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Today is Independence Day in Angola. After a long and bloody war, Portugal granted Angola independence on November 12, 1975. The United States did not recognize the Angolan government for another 18 years because we thought they were evil commies.

A little irony…

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Today is the birthday, in 1945, of Neil Young, Canadian singer, song-writer and activist. He performed both individually and with a number of bands – Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and so forth. I was a bit torn this morning about which video to post, so here are two – Ohio written by him and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Heart of Gold performed by him and a backup band at Farm Aid. I like Heart of Gold but Ohio is so wrenching and brings back such memories….

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Friday irony

Calendar needed

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More record album covers…

Today is the birthday, in 1942, of Chip Douglas, bassist for The Turtles.

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Ugh. Must be MONDAY!!!

Have something to eat

You can't buy bagels with cream cheese. Are you crazy?!

Try some yoga

Due Today

So….

The owner of a seafood restaurant sends one of his sons undercover to his rival's restaurant. 

The dad tells him to get a job as a cook and figure out the recipe for his rival's famous clam chowder. 

The first day, the son comes home with a basic list of ingredients that the rival uses. They try making it, but it doesn't turn out the same. The dad sends him back. 

The second day, the son comes home having watched the rival chef prepare the chowder. They try again to make it, and it's close, but the consistency is off. 

"It's too watery!" said the dad. "It needs to be thicker!"

They try to figure out what they're doing wrong, and the son realizes that he was distracted for a minute while the chef did something. 

"He must have added a secret ingredient, one not on the list, while you looked away!" concludes the dad. 

He sends his son back for a third day, this time telling him not to take his eyes off the chef for a second. The son comes back the next day excited. 

"You'll never believe what I saw!" he says. "He did have a secret ingredient, it's a piece of paper!"

"A piece of paper?"

"Yeah, he keeps a stack of printed paper in the kitchen. It's a bunch of Wikipedia articles he's printed out, of various movies. When he makes the chowder, he tears out the synopsis of a movie from one of the articles and puts it in. It's the strangest thing, but that's the secret ingredient."

"Ah," says the dad, "the plot thickens."

Today is the birthday, in 1943, of Mick Jagger.

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Bluegrass

I’m going to be at the ‘Bluegrass, Brews and BBQ’ at Furnace Town today. For those of you who can’t make it, here is a sampling of some good bluegrass music.

This may be one of the best known…

Earl Scruggs was one of the original members of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass boys who gave bluegrass music it’s name. Here he is with a classic.

Here is a modern group, Della Mae

Finally, here is another modern group, Southern Raised Bluegrass, performing an old favorite…with some flairs!

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