Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Wonderful singer, long career
spanning generations of appreciative fans. 
Our new mailboxes installed outside by sidewalk.
Me: How long before the gangbangers spray it?
Louie (handing me key): I'm the gangbanger. Have these in my other buildings, no problem. It's federal property.
Not that the laws stopped them from painting the blue ones on the corners. Louie's plenty tough but he's no gangbanger. At least the box is larger, no scrunching larger envelopes & I can have books & CDs delivered here instead up the street at Gina's. No names or apt numbers on the boxes. I'd prefer them on the walkway to the front entry, away from the sidewalk.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Chris Connor, the great jazz singer whose lush, foggy voice and compressed emotional intensity distilled a 1950s jazz reverie of faraway longing in a sad cafe, died on Saturday in Toms River, N.J. She was 81 and lived in Toms River.
A singer who used little vibrato and was admired for her inventive rhythmic alterations of ballads, Ms. Connor belonged to the cool school of jazz singers that included Anita O’Day, June Christy, Chet Baker and Julie London.
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Our new mailboxes installed outside by sidewalk.Me: How long before the gangbangers spray it?
Louie (handing me key): I'm the gangbanger. Have these in my other buildings, no problem. It's federal property.
Not that the laws stopped them from painting the blue ones on the corners. Louie's plenty tough but he's no gangbanger. At least the box is larger, no scrunching larger envelopes & I can have books & CDs delivered here instead up the street at Gina's. No names or apt numbers on the boxes. I'd prefer them on the walkway to the front entry, away from the sidewalk.
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"I shall give a propaganda reason for starting the war; whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth."
Adolph Hitler, 8/22/39
Today is the 70th Anniversary of the start of World War Two. Germany invaded Poland from three sides, claiming it was a "defensive action" against Polish aggression. Two weeks later the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East, the infamous "stab in the back," & Poland ceased to exist as a nation.Adolph Hitler, 8/22/39
