1977: The Yesthetics of Rock: Richard Meltzer on Yes: "Saw Yes once they had a plastic hippopotamus on stage, most pretentiously boring show I ever saw, mainstream England died about 1968 and English new wave is so superior to what’s left of it, it’s like comparing a good pizza to mashed turnips."

April 13, 1980: 46 yrs ago, the Feelies played Maxwell's for the 1st time & became the must-see houseband for the next on/off 30+ yrs! Glenn Mercer: "I remember walking into Maxwell’s & thinking, Well, this is a step back. It’s a dive. But it was so much fun. We made it a habit to play there."

Another neat find in my stuff An April 1980 VV ad for a wild weekend at Irving Plaza with The Heartbreakers & Thin Ice opening. Sylvain Sylvain! with The Rudies & the Fabians! The Plastics with Manhattan Project & Michael Gira's first band Circus Mort opened...and the secret Secret Rocker Party!!

The Pope Smokes Dope

The Monty Hall Problem laughs at the J.D. Vance Problem.

Cold-hearted Orbán that used to rule the right.

Presence of the Lord Mountbatten 1969 Fusion magazine news bit about Blind Faith blowing it.

April 12, 2022: Hero Gilbert Gottfried, gone four shriekless year now. Gilbert on his meeting Hair Trump: "Trump is kinda like Hitler without the warmth." Here: Gottfried showing America how it should be done!

Sabermemory - 2023 Lil' Mikey's been hardcore anti-sabermetrics ever since he found out he couldn't stand on Baseball-Reference like he could The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia.

April 11, 1986: 𝟒𝟎 Stamaty-mighty yrs ago, Terrry & I finally finished our long-in-the-making backroom drawing of Maxwell's! We were going to take it down to Maxwell's that night to show it around but soberer heads prevailed and we hung it on the wall next to our AJ Weberman garbagy castoff wall!

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat y...𝗔𝗛𝗛, 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧!" Crazy Luke Graham 6:27-28

Sabermemory - 1994 That time gun-nut, righty Lefty Steve Carlton had fatigued thoughts. "For me to be elected to the Hall of Fame by the baseball writers is kind of like Rush Limbaugh being elected by the Clintons."

We truly are a doomed nation.

Put The Masters on for a minute...and I'm pretty sure I once saw this Cameron Smith character scalping Moby Grape tickets outside the Fillmore East.

I know that Ichiro Suzuki had a pathetic 82 OPS+ after he left the Seattle...but the Mariners had to build a cheap broken bat single of a statue to remind him?

Sabermemory - 2015 Suzyn Waldman: "When I was a child, we never heard of pitchers having sore arms!" Wait...didn't hurler Jesse Tannehill hurt his arm in 1906?

April 10, 2024: O.J. Simpson...gone 2 yrs now. Here, autographs I got RIGHT after O.J. signed his pro contract in 1969! Agent/Handler: (whispers to O.J.) "O.J., you're a professional now. Sign it Buffalo Bills." O.J. Simpson: "Don't tell me what to do!" Me: "Thanks, O. J.!" (runs like hell)

𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥!

April 9-10, 1979: A standalone Village Voice ad for SVT playing Hurrah (Judy Nylon and The Invaders opened) which took place 47 surrealistic years ago. Or as one stuffy wannabe rockcrit said: "Jack Casady: From Crown of Creation to Crown of Destruction".

Another swell find in my '70s+ Punk/Psychotronic stuff... 1981 ad for the righteous Rocks In Your Head record store on Prince St. in SoHo. They then moved to Williamsburg in 2006, only to close for good soon after.

April 9, 1976: Hero Phil Ochs, gone 𝟓𝟎 rebellious yrs With Patti Smith, a yr before the John Butler Train would pull out of the station forever, I saw Ochs for the last time at the culture-shifting, changing of the red guard, downer-fest that be the May 11, 1975 'War is Over!' rally in Central Park

Remembering that '80s night, when Stoopid Stevie talked his way into coming to a Blatz listening party at my dump and one of the first things I plunked down was John Lee Hooker's thigh-testifying "Shake It Baby" slice: Stoopid Stevie: "Hey! I dig Mayall too!"

Another boss find in my stuff...PRM magazine's Best of March 1973. Or, the one where Judy Collins should've learned to yodel!

It still blows my mind that when "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" was released in 2023...Harrison Ford was 80-years-old. Which was older than wrinkle-ravaged Burt Mustin was when he played Gus the Fireman!

Fryday on My Mind Remember this wild 1977 photo from my batch of stolen/thrown out NMEs...that I don't recall ever seeing anywhere else. Now where are my remaining Beatles albums...

April 7, 1974: Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece "The Conversation" was released 52 eavesdropping years ago. As author Mark Feeney once wrote: "Harry Caul was the son Richard Nixon never had."

Sabermemory - 2013 Reds announcer Chris Welsh: "OPS is on-base percentage plus batting average." "The Hidden Game of Baseball" remains hidden in Cincinnati.

While working on a project for someone...I just came across this righteous Dec. 1980 Rock Lounge ad in my stuff with La Peste! The Speedies! The Del-Byzanteens! Raybeats! and coming...much, much more! BTW: As I recall, The Rock Lounge was soon to become the legendary and notorious Reggae Lounge.

Buried alive...in my '70s+ Punk/Psychotronic crate. No idea where this is from (insert maybe?) but it's a neat 1984 Lyres "On Fyre" LP post card/ad thingee with the Ace of Hearts label on back.

Another find in my stuff... A Nov. 21, 1981 ad for Billy Hancock and his Tennessee Rockets during the last legs of the legendary Mudd Club. "The Raging Rhino of Rebel Rock & Roll"!?

Imhotep did it better.

1977: Last Great American James Whale

It's Yankee Stadium Opening Day 2026! Remembering back to 1969 Opening Day at The Stadium: Hero Michael Burke here with 3 very questionable Hall of Famers.

Mahatma Mel McGaha tells me that Rafael Devers has passed Trumpian troglodyte Johnny Damon in career Home Runs 236-235. As the tagline for "Monstroid" went: "Since before time...waiting...waiting...waiting..."

Trumpian thickhead, Audrey Huff Mommy listed his Top 10 baseball players of all time: Huff on his leaving off Babe Ruth (but including someone called Willy Mays). "You put Babe Ruth in today’s league he’s in AAA up and down riding the train as a pinch hitter. If he’s lucky."

Eat me, Bo Belinsky! 1963: 19-year old NYC wunderkind Paul Speckenbach, the Dodgers 100G bonus baby hurler who washed out in Single A ball with a gruesome 19.69 ERA. Speckenbach later became a big hit on the borscht belt circuit with his uproarious Robert Cummings on meth impersonation.

Le Shat Bleu 1977: Willy DeVille on his being compared to...uhh, Southside Johnny. Oy. "I ain't Jersey. I ain't Southside Johnny. Cause' I think we're coming from two different places, too. He's a real oldies nut. I don't dig purists. Purists wreck everything, always."

Penny Simpleton: "Bondi Takes a Vacation"

Actually, Papa Hates Mambo!

1977: Johnny Ramone on the Ramones not doing "Chinese Rocks". "We don't wanna do no songs bout heroin. I mean, there's too much ugliness going around in the world & it's bad enough us singin' 'bout killin' people & beatin' 'em up. I mean, heroin kills people. You gotta draw the line somewhere!"

Goo Goo Clusterfuck Jesse Duquette: "It’s probably just gonna be a stack of Highlights for Children and a recipe for homemade rohypnol."

Another find in my sub '70s Psychotronic crate. Nov. 1967 review of Richard Lester's Lennon-fueled "How I Won the War" written by the legendary Wanda Hale, who I believe started the "Star Movie Rating System" back in the '20s! "Brawling demonstrators hurled stench bombs during the screening"!

April 1, 1976: Mighty Max Ernst...gone *𝟓𝟎* frottaged years now. Surreal. Plus...any reason to play Mission of Burma!

April 1, 1949: Unsavory Trumpian fraudster Paul Manafort is 77 traitorous years old today. Here: Rick Gates still remembers.

In 1976, Popular Sports/Grand Slam magazine selected their All-Time, All-White, American League All-Star Team: And I don't know which was their bigger joke pick, Eddie Gaedel or Catfish Hunter.

Another find in my '70s Punk/Psychotronic stuff: March 31, 1978: 48 years ago...an ad for the short-lived CBGB's Second Avenue Theater with The Jam with The Tuff Darts opening! Plus "The Best Of The New, New Wave" (New, New Oy) with The Cramps, The Erasers, Sic Fucks and Uncle Floyd fave Shrapnel!

For the love of... March 31, 1996: Jeffrey Lee Pierce gone 𝟑𝟎 Keats ridin' years now. Crushing, just crushing.

Sabermemory - 2019 Marlboro Light-headed Trumpster, Keith Hernandez on Pete Alonso hitting his first ML home run: "He's got the Spanish blood in him!"

March 30, 1945: Anti-vaxxer Eric "Strum Thurmond" Clapton is 81 years old today! I knew a guy back in the early '70s who would roam around WNY and spray paint "Clapton Is GOD!" on unsuspecting factory walls. He then saw Clapton in concert...and immediately called the WNY Graffiti Removal Hotline!

March 30, 1930: Happy *𝟗𝟔𝐭𝐡* Birthday, John Astin! I'm Dickens, He's Fenster I'm Alive, He's Dead