Ho-hum

 Looks like another Super Bowl Parade this year!

Congratulations to this little future quarterback on making it to the Super Bowl, again. Patrick Mahomes with his father Pat Mahomes.

BUT!

In certain California high schools...

 the last Saturday in January they have 'The Winter Formal'...I now have 3 grands in high school

that love the 'The Winter Formal'... sorta like 'Our Lady of Ransom' dances back in the day.

A senior

A junior

and a Freshman

More Beatle inspired stuff...

Some CDHS Basketball History

 https://tedsilary.com/doughertybaskpointsALL.htm

It's late January 2023. I'm into this BEATLE thing...

Since 1960, how many children have The Beatles made smile?

The Beatles - Nowhere Man

Lennon wrote the song about himself after racking his brain in desperation for five hours trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul. Lennon told Playboy magazine:

"I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then 'Nowhere Man' came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down.^[7]"

McCartney said of the song:

"That was John after a night out, with dawn coming up. I think at that point, he was a bit...wondering where he was going, and to be truthful so was I. I was starting to worry about him.^[8]"

The Album was released in Dec 1965.

I just think this sounds really good...

Warren & David

Eva is back in Europe & has some things to say about her 6 month tour of the USA

Redondo Beach are Mira Costa arch rivals...

This is the Freshman Team...grandson Luke is # 2 in white.

Sam sends me the video, I do the Stats...

* This was a big deal game...Mira Costa vs Redondo

Mira Costa took 62 shots & made 22 of them. Pathetic! 35.48%

Mira Costa took 22 foul shots & made 13 of them. Pathetic! 59%

Much to my surprise Mira Costa had 'only' Ten turnovers! In their past 4 games they averaged 22 turnovers...

My biggest shock is that with all their screw ups & mis-plays, Mira Costa Freshman have not lost this year! I'm thinking they are now 10 & 0...

California had a record rainfall for two weeks. People died. California allowed 90% of that rain water to wash away into the Pacific Ocean...

WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?

 https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/01/19/california-rains-could-have-supplied-states-needs-for-10-years-if-stored/

Girl from North Country

Jacinda has had it!~As of February 7, she is "retired"...it's all just too much for me...

 

 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her position because she does not have the stamina to seek re-election.

“I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,” she said. “The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple.”

New Zealand has a population of about 5.2 million people

Walter mounted an M60 machine gun to a garage door opener to save Jesse & destroy the Nazis...

It's all over & nobody won...

If you watch his fingers move, it does not look that difficult to do. AMIRIGHT?

😊

People at the Falls were shrieking & shaking!

 But Jason was Faking!

He pissed me off that day

Breaking Bad Update! Walter makes a confession video!

And blames his bro-in-law (the DEA agent) for the whole debacle!

Skylar remains clueless about it all. She just runs a 'Car Wash'...

THE BEST OFFENSIVE PLAYERS & DEFENSIVE PLAYERS IN THE NFL THIS FOOTBALL SEASON

Selected only by the NFL players...

Offense:

Defense:

Less than two minutes

"They Are Making Fun Of Us" - Yes We Are! 😂

Eddie...in the 3rd person

His first "original" of 2023

The crew on SV Delos

My continuing Breaking Bad watching

Jesse stays for dinner & Walter gets Badder & Badder!

Left to right: Brian, Michael, Eddie, John, Timmy's elbow

This is a PistenBully

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeremy-renner-speaks-out-from-hospital-snowplow-accident-011934646.html

This is why I won't walk in the woods ...

$40.00 on Amazon

A 'for your information' Post to you Eagle Fans...

Oops! wrong photo...

I'm visualizing a Ben Stiller type Victory!

The Eagles’ crucial game against the Giants has been re-scheduled for 4:25 p.m. Sunday, the NFL announced today.

Will Hurts start?

Or Gardner Minshew?

I'm hoping Minshew. Just for the fun of it...

Allie narrated her struggles & joy...

Remember Ricky Nelson?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Nelson

Remembering The Great Rick Nelson Who Lost His Life On New Years Eve In 1985 :

He was the very first person to be labeled as a teen idol. But make no mistake about it, Rick Nelson was a Rock And Roll legend. To this day it seems that he still doesn’t get the respect he deserves. I’ll never forget being a young boy spending New Years Eve with my family in 1985 and learning from a news report that he had died in a plane crash.

It’s not shocking that early on people didn’t take Rick seriously as a musical artist. After all he was on a television show with his family known as Ozzie And Harriet. Yet April 10, 1957 still remains as one of the landmark dates of rock and roll history when ABC television aired the Ozzie And Harriet episode “Ricky The Drummer” that introduced a young Rick Nelson singing the song “I’m Walkin’” which would change the course of music history forever.

From that point onward Rick would become a teen idol and rock and roll star. Rivaling the popularity of Elvis Presley (arguably even surpassing it for a short time.) Unfortunately once the British Invasion hit he was in many ways considered yesterday’s news. Which is ironic since he was so influential to artists like Paul McCartney.

It would be Paul McCartney who even said that in Britain nobody knew anything about the television show Rick was on in America. There he was famous only because of his music.

Creatively not many gave Rick a chance after his popularity faded, but he didn’t give up eventually embracing a more Country sound by the early 1970s and becoming a very important figure in the Country rock movement with his Stone Canyon Band. The albums he made in those years like “Rudy The Fifth”, “Garden Party” and “Windfall” remain some of the best records of that genre.

And those opportunities were hardly handed to him. He fought tooth and nail for that new respect. A couple of examples being that he asked to play at the famous club the Troubadour and was told no by the owner thinking he no longer mattered.. So Rick swallowed his pride and actually rented the club himself paying for the opportunity to play shows that would slowly return him to relevance. Especially with the release of his now legendary live album “In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969” with the Stone Canyon Band (which included the great Randy Meisner who would go on to form The Eagles.)

Then of course is the story of Rick playing Madison Square Garden in in 1971 during a 1950s rock and roll Rubicam concert where the fans expected a 1958 version of Nelson but got a man with bell bottom jeans and long hair being booed for playing Rolling Stones’ and Bob Dylan songs. (That event would would ironically inspire Rick to write his comeback song “Garden Party”.)

In the last years of his life Rick once again was on the comeback trail. By this time though he was slowly starting to get the recognition he had always yearned for as a musician. Just a few months before the end of his life he was able to meet his idol Carl Perkins, and toured in Britain for the first time in over a decade.

Meeting his idol reinvigorated Rick. His kids said that Christmas was one of the most enjoyable holidays they had with their father. That he seemed content and like a new man. To finish out the year Rick had a show in Orlando, wanted to play shows in Alabama at a club for a friend, then finish in Dallas on New Years Eve 1985.

Sadly Rick never made it. And just like that he was gone.

A tragic loss.

Like Rick said in his song Gypsy Pilot :

When they claim my body

They won't have much to say

Except that he lived a good life

He lived every day

And I know he saw the sunshine

And I know he felt the rain

And he loved everybody

And he hopes you'll do the same