago mornin
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
Cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
Its another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

People, don’t you understand
The child needs a helping hand
Or hell grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
Are we too blind to see,
Do we simply turn our heads
And look the other way

Well the world turns
And a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto

And his hunger burns
So he starts to roam the streets at night
And he learns how to steal
And he learns how to fight
In the ghetto

Then one night in desperation
A young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
Tries to run, but he don’t get far
And his mama cries

As a crowd gathers round an angry young man
Face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto

As her young man dies,
On a cold and gray chicago mornin,
Another little baby child is born
In the ghetto

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

The Tempura Kidz are four young girls and a boy who are doing their best to turn the world day-glow with this marvelously trippy video for the infectious song “Cider, Cider.”

 

The kidz are Yu-Ka,  AO, NaNaHo, Karin and P→★.  Directed by Kazuaki Seki. Costumes by Matsato Suzuki.

 

Before Manitoba opened beer vendors on Sundays, the only place to get booze was at the wine stores.  And my bohemian friends and I would go and buy a few jugs of Cider.  We referred to it as Cider Sundays.  The stuff was strong and very sweet.  And it left you with a hang-over on Monday morning that made you feel like a 100 turkeys had run over your face, and the last 10 gobblers shit in your mouth.  It was god awful beyond description.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

 

Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American film and television actor best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and astronaut Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

 

Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname “Moon the Loon”. Moon joined The Who in 1964. He played on all albums and singles from their debut, 1964′s “Zoot Suit”, to 1978′s Who Are You, which was released three weeks before his death.

 

 

On 6 September 1978, the night of his death, Moon and girlfriend Annette Walter-Lax were guests of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney at a preview of the film The Buddy Holly Story. After dining with the McCartneys at Peppermint Park in Covent Garden, Moon and Walter-Lax returned to their flat. The flat actually belonged to singer Harry Nilsson, who was loaning it to Moon. The flat, No.12 at 9 Curzon Place (now called Curzon Square), ShepherdMarket, Mayfair, was the same property where singer Cass Elliot died four years earlier.

Moon watched a film, The Abominable Doctor Phibes and requested Walter-Lax cook him a breakfast of steak and eggs. When she objected, Moon replied “If you don’t like it, you can fuck off!” These turned out to be his last words.  Moon then took 32 tablets of clomethiazole (Heminevrin).

Clomethiazole is a sedative which was prescribed to Moon to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Moon desperately wanted to detox from alcohol; however, due to his fear of a psychiatric hospital, he wanted to do it at home. However, clomethiazole is specifically discouraged for unsupervised home detox because of its addictiveness, its tendency to rapidly induce drug tolerance, and its dangerously high risk of death when mixed with alcohol. The pills were also prescribed by a new doctor, Dr. Geoffrey Dymond, who was unaware of Moon’s recklessly impulsive nature and long history of prescription sedative abuse. Dymond gave Moon a full bottle of 100 pills, and instructed him to take one pill whenever he felt a craving for alcohol (but not more than three pills per day). The police determined there were 32 pills in Moon’s system, with the digestion of six being sufficient to cause his death, and the other 26 of which were still undissolved when he died.

Dangerous Minds

In this excerpt from British TV show The Real…, Larry Hagman spares no details in describing the time he drove Keith Moon to rehab after the drummer over-indulged in Black Beauties (amphetamine). Moon and Hagman were friends, having originally met on the set of Stardust, a 1973 movie about the Brit rock business starring David Essex.