Today's Tids Issue 5,272
Close the streets:
I think one of the great stories of the year and maybe for all years is the discovery of the four children surviving by themselves in the jungle. And how they learned what to do. How their mother before she died told the eldest, her 13-year-old daughter, what she must do to help herself and her siblings survive. It moves my heart, and I’m not shy about telling you that.
Say it ain’t so, Pat Sajak. As you get older friends and relatives begin to disappear, but you know for sure that the comforting link to mindless, yet delightful entertainment will be there forever. Right? Pat Sajak will always make you smile. Alas.
As the mime’s girlfriend said when their eyes met, “You don’t say.”
Did you see that AP report that said that $280 Billion of covid funds were stolen by grifters, the biggest grift in history. But even scarier in some regards is the enormity of the covid salvation expenditure of $4.3 Trillion which is about equal to the GNP of Germany and more than all the GNPs of all the countries of the world except the US, China and Japan. No wonder we can’t find people to work. Te are all waiting for the next great come and get it day.
Where there is a USA government pot of gold, there will be scammers.
The Question:
Yesterday I was mystified by my lack of knowledge of Tony award winners. So today I picked four years at random, 1948, 1958, 1968 and 1988 to see what they might have been then. What are the top Play and top Musical for those years?
The Headlines:
--Gas and Food Proces Ease Slowing Year to Year Inflation to 4%, But double Fed Target of 2%; Markets Rise Early.
--Trump to be Arraigned in Miami.
--China Surprises Cutting Short Term Policy Interest Rate; Observers See it as Move to Stimulate Flagging Economy.
--At Least 10 Shot, 3 Critically in Aftermath of Denver Nuggets NBA Victory.
--Actor Treat Williams, 71, Dies in Motorcycle Accident.
--Consumers Appear to be Cutting Back on "Anything Goes” Vacation Spending.
In case you are interested, Mount Washington up in New Hampshire had its snowiest June in 91 years.
Whatever happened to fun, Department:
Last night Denver denizens were ecstatic over their NBA team’s Championship Victory. But alas, in the celebrating somebody got mad at something, and guns began ablazing and happy festive people suddenly found themselves shot. What is happening to people.
One of the little things I always wanted to do was to build a cool unique herb garden with brick walkways and little gates and stone walls everywhere.
I see where the ever-unctuous Senator from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal is going after the LIV/PGA preliminary agreement. Blumenthal has been annoying since he was Conn’s US Attorney from 1977-81 and through a host of other state and federal offices. He’s just one of those guys who when he talks, I go on guard.
I knew a woman who owned a taser. She was stunning.
There are two kinds of pedestrians out there. One will come to a four way stop intersection where there is just one car stopped on the road they intend to cross, and they will use the crosswalk in front of the car because it is an entitlement. The other person will approach, analyze the situation, and see there is no other car coming in sight and will walk behind the car so it can just keep on going where it is going.
Hey folks, the peony bushes are beginning to look pretty great out there now.
The Answer:
In 1988 the top musical was Phantom of the Opera (Interesting that best musical score was Sondheim's Into the Woods) The top Play was M. Butterfly. In 1968 the musical was Hallelujah, Baby, and play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In 1958 the musical was Music Man and play, Sunrise at Campobello. In1948 there was only an award for a play and that was Mr. Roberts. A prevailing musical that was noted with a couple of awards was Finian's Rainbow.
There is a song from Finian’s Rainbow that speaks to the largess of covid money and the clamoring of people to spend it legally and otherwise. It was called, “That great Come and Get it Day":
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