by Ian Punnett
I don’t know about you but it’s been a long week for me. My great problem with doing a radio show like Coast to Coast at the end of five crazy days of husband/father/church guy/morning show host is that the material is so interesting to me, I can’t stand NOT reading it.
Typically every week I read at least one book cover-to-cover and on weeks like this one where I am doing C2C x 2, I am sometimes reading as many as three books at a time.
I don’t always finish on time for the show. I still have about a third of Saturday’s “Spymaster” to read which I am excited about because the stories he tells definitely put another spin on the news/history. I also never got to the last five chapters of “The Scalpel and the Soul” for Sunday night’s show and there is no way I am not finishing that.
But that means that I will start Monday morning needing to go back and get caught on two books from last weekend before I start to read the material I have to get to because this coming Saturday night’s show!
I am hoping for a couple of sunny days so that I can sit in my lawn chair and get ‘er done.
In the meantime, sometimes I need a good chuckle and the following were all suggestions/links that people sent me this week that just cracked me up.
The first goes back to the shows we did a couple times about Phil Spector with Mark Ribowsky the author of “He’s A Rebel” the book that, among many things, catalogued the number of times the eccentric record producer had pulled guns on people and how likely he was to be guilty in the death of that down-on-her-luck Hollywood starlet. He was the first guy I ever heard say that not only was Phil Spector wearing toupees from an early age (no shame in that) but he was wearing intentionally outrageous wigs and pretending it was his own hair (definitely on goofier end of the spectrum).
The first time Phil Spector had been booked, the police allowed him to keep his hairpiece on for the photo. Mark said that this broke with police policy but it was a courtesy they extended to him that he likely wouldn’t get if he were convicted.
Mark was right. That’s a long way from the “electrocuted Mozart” look he had at trial.
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That’s a long way from the “electrocuted Mozart” look he had during his trial.
Speaking of hair: Adam Lambert is the flamboyant runner-up to this year’s “American Idol” who was recently featured on the cover of Rolling Stone as he discussed his music, his sexuality and his hair.
One of you very bright observers thought that they had seen Adam Lambert’s much-discussed hairdo on another famous icon and put two and two together:
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Freaky, huh? I didn’t know that Lambert was from South Park too. Don't remember seeing him around the playground after school.
Finally, you had to love this shot of the luckiest man on the planet.
Just two days after winning $181 million dollars in the Powerball Lottery, he then meets the love of his life. I hope these two young people will be very happy.