"Crayons!" ... "Stones!"
To bestow proper balance to the world and this newsletter, I today am focusing on the Rolling Stones. Last week it was Beatles, thus the other dudes, Who’s better? It’s like asking me to name my favorite bartender. I love ‘em all! But today let’s once again by all means celebrate The Stones. I could yap about them all day.
Related post … “The Stones 50 GRRTest Hits.”
Had a great time on Saturday. I was sitting at home in silence and the phone jingles. I sit in silence BTW because my family so methodically and wantonly disparage everything I say, I’ve been cowed into domestic speechlessness. So I answer the phone and it’s my buddy Skinner down at the Tin Lizzy. He said a couple from West Virginia holding a copy of my ’18 Arnold Palmer book. They said they were hoping to meet me. Skinner says he can get me there in 10 minutes. Well, I made it in eight. And Park & Joanne couldn’t have been more fun. Same goes for Skinner! i welcome all my friends — and that’s you! — to come and spend a some carefree giggle time at The Tin.
Here’s a before picture of me when I noticed Park wasn’t displaying the AP book prominently enough for my crass purposes.
This is after the four of us cracked up when the three of them in unison called me a jackass for caring.
Today’s Theme … “The Rolling Stones!”
• I wonder how much time Mick Jagger spends looking in the mirror and being amazed he still looks exactly like Mick Jagger.
• I believe in the next six months, the combined age of the Rolling Stones (247 years) will finally exceed their combined weight.
• It’s a running joke that it'll never happen, but Keith Richards will one day die. My fear is on that day I'll not only struggle to mourn Keith, but will also have to deal with the news that my favorite band will henceforth be known as "Mick Jagger & The Mick Jagger Orchestra."
• I think we've reached a point where our morality is low enough and our insistence on being entertained high enough that if Mick Jagger today announced on Instagram that, "Yeah, you got me. I am Satan," most of us would be perfectly cool with it. In fact, we'd rather hear him say that than hear him say he was releasing another solo album.
• I’d like to see a rock game show with Mick & Bruce that asks, "Who can say, 'Are you ready to rock?'" in most foreign languages.
• The wave of vast emptiness I felt realizing that Mick is 72 and will one day die eased somewhat with realization Keith never will.
• Stones classic #ExileOnMainStreet turns 43 this year. Time to change iconic song title to "Shake Your Replaced Hips.”
• Colorful Conversation Starter: Tell people that in 1968 when The Rolling Stones released “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” gas, gas, gas was 33 cents a gallon, gallon, gallon.
Random randoms …
• Mother Teresa came from a large family with three sisters, all of whom had large families themselves.
Q: Did her nieces/nephews call her Aunt Mother Teresa? Aunt Teresa?
• Worry not about being popular today. Worry instead about being yourself EVERYDAY and you'll soon appreciate the meaninglessness of popularity.
• If you were following yourself in a car how many times a day would you give yourself the finger?
• Fear not death. Fear instead the death-bed realization that you never really lived. Insinuate yourself into enough hearts and you won’t just live to be 100. You’ll live forever.