These Days: Celebration time, at 240 years of age the US is in the middle of their difficult 20s and who knows where it all ends. ends? Perhaps the country finds in feet and becomes a superpower Europe, or perhaps it divides itself back up? Whatever the answer is, there is no greater countr. Who else has invented jazz AND rock and roll (and the teenager).
Television: NBC have done something ISIS would love to do, they have cancelled the Bible. ‘A.D. The Bible Continues’ is over after one season. I dunno, I read the New Testament maybe ten years ago and it is awesome, so somebody lost track of the storyline.
Recorded: Tomas Doncker has been in the studio for a couple of weeks now and everything I’ve heard has been mindblowingly great. I don’t see anybody doing what this man is doing. The revolution starts here.
Live: I was inches away from going to see The Soft Parade last night at BB Kings, I will get to it next year I promise.
Sports: Nice one, Hal Steinbrenner. In a three way deal, A-Rod’s bonuses are given to charity and Hal and the Yanks pay $150K to get his 3,000th hit baseball back. According to the New York Daily News: “Under the agreement, announced jointly by Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association on Friday, the club will make $3.5 million in charitable donations and A-Rod will get the ball he blasted over the wall for his 3,000th hit. The team was able to get the ball back from fan Zack Hample after agreeing to donate $150,000 to Hample’s favorite charity, Pitch In For Baseball, which provides baseball equipment to underprivileged communities.”
Death: Val Doonican, the UKs answer to Perry Como, an Irish, rocking chair contemporary of the Beatles, with remade for UK charts songs like “September Song”, “Beautiful Dreamer” and “Memories Are Made Of This” and a popular easy listening TV program, died at the age of 88. Nicholas Winton, the English Schindler who saved 160 Jewish people from death during WWII , and all those peoples descendants from never being born, died at the age of 106. Meanwhile, British journalist Julie Burchill Raven continues to show us what grace under duress looks like as she mourns her son, 29 year old Jack Landesman.