•In honor of
Columbus Day, a clip
ending with a line about Columbus that is my favorite moment from the
infamous Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
•Curvy star Tura
Satana passed away last year, and though in real life, she was everything from
b-movie actress and exotic dancer to rape victim and martial artist, perhaps
the most amazing thing – even more amazing than her reported refusal of Elvis
Presley’s proposal of marriage – is that she was briefly a Los Angeles police
dispatcher.
•And the Spanish-influenced
bits of the New World got just a bit more socialistic yesterday after
Venezuela, alas, voted the authoritarian Hugo Chavez another six-year term and
no doubt six more years of consolidating power and shutting down rivals and
independent media.
•But on a somewhat
brighter presidential note, here in the U.S. there is a book about JFK on the NYT
bestsellers list right now edited by a Brown historian who was once the Upper Crust guitar
player/back-up vocalist known as Lord Rockingham: Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy.
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