8 year anniversary!

Today PCL LinkDump celebrates 8 years in orbit. Happy birthday to us!

I'm Like Jack On Fire

It was 30 years ago today; Jeffery Lee taught the band to play: 30th Anniversary of the release of Fire of Love In America, I mean..... approx -5 or 6 GMT

PCL - The seven year (B)itch

Happy Birthday To Us.

7 years ago today PCL LinkDump (as we know it) was born.
This was before YouTube and long before MySpace and - even later on - Facebook became houshold names. Blogs had been published on the net since the late 1990s but had just started to grow popular in 2003-2004 when blogger.com had been purchased by Google from PyraLabs and made the publishing tool better and much easier to use.
Much has happened since. Blogs are not the new black anymore. Nowadays everyone hangs around Facebook (incl. me) creating a net experience that are more mainstream and probably duller than ever before. But we are stuck together like glue re-posting funny videos, petitions and events like there was no tomorrow with the firm believe that someone cares.
How did this happen?

I'm not sure. And I'm not upset. Just sad. I use Facebook as much as anyone (or maybe even a little more ..). And Facebook is probably not entirely bad.

PCL linkDump, on the other hand, hasn't changed much from the start. Well it has had numerous succesful or not so successful re-designs, several contributors which since have moved on to other projects or total obscurity (or just ruthlessly got sacked) and a number of internal bleedings. Back when I started it all there was only me. We are now going into our 8:th year with 20 contributors and more determined to rule world than ever. At least we fantazise about it. But I can promise you that won't happen. That's just not us - the megalomania is.

We march on, just like the dynamic party bitches we all are.

/Z aka mrdantefontana

6

Six years ago (or to be more precise: 6 years and 2 days ago) I started this blog. Good times! .... and bad.
But mostly I'm fascinated over the fact that PCL is still here. Of course a big reason for that is Baikinange whom continues to post pop cultural gems in an endless stream that never seem to run dry. And I thank her for that!
Me, I probably out-posted myself during the first intense 3 years and is still recovering from the hangover. But I'm still here. Not on my toes. But still. Enjoying what's going on.
Also big thanks to Donna, Jan and the rest of the awesomest PCL Team on the planet.
Dynamic Party Blogging!

I love all of you!

Let's hope for another bumpy 6 years!

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Ps. But, hello Houston! We have a problem!!!! But I'll get back to you on that one. I do not want to mess this happy anniversary post with crappy problems. Later....

Happy Birthday!

This week ...

... 4 years ago I started this site. Are there any readers still here from the start? I doubt it. The first months PCL didn't have that many hits. Most came, I think, from email-lists where I was a member and advertised the URL to. They came here and was greeted by this look.
But eventually the crowd grew a little bigger. And now some of them are highly appreciated team members.
PCL LinkDump is a team effort. But I think my initial idea to post about pop culture unveiling the obscure but fantastic parts as well as of course appreciating the more mainstream but good stuff still stands.
PCL is diverse, funny, artsy, childish, stylish, vulgar and utterly sexy.
And we are here to stay for another year.

I hope you have enjoyed the ride so far.

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Cher and Raquel Welch

Cher and Raquel Welch are of course dressed to kill when showing up at the PCL 3 year anniversary party. And mrdantefontana is floored.
-Wake me up next year, he said just before he fainted. But, as reported, he had a huge smile on his face.

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3 years high and rising

3 years ago (too be a little more precise 3 years and 2 days has passed) this blog was born and deliverered PCL's first post.

As we can see by using the Wayback Machine the blog initially looked a little different back then. I think the design changed at least 7 times during the first year (see Nov 2004 - Feb 2005). And it was just little poor me from the start. But believe me when I say I did my best. 9 or 10 posts a day was not a rare thing in 2004-2005. I lived and breathed for this blog. No time spared.

Since then a lot of things have changed. PCL is not longer a solo effort - it is the work of a team. And I love it even more that way. Nowadays I am as much of a reader of PCL as I am a contributor. I love it. And I love my team mates.

PCL LinkDump is still here. And is still on top of the game. Delivering good pop cultural stuff with a twist almost everyday of the week.

CHEERS! GANGSTERS!

/Z aka mrdantefontana

The twist? Well... here's the twist.

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Note: This was post 3,715

It was forty years ago today. Tribute to Trane.

"It was forty years ago today that John Coltrane died, yet his influence remains profound. ... "Like Sonny" -- part six of the ongoing Sonny Rollins Podcast series -- celebrates the life and music of this remarkable creator by detailing the story of Trane's unique friendship with Rollins. The film's title is from a song Coltrane wrote about Rollins, taking the melody from a phrase he heard Sonny play. ..."
A thirteen-minute documentary put together by Bret Primack:

And more Trane, ...

John Coltrane Quartet - On Green Dolphin Street (Dusseldorf, Germany, March 1960):

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John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1961 in Baden-Baden Germany):

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