Monthly Archives: January 2023

Stan’s Record Album Cover Studio -The Kool and the Gang Job

Stan runs a very successful businesshelped by his able assistant Perc Singer Kool he wasSinging bare and liveAt the famous Sex Machine(Dingy dirty dive) Production Notes We thought the girls (aka the Gang) hanging on Kool inthis fashion would help boost sales. Post Production Notes Kool apologised for not sending a copy of the recordbutContinue reading “Stan’s Record Album Cover Studio -The Kool and the Gang Job”

FCS Daily Music Video – Jam Session Rolling Stones (1972)

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones,Continue reading “FCS Daily Music Video – Jam Session Rolling Stones (1972)”

Smug Con Job

Harry and Meghan are at itInterviewing world leaders and allNew Zealand Prime Minister and GretaHaving a whale of a ball Cleverly honouring great leadersTo align to their Harry/Meghan brandWould appear like a very smug con jobA con job, a bit underhand Powered by attention-seeking desperationWanting to be proud and be greatSeen to be saluted asContinue reading “Smug Con Job”

Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Reserved

Write something incorporating the word ‘reserved’ Should you accept, go forth. Show your creative juices I accept.Here goes…. ODE TO RESERVED I have reserved this space forTonight, my verse, my odeBut don’t know what to write about? I tried Fan. Sorry…… DM

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

A Vietnam Soldier holding a jungle centipede in Vietnam, 1967 As if being at war and away from your family wasn’t bad enough, soldiers had to share the jungle with these unreasonably sized arthropods. For those who don’t know, centipedes are highly venomous and often inject their victims with a paralyzing venom There is neverContinue reading “From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (centipede)”

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (WW1)

German soldier, Oskar Hilner, sitting in a large cooking pot with an MG08 machine gun, 1916, WWI.  (colourized) This might look like a scene from a Monty Python movie, but it is actually a colorized photo from World War I. It shows the resourcefulness of the German soldiers. To protect themselves and accomplish their missions,Continue reading “From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (WW1)”