Ding. A rare Fat-tailed Mississippi Delta Cat:
Daily Archives: 10/9/2016
Saturday Song #164.1 (on a Sunday, yet)
Denny over at Grouchy Old Cripple is a guitar aficionado. He posts videos on a ‘mostly weekly’ schedule. I go over there every Sunday morning to see what he put up on Saturday.
This week is a masterful rendition of Bach’s Lute Suite #4:
Miss Alberta Khoury shows up on Youtube in other videos. She’s worth the listening, folks.
The Name Game #458
fifty-six glorious little degrees at 0800 this morning, heading for eighty-three this afternoon. Slowly but surely summer is going away.
Opened the morning paper over breakfast and found that the big hospital across the river is reporting twenty-six new babies from between September 23 and October 4. Of those, half – thirteen – are born to unwed parents and two new mommies didn’t see the baby daddy’s name as worthy of remembering.
Let’s tunnel through:
Anderson(!) & Lindsey I. tag a son with Gatlin Mark. Sounds like a gunfighter from a ‘B’ movie western. Sadly, that’s probably what they’ were shooting for.
Andre G. & Keeyanna(!) R. do a daughter up with Draya Ariyan. I’m thinking that if ‘Keeyanna’ is the momma, they missed the boat on that whole ‘Aryan’ thing.
Jacorio(!) S. & Jasmine W. skipped right past all those sad little ‘royalty’ names and went for the biggie with their son Mesiah Adam.
Catlyn(!) H. & Clarisa S. tag their son with Remington Drake. How utterly manly. Wonder if his baby sister is going to be Hipoint Heather?
Aric C. & Kayla H. aren’t into guns. Cars are their thing, so their son is Bentley Wayne.
Brandal(!) C. & Shemekia(!) R. know that ‘one-off’ names are the key to success in life, so their daughter starts out as Branyelle Shevynn.
Miss Kelly L. pulls a triple on her son, Brantley Cade-Cooper. Maybe the ‘Cade-Cooper’ thing is her best guess as to how to fill in that blank that says ‘Father’s Name’.
A sad apostrophe shows up as Mark T. Jr. & Loretta L. present their son, little Kade’ Deon. The utility of the apostrophe is suspect. Is that supposed to be ‘Kayde’ or ‘Kah-DAY’?
Craig and Julie F. tag their son with Stoick Anthony. ‘Stoick’? The dad in How to Train Your Dragon.
And that’s the list for this week. Winter is coming!
Today in History – 9 October
1806 – Prussia declares war on France. It’s like a pre-season game. It doesn’t count. The real game comes in 1870.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California. Will somebody think of all the poor fish…
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm. Having sloughed off the heavy hand of the white European interlopers, it goes on to flourish as a haven for culture and peace under the watchful eye of such fine leadership as Idi Amin.
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia, thereby becoming a ‘good’ communist. Capitalists have made millions selling the image of this scumbag to ignorant ‘rebels’.
(You can get this t-shirt HERE)
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. It could have been fake. I created a similar lethal footprint in the Great Coon-ass Kimchi Challenge of 1969 in Sonju-Ri, just south of the Injim River in South Korea.