Raconteur Report

Brian Wilson, the creative heart and soul of the Beach Boys, died yesterday at age 82. Despite lifelong mental health and substance abuse is...

  h/t  Borepatch Val Kilmer, 65, of pneumonia as a complication of throat cancer.  We first saw him in  Top Secret: Then he doubled down on ...

Aged 95, at home with his wife and dog (sounds suspicious, but probably a gas or carbon monoxide problem - time will tell). Double Academy A...

Bob Uecker, MLB player, actor, and for only 50+ years, the Milwaukee Brewers' announcer, of lung cancer, aged 90 years. Uecker had seven...

This movie clip alone so immortal, it's actually in the Hall OF Fame at Cooperstown. From a movie so iconic, it doesn't pay homage t...

Long-time game show host Peter Marshall dead at age 98, of kidney failure, at home with his family in Los Angeles. Best known for spending f...

Your parents and grandparents were bigger badasses  in one day, than you've been your entire life.

Few comedians get a hit series. Fewer still get two. Even less than that, the number who earn Emmy Awards for guesting on someone else's...

Aged 88, in Miami, after a long illness, and a 60-year career in motion pictures, notably in roles in The Dirty Dozen , Kelly's Heroes ,...

  h/t  Mike Today is the 20th Anniversary of Vengeance Gone Mostly Right. We recently purchased a tabletop metal bulldozer (sadly, not a Ton...

  h/t  Mike The concert t-shirts have attached bibs, and the whole thing ties on in back. When the tours are sponsored by Depends™ and AARP,...

Exactly 80 years ago tonight, 600 POWs accomplished one of the most daring prison breaks in history, tunneling and blitzing 76 men out of St...

While we were fiddling around with sound files for Sunday Music, the blogometer seems to have rolled over another notch. To the random visit...

Age 94. Despite the disparagements of his "tactical Tupperware" by purist Luddites, the man had more influence on modern firearms ...

  A friend of mine sought Jimmy out in Key West a couple of decades ago, managed to meet him, and they had a pleasant conversation. He said ...

From  Curtis LeMay and the USAAF's Greatest Hits album, featuring Hirohito and the Briquettes.

 

Equaled, afterwards. Never surpassed.

Merci beaucoup. Just now. Lately, I post these notices mainly to piss off the ten people who still think the blog is struggling since the re...

  h/t  Evil Blogger Lady "Please...I know everybody on this island is complete and total crazy. But you , Whitaker Walt? You  are crazy...