Today's Tids Issue 5,381
Time for plaid flannel:
Hardliners are hardliners and it appears the latest hardliner in charge is learning that dealing with hardliners is pretty impossible. It’s actually quite comical.
If you are trying to hide from somebody in a hospital, don’t choose the ICU.
Texas A&M University will pay their fired coach Jumbo Elliot $75 million for the pleasure of getting rid of him. Why don’t they fore the Executive who gave him the insane long-term contract. $75 Million would pay for a lot of student scholarships. After all, isn't that why Universities exist in the first place?
This is the anniversary of the week in 1942 that saw the battle of Guadal Canal in the South Pacific. Even being a wee child at the time somehow those words Guadal Camal always stuck in my wee mind as something that represented extreme courage.
Der Rosenkavalier Suite is classic Richard Strauss.
The Question:
The Beatles gave their last open-air concert on the roof of the Apple Record Building in London. Who did they invite to join them? Bonus: Name the acknowledged ten top perfromances at the original Woodstock.
The Headlines:
--Markets Slightly Lower at opening as Inflation Worries Gain Momentum; Slight Uptick into Positive Territory Towards Closing; Debt Showdown Obstacles Dampening WS Enthusiasm
--Speaker Mike Johnson Will Need Dem Help to Avoid Government Shut Down and Wall Street Instability.
--Supreme Court Adopts Ethics Code for First Time.
--"Super Meth” Ups Stakes in USA Battle with Growing Drug Addiction.
--Tim Scott Drops out of Repub Race; Haley Beefs Up Budget.
--Israel Steady Attacks Undermining Hostage Negotiations.
New England Sports talkers on radio and TV haven’t a clue about what to say after another anemic performance by the team that was on top for over twenty years. But they will talk. And some will eat crow.
China has come along way, but it’s GDP/Capita is $12,000 while in the US it is $75,000! Actually. So, China will continue to find ways to grow which in fact is good for the world's economy and the USA, if they don’t steal too much of our creativity. And it will be even better for us if we keep our eyes on the big picture and don't dilute our energy on political trivia.
Millions have been spent on creating bike paths often on corridors that used to be railroad tracks. Bikes will never become mass transportation. Maybe they should be wishing they had the tracks back.
1969 was the year JFK promised we’d land on the moon, and we all remember the words, “One small step...”! Music lovers learned about mud in Woodstock NY at the largest ever love-in, smoke-in, dance-in in history. Yes, the buttoned-up simile living world of the fifties was gone for good. Generational differences got closer. 250,00 Marched on Washington to protest the VN War and the first American troops were called home as the Nixon admin started its wind down strategy. Ted Kennedy plunged his car off a bridge into ab pond on Marthas Vinyard killing passenger Mary Jo Kopecki, and the Charles Mansen cult went on a deplorable murderous rampage. Golda Mier of Milwaukee Wisconsin USA became PM of Israel and the Beatles gave their last concert on the roof of the Apple Record Building in London. This was the year of the big concerts where over a Million fans packed stadiums and fields at Woodstock, Isle of Wight, Altamont Speedway and in Atlanta and Toronto. Inflation was moving up to 5.46% and and the Dow closed at 800. Gas was 35 cents a gallon and the average salary was $8,235. Sesame Street brought us the Muppets and captivated kids on NPR, and if you weren’t wearing bell bottoms and Tie-Dyed shirts you were out. I was way out, believe me. Pinstripe wasn’t considered Tie-Dye. I was deep within the ad agency biz and the clients all wanted their ads as the center of a Peter Max color burst. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was a top film and I still haven’t seen it. Others were The Love Bug, Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Funny Girl, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Easy Rider. We saw the beginning of today's internet with the installation of the first two points of the "Arpanet”. Holy Viral, Batman. The top songs were Sugar Sugar, Aquarius, Honky Tonk Woman, Everyday People, Hot Fun in the Summertime, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Crimson and Clover and “Hair” by our local group, the Cowsills. CCR made its first dent in the charts with Proud Mary. So, 1969, if I remember it correctly, was a year when some of all of the people just did what they always did, work and raise families while another marched in streets explored worlds never before seen – in their minds or on paths few have ever taken.
Talk about diametrically opposed cowboy movies Midnight Cowboy versus True Grit. Yikes.
Tchaikovsky’s “Manfried Symphony” sounds like an attempt at a transitional work for him. I find it peaceful. You don’t often see the word “peaceful” associated with Tchai.
Is that drumbeat of somebody other than Biden getting louder?
Apple is sitting on $462 Billion in cash while poor Microsoft is satisfied with $146 Billion in loose dollar bills. Universities can give away $75 million to coaches not to coach and tech firms it on more money than they know how to spend. Lasy year Americans gave away $119 Billion in losses to gambling operations. It seems like there is plenty of money out there to keep things going for a while.
Anybody who doesn’t realize the earth is a living breathing natural wonder which has produced various climates and landmass movements over thousands upon thousands of years, just take a peek at the island which just popped out of the sea next to Japan.
The Answer:
The Beatles asked suer keyboardist Billy Preston to join them atop their corporate building. Bonus: Number one was The Star-Spangled Banner by Hendrix. Next are: I Want to Take You Higher – Sky and the Family Stone, With a Little Help from my Friends -- Joe Crocker, Freedom – Richie Havens, Soul Sacrifice – Santana, My Generation – The Who, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby Stills and Nash, Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot –Joan Baez, Ball and Chain – Janis Joplin,
A great friend of mine, and a guy who seems to know always how to do the right thing sent me this to remember the Veterans on this official holiday. Below is a song, “Silenzio” based on Taps. Played lovingly and beautifully by a 13-year-old Dutch girl named Malissa Venema. It was commissioned by the Dutch and written by Italian Composer Nino Rossi. it commentates and honors the Americans, British and Canadians who fought the battle to liberate Holland. Of those, 8,301 American soldiers were killed and are buried in cemetery near Maastricht. The people of the town care for the cemetery and in their homes each of them hang a portrait of their adopted Hero. Some people never forget.
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