Pat Callaghan

Anchor-reporter at NEWS CENTER Maine 1979-2022. Host of the In The Arena Maine politics podcast.

[Pat Callaghan @PatCallaghan6]

Or 1960s Dark Shadows.

[Amazing Pop Culture @AmazingPopPod]

Is just me or does the President of Argentina look like he could be a 1970s Doctor Who character?

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

History made 🇺🇲

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

60 years ago today, the "first space selfie" was taken.

Buzz Aldrin took the picture during his first stand-up spacewalk of Gemini XII, and, after photographing landmarks on Earth. “Okay, tell everybody down there to smile,” Aldrin said, snapping away.

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

“I fell in love with the Beatles' music (and simultaneously, of course, with their four faces-cum-personae) along with my children, two girls and a boy, in whom I discovered the frabjous falsetto shriek-cum-croon, the ineluctable beat, the flawless intonation, the utterly fresh lyrics, the Schubert-like flow of musical invention and the Fuck-You coolness of these Four Horsemen of Our Apocalypse, on the Ed Sullivan Show of 1964. Together we saw it, The Vision, in our inevitably different ways (I was forty-six!), but we saw the same Vision, and heard the same Dawn-Bird, Elephant-Trump, Fanfare of the Future . . .

“The notes healed, the words teased; or perhaps it was vice versa. But something teased, and something healed, year after year, Rigby after Rigby, Paperback after Norwegian . . .

"Meanwhile, there was a slim volume of pure verbal genius by a new author called John Lennon: In His Own Write. If this weren’t enough to rhapsodize upon, there were the notes (and the sylph-siren voice) of one McCartney. These two made a pair embodying creativity mostly unmatched during that fateful decade . . . John and Paul, Saints John and Paul, were, and made, and aureoled and beatified and eternalized the concept that shall always be known, remembered and deeply loved as The Beatles. To me, they were the best songwriters since Gershwin.

“And yet, the two were merely something, the four were It. The interdependence was astonishing, and in some ways appalling; do we really need all this to sustain us When We’re 64? Well, today I am almost 64, and three bars of 'A Day In The Life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities.

“The Beatles are no more. But this week I am still jumping, weeping, remembering a good epoch, a golden decade, a fine time, a fine time . . .”
--#LeonardBernstein

#Maestro #Conductor #Composer #ClassicalMusic #Genius #Polymath #Grammys #Tonys #Emmys
#Influence #HallsOfFame #TheBeatles #GOATs

Sources: The Beatles, Geoffrey Stokes; interview with Jonathan Cott, 1989

[Goodable @Goodable]

After years of hearing that Major League Baseball games couldn't be discussed "without express written consent", a fan wrote in to the MLB to ask for it.

They actually said yes.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

It’s not “party leaders.” There was one enabler that made this happen, he currently resides in the Oval Office.

[Pat Callaghan @PatCallaghan6]

With a solid Democratic hold on the House and Senate, will Governor-elect @PingreeHannah have the chance to be bold? Ethan Strimling & Phil Harriman disagree on the prospects.
Here's @InTheArenaMaine Ep. 106
https://t.co/q3AqDxF5wT
@WMTWTV @senpeh #MePolitics

[WMTW TV @WMTWTV]

Former Gov. Paul LePage has officially won the election for Maine's 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives following a ranked-choice voting tabulation. Click the following link for the results: https://t.co/PhMK3AmhKI

[Pat Callaghan @PatCallaghan6]

Democrats added seats to their majorities in the Maine House and Senate last week.
Phil Harriman & Ethan Strimling dig into what that will mean on Ep. 106 of @InTheArenaMaine
https://t.co/q3AqDxExHl
@senpeh @WMTWTV #MePolitics

[CNN @CNN]

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has awarded the soldier who reprimanded him and members of his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a Joint Service Commendation Medal. https://t.co/GOMBw4WVSr

[Bill King @BeatlefanExtra]

Here’s Paul McCartney solo on piano from the 1995 sessions that Paul, George Harrison and Ringo Starr did to make John Lennon’s “Real Love” into a Beatles song. No AI was used here. It’s taken from the mullti-tracks of the recording that leaked.
https://t.co/j6DQKQnO6P

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Bloopers from

THE ROCKFORD FILES

(how much fun was working with the late great JAMES GARNER, what a dude)

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Scott Colom, a Democrat, defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican of Mississippi, in a close race, according to The Associated Press. His win makes him the first Black senator elected in the state since Reconstruction.
https://t.co/YKr89ptAcK

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

We may have had to count One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, but Blue Mississippi sure has a nice ring to it! Scott, you put your heart and soul into this race because you believe in the promise of your state’s people. And they believed in you right back. I’m honored to have stood alongside you. Congratulations!

[Jackie Mundry @j_mundry]

The developers at the Jay mill have amended its permits for the data center project.

Developers say this project will not use any extra energy, instead it will use the mill’s existing infrastructure.

#mepolitics #mainepolitics #jay #jaymaine #datacenter @WMTWTV

[Pat Callaghan @PatCallaghan6]

Amazing.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

The previous Black U.S. Senator from Mississippi was Blanche K. Bruce (1875-1881):

[Beach Boys Legacy @beachboyslegacy]

The photo shoot for the Party album was the epitome of coolness.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

It is not appropriate to laugh outside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a member of the Army’s Old Guard reminds Hegseth’s group. On Veterans Day.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

📺On November 11, 2003, ‘The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry’ aired on CBS

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I think Hegseth thought Pearl Harbor was a jazz singer