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Toilet Cat, The Kiffness, & Juzzie Smith – Christmas Blues

An evening pause: Words escape me.

Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

3 comments

  • “Words escape me.”

    I’ve got some corralled.

    The cat is smart. Ceramics are abrasive, and high-quality sharpening “steels” use ceramic. It does look hilarious, and the creators made excellent use of the visual.

    The woman has a decent voice, a good microphone, and very short shorts.

    Juzzie Smith. What can one say? His site says “Juzzie Smith is a ridiculously talented One-man band, based in Byron Bay Australia.” His mouth-organ belt is metal as hell. One imagines him as the character theme song band for Crocodile Dundee, similar to the scene in “I’m Gonna Git You, Sucka!” (1988) where hero John Slade walks down the street with his own band playing his ‘theme song’ [it’s ‘Shaft’].

    That was great, thanks! Now, I have to go watch that Kennon Ivory Wayans film again.

  • John

    He doesn’t need all those harmonicas

  • John:

    I would venture that he does, indeed, need all those harmonicas. Professional musicians will usually have several instruments of the same type tuned to different pitches. Unless they are pianists; that would be awkward.

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