What I Heard This Week! June 21, 2018
You must read this. It’s called “The Old Man.” An old man had lived all his life in the Florida Keys and is on his deathbed and knows the end is near. His nurse, his wife, his daughter and two sons, are with him. He asks for two witnesses to be present and to be videoed to record his last wishes, and when all is ready he begins to speak: “My son, Bernie, I want you to take the Ocean Reef houses. My daughter Sybil, you take the apartments between mile markers 100 and Tavernier. My son, Jamie, I want you to take the offices over in the Marathon Government Center. Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings on the bay side of Blackwater Sound.” The nurse and witnesses are blown away as they did not realize his extensive holdings, and as he slips away, the nurse says, “Ma’am, your husband must have been such a hard-working man to have accumulated all this property.” The wife replies, “He had a paper route!” ha-ha
Seen on Facebook: giggle…The Coastal Bend Crawlers are currently seeking sponsors for their 3rd Annual Go Topless Weekend on May 18th, 2019. Hey, I don’t make the news, I simply tell you what I read this week and I read the above information. So?
Facebook: So apparently RSVP’ing back to a wedding invite ‘maybe next time’ isn’t the correct response.
An off-duty Houston police officer paid for a man’s groceries after the gentleman had a diabetic episode in a parking lot and collapsed. While he was getting medical attention, his unattended groceries were stolen. Oh, no. Walmart’s surveillance footage was viewed but there was a visual obstruction in the way. The rookie police officer said that part of her job “is to care about people and to help people. I’m not just here to arrest people. I do care about this community.” She also said, “You have to treat people like they were your own family.” Years ago, a couple of people spray-painted some interesting graphics on my Volvo wagon and the police found them on Walmart video buying the paint. Love it.
George Strait is donating his services and leading a new tourism campaign called, “Find Yourself in Rockport-Fulton.” Strait says the coastal area, which was hit so hard by Harvey, is one of his favorite places.
Rosanne Barr explained her infamous tweet last month as, “Rod Sterling wrote Planet of the Apes. It was about anti-Semitism. That is what my tweet referred to – the anti-Semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want.” This was tweeted on June 13, 2018. What? Rude is still not funny.
Lubbock, Texas: A land so flat you can watch your dog running away for a couple of weeks.
On September 24th and 25th, 2018, 80-year-old Bill Cosby will be sentenced for assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The once beloved TV dad just fired his entire legal team and retained Pennsylvania attorney Joseph P. Green. Is an appeal possible? Will Camille divorce him? Is he looking back over his life and kicking himself in the seat of his pants. The front part. I have always told my children, “NEVER satisfy a short-term impulse at the expense of a long-term goal. Never do what feels good in the moment if it’s going to cost you something that matters a whole lot more in the end. The trade is never worth it.”
The new Post Oak Hotel, owned by Tilman Fertitta, will have a 22nd floor, 5,000-square-foot Presidential Suite that goes for $12,000 per night. It has a private elevator from the garage for those that need a discreet entrance. His own 10,000-square-foot personal penthouse will be finished later this year and will be available to anyone who wants to pay $100,000-per-night before taxes. Yikes. I couldn’t afford just the taxes.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Singer Stevie Nicks is 70. As a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist she has produced over 40 top-50 hits and sold over 140 million records, making her one of the best-selling music acts of all time with Fleetwood Mac. Singer Hank Williams Jr. is 69. He says, “If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time.” Actress Genie Francis is 56. General Hospital.
Singer-actor Lenny Kravitz is 54. President Donald Trump is 72. Singer Boy George is 57. Britain’s Prince Philip is 97. Attorney F. Lee Bailey is 85. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 53. Olympic gold-medal figure skater Tara Lipinski is 36. Americana musician Bridget Kearney is 33. Lake Street Dive. ‘First child’ Sasha Obama is 17. Actor Timothy Busfield is 61. Thirtysomething. Actress Adrienne Barbeau is 73. Maude.
Rock musician Frank Beard is 69. ZZ Top. Actor Hugh Laurie is 59. TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz is 58. Actor-comedian Jim Belushi is 64. Actress Helen Hunt is 55. Actress Courteney Cox is 54. Actor rapper Ice Cube is 49. Actor Neil Patrick Harris is 45. Doogie Howser, M.D. He says, “Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.”
D.J. Fontana was the last surviving member of Elvis’ original trio of musicians. He was a member of the Rock Hall of Fame and met Presley on the Louisiana Hayride, a country music program based in Shreveport and became his regular drummer in 1955, playing on more than 460 of Presley’s early recordings. Mr. Fontana died last week at the age of 87.
Blues Brothers Band musician Matt “Guitar” Murphy died at the age of 88. He appeared in the 1980 Blues Brothers movie and its 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 sequel. He also played in the Blues Brothers Band with the late John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd when the group performed “Soul Man” during a Saturday Night Live sketch in 1978 and stayed with the touring band until 2002 when he had a stroke and semi-retired.
Kristin Harmon, American primitive painter, actress and author, once married to actor and musician Ricky Nelson, died from a heart attack at age 72. I remember watching her on Ozzie & Harriet.
Stephen Hawking’s remains were laid to rest at a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, all while the European Space Agency blasted and beamed his words of peace towards a black hole, some 3,000 light-years away. Hawking’s work on black holes was among his most influential, building along with the ideas of Albert Einstein and challenging many scientific assumptions. His neighbors at rest will be Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. What a Thursday night poker game that’s going to be.
Stephen Hawking predicted the world will end, global warming causes the Earth to become a fireball with a global temperature of 482 degrees and sulfuric acid raining form the sky. He predicted that humans will have to leave Earth and repopulate elsewhere. He said, “The best hope for the survival of the human race might be independent colonies in space.” Hmmm. Let’s take better care of our Earth.
‘The question we ask ourselves is not “what we can do?” but “what we should do?”’ Apple CEO, Tim Cook
“Good friends, good whiskey and good lovin’, I want to thank you Lord.”- Hank Williams, Jr.
All-Star pitcher Kevin Brown retired from the Yankees in 2005. Last week he saw two men in a white sports car taking mail out of his mailbox, then they sped off. The next day he waited with a gun and when they tried it again, he detained the pair (a little) while they waited for the law to arrive. The pair face charges of mail theft and forgery. Love it.
In downtown Lake Jackson, a different band plays every Friday night at the Civic Center. It’s quite nice to sit here and work and listen to background music. This past Friday evening, the band was playing “Should I Stay, or Should I Go?” when it suddenly came a torrential downpour. Were they singing that song for a reason…were they trying to decide whether to stay or go. When the rain came down, the music stopped abruptly. It was clever, so I was just wondering…
Tattoos are a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling. – George Carlin
Nine passengers were admitted to the hospital after the Sand Blaster coaster on the Daytona Beach Boardwalk in Florida derailed, sending two to the ground and eight other passengers that had to be rescued. This happened just hours after an inspection was completed. One woman fell 34 feet, bounced “like a ping-pong ball” between the rails and woke up with the coaster dangling over her head. Yikes.
John Wayne Walding – “Be a part of something bigger than yourself.”
Watermelon Salad – this is a winner at our house. Wash the watermelon with soap. Yes, wash it – it’s dirty. Then cut it in half (a round watermelon works best) horizontally. Place one half on cutting board, flesh down. Cut slices 1-2” wide depending on what size you want your sticks. Rotate the cutting board and cut slices perpendicular to the other slices. You now have sticks that can be eaten very neatly by children and adults because you have the green part to hold on to and now it’s easy to take the sticks and cut uniform squares of watermelon for your salad. Fill a bowl with your squares, add a cup or so of blueberries, a nice firm feta cheese (get a block and crumble it yourself – it’s tastier) then garnish with chopped mint leaves. It’s pretty and super tasty. You can also add thin sliced purple onions, fresh basil, kalamata olives, fresh lime juice, salt, pepper, or an olive oil vinaigrette or a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. We use a good cherry balsamic. Leftovers last for a day or two in fridge.
“That’s the greatest award of all, isn’t it? Good children.” – Sylvester Stallone
Officials say three people were killed and over 300 injured in Western Japan after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Osaka.
Ocean’s 8 the movie – Danny Ocean, now deceased master thief, has a sister, Debbie (Sandra Bullock), recently released from prison, who attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City’s star-studded annual Met Gala. Her first stop is to assemble the perfect crew. She did. It was a perfect crew, a perfect cast, and they wore perfect clothes, but there was just a little tiny bit of something lacking. There was never the feeling of real peril and we wanted to feel danger because this great cast could have handled it. We wanted to see them put to the test. But, set that aside. It was a fun and likeable movie. Gage and I enjoyed it. Anne Hathaway showed what a great actress she is. It’s a thumbs up. It’s fun.
As I Get Older I Realize: 1.) I talk to myself because sometimes I need skilled and savvy advice. 2.) Sometimes I roll my eyes out-loud. 3.) I don’t need anger management, I need people to stop doing stupid stuff. 4.) My people skills are just fine. It’s my tolerance of nincompoops that needs work. 5.) The biggest fib I tell myself is, “I don’t need to write that down, I’ll remember it.” 6.) When I was a child I thought naptime was punishment. Now it’s like a mini-vacation. 7.) The day the world runs out of wine is just too terrible to think about. 8.) Even duct tape can’t fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound. 9.) Wouldn’t it be great if we could put ourselves in the dryer for 10 minutes; come out wrinkle-free and three sizes smaller? 10.) “Getting Lucky” means walking into a room and remembering why I’m there. Sigh. Thanks for reading this. Lisa
