Today's Tids Issue
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Go to bed early:
Well
Tidsters, it is the last day of 2018. Of course, nothing
changes when we begin a new one tomorrow, but hupersons seem to love demarcations.,
So, on it goes. 2018 was a bit topsy-turvy to say the least. Maybe more topsy for
some and more turvy for others, but, when you think about it, that is basically
how all years behave. In life in general there is so much more good than bad. And
if everybody looks forward and upward, instead of inward to the retention of
grudges and hate, the negativity tends to fade. Accomplishments ever so small
build upon one another. Giving love almost always begets receiving it in return
(Or, is that sympathy?), or at least softening a bitter heart. The world goes around,
as they say. We have real disruptions and serious concerns and we have man-made
self-rewarding disruptions. We tend to get by the immensity of natural
disasters. Somehow the sprit always adjusts, though many tears may be shed
along the way. So, if we can deal with the immensity that is real, we should
have no problem overcoming the malevolent that is self-serving. So the year is at
an end, and the next one will offer more challenges and always new rewards. There
we are, right in the middle of the same place we were before champagne was hoisted.
A
New Year’s Resolution is something that goes in one year and out
the other.
“Each
device that connects to the internet becomes part of it.”
That’s not very comforting.
Arthur
Guinness began selling his precious, pleasantly dark nectar
in Dublin Ireland on New Year’s Eve in 1759. Now that was probably a pretty
good party. Also, in the ironic NYE fact book we learn that the big lighted ball
may actually represent something pretty significant. (Although the promoters
may not know it.) Yes, it was new Years Eve across the Hudson River in NJ when
Thomas Edison first illuminated 40 incandescent bulbs. The incandescent bulb inventor
is probably in Mayor DeBlasio’s Hall of Shame.
The
Question:
What was Yvonne Elliman’s biggest hit? Bonus: It’s time once again for your
favorite “Who are these people?” -- Celebs you have seen but probably don’t know.
Or at least I don’t know. Well, at least, it’s fun for me. Jennifer Ehle, Michael Cudlitz, Patricia Clarkson, Barbara
Steele, Shawn Hotosy and Patrick Fishler. New
Year’s Day Bonus: Around this time in 1942 thousands of teens and young
women stood in line to await the performance of Frank Sinatra at Times Square’s
Paramount theater. T=What were teen and young women music fans of that era
called?
The
Headlines:
--Better News On US/China Trade Deals May Make Last Day
On Wall Street A Happy One; Strong Opening Continuing Through Mid-Morning.
--Senator Graham Says His 2 Hour Meeting With Trump
Was About Potential Shut Down Compromises; Trump Softening On Syria Pull-Out.
--Elizabeth Warren Announces She Is Forming And
Exploratory Committee To Determine Possibilities of A 2020 Run; Warren Is First
Dem Potential Candidate To Go Official.
--Economists Becoming Deeply Concerned Over The
Ocasio-Cortez “Green New Deal” Which Among Other Things Would Immediately Close
All Fossil Fuel Plants; Dinosaur Supporters Outraged.
--Amazon Announces Whole Foods Expansion; Sears
Narrowly Avoids Liquidation, For ow.
--China Factory Economy Tightens; “R” Word Bing
Mumbled For Possible Appearance In 2019.
--Bomb Explodes Outside Philippine Shopping Mall;
Dozens Injured, Two Killed.
“Youth
is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Years Eve.
Middle Age is when you’re forced to.”
Why stay up til midnight to watch a 3-4 second ball-drop. I guarantee that somewhere there will be a cable news station repeating the event many times the next day. You can watch it all after a good sleep and sing Old Lang Sine to yourself. Perfect.
Why
the “PC” movement will never work, Department:
A lot of people may want others to be just like themselves,
and will chastise the others if they aren’t. But, almost all people would rather
be who they are, like the happy guy in the new State run 102 screen legal
sports gambling parlor who said yesterday, “There’s nothing like being in a
room like this full of degenerates.”
Some
people love helping others, like the Great Roberto Clemente
who died on New Year’s Eve when a plane he had hired to deliver food to the
needy crashed.
I
don’t know about your state, but RI politicians are
in deep panic mode as they face the real probability of losing a congress
person due to population stagnation. Solution: Make the state affordable and livable
to lure back all of those seniors and others who have established residency in Florida
or other people friendly states. Easy-smeasy, right? But, I doubt if that has a
chance. It is far more likely they will just try to get illegal immigrants certified
as citizens.
The
Adante Elegisco 3rd movement from
Tchaikovsky’s 3rd symphony is pleasant listening.
Safe
spot stock sectors for 2019 investing are most likely
Utilities and Consumer Staples. All of the major Banks are overweighting those defensive
investments. In addition, some are calling for overweighting Health Care and Banks.
So that’s about it for excitement in a year that could be doubtful.
You
may have heard it here first, but new house hunters are
opting for galley kitchens over mammoth rooms with islands. You may remember that
the Tids Interior Design (TID) editor could never figure out why people who
vehemently said they hated galley kitchen always requested islands in mammoth rooms,
which effectively created… the convenience of galley kitchens. Kitchen design should
always be about functionality, which doesn’t mean more space. (Except on those
cases where an ever-present non- cooking mate seems always in the way.) For that
I’m writing a new pamphlet: “How to keep your mate happily cooking in the
kitchen, by being in the right place at the right time.”
The
next thing to go will be garish back splashes. New home
buyers walk into a home and say things like, “O this is so 80’s” and then go
for a trending, over the top back splash that in ten years will shout out “So
20teens”! Just put in what you like and keep it simple. You’ll like it longer.
By
the way, I’m hearing that the new fashion rage in necklaces
is the new lopsided style. If you want to appear more sophisticated, say Asymmetrical!
Unfortunately,
each year tragedy is always a part of some lives
somewhere. Good people stricken or struck down; mass disasters come out of nowhere.
I always feel that nudge in my heart. Yet I have realized that the depth of
feelings in any tragedy is generally directly proportional to the amount of pure
love experienced before. And while deep love intensifies the loss, it also
brings memories of beautiful happiness. And that, never goes away
Word
of the day: Profundity: This is a noun meaning deep insight
of knowledge or thought. It comes from Profound. Some synonyms are wisdom,
intelligence, understanding, sagacity, acuity, perceptiveness, discernment,
perspicuity and insight. I think it should be the word for 2019.
One
thing young people have trouble understanding is how much their
gaining maturity will add to a controlled life; eliminating confusion, adding
to life’s daily delights.
Tchai’s
1st, 2nd and 3rd symphonies
aren’t played as much as the 4th, 5th and 6th,
but they are worth the effort and your time.
Why
can’t Politicians be sued for fraud when their performances
don’t live up to the promises and the perfect characterizations deftly displayed
in expensive TV commercials?
May
all of your troubles last as long as your New Year’s
resolutions.” –Joey Adams
The
Answer:
Yvonne Elliman, a Hawaiian, was discovered in London
by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber and thus became Mary Magdalene in the original
Broadway cast of Jesus Christ Super Star. I know her best for singing, “I don’t
know how to love him”. Bonus: Jennifer
Ehle is a quite accomplished actress having won UK’s Bafta Award for best
actress in the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice. She also has won two Tony’s
for best Actress and for best Featured Actress. She is currently in the movie Vox
Lux. You probably know Michael Cudlitz better as John Cooper in Southland or
Sergeant Bull Randleman in Band of Brothers or Abraham Ford in The Walking
Dead. Patricia Clarkson has been nominated multiple times for all of the available
acting awards. Her first two roles were in “The Untouchables” and Clint’s “Dead
Pool”. You may have seen her quite recently prominently featured in TV’s “House
of Cards” and “Sharp Objects”. You would know her if you saw her. She won Prime
Times Emmy’s for “Six Feet Under”. Horror film fans know Barbara Steele for
many of her best ventures. Like Nightmare Castle and Black Sunday among many.
She won an Emmy as producer of Winds of War and War and Remembrance. You have
seen her on TV in Dark Shadows and much more. Shawn Hotosy was Sammy Bryant in Southland and
had good roles in many films like “In & Out’< “the Faculty” and “Outside
Providence”. He is currently Pope Cody in the TNT series Animal Kingdom. You may
know Patrick Fischler best as Jimmy Barrett on Mad Men. He has been in many films
like Mulholland Drive and The Black Dahlia. He is also in modern media, video
games. He was gangster Micky Cohen in “LA Noire”. It takes a lot of actors and actresses
to churn out all those films and series to satisfy the enormous appetites of Netflix
and the rest of streamers, which will only continue to grow and seek nourishment.
New
Years Bonus: Of course, some of you remember the “Bobbysoxers”!
In
some regards, Yvonne Elliman was the Perfect Mary
Magdalene. While a very talented singer in her youth, she had little interest
in singing. Her hero was Grace Slick and she sought to venerate the White
Rabbit singer more by using drugs and living in the cellar, than by singing.
But something happened along the way, and she was resurrected.
Maybe
that’s the New Year’s message: There’s always hope.
Mark
Twain: New Years is a harmless annual institution of no particular
use to anybody…”
H-a-p-p-y
N-e-w Y-e-a-r
-- E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!! And may you all enjoy the
blessings of profundity.
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