Ed's Museum: Wykoff, MN

We tried to go here on our trek across the country, from Tacoma to Philly but never got there. Now that we're moving to Wisconsin, we'll have to see about making a road trip and visiting the place. Here's the write-up from RoadsideAmerica.com:
Ed's Museum

The Living Room Candidate

Here's a site that archives all the presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to the present.
The Living Room Candidate
It's put together by the American Musuem of the Moving Image.

Starbucks Everywhere

So this guy is out to visit every (4000+) Starbucks locations around the world.
Starbucks Everywhere
Take a look at his list of "not visited stores." This is way, way nuts....

Interesting T-Shirts

It must be getting cheaper and cheaper to produce T-shirts. I keep seeing new sites every day, offering very inexpensive t-shirts with all sorts of keen designs. Here's a good one:
Threadless

Interesting T-Shirts

It must be getting cheaper and cheaper to produce T-shirts. I keep seeing new sites every day, offering very inexpensive t-shirts with all sorts of keen designs. Here's a good one:
Threadless

The Problem With Music

An article by Steve Albini which shows how bad, really bad, the music business is:
The Problem With Music

New E-mail address

Since the gods have graced me with a g-mail account, I guess I should start using it.
You can contact me at bolthouse@gmail.com if you want.

Coin Operated TV Benches - SECOND UPDATE

From Airport magazine (maybe airportnet.org but site was down when I tried to hit it):

Frankly, it's doubtful that Shreveport Regional could get coin-operated sets. According to Midwest International, the nation's sole coin-operated TV vendor, Shreveport's 350,000 enplanements probably aren't enough.

"We generally need 500,000 enplanements" to make it worthwhile, said Richard Sandblom, accountant for the Salt Lake City firm, which has about 500 sets in 40 airports, including New York JFK, New Orleans, Orlando, Tampa, Minneapolis and Oakland, and another 1,000 TVs in bus terminals.

Most of his aviation contracts are with airlines, but a few are with the airports themselves, such as San Antonio, Milwaukee and Salt Lake City. The company offers two styles of chiefly black-and-white TV chairs that come in attached sets of three. Each 15-minute session costs 25 cents, of which the airline or airport receives 25 percent.

Midwest International found that the added expense of offering color TVs simply wasn't worth it "because a color TV will get no more playing time than a black and white."

Coin Operated TV Benches (From the Lost Artifacts of Popular Culture series) UPDATE

News Flash!
While in the Orlando airport, I found TWO sets of coin operated TV benches! Ironically, I was on my way to my flight so didn't have a chance to try them out. They were plugged in, and I got the following from a placard on the bottom of one of the chairs:

Midwest International
650 Wilmington Ave.
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Model 550
FEI: 87-0282300

We are very close...

Enka

After seeing Kill Bill, I was reminded of all the Enka I heard while living in Japan. Enka is, if you can define it in one phrase, Japanese torch songs. In between the Beatles, Elvis, and other typical 50s rockers, a patron at the Karaoke bars I used to frequent would usually sing some Enka.
Barbara's Enka Site: Kaori Kouzei
This is a link to a female performer but I'll try and dig up some male songs as well.