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Jon's Random Acts of Geekery presents "The Genius of George Pal."

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NPR interviews one of fave recent musical artists, UK roots R&B guy James Hunter, who has a new record out. Seriously, if you love Sam Cooke and that early 60s soul sound, you're gonna love his stuff.

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Current Doctor Who actor David Tennant is getting good reviews in a UK production of "Hamlet."

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Pappy shares an old Ghost Patrol story. Nice Carmine Infantino art.

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Slay Monstrobot helpfully points out that you can now get nearly every dang Star Trek comic published by every publisher on DVD. Legally even.

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Amazon has a video up of Brian Wilson performing a tune from his upcoming album, That Lucky Old Sun. Not so crazy about the tune itself, a collaboration with Van Dyke Parks I guess, but Brian sounds great. The new LP, has earned rave reviews in the UK music mags.

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Imagine
bumping into Paul McCartney at the Circle K. Some folks in Illinois don't have to.

On Saturday afternoon, a group of Springfield guys stopped at the Circle K on their way to St. Louis for the Cardinals-Phillies game. While in the parking lot, they saw someone walk by who looked just like McCartney.

“We were getting in the car as he was walking in,” says C.J. Lowder. “I said, ‘Man, that looks like Paul McCartney.’”

The Bronco parked on the side of the gas station, not in the front. The man who looked like Sir Paul didn’t buy anything inside, but used the station, just off Interstate 55, for a “pit stop.” Nobody at the gas station even noticed him, Lowder said.

“Josh (Lowder, C.J.’s brother) said ‘Hey, Paul!’ and he said, ‘What’s up?’ with this real thick English accent, and I knew it was him,” C.J. Lowder said.

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