Several folks have written in to tell me that Petula Clark wasn't lip-syncing in this video I linked to. Someone took a video of her singing "My Love" somewhere and overdubbed the record. They're right and I should have noticed that.
Someone else (one person) wrote to point out what they thought was a grievous error. I said my little mixtape, which I am reconstructing via video links here, was "compiled between approximately 1967 and 1972. Some of the songs are from before '67 since KHJ played "oldies," defining them as anything (I think) that had been off the charts for more than about eight weeks." This person wrote to ask how "My Love" could have been on it since it came out in 1966.
David Leonhardt charts how COVID-19 is making a comeback in some areas of this country…some notably non-vaccinated areas of this country. Oh, I hope this is not so but it apparently is.
It was one thing when we didn't have the means to combat this disease. It's quite another when we do and people don't want to use those means because…well, I understand fear of putting a relatively-new drug into one's system. Then again, I do know (semi-distantly) a guy who won't get the vaccine for that reason but if you handed him an unlabeled drug and said, "Here, this'll give you a glorious high," it would be in his veins faster than you could say "Timothy Leary."
The ones I really don't get are the ones who took a position that the virus was a hoax, there was some sort of plot to vaccinate Americans to control their minds, all that stuff about people dying was phony, et cetera…and now they'd rather get the Delta variant than admit they might have been wrong.
Lastly for now: Way past the announced deadline and way past the time the judges decided, folks are still sending me nominations or this year's Bill Finger Awards for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Those nominations will roll over to next year so no harm done. Six posthumous recipients for this year will be announced shortly. Next year, we hope to present one — hopefully, more than one — to someone alive.