Today's Tids Issue 4,730
Remember when:
Remember when everything summery just about stopped at Labor Day. Like dead. Now it seems to last through October. Now, nothing stops. I think we need things to stop.
Unfortunately, sometimes what stops is what we want to keep going, Like, wonderful one time a year fresh local corn the cob season. Good-bye my husky friends, I’ll see you again next year around late July.
Yet, think, if we had local corn all year long would it still be as special? How many special delights in life have we lost through overkill? I’ll think about that.
I try to keep my sanity even while trying to keep one ear tuned to the poetical campaigns. I would be losing it, but I’m not hearing much from the campaigns except occasional frustrating remarks. In fact, there is so much useless information coming out, that I don’t really care anymore. Is indifference a sign of sanity or insanity?
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.” --George Carlin.
When you think about it, that’s a pretty great quote.
The Question:
I know that there were some good musical artists in the 1980’s but most of them seemed at the time ordinary to me. So I tried to re-explore the decade to see how the big names faired thorough the mist of father time ( I mean father and mother time) Name the top musical artists and bands of the 1980’s
The Headlines:
--European Stocks Show Strength Monday Morning following US Martes Decline On Friday.
--Fed’s Powell Suggests That Incremental Increases In Makes Wearing Will Produce Geometric Gains In The Economy.
--al-Shabab Attacks US Troops In Somalia With Car Bomb.
--Kamala Tells Joe To Squelch the Mask Mandate Idea.
--India Claims Second Place After USA For Covid 19 Cases.
--Poisoned Putin Opposition Leader Navalny Out f Induced Coma And Improving.
--Fires Continue To Rage In California.
--Number One US Tennis Open Seed Djokovic Ousted After Accidently Hitting Linewoman In Throat With Batted Ball; World’s Best Player Sincerely Sorry.
If you start sentences with “Remember When”, too often it’s a possible sign you aren’t enjoying today. But as you look around the world for that rare smile among all those in your face screaming, you tend to hope that remember when will return.
A local well-read sports columnist observes: “If Donald Trump was a basketball player, he’d shoot very time he touched the ball.” Every kid who ever played basketball knew who the ball hogs were. How come sports writers want to be political analysts these days?
If we can’t get civilized discourse during a presidential race, how do we ever expect society to become civilized again.
Don’t laugh at Fed’sPowell’s Mask prophecies; Economies have often risen or fallen upon rampant minutia.
With all of these advances in computer storage, dreaming with your head in the clouds just doesn’t feel that romantic anymore.
Some of the greatest composers wrote pleasing, non-intruding stuff. Not so great, but pleasing.
If I start writing shorter Tidlets I will have a better chance of not exposing myself to troublesome remarks.
Working from home may reduce sexual harassment lawsuits for companies. So there’s something good about Covid.
Nobody cares, Department:
I played my all-time worst game of golf of the year the other day. (My golf partners would probably say they’ve seen worse for me. Golf partners aren’t nice when you’re down.) It was as if I had forgotten every basic instinct I had, every reasonable facsimile of a golf swing. Or maybe, I never had any of those admirable aforementioned attributes in the first place. Maybe I had always just been lucky. Golf can be humbling, and sometimes it’s downright demonic. Or maybe, I was just thinking too much about new Tidlet ideas for you. Yeah, that’s it, kindness was ruining my game. That means. I still got it! But just in case, I’ve hired a psychologist to ride with me for my next round.
Perfect pleasant stillness is that silence that seems so comforting when music that is uplifting, which you truly enjoy, ends.
In case you didn’t get that, it’s one of those moments that you know when you feel it, but very hard to explain to someone not feeling it with you.
America is a country full of life, full of people helping people, people raising families; giving back to society, creating and producing; lovers walking on sandy dunes, children romping in broad fields and narrow streets. In cities and countryside’s. White, black, brown; Ethnicities from across the world. How come every night the national network news makes America look so ugly and angry.
“It’s a Boy!” “It’s a Girl!” That’s what docs used to tell moms on the day of their happiest moments on earth. Now people know in advance, and it has become another reason to spend money and throw a party. But the latest big gender reveal party didn’t go too well. It was in California, San Bernadine County in particular. “A smoke generation pyrotechnic device” used at this big mid-morning party sparked the El Dorado Fires which has now evacuated hundreds while burning 7,050 acres. Yikes!
Here is a sanity test for you to consider. There was a suspicion that one patient in a psych ward maybe faking insanity. Three patients were brought before a steel door. The Director announced to the three, “If you can get through the keyhole and get out, you win a prize. The first patient charges the door but is bounced back with concussion. The 2nd person leaps high in the air and yet still comes crashing into the door. The 3rd patient walks up to the, examines it carefully and goes back to the director, “It’s impossible to do,” he says. Aha Thinks the Director. “Why do you think that,” he asks, “Well sir, says the patient, “you left the key in the keyhole.”
The Answer:
#1 is listed as George Michael. After George, is Journey. Next we have Bon Jovi and then Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Foreigner, Whitney Houston, Van Halen, and at #10 Tim Petty and the Heartbreakers. Going to #25, at #11 we have The Cars, followed by Pink Floyd, Pat Benatar, Queen, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Aerosmith, Billy Idol, Genesis, Tears to Fears, Bryan Adams, Heart, Phil Collins and at #25 – Billy Joel. Some other pretty well known 80’s bands and singers are down the list, like Stevie N (28), Metallica (29), REO Speedwagon (33) R.E.M. (35) and the woman I always thought was the Queen of the 80’s – Madonna at #37.
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy” –Ursula Le Guin (1929)
Hope Labor Day for you all comes to a beautiful conclusion.
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