Resurrecting Rankin and Bass is a vanishingly rare instance in which I would be disinclined to yell, "NO! Infernal necromancy is so very, very WRONG!"
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I’m pretty sure Aardman Animations would be up to it.
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If you have clear skies tonight get the free app Open Camera. That app has all the features a camera should have.
You can easily play with the exposure and get some better photos.
It looks confusing when you first open the app but it’s really easy once you poke around.
It also has exposure bracketing.
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I’m lost as to this reference but that takes me back.
We saw Dusty Rhodes many times at Cobo Arena in the 70s. My godfather always got us tickets along the chute where the wrestlers came out of the locker room.
Slapping hands with the likes of Bobo Brazil as he came out was a thing of awe for a young kid.
Watching the Funk Brothers take on Abdul The Butcher and the original Shiek with ice picks, blood, and fire was insane to watch live.
I wish I still had all the signed programs.
Memories, light the corners of my mind…
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Looks like thunderstorms tonight, but I still appreciate the app suggestion. The official Android camera app is pretty terrible compared to what I had on my older Samsung, especially after the most recent update.
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Thanks for the tip, I’ll try it out!
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I was watching later than you (in the 80s) and never really got to go see any of the promotions live, unfortunately (maybe once the WCW came to town and my dad took me?).
Rhodes was just an excellent face and his son Dustin seems to have stepped up into his big old American dream boots and gotten to where he did not go! The Rhodes/Flair on again/ off again feuds were always must watch stuff.
If you haven’t seen it on youtube, Jim Cornett will post clips from his podcast where he talks about both current and historical pro-wrestling stuff…
You might remember he was a heel manager for the midnight express…
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Whoa, nice!
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On my walk to my credit union today:
The Witch’s Hat Tower
The tower is purported to be the inspiration for Bob Dylan’s song “All Along the Watchtower,” as the tower was clearly visible from Dylan’s home in nearby Dinkytown.[3] [citation needed]
Interestingly, the Wikipedia article on the song has this (emphasis mine):
Dave Van Ronk, an early supporter and mentor of Dylan,[32] made the following criticism:[33]
That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies unintelligibility. Dylan has a lot to answer for there, because after a while he discovered that he could get away with anything… So he could do something like ‘All Along the Watchtower’, which is simply a mistake from the title on down: a watchtower is not a road or a wall, and you can’t go along it.
But, if the inspiration really was the Witch’s Hat Tower, you can go along the balustrade at the top. (Okay, you can’t go along it right now—it used to be open to the public on one day each year, but it’s been closed since 2023 because repairs are needed.) There’s a photo at the first link I gave, that shows people up there, if you want a sense of scale.
In the same neighborhood…in front of someone’s house…
Not exactly griffins, I don’t think…but what are they?
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(Wow, I got a lot of mileage out of my Suicide cassette - & that was like 10 years after the album came out… I got a little Yamaha keyboard around the same time, & played those riffs over & over, along with those from PiL’s Metal Box)
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Yes, they’re Griffins 
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Alright, then, thanks! That’s what I thought initially, but when I looked it up, it seemed that griffins would have the head of an eagle, so then I thought that maybe these were some other specific thing. But one must allow for creative variations on themes, right?
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Exactly. Some Griffins have only eagles’ wings and tootsies, some have an eagle’s head, too.
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Historical context!!!
Suicide did not release an album until the late 70s, but they’d been around since 1969, playing first at an art studio and then setting up a residency at (I think) Max’s Kansas City… they are often classified as “post-punk” because they used keyboards and were experimental in their use of said instruments. HOWEVER, from what I can dig up in my research… they were the first band to say that they were making “punk music”… in either 1970 or 71… I’ll try to look up the citation. Having trouble finding it right now.
Here we go!!!
1970!!!
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