The Rutles!
Who among us is not a fan of the Prefab Four? Who can’t remember where they were when Ron, Dirk, Stig, and Barry appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show? Who could forget the riots when they played the concert at Che Stadium? Who could forget the outcry when Dirk announced that he was now drinking tea? Or that the decisive moment in western civilization was when the Rutles went their separate ways in 1970? They were the greatest band the world has ever known. Just ask Salman Rushdie. 
In reality, the Rutles were a post-Monty Python project of Eric Idle’s. With music written by Bonzo Dog alum and “Seventh Python” Neil Innes, the short film All …
The American Humanist Association is putting up ads on subway trains and buses that wish people a good, but godless, Christmas. This, frankly, is awesome, and I wholeheartedly approve. Which reminds me; this atheist is doing his Christmas cards this weekend…
Oh, if only I lived in New York City. I could, tonight, catch the final night of Rutlemania, a tribute concert to the Rutles.
The Rutles! The only band that Mick Jagger truly feared!
The Rutles! The band who played Che Stadium!
The Rutles! The band that expanded their minds… with tea!
The Rutles! Ron Nasty! Dirk McQuickly! Stig O’Hara! Barry Wom!
The brainchild of Neil Innes (of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) and Eric Idle (of Monty Python), the Rutles were that other band of lovable moptops from Liverpool. Their rise to the toppermost of the poppermost was covered in All You Need Is Cash.
And now, in honor of their 30th anniversary of invading America, a series of concerts …
Today’s recap of last week’s blog posts may be less than enthralling. To be frank, I didn’t write a hell of a lot worth noticing last week. Last week was what I affectionately like to call “Hell Week” — it’s the week at work where the publications I work on and am responsible for go out the door to press, and things get… wonky. My blog posts last week reflect that fact; my mind was elsewhere. 
Sunday kicked off with another of my “This is what I’ve just done with WordPress” posts. The proximate cause was that WordPress 2.5 was supposed to drop on Tuesday the 11th. It didn’t, but I didn’t know that on Sunday. But I …
‘Tis a silly quiz…
Your Score: Enchanter Tim
You scored 71Worthiness!
You’re the enchanter Tim. You know quite a lot and you can summon fire all day, what else could you ask for. “Follow! But! follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty big …
