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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MELISSA ETHERIDGE!

Nothing better than a Ladies Night on an early-summer evening to get everyone into that summery groove. No better way to kick off that Ladies Night than with a performer who has never mailed it in, not even once. That gets you on the Music Series. Melissa Etheridge kicking things off tonight with 'Come To My Window'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LINDA RONSTADT!

As you regulars know Johnny often encourages readers to sing along to some songs. Don't do that here. You can't possibly be as smooth and pure as Ms. Ronstadt on this iconic platter. 'Blue Bayou' sounding good and luckily it's up next.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS!

Sherman set the Wayback Machine for Detroit Michigan, 1964 for our last track tonight. 

Can't forget the Motor City, damn right. 'Dancing in the Street' taking us out tonight.

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Here's your late night thread from Tuesday. This happens when the power is out for an extended period of time.

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When the hand goes up, the mouth goes shut...

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Space trivia night: Which planet spins backward relative to the others? Answer here.

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The weed situation certainly has changed in Iosco County

Where once there were seven dispensaries in Iosco County, four in East Tawas and at one point three here in O-Town, only three remain. The first to go was Inspire at F-41 and Cedar Lake Rd. Wasn't around all that long. Perhaps the most surprising closing was The Botanical in East Tawas. In fact Johnny had placed an order to pick up the next day and was met with a CLOSED sign at Botanical. Probably the saddest closing. The first retail cannabis shop here and the only one who'd accept debit or credit cards was gone. This spring brought the end of two more cannabis shops in East Tawas, Heritage Provisioning and High Level Health who have bailed on Iosco County and kept their Arenac County Omer store open. There were signs these two shops were on shaky ground as construction materials began taking up space in their parking lots. In fact the Heritage Provisioning shop got a new parking lot for customers who are never coming.

So, now, three there are, Puff, the craft weed experience at Top Tree in Oscoda and Great Lakes Exotics in East Tawas. Quite a change for the smokers and dabbers about. What was it that caused the big heyday of marijuana in Iosco County to die off? Lack of business obviously as seven shops at one point was probably a bit much. But what was it that left Great Lakes Exotics the only one standing in East Tawas? They have a great selection but so did the others. While they each had their own special promotional products, prices on most things weren't terribly different from the others. An interesting question as to why some made it and some failed. 

If you are someone interested in bringing a new dispensary to Iosco, maybe these closed shops provide a cautionary tale. If you have any insider info on the closed shops or the weed biz in the county feel free to drop a note in comments.

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A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair? -- Henny Youngman

(Johnny had been holding this joke in reserve for years for a random Late Night thread. Tonight was the night)

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with XTC!

Please open your Music Series hymnals to page 87 and raise your voices to reason with XTC and 'Dear God' 

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with DAVID BOWIE!

'Panic in Detroit' you say? Did the Lions drop Jared Goff and re-sign Joey Harrington? That'd do it.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES

Soon as Johnny finishes up the Music Series and locks up the Oscoda City Desk offices he's 'Going to a Go-Go' and wants to know if he can buy you a drink and then invite you to cut some rug...

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One of the two lanterns hung in the Old North Church in Boston to signal the British were coming. The other has been lost to history.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS!

"Hi good looking, what do you do?"
"I'm in The Psychedelic Furs."
That's so hot, what do you play?"
"Xylophone."
"Will you introduce me to the bass player?"

'Love My Way' starting things off tonight.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TEARS FOR FEARS

'Pale Shelter' is one fabulous song but Johnny included the video version because WTF is all this please? If you can figure any of it out you help everyone out by explaining it in comments, won't you?

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with YES!

Wrapping things up with an old FM staple (Johnny wouldn't know about commercial anymore) he heard so many times on all those old Detroit FM giants, WRIF, W4, and WABX. 'Roundabout' still sounding amazing.

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Go on, take a guess at the last letter to join our alphabet. Answer here.

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Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SMITHS!

Anything worth starting is worth starting right. The Smiths and 'How Soon Is Now?'

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FIONA APPLE!

What were you doing at age 18 and 19? Fiona Apple was writing and recording her masterpiece album, Tidal. Here's an essential song off that album, 'Shadowboxer'

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SAM & DAVE!

A rock and roll phone number that while perhaps not a popular as '867-5309 (Jenny)' by Tommy Tutone, but Johnny would argue this number, '634-5789' dials up a better jam.

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Johnny is just getting in from a later than usual movie night (The classic horror film Scream if you were keeping score at home) and this the Music Series will be delayed a night. See you then.

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