Just got a newsletter from the Old North Church and it links to an article about the steeple falling in #HurricaneCarol 1954.

They found movie footage of it falling.

But I also thought about how visible it was from the harbor...

#PaulRevere #Rev250

https://www.masslive.com/boston/2026/03/exclusive-watch-the-church-from-paul-reveres-ride-lose-its-steeple-in-1954-storm.html

Revolutionary Concord
In the US’s sesquibicentenary year, Nan Quick heads to a culturally significant part of the country that gave rise to the republic

https://lucire.com/2026/0416vo0.shtml #USA #history #Volante #travel #PaulRevere #Concord #Massachusettes #ConcordMA

Paul Revere & The Raiders by Paul Revere & The Raiders, released on Sande Records in 1963.

Review by William Ruhlmann

Paul Revere & the Raiders' second independently released album, issued shortly before they signed to Columbia Records, showed that the group had developed from the bar-band material and gimmicky boogie-woogie instrumentals of 1960-1961 into a good R&B-based band with a stronger vocal focus, both on Mark Lindsay's lead singing and on the band's backup harmonies (though many of the tracks still were instrumentals). The material consisted of covers of songs like "Honky Tonk," "Shake, Rattle & Roll," and "Don't Be Cruel," evidence that the Raiders had been listening to the radio carefully for suitable dance music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFcP2t--v0&list=RDNwFcP2t--v0&start_radio=1

#PaulRevereandtheRaiders #PaulRevere #MarkLindsay #RockandRoll #Music

The glassholes are coming! The #glassholes are coming!

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/google-to-introduce-new-ai-glasses-galaxy-xr-update-in-2026 [1]

[1] Neither this nor the barebones Google announcement page mention cameras, but I absolutely will not extend Google the benefit of the doubt given its "let's be evil as long as it makes us money" attitude. Until solid evidence to the contrary shows up, assume a #camera is included in these AR glasses.

#glasshole #google #spying #surveillance #privacy #evil #BeEvil #glasses #AR #XR #PaulRevere