Elton John’s “Rocket Man” (1972) is in the news because William Shatner, who covered it, went into space this week.
Many Republicans are anti-vaccine (more than just Covid)
Some of them will push to remove all vaccine mandates. Disgraceful and selfish.
Demolition Derby
I first read about the demolition Derby in Tom Wolfe’s “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”. The inventor realized tyhat fans responded to crashes so why not a race that was all crashes?
The History and Future of the Demolition Derby
Covers: Heartbeat (Buddy Holly song)
Funny tweet about country music
Covers: Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)
“Hallelujah” was written and recorded by Leonard Cohen who released it in 1984. There are many covers including versions by John Cale and Jeff Buckley and it was in the film “Shrek”.
Climate update 10/11/21
Covers: 1-2-3 (Len Barry song)
I remember the Len Barry 1965 original version of “1-2-3” . I had no idea that Roy Wood have covered it until yesterday.
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CNN’s excessive coverage of Trump
Here are the lead subjects of their newsletter The Point this week (from the email Chris Cillizza sends out
10/4: What Mitch McConnell is betting on
10/5: Why we shouldn’t give Stephanie Grisham a pass
10/6: Here’s exactly why Republicans are afraid to criticize Donald Trump
10/7: Some very good polling news for Donald Trump
10/8: Donald Trump has a theory to explain the anti-vaxxers
Three stories with Trump in the subject line, one about a former Trump employee and one about Republicans. Don’t they understand Biden is president? This is disgraceful.