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Friday, August 31, 2012

Once in a blue moon

August 31st Is A Blue Moon…Or Is It?

August 31, 2012 will see a second full moon for the calendar month, commonly referred to as a Blue Moon. The first full moon for the month was seen on the night of August 1.

There are three different circumstances in popular culture in which a moon can be called “blue:” when the moon actually appears blue, when there are three full moons in a season, or like tonight, when there are two full moons in a calendar month.

The question is, are these definitions right? Let’s look at each one.


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Santa Barbara Blue Moon
Elvis 1956 Blue Moon                          .
 

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

40 MILES FROM NEW ORLEANS

Isaac, downgraded to tropical storm, still spews wrath

August 29th, 2012  3:04 PM ET  Isaac weakens to tropical storm status  Isaac's maximum sustained winds slip to 70 mph
Report: Storm could cause $1.5 billion in insured losses
iReporter finds two homes collapsed in New Orleans
More than 725,000 without power across five states
MSNBC ISAAC

Crisis Map  
Hurricane Isaac  Bourbon Street Cam

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 

7:43 am pst  Flash Flood Warning in Southeastern \Louisiana
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Isaac delayed the Republican National Convention in Tampa.  SHADOW CONVENTIONS: Poverty In America.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty.. but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Comedian Phyllis Diller dies 'with a smile on her face'

 Legendary comic Phyllis Diller — who Joan Rivers says “broke the way for every woman comedian” — died today in her sleep.
She was 95 and had been in a hospice care since a recent fall. 

Phyliss Diller ~ wikipedia ~ July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012
Comedian Phyllis Diller, known for her trademark cackle and bizzare looks

it will be all right by and by
Anna Piaggi Italian fashion editor who died in Milan on Aug. 7 at age 81.
Helen Gurley Brown  February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012
RIP Helen Gurley Brown: The Cosmo Editor’s Sassiest Quotes
Welcome Back, Kotter star Ron Palillo dies at 63 ‘after suffering heart attack’
William Windom  September 28, 1923 _ August 16, 2012
Tony Scott  21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012

Thursday, August 16, 2012

We only said goodbye with words

Amy Winehouse Live At Glastonbury Festival 2008
September 14, 1983 – July 23, 2011 London
Amy Winehouse - The Official Website
Amy Winehouse - Wikipedia   Looks like we’ll finally get to hear some new Amy Winehouse.
The album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures, drops December 6th and it will have previously unreleased songs and collaborations with the hitmaking producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson.   

Monday, August 13, 2012

Writer, critic, bon vivant and television personality Gore Vidal has shuffled off this decaying mortal coil.

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,  There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
Read the New York Times obituary here.
Flashback: Gore Vidal Nearly Comes To Blows With ‘Crypto-Nazi’ 
William F. Buckley In 1968
Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003 after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.
born Eugene Louis Vidal in West Point, New York
October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012

Gore Vidal

Grandfather, Thomas Gore  (December 10, 1870 – March 16, 1949).  He was blind and

 served as a United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931

 until 1937.  Oklahoma History