Hearing this one puts me right back at the mic in the radio station broadcast studio. This video is funny, because Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks sang the backing vocals, and they aren’t in the video.
Here’s another one. Except by the time this single came out I was functioning as a one-man news department. The circumstances of my quitting that job are painful for me to recall.
The short explanation is that I was working 72+ hours/week for $110 net pay. The station owner needed me to do something that was one thing too many for the hours and the pay. Having made myself as valuable to the station as I could, I left just when it needed me most. I was as young as Randy VanWarmer was in this video.
Four days ago I heard Jo Stafford’s “You Belong to Me” as a Pandora QuickMix selection. I was so impressed with her singing that I published this post:
Then today, while listening to Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out from a couple of weeks ago, I paused about 45 minutes into the show. With a Rory Gallagher track on the phone, I went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.
Returning to the porch I put down the tea and checked my laptop. YouTube was suggesting a video from a month ago. Well, whadda ya know, it’s by a young guy who is obviously delighted with Jo’s singing of “You Belong to Me” and, by coincidence, he’s wearing a Rory Gallagher t-shirt. He shows exactly how well Jo could sing both on-key and deliberately off-key.
I had no prior notice about the latest DJ gig by Tom Hanks. It’s starting right this very instant on Boss Radio 66! It will be re-played through Thanksgiving Day.
There is tentative improvement in the difficulty here. The negotiation may not be like Israel and Hamas, but the outcome isn’t assured. While waiting for confirmation of a resolution, I will be listening to DJ Tom Hanks’ Halloween show on Boss Radio 66, tomorrow at 4 PM ET.
Episodes of the old Dragnet radio and TV series had titles with “Big” in them. This one is “The Big Grifter”.
With Sam Bankman-Fried on trial for various charges related to fraud, the timing of Michael Lewis’ latest book couldn’t be better for him or, for that matter, worse. Stopping short of accusing Lewis of Stockholm Syndrome, his reputation is taking a Big Hit for his fawning admiration of Bankman-Fried. As a former Wall Street trader, the author of The Big Short is a successful non-fiction writer, but he isn’t a journalist. If he were, once Lewis was up close and personal with Sam and FTX he would have sensed that “something’s wrong with the whole setup.”
Amazon is offering the Kindle edition of Lewis’ book about Bankman-Fried for less than ten bucks.
Even at that low price I won’t buy Going Infinite. The fact that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair embraced the boy wunderkind’s ambition — and short-lived money — doesn’t make me any more understanding that Lewis fell for Bankman-Fried’s obvious sales pitch. One of the people who saw through Bankman-Fried’s act, perhaps not surprisingly, is an actor who played a crusading comic book character on TV. Ben McKenzie has this review of the Michael Lewis book.
A classic Lewis protagonist—the aberrant thinker, the guy who can hear past the noise—has done it again. This is where things get squirrely in Lewis’ telling.
