BLOG: NOW AND THEN (2023) The “Last” Beatles Song.
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BLOG: NOW AND THEN (2023) The “Last” Beatles Song.

For Beatles fans, there are a few stages you go through when there’s an announcement that “new” material by the band is coming. There’s of course excitement at the idea of listening to something by the Fab Four that you’ve never heard before. Then there’s the anticipation leading up to the release date as all sorts of articles and clips spring up offering details about the track. Finally there’s the actual playing of the music which at first, is less listening and more dissecting.

So now after having given this so called “last” song 3 or 4 dozen spins, is it any y’know… good?

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BLOG: CLOAK AND DAGGER (1984) “Jack Flack ALWAYS Escapes!”
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BLOG: CLOAK AND DAGGER (1984) “Jack Flack ALWAYS Escapes!”

If like me, you grew up in the 80's loving video games, E.T. and for whatever reason Dabney Coleman, chances are you've seen Cloak & Dagger. It follows this kid named Davey (Henry Thomas) who's obsessed with an Atari game featuring super-spy Jack Flack (Coleman). In fact he's so into it that he actually runs around town acting out his own secret missions complete with an imaginary version of Flack popping up in his head to offer advice and support.

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BLOG: GODFATHER’S PIZZA (ESTD 1973) “A Pizza I Can’t Refuse.”
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BLOG: GODFATHER’S PIZZA (ESTD 1973) “A Pizza I Can’t Refuse.”

Like any complicated relationship, mine with Godfather’s pizza has always been an unresolved one with hard, strong, traumatic roots planted firmly in my childhood. But the desire to revisit this franchise was one plagued by geographical location. Y’see, there hasn’t been a Godfather’s pizza shop (that I knew of) anywhere near the Bay Area/Northern California since around 1993, which did nothing but forge the damn joint into legendary status in my memory.

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