Les Paul Gone

from The Kansas City Star Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94   By LUKE SHERIDAN Associated Press Writer Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with...

Tailfins of 1959

from the New York Times  The 1959 Cadillac Cyclone The poet Robert Lowell was heir to a New England literary tradition that included Herman Melville, a connoisseur of the metaphor and the metaphysics of finned creatures. In “For the Union Dead” in 1960, Lowell saw...

Blonde On Blonde

A blonde woman was  speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled  over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.  The blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver’s driving  license.   She dug through her purse and was  getting...