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Saturday 9: Susan
Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it here.
1) In this song, our hero tells Susan that "no other girl could ever take the place of you." Crazy Sam feels that no other earmuffs could ever take the place of the ones she left in restaurant coat room last month. Tell us about something you recently broke, lost or misplaced. Broken. The top to the tortoise key keeper, which was decorating the raised bed, got knocked off the bottom and was then stepped on by the resident bipedal male. You see, the big tortoises are always challenging my unfortunate ceramic tortoise to a duel, and knocking it around. The lid had found it's way under some leaves where DH couldn't see it. The only thing left to do is to make a succulent planter out of what's left.
The song was first released back in 1968, the name Susan was very popular. According the Social Security Administration, it was one of the top 10 baby girl names of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Today it's not even in the top 100. Do you know anyone named Susan (or Suzanne)? I think the popularity of Susan is more related to "Miracle on Thirty Seventh Street" Or what ever that street was. I have a niece named Susan, and know some others with this name also.
3) The Buckinghams were Chicago's attempt to get in on The British Invasion begun by the Beatles. (Hence the silly suits.) But they took their name from Chicago's famous Buckingham Fountain. If Crazy Sam visited your neighborhood, what local site would you recommend she check out? She should check out Balboa Park and Spanish Village, then go to Coronado and Seaport Village.
4) Chicago is known for deep dish pizza. Describe your dream pizza. (Calories, carbs and gluten need not be a factor because it's a dream pizza!) My dream Pizza is thin crust, has home made sauce, real mozzarella and romano cheeses, Pineapple, Canadian bacon, garlic and bell peppers on it. Lots of topping too, not the kind you get most of the time.
5) The Buckinghams got their big break by winning a local "battle of the bands." Do you often go to concerts or bars to listen to live music? I did when I was younger but quit when we couldn't stand all the cigarette smoke anymore. It made me ill. I still like concerts but have old ears, and they don't sound that good to me anymore.
6) The best-selling book in 1968 (the year "Susan" was released) was Airport by Arthur Hailey. It was set during a snowstorm at Lincoln International, a fictional airport based on Chicago's O'Hare. What's the most recent airport you flew to? Why were you there? I don't fly anywhere anymore. It's just too uncomfortable. I don't get excited about being crushed into a tin can after having to prove I'm not carrying any metal except that in my body. No thank you, very much!
7) Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs, Sox ... Chicago is a big sports town. What's your favorite pro team? I no longer get excited about the skating at the Olympics so I'm not investinggreat interest in a pro ball team. Having said that, I still like to watch soccer games, especially world cup.
8) Thinking of sports, did you watch the Olympics? If yes, which events? I don't care about this year's Olympics. I used yo love figure skating but when the world landed with four feet on Tawnya Harding, I called it quits.
9) Do you consider yourself an idealist or a pragmatist? I am a pragmatic Idealist.
Since I just finished watching an odious film, probably having something to do with Scientology, I have something to say about it. It's called "The Secret", and just is ALL about getting material goods and/or money from the Law of Attraction.
I do believe that the universe provides but not in such a perverse way.
(Edited the following sentence made necessary by 12:30 AM and blindness)
I 'm acquainted with "the Secret", meaning the law of attraction as taught by Pythagoras and others but it's for attracting wisdom. It has little to do with amassing consumer goods. The Universe is kinder than that. These people should read the Vedas!
Salt and vinegar chips are my favorite, and I love Kettle, too! Miracle on 34th St is my favorite Christmas movie. :D Cheers!
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Ah! That's it! 34th Street. lol. Thank you! I knew something was wrong but it was too late to dig up the flashlight and go read the title on the DVD. It was apparently too late to think straight, too. I could have Googled it! duh! And doesn't Kettle make the best chips, NO GMO stamp an all.
DeleteVery interesting about your tortoises going mano-a-mano with their ceramic counterpart. How cool that they identify it as a tortoise! I wonder if it's the shape or the color that give it away. (A friend of mine works for Crocs and there was a spate of YouTube videos a couple years ago of male tortoises .... um .... getting amorous with those shoes.)
ReplyDeleteYou're thinking of little Natalie Wood in Miracle on 34th Street, which was a crazy popular movie in the late 1940s. However, I'm sure the Buckinghams chose the name Susan because it's easy to rhyme (losin', confusin'), and because if each of the literally MILLIONS of females in 1968 US already named Susan bought their record they'd be millionaires, not to influence or create a new trend. You bring up an interesting point. The other common/popular baby girl names of that era were Mary, Barbara and Linda. I wonder if they had a movie inspiration. Now I'll probably waste even more time on the internet searching for information I don't need to know!
Barbara Ann made it to song. lol. And yes, it was probably that Susan was easy to rhyme!
DeleteA series of croc shoe attacks by amorous torts? Lol! I'm not surprised. (must go view these!) Torts have bird like vision, with color, but they don't seem to have much of a sense of smell, otherwise why would they mistake painted toenails for watermelon or strawberries, or Crocs for mates? They really go after my toes in the summer. Ouch!
I love San Diego, and visited it regularly when my grandma lived in the area.
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DeleteVisiting here is nice, especially if there is ocean water or a pool involved. I wish we had a pool, but alas. San Diego is really quite nice if you live near the beach. We live just outside most of the the marine influence, as it's called. Happily it still reaches us most of the time. Otherwise I'd find a way out of here!
The Secret was a book about law of attraction, and I despised it. It places the blame for your entire life directly on you - never mind that you are influenced by environment, your family, your genes, etc. If you take the premise of law of attraction to its logical conclusions, you get this: If you die in a plane crash it's because you wished it so. If you are born with some affliction you somehow wished it so. If you want to be rich, think rich and you will make it so. I call it "wish craft" and it is very dangerous thinking. It is how we have half a nation blaming the poor because they are poor. Very backwards thinking. Okay, I will shut up now, I didn't mean to hijack your blog on that but it's a very sore topic with me.
ReplyDeleteHey, no problem at all! I see these comments as discussions, and you've raised another issue that I hated about that bit of tripe, the "blame the victim" that goes on constantly.
DeleteI think the people who participated in it are blind and more than a little misguided. Some of the quotes from so called "practitioners" of the "faith" are not even good illustrations of the Documentary's brand of "I've Got Mine because of My Powers of Concentration". Why did they use them? To give heft to it's credibility? It's very misleading to pass this off as proof of "The Law of Attraction". It's an idiotic piece.
A guy I work with recommended watching The Secret. There was another one, as well. He's an old hippie, and closes every email with Peace. LOL Your pizza sounds almost like my pizza. I really want pizza.
ReplyDeleteOh yay! Let's discuss this over a homemade pizza!
DeleteAh yes, a good portion of the ex-hippies really got into money, and this Doc would fit right in with that Quest! A "sufficiency of all good things" degenerated into the love of money. Quite sad, and as Country Dew was saying, ends with hatred and blame heaped on the heads of the poor. It's totally sick. I especially felt ill over the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" guy. Don't watch it if you value your intellect over material wealth. Bah! there i go again lol!
I've noticed that some airlines are really getting bad about space in the planes. Yet, people keep getting bigger.
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to think that the airlines are so strapped for cash - after eating each other - that they have a reason for this perversity: they can charge for two seats if someone like a basketball player or a linebacker goes coach. Also, they have been ordering planes with a shorter distance between the seats, so it should make a tall or handicapped person shudder to even think of flying.
DeleteI love the concept of pragmatic Idealists...
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"In A troubled world as this is, love is over before it's begun", so...we have to be pragmatic to still able to love, eh? Love is the ideal. The reality is somethin' else!
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