From my crate: A 1981 ad for Neil Cooper's ROIR Cassettes Cooper on why he dumped running clubs & got into the record label biz: "These guys who ran small record labels would come in with beautiful women on their arms and order champagne & I’d be running around trying to fix an overflowing toilet!"

Sabermemory - 1981 People forget that Wayne Nordhagen (and his impactful 127 OPS+) was the shit for the Chicago White Sox back in 1981.

Feb. 17, 2021: Rush Limbaugh...gone 5 joyous years now. Ex-WNY faux hippie turned douche-haired new waver turned traitorous Trumpian twit: "Rush Limbaugh says all the things America doesn't want to hear!" Me: "You mean sorta like Kajagoogoo?"

Feb. 17, 2021: That inhuman garbage scow of radio-venom, Rush Limbaugh, gone five jubilant years now. Back in the late '70s, that vanguard of lard, Limbaugh worked for the Kansas City Royals and by the looks of it...he swallowed poor Freddie Patek up whole!

The Defiant Ones they ain't.

Sabermemory - 2020 "Mad Dog" Russo to Brian Kenny: "In centerfield you have Willie Mays rated over Joe DiMaggio? I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN DO THAT!" Willie Mays was basically as good as TWO Joe DiMaggios. 155 OPS+/WAR 156.2 -12,500 PAs - Willie Mays 155 OPS+/WAR 79.1 --- 7,700 PAs - Joe DiMaggio

Feb. 16, 2018: 8 years ago...Mitt Romney announced he was running for the U.S. Senate. "I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and bring Utah's values to Washington." Also, Gary Ridgway of Utah brought his Utah values to Washington...and look how that worked out!

Can't You Hear Me Knocking Jon Landau Another grabber from my stuff... A 1971 letter to RS about Landau roofing his copy of the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" album.

And just before that, Hitler ordered his syringe-beaked SS physician Werner Haase to poison his beyond loyal Nazi German Shepherd dog Bondi...uhh, I mean Blondi, with a lethal cyanide capsule.

Another gem of find in my stuff... A 1972 Fusion year-ender (Martin Kohn had the honors?) calling Bob Dylan's Grossman-fueled "Tarantula" novel/poetry book The Worst Book of 1971! So bad...I think I only have two copies of it!

A Happy WNY Valentine's Day from Richard and Babs Kuklinski! As the old song goes... "And if you can't be with the one you love, The Iceman probably had something to do with it!"

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲!

Feb. 14, 1999: Creator of the WH Plumbers, John Ehrlichman gone 27 yrs now 1969: Ehrlichman to student anti-draftniks: "If you think you can break laws now just because you don't like them...you're going to force us to up the ante to where we're giving out death sentences for traffic violations!"

Usually, remakes really suck...but the reboot of "Tarzan and His Mate" as "Bub and His Mate" looks friggin' great! She traded civilization for the love of Bub... her mate!

It's being reported that the notorious, facially malformed Richard "The Boot" Boiardo imposter has finally been arrested at a high-end dermal filling store in Newark. Bravisimo fellas!

Another righteous pull from my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crate... Feb 10-11-12-13, 1977: 49 viral infecting years ago...John Cale with The Mumps opening, played their last night of their latest run at CBGB. Return engagement because John Cale and The Mumps had just played CBGB on Jan 20-21-22.

Hey, lying Saks of shit Herr Trump and Musk...where the hell is my $5,000 DOGE check? This 1958 Adventure Comics #247 (CGC 5.0) including the first ever appearance of The Legion of Superheroes comic...ain't gonna stay at $4,799.95 forever!

Dig this 1920s photo of Terry's aunt and her friends rooftopping in Brooklyn under the cool caption "Jazz Hounds".

1967: Steve Winwood on Little Richard's "Hurry Sundown". "I think Little Richard's made a lot better records than this. I think it's quite good but the song is nothing special. It started off well but then it got a bit boring." "Hurry Sundown" 2:47 (Boring) "Roll Right Stones" 13:40 (Not Boring)

For all you fellow Sahm stoners out there, another boss find in my '70s+ Punk/Psychotronic crate... A Jan. 1981 NY Rocker subscription ad featuring All-American hero, Sir Doug Sahm! Photo (Lone Star?) by the legendary Stephanie Chernikowski.

Feb. 11, 2002: Fractious Frank Crosetti...gone 23 horsehide hoarding years now. My foul ball caught at The Yankee Stadium in 1966. And eat me Crosetti...you still ain't getting it back!

Monumental melon head Michael Kay has leptospirosis-catchy thoughts. Once overbite, beaver-toothed Rudy Giuliani presided over Kay's wedding to The Big Applegate...Kay has mindlessly followed orders going forward. Oh, and fuck the Yankees.

Unsung Mammal Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll Another find in my stuff: A 1971 Nick Tosches-fueled letter to Fusion magazine.

Another rad find in my stuff... Blood, Guts & Magic. 1990: A Sub Pop double ad for the Dwarves and L7.

Acid-tongued Alex Jones, acid-inducing Sarah Palin and acid-faced Manuel Noriega were all born on a Feb. 11. Acidemia running wild!

Feb 10, 1983: 43 pop-crocked years ago...Terry and I went to see the fab Chesterfield Kings and The Fuzztones during the mind blasting last legs of The Mudd Club. Somehow, we ended up upstairs and got involved taking part in a Pop People play being filmed or something. Talk about fuzzy...

February 10, 2013: 13 thurible incurable years ago...87-year-old Pope Benedict XVI just up and resigned from his post as head of the Catholic Church: Hell...I still firmly believe that the Pope quit because the still active Black Dahlia Task Force was finally closing in on him.

Feb. 10, 2014: The Littlest Repellent, Shirley Temple Black Lives Don't Matter...gone 12 yrs now. 1967: Anti-porn, Pro-Vietnam War & Beatles fan, Shirley Temple: "𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐩 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬! 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐬!"

Feb. 10, 2003: Righty Ron Ziegler, former Nixon White House Press Secretary...gone 23 prevaricatin' years now. Ziegler had what some have called a "third-rate burial".

More cool Village Voice ad finds in my '70s+ Punk - Psychotronic crate. Feb. 9, 1980: 46 years ago: Checking Out The...Wazmo Nariz shows! At Trax and Club 57/Irving Plaza.

Sabermemory - 2021 5 years ago, c-antigenius Curt Schilling tried to get a groundswell going to win over BBWAA HOF voters for his final year on the ballot. "I know the sportswriters. I know that these are some of the most morally flawed, corruptible, horrible, reprehensible human beings on Earth!"

Can't decide which halftime show not to watch...well here's a third entry! Look, I've long blamed the rash of hellbent heroin addiction that swept through the NYC area in the mid-'70s on that necrotizing skin lesion forming "James Paul McCartney" TV Special, and I still see no proof that it wasn't!

6 yrs ago, Trump wanted Pete Rose in the HOF. You mean Pete Rose, the tax-evading, womanizing, amphetamine-popping, corked bat using, statutory rapist, with a gambling addiction & hung around cocaine-dealing lowlife forgers & mobbed-up gyms for yrs, but SOMEHOW drew the line at taking roids. HIM?

Feb. 8, 1942: Fritz Peterson and Terry Melcher were both born on the same exact day. And now...they are best known for moving out of their houses when they did.

What time does the Super Bowl start? I want to make sure I miss all of it.

It's sorta like Hell's version of Dayn Perry's "Beer or Tacos?" dilemma. Jesse Duquette: "Friendless Urinal Cake posting racist memes to get people to stop talking about his sex crimes is peak MAGA."

Feb. 2020: That great journalist and author, Roger Kahn...gone 6 years now. The man who single-handedly invented a HOF cottage industry.

Sabermemory - 2014 12 wink and nodding years ago...cutting hedge Bob Costas got a huge kick outta being able to say "Pussy Riot" on the air. Natch, Costas drew the line at mentioning "Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets".

Recalling that Trumpian bargument I had with some dim bulb from south Jersey. Dim Bulb: "We love Trump down here at the Jersey Shore!" Me: "Look, the only good thing about Ocean County, N.J. is that you don't have to travel all the way to Alabama to show your kids what fucking bumpkins look like."

From Up with People to Upchuck with People. Jesse Duquette: "It will be attended by the dozens."

Feb. 6, 1931: Happy Birthday, hero Mamie Van Doren...*95* untamed years old today! Crinoline! Mamie Van Doren in 2019: "I’m living in Orange County and everyone around here is a conservative. I can’t believe they’re so stupid. They’re talking about how great Trump is. I think, OH, MY GOD!"

Feb 5, 1987: Michael Burke, gone 39 yrs now Years before beers started pouring like spit in a schoolyard, before a gangplank of stringy flesh had been constructed between Jonah Hex’s crevisious lips, before the sweet ravages of gutter-twang swept me off my cleats, there was Michael Burke. Punk hero

Feb. 4, 1986: Tell every soul! It's the 40th anniv of The Replacements playing their "Murder at the Maxwell's" gig, which became the 2017 "For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986" CD. As me pal Smuggo said that night: "This is greatest fucking show I've seen since J.F. Murphy & Salt at the Fillmore East!"

Feb. 4, 2011: The Goddess of Badass, Tura Satana and pitcher Woodie Fryman both died on the same exact day, 15 pussycat killing years ago. As I said at the time: That wasn't the only woodie to die that day.

The Story of Unfair Mankind Feb. 4, 1983: Jim Ameche, gone 43 glossed over years now. Imagine, just imagine, spending your whole career in show business toiling in the shadow of your dull brother, matinée midol Don Ameche...only to get totally eaten up and Darby Crashed by Karen Carpenter's death.

ATTENTION: The Thoughts and Prayers line forms on the far right. BTW: There is currently no known cure or effective treatment for Turtle fraservirus 1 (TFV1).

There's a number of reasons I never bought any of Rochelle Staab's Murder Mystery/Crime books... And here, from 1974...are a bunch of them!

I know getting celebrities to back your campaign is extremely difficult for artless/tasteless MAGAs to get...but hollow-headed huckster Mark Teixeira has pulled in a Allen Midgette impersonator!

Blanche: I have always depended on the kindness of stranglers.

Screw Feb 3, 1959! The Day the Music 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 Died was Feb 3, 1971 That's the day Andy Williams released his hickey harvesting "Love Story" LP & I ended up with it. I'm looking at you, you sacramental-case neighbor who ate those round communion bread chips like they were Bosco-dunked Ritz crackers!