Well, folks, there is our dj with his all seeing eye and a spooky, spooky song. Hey, Canada. You left out the Yeti. <smile> It is thundering and raining here with white lightning and that should either keep me awake or give me those mares of night.
Regardless, my friends:
Peace in your heart
Peace in your soul
Peace in your head
Good goodnight.
From Letty with love
Devoted To You lyrics
The Everly Brothers
Darlin you can count on me
Til the sun dries up the sea
Until then I'll always be devoted to you
I'll be yours through endless time
I'll adore your charms sublime
Guess by now you know that I'm devoted to you
I'll never hurt you, I'll never lie
I'll never be untrue
I'll never give you reason to cry
I'd be unhappy if you were blue
Through the years my love will grow
Like a river it will flow
It can't die because I'm so devoted to you
I'll never hurt you, I'll never lie
I'll never be untrue
I'll never give you reason to cry
I'd be unhappy if you were blue
Through the years my love will grow
Like a river it will flow
It can't die because I'm so devoted to you
Letty wrote:Well, folks, there is our dj with his all seeing eye and a spooky, spooky song. Hey, Canada. You left out the Yeti. <smile> It is thundering and raining here with white lightning and that should either keep me awake or give me those mares of night.
Regardless, my friends:
Peace in your heart
Peace in your soul
Peace in your head
Good goodnight.
From Letty with love
forgot to mention that the song is written by a listener of a paranormal radio show called Coast to Coast AM
no yeti, but bigfoot get's a mention, they're related i suspect
more info on Coast to Coast can be found
here
you can listen to or download UFO Phil's song
here
(click on song four "Listening to Coast to Coast")
edgars song made me think of this tune by the stylistics
i have a great cover version by the beautiful south
Stone In Love With You
The Beautiful South
If I could I'd like to be, a great big movie star
Overnight sensation, drive a big expensive car
I would buy you everything your little heart desire
These things I do, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
If I were a business man, I'd sit behind a desk
I'd be so successful, I would scare Wall Street to death
I would hold a meeting for the press to let them know
I did it all, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
I'm just a man, an average man
Doing everything the best I can
But if I could, I'd give the world to you
I'd like to someday be the owner of the first house on the moon
There would be no neighbors, and no population boom
You might say that all I do is dream my life away
I guess it's true, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
I guess it's true, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
I guess it's true, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Well, I awakened to a lake this AM, folks, but I don't see any cats nor dogs on my lawn.
edgar, thanks for the song by the brothers. We all enjoyed it, Texas.
dj, I would love to listen to your Coast to Coast music, Canada. Unfortunately my speakers are caput, I'm afraid, but, of course, always love your music by the Beautiful South.
February has been designated Black History month, and I recall so many great vocalists and musicians that we could play to salute the event, but I chose this one by Della Reese:
There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although I may not be the man
Some girls think of as handsome
But to her heart
I carry the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although I may not be the man
Some girls think of as handsome
But to her heart
I carry the key
And this world would be like heaven, if she'd
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me
There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although I may not be the man
Some girls think of as handsome
But to her heart
I carry the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although I may not be the man
Some girls think of as handsome
But to her heart
I carry the key
And this world would be like heaven, if she'd
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me
observed that Objectivism is not a closed system of belief; and that we might actually learn something by talking to people we disagree with." Kelley's description of the reasons behind the break is disputed by the Ayn Rand Institute.[60] Peikoff, in an article for The Intellectual Activist called "Fact and Value" argued that Objectivism is, indeed, a closed system, and that truth and moral goodness are directly related.[61] Peikoff expelled Kelley from his movement, whereupon Kelley founded The Institute for Objectivist Studies (now known as "The Objectivist Center"). It has since created a division called The Atlas Society, which has its own web site that is focused on attracting Ayn Rand fiction readers, and downplays her role as a philosopher. This division is used for most public outreach efforts, with The Objectivist Center itself used principally for more academic ventures.
Edward Hudgins, a veteran of the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, is now executive director, with Kelley taking the title of Founder and Senior Scholar. The Atlas Society/Objectivist Center also publishes The New Individualist (formerly Navigator) which comes out ten times a year. It has been given a major facelift by editor Robert Bidinotto and it was the first magazine in the U.S. to feature one of the Mohammad cartoons on the cover.
Popular interest
The column "Book Notes" of the New York Times, reported in 1991 that in a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, when asked what the most influential book in their lives was, Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice. The most popular choice was the Bible.[62]
Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of the Canadian progressive rock band Rush, was influenced by Rand's writings, as evidenced by the track "Anthem" from the album Fly By Night (1975) and the title track from the album 2112 (1976). However, such an influence remains vague, and Peart denies being an Objectivist, although in the 1988 book Rush Visions: the Official Biography, author Bill Banasiewicz notes that Peart and Lee bonded over Objectivist theory. Rush also has the distinction of being the only rock group cited in the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies - its Fall 2002 publication of "Rand, Rush and Rock" was then followed with a Rush-dedicated symposium, detailed in its Fall 2003 issue, on such topics as "Rand, Rush, and De-Totalizing the Utopianism of Progressive Rock."
In season four of The Simpsons (the episode "A Streetcar Named Marge"), Maggie is placed in the "Ayn Rand School for Tots," where bottles and pacifiers are banned to encourage developing "the bottle within" and the school's proprietor reads from The Fountainhead Diet.
"The Atlasphere," an online community devoted to admirers of Rand, maintains a blog citing Rand's influence on popular or newsworthy figures who cite the influence of Rand's works on their lives,[63] while "Randex" updates a list of recent media references to Rand or her work.[64]
The forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 game Bioshock takes place in the ruins of a city described as the ultimate capitalistic and individualist paradise. Founded in 1946 by a Soviet expatriate named "Andrew Ryan" (clearly a wordplay on "Ayn Rand"), the city is purportedly an embodiment of the Objectivist ideal, although one that has fallen into ruin.
The 2003 novel Old School by famed author Tobias Wolff contains an episode in which Rand appears as a guest lecturer at the elite New England prep school attended by the main character. The character reads The Fountainhead, analyzes Rand in person, and compares her to the other two writers invited to the school - Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway - and ultimately discards her philosophy in favor of the more empathetic Hemingway.
Amongst many books recommended for reading in the liner notes of Rise Against's 2006 album The Sufferer and the Witness, The Fountainhead is one of them, in the company of such varied books as Slaughterhouse Five, A People's History of the United States, and Ishmael, as well as several others.
Rand's Work and Academic Philosophy
Rand's work has been mostly ignored by the academic philosophers of the English-speaking world. Few leading research universities consider Rand or Objectivism to be an important philosophical specialty or research area. Many adherents and practitioners of continental philosophy criticize her celebration of self-interest, so there has similarly been little focus on her work in this movement. However, since her death, there has been an increase in academic structures open to study of Ayn Rand's work.
There are fellowships for the study of Ayn Rand's ideas at top-rated[65] academic institutions such as the University of Texas at Austin,[66] Ashland University in Ohio, and the University of Pittsburgh. Courses of the Ayn Rand Institute's Objectivist Academic Center are accredited, so students can obtain university credits for studying Objectivism.[67]
Her supporters are beginning to bring Rand's work into the academic mainstream. For instance, the Ayn Rand Society, founded in 1987, is affiliated with the American Philosophical Association, and has been active in sponsoring seminars.
A major inroad into academic territory is the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (JARS). It is a scholarly, peer reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Ayn Rand - principally her philosophic work. It is published twice yearly. JARS is nonpartisan and accepts articles that are favorable to or critical of Rand's positions. The stated editorial position is to remain unaligned with any advocacy group, institution or person. "While we publish essays by Objectivists and those influenced by Rand, we are especially interested in publishing scholars who work in traditions outside of Objectivism--including those who are critical of Rand's thought. We promote and encourage scholarly give-and-take among diverse elements of the academy." They utilize a constructive double-blind peer review process and are widely abstracted and indexed and linked.[68]
In a 1999 interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rand scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra said, "I know they laugh at Rand," while also noting a growing interest in her work in the academic community.[69]
In 2006, Cambridge University Press published a volume on Rand's ethical theory written by ARI-affiliated scholar Tara Smith, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The book is titled Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist. Cambridge University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Pittsburgh have recently established Fellowships for the Study of Objectivism.[70][71] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews recently published a review of Smith's book by Helen Cullyer of the University of Pittsburgh. The review ends with the following:
"It should be stressed in conclusion that whether one is a fan or a detractor of Ayn Rand, the issues raised by this book are manifold and provocative. This book should force a debate of renewed vigor about what we mean by egoism, whether and how the egoism/altruism dichotomy should be applied within eudaimonistic ethical theories, and what our ethical theories imply about our political outlook. Smith provides us with a version of egoism that will need to be argued against by those who find it distasteful or misguided, rather than simply dismissed." [4]
In addition to the recent publication of Smith's book, the forthcoming issue of The Review of Metaphysics will publish an article by Allan Gotthelf on Rand's theory of concepts. [5] A recent conference at the University of Pittsburgh, "Concept and Objectivity: Knowledge, Science, and Values," featured presentations by Objectivists Onkar Ghate, Allan Gotthelf, James Lennox, and Darryl Wright alongside influential mainstream academics such as A.P. Martinich and Peter Railton. [6]
Student activism
One of the reasons for the prominence of Ayn Rand and Objectivism in the news and popular culture relative to other philosophical theories[72][73][74] may be related to the dozens of student groups dedicated to promoting and studying the philosophy of Objectivism[75][76][77] spread across the U.S., Australia, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Norway.[78] These clubs often present controversial speakers on topics such as abortion, religion, and foreign policy, often allying with controversial conservative (and sometimes liberal) organizations to organize their events. For example the NYU Objectivism Club hosted a joint panel[79] on the Muhammad cartoons that received nationwide coverage for NYU's censorship of the cartoons.[80] There are several dozen speakers sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute[81] and other organizations, who give nationwide tours each year speaking about Objectivism.
The Ayn Rand Institute has spent more than $5M on educational programs advancing Objectivism, including scholarships and clubs. These clubs often obtain educational materials and speakers from the ARI. The Objectivist Club Association and ObjectivismOnline provide free hosting and organizational resources for Ayn Rand clubs. There are also several conferences organized by various organizations, such as the Objectivist Conferences, which are attended by several hundred "new intellectuals" each summer for two weeks and feature dozens of philosophy courses and presentations of new publications and research.
Criticism
Philosophical criticism
A notable exception to the general lack of attention paid to Rand in philosophy is the essay "On the Randian Argument" by Harvard University philosopher Robert Nozick, which appears in his collection, Socratic Puzzles. Nozick is sympathetic to Rand's political conclusions, but he does not think her arguments justify them. In particular, his essay criticizes her foundational argument in ethics, which claims that one's own life is, for each individual, the only ultimate value because it makes all other values possible. Nozick says that to make this argument sound Rand still needs to explain why someone could not rationally prefer dying and having no values. Thus, he argues, her attempt to defend the morality of selfishness is essentially an instance of begging the question and that her solution to David Hume's famous is-ought problem is unsatisfactory.
Literary criticism
Rand's novels, when they were first published, "received almost unanimously terrible reviews"[17] and were derided by some critics as overly long and repetitive philosophical tracts interspersed with low-quality melodrama.[82] Many of these, including her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, became bestsellers due largely to word of mouth.[17] Scholars of English and American literature, with a few exceptions, have largely ignored her work. Rand did, however, receive some positive reviews even from the literary establishment. For example, Lorine Pruette, a New York Times reviewer, wrote that Rand "has written a hymn in praise of the individual," stating that "you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our times."[83]
The most famous review of Atlas Shrugged from a conservative author was written by Whittaker Chambers and appeared in National Review in 1957. It was unrelentingly scathing. Chambers call the book "sophomoric"; and "remarkably silly," and said it "can be called a novel only by devaluing the term." The tone of the book was described as "shrillness without reprieve"[84] The Intellectual Activist published a reply, arguing that Chambers did not actually read the book, as he misspells the names of several major characters and never uses quotations from the novel in his critique. [7] Mimi Gladstein argues Rand's characters are flat and uninteresting, and her heroes implausibly wealthy, intelligent, physically attractive[85] and free of doubt while arrayed against antagonists who are weak, pathetic, full of uncertainty, and lacking in imagination and talent.
Rand herself replied to these literary criticisms (in advance of many of them) with her 1963 essay "The Goal of My Writing," and in essays collected in The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (2nd rev. ed. 1975), in which she states the goal of her fiction is to project her vision of an ideal man: not man as he is, but man as he might and ought to be. Further, defenders of Rand's novels have noted that many of her heroes are far from flawless, and that not all are wealthy. They note that Rearden, the Wet Nurse, and Fred Kinnan suffer due to either moral flaws or errors in reasoning [8]; further, they point out that not all of the villains in Rand's novels are weak and pathetic: Ellsworth Toohey is portrayed as a masterful communicator, critic, and manipulator, while Robert Stadler is a brilliant scientist.
Literary critic Harold Bloom found Rand's fiction to have enough significance to include her in a critical anthology he edited, American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. Three, (Chelsea House, 1998).
Cult accusations
Several authors, such as Murray Rothbard who helped define modern libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism,[86] Jeff Walker, author of The Ayn Rand Cult,[87] and Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society,[88] have accused Objectivism of being a cult.
The Biographical FAQ of the Objectivism Reference Center website discusses these allegations and offer a letter in which Rand replies to a fan who wrote her offering cult-like allegiance by declaring "A blind follower is precisely what my philosophy condemns and what I reject. Objectivism is not a mystic cult".[89]
Farrah Fawcett
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farrah Fawcett (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett[1] on February 2, 1947) is an American actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and legendary sex symbol of the 1970s, then an iconic actress in the 1980s, changing the cultural landscape of how television actresses appeared on film.
Biography
Early life
Fawcett was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas to James William Fawcett-Khan and Pauline Alice Evans. She is the second of 2 daughters. Her older sister, Diane, passed away from lung cancer in 1998. As a child, Farrah displayed a natural athletic ability which her father encouraged. She was raised Roman Catholic, even though her father was Muslim. She attended John J. "Blackjack" Pershing Middle School in Houston, TX, a school which is now the magnet program for fine arts. She attended the University of Texas at Austin and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.
Career
In 1976, Fawcett played the character of Jill Munroe for one year in the successful TV series Charlie's Angels. That same year, her swimsuit poster sold a still-unrivaled 12 million copies and she became known for her tousled mane, beautiful smile and enviable figure. As settlement to a lawsuit stemming from her early departure, Fawcett appeared six more times as a guest star in seasons three and four. She was replaced on the show by Cheryl Ladd, who portrayed her younger sister on the show.
Fawcett achieved critical praise and her first of three Emmy Award nominations as a serious actress for her role as a battered wife in the 1984 television movie The Burning Bed. She also won acclaim in the stage and movie version of Extremities, in which she played a rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. She then played a predatory role in another miniseries, Small Sacrifices, receiving a second Emmy nomination. Her third Emmy nomination came in 2004 for her work in The Guardian. Fawcett has been nominated for several others awards as well including the Golden Globe Award and ACE awards.
Fawcett posed in the December 1995 issue of Playboy, which became the best-selling issue of the 1990s, with over 4 million copies sold worldwide. She later posed for the July 1997 issue, which also became a top seller.
Personal life
Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, star of The Six Million Dollar Man, from 1973 to 1982, though the two separated in 1979; during this time, she was known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors. From 1980 to 1997, Fawcett was involved in a committed relationship with her longtime boyfriend, actor Ryan O'Neal; they are still dating, on and off. The relationship produced one child, Redmond, in 1985.
In 1997, she received some negative commentary after giving a less-than-coherent interview on The Late Show with David Letterman. It was speculated that her rambling, incoherent manner was the result of drug abuse. Months later, she explained on the Howard Stern Radio show that her rambling was in fact just her way of joking around with the television host. She also insisted that what looked like random looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to the fans in the audience.
In the first half of 2006, Fawcett suffered several personal losses including the death of her beloved mother Polly, agent Jay Bernstein, and mentor Aaron Spelling.
In August 2006, Fawcett took part in the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner, where she appeared to have difficulty telling her jokes, seeming frazzled or incoherent at times. One presenter, Jeffrey Ross asked Betty White to "explain the jokes to Farrah". Farrah is also known as Alex Frost.who is a sex kitten
Cancer
On October 4, 2006, it was revealed that Fawcett has intestinal cancer, and is undergoing treatment for it, including chemotherapy and surgery.[2] Thus, a possible Charlie's Angels reunion would be put on hold.
Christie Brinkley
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Christie Brinkley (born Christie Lee Hudson on February 2, 1954) is a former American supermodel.
Early life and career
Brinkley was born in Monroe, Michigan, even though she has claimed to have been born and raised in California. Majoring in art and graduating in 1972, Christie attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California. In the early 1970s, she and her family lived in the Bel Air hills with an English sheep dog named Shakespeare. She was educated at le Lycée Français de Los Angeles and worked in Paris as an entry-level illustrator.
In 1976, she signed a contract with cosmetics giant Cover Girl, which they continued to renew for twenty years, the longest model contract ever.[citation needed] A few years after Cover Girl ended their contract with Brinkley, they again signed her on as a model with ads in magazines and commercials for mature skin products in 2005. She appeared on the cover of three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues (1979 - 1981).
Personal life
Brinkley had a romantic relationship with Olivier Chandon de Brailles, heir to the Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. Chandon died in 1983 in an auto racing accident. The two first met in 1982 at Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Christie appeared.
Brinkley has been married four times. Her first three marriages were to artist Jean-François Allaux (1973-1981), musician Billy Joel (1985-1994) and developer Richard Taubman (1994-1995). Her fourth husband is Peter Cook, an architect, whom she married in 1996. Brinkley filed for divorce from Cook in the summer of 2006 after news spread that he had cheated on her.
Brinkley has three children: daughter Alexa Ray (b. January 1, 1986) with Joel, son Jack Paris (b. June 2, 1995) with Taubman, and daughter Sailor Lee (b. July 2, 1998) with Cook.
She is a supporter of animal rights and long time PETA member. She has spoken out against the Ringling Brothers Circus on behalf of PETA.
References
The song "Uptown Girl" was written about her by her husband, Billy Joel. It was conceived as Joel wondered aloud how the gorgeous Christie Brinkley could wind up with a guy like him.
The songs "All About Soul," "Blonde Over Blue," "Shameless," and "Christie Lee" were also written by Billy Joel with Christie Brinkley in mind.
HE'S SO MEAN THAT:
1. If you kicked him in the heart, you'd break your toe.
2. He'd steal a dead fly from a blind spider.
3. He's deaf, and never told his barber.
4. You couldn't warm up to him if you were cremated
together.
5. He sends get-well cards to hypochondriacs.
6. He'd cry over your wounds so he could get salt in
them.
7. He has as much use for anyone living as an
undertaker.
8. He applied for a job as a prison warden so he could
put tacks in the electric chair.
9. The only thing he'll share with you willingly is a
communicable disease.
10. He folds his newspaper so the guy next to him on
the bus can only read half the headline.
11. He has a testimonial plaque from Kenneth Starr.
12. He dreamed that he died and the heat woke him up.
13. He takes sparrows, dips them in peroxide, and sells
them as canaries.
14. He'd throw a drowning man both ends of the rope.
15. He knifes you in the back, and then has you arrested
for carrying a weapon.
16. He campaigned for a dry county, got it passed, and
then moved away.
17. He told his children the Easter Bunny got run over
by a car.
18. He was engaged to a girl with a wooden leg, but he
got mad and broke it off.
19. He never hits a man when he's down--he kicks him.
20. He never eats his heart out; he'd starve to death.
21. He'd borrow your pot just to cook your goose.
22. Only gravediggers would enjoy working for him.
23. He gave his wife oysters and a rabbit's foot because
she wanted pearls for her birthday.
24. He had three phones installed so that he could hang
up on more people.
Love the mean man observations, hawkman. Hey, folk have you ever know anyone like that guy? Great bio's as well, Boston Bob, but will await our Raggedy to, well, you know, right?
In the interim, here's one played by Stan Getz and sung by Diana Krall:
DIANA KRALL
THE LOOK OF LOVE
The Look of Love
The look of love
Is in your eyes
The look your smile can't disguise
The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever say
And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
You've got the look of love
It's on your face
A look that time can't erase
Be mine tonight
Let this be just the start
Of so many nights like this
Let's take a lover's vow
And then seal it with a kiss
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
I love you so
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
While we await our PA photographer, here's a song dedicated to her and to my parents whose anniversary is today:
Something about you mama that sure gives me the blues
Something about you mama that sure gives me the blues
It ain't your drop stich stockings it ain't your blue buckle shoes
You know pretty mama I'm bound to love you some
You know pretty mama I'm bound to love you some
Cause I've done more for you than anybody ever done you know it baby
Got me a pretty mama got me a bulldog too
Got me a pretty mama got me a bulldog too
My pretty mama don't love me but my bulldog do
[ trumpet - clarinet ]
There's been a groundhog rootin' round my yard at night
There's been a groundhog rootin' round my yard at night
For the way my mama been treatin' me he must be rootin' all right
Lord honey must be rootin' all right
Well I ain't no cheap man don't try to fool no girls
I ain't no cheap man don't try to fool no girls
It's my regular lovin' that gets me by in this world.
Hank Snow
Varnished weeds in window jars
Tarnished beads on tapestries
Kept in satin boxes are
Reflections of love's memories
Letters from across the seas
Roses dipped in sealing wax
Valentines and maple leaves
Tucked into a paperback
Says she throw them all away
She found someone to love today
Dark with darker moods is he
Not a golden Prince who's come
Through columbines and wizardry
To talk of castles in the sun
Still she'll take a chance and say
She found someone to love today
She see a sorrow in his eyes
Like the angel made of tin
What might happen if she tries
To place another heart in him
In a Bleeker Street cafe
She found someone to love
She found someone to love
She found someone to love today
dys, those lyrics are wonderful. They read like lyric poetry, honey.
Hope our Raggedy is all right, and she is not here because she cannot get in.
In the interim, I found this funny parody on The Pennsylvania Polka, folks.
Strikes out at every task he has begun,
Ave. Pennsylvania yokel.
Picked for his cabinet old boys except one,
Moldy old Cold War jokels.
Don't let his trigger man handle a gun
Or he's likely to maim ya.
His domain is Transylvania,
First he maims then sucks veins till he drains ya.
For his flacking
The mumbler has snared a snick'ring pawn:
Snow is yakking
An Orwell-Wag the Dog lexicon.
On an err spree
Yet they go on obliviously,
Then the clown swigs gin and beer,
The sot's words are not clear.
Shitfaced dimwit combined with daddy's friends.
Passed out every night because he's dead-drunk,
The Pennsylvania yokel.
Pitches he hands us are nothing but bunk. . .
Ari, Scott, Snow, blow-smoke shills,
Noses longer than an elephant's trunk:
Men with mendacious crania.
Each day Dubya is insanier--
Bad combo: mono- and megalomania.
speaking of poetry, here's a great reggae oldie by Eek-a-mouse:
a wa do dem a wa do dem dem dem
a wa do dem a wa do dem dem dem
a me nuh know - a me nuh know-oh-oh
a me nuh know - a me nuh know-oh-oh
me seh me love her fi mi virgin girl
me seh me love her fi mi virgin girl
Jah know, me really love her so
Jah know, me really love her so
me love fe see her way she walk and pose
fancy rose to match her clothes
Jah know, fi mi virgin girl
Jah know, fi mi virgin girl
me love fe see her when her hair fulla pearl
anywhere she go people love her in the world
she don' worship diamond, she don' worship pearl
Jah know, fi mi virgin girl
Jah know, fi mi virgin girl
a wa do dem......
(scatting)
de two a we a walk an' de two a we a talk
she a wear rose an' a me a wear black
we hug up an' pass in a sun shade glass
an' little after that we gaan a Kingston Park, ey
whole heap a people jus' a start to laugh
she too short an' a me too tall
she too short an' a me too tall, ey
a wa do dem......
we tek a walk for a Kingston mall
whole heap a people jus' a start to laugh
because a she too short an' a me too tall
she too short an' a me too tall, ey
a wa do dem......
What happened to my pictures?
Well, anyway, I thanked you for the lovely song, Letty, and asked in my post, that went "poof", how you knew I was wearing my blue buckle shoes.
I'll try a picture a little later on, maybe.
Fabulous reggae for a turtle, M.D. Love it, and would you believe this one?
Turtle Island
Indians believed a long time ago
That the world was floating through space
On the back of a turtle, that kept it from sinking
Kept it in a safer place
Turtles were special, and thought to be wise
From the ages that live in their eyes
From the back of their shell,
They would keep us so well
In fact, they would keep us alive
Refrain:
We are the children of Turtle Island
A story that's old and that's new
On Turtle Island, there's a turtle smiling
Carrying the world from you
Turtles can migrate from ocean to ocean
Travel thousands of miles in the sea
Crawl from their shells, and seven years later
Come back to the very same beach
Nobody knows how they remember their way
It's a scientific mystery
Charles Darwin and others became turtle lovers
Because turtles, they felt, held the key
Refrain
Turtles have out-lived the dinosaur kings
With Millenniums stored in their genes
But like so many species on the brink of extinction
We're losing the turtles of the sea
And now the tables are turning,
The story's returning
As mythology mixes with fact
As the fate of the turtle, the fate of the Island
Is now resting on our back
Refrain
Like so many creatures on Turtle Island
The world is depending on you
Raggedy, Thank goodness you appeared. We don't care about the photo's just as long as you were not a victim of legerdemain, gal.
Speaking of which:
Artist: Pilot
Song: Magic
Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so
Never been awake
Never seen a day break
Leaning on my pillow in the morning
Lazy day in bed
Music in my head
Crazy music playing in the morning light
Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so
I love my sunny day
Dream of far away
Dreaming on my pillow in the morning
Never been awake
Never seen a day break
Leaning on my pillow in the morning light
Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so
Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so
Sooner or Later (One of Us Must Know)
I didn't mean to treat you so bad
You shouldn't take it so personal
I didn't mean to make you so sad
You just happened to be there, that's all
When I saw you say "goodbye" to your friends and smile
I thought that it was well understood
That you'd be comin' back in a little while
I didn't know that you were sayin' "goodbye" for good
But, sooner or later, one of us must know
You just did what you're supposed to do
Sooner or later, one of us must know
That I really did try to get close to you
I couldn't see what you could show me
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid
I couldn't see how you could know me
But you said you knew me and I believed you did
When you whispered in my ear
And asked me if I was leavin' with you or her
I didn't realize just what I did hear
I didn't realize how young you were
But, sooner or later, one of us must know
You just did what you're supposed to do
Sooner or later, one of us must know
That I really did try to get close to you
I couldn't see when it started snowin'
Your voice was all that I heard
I couldn't see where we were goin'
But you said you knew an' I took your word
And then you told me later, as I apologized
That you were just kiddin' me, you weren't really from the farm
An' I told you, as you clawed out my eyes
That I never really meant to do you any harm
But, sooner or later, one of us must know
You just did what you're supposed to do
Sooner or later, one of us must know
That I really did try to get close to you
Bob Dylan
the beautiful south love to do cover songs
they've included a few on their albums, and usually include them as b-sides to singles (odd that phrase since there are no "sides" to a cd)
here's a bee gee's tune they covered
I Started A Joke
The Beautiful South
I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
Oh had I only seen
That the joke was on me
And I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh had I only known
That the joke was on me
I looked at the sky
And holding my hands over my eyes
I fell out of bed
Cursing my head for the things that I said
I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh had I only seen that the joke was on me
On me
On me
I finally died
Oh I finally died
I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
Oh I finally died (repeat above)
