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...Standley's evangelist rant "It's in the Book" or the Animals' version of "(Boom Boom Boom Boom) Gonna Shoot You Right Down," and Sales would madly cavort along, a dervish of prepubescent ecstasy. (The show gave you a music education too.) In the mid-'60s, he had a hit of his own: a dance record, Soupy Sales Sez Do the Mouse, whose song "The Mouse" ranks in the novelty-song category up or down there with John Zacherle's "Dinner with Drac" and Steve Martin's "King Tut." That got him a contract as a Motown recording artist. Didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained this precise, predictable rhythm in a 2002 interview with Ed Grant on the Manhattan cable-access show Media Funhouse: "Guy says, 'Where's the watercooler?' I say, 'Alaska,' and get hit with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...music, and other universals. The topics are sweepingly large, but The Very Best has the musical muscle to match. On the track, Mwamwaya spreads his bracing, multi-tracked vocals across the crisp, rollicking synths of Radioclit that would be equally at home in an ’80s pop hit. The song moves between the peaks of Mwamwaya’s choral cries and the hushed intimacy of the calming and repetitive beat, creating moving dynamics that keep it from becoming repetitive...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Very Best | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Well, watch out, dear FlyBy reader. They’ve already hit Pfoho—your House could be next...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Attack of the Ladybugs! | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...that wood and lumber was an unusual sight, concedes Pham Thanh Lam, director of the Forestry Protection Bureau in Quang Nam, the province where the typhoon made landfall on Sept. 29. The storm was one of the most powerful to hit Vietnam in the past 50 years, killing at least 164 people. The highest number of deaths occurred in the mountainous province of Kon Tum, after heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides. At least two villages were completely buried. (See pictures of Ketsana's damage in Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Typhoon, Illegal Logging Back in Spotlight in Vietnam | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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