A Summer Night in July

Hello there, fans and devotees of this blog. We are here again blogging just for you or for me. This will probably be a really impressionistic (wow, what college lingo) rehash of current events in the past 2 weeks, because I have done little paper or internet news research, and have been relying on tv news for what has been going on. I need to start looking at a lot of the web newssites I have bookmarked, but have been busy at earning and spending my pay, and have been either working or sleeping. So, what has been burned into my brain about what is happening on earth is that the US is due to be attacked by Qaeda in a big nasty way, according to Chertoff, who said he had a "gut feeling" we were due to get attacked sometime soon. And the liberals jumped all over him for not producing paper facts to prove his gut feelings. And NewsMax is promoting a book by Paul Williams contending that Qaeda has a full arsenal of nukes ready to be set off, if they do not decompose in their metal shells from the radiation leaking out. The Pakistan army is supposedly trying to move into the wilderness to finally get Laden and Zawahiri, so we will see what happens. And a big earthquake has done a job on Japan. And McCain's campaign is about to crash, due to lack of money and interest by voters. Opera singers Bev Sills and Regine Crespin have both died, and opera tenor Jerry Hadley the other day shot himself and is now off life support. He lost his voice and career; what a sad mess he was in.
Recently rented a tape of The Jolson Story and a tape of Top Banana. Was not as bowled over by the "classic" Jolson Story as I had hoped to be. A very cleaned up version of Jolson's messy life, even if it did have some bite to it at the end. Top Banana was a filmed version of Phil Silvers' broadway play about a vaudeville comic doing an early 50s tv variety show(supposedly based on Milton Berle). Interesting to see Silvers do a full movie as the star, and a young Rose Marie had a small part in it, but more of a curiosity piece than a good movie.
Jolson is a big item on Youtube now. Supposedly he was an awful human being, but from the videos of him on U he was a great entertainer.
We are having a hot spell in the midwest in July, with temps in the 90s, but that is actually par for July. Farmwork weather--haying and chopping weeds time.
I do not know what I have accomplished with this blog entry, but I am going to send it out into cyberspace as it is. I have found a web list of all the people on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in the next blog I may discuss some of them I find it interesting that they are honored--some of the old silent movie stars no one remembers anymore, but are in the Wikipedia.
This will be all for right now, friends. Di di mau!

Fifth of July

It has been a month since the world has read a blog from me, and I know that you have all been waiting--so here is my latest blog entry. After a month of world news it sometimes becomes hard to remember what has happened since early in June. Pro wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son and then hanged himself on his weight manchine, after he was supposedly hopped up on steroids. Like Elvis and Dr. Nick, Benoit's doctor confesses that he was giving the guy loads of steroids. The guy who is so far behaving pure and innocent is Vince McMahon, who in the 90s went to trial for giving Hogan and Macho and other rasslers buckets of steroids. I should stop this before I libel someone in cyberspace. Paris Hilton spent 23 days in jail in LA and is now out and back partying and posing. Continual rains on the plains have caused bad flooding in Texas and Kansas. Opera singers Beverley Sills and Regine Crespin have both died in the last week. And car bombers in England and Scotland tried to blow up London and the airport at Glasgow. Now it seems that the plot was devised by at least 45 Muslim doctors. The Clintons came to Des Moines this past Monday and were adored by about 5,000 of their devotees at the state fair grounds.
The 4th of July yesterday was a great summer day--sunny, hot enough to make one feel like it was a real summer day, and everyone seems to have had a good time being outside.
Many more events happened in the world besides the stuff I listed, and I suppose one could go to any of a multitude of news sites to read what all happened in the last month. The British terrorists, Paris Hilton, and Chris Benoit have received most of the news coverage, as well as the case of the pregnant lady in Canton,Ohio, who was found murdered allegedly by her town cop boyfriend. This story has a racial angle to it, due to her being White and him being Black.
I have discovered that Youtube has a big collection of videos of Mideast popular singers. Haifa, Tito the male belly dancer from Egypt, and tubby Wadi Al Safi are now in my brain. Lots of people would probably wonder why I am viewing this kind of stuff and listening to it, but I find it interesting.
Dear friends, this is going to be all for right now. I do not know if anyone on earth will find this blog interesting, but this is my record of what has been going on in my corner of reality. You all take care now, and I hope I can get my act together and blog more than once every 5 weeks. Di di mau!