13: The Thursday Hangout
1. My 5 year old grandson Liam thinks the song Mellow Yellow (his current favorite) comes from the Minons movie (where he first heard it), but I know it started with Donovan in the late ‘60s.
2. Liam’s brother Bryce thinks the Minions wrote Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys. Both boys refer to the time of knights and King Arthur and the ‘60s as “the olden days.”
3. Sometimes I wake up in the morning with my eye mask on my forehead like a toupee.
4. My answering machine message currently says. “What’s the story, morning glory?” Most people don’t know that’s a line from a song in Bye Bye Birdie, a musical from the olden days.
5. Should I go inside and avoid the pollen or go outside to avoid the dust?
6. Hell No or Hello? 
7. “We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on.” Stanford scientist from “It’s Official: Scientists Say We’re Entering Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction.”
8. When poet Jack Callan asked fellow-poet Judith Stevens to marry him, she said yes, but asked him to make her a promise. Marriage meant that Stevens would move from Virginia Beach to Callan’s home in Norfolk, and she wanted him to agree take her back to her beloved Seashore State Park to hike on a regular basis. “Okay, but I can top that. I’ll take you to Floyd,” Callan told her. – Read more about Floyd first Poetry Festival and its founders HERE.
9. I googled Donovan on Tuesday and found out he has a Facebook page and that it was his birthday! The first picture on his timeline was of him either eating a large banana shaped cake or opening a banana shaped present – a reference to “mellow yellow” banana?
10. There is some controversy about whether the song Mellow Yellow was about smoking banana peels to get high or was a reference (as in “electrical banana”) to a women’s vibrator. The phrase “mellow yellow” appears towards the end of James Joyce’s Ulysses and is in reference to a women’s buttocks (as reported by Wikipedia), but no one knows if Donovan knew that.
11. When does a groove become a rut?
12. Medical errors now kill more people than car crashes.
13. Get thee to a gallery, like THIS one.
__________Thirteen Thursday
May 12th, 2016 12:19 am
I’m going to have to check out the Minions movie. I haven’t been keeping up with the kids shoes since my own are just hitting adult now but haven’t had any of their own yet.
May 12th, 2016 8:03 am
One of my students, hearing me sing The Beatles’ Here Comes The Sun, advised me that it’s a song from the (animated) Bee Movie. He was incredulous when I informed him the song predated the movie by about four decades, made me prove it to him online. Hell, I’m not sure the kid could name any of the Beatles, let alone any other of their songs.
Suddenly, I felt Verrrrry old.
May 12th, 2016 12:22 pm
Love your bird pics. Have yet to see “Minions” or “Despicable Me 2,” but love the first movie. My T13
May 12th, 2016 12:28 pm
LOVE the photos! your grandsons are a hoot about the “olden days!” wonder where they think you and your peers fit in? 😀 this reminds me of my mother telling the story of when I asked her if she were going to be 30 or 60 on her birthday!!
May 12th, 2016 1:10 pm
I tried to smoke a banana peel once. I couldn’t see the appeal.
Nice TT, as always. I haven’t seen any of those movies – no kids around me at all.
May 12th, 2016 1:21 pm
This TT has a world of information.
I really liked the DONOVAN FB page. Remember how we thought he looked so much like my old boyfriend Rick?
I/we really loved DONOVAN ~ My Favorite song was “Catch The Wind”!
May 13th, 2016 10:27 am
Birds my passion 1 of many
May 13th, 2016 7:10 pm
Loved the Art gallery photos in the post below.
My kids were born in the 60s! I was born in the real olden times (not quite King Arthur, just almost. Yikes.) When my daughter told HER grandsons that i was her mother they fell about laughing. “Grandma’s don’t have mothers” they told her.