Today's Tids Issue 5,347
Music Teanscends Grey:
The 2024 election could be called the Bread Loaf Battle. BLB – Biden loses Big! The cost of basic necessities is becoming more and more noticeable and wearing down the voting public. $20 bucks in your pocket use to feel good. Right now, today, these struggles with basic home budgets could shut down Dem chances for another term.
When you wash your pet mice, are they squeaky clean?
A segment on 60 Minutes was about sloths. The hosts and experts continually repeated how amazing it has been that these slow moving creatures had faired so well for 640 million years! But toward the end one expert says they are concerned about an illness pervasive in the sloth community probably the result of, you guessed it, “Climate Change”. Let me see... these creatures have survived for 640 million years, and I suspect the climate changed significantly over that period of time from boiling heat to ice ages and everything in-between What a crock. So many documentaries and news specials are masquerading as informative but are only another stage in the incessant battle to scare the bejesus out of everybody with a change in the weather.
My advice to you is never to I open a can of soda once held by Elvis, you know, “All Shook Up".
The Question:
How many #1 hits did Elvis Presley have? Top Ten Hits? Top 40 Hits?
The Headlines:
--Fed Rate Worries a Deep Grey Sky Hanging over Wall Street; Amazon to Invest $4 Billion in AI.
--This is Decision Weekl for Congress on Govenrment Operating Expenses.
--Writer and Hollywood Execs Agree on Package that Could End Strike.
--Russia Pummeling Odessa.
--Migrant Surges Increase; Legal Immigration System Appears Broken.
Well, it appears that Bob Menendez has gained one congressional supporter -- Goerge Santos. Yes, that George Santos who has lied about everything political and perosnal. Egad! How weird is it getting.
1942 is an anagram of a voyage made popular in a poem, but there was nothing lighthearted about this year that saw Japan take over Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Wake and Singapore. Yes, we were on a new voyage we never wanted to embark upon. The US auto companies converted from cars to military equipment. Thousands of US citizens moved to Detroit to help out in that pall important war effort. People in towns and cities everywhere learned how to sacrifice for the good of all. No butter, limited gas and no rubber for new tires were just a few of taken for granted stuff h that began to disappear. The draft age was lowered from 21 to 18. A tragedy in America was Boston's Coconut Grove fire that killed 492 revelers. Jimmy Doolittle begins raids on Tokyo. Big Crosby brings back a little old-fashioned spirit with White Christmas. Executive Order 9066 sends Japanese citizens to internment camps. The key battle of Midway begins June 4. But all is not lost, Duct Tape is invented! As were instant coffee and napalm. And the atomic Bomb. Coke and Pepsi cost Five Cents. Judge Judy was born. As was our current Prez along with Chicago’s Mayor Daley and Michael Bloomberg, who might have been a better president for Dems today.
I would say of the top of my head that I will probably never be a close friend of any of the 60 Minute hosts.
America was better off when the economic underbelly was controlled by value added manufacturing and not third world country like tourism. There was a greater sense of value in the country, at least to this old-fashioned mind. And, if tee was ever another WW, we could still make our own stuff.
If Laughter was the best medicine, big pharma would have packaged it and priced it out of sight.
BTW, much thanks this morning for comic strips “Rhymes with Orange” and “Mother Goose and Grim” for contributing to our laughs this morning.
The Brahms Piano Concerto is one of those that's a bit under appreciated. Maybe Brahms lovers should lobby Hollywood to use it as theme for a romantic tale. That always dos it.
In fact, there is one passage in the Brahms that tells me Johanne may have inspired Rachmaninoff in his great Concerto #2. But that’s just me, sacrilegious as usual.
Ironically, on that fateful night, the mighty Biston College1942 football team was to be feted at Coconut Grove to honor their achievements for the year as one of the best in the Nation. But, the team was roundly defeated by archrival Holy Cross 55-12. And they decided that celebrating was not in order.
One of the better things to come out of the Writer's strike is that you get to DVR “Yellowstone”, now a filler on CBS Sunday nights.
The Answer:
Elvis had 149 songs that appear on the Billboard top 100. 114 were in the top 40; 40 in the top 10 and 18 number one hits. Rolling Stone Magazine has Ekvis at #17 all time just behind Patsy Cline, Freddie Mercury, Bob Dylan and Prince. I was never a big Elvis fan but I was right in the middle of the rage. But I opted for Button Down collars over Blue Suede Shoes.
Well, I got to go out and clip some coupons so I can afford to live.
Respite from a grey Northeast morning, Department:
Pop singers sing love songs, but Chopin lets you feel it:
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