100bookshelf: Robert Hilburn, Corn Flakes with John Lennon

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Julie

Once upon a long, long time ago, I was sent out this book to have a read and review. Then there was all this real life stuff and 100b was pretty much abandoned, book reviewing and all. Many apologies to all involved and I’d almost call it too late to bother, but a deal is [...]

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Poptastic Day: Mama-se, Mama-sa, Mama-makossa

Posted on December 14, 2009 by tamboosh

Do you ever look something up online and take so many strange turns that you end up reading up on a topic that has nothing even remotely to do with the original search? Me, ALL the time – it’s like wiki-ADD. The other day I started off wanting to know why Pluto (the dwarf planet, [...]

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Those Zany Charts…

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Julie

By way of an introduction to this episode of Those Zany Charts, I’m going to ask you, gentle reader, to hazard a guess at which artist or band has had the most No. 1 hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Have a think about it, I’ll wait. … … Michael Jackson, right? [...]

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Those Zany Charts …

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Julie

I love Halloween. It’s the best holiday ever and you will never get me to think otherwise. In celebration of this most holy day, I bring you my very own Top 10 Spooky Songs list. There’s a whole ton of lists like this out there – just Google “spooky songs” or “scary songs” and you’ll [...]

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Backtrack: Michael Jackson, Bad

Posted on April 4, 2008 by tamboosh

I was cleaning out one of my old bags for storage and out came Bad. Shamow! I hadn’t listened to the full album in years, so I stopped what I was doing and popped it in my CD player. When Michael sings ‘your butt is mine’, I’m transported back to the first time I saw [...]

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