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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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The River of Dreams

 

It's been 30-years sine Billy Joel last released a studio album - The River of Dreams on August 10, 1993.

Linky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- 5Dimes reaches $46.8 million agreement with Feds

- Suicide of the Liberals (1900-1917 Russia). History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

- This is cool

- This always makes me chuckle.

- All Regal Theaters in US to close for good. The costs of States and Nations staying closed keep mounting.

- This is also cool.

Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Given this a lot of thought and if I were a Democratic candidate running for President in Iowa I would come out hard against the Des Moines Register because of the way they handled the Carson King story. I think that would play well with all Iowans these days... Thinking this guy might be Mike Hunt's cousin... "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - CS Lewis... I actually want one of these... In Massachusetts there are safe spaces for heroin injections but now vape pens are against the law. Part of me wonders if vape pens have driven down the tax revenue in Mass the State was getting for tobacco sales and this in part explains the ban... Actually six if you include Billy Joel too. Wonder what the Vegas odds would be of Queen Elizabeth II outliving them all?... If I ran an NFL team all of the player contracts would have a clause that prohibits them from being vegans. Seriously. Looking at you Cam Newton...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Not to be a jinx but Boston teams are undefeated in 2019. The Bruins are 4-0 in January and the Celtics are also 4-0. Now watch them both lose tonight... "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Gandhi... Not a criticism just an observation but Billy Joel's My Life sounds almost the same on Muzak... "The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles." - Naval Ravikant... Who has had the better NBA career - JJ Redick picked 11th overall in the 2006 NBA Draft or Rajon Rondo who went 10 picks later? I'm going to go with Rondo hands down... This story makes me think of this joke... "Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be." - W.H. Auden... 

Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel

Seemed like a good day to post this song.

Vienna by Billy Joel

One of his better songs which you rarely hear on the radio.

100 of My Favorite Songs

Today's offering (60) Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Billy Joel screws up lyrics to We Didn't Start The Fire and handles it great

- Speaking of screwed up lyrics - Pearl Jam's Yellow Ledbetter by Misheard Lyrics

- Interesting - Biomarkers could tell doctors when concussed athletes are OK to return to sports

- Africa is a really big place

- Carlton Fisk's historic HR ball up for sale

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- Marc Maron in space? I'm a fan of WTF and will check out this show.

- Interesting profile of Billy Joel. I've never understood the idea that you had to like either Springsteen or Joel. I've always liked them both.

- Michael Shannon reading the insane sorority letter is why the Internets were invented.

- Good timeline explanation on how the Boston bombers were identified and caught.

- Interesting look into the year 1968. If you are into history - these articles are like catnip.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Happy Leap Year Day!... It occurred to me that if William F. Buckley had an analog in the sports world it would have been Dick Schaap... Something I didn't realize - the Padres will be paying $6 million out of Jim Edmonds' $8 million contract with St. Louis picking up the rest. That $6 million is still more than what the Brewers will pay Mike Cameron this year (2008 $5 million - although Cameron's contract balloons to $10 million next year when Cameron will be eligible to play a full season). Why didn't the Padres just re-sign Mike Cameron? Given the fact that Edmonds has missed 52 and 45 games the last two seasons - that 25-game suspension Cameron is facing seems like small change. I wonder if there is more to the story here... Billy Joel puts on a great concert and I'm guessing that he's going to go out of his way to make this one extra special... Is it me or does it seem strange that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are so against NAFTA but yet neither are willing to come out with a strong stance against illegal immigration? It's like the Democrats are bizarro Fanny Dooley's from the kid show Zoom (OK that could be an obscure reference but trust me it works pretty well)...