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Today's Over/Under is 8

So...did we start a DEI initiative for Page 3? 

I suppose Kenny Loggins is a worthy choice.  My first rock concert was Loggins & Messina, in 1974.

I saw them in '74 as well and Kenny last summer.

I've always been a fan of his, and his "Keep the Fire" and "High Adventure" albums are among my all-time favorite albums. After that he, like Dan Fogelberg, fell into the aging Boomer songwriter rut. It's a distinct phenomenon - they start writing songs about issues they care about enough to go to expensive fundraiser hob-knobs in Los Angeles, but not to actually participate in.  I applaud them for the effort, but it produces really boring music.  Music for wine-tasting. 

There's nothing wrong with that either.  I like to play at wine tasting events.  Got one planned now.  It just doesn't produce interesting music.  When you've written something with the unashamed elation of "Don't Fight It," or the goofball funk of "Mr. Night", well, "Hope for the Runaway" is a real disappointment.  And one children's album is a passion project.  Two is maximizing commercial potential.  Three means you have some secret wish to be Pee Wee Herman or Captain Kangaroo.

Lyrically, this might be the best Kenny Loggins ever wrote:

"I've always said that I believe anything can happen
But lately I've been wonderin' if that's really true
For a boy, time can be a lovely dance
Suddenly the music can fade
And leave the man alone and dreamless
Till he only sees that he's used up all his chances after all
Till now, only a miracle could do to save the man I'd turned into
Won't somebody let me know...where's my miracle?

Love, it always sang so easy
But just like a child who plays with imaginary friends
I could see the face of someone I believe only in the words of a song
Then she came along and got me dreamin'
That's when you began
And when I held you, I held a miracle in my hands
Till now, only a miracle could do
I found the boy I was, in you
You've come to let me know
There are miracles
And now, only a miracle could do
What I have finally found in you
And I've got to let you know
I believe miracles can happen in the end"

That's some killer songwriting right there.

Don't think I've heard that song before, but those are some quality lyrics.

It's a deep cut, last track of the "High Adventure" album.  Michael McDonald helped write the music, and played the piano on the track. 

It's worth the listen, I think.

https://youtu.be/mHbtjC9ri90?si=b5EvAgukVYpCXAV2

Powerful stuff.

[razgueado]

Got a herf scheduled for Saturday evening.  My dad, my brother Thad and I, with clan sept Mark B and his son-in-law Troy.  Mark is providing hababos to celebrate the birth of granddaughter Elanor.

Outstanding.  You providing the whiskey?

No, my dad is, courtesy of our friend John Blair, aka the "Hardware Magnate."  John won't be there, but he's known for his superb taste in Scotch.  John considers drinking any Scotch younger than 18 years to be cradle-robbing. 

[LuvTooGolf]

Jammin' Joe:

Espada by Montecriso Signature Valiente - 10/99.99

Graycliff 'G2' Habano Pirate Torpedo - 10/32.50

AJ Fernandez Rosa de Guadalupe Toro - 5/22.99

90+ Rated Summer Taster - 15/59.99
    5 - Rocky Patel Decade Robusto (5" x 50) - 91 rating
    5 - Cohiba Red Dot Robusto (5" x 49) - 92 rating
    5 - Romeo y Julieta Reserve Churchill (7" x 54) - 90 rating

Nica Libre Toro - 10/27.50

INCH Natural by E.P. Carrillo #62 - 5/20.50

Alec Bradley The Lineage Robusto - 5/22.50

5 Vegas Gold Robusto - 5/16.99

Montecristo Viejo Vitola E - 10/49.99

La Aroma de Cuba Reserva Maximo - 5/29.99

Alec Bradley Prensado Lost Art Gran Toro - 5/27.50

Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Robusto - 10/44.99

[LuvTooGolf]

Is it just me, or does it seem like we've gotten a handful of things in the jam we don't normally see?

[razgueado]

I just got the word that Peter Yarrow has died, from my friend who's been making a documentary film with Peter's wife Mary Beth.  Another piece of my childhood drops away. 

Peter, Paul and Mary had two albums that could have made the runners up list of my post above, namely

"Peter, Paul and Mary"
"In the Wind"
"Album 1700"

"Album 1700" is an underappreciated gem.  It dropped in 1967, and is the only PP&M album that could legitimately be considered "art" among contemporaneous classics released that year by the Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, the Doors, Velvet Underground, and Janice Joplin.

By 1967 PP&M were out of the vanguard of "important" acts, and really, they'd always been interpreters of the songs of others.  But on "Album 1700," Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey were really working at it and produced some really great songs.  Yarrow contributed "Weep for Jamie" and "The Great Mandella" which are really haunting songs.  Stookey threw in "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" and "Whatshername," both of which wryly commented on the zeitgeist of the time.  The one glaring misstep on the album is "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog," which is charming and tries to fit in as a sly comment on racial and sexual taboos, but just doesn't have the weight of the other songs on the album.  It intrudes on the hypnotic flow of the album like a drunk frat-boy crashing a dinner party.

This is what I'm listening to at the moment, in honor of Peter.

[LuvTooGolf]

I just got the word that Peter Yarrow has died.  Another piece of my childhood drops away. 

Peter, Paul and Mary had two albums that could have made the runners up list of my post above, namely

"Peter, Paul and Mary"
"In the Wind"
"Album 1700"

"Album 1700" is an underappreciated gem.  It dropped in 1967, and is the only PP&M album that could legitimately be considered "art" among contemporaneous classics released that year by the Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, the Doors, Velvet Underground, and Janice Joplin.

That's a shame. I never actively listened to them, but I am familiar with their music, since my parents would play it often around the house.

[LuvTooGolf]

Jammin' Joe:

Espada by Montecriso Signature Valiente - 10/99.99

Graycliff 'G2' Habano Pirate Torpedo - 10/32.50

AJ Fernandez Rosa de Guadalupe Toro - 5/22.99

90+ Rated Summer Taster - 15/59.99
    5 - Rocky Patel Decade Robusto (5" x 50) - 91 rating
    5 - Cohiba Red Dot Robusto (5" x 49) - 92 rating
    5 - Romeo y Julieta Reserve Churchill (7" x 54) - 90 rating

Nica Libre Toro - 10/27.50

INCH Natural by E.P. Carrillo #62 - 5/20.50

Alec Bradley The Lineage Robusto - 5/22.50

5 Vegas Gold Robusto - 5/16.99

Montecristo Viejo Vitola E - 10/49.99

La Aroma de Cuba Reserva Maximo - 5/29.99

Alec Bradley Prensado Lost Art Gran Toro - 5/27.50

Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Robusto - 10/44.99

Diesel Wicked Witches Brew Figurado - 10/42.50

[A Friend of Charlie]

I just got the word that Peter Yarrow has died.  Another piece of my childhood drops away. 

Peter, Paul and Mary had two albums that could have made the runners up list of my post above, namely

"Peter, Paul and Mary"
"In the Wind"
"Album 1700"

"Album 1700" is an underappreciated gem.  It dropped in 1967, and is the only PP&M album that could legitimately be considered "art" among contemporaneous classics released that year by the Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, the Doors, Velvet Underground, and Janice Joplin.

I just read the same. RIP.

[razgueado]

I just got the word that Peter Yarrow has died.  Another piece of my childhood drops away. 

Peter, Paul and Mary had two albums that could have made the runners up list of my post above, namely

"Peter, Paul and Mary"
"In the Wind"
"Album 1700"

"Album 1700" is an underappreciated gem.  It dropped in 1967, and is the only PP&M album that could legitimately be considered "art" among contemporaneous classics released that year by the Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, the Doors, Velvet Underground, and Janice Joplin.

That's a shame. I never actively listened to them, but I am familiar with their music, since my parents would play it often around the house.

Here are two I mentioned.  I was trying to pick one or the other, but these are both such deep songs.  I think "Whatshername" is the deeper of the cuts, but it's really more of a Paul Stookey solo thing.  "Mandella" includes their famous harmonies.

"The Great Mandella (The Wheel of Life)" - https://youtu.be/C12SwHLtAAg?si=jxFVj-vr1g-ZpRpi

"Whatshername" - https://youtu.be/ogwDQEyj7aA?si=62bbkGhAQftpDUbv

[LuvTooGolf]

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[A Friend of Charlie]

Trump may be taking Festivus too seriously...

If you have access to NYTimes - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20250107&instance_id=144085&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=226597778&segment_id=187545&user_id=4c7156add91ff331fd7c6e6adcc1d0dc#trump-panama-canal-greenland

[LuvTooGolf]

Jammin' Joe:

Espada by Montecriso Signature Valiente - 10/99.99

Graycliff 'G2' Habano Pirate Torpedo - 10/32.50

AJ Fernandez Rosa de Guadalupe Toro - 5/22.99

90+ Rated Summer Taster - 15/59.99
    5 - Rocky Patel Decade Robusto (5" x 50) - 91 rating
    5 - Cohiba Red Dot Robusto (5" x 49) - 92 rating
    5 - Romeo y Julieta Reserve Churchill (7" x 54) - 90 rating

Nica Libre Toro - 10/27.50

INCH Natural by E.P. Carrillo #62 - 5/20.50

Alec Bradley The Lineage Robusto - 5/22.50

5 Vegas Gold Robusto - 5/16.99

Montecristo Viejo Vitola E - 10/49.99

La Aroma de Cuba Reserva Maximo - 5/29.99

Alec Bradley Prensado Lost Art Gran Toro - 5/27.50

Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Robusto - 10/44.99

Diesel Wicked Witches Brew Figurado - 10/42.50

Ave Maria Immaculata Toro - 10/34.99

[LuvTooGolf]

Trump may be taking Festivus too seriously...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20250107&instance_id=144085&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=226597778&segment_id=187545&user_id=4c7156add91ff331fd7c6e6adcc1d0dc

LALTS

[razgueado]

Since November, I have been increasingly encountering a word I hadn't noticed before.  The word is "colorway," and it refers to color schemes.

Usage:  "The new Harley-Davidson models flex a new Cosmic Blue colorway that drapes the bike in a vibrant deep blue tone all around."

I'd never noticed it until last November, but have encountered it about a dozen times since then. 

Turns out it comes from the fashion world, and has been around since the 1940s, but has been little used outside the fashion industry until the last couple of years. 

It's a combination word (color+way), but not a portmanteau, which combines parts of two words.

So there you go.

Oh, "flex" is also a relatively new and increasingly popular usage to refer to something having particular attributes or characteristics.  It was borrowed from the bodybuilding world.  Now instead of "wearing" a new style, or "sporting" a new tattoo, or "rocking" a great accessory, you can "flex" it, and flexing is SO much more daring and exciting, isn't it?

Yeah, I'm a language geek.