Can’t Now Send My Child To the Corner

Can’t now send my child to the cornerThe corner for naughties no moreWill damage my precious one’s psyche (yep)Can’t send to the corner no more We once could use discipline to train themNow can’t even touch the dear onesAdvantage they take of situationAdvantage to ensure that they’ve won Don MatthewsDecember 2022

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ (Big Joe Joe Williams 1935) Van Morrison and Them

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard “Gloria” and launching singer Van Morrison’s musical career. The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Although Them had a short-lived existence, the Belfast group had considerable influence onContinue reading “FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ (Big Joe Joe Williams 1935) Van Morrison and Them”

Afghanistan 1984

Expression oh so hauntingPiercing eyes which boreSharbat Gula Afghan1984 Sharbat Gula became Afghanistan’s most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her face in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border in the 1980s. This picture which later went on to become a symbolic image was published on the front cover of the National GeographicContinue reading “Afghanistan 1984”

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (Yoda)

Yoda’s creator based the character’s design off of his own face In order to create Yoda, makeup artist Stuart Freeborn looked inward and found a look that he thought would work well on the swamp planet of Dagobah. Freeborn’s work can be seen throughout the early films of Stanley Kubrick and even in Superman, butContinue reading “From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (Yoda)”