Tomorrow?
A Muppet trio guides us there
*Celebrating the fermentation of wine
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in case that ditty sounds familiar, click here for
The original Kingston Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard performs an old train song from the nineteenth century popularized in the 1950s by the late Bob Gibson, one of the seminal performers in the pop folk boom. Gibson had adapted the song from performer Lew Sully’s 1898 copyrighted version; Sully likely borrowed the tune from an traditional Irish song. “To Morrow” appeared on “String Along,” (1960) which was the KT’s fifth consecutive studio album to reach the number one spot on the “Billboard Magazine” charts, where it stayed for ten weeks and earned the Trio its fifth gold record. Few artists today have matched the Kingston Trio’s chart success of fifty years ago. Their 46 total weeks with an album in the top spot still ranks among the best ever for any artist that “Billboard” has ever tracked.
all that leads up to a few days from now is the big question
also yesterday was a fascinating story in the NYT noted by nicole yesterday. the whole program was about it.
the “quo” putin wanted for the “quid” of his interference
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and furySignifying nothing.— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17–28)
According to Mel Brooks this is the first day of Schwanza.
aaackk, now i’m stuck with 2 earworm songs all day.
guess it could be worse had i added annie’s “tomorrow, tomorrow, i’ll love ya tomorrow you’re always a day away”
TEDed has an explanation for this insidious torture
Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? Not the whole song, but a fragment of it that plays and replays until you find yourself unloading the vegetables in time to the beat? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores earworms — a cognitive phenomenon that plagues over 90% of people at least once a week.
jamie, thanks for that. always loved the new christie minstrel’s version
The popular folk song “Today” comes from the 1964 light-hearted western comedy film “Advance to the Rear” which was set in the American Civil War. The song was composed (both lyrics and music) by Randy Sparks who was a member of The New Christy Minstrels and it was this vocal group that perhaps had the most commercially successful recording of the song. The song has been recorded by several artists, including the late John Denver, but perhaps the most amusing aspect of this lovely ballad is that so many people assume it to be a centuries-old folk song and not part of a Hollywood soundtrack.
click here for a very very young denver singing it
good fun movie that the song came from
A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they’re up to.
Mrs. P is afflicted with earworms at least 3 days/week, and knowing what songs annoy her the most, I help plant them in her head by humming one in the bathroom while we’re getting ready for work in the morning. This time of year she’s particularly vexed by Elvis’ Blue Christmas. I also like to bug her with the Chinese restaurant version of Deck the Halls from A Christmas Story. The woo-woo-woo-woooo-woos and fa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ras drive her nuts.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/football/ali-daei-iran-family-flight-intl/index.html
“A Dubai-bound flight carrying the wife and daughter of Ali Daei was forced to return to Iran, the country’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Daei is a critic of the government.”
“The flight, which took off from Tehran, was ordered to land on the Iranian island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, where the family was ordered to disembark, said IRNA.”
“Daei had refused to attend the FIFA World Cup in Qatar – where Iran was one of the 32 competing teams – in solidarity with Iranian protesters. “Instead of repression, violence and arresting the Iranian people, solve their problems,” Daei wrote in an Instagram post in September.”
A couple more Russians who stated something negative about the Ukraine invasion have “mysteriously” fallen from hotel windows, reports from BBC. Scary things those windows.
Of the “George Santos” affair, person elected to the Congress but with many questions regarding who he is, where he lives, what his real background is and I have one question. Is he a United States citizen? If he is, has he been a citizen at least seven years as required by our Constitution?
BB, good point. after cursory review only can find that he was born “in United States” july ’88 but not where. kinda curious no locale mentioned in any of the bios i saw.
Santos –
A lying grifter who lives with his sister, he’ll fit right in .
Took a 5 shot flyer on the Mega Millions , I love the window before the drawing where I do good things with the loot.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/business/russian-deaths-india-pavel-antov-intl/index.html
“Russian sausage magnate-turned-lawmaker Pavel Antov died in India on Saturday after falling from the third floor of his hotel…”
“Antonov pledged his support for Putin last June when he was forced to deny having posted an anti-war message on WhatsApp. He blamed an “unfortunate misunderstanding and a technical error” and said the status had been deleted.”
“At least a dozen high-profile Russian businessmen have reportedly died by suicide or in unexplained accidents this year, with six of them associated with Russia’s two largest energy companies.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owned-farms-climate/index.html
“Now frustration is growing in Arizona’s La Paz County, as shallower wells run dry amid the Southwest’s worst drought in 1,200 years. Much of the frustration is pointed at the area’s huge, foreign-owned farms growing thirsty crops like alfalfa, which ultimately get shipped to feed cattle and other livestock overseas.”
Not eating animals will solve a lot of problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos
In November 2022, Santos told Jewish Insider that his “mother’s Jewish background beliefs … are mine”.[4][10]
In December 2022, Santos told the New York Post: “I never claimed to be Jewish … I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish’.”[3]
LOTFLMAO!
“Jew-ish”
This guy is the Baghdad Bob of the 21-st century; the wiki is hilarious…and who, really, is he?
So far, his website seems unedited.
I know there are important issues in this world that desperately need attention, but I am such a sucker for THE WEST WING and HLNHD is running a 5 day marathon. If I wasn’t married to the boss I’d call in sick. I forgot how excellent it was. It is fucking excellent.
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