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Well, edgar, the Beatles may be fixin' a hole where the rain comes in, and I was tempted to play "My Bucket's Got a Hole It", but found out that Harry Belafonte sang this one as well as Jerry Orbach. Big surprise on that one, folks.

Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh
so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember and if you remember
then follow
follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
When noone wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
When dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
When love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember
[ Lyrics provided by www.mp3lyrics.org ]
then follow
follow.

Deep in December it's nice to remember
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
Without a hurt the heart will hollow.
Deep in December
it's nice to remember
The fire of September that made you mellow.
Deep in December our hearts
should remember and follow
follow.

Back later with a translation of that one which we shall dedicate to our Dutchy.

Good morning, (I think) WA2K radio audience.

Food warning for the day:

Never, NEVER eat Italian spaghetti and meatballs late in the evening.

Well, folks, Dutchy tells me that the following is an accurate translation for "Try to Remember", so here it is.

Probeer om het soort September te herinneren
Toen het leven en oh langzaam was
zo mellow.
Probeer om het soort September te herinneren
Toen het gras groen was en de korrel was geel.
Probeer om het soort September te herinneren
Toen u een tedere en onervaren kameraad was.
Probeer me te herinneren en als u zich herinnert
dan volg
volg.

Probeer om te herinneren toen het leven zo teder was
Toen noone behalve de wilg huilde.
Probeer om te herinneren toen het leven zo teder was
Toen de dromen naast uw hoofdkussen werden gehouden.
Probeer om te herinneren toen het leven zo teder was
Toen de liefde ember ongeveer billow was.
Probeer me te herinneren en als u zich herinnert
dan volg
volg.

Diep in December is het aardig zich te herinneren
Hoewel u het weet zal de sneeuw volgen.
Diep in December is het aardig zich te herinneren
Zonder gekwetst zal het hart uithollen.
Diep in December
het is aardig zich te herinneren
De brand van September die u mellow maakte.
Diep in December onze harten
zou me moeten herinneren en volgen
volg.

Thank you for honouring me with a song Letty, you and your little station are full of surprises, it is very much appreciated. Tom Jones who also sang this song is a great favourite of mine.
Once again "bedankt" which means 'thanks' in Dutch.

Heh, heh! I had to coerce our Dutchy into that reply, but it was well worth it, folks. Welcome back, buddy.

I hope our hawkman makes it today, but if not, it seems to be Dizzy Gillespie's birthday today, and what a trumpet man.

Here's a jazz ballad by him and his crooked horn that I really like.

Alone together, beyond the crowd,
Above the world, we're not to proud
To cling together, We're strong
As long as we're together.

Alone together, the blinding rain
The starless night, were not in vain;
For we're together, and what is there
To fear together.

Our love is as deep as the sea,
Our love is as great as a love can be,
And we can weather the great unknown,
If we're alone together.

There's A Rainbow 'round My Shoulder
Bobby Darin

There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder
And a sky of blue above
How the sun shines bright
The world's all right
'cause I'm in love.

There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder
And it fits me like a glove
Let it blow, let it storm
I'll be warm
'cause I'm in love.
Hallelujah... how the folks will stare
When they see the solitaire
That my little sugar baby is gonna wear.

There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder
And a sky of blue above
And, I'm shoutin' so
The world will know
That I'm in love.

Hallelujah... how the folks are gonna stare
When they see that diamond solitaire
That my own true baby's gonna wear.

There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder
And a sky of blue above
And, I'm shoutin' so...
So the world will know...
I'm in love...
I'm in love...

There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder
And I'm in love.

Morning, edgar. Thanks for the B.D. song. No rainbows here, buddy, but I do have a Thomas Moore song for Sunday. I love this one.

Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish.
come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;
earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!
Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,
"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure."

Here see the bread of life; waters flowing
forth from the throne of God, pure from above.
Come to the feast of love; come, ever knowing
earth has no sorrow but heaven can remove.

Glad that farmerman is all right, and that Diane is at peace with herself. If that is the case, she will do fine.

Come on, you're collecting enough :wink:

Go to sleep you weary hobo
Let the towns drift slowly by
Can't you hear the steel rails hummin'
That's the hobo's lullaby

I know your clothes are torn and ragged
And your hair is turning gray
Lift your head and smile at trouble
You'll find peace and rest someday

Now don't you worry 'bout tomorrow
Let tomorrow come and go
Tonight you're in a nice warm boxcar
Safe from all that wind and snow

I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to Heaven
You'll find no policemen there

So go to sleep you weary hobo
Let the towns drift slowly by
Listen to the steel rails hummin'
That's a hobo's lullaby

Woody Guthrie

Alfred Nobel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born October 21, 1833(1833-10-21)
Stockholm, Sweden
Died December 10, 1896 (aged 63)
Sanremo, Italy

Resting place Norra begravningsplatsen, Stockholm
59°21′24.52″N 18°1′9.43″E / 59.3568111, 18.0192861Coordinates: 59°21′24.52″N 18°1′9.43″E / 59.3568111, 18.0192861
Occupation Chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden - December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him.





Personal background

Nobel, a descendant of the seventeenth century scientist, Olaus Rudbeck (1630-1708), was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872) and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel (1805-1889). Born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, he went with his family in 1842 to St. Petersburg, where his father (who had invented modern plywood) started a "torpedo" works. Alfred studied chemistry with Professor Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin. In 1859, the factory was left to the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (1831-1888), who greatly enlarged it. Alfred, returning to Sweden with his father after the bankruptcy of their family business, devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine (discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Torino). Several explosions occurred at their family-owned factory in Heleneborg; one disastrous one killed Alfred's younger brother Emil and several other workers in 1864.

The foundations of the Nobel Prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth for its establishment. Since 1901, the prize has honored men and women for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace.

In 1876 Bertha von Suttner became Alfred Nobel's secretary but after only a brief stay, left and married Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner. Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

Nobel also wrote Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying. The entire stock except for three copies was destroyed immediately after his death, being regarded as scandalous and blasphemous. The first surviving edition (bilingual Swedish-Esperanto) was published in Sweden in 2003. The play has been translated to Slovenian via the Esperanto version.

Alfred Nobel is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.


Dynamite

Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite. Nobel demonstrated his explosive for the first time that year, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England.

Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with another explosive, gun-cotton, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite. Gelignite, or blasting gelatin as it was called, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.


The Prizes

Alfred Nobel's death mask, at his residence Bjorkborn in Karlskoga,

The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a French newspaper, condemning him for his invention of dynamite, is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.[1] The obituary stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead") and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."[2] On November 27, 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality. He died of a stroke on December 10, 1896 at Sanremo, Italy. He left 31 million kronor (4,223,500 USD1896~103,931,888 USD2007) to fund the prizes.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, chemistry and medical science or physiology; the fourth is for literary work "in an ideal direction" and the fifth is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

The formulation about the literary prize, "in an ideal direction" (i idealisk riktning in Swedish), is cryptic and has caused much confusion. For many years, the Swedish Academy interpreted "ideal" as "idealistic" (idealistisk) and used it as a pretext to not give the prize to important but less romantic authors, such as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and Leo Tolstoy. This interpretation has since been revised, and the prize has been awarded to, for example, Dario Fo and José Saramago, who definitely do not belong to the camp of literary idealism.

There was also quite a lot of room for interpretation by the bodies he had named for deciding on the physical sciences and chemistry prizes, given that he had not consulted them before making the will. In his one-page testament, he stipulated that the money go to discoveries or inventions in the physical sciences and to discoveries or improvements in chemistry. He had opened the door to technological awards, but had not left instructions on how to deal with the distinction between science and technology. Since the deciding bodies he had chosen were more concerned with the former, it is not surprising that the prizes went to scientists and not to engineers, technicians or other inventors. In a sense, the technological prizes announced recently by the World Technology Network (not funded by the Nobel foundation) indirectly fill this gap.

In 2001, his great-grandnephew, Peter, asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given "in Alfred Nobel's memory" from the five other awards. This has caused much controversy whether the prize for Economics is actually a "Nobel Prize" (see Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel).

Well, my goodness, folks. There's our Walter with a picture of a bum and a "gimme" cup. Glad Mrs. Walter is doing well, buddy.

Here's one for you that I know you like.

Brand New Key by Melanie

I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive
I been all around the world
Some people say, I done all right for a girl
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I asked your mother if you were at home
She said, yes .. but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you've got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out to see
La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

Hey, edgar. You're too fast for me, Texas.

Carrie Fisher
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Carrie Frances Fisher
Born October 21, 1956 (1956-10-21) (age 51)
Beverly Hills, United States
Years active 1975 - present

Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy, although her comedic novels also have won praise.





Biography

Early life

Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds; her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.[1] Her younger brother is Todd Fisher and her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens.

When Fisher was two, her parents divorced and her father married actress Elizabeth Taylor. The following year, her mother married shoe store chain owner Harry Karl. It was assumed from an early age that Fisher would go into the family business; she began appearing with her mother in Las Vegas at age 12. She attended Beverly Hills High School but left to join her mother on the road. She appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973) starring her mother.



Career

1970s

Soon after, Fisher enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which she attended for 18 months. She made her film debut in the Columbia comedy Shampoo (1975) starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant and Jack Warden.

In 1977, Fisher starred as Princess Leia Organa in George Lucas' sci-fi film Star Wars opposite Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.

The huge success of Star Wars made her internationally famous. The character of Princess Leia became a merchandising triumph; there were small plastic action figures of the Princess in toy stores across the United States. She appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV movie, The Star Wars Holiday Special. Fisher hosted the Saturday Night Live episode that included the first performance by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as their popular Blues Brothers characters.

Fisher appeared in the music video for Ringo Starr's cover of "You're Sixteen" as the love interest in 1978 on Ringo's TV special of that year.[2][3].


1980s

Fisher later appeared in The Blues Brothers movie in a cameo role as Joliet Jake's vengeful ex-lover, listed in the credits as "Mystery Woman." She appeared on Broadway in Censored Scenes From King Kong in 1980. That year, she appeared again as Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. She made her third and final appearance in the series in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.


After her appearance wearing a "Golden Metal Bikini" or "Slave girl" outfit that almost immediately rose to pop culture icon status, Fisher became a sex symbol for a short period. She also was a replacement in the Broadway production of Agnes of God (1982).

In 1987, Fisher published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge. The book was semi-autobiographical in the sense that she fictionalized and satirized real life events such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s.[4] It became a bestseller, and she received the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel. Fisher played a major supporting role in When Harry Met Sally in 1989.


1990s

In 1990, Columbia Pictures released a movie version of Postcards from the Edge, adapted for the screen by Fisher and starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid. She also appeared in the movie Drop Dead Fred in 1991. In 1997, Fisher appeared as a therapist in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. She is one of the few actors to star in movies with both John and Jim Belushi, later appearing with the latter in the movie The Man with One Red Shoe. During the 1990s Fisher also published the novels Surrender the Pink (1991) and Delusions of Grandma (1993).


2000s

In the movie Scream 3 (2000), Fisher played an actress mistaken for Carrie Fisher. ("Yeah, I was up for the part of Princess Leia. But who gets it? The girl who slept with George Lucas!") Director's commentary on the Scream 3 DVD suggests that the sequence was in fact penned by Fisher herself. In 2001, Fisher appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. This was the first time she took part in a movie together with Mark Hamill since the original Star Wars trilogy (although neither actor realized this until the premiere).

She also co-wrote the TV comedy movie These Old Broads (2001), of which she was also co-executive producer. It starred her mother, Debbie Reynolds, as well as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Shirley MacLaine. In this, Taylor's character, an agent, explains to Reynolds' character, an actress, that she was in a alcoholic blackout when she married the actress' husband, "Freddy."

Besides acting and writing original works, Fisher is one of the best-known script doctors in Hollywood, working on the screenplays of other writers. She has done uncredited polishes on movies starting with Steven Spielberg's Hook and continuing today. Her expertise in this area is why she was interviewed for the screenwriting documentary Dreams on Spec in 2007.

Fisher also plays Peter Griffin's boss on the animated sitcom Family Guy and appeared in a book of photographs titled Hollywood Moms (2001) for which she wrote the introduction.

Fisher published a Suzanne Vale sequel novel, The Best Awful There Is in 2004. Since Postcards from the Edge, Vale has married, become a parent, and divorced. She also is undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder but is not entirely comfortable with her "normal" self.

Fisher wrote and performed in her one-woman play "Wishful Drinking" at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from November 7, 2006, to January 14, 2007.[5] She is a full-time judge on FOX's filmmaking-competition reality TV series On the Lot.

Currently Fisher joins Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne on Saturday evenings for The Essentials with informative and entertaining conversation on Hollywoods best films.


Personal life

Fisher was married to musician Paul Simon (1983-84, during which time she had a miscarriage), and was in a relationship with him for several years afterward. Subsequently, she had a relationship with CAA principal and agent Bryan Lourd. They had one child together, Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992). The couple's relationship ended when Lourd left her for a man. She was tied for a time to Senator Christopher Dodd, and for a brief time was engaged to Dan Aykroyd.

In an interview on public radio in 2005, Fisher joked that she was afraid if she ever became senile she might begin to slip back into her Princess Leia character. Fisher has publicly discussed her problems with drugs, her battles with bipolar disorder, and overcoming an addiction to prescription medication, most notably on ABC TV's 20/20.

On February 26, 2005, Republican Party media adviser R. Gregory Stevens was found dead in a guest room at Fisher's home. She stated that he was a longtime friend and often stayed with her.[6]

Fisher has described herself as an "enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God."[7]

Ken Watanabe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name 渡辺 謙
Watanabe Ken
Born October 21, 1959 (1959-10-21) (age 47)
Koide, Niigata, Japan
Spouse(s) Yumiko Watanabe
Kaho Minami (2005-)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Nominated: Best Supporting Actor
2003 The Last Samurai
Golden Globe Awards
Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
2004 The Last Samurai

Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken?, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese Oscar-nominated stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, including such roles as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category.





Biography

Born Ken Watanabe in Koide, Niigata prefecture, his mother was a school teacher and his father taught calligraphy.


Japanese roles

After graduating from high school in 1978, Watanabe moved to Tokyo to begin his acting career, getting his big break with the Tokyo-based theater troupe En. While with the troupe, he was cast as the hero in the play Shimodani Mannencho Monogatari, under Yukio Ninagawa's direction. The role attracted critical and popular notice.

In 1982, he made his first TV appearance in Michinaru Hanran (Unknown Rebellion), and his first appearance on TV as a samurai in Mibu no koiuta. He made his feature-film debut in 1984 with MacArthur's Children.

Watanabe is mostly known in Japan for playing samurai, as in the 1987 Dokuganryu Masamune (One eyed dragon, Masamune) the 50-episode NHK drama for which he is now best known. He played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television jidaigeki Gokenin Zankurō, which ran for several seasons. He has gone on to earn acclaim in such historical dramas as Oda Nobunaga, Chushingura, and the movie Bakumatsu Junjo Den.

In 1989, while filming Haruki Kadokawa's Heaven and Earth, Watanabe was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. He returned to acting while simultaneously undergoing chemotherapy treatments, but in 1994 suffered a relapse.

As his health improved his career picked back up. He co-starred with Koji Yakusho in the 1998 Kizuna, for which he was nominated for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In 2002, he quit the En (Enegki-Shudan En) theater group where he had his start and joined the K-Dash agency. The film Sennen no Koi (Thousand-year Love, based on The Tale of Genji) earned him another Japanese Academy Award nomination.

In 2006, he finally won Best Lead Actor at the Japanese Academy Awards for his role in Memories of tomorrow (Ashita no Kioku), where he played a patient with Alzheimer's Disease.


Western films

Watanabe was introduced to most Western audiences with the 2003 film The Last Samurai for which his performance as Katsumoto in earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Watanabe also starred in the 2005 films Batman Begins and Memoirs of a Geisha, where he played The Chairman. In 2006 he starred in Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima.

He has also filmed ads for American Express and Yakult and in 2004, he was featured in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People edition.


Personal Life

In 2001 he announced at a press conference that his ¥170 million home had been repossessed and that he was heavily in debt. Watanabe had ignored his finances, leaving them entirely to his wife.

Ken is divorced from his ex-wife, Yumiko, with whom he has two children: Anne Watanabe, a 20 year-old model, and Dai (渡辺大), a 23 year-old actor.

On December 3, 2005, he married actress Kaho Minami.

The very hungry lion

A hungry lion was roaming through the jungle looking for something to eat. He came across two men. One was sitting under a tree reading a book; the other was typing away on his typewriter. The lion quickly pounced on the man reading the book and devoured him. Even the king of the jungle knows that readers digest and writers cramp.

That's a song, Letty ...

Walter, that is the best and cutest "Thank You" that I have ever received. Waving back, buddy.

And there's the hawkman back again as well. Loved your lion pun, Bob. <groan>

Thanks also for the great bio's. The best song that I can think of for Alfred is this palindromic Swedish group.
Abba

When I Kissed The Teacher

Everybody screamed when I kissed the teacher
And they must have thought they dreamed when I kissed the teacher
All my friends at school
They had never seen the teacher blush, he looked like a fool
Nearly petrified 'cos he was taken by surprise
When I kissed the teacher
Couldn't quite believe his eyes, when I kissed the teacher
My whole class went wild
As I held my breath, the world stood still, but then he just smiled
I was in the seventh heaven when I kissed the teacher

One of these days
Gonna tell him I dream of him every night
One of these days
Gonna show him I care, gonna teach him a lesson alright

I was in a trance when I kissed the teacher
Suddenly I took the chance when I kissed the teacher
Leaning over me, he was trying to explain the laws of geometry
And I couldn't help it, I just had to kiss the teacher

One of these days
Gonna tell him I dream of him every night
One of these days
Gonna show him I care, gonna teach him a lesson alright

What a crazy day, when I kissed the teacher
All my sense had flown away when I kissed the teacher
My whole class went wild
As I held my breath, the world stood still, but then he just smiled
I was in the seventh heaven when I kissed the teacher

(I wanna hug, hug, hug him)
When I kissed the teacher
(I wanna hug, hug him)
When I kissed the teacher
(I wanna hug, hug, hug him)
When I kissed the teacher
(I wanna hug, hug him)
When I kissed the teacher
(I wanna hug, hug, hug him)

Hope our Raggedy makes it today so that we can salute the yitwails wherever they are. Sure do miss the big island man, honu.

Good Afternoon WA2K.

Alfred Nobel, Carrie Fisher and Ken Watanabe




Wishing all a pleasant Sunday.

Well, there she is, folks, right on cue. Thanks, PA for the great trio.

This is the best that I can do for Carrie Fisher, I'm afraid.

Ahuh ahuh (yea Darth Vader)
Ahuh ahuh (good Jedi gone bad)
Ahuh ahuh (light sabre... action)
Ahuh ahuh
In the Millenium Falcon
Travelling through hyperspace
Ain't like dusting crops boy.
When the empire come we gone
Outrun Stardestroyers
She can do the Kessel run
In less than twelve parsecs
Me and the Wookie
Won it from Lando Calrissian, Fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy
Han and Luke rescued Princess Leia
Obi-wan where you at?



And this is a bit of news that Prince Gautam will appreciate, folks.

Indian immigrants' son new La. governor By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 50 minutes ago



BATON ROUGE, La. - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream.

Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican, will be the nation's youngest governor. He had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.

"My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American dream. And guess what happened. They found the American dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana," he said to cheers and applause at his victory party.

i'm four months behind on this--no jokes about hawaiian island time, please--but here's a belated tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival.



The people came and listened
Some of them came and played
Others gave flowers away, yes they did
Down in Monterey
Down in Monterey

Young Gods smiled upon the crowd
Their music being born of love
Children danced night and day
Religion was being born
Down in Monterey

The Byrds and the Airplane did fly
Oh, Ravi Shankar's music made me cry
The Who exploded into fire and light
Hugh Masekela's music was black as night
The Grateful Dead blew everybodys' mind
Jimi Hendrix baby,believe me, set the world on fire, yeah
His Majesty, Prince Jones, smiled as he moved among the crowd
Ten thousand electric guitars were grooving real loud, yeah
You want to find the truth in life
Don't pass music by
and you know I would not lie, no I would not lie,
No, I would not lie
Down in Monterey

Three days of understanding of moving with one another
Even the cops grooved with us
Do you believe me, yeah?
Down in Monterey
I think that maybe I'm dreaming
Monterey
Down in monterey
Did you hear what I said?

M.D., welcome back. We've missed you, honu.

Great tribute to that pop festival, and I am so glad you reminded us of all the great songs of the past. Strange as well, because I just found out that
Ken Watanabe was a dj at Lindy in the Park dance festival in San Francisco.

Tried to locate George Harrison and Ravi Shankar lyrics and the whole place went wild, folks. Another geek attempting to search and destroy.

Your Monterey reminded me of this one, yit.

It happened in Monterey
A long time ago
I met her in Monterey
In old Mexico

Stars and steel guitars
And luscious lips as red as wine
Broke somebody's heart
And I'm afraid that it was mine

It happened in Monterey
Without thinking twice
I left her and threw away the key to paradise
My indiscreet heart
Longs for the sweetheart
That I left in old Monterey

The Golden Age of Radio continues . . .





'Brace Beemer' (December 9, 1903 - March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ, Detroit, Michigan. He served as the announcer for The Lone Ranger from its first broadcast in 1933. Beemer took over as the voice of The Lone Ranger (alias John Reid), from 1941 to the end of the series in 1955. He also portrayed Sergeant Preston (of the Yukon) on Challenge of the Yukon. He was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, and is buried in Troy, Michigan.