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Lee "Big Eyed Kid With Guitar" Puzzle

"Lee" Big Eye Eyes Eyed Kid W/ Guitar Puzzle (complete) on eBay.

"I Know Everything" by Spike Priggen (Video)

I asked my friend Carey Burtt if he would be interested in helping me make a video for a song from my new CD. He came up with this idea about setting it to the Jim Jones story and made this video (using footage from the Jim Jones TV Movie "Guyana Tragedy" ) as kind of a live-action storyboard for a proposed music video that we would produce (with me in the Jim Jones role!). I decided that it would cost a fortune to make that video, but that his little storyboard video was pretty cool in and of itself. So here it is.Digg It
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Spike Priggen "I Know Everything".mov
Spike Priggen "I Know Everything".m4v
Spike Priggen "Hideaway".mp3
SpikePriggen.com
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide
Spike Priggen "There's No Sound In Flutes!" on iTunes
Spike Priggen "The Very Thing That You Treasure" on iTunes
Spike Priggen "Stars After Stars After Stars" on iTunes
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1978 "Bee Gees" Lunchboxes

"1978 The BEE GEES All 3 Lunchboxes w/ Thermos and original paperwork Right from the store UNUSED Set or all 3 which is almost impossible to find all new and unused from 1978. Includes all 3 brothers Barry, Robin, Maurice. with King-Seely Thermos Co. This is from a personal collection and will not accept less than $750.00 for the set but all offers will be considered. A Must for all Bee Gees fans in this prestine condition" 1978 Bee Gees Lunchboxes on sale here.

Instant pix from tiny TV tube (Jun, 1970)

Instant pix from tiny TV tube (Jun, 1970) @ Modern Mechanix

"Shown here actual size, these two photos are part of a picture sequence made by contact printing quick-copy photographic paper (in a perforated roll) with a new and remarkable TV tube. Made by Panasonic, the 1.5-inch miniature cathode-ray tube has a fiber-optics face plate and a high-resolution electron gun, yielding pictures of 300-350 lines resolution. To print ordinary TV pictures, silver halide paper in contact with the fiber-optics tube face is exposed to light from the screen phosphors during the scanning period of a single frame— 1/30 second. The processing time is about 15 seconds. Video printer will be used to make pictures from closed-circuit TV (as here), broadcast TV, computer outputs, and specialized sources."

Print Ad: "3 Play Wigs"

Plastic wigs via Hugo Strikes Back!

Print Ad: "The Summer Vacation Countdown" - JC Penney Teen Fashion 1973

Print Ad: 'The Summer Vacation Countdown' - JC Penney Teen Fashion 1973 @ I'm Learning To Share

"Cocoa the Elephant" Animation Drawings

I love it when Dan posts stuff like this. Cocoa the Elephant @ a sampler of things

"This is a nice group of Cocoa the Elephant animation drawings. Cocoa was the mascot for Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies around 1960. At the end are a few drawings of Jose the Monkey who was the mascot before Cocoa but continued on in the commercials with Cocoa." Thanks Dan!

Louis Armstrong's Collages

"Well, you know, my hobbie (one of them anyway) is using a lot of scotch tape." Louis Armstrong, in a 1953 letter

"The Spring 2008 Paris Review has a feature on Armstrong's collages, which cover the fronts and backs of reel-to-reel tape boxes." Link. via Orange Crate Art via Boing-Boing

Merv Griffin's Gravestone + "Have A Nice Trip".mp3

I got an email from a buddy of mine that I thought my readers might get a kick out of.

"It’s been ages, Spike, but thought of you this afternoon while dragging a visiting Warner Bros. dignitary
thru tiny Pierce Brothers Cemetery in Westwood for lunch. Yeah, a great and thoughtful host is what I am."

"Marilyn Monroe, Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy Rich, Natalie Wood all met with wide-eyed approval."

"But it was newest resident Merv who rocked his world"

And no Griffin-related email would be complete without a copy of his loopy, Anti-drug anthem “Have A Nice Trip”. Have A Nice Trip.mp3 

Video: William Shatner "Sabataage"

All these years I thought he was just being a dick about it, but it's true, he really does say "sabataage". Now I wish he would tell us why he says "sabataage". Because most people don't just make up their own pronunciation of words, they just go along, more or less, with the commonly accepted pronunciation.

UPDATE: From the comments, David says : "It's the Canadian pronunication of course. My Dad (from Winnipeg), would always crack me up when he said garaajh (I don't recall him using the word sabatoge). Otherwise he sounded generic American, except he would also say gazz instead of gas."