Sometimes it doesn't pay to turn on the PC

So, at Hotmail, "Surfbitch 72" is waiting for me. To do what, I have no idea. Meanwhile, the MSN headlines and links are harrowing: "Military rocket launcher left out for trash pickup," "Feds send pot to little old lady," and "Robot Prostitutes?" And, at Windstream, a headline written in Martian: "Primary stumbles warnings for Romney."

Wait, I know: I'm dreaming this. I'm not awake yet. That would explain everything.

In blog news, I encountered five boxes of LPs at Goodwill yesterday, with gospel LPs making up at least 3/5 of the inventory. I bought $25 worth. I may be set for the rest of the year's Sunday Morning Gospel posts. The moral of the story: always visit Goodwill just after a big donation of vinyl.

The new Blogger look is here. I'm so excited. For the past several weeks, I've been thinking of little else besides the new look to come on Blogger. Nothing excites me quite as much as the latest "new look," wherever it may happen. Like most Net surfers, I pretty much schedule my life around "new looks." ("Can't talk now! Blogger has a new look!") The excitement is second only to the thrill I feel when I discover that the local news channels have added some new page to their websites. ("Can't talk now! Channel 4 has added a new page to its website!")

But I'm always this brutally sarcastic just before I wake up. I wonder if there's such a condition as sleep-blogging? Maybe I'm actually typing and posting this as I dream. That would be weird, to wake up and discover I actually wrote and posted this.

Lee

Draggin' Waggin--The Triumphs

I think (not sure) that I found this at a Columbus, Ohio thrift store. Or it may have been Half Baked--er, Half Price Books. But, in that case, there should be a label sticker, and there isn't, so it was probably Goodwill or Volunteers of America. At any rate, I found this Columbus, Ohio-pressed 45 someplace in Columbus, Ohio, which is cool. Cooler still are the band members' signatures on the label, which show up very clearly in this scan but not away from it. Black ink on dark blue is not the ideal signature format!

I'm normally not crazy about instrumental rock of the pre-Beatles era, but Draggin' Waggin is one fabulous side. So is the flip, but unfortunately I couldn't get an adequate rip of it. (This disc is barely a G, condition-wise.) In fact, the side we're about to hear has a skip near the start, but try to spot it. Can I edit, or what?

Earl Loar, lead singer and bassist for the Triumphs, gives a brief history of the group at this page. Without any further draggin', here are central Ohio's Triumphs, from 1961 (see Comments): Draggin' Waggin' (Fred Gartner)--Triumph 1001; 1961.


Lee

Those Vikings were advanced!

Wow. I just noticed this in my Bookmarks bar--"Viking robots found"!

Wow! I wonder where these were found, and in what condition. We can assume, probably, that the Vikings used the robots in their warfare.

Lee