Reasons To Be Cheerful: week of 05/23/08

Greetings from Klamath Falls, Oregon!

I'm holed up in my hotel as I write this, happy to be off the road and out of a buffeting wind.
My seasonal hayfever has been acting up, too, so at the moment I'm all for road-tripping at a leisurely pace.

It's my time for travelling just lately, with many loopy journeys ahead. It gets confusing in description...

Having left Idaho a few weeks ago to return to my native SF bay area for some reconnaissance, the path now takes me off to Spokane, Washington, to celebrate a special friend's special milestone birthday. I should arrive there Friday or Saturday.

From Spokane, an interlude back in Boise will then take me off again to Seattle for a niece's graduation from the University of Washington, with hopefully some sidetrips to Portland, Oregon and
Vancouver, B.C. while I'm roosted in the neighborhood...

Thursday morning I hit the road from Redding, California, after checking out their truly impressive Sundial Bridge located at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park on the Sacramento River.

Completed in 2005, the footbridge is a successfully elegant blend of art and architecture, affording many interesting views of it's many swooping angles. - - And it's a functioning sundial, too, even if it only comes close to being accurate a few days a year...















As I made my way north on a truly gorgeous (if windy) day,
Mt. Shasta continued to loom into view at various points, it's peak often obscured by clouds.

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What else has been appearing along my path this week?
Let's see, now, as I recall...



1. 'Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address'.

The perfect tiny feelgood human interest story, and apparently it's even true.

2. Slated for release on DVD in September is
'Ken Russell at the BBC',
a 3-disc set showcasing some of the flamboyant British director's early television work, prior to his 1969 breakout with 'Women In Love'.

It sounds intriguing; 6 historical biopics presented in a unconventional style intended to shake up the staid normality of the genre as traditionally seen on the BBC up to that point.
Oliver Reed stars in two of of the films.

For details, follow the link above or click over to
Britmovie - the British Film Forum.

3. I received a friendly note with greetings from Mats in Norway, who has kindly shared some obscure music he's found - -

"On a flea market I stumbled upon a black, Dymo-labelled tape that said "Swedish women's songs", presumably from the '70s - - the golden age of hardcore feminism.

"I knew that listening to something like this nowadays could be pretty amusing.

"Being a Norwegian
(which is similar to Swedish)
I understand the lyrics, and they turned out to be very tragic, often with raw, explicit language.

"In example, one song's lyrics is simply:

'You can get knocked up, my mother said
but I only f*** when I 'm in love
you're in love once a week, my mother said'
(song # 1 on the mixtape)

"While another one goes like this:

'There once was a guy that would
have children right away
but he didn't have time to stay
so now I'm a single mother'
(song # 5 on the mixtape)

"And all of this is accompanied with sad, upbeat or just beautiful, flute-heavy melodies.
"So, even if you don't understand Swedish, the songs will be worth a listen :)"

- Follow link to the anonymous 'Swedish women's songs' mixtape.

My favorite track so far is #8, 'Karar og karar för hela slanten'...

Many thanks, Mats! An interesting mix, even if I don't understand the lyrics. (Or perhaps because)

An intriguing balance of plaintive & melancholy with raucous and raw.

It reminds me a bit of what the DELAY 68 label has tried to accomplish on their
'Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word' CD compilation and other projects.

Can anyone out there share any info on the details and origins of this collection of songs?
Drop a line, thanks!

4. The amazing one-man-band rockabilly madman Hasil Adkins rocketed out of this life back in 2005.

During his early days of home recording back in the 1950's - - before he'd decided that if you want a strange job done well you do it yourself - - he submitted many of his songs to some of the top country artists of the era.

Click over to WFMU's Beware of The Blog and view
The Hasil Adkins Rejection Letters.
Included are images of notes received from Johnny Cash,
Ernest Tubb, and Hank Snow.
Their loss was our gain.

(Via Bedazzled!)

For more Hasil around the web, see also:

- The official website, Hasil Adkins.Com

- Hasil Adkins bio page at All Music.Com

- Several of The Haze's tunes can be heard at the
Hasil Adkins MySpace page, including my all-time fave,
'No More Hot Dogs'.

At YouTube, an Adkins documentary:
'The Wild World of Hasil "Haze" Adkins', Part 1 of 3
'The Wild World of Hasil "Haze" Adkins', Part 2 of 3
'The Wild World of Hasil "Haze" Adkins', Part 3 of 3

A history of annoyance: You too can sell car alarms! (1930 print ad)

An item so necessary, it practically sells itself!

If you thought car alarms were an ineffectual disturbance now, imagine what they must have been like in Depression-era America...

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See also: Some more info on the history of car alarms and the text of vintage newspaper articles at the Silent Majority; Citizens Against Car Alarms website.

Terry Jacks - Put The Bone In (1974)

'Put The Bone In' may be the best example of what constitutes 'the perfect B-side'.

On it's Bell Records 45 release in 1974, the song was paired with Canadian singer / songwriter Terry Jacks' hugely popular one-hit wonder, 'Seasons In The Sun'.

In the 1960's, Jacks had some minor success performing and recording with The Chessmen, a rock band based in Vancouver, B.C.

By the end of the decade he'd paired with singer Susan Pesklevits (soon to be Susan Jacks) as part of the sunshiny-pop group, The Poppy Family.

That group released a couple of albums and had charting hit records in Canada and the U.S., but the band (and the marriage) dissolved in 1973, just prior to Jacks' solo success.

The Terry Jacks release of 'Seasons In The Sun' altered many lyrics in it's translation of a song originally written and recorded by Jacques Brel in 1961.

Part of the success and notoriety of the record was likely due to it's combination of overt over-sentimentality and an air of mystery surrounding possible interpretations of the story it tells.

This blend speaks to the way in which a huge Top-40 radio hit does not necessarily need to be a masterful composition of beauty or subtlety.

On the perfectly 'throwaway' B-side to the single, Jacks amplified all those qualities of the 'hit' side, but added crypticism and an air of innuendo that leaves one wondering how firmly his tongue may (or may not) have been planted in his cheek all along.

Listen to:
Terry Jacks - Put The Bone In
(Bell Records 45, 1974)
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- For more on Terry Jacks and 'Seasons In The Sun', follow links to Super Seventies RockSite and allmusic.Com.

A Sunday afternoon pilgrimage to Kimono My House

Located in Emeryville, California, for over 20 years, Kimono My House is a very special store specializing in Anime & Sci-Fi Toys.

Though I am someone intrigued by the vast world of Japanese animation and fantasy culture, I remain largely ignorant of many of the details of that world.

- - And so for me, a trip to Kimono My House is like going to an odd museum full of fascinating and cryptic curiosities.

It had been a good long while since I last visited.
Mid-'90's, maybe?

The intrigue begins as you climb a couple of flights of stairs until you emerge outside onto the roof of the nondescript warehouse building where you'll find the store perched.



The sensory overload begins as you enter the door.

Speaking personally, my lack of knowledge regarding most of the items within only serves to enhance the experience.

If I understood all of what I was seeing would it hold the same wonder?



































































































































An Ultraman soap dish and Ultraman bathroom air freshener, a glimpse of McDonald's employee dolls and the mysterious 'Boyfriend Tom', a truly spooky and incongruous
George Burns, a shelf load of Gameras, and SO much more.

What does it all mean?






















































































































































































































































































































































































































































And finally, after much searching and wonderment, a few small choice bits of swag that needed to come home with me.

Essential items, all. ▼

Reasons To Be Cheerful: week-end of 05/16/08

Last week was so busy that I find myself finishing writing my wrap-up to it on the following Monday.
And so it goes...

1. I'm pleased to report one big blog update recently completed;

I've added an additional 125 images to my flickr set - - 'Nostalgia for the Scholastic Book Club, circa '60's & '70's' - - bringing the total in the set up to 187!

Because no one demanded it!
Too many juvenile lit memories!

More cover scans, more illustrations, more links to author and illustrator info, back cover images & info now appearing on the same page as a book's cover image, more, more more!

Please follow this link to my flickr set - - 'Nostalgia for the Scholastic Book Club, circa '60's & '70's'!

















































2. One nugget thrown my way this past week included a peek at the charmingly disturbing ◀ManBabies.com.

Father / Son photo switcheroos that are the stuff of nightmares!

(Thanks to My Friend Topic for the link)

3. I've been all over the San Francisco bay area in the last week or so, as I start to lay the groundwork for moving back home after my two-year Idaho experiment.

Those wheels are turning, but I've also been greatly enjoying visiting friends, family, and locations both familiar and new.

I've pretty well boxed the compass here; Down the South Bay towards San Jose to see my Godson and his folks, over to the East Bay and up to Sonoma for home-cooked meals with my siblings and their families, great lunches, dinners, and hangtimes with folks in various parts of San Francisco, Berkeley, and all over Marin County.

It'll be good to come back.

A few days ago I met a friend at the wonderful de Young Museum in San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park.

We went to catch the Gilbert and George ▶ exhibit they'd been running, before it was gone.

Found the show a bit disappointing, a little overrated, derivative.
As so much of the work reminded me of advertisements, CD jackets and club flyers, I felt as though the pieces often suffered due to their lavishly large scale.

More is less.


◀ Fortunately, the de Young is a wonderful adventure in itself - -

- I'm still marvelling at the beautiful 2005 remodel that I'd long ago been determined to hate.

- It's impossible not to enjoy their 360-degree view observation tower (it won't be long before the remodeled California Academy of Sciences will be ready to re-open, just across the park's band concourse!!).

- And the new underground parking garage with it's entrance at 10th & Fulton is so elegantly civilized and forward-thinkng that it's slightly difficult to believe it's in San Francisco.

One painting I spotted near an entrance to the deYoung's bookstore resonated for me unexpectedly - - Painter
Harvey Dinnerstein's figurative work can stand out among the often less realist fare of a fine art museum.

Dinnerstein's 1999 painting, 'Sundown, The Crossing' ▶ looks like it could be the cover image on a genre fiction paperback, and I confess that helped to draw me to it. (It sends it's message more successfully when the details are clearer)



- you can see more of Harvey Dinnerstein's artwork at the Frey Norris Gallery website.


The icing on my slice of deYoung cake that day was spying an old
Morris Minor 1000 ▼ sitting parked in the garage.

Just another memorable work of art...






4. I'm quite certain that She & Him don't need a bit of help from me in getting the word out about their charming debut album 'Volume One', but I do feel compelled to say that I've really been enjoying listening to it.

Big thanks are sent to my buddy Snappy for the definitive reminder about the existence of this collaboration between musician M. Ward and actress / singer Zooey Deschanel.

The blend on their album of sunny pop music combined with a country twang and occasional girl-girl group vibe hits me just right.
Cute without being precious, light but not lite, sweet without too much processed sugar.

There's plenty of info, audio and video available at the official website and (of course) at
She & Him's MySpace page.

Robert Rauschenberg, 1925 - 2008

In marking the passing of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, we can celebrate his enormous and eclectic body of work, the innovations he brought to the art world, and his notably optimistic and upbeat demeanor.

Rauschenberg died of heart failure this past Monday evening at the age of 82.

His New York Times obituary includes a wonderful quote from composer
John Cage - -

- - In reference to the transformative power of Rauschenberg's art and his celebration of the common object, Cage said “Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.”

'Bed', 1955 ►

Rauschenberg was a very prolific artist, and there will likely be new works of his to discover for several years to come.

- - But, as an important 20th century artist who in his continued passion for work has so often occupied the present tense, by marking Rauschenberg's passing we are once again made to mourn yet another end to an era.

See also:

- an index to Rauschenberg work available online at Artcyclopedia.

- A PBS 'American Masters' bio page includes a video clip link to Rauschenberg discussing his 1955 piece, ◀ 'Monogram' and the origins of his combines.







- In the video clip below ▼, Rauschenberg relates the story of his famous 'erasing' of a DeKooning drawing in 1953.

Georgie Fame - Beware Of The Dog (1967)

In the early sixties, Georgie Fame had come up through London clubs playing a distinctive blend of R&B, jazz, ska and rock & roll .

This swingin' and supremely catchy instrumental was released on the B-side of Fame's big hit single of 1967, 'The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde' - - his only top ten charting 45 in the U.S.


Listen to:
Georgie Fame - Beware Of The Dog
(Epic Records 45, 1967)
(click for audio)


See also:
- An Official Georgie Fame Website

- Georgie Fame at All Music.Com

- A 2005 blog entry about this very same B-side, lurking in the archives of Funky16Corners

- A 1965 video clip of Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames performing their earlier hit, 'Yeh Yeh' on Britain's 'Ready, Steady, Go'

June Marlowe (magazine photo, 1925)

"Gee, you're pretty,
Miss Crabtree. You're even prettier than Miss McGillicuddy."

Young
Jackie Cooper delivered that immortal line in Hal Roach's 1930 Our Gang comedy, 'Teacher's Pet'.

It was the first of six
'Little Rascals' shorts to include actress
June Marlowe (wearing a blonde wig) in the role of the school teacher, the lovely
Miss Crabtree.

She appeared in a total of 39 films, beginning in 1923.
Her final appearance as Miss Crabtree in 1932 marked the end of her acting career, when she married and became a housewife.

This publicity photo of Marlowe appeared in an article about up-and-coming film starlets that ran in the July, 1925 issue of The Pictorial Review. She was 22 at the time, and still at the beginning of her relatively short film career.

The caption cites her recent 'Baby Star' recognition, bestowed as part of a promotional campaign by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers.

See also:

- June Marlowe's listing at IMDb

- Teacher's Pet: The June Marlowe Website - - An amazing labor of love, chronicling her entire movie career and much of her life story. Loaded with photos!

- Several of Marlowe's 'Our Gang' shorts can currently be viewed at YouTube.
For starters - -

Teachers Pet- Part 1 of 3
Teachers Pet- Part 2 of 3
Teachers Pet- Part 3 of 3

Emitt Rhodes (1st self-titled LP, 1970)

On those rare occasions when the topic of discussion turns to singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Emitt Rhodes, among the points often mentioned are how the sound of his old records were reminiscent of
Paul McCartney's music, and that despite his best efforts to steer clear of the usual pitfalls, Rhodes had more than his share of being screwed by the music industry.

Fortunately, the high quality of his often perfect pop music is usually cited as well.

This charming 1970 LP was a DIY effort for Rhodes; He wrote the songs, played the instruments, and recorded it himself in his own small studio.

Rhodes had been part of the group The Merry-Go-Round when they disbanded in 1969, still under contract to A&M Records for another album.

When A&M declined to release the solo album he'd recorded to fulfill the contract, it was then that he bought his own equipment and set to work.

From the self-titled solo debut LP (ABC/Dunhill Records, 1970),
Listen to Emitt Rhodes:

With My Face On The Floor
Somebody Made For Me
She's Such A Beauty
Long Time No See
Lullabye
Fresh As A Daisy
Live Till You Die
Promises I've Made
You Take The Dark Out Of The Night
You Should Be Ashamed
Ever Find Yourself Running
You Must Have

- - OR download all 12 tracks in one 30.5 Mb zipfile.



For more on the subject of Emitt Rhodes, see also - -

- A couple of interviews; One for Los Angeles CityBeat, and another avalable at SCRAM

- EmittRhodesMusic.net, The Official Website

Reasons To Be Cheerful: week of 05/09/08

Greetings from Mill Valley!
("...talkin' about Mill Valley, California, that's my home...")

I was on the road last weekend, beginning the process of moving back to my old stamping grounds.

So far, change has been a cheering process, and much of that has come from words of support from many folks - - including readers of this blog.

('Selfishly delighted' is a phrase I've been hearing often from the local contingent - -with qualifiers - - in response to news of my move back being tied to my marriage breaking up)

Thanks to all - - it's been helpful and heartening, and is much appreciated.

A couple of San Francisco bay area related items this week, for starters:

1. Fans of the old local 'Creature Features' and Bob Wilkins, the TV show's original host, will converge next Thursday night at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theater for the premiere of a film - - 'Watch Horror Films – Keep America Strong'; A New Creature Features Documentary.

Wilkins was host of KTVU's 'Creature Features' program throughout most of the 1970's.


Part of his particular charm was that unlike many other
late-night horror movie hosts, Wilkins did not dress-up or play an over-the-top character.

His spartan studio set may have had a few horror accoutrements, but essentially it was just Wilkins, his very low-key manner, his droll sense of humor, his trademark cigar, a plethora of perfectly bad movies, and some great guest interviews with film icons passing through the neighborhood.

I know from first-hand experience that the combination was a huge part of the formative years for people (of all ages) watching bay area TV in the '70's.

Wilkins left KTVU in the mid-1980's, and has long since retired from television.
Now in the latter half of his seventies, Wilkins is unfortunately struggling through advanced stages of Alzheimer's.

The new film focuses on 'Creature Features', Wilkins, and the other hosts who followed him after he left the show in 1979.
Featuring old and new footage and interviews, the special premiere sceening will also benefit
The Bob Wilkins Alzheimer's Fund.

If you were a fan, and if you're local, show support and turn out for the screening at Oakland's
Grand Lake Theater, this Thursday, May 15th, shows at 7pm & 10pm.

(Looks like my friends and I will be at the early show. See you there!)

(ADDENDUM, 5/16/08; What a great time! The Grand Lake was packed with enthusiastic fans of a TV program that hasn't aired in something like 24 years. As it turned out, the documentary film was GREAT. Very spirited, with some great footage from the show, including behind-the-scenes stuff, interviews from now and back in the day. Beyond the specifics, the movie does a perfect job of cappturing an era that is gone, when truly local TV programming - - pre-home video, mostly pre-cable, pre-internet - - offered what was often just about the only place for horror flick enthusiasts to catch the essential fare on shows like this. - - And you couldn't Tivo it or tape it on your VCR, so having to be there as it aired made it something of a ritual. Word from the filmmakers is that 'Watch Horror Movies, Keep America Strong: A Journey Into Creature Features' WILL be made available on DVD, but the question remains as to when. Watch the skies...)

2. This past week I had fun reminiscing with a friend about interior designer Tony Duquette, specifically trying to recall experiences visiting his other-worldly 'Duquette Pavilion of Saint Francis', that had been on Geary Blvd. in San Francisco, near Fillmore Street.

Beginning in the 1940's, Duquette's work in his native Los Angeles had made him a notable designer of costumes and settings for film, primarily in MGM productions.

The Duquette Pavilion was one of the artist's 'Celebrational Environments', housed in a former synagogue that he'd purchased in the early 1980's to host his exhibition, it was vaguely similar to his 'Our Lady Queen of the Angels' installation that he'd done in L.A.

Walking through the spaces inside the pavilion was like being on a fully-realized film set or turning a corner into an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' - - Soaring, monumental sculptures, jewel-encrusted tapestries, explosions of light and color, and a central expansive interior that featured a repeating audio collage that included narrative pieces read by Ray Bradbury and Charlton Heston.

It was a great way to leave the planet in the middle of an afternoon.

Sadly, in 1989 Duquette's pavilion burned to the ground one evening, as a concert was under way next door at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium.

My own (possibly muddled) recollection is of it being a Neville Brothers show that was interupted by the fire, and hearing that the band kept playing as the audience evacuated the building.

◀ I found this image online of a 1989 Fillmore poster for a Neville Brothers show.
- Can anyone corroborate that February 16th of that year was the date of the Duquette Pavilion fire?

Following my discussion about Tony Duquette, it was nice to confirm the existence of a book that sounds promising, a huge visual biography published last year.

In searching around the web, I also found:

- The expansive Official Tony Duquette Site

- Duquette's 1999 New York Times obituary

- A piece about Duquette and a magazine photospread of his Beverly Hills estate 'Dawnridge', at The Peak of Chic

- 'Tony Duquette's Dawnridge', a guided tour video clip at Style.Com

3. Thus far I've somehow managed to miss them all over the web, so thanks to MC 8th-Grader and his Krew for introducing me to the series of Trunk Monkey TV ads!

4. I'm looking forward to investigating 3 new DVD releases in Kino Video's 'Slapstick Symposium' silent-era comedy series, scheduled to appear next month.

In addition to discs of Harry Langdon and Mabel Normand films, I'm especially excited about a second 2-disc Stan Laurel set, collecting 21 shorts produced between 1918 - 1926.

Kino's first collection of Laurel's silent work prior to teaming wth Oliver Hardy was SO good, and such a revelation that I'm eager for more...

Promoting Disney's 'The Three Caballeros' in print (1945)

Recently there's been another DVD re-release of Disney's 'The Three Caballeros', along with it's precursor, 'Saludos Amigos'.

Both animated features were crafted as Latin-American travelogues produced to aid in solidifying relations with those countries during World War 2.

The print ad, text piece and review shown here all appeared in the March, 1945 issue of Motion Picture magazine.

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Viewed today, the film gives an interesting glimpse of the Disney studio of a different era.

In addition to it's propaganda qualities, the film was their first feature-length release to blend animation with live action, and provides a portrayal of Donald Duck as slightly more randy than we may be accustomed to seeing him.

Several clips can be viewed at YouTube...

Road Sounds: Hoo Doo Girl and others

This weekend I was driving the long haul across open spaces in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, bound for California. Here's a few words about the sounds that helped fill some of that open space as I traveled...

1. I was thriled to finally grab myself a copy of the first CD by Hamburg-based gal-gang Hoo Doo Girl.

Released towards the end of last year on Germany's Hazlewood label,
'Hoo Doo Girl... Calls The Shots' is a wickedly fun mix of girl-group harmonies, southern soul, swamp roots and rock.

The trio includes the fabulous and multi-talented Silky Toss, which was how I was lucky enough to hear about them and the album.

I'd already falen in love with Silky a few years back via her other band,
The Watzloves. (Follow link and scroll down for my previous post)

Together with new bandmates Peta Devlin and Susie Reinhardt,
Hoo Doo Girl has a wonderful, refreshing sound.

You can hear a few tracks from the album by clicking over to Hoo Doo Girl at MySpace.Com, including my personal favorite, 'Your Cake Aint No Good'.

From their band notes:

"HOO DOO GIRL is three women that sing a lot. You know - Oohh, oohh and ahhh ahhh. That kind of stuff.
"Remember the big girl groups from the 60s? The Shirelles, the Ikettes, the Dixie Cups...

"Well, that's sort of what it sounds like when Hoo Doo Girl sing.
"BUT what does a Dusty Springfield song sound like when you play it on the accordion and sing the horns? Good question, huh?
"But dont worry your head about it too much. All of Hoo Doo Girls songs are originals anyway.

"Silke, Susie and Peta are passionate fans and collectors of music from the deep South states of the USA, and thats where they found the inspiration to cook up their own volatile stew - -
A cup of Stax Soul, a bowl of Rhythm and Blues, dont forget the Motor City, a pinch of Country and Zydeco all rounded up with a big dollop of
Rock n Roll.

"But what the hell. Why not just listen to it yourself? Bon Appetit."

Below, Hoo Doo Girl performing '1*2*3*4*5'...



2. Also on my drive, my first experience hearing The Dells perform their awesome 1965 group harmony version of the Tom Jones classic 'It's Not Unusual' was made all the more memorable as I crossed the Snake River and passed slowly through the small town of Marsing, Idaho.

It shows up on a nice comprehensive Dells collection that Shout! Factory released as part of their 'Best of the Vee-Jay Years' series.


3. Words fail - - I can't say enough good things about the
Gozalo -- Bugalu Tropical Vol. 1 CD compilation.

It's a BRILLIANT collection of late '60's Peruvian grooves, and the liner notes give the gist:
"...an exciting, spicy mix of tropical gems that fill in the missing link between the mambo era and the dawn of salsa in South America."

Just thrilling. Rocking and beautiful, and now I'm all excited to go check out the recently-released Vol. 2, also on the Vampisoul label.


4. And then, finally, there's Jean Shepherd.

Long and meandering spoken word can be just the thing for a long and meandering road-trip.

I'd seen that there were a few CD collections of Shep radio broadcasts, and I'd found one a while back, but hadn't yet found time to settle in with it.

Little did I know at the time that the couple of discs I selected of the 8 discs available in the 'Jean Shepherd: Life Is' collection of mid-1960's shows would prove to be such apt Road Sounds, providing such perfect and humorous insights as I contemplated life while piloting my car across the trackless void.

- Previously on 'I'm Learning To Share':
Jean Shepherd Reads 'The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill' by Robert Service