Life & Times, Music, Rhymes, and Memories!
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Happy New Year! Current Website Projects, Creations, Topics and IssuesA SWF animation classic revisited UPDATED 01/04/26 Leonid & Friends - Amazing "Chicago" tribute band, along with BS&T, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Play it loud!  The "/now" Page is Live! - Modeled upon Derek Sivers, a "/now" page, saying what I'd tell a friend I hadn't seen in a year. Grokipedia is Here - The AI Encyclopedia that ends Wikipedia drama How Wikipedia Got Captured: - Leftist editors & foreign influence on Internet's biggest source of info by John Stossel Has America Lost Its Melody? - Something changed in popular music around 2005 Misleading. Biased. Exposed. - Media offender of the week The 2026 Grammys - Proof music is getting worse Grokipedia - Elon Musk takes on Wikipedia with AI generated "Grokipedia" Our 2025 Family Christmas Card - Merry Christmas from our families to yours! "What is an American?" - An essay by Vivek Ramaswamy "Grinched For Good!" - The Wicked Witch of the West reformed; why can't the Grinch? Self-Deportation? - Stay in the U.S. and move to sanctuary cities. Everybody wins! Please, Mr. Oilman... Tell me how the wind is bad for the environment? How America's Broken Promises May Lead to a New Cold War - Newly declassified documents The "End of the Endless Summer Tour" - Part II - Bob & the Beachcombers hang up their surfboards "Blue Donkey Bar" - Hunter Biden's Lament - A parody of "Pink Pony Club" "House of Dynamite" - Who's going to light the fuse? What is "Grok"? - And what is Elon Musk's AI Grok? Bringing Beach Party Summertime Fun to the Midwest - With No Town Left Behind! Dueling perspectives on the Ukraine-Russia War - Taking Tangle to Task What the Bleep Do We Know? - The cellular, molecular and quantum worlds that lie beneath everything Growing Old - There's a discrimination nobody talks about. Best Quotes From "Stranger In a Strange Land" Is This the Last Invention? - The Future of Artificial Intelligence What is the best explanation of the 4th dimension you have ever heard of? The Many Worlds Theory - What is meant by the term "You create your reality?" Do Rich People Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes? The "End of the Endless Summer Tour" - Part I - Bob & the Beachcombers Hang Up Their Surfboards Twenty Years of Beach Party Fun - Graphs and charts of 2,513 shows from 2006 to 2025 "Boats" - A parody of Zac Brown's "Toes" "I Am Iron Man" - Not quite, but I've got a high tech pacemaker... Is Live Music Dead? - Is a choreographed, pre-engineered production masquerading as a concert really live music? Billy Joel - And So it Goes - An excellent two part documentary about the Piano Man on Amazon The SolTec Lounge Chair - Picking up some of those good vibrations! "A Brian Wilson Tribute" - An excellent hagiography that explores the genius of Brian Wilson by music blogger Bob Lefsetz What's the hardest part about getting older that no one ever talks about at all? - Excerpts From Quora HITZ on PM Magazine - A WCCO TV broadcast featuring the band HITZ It's Not Just You - There Are No Good New Songs This Summer More AI Generated Art & Videos - And a special report on "Where Are They Now?" Beachcomber Bob "Tribute to Elvis" Upgrade - A new & improved Elvis show! What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? - The rise and fall of David Clayton Thomas and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Beachcomber Bob "Back to the '50s" Upgrade - Rockin' the Oldies was never more fun! Stalked By a Rock & Roll Fan! - She warned me, "Don't let your wife read this!" New AI Generated Family Art and Videos - NightCafe Studio Digital Art and Luma Dream Machine videos Saturday Night Live Predicts the Future - With help from a talking dog... Planning a Wedding? - You have options! Beachcomber Bob Seniors Show Upgrade - New music, new props, and new beach party fun! "We Didn't Start the Fire" 1985 - 1995 - From the archives! "We Didn't Start the Fire" 2010 - 2025 - Updated! Conversations With God - An uncommon dialogue revisited AI Generated Family Art - NightCafe Studio Digital Art and Luma Dream Machine videos Dome Sweet Dome - Geodesic domes and "The Sphere" in Las Vegas Music, Memories & Madness - My Substack music blog River of Dreams - An unfinished website merging religion, science and philosophy "Goodnight Saigon" - An adaptation of Billy Joel's song about the Vietnam War "Leningrad" - An adaptation of another Billy Joel song about his shows in Russia and WW II The WorldWide Scam Network - The original Laundry CD parody from 1997 featuring "Structured Water Technology" The WWSN Lifewave Scam Website - That prompted a 137 page lawsuit in Federal District Court Graphic Novel - WWSN vs Travelogia.com MLM Scam - And the $7.6 million dollar lawsuit (spoiler alert - they lost!) Music History Bob the Beachcomber home page Bob & the Beachcombers home page Beachcomber Bob home page Minnesota Music History - A musical career in photos and text The Midwest History of Rock & Roll - 1,800+ photos of regional R&R and artists from the '50s - '70s in alphabetical order Original Songs - Songs written & recorded Video Projects & Compilations Bob & the Beachcombers - A playlist of the Beachcombers band videos "Minnesotaville" - A playlist of nine Minnesotaville songs by Bob & the Beachcombers Gangbusters - The Blues Brothers show Gangbusters - "Sunday Morning Fever - Where Did the Disco?" Monroe Wright III - "Memories of the Mills Brothers" and "The Bachelors" Cedar Avenue Live - Short videos performing at the Amsterdam Bar Riding the Root River Trail - Biking in Lanesboro Politics The Ukrainian Crisis - It's Not All Putin's Fault Mr. Maher Goes to Washington - Kid Rock, Bill Maher and President Trump at the White House "Larry David's Dinner With Hitler" - Bob Lefsetz warns, "We're going to be slaughtered like all those Jews in the forties!" "Tesla Backlash" - Music blogger Bob Lefsetz attacks Elon Musk Lefsetz Letters - A blog challenging the political nonsense of music and entertainment blogger Bob Lefsetz CNN - News of the Future - A parody of the CNN network Music Parodies "If I Had a Trillion Dollars" - Barenaked Ladies parody "American Town" - A parody of Billy Joel's "Allentown" about the mortgage crisis of 2008 "Hotel Minnesota" - A parody of "Hotel California" Website Clients Trumpy Homes - Home builders and basement refinishing Frontline Firearms and Training - Private instruction for individuals, couples, and groups Monroe Wright - The Twin Cities best kept secret! The Rockin' Hollywoods - The best oldies band in the Midwest! Loss Prevention Services - Precondition surveys and vibration monitoring services Dave Olsen Photography - Professional photography services Brad James - The Voice - Professional voice services Family Matters Burtis Family Christmas Cards 1989 - 2024 Burtis Family Videos on YouTube - A playlist of online family videos Burtis Early Family Videos - Six large files of family videos from the 1950s. Burtis/Stadick Family Tree - Going back to Alberto Alberti in 1290 with 3,141 relatives and growing! "Love Letters" - Letters sent from Dad to Mom while in the army Mixbook Family Photo Albums - Semi-annual family photo books "Worms" - A story by young Shawn Burtis "Where's Fond?" - A fishy story by young Shawn Burtis |