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.

Watch Out For The Blue Moon Tonight

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Santa Barbara Blue Moon

Cowboy Junkies Blue Moon revisited for Elvis 

Elvis 1956 Blue Moon                          .

 

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

HURRICANE ISAAC 2012

MSNBC ISAAC

ISAAC LOSES STEAM, BUT BRINGS FLOODING, POWER OUTAGES

Crisis Map  
Hurricane Isaac  Bourbon Street Cam

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 

7:43 am pst  Flash Flood Warning in Southeastern \Louisiana
Results for #Isaac
Related: #isaac #nola, #hurricaneisaac, #hurricane, #nola

MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry’s House Destroyed By Isaac  

Isaac delayed the Republican National Convention in Tampa.  SHADOW CONVENTIONS: Poverty In America.

Live at Farm Aid 1987 Arlo Guthrie, Willie Nelson, Neil Young & More -

Douce France

Liza Minnelli 1969

Life really is a cabaret!

 Liza Minnelli surprises flamboyant fans

 by hopping on stage during a bar drag queen competition

cabaret

RIP MARVIN HAMLISCH: Liza Minnelli lead mourners at 'people's composer' Marvin Hamlisch's funeral

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. 

Actress, Comedian Phyllis Diller Dies At 95

Phyliss Diller ~ wikipedia ~ July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012

Her memoir Like A Lampshade In A Whorehouse

Groundbreaking comedienne

Barbra Streisand and Phyllis Diller

FROM HOUSEWIFE TO COMIC

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

This will put the sunshine back in your step!

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.   

Back To Black

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.

Gore Vidal Memorial to be Held August 23rd at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

born Eugene Louis Vidal in West Point, New York, 
October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012

WIKIPEDIA

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