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		<title>The Forgotten Woodstock:  Seattle Pop Festival, 1969</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drive through Woodinville, Washington today, and it has the glimmer of an Eastside Seattle suburb about to be born.  With its Target, Safeway, and housing developments with names cooked up by marketing departments, Woodinville is fairly unremarkable, a place you&#8217;ve seen a million times before. A scant 20 minute drive from Seattle center, via the 520 floating bridge and up north I-405, Woodinville still retains some of its bucolic charm of yesteryear, such as the Hollywood schoolhouse, expansive fields, and roadside farmer&#8217;s stands.  One remnant of the past is an utterly uncharming white dome alongside the road. But as it turns out, this dome and the land around it are part of rock music history, what I like to call The Forgotten Woodstock. A West Coast Woodstock In 1969, a local promoter named Boyd Grafmyre had the ambitious aim of assembling 25 musical groups over three days. A large sampling of the groups and individuals that played the Seattle Pop Festival are firmly planted as rock music icons.  Others have fallen by the wayside.  The roster: Chuck Berry, Black Snake, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Chicago Transit Authority, Albert Collins, Crome Syrcus, Bo Diddley, the Doors, Floating Bridge, The Flock, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death and Pocketknife-Surgery Near-Resurrection of Harry &#8220;Parkyakarkus&#8221; Parke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Parke, born Harry Einstein in 1904, was a comedian, and by the 1950s was resting on the laurels of his invented persona, a Greek named Parkyakarkus.  This fictive name translates to &#8220;park a your carcass.&#8221;  Remember, in these days nobody blinked at ethnic humor. Harry was one of those clubby, fraternizing comedians who was chums with all the stars of the day.  So, naturally Harry belonged to the clubby, fraternal Friar&#8217;s Club in Beverly Hills, California. Before the Friars established their permanent address on Little Santa Monica*, they would use any suitable venue for their celebrity roasts.  And for the roast of luminaries Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the Beverly Hilton was the place. The Beverly Hilton On November 24, 1958, Harry Parke had just finished his testimonial and had sat back down again.  Parke sat next to Milton Berle, then slumped his head onto Berle&#8217;s shoulder and passed out. Emcee Art Linkletter said, &#8220;How come anyone as funny as this isn&#8217;t on the air?&#8221; When it became clear that Parke was seriously not well, he asked for help from the audience.  As Linkletter related 42 years later to Larry King, he asked, on-mike, if &#8230;anybody here have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Jim Morrison of The Doors Stayed at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, built in 1967, is famous as one of the first&#8211;if not the first&#8211;example of a large atrium hotel.  The inside of this 22 story is scooped out, with rooms facing each other and public spaces below. Built by John Portman, the Hyatt Regency&#8211;originally Regency Hyatt House&#8211;is an architecturally significant building that has now been rubber-stamped all across America thousands of times over.  But at the time, it was a big deal&#8211;big enough that even Jim Morrison of The Doors stayed in it. Morrison and Lisciandro in Atlanta In May 1969, Morrison and pal Frank Lisciandro attended the Atlanta International Film Festival to accept an award for the Doors&#8217; documentary Feast of Friends.  He and Frank attended a &#8230;&#8221;rent party in a nearby old Victorian home (rent parties&#8230;for the uninitiated, were designed to raise emergency funds to keep the landlord at bay and have a good time in the process)&#8230;  Morrison was &#8216;open, approachable, funny, and friendly&#8217; at the party.&#8217;  He helped out in the kitchen preparing snacks, picked out albums, changed records, passed out beers, and listed to complaints about cops. Break on Through:  The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, by James Riordan, Jerry Prochnicky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odd Connections:  Frost, Eliot, Sagal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quintessential &#8220;New England poet&#8221; Robert Frost was born in San Francisco. Quintessential &#8220;British poet T.S. Eliot&#8221; was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The father of Married with Children&#8216;s Katey Sagal was decapitated by a helicopter at Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.  Adding to the weirdness, the Timberline Lodge was the location for filming The Shining.]]></description>
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		<title>Kahn, Khan, and Thermonuclear War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is more about words than it is about nuclear war. But it&#8217;s trivia that has been lodged in my brain for years. Herman Kahn Herman Kahn was a well-known military strategist who published On Thermonuclear War in 1960.  Kahn, considered a major spear-rattler in the Cold War, was parodied by Walter Matteau in Fail-Safe. A.Q. Khan Then we&#8217;ve got Abdul Qadeer Khan, or A.Q. Khan, the insidious founder of Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear program. Kahn and Khan.  Two men, same jobs, names differing only by the placement of one letter.  Not only that, but the two Khan/Kahns couldn&#8217;t be further in terms of ethnic and religious heritage, Khan being Muslim and Kahn being Jewish.]]></description>
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		<title>POM Juice and the Vietnam War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POM pomegranate juice has become popular due to research about the health benefits of pomegranates (it might help with erectile disfunction) and because of a huge marketing push in the last few years. Some time ago, though, I was reading a New Yorker article about how POM went from nothing&#8211;was there any kind of pomegranate juice before POM that didn&#8217;t have to be obtained in a health food store?&#8211;to this giant antioxidant powerhouse. But one little side note in the article pointed out some connections between POM, the Pentagon Papers, and the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg and RAND In 1969, at a time when the Vietnam War was raging in full force, Daniel Ellsberg was an Marine Corp veteran who had just returned from two years in Vietnam.  He became a military analyst at the RAND Corporation think-tank in Santa Monica, California.  As a result, he had the highest-of-the-high security clearances.  His job at the time was to help work on a top-secret study of classified documents regarding Vietnam War.  The order to work on these documents had come from the highest authority in the military:  Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Ellsberg&#8217;s Moment of Realization By 1969, Ellsberg become disillusioned with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timberline Twilight Zone Video</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/07/timberline-twilight-zone-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the movie The Shining, Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, and his wife and son drive up to The Overlook Lodge for a peaceful winter rest. The Overlook Lodge is actually the Timberline in Mt. Hood, Oregon. Exterior shots for The Shining were filmed at the real-life Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon. Find out how all this connects to The Twilight Zone and Katey Sagal. Read More&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Timberline Lodge &#8211; Twilight Zone Death Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been a fan of weird connections, and this one combines several things I already like:  The Shining, the movie made by Stanley Kubrick after the Stephen King novel; the Timberline Lodge, at the base of Mt. Hood, near Portland, Oregon; and the early 1960s TV classic The Twilight Zone.  Let&#8217;s begin, shall we? The Shining In the movie The Shining, Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, and his wife and son drive up to The Overlook Lodge for a peaceful winter rest.  In real life, the Overlook Lodge is actually&#8230; The Timberline Lodge Exterior shots for The Shining were filmed at the real-life Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon. The Timberline Lodge was used as a filming location for a movie released in 1982 called&#8230; World War III World War III, starring Rock Hudson, David Soul, Brian Keith, and Cathy Lee Crosby, was initially directed by veteran director Boris Sagal&#8230; Boris Sagal We say that World War III was initially directed by Boris Sagal because directorship was later taken over by another director.  That&#8217;s because Sagal died in a tragic&#8230; Helicopter Crash &#8230;helicopter crash.  In 1981, while filming World War III, Boris Sagal was killed in a helicopter [...]]]></description>
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