Loose Leaf Notes

1. Lizzo performed on SNL wearing a t-shirt that said “Tariffied.”

2. There was a great surprise appearance in the SNL Easter Cold Open. See HERE.

3. ‘I Read the News Today, Oh Boy’ is a song stuck in my head, the way ‘What’s it all about Alfie?’ used to be.

4. I had a dream last night that Mitch McConnell came to my house. He gave me a hug like he knew me from Congress, asked ‘where are the banagrams?’ and then started looking through our drawers, which I didn’t like.

5. I titled the above picture “It’s for you, Joe,” from our 2018 trip to Paris, Italy and London. More HERE. 

6. I call this Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! HERE.

7. Not only do I have a poem published in the latest issue of Floyd Moonshine, my photograph was used for the cover art.

8. Virginia Electric is now on our good dance band list at Dogtown.

9. Paul McCartney wrote the above song after seeing two monkeys copulating in the street while on retreat in Rishikesh, India, with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He marveled in the simplicity of this natural scenario when compared to the emotional turmoil of human relationships.

10. Speaking of the Beatles…  Listen HERE. 

11. To speed up communication and reduce the risk of nuclear war, governments put in place a “red phone” on 30 August, 1963. In reality, it was neither red nor a telephone but a cable line that could transmit written messages. More HERE. 

12. Studies show that “Nonviolent mass protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.” In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public “trumped” the political elite to achieve radical change. More HERE. 

13. “I’m going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I’m self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don’t feel any shame about it.” – Patti Smith

___________Thirteen Thursday