Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet

[sundaygal]

Paul Simonon of The Clash/Gorillaz spent 2 weeks in jail after being arrested on a Greenpeace mission.  He joined anonymously as a cook and never revealed his identity to them!

Check out the great jail cell drawing he made in one of the links in the story below.

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44634-the-clashs-paul-simonon-arrested-for-occupying-oil-rig-with-greenpeace/

I know it's an old shot, but a great one.  SWOON!



You can crush him, you can bruise him, yes, even shoot him......

[urth]

Paul Simonon of The Clash/Gorillaz spent 2 weeks in jail after being arrested on a Greenpeace mission.  He joined anonymously as a cook and never revealed his identity to them!

Check out the great jail cell drawing he made in one of the links in the story below.

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44634-the-clashs-paul-simonon-arrested-for-occupying-oil-rig-with-greenpeace/

I know it's an old shot, but a great one.  SWOON!



You can crush him, you can bruise him, yes, even shoot him......

Wow, very cool indeed. I'd heard music was always his second love; he was much more into being an artist.

One of my bigger musical regrets is not having seen the Clash more than I did. I did see 'em a couple of times after Combat Rock came out, but that was late in the game relatively speaking, as they'd sacked Topper Headon and gotten Terry Chimes (aka Tory Crimes) to rejoin by then.  Better than not at all, I guess.

[urth]

Now this RAWKS!  The Punk Rock Advent Calendar:

http://www.punk-christmas.com/

ETA: December 2 is freakin' great. Mike, you may want to mine this for a few nuggets for your Holiday Countdown. And they're all downloadable too--woot!!!

[sundaygal]

Cool little story about a guy who worked at a music store making a house call to the Dakota back in '78.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cp-roth/my-visit-with-john-lennon_b_1136589.html?ref=entertainment

[sundaygal]

Composite of aerial views of SF in the 30s...

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~217219~5504219:-Composite-image-of--Views-1-164-Sa

[Big Fingers McGee]

Composite of aerial views of SF in the 30s...

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~217219~5504219:-Composite-image-of--Views-1-164-Sa

Very cool - I bookmarked this. A couple of random observations:

1) SOMA is very different than it is now.
2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.

[urth]

2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.

It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).

[RGMike]

I went to this website thinking it was the Recycled Records in the Haight (but their URL hs a hyphen in it). This one's in Illinois and the intro is really cute:

http://www.recycledrecords.com/

[Big Fingers McGee]

2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.

It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).

Thanks - do you know when it was 'redesigned'?

[RGMike]

another cool searchable databse of Billboard and UK singles and album charts...

http://www.umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=25&ChMonth=12&ChYear=1973&ChBand=&ChSong=

[urth]

2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.

It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).

Thanks - do you know when it was 'redesigned'?

My guess would be around the time that they put in the Embarcadero freeway, but I would defer to local history buff TCat for confirmation on that.

Here's an old pic of it taken from in front of the Ferry Bldg., but not the one I referred to above. Still looking for that one.



And here's a postcard from a different angle, closer to the one I'm looking for but still not it.

[RGMike]

a reason to be cheerful? That your dad wasn't Ian Dury, apparently:

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Music/Article.aspx?id=251783

[Tinka Cat]

2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.

It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).

Thanks - do you know when it was 'redesigned'?

My guess would be around the time that they put in the Embarcadero freeway, but I would defer to local history buff TCat for confirmation on that.

Here's an old pic of it taken from in front of the Ferry Bldg., but not the one I referred to above. Still looking for that one.

And here's a postcard from a different angle, closer to the one I'm looking for but still not it.

I'm not certain of any specific timeline, but this sentence pretty much sums up the start of the decline of the Ferry Bldg:

"The opening of the Bay Bridge in 1936, and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, along with mass use of the automobile, rendered the daily commute by ferryboat obsolete."

(from http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/history2.php)

I bet that's when the Ferry Bldg's trolley and cable car hub configuration began to change.   And if you haven't yet seen the very interesting film from 1906 called "A trip down Market Street"  you should chk it out:

http://www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905

[urth]

The things people do with Legos these days.

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/legos-as-album-cover-art-by-aaron-savage

[sundaygal]

I posted this on my timeline today, but here it is again (in case you missed it).  So beautiful.

http://vimeo.com/35396305