I’ve been meaning to write something on this tired, old, useless blog (or perhaps I’m describing myself) for several days now, but nothing seems to come to mind. Today, though, is a special day: the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik–Sky Lab’s older punk-ass Soviet sister. Without her, where would we be today? I can pretty much bet that the bus stop in Warsaw where I used to catch my bus would not have been named Gagarin.

And we wouldn’t have had such beautiful songs such as these:

Rickie Lee Jones’ “Satellites”

or Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love”
.

Here’s U2’s version of the Lou Reed classic from the early ’90s:
.

I don’t know if a big image and three embedded videos from YouTube count as a real post here at Crash Course, but since I see others doing it, it must be alright.

I’ve been meaning to write something on this tired, old, useless blog (or perhaps I’m describing myself) for several days now, but nothing seems to come to mind. Today, though, is a special day: the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik–Sky Lab’s older punk-ass Soviet sister. Without her, where would we be today? I can pretty much bet that the bus stop in Warsaw where I used to catch my bus would not have been named Gagarin.

And we wouldn’t have had such beautiful songs such as these:

Rickie Lee Jones’ “Satellites”

or Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love”
.

Here’s U2’s version of the Lou Reed classic from the early ’90s:
.

I don’t know if a big image and three embedded videos from YouTube count as a real post here at Crash Course, but since I see others doing it, it must be alright.