BMX training event, photo from reuters.com: I have no recollection of a major incident that occurred in Montreal in the fall of 1970 — the kidnapping of a Canadian official by five Marxists, one female, who wanted Quebec to be self-governing, citing gross injustice and mistreatment of French Canadians. I…

It’s Fashion Week in Paris. The item below was created by Kevin Germanier. Was he inspired by Pinhead? Photo from reuters.com:

RIP David McCallum, 90. Born in Glasgow, the son of classical musicians, he studied the oboe before turning to acting. His career spanned 1953 to the present, beginning in radio. There are 131 titles under his name at IMDb, a figure that doesn’t begin to tell his story. He appeared…

Rugby World Cup 2023 — Pool C — Wales v Australia, photo from reuters.com: RIP Terry Kirkman, 83, founding member of The Association. Born in Kansas, raised in southern California, he worked briefly with Frank Zappa, David Crosby and Cass Elliott. In 1965 he and Jules Alexander formed The Association…

I love the underground economy outside of drug dealing and such. Headline from nypost.com: “Bridge too far: Dozens of vendors still swarm Brooklyn Bridge in free-for-all — selling illegal cocktails, pics with live snake.” Some dub it “disgusting.” I’d object only if the vendors did not clean up after themselves…

I am aware that filmmaker Sofia Coppolla is a cousin of Nicolas Cage, whose birth name is Coppolla. I’m not sure I’d ever heard he had two brothers working in the film industry: director/producer Christopher Coppolla and actor/DJ Marc Coppolla, the elder. Nic is the youngest. Since he is so…

Here’s why I hadn’t said anything about the writers’ strike, although my instincts are almost always anti-union. Headline from nypost.com: “Same old story: Striking WGA union spent big on sushi, 5-star hotels and cash for Dems — while begging public to give money for writers.” Hollywood’s richest — actors, producers…

Born in the hills of West Virginia in 1892, Pearl S. Buck, the child of missionaries, spent her childhood, from the age of five months, in China. She was prolific, author of scores of books, the most famous The Good Earth, which garnered her a Pulitzer in 1932, and which…

Manhattan photo taken by Mavis CW, courtesy of the guardian.com: Let’s try some musical captions: 867–5309 (Jenny) (Tommy Tutone, written by Alexander Hughes Call / James Irwin Keller), Don’t Hang Up (The Orlons, 1962, Dave Appell & Kal Mann); Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie, 1978, Jack Lee); Hello (Adele, 2015)…