Not too many people know what Juneteenth is. Considering what we’ve been going through in the last few weeks, that’s both a sad reflection on contemporary society and an opportunity to learn.

Beerguyrob does history much better than I can ever hope to, so I won’t attempt at giving you a summary/short version. I do, however, encourage everyone to Google or Bing “Juneteenth” and consider whether we should add it to the nation’s holidays.

I certainly think we should.

Today’s theme is completely unrelated to today’s date but there is a link. As I am asking you to exercise your minds and learn something new, I will be showing you Tik Tok girls exercising their bodies. But more on that later…

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Sprots News

The sports calendar is filling up! Now, on top of NASCAR and Bundesliga, the AFL and La Liga have officially re-started!

I highly recommend both AFL and La Liga. My fellow soccer enthusiasts on this here site adore the Premier League, but I maintain that La Liga is much more fun to watch. Plus, Barcelona is in La Liga and I love that city/team.

Hippo should get you up to speed tomorrow morning on the soccer matchups of the day. In the meantime, if you can’t sleep, I suggest you turn on either the TSN networks in Canada or the Fox Sports networks in the US and see some AFL I know you will enjoy it.

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Without further ado, here are this week’s dirty and athletic Tik Tok girls. Enjoy:

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And now, the next episode of our new feature!

As I mentioned before, I’ve decided that I must take up the mantle that tWBS ran with and help to make this world a better place. I will do this in the one way he couldn’t: By introducing you to good music!

My aim each week will be to showcase a tune or band from the 80s (the best decade EVAR!) that not many people know about or have heard of. In this way, hopefully these artists will find new audiences and the old audiences can reminisce about what they were doing in the 80s.

Today’s band is another one of the original One-Hit Wonders. They were from a town called Mansfield in Nottingham, England. They released a single in 1982 featuring their one and only hit: “Nowhere Girl”.

The band, of course, was B-Movie.

There is a very interesting backstory to this song and band. Shortly after forming in 1980, the group released “Nowhere Girl” as a single in the UK:

This song met with some success but, as you can hear clearly when you hit play, it had a raw sound. By the time 1982 rolled around, New Wave was The Thing and B-Movie re-issued “Nowhere Girl” as a single and altered the sound. That’s the song that was played in the radio on KROQ in LA. I don’t know about the rest of the country or Canada but this song was HUGE in LA:

Inevitably, and to my great pleasure, extended mixes were also released at this time which became highly popular in the dance clubs and at middle school dances:

The success of “Nowhere Girl” seemed to doom the band, however. Internal squabbles led to various members leaving and being replaced. None of the songs they recorded as follow-ups got close to being called a moderate success.

Very quickly, the band fizzled out and broke up. It was the stereotypical bright meteor in the sky that shone extremely bright for a short period of time and then disappeared. If you were around in LA in 1982, though, you saw exactly how bright B-Movie really shone. It was a magical time and place.

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That’s all for this week, folks! Be good to each other and try to maintain the social distancing so that cases/deaths don’t spike and the easing of regulations doesn’t stop. See you next week!