Why Did The Cricket Cross The Road?

With the still-fresh Beatles remastered CDs buzzing around here, two clear winners benefit the most from the new technology: The White Album and Abbey Road. Both are particularly stellar in their sonic-soothing-ness.

And since Abbey Road turned 40 just a few weeks ago, it is fitting to offer a quick nod to the seminal album, that almost everyone I know has at least heard of, if not owned many times over. The Rock Band video game commercial, as seen above, is one of the coolest salutes to the Beatles I've ever seen. (How in the heck did they do that?) I have an Abbey Road poster given to me by one of my students a couple years ago, in my classroom. One of my current students wears her Abbey Road hoodie to school. Never fading in popularity, the vinyl record version of the album is still available, and I picked one up from a Best Buy store. It is iconic, and it's everywhere.


Witness then, my wacky brother, Clarence, aka "Cricket", crossing that famous road, in 1984. (Look, Mom, no shoes!)

Notice in the above photo, members of my class of 2008 reenacting the event at our school! And, check it out, the weird looking guy to the right, who is clearly out of step with the others. He also has a calculator in his left hand, and he's right-handed, proving that indeed, he is not dead, but very much a mathematician!

There's a pretty decent article about the re-mastering of Abbey Road, here:
The Beatles: Repaving 'Abbey Road'