Springing a Serendipitous Sunday

Erroll Garner, piano (1921-1977) Eddie Calhoun, bass/Kelly Martin, drums ‘Spring is here’ (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart) ‘It might as well be Spring’ (Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein) and ‘Lover’ (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart) Music by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) “Erroll Garner in Performance” (1964)

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  2. jack, that soft jazz is background for your road trip today.  was tempted to start off with ray charles and the rayettes singing “hit the road, jack” but worried you might take it the wrong way.  any ol’ how, enjoy yourself and the spring scenery.

  3. but first (that should read “butt 1st” )

    Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like President Joe Biden’s new executive actions on gun control.

  4. LP’s latest  on gop

    Matt Gaetz isn’t an anomaly. He’s part of the stain on American politics that the Republican Party has become.

     

    newsweek‘s  latest on the grand ol’ party poopers

    Trump-McConnell Feud Heats Up as GOP ‘Kiss the Ring’ at Donor Retreat,… 

  5. Earl Garner is great.  I have an album that was cut in the late forties, there was one microphone for the piano and one microphone for the singer.  It is raw and powerful. It is not listed in his Wiki discography. I need to find it and play it for a treat tonight.

  6. thinking of springtime in FL when critters begin to stir about and snakes slither from under dark places (like the above gopers), here’s a rather disturbing op ed today in wapo:

    Florida is full of invasive species. They’re coming for the rest of us. 
    […]
    Call it Floridafication: A number of the state’s nastiest living attributes are rapidly migrating outward. The state’s unusual history and climate have made it a cushy incubator for all manner of ecological threats. But many of the phenomena that make Florida disturbingly unique, from reptiles to trees to whole landscape types, may not be unique to it for long. As the climate continues to shift, it will get harder and harder to think of the Sunshine State as a place apart, an ecological Other sealed off from the rest of the country by an imaginary wall of palm trees. So mock the place at your peril. Florida’s strange present may be coming for your state’s future.
    Floridafication is being driven by those two familiar forces — man-made climate change and globalization — stirred together into a cocktail all the state’s own. Florida is a good case study for the effects of globalization, in particular
    [continues]

  8. sounds like Boehner’s book may be a fun read

    the hill:

    Ted Cruz is a “reckless asshole” and Michele Bachmann a “lunatic.”
    Conservative pundits like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are residents of “Looneyville.”
    And Donald Trump, pushing a “bullshit” lie that the election was stolen, incited the “bloody insurrection” on Jan. 6 “for nothing more than selfish reasons.”
    In the world according to John Boehner, detailed in his profanity-laced memoir out Tuesday, the former House Speaker is the voice of reason and sanity in a Republican party that has been taken over by “whack jobs” and “insurrectionists” and become unmoored from reality — and its core conservative principles.
    […]
    “He’s still well-liked in the district by tons of folks, just like on the Hill. Some people love him and some people were kind of happy to see him move on,” Davidson said. “But I think everybody has some sort of good story about him, and he’s a likeable person. And I think a lot of people whether they loved him or didn’t are going to enjoy reading his book.
    Davidson’s Boehner story happened at the Mexican restaurant that night. He asked the Speaker if the recent press accounts were true: Did Boehner really call Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh”?
    “I did,” Boehner replied. “Have you ever met Ted Cruz?” 

  9. from his interview on CBS sunday morning:

    JOHN DICKERSON: “You call some of these members ‘political terrorists.'” 

    JOHN BOEHNER: “Oh, yeah, Jim Jordan especially, my colleague from Ohio. I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart – never building anything, never putting anything together.” 

    And here’s another excerpt of Boehner on Texas Senator Ted Cruz:

    BOEHNER:  “I don’t beat anybody up, it’s – not really my style, except that jerk. … Perfect symbol, you know, of getting elected, make a lotta noise, draw a lot of attention to yourself, raise a lotta money, which means you’re gonna go make more noise, raise more money, and –  it’s really, it’s unfortunate.” 

  10. I have a whole coffee table book of the lyrics of Rodgers and Hart.  Some of the best melodies and lyrics ever written and It Might As Well Be Spring is a major favorite.

     

  11. the former potty-us calling kettles names last night (while grifting his own party)

    the guardian:

    Donald Trump devoted part of a speech to Republican donors on Saturday night to insulting the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell. According to multiple reports of the $400,000-a-ticket, closed-press event, the former president called the Kentucky senator “a dumb son of a bitch”.
    Trump also said Mike Pence, his vice-president, should have had the “courage” to object to the certification of electoral college results at the US Capitol on 6 January. Trump claims his defeat by Joe Biden, by 306-232 in the electoral college and more than 7m votes, was the result of electoral fraud. It was not and the lie was repeatedly thrown out of court.
    Earlier, the Associated Press reported that it obtained a Pentagon timeline of events on 6 January, which showed Pence demanding military leadership “clear the Capitol” of rioters sent by Trump.
    Trump did nothing and around six hours passed between Pence’s order and the Capitol being cleared.
    […]
    “I hired his wife,” Trump said, according to the Post. “Did he ever say thank you?”
    He also ridiculed her decision to resign – “She suffered so greatly,” the Post reported him saying, his “voice dripping with sarcasm” – and said he had won her husband’s Senate seat for him.
    Trump has attacked McConnell before, in February calling him a “dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack”. On Saturday night he also reportedly called him a “stone cold loser”. McConnell did not immediately comment.
    […]
    At Mar-a-Lago, the Post said, the former president told Republicans to stick together.
    “We can’t have these guys that like publicity,” he said.

  12. “We can’t have these guys that like publicity,” he said.

    Now there’s you some irony right there.

  13. jamie, thanks for ella.  i’ll one-up you with julie and sammy and spring

    Medley includes: I Love You, Spring Is Here, Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, April In Paris, It Happens Every Spring, It Might As Well Be Spring The Julie Andrews Hour Episode #21 Aired on : 1973-3-3

  14. pogo, yeah, that’s the thing that really stood out in his drivel.  mr. wilde had a saying that aptly reflects on his $400,000 a-pop audience lastnight

    See the source image

  17. There is no describing the depth of my one and only celebrity crush.  I love my Sammy and everything he ever did.  It started with the Will Mastin Trio when I a child and didn’t come to an end the day I actually cried when the death we knew was close finally arrived.  

     

  20. “If a government agent has knowledge that a minor under its care or supervision has exhibited symptoms of gender dysphoria, gender nonconformity, or otherwise demonstrates a desire to be treated in a manner incongruent with the minor’s sex, the government agent or entity with knowledge of that circumstance shall immediately notify, in writing, each of the minor’s parents, guardians, or custodians. The notice shall describe all of the relevant circumstances with reasonable specificity.”

     

    — North Carolina’s newly proposed S.B. 514

    wapo’s ms petri has an op ed today about the above proposed bill.  as usual it’s funny – not the bill, her oped.

    I am trying to report gender infractions in my kindergarten but don’t know what counts!

  22. Hmmm……I wonder if Don Cornelius is any kin to Eddie Cornelius of the famous Brothers and Sister Rose.  I hired on with Eddie when he and his siblings split up into 2 sets of Cornelius Brothers and etc……Eddie just hired on another Brother, and a new Sister Rose and away we went. His brother and Sister Rose went to Atlanta and hired a new Eddie…….Eddie was the “real” Cornelius because he’d written all the songs, was the way I looked at it.    

  25. Poobah, how DARE you watch the Masters? ~~~  Yeah, Matsuyama is a lock absent a meltdown (and he may be in the middle of one right now). But Schauffele is pressuring him.

  26. I watched the Hemingway series on PBS.  What a grim life & person he was.  Depressing.
     
    I read America The farewell Tour”  by Chris Hedges. Some of it is very dense as in dense with ideas and some of it is creepy & disgusting.
     
     

  27. Matsuyama has a 2 shot lead with 2 left, but his lead over Schauffele is 4, and Schauffele is the only challenger still on course, so Hideki is now just needing to cruise on in.  

  28. John Boehner, the original orange man, giving Ted Cruz a proper roasting. SFB is still pulling the strings and the idiots are too weak to try to take back their party. 

  32. WaPo says 

    More than 100 corporate executives hold call to discuss halting donations and investments to fight controversial voting bills

    More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills being considered across the country, including the one recently signed into law in Georgia.

    Executives from major airlines, retailers and manufacturers — plus at least one NFL owner — talked about potential ways to show they opposed the legislation, including by halting donations to politicians who support the bills and even delaying investments in states that pass the restrictive measures, according to four people who were on the call, including one of the organizers, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor.

    While no final steps were agreed upon, the meeting represents an aggressive dialing up of corporate America’s stand against controversial voting measures nationwide, a sign that their opposition to the lawsdidn’t end with the fight against the Georgia legislation passed in March.
    (Continues)

    Sounds good, but we’ll see. 

  33. ….great band, full album, official band page (i.e. you’re not stealing it)

    Holy shit, they made an hour-long artistic nature video to accompany this, a masterpiece

    wow, what a gift that was, ty Fleet Foxes and all involved

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