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However, though it lacks strings, "He's a Rebel" was the first number 1 hit to have that distinctive Spector trademark--the "wall of sound."

However, though it lacks strings, "He's a Rebel" was the first number 1 hit to have that distinctive Spector trademark--the "wall of sound."

This song is important in musical history. From listening to it, can you guess why?

60 years ago, Billboard #8 for the week of Nov. 19, 1962: He's A Rebel - The Crystals youtu.be/aF7V2dSvxpo

It was produced by Phil Spector. It wasn't his first number 1 hit--that was "To Know Him is to Love Him" in 1958. (Yes, that's Spector on the guitar.) youtu.be/sV718cKqJLw

Adult cat (right) is magnanimously pretending she didn’t notice kitten (left) slither up and lay down almost next to her. Progress!

From the very top of Lamar Canyon, this area is one of my favorite hikes. There's everything up here, wolves, bears, elk, bison, mountain lions. It's always a great hike. In the distance you can see Slough Creek and beyond that to the right Electric Peak.

The captains of 10 European football teams wanted to wear a rainbow “one love” armband at the World Cup. Fifa threatened with fines, yellow card, even excluding players.

Once again, Fifa bows for fundamentalistic regimes, and runs away from human rights.

bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63699

The world Cup 2022 Belgian football team has a label on the inside (!) of their shirts with the word ‘love’.

Fifa prohibits Belgium to wear the shirts. Unbelievable.

newsmonkey.be/fifa-verbiedt-lo

Sentencing can't happen for at least a couple of months in a federal case, and it'll be interesting to see whether the DOJ decides to retry her on the two hung-jury counts.

Hung jury on the two really big counts:

1) aiding and abetting in the theft of a laptop from Pelosi’s office

2) obstruction of Congress’ Jan. 6 proceeding

That second count has a 20 year max sentence.

J6 defendant files a sovereign citizen document to inform the court he's not a sovereign citizen.

Verdict in the Riley Williams J6 criminal trial has been reached.

Guilty: disorderly conduct, entering restricted building, civil disorder, unlawful parading, resisting police

Swedish Law:
Between December 1 and March 31, it is legal to use winter tires if there are winter road conditions. It is forbidden to use studded tires during the time period 16 April - 30 September if there are not or expected to be winter road conditions.

This morning I had to help a family (ma, pa & 3 kids) get their fancy Benz out of the ditch they had (gently) parked it in... Why had they ended up there?
Because the stupid fucks still had summer tires on...

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Wowzers! This is gonna take some getting used to. twitter is fast becoming trump social. And I for one am sick to death for being called a commie pedo.

Garland: "Never mind the resume. What I want is the stare. Who's got the best death stare around? Who can make giant orange bears piss themselves by just looking at them?"

Ode to Not Watching the World Cup: This is an event of such astoundingly obvious wrongness that doing the right thing is easy. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

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