May
14
2007

URLs du Jour

2007-05-14

  • Bobby "Boris" Pickett passed away last month. Mark Steyn has, almost certainly, the definitive word on Bobby's novelty hit song from the 60's, "The Monster Mash", large amounts of which any American man or woman of a Certain Age will be able to recite by memory. Amazing fact: the pianist on the record was Leon Russell. Whoa.

  • Speaking of the 60's: there's recently been a cluster of stories about the "Mercury 13", female pilots who underwent astronaut testing back then. (Example from USA Today.) James Oberg has the goods on how shoddy all this mainstream journalism has been. (Via Instapundit.)

  • In the really important news: the magic number for the Boston Red Sox is, as I type, 118.