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Friday Foto: JPL Fire Truck

Taken last month at the annual open house at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Padadena: a closeup on a campus fire truck. (The name for this file on my computer, by the way, is jpl.jpg.)

posted 4 June 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

1988 Countdown #55: Bruce Springsteen, “One Step Up”

(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) Kevin Seal returns! Over the past four-plus hours, he customarily introduces videos only when returning from a commercial break. But coming out of the Poison video, he has a Bruce Springsteen interview clip to set up. Seal notes that Tunnel of Love was Springsteen’s first studio album in […]

posted 3 June 2010 in 1988. 5 comments

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010

I was lucky enough to talk with Dennis Hopper once. I was writing a short piece for the short-lived Rolling Stone “Cool Issue” about his book of photographs, 1712 North Crescent Heights. (Now out of print, the book is available on Amazon for prices starting at $580. Damn, maybe I should sell my copy.) We […]

posted 1 June 2010 in Articles. no comments yet