Life and Times for Monday, 3.6.23

Oh, I been busy

As some of you know, I am the proprietor of Hey Dullblog, the internet’s most popular Beatles fan site. I posted something there on Saturday about a 60s/70s institution in LA radio, KHJ 93 AM, “Boss Radio.”

As this site and I grow older, I increasingly realize that a lot of you are experiencing this stuff as history rather than lived memory. And so I thought you might find it interesting to hear what a radio station sounded like in the period between 1965-80. This is the idiom inside which first Beatles music—and then solo music—was heard. It was very, very different than today’s experience of streaming songs singly, songs you know and love, songs that the culture and your grandma say are Great Art. Listen to KHJ and imagine its capacity to delight and surprise.

You can read the whole post here.

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For reasons I don’t quite understand, I’m suddenly crazy for neckties, and spend way too much time scouring eBay looking for good ones. Sunday I created an occasional Substack so that my obsession can redound to the benefit of others. Check out the first post here (or click below), and subscribe if it appeals.

To begin with—