Petula on Nashville

Posted a few minutes ago by Petula Clark on her Facebook page:

I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City. I love Nashville and its people.
Why this violent act – leaving behind it such devastation?
A few hours later – I was told that the music in the background of that strange announcement – was me – singing “Downtown”! Of all the thousands of songs – why this one?
Of course, the opening lyric is “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go Downtown”. But millions of people all over the world have been uplifted by this joyful song. Perhaps you can read something else into these words – depending on your state of mind. It’s possible.
I would like to wrap my arms around Nashville – give you all a hug – and wish you Love, a Happy and Healthy New Year – and, as we sometimes say in the U.K., steady the Buffs! (Look it up!)
Love,
– Petula

Toxicology

For almost 15 years I traveled to hospitals and installed clinical computer systems. Some of the hospitals were large medical centers like Walter Reed, while others were small rural facilities. The government classifies the smallest of them as Critical Access Hospitals.

Trump’s influence has been so toxic that he threatens the already shaky standing of CAHs. The line has been crossed from rugged individualism into willful ignorance.

Empirical

Good ol’ Denro pointed out this new video on YouTube’s Star Wars channel. During the summer of 1980, when I went to the movies to see something, I often ended up seeing The Empire Strikes Back instead.

There was also plenty of “snow” on the set of that other 1980 movie with Carrie Fisher, The Blues Brothers.

Blog Trouble

Having technical difficulties again.

Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Bluehost must be doing something. I’ll wait to see how long this lasts before asking them what’s up.