Music

Still Holiday Shopping? Vintage Baby Boomer Nostalgic Treasures

                                                 Still trying to put the holidays together, find that last-minute Christmas thingy, reach into your past and relive the delights of the Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, or Tom Terrific? Here's a list of things to do and things to buy online that might make you burst out laughing. I want to hear from you if you remember this stuff. I sat with my grandma and watched Perry Mason every week. How about an actual magazine on Hula Hoops? Or a hula hooping video from You Tube? ...

Canadian Journalist Bad Mouthing Beatles, Baby Boomers

Someone is dissin' the Beatles. At first, my hackles were raised as this Canadian journalist explained, in great detail, how possibly irrelevant much of the Beatles' music is to the digital music world of today. Lynn Crosbie's piece, Boomers Have Dictated Popular Taste Too Long in the Globe and Mail is fairly forthright - and makes sense. Her hook is that there's talk of the Beatles catalog being released in digital format for media players, iPods and so forth. Crosbie doesn't see this as a huge gain for the world. Consider one of her comments, "Those tyrants, the baby boomers, have dictated popular taste...