Not Taylor Swift. Not Motown Music Video

"I Knew You Were Trouble"- Taylor Swift
(Motown Style Cover) ft. Tia Simone

Reminds me how much I miss the Motown music era



SPEAKING OF MOTOWN...


A New Motown Influenced Musical...

"The First Wives Club (The Musical).. What happened?
(It's been dead-in-the-water since 2015)

I've been keeping an eye out for this ever since 2005. That's when the people behind this show first attempted to find the financing necessary to stage this show on Broadway. It's been years and nothing! :-(


The musical scores were written by the team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland. The very same three who wrote songs for Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, Freda Payne, The Temptations and a whole lot of others.


Here's a sneak peak.

What do you think?       Is this a HIT?


Apparently some others didn't think so..
Sam Harris (08/06/2009)
Here's The Official WebPage for "The First Wives Club (The Musical")

Local Journalism Is Dying

TPM
Town By Town, Local Journalism Is Dying In Plain Sight"More than 1,400 other cities and towns across the U.S. to lose a newspaper over the past 15 years, according to an Associated Press"

I find most of my local information from social media sites such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook and so forth. As do the local paper and TV reporters I suspect. As far as radio-- forget about them entirely.

I wish it weren't so but let's face it paid professional investigative journalists are a dying breed. The best we can hope for are leaks to the internet from inside sources. Other information from people when they feel wronged. Not exactly a great way to provide unbiased oversight.

TV Shows. They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore

Dean Martin



Taxi- You Wouldn't Get A Way With This One Today



You Wouldn't Get A Way With This One Today Either

All these contained humor in boozing, drugs, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Just goes to prove we lost our sense of humor. What these shows did was show how foolish people look when they booze, take drugs or choose to discriminate. The audience wasn't shocked but rather amused by how stupid these characters made themselves look. I hardly think anyone wanted to emulate these kinds of behaviors. Rather, tried to avoid making themselves becoming dim-witted as those characters they laughed at.

In avoiding to show how idiotic people look to others when they act like this we've sanitized the airwaves. I don't think this is a good thing.

Another Reason Why Phillies Landed Bryce Harper

L.A. Times
Bryce Harper will save tens of millions in taxes by spurning the Dodgers and Giants"That’s because California is in a league of its own on personal income taxes. We’ve got by far the highest state rate in the nation, topping out at 13.3%".

Think we'll ever get to see him at 'Coca Cola Park' in Allentown?

2019 Mardi Gras Parade (Video)

3 Hours 4 Minutes

I never had the opportunity to visit the New Orleans Mardi Gras parades, They're much different then I imagined. I thought there'd be more debauchery :-)

Anyone Have Experience With Auto Body Shop Repairs?

In early February I decided to have work done on my van. I'm paying for this out of my own pocket. It's for rust and some peeling paint.

I was told the work would take 10 days and I could bring it in 3 weeks. Well it's been two weeks since then and they haven't started yet.

The excuse was employees called in sick. Now they say it will be about another two weeks. That's a total of almost two months!

My questions..
Should I be suspicious?
Is this normal?
Any advice?

Disunited States Filled With Negativism

Over the last few months I'm overcome with so much negativism coming from all corners. It's everywhere. Nearly 100% of all the comments I'm reading on blogs, news sites, social media and especially the divisive talk at CPAC.

Seems everywhere I turn somebody's trying to screw over someone else. Big pharma, banking, robocall scams, hospital overcharges-- you name it somebody's trying to pull a number on someone else. People even accused CNN of stacking Bernie Sanders’ CNN Town Hall Audience with political insiders which would make him look unfavorable.

Rather then endlessly belaboring a point I'll simply say this. No society can last which has the kind of people incapable of inner self discipline geared towards ethics, truthfulness, morality, empathy, respect, patience and understanding where our differences may lay. Laws cannot enable these values. Only people themselves.

Right now I'm not seeing it. Sad fact is it seems to be getting worse.


In other words...
We are capable of being the worst threat unto ourselves.