Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Not Exactly Stunning

Obvious Department, please pick up on Line 2. A study suggests women prefer muscular men over men who need more help from Hans and Franz.

I only add that this is the kind of drivel you get at schools that let their football teams wear baby blue.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Aging Rock Stars

My former colleague Don Suber is amusing in comparing Live Earth and Woodstock. I share his sentiment about pop stars preaching about the environment, and he's right of course that Dean Martin and Andy Williams would have extremely strange at Woodstock.

Since I like music trivial, I'll point that Don is wrong about Madonna and Jon Bon Jovi not having any hits within the last decade. I checked Billboard.com. JBJ, as She Who Sighs loves to call him, had a Billboard Hot 100 hit in 2006 with "Who Says You Can't Go Home." In 2005, Madonna scored even higher, when "Hung Up" peaked at #7 in Billboard's Hot 100. I think you've got to define those as hits.

The 45-year-olds of today (and the 45-year-olds of 1969) are buying music put out by their contemporaries, agewise. The difference is that 20-year-olds might buy a Madonna CD today, whereas 20-year-olds in 1969, especially those heading to Woodstock, probably wouldn't be caught dead with a Dean Martin record.

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Dodger Dreams

Bill Plaschke, a treasure of a writer on the L.A. Times, pens a tear-jerker of a column today about Maurice Gardner, a dying Dodger fan from Martinsville, Va., attending his first game at Dodger Stadium.

>>"I may not love the Dodgers any more than Tommy Lasorda," Gardner says in his syrupy Southern twang, "but I guarantee I love them just as good."<<

I'll be heading to Chavez Ravine in a couple of weeks. I'll think of Maurice when I'm there, remembering the blessing I had as a youth to watch Garvey, Cey, Lopes and Russell in that beautiful venue.

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