AMNESTY

1) Amnesty International has moved in just a block down the street from Mango Pudding Blues’ world headquarters. There’s a big old mansion that used to house the Victorian Order of Nurses or St. John’s Ambulance or something like that, but they moved, and last week Amnesty International hung out a shingle there. We welcome them the the neighbourhood, where they join the embassies of Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil and Australia, among others, and the high commissions of Kenya and Egypt and the Sultanate of Brunei, and the home of some former Prime Ministers. And us.

We are against torture here at Mango Pudding Blues. We’ve idly thought about joining Amnesty International in the past, but we’re not known for joining things. However, now that we can see it, we are more interested.

2) And today is our last day working on the project that has been so getting us down these past two months. Sweet release.

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DEAN MARTIN

Tonight, on the television, is a drama based on the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis partnership, which just happens to be airing while we’re reading Nick Tosches exhausting biography, Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. In fact, we’re right now at the spot where Dean and Jerry’s nightclub act was at its peak, before the acrimonious split.

For those readers who are too rock and roll to give a shit about Dean, we have this to say; Elvis himself, according to Tosches, idolized Martin, and there is certainly audio evidence in some of Martin’s songs. Listen to Martin’s Memories are Made This and you’ll clearly hear the DNA they shared.

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