Country Boy

My good friend Derek Watts has written a book about Albert Lee. Check Albert out on You Tube.

Back to the future in Barrie

GO passenger train service returns to Barrie, Ontario for the first time since 1993.
Update here and here.

Dome £1 billion, Olympics £10 billion

If at first you make a large cock-up why not go for broke next time out? Suitcases full of cash stuffed with your money are being handed out with abandon. Somebody is getting very rich out of four weeks of drug-fuelled sport. One thing you can be sure of it isn't going to be the taxpayer or the poor mugs who buy the lottery tickets.

The Green Monster is gone

David Tremayne pays tribute to Art Arfons. I saw Art perform at the IHRA's All-American Nationals at Bristol International Dragway on August 29, 1971:
"Later in the month I caught the last day of action at the newly formed International Hot Rod Association's championship drags at Bristol International Raceway, Bristol, Tennessee on August 27th - 29th. This super strip facility lies between two mountains in Thunder Valley and after paying $10 entrance fee I was not disappointed with the show. Within five minutes of arrival Art Arfons came to the line with the Super Cyclops jet dragster and hit the five second bracket at over 290 m.p.h. I felt I had already had my value for money, what would they do for an encore?"
More here, here and here. We only just lost Evel Knievel. Where have all the daredevils gone?