Norm Gilbert
1 min readApr 5, 2022

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Saw Aimee Mann live at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco in 2012.

Bimbo's is an amazing venue, still standing and unchanged for more than 80 years. Going there for a concert is like going back in time. Bimbo's used to be "The Home of the Girl in the Fishbowl".

Before color TV, they used a periscope and a woman in a mermaid costume in the basement to create the illusion of a mermaid in a fishbowl waving at people in the club. Technology has taken the amazement out of that illusion. They only recreate it a few times a year for nostalgia, but the apparatus is still there.

My mother went to Bimbo's a decade before I was born. The night with Aimee Mann on stage was my first and last date with someone who wasn't the one for me.

Thanks for posting the video. I knew the song but had never seen the video. She fell hard for this creep in a wife-beater t-shirt simply because of his good looks.

Good-looking people with symmetrical faces have a much easier time of it in life I'm afraid.

There used to be a song, a one-hit-wonder, by Jimmy Soul, released in 1963. The lyrics were:

"If you want to be happy for the rest of your life

Never make a pretty woman your wife

So from my personal point of view

Get an ugly girl to marry you"

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Norm Gilbert
Norm Gilbert

Written by Norm Gilbert

Fully retired, ex-pat living outside the US. Been a worker, been in a union, owned a business, and had probably 6 different career paths. I write as a hobby.

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