Today's Tids Issue 5,104
XOXOXO:
Speaking of romance, I hear that the bedbugs are getting married in the spring.
All of sudden everybody wants a Tomahawk steak. It’s simply a rib eye which used to be a Delmonico but now with long uncut bone-in. It’s amazing how people get rich selling the same thing with a newly publicized name.
A tomahawk steak looks like a loverly meal for cavepeople in love.
I leave these romantic dalliances for a moment to talk about war. From what I have seen in recent history, the long-protracted wars we have experienced lately don’t seem to accomplish much of anything but sending home our sons and daughters in flag draped coffins, or with life changing injuries. This is a befuddlement. Because we need to be strong and live up to our promises but is the result of a no win situation worth the suffering. And a potential a war with Russia and maybe it’s allies like Irian and China is no mere in and out skirmish. War sucks.
Did you happen to notice last night during the Superbowl that all of the car commercials were about EV’s. Do you think that just maybe that’s where auto companies are putting all their R&D money?
The Question:
Where was Abe Lincoln born? Bonus: We know that Alaska and Hawaii were the 49th ad 50t states. But do you know what were 47 ad 48?
The Headlines:
--Concerns Over Russia Possible Invasion Of Ukraine May Hinder Wall Street Love For Of Stocks This V-Day.
--Putin Says Some Military Drills Art Ending; Speaks Of Diplomacy.
It is getting to be nearly impossible to live anonymously in this new world of ours.
I’ve been playing Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto while writing this V-Day Tids. He is always good for romance.
The Superbowl and Various Associated Activates, Department:
The game was decent and close, and had us guessing til the end. But it had some serious mute moments. --Cincy did nothing but 3 and outs after their quick 2nd half opener. –Unfortunately, penalties that were mainly absent during the game came at the end when the game was on the line; a couple of them questionable to me. --Cooper Kupp could be on my team any day, but would I have made Lloyd-Miller-Domald co-MVPs. The show: I washed the dishes during the half time show. But I always wash the dishes or work on my income taxes during halftime shows. --Did it seem to you that only half of the stadium saw the show as the backs of performers were to the fans facing the camera and those little house rooms had back walls blocking the view of those same fans. –Twitter-Nation liked the show. –The Ads: I thought the most of the commercials were ho-hum, trying too hard to be different. Thinking opting for expensive celebs and special effects is better than real creating and thoughtfulness. Celebrity over cerebral. –For many of them that I saw I had no idea what they were selling. –People liked the Pringles commercial. – I liked the sloth comical but they didn’t need the kid. The animals were just fie doing their tune thing. –Overall, I give the commercials a C to D grade. But the producers who made the big bucks give them an A for profit.
Illinois should change their license plates to “The land of mostly Lincoln”.
I personally think that open shelving in kitchens is a bad idea.
“Biden looks at drug products as a curb to Inflation”. How lame. How politically self-serving. Another inept headline from our intrepid journalist society. Pols only look at what can jerk the tears of constituents. Inflation is not about mean old drug companies who continually find ways to save and improve people’s lives. Inflations is a widespread economic problem that grandstanding won‘t solve
Today it is looking like that Presidential memorandum to unfreeze Afghan assets for the 9/11 victims and survivors will become another messy foreign policy decision for the admin. Again, grabbing the hearts of survivors without fully exploring the legal ramifications of such a move.
Before the halftime show, a woman announcer was gleefully calling it “Music’s Greatest Day!”. (I could quibble with the definition of music.) But how about Paul Gonzalves 15-minute sax solo at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956; The premier of Beethoven’s ninth Symphony n Vienna in 1824. Or, Queen at Wembley in 1986, Radiohead at Glastonbury Festival in 1997, Led Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall in 1970, David Bowie at Santa Monica in 1972 or a whole host of memorable concerts: The Elvis Comeback Special, Johnny Cash at San Quentin Prison, The Who at the University of Leeds. The list of music’s greatest days is huge. But then, we’re dealing with the hype of the Superbowl here.
The Superbowl is too much about superlatives.
Drug overdoses are now ahead of auto crashes as major killer in the USA. I wonder what percentage of auto deaths are caused by drugged drivers. And today we seem to be seeing attempts to minimize the seriousness and effects of drugs on society. Except when Pols can go after big mean lifesaving drug manufacturers.
A good meal is like a good symphony. A symphony that attempts to reintroduce a strong them throughout is for me infinitely more satisfying. As is a good meal where various food segments are entwined by a strong flavor theme.
The Answer:
Abe was born in Harlan County (Now LaRue County) Kentucky. So much for the Illinois license plates. Bonus: Starting with 45 we have ahead of Alaska and Hawaii, Utah (1896), Oklahoma (1907, and New Mexico and Arizona in 1912.
Today is National Love and Romance Day, better known as Saint Valentine’s Day. Feel it. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with feeling corny and mushy.
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