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1. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

   She did but the point is that emergency people don’t go out looking for people that might be missing. Those people have more then enough to deal with when there is a big storm.

2. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

   Could you imagine that your dad goes out, a snow storm hits, and you call “911” to tell them that you are worried about him so could they send out an ambulance to look for him? How fast would they disconnect on you?

3. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

   Since when do EMS technicians go looking for people who are out in a snowstorm? Shouldn’t he have real emergencies – the kind of things that happen in a real snowstorm – to deal with? I keep wondering if Scancarelli ever does anything in the real world and every story seems to say, “no he doesn’t”. Maybe some of his fiddler buddies should sit down and explain to him how things kind of work because he sure lacks a basic understanding.

4. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

   His 90 year-old daughter, Judy – who hasn’t been seen in years and years – is worried about him? Come on, Jimbo, she doesn’t even visit him on the holidays. How would she even know he is out in a snowstorm?

5. 2 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   It’s just the way that he is drawn. And he is just all wrong for a strip where all of the main characters are cartoonish.

6. 2 days ago on Barney & Clyde

   My son was in Vegas last weekend for a bachelor party. One of the guys got a call from a buddy who told him to bet “6” on the roulette wheel. He did and won $900.

7. 3 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   A few songs that you may have heard of that he wrote: I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock ‘n Roll), (I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass, and Cruel to be Kind. The latter was made famous by an interview with a record company exec in which the interviewer said it was a good thing that there isn’t payola anymore. The guy grabbed the nearest record, Cruel to be Kind, and said he would make it a hit by using payola. It was the only Lowe single to chart in the U.S.

8. 3 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Usually I hear the question "Graham who rather than about Nick Lowe. Can guy have a 50-year career and still be unknown? I grew up in the ‘60s but I think my favorite period for rock was the New Wave era of the 70s / 80s. Lowe was part of that as a leader of so-called “pub rock”, which was a throwback to roots rock that played small venues. He and his buddy, Brinsley Schwarz, joined the band “Kippington Lodge” which morphed into “Brinsley Schwarz”. That band’s biggest song was “What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace, Love and Understanding”, which would later be a hit for Elvis Costello. Lowe left to join a band called “Rockpile” with Dave Edmunds. The two, though were signed to different record labels so they couldn’t record as Rockpile. They would release alternate albums under each other’s name, the Edmunds’ albums have a more rockabilly sound and the Lowe’s ones have a more pop sound. Eventually their contracts ran out and they released the only “Rockpile” album – and then disbanded. He was also quite a producer – Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, the D@mned, Wreckless Eric, Carlene Carter (wife), Johnny Cash (FIL), Pretenders, John Hiatt). Still out there singing with Los Straightjackets backing.

9. 3 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Shifty? I think you mean creepy.

10. 3 days ago on La Cucaracha

    Again!