Music And Books -- For The Archives -- June 20, 2024

Locator: 47848ARCHIVES.

Link here. 

On another note, not sure if this song gets enough "play time."

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The Book Page

For most situations, google search wiki is the best route to go when searching a topic.

However, for social media and crowd-sourcing, Reddit may be a better option for searching.

For example: when searching for "best book on Greek mythology" -- going to Reddit is probably more rewarding then going through google or wiki.

We all grew up with Edith Hamilton's Mythology, but recently I happened across Robert Graves' The Greek Myths. I am greatly surprised how much I enjoy it. The book put me back into a new "mythology" phase. The fact that there is some controversy associated with this book makes it all the more interesting.

A Musical Interlude -- June 20, 2024

Locator: 47847MUSIC.

If this had been her only song, her only video, this would have been enough to put her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Link here.

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San Francisco 

Link here.

Paddle Boarding -- Texas -- June 20, 2024

Locator: 47846FAMILY.

Sophia, age 10, on her mother's stand-up paddle board and her mom kneeling on the same board. 

Someone's Reading The Blog -- June 20, 2024

Locator: 47845ECON.

This has been a common theme on the blog in the past six to eighteen months. I forget when I first starting saying but sometime in the next six to eighteen months there's going to be a glut of used cars and news on dealers' lots.

Most recently, June 15, 2024, I wrote this:

In 2035, historians may look back on 2024 as the watershed year for EVs in America. Everything suggests it's all over.

By the end of the year, there's going to be a glut of cars in dealers' lots across the US, and over the next two years, automobile sales will surge, setting all-time records. 

EVs: won't be mentioned. "No one" will be buying EVs in the US any time soon. Hybrids, yes. EVs, no.

Tonight from Carl Q:

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RFK, Jr

One word: entitled.

Wiki:

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Another Musical Interlude

I really, really like this.

A lot of folks remark / complain that Lana Del Rey's songs "drag" / are way too slow.

Here, the song has been sped up, considerably, and yet, it doesn't distort the Lana's voice. I really like this.

Link here.

Thursday, June 20, 2024 -- Only A Couple More Days Until Official Start Of Summer -- Whoo-Hoo!

Locator: 47844ARCHIVES.

US air travel: June 14, 2024 -- 2nd busiest day ever for TSA -- TSA screened almost three million individuals.  

• Note: I took a "red eye" out of Portland a few days ago and the wait time through TSA checkpoint was the longest I had ever experienced in Portland, and anywhere else for that matter. I do not have "TSA Pre-Check."
• four of the top five busiest travel days in the history of the US have been in CY 2024, and the top five included Thanksgiving, 2023.

The OODA loop: google it. Our oldest granddaughter is working as an "intern" in the federal bureaucracy, Washington, DC, this summer. She wrote me earlier today asking if I had heard of the OODA Loop. I had. She's in some sort of "security training) and the OODA loop was discussed.

Free Thursday! Whoo-hoo! Sophia is on the lake, paddle-boarding with her mom. So I'm free tonight. Lots of music. First I will start with a documentary of Las Vegas, the 1960s! May and I were married in Las Vegas in 1977 -- 47 years ago. Clark County.

1957 Chevy Bel-Air: link here. Odometer? One mile. Price? $60,000. In front of my sister's home on Flathead Lake, completely restored, runs beautifully:

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A Musical Interlude

I seldom find covers better than the original. Could this "live cover" be better than the "live" version of this song most popular on YouTube?

Link here.