The way things are going on earth, some people may want to leave. It’s getting pretty crowded up on the ISS though with 5 spacecraft docked there today.
Normally I ignore advice from celebrities, but Samuel L. Jackson has some good advice for all of us on how to beat, or at least mitigate, the current pandemic. Pay attention!
Today is the birthday (in 1938) of Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot. I suppose his biggest hit was The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Punctuation
Defense Attorneys
Actually I’ve been to two of these places.
One sunny day in late January 2021 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Trump.” The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, Mr. Trump is no longer President and no longer resides here.” The old man said, “Okay”, and walked away. The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Trump.” The Marine repeated, “Sir, as I told you yesterday, Mr. Trump is no longer President and no longer resides here.” The man thanked him and, again, just walked away. The third day, the old man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying again, “I would like to go in and meet with President Trump.” The Marine, understandably irritated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you’ve been here asking to speak to Trump. I’ve told you each time that he’s no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don’t you get it?” The old man looked at the Marine and said, “Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.” The Marine snapped to attention and said, “See you tomorrow, Sir!”
On this day in 1960, Patsy Cline recorded ‘I Fall to Pieces’ which would become a number one hit on the Country Charts. I’m not really a country fan but I love Patsy Cline.
Song of 2020
Corporate Strategy
Ruby Bridges/Kamala Harris – nicely done
Meanwhile..Anarchy!
Today’s musical selection, also from ‘Cabaret’ is almost the anti-2020 song. With half the world, it seems, in lockdown most of us can only fantasize about this kind of thing. But we can look forward to its return! Liza Minnelli won an Academy Award for this show as did Joel Grey.
Street Art
You have been warned!
We’ve been watching ‘Babylon Berlin’ on Netflix. It’s set in Berlin around 1920 and watching it reminded me of Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories around which the show ‘Cabaret’ is loosely based. So here is the fabulous Joel Grey singing ‘Willkommen’ in the opening of the 1972 adaptation of Cabaret. It’s an amazing scene!
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