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Happy anniversary!

Sunday, June 4th, 2023

Today is the 49th anniversary of Ten Cent Beer Night.

If you happen to live in the Cleveland area, Collision Bend Brewery is offering ten cent beers from 2:00 PM to 2:48 PM Cleveland time, with a maximum of two per customer. So you’ve got about two hours to hie yourself over there.

While we look forward to reliving an epic TEN CENT BEER NIGHT, we have all seen how terribly things can go with one too many ten cent beers. Please note, this will not be a bench clearing brawl… there will be no bottle throwing, no chair tossing, and no fists flying. Let’s leave that to the replays on the television. Please drink responsibly and leave your fighting pants at home.

Sadly, I don’t have any fighting pants. Anyone know where I can get some? 5.11 makes good tough pants, maybe those will work. Or some of those fire hose pants from Duluth Trading Company?

I won’t be able to make it for this year’s celebration, anyway. But the thought of going up to Cleveland, visiting relatives, and being there for next year’s 50th anniversary is tempting…the month of June is going to be jam-packed with activities, however, and I’m not sure if that’s something I can afford yet.

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Obit watch: June 4, 2023.

Sunday, June 4th, 2023

Barry Newman, actor.

Other credits include “City on Fire” (the 1979 TV movie), “Murder, She Wrote”, “Get Smart”, and “Quincy, M.E.” (which is worth calling out: he was actually the star in the weird final episode of the series, “The Cutting Edge”, which was an unsuccessful backdoor pilot).

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Obit watch: June 3, 2023.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2023

Michael Norell, actor.

His acting credits in IMDB are limited, though his credits as a writer are more substantial. He did one episode of “Police Story”…

…and 110 episodes of “Emergency”. He was “Captain Stanley”. JEMS.

NYT obit for Don Bateman.

Cynthia Weil, songwriter. (“You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’”)

Redd Holt, drummer.

Mr. Holt scored his biggest hit as the drummer with the pianist Ramsey Lewis’s trio, whose original lineup also included Eldee Young on bass.
In 1965 — nearly 10 years after the band’s first record — they came out with “The ‘In’ Crowd,” a live album whose title track was a cover of a recently popular song by the R&B singer Dobie Gray.
The Lewis Trio version superseded Mr. Gray’s, reaching the top of the Billboard R&B chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their “‘In’ Crowd” won the 1965 Grammy Award for best instrumental jazz performance by a small group or soloist.

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Bagatelle (#88)

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Shot: “Restaurant Review: The Peking Duck at Juqi Passes All the Tests“.

Chaser:

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