The Latest for April 28 2024

  Prompt the First: The  Crazy World of 2nd Turning Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins - doesn't mention the shaved eyebrow thing,  SNL: Devo, B-52s, David Bowie It wasn't uncontrollable urge; it was Satisfaction and then Jocko Homo And it was between their first two albums - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_Now_for_the_Future came out in 1979 And during Jocko Homo, they stripped off the radiation suits  https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/zf4vwz/devo_performing_jocko_homo_on_snl_in_1978/ That video excerpt from SNL does NOT include the really amazingly even wierder  original lead-in, an clip from In The Beginning Was The End, with Booji Boy and his father, General Boy, discussing The Truth About De-Evolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdlU8e9wBIE - Martin Sheen introduces Bowie Elvis Costello and Meatloaf commercials in 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Out_of_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Aim_Is_True https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Sharp!_(Joe_Jackson_album)(1978) - the shoes!   Prompt the second: Bay of Pigs https://www.netflix.com/title/81614129 - Turning Point: The Bomb and The Cold War Yes, I somehow missed that The Bomb is right there in the title, so it's not a coincidence that it's focused on the nuclear part of The Cold War. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/     Prompt the third: Neutrality Neutrality as a very malleable concept: USSR/Japan in WWII, US / Germany, US/UKR/Russia,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_during_World_War_II Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 - used by Churchill to confirm access to the Azores for aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Acts_of_the_1930s The Acts were largely repealed in 1941, in the face of the Lend-Lease Act. https://x.com/generationalize/status/1495959705616801795 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/trivia/?item=tr6049574 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/trivia/?item=tr368170