Today was spent celebrating the life and career of Joe Sinnott with his family and friends.
1978’s Model
There’s no need to hold hot coals to my bare feet and force me to confess the album that I have played more than anything in my entire life. I freely admit that, by a wide margin, it’s the American edition of Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model, with “Costello” on the label instead of “Columbia.”
I was working long hours at a radio station with a soft Adult Contemporary format. The U.S. Costello album concludes with the superb “Radio, Radio,” that isn’t on the UK edition. This is the stateside album cover.
Suspense in Blackface
If you appreciate Celia Johnson in David Lean’s Brief Encounter, you’ll enjoy seeing Nova Pilbeam in Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent. This is a movie that isn’t shown very often, and towards the end it’s obvious why that is.
Buddy, Gonna Shut You Down
I was inconvenienced during the last federal government shut down, when the accountant I hired for my late parents’ Trust couldn’t file the taxes electronically. Everything was mailed to me and I had to take care of signing and sending it all in myself. The Registered Mail card confirming receipt was never returned by the IRS.
My application for Social Security benefits is currently being processed. If the U.S. gov’t. shuts down after 12:01 AM on Friday, the validation will be put on hold for the duration, and undoubtedly delayed further after that. Grrr…
Warren Warring With Powell
Elizabeth Warren raised questions yesterday about some banking regulatory changes that I wasn’t aware had been made. Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s answers dealt only with technicalities surrounding the relevant cases.
Given the largely hidden return to banking deregulation, Warren isn’t the only one with concerns about what could happen when the next financial crisis arrives.
Staton in Place
An hour chatting with one of my favorite comic book artists, Joe Staton, who is the penciler for the Dick Tracy comic strip. I’m expecting to see Staton this weekend at a memorial service for our late mutual friend, Joe Sinnott. It’s being held in the same town where Joe lives.