#IFellAsleep in a Leonard Cohen t-shirt but awoke thinking I needed someone to dance to the end of love with me.
#IFellAsleep in a Led Zep t-shirt and awoke on a stairway, thought I was on to something real special, but then I remembered I was still in the USA.
#IFellAsleep in a Cure T-shirt and awoke thinking I was in love, alas, it wasn't Friday.
John Lennon, a couple of months earlier, heard Bun Man whisper sweet nothings to his current belle "I'll always be true, I don't want no one but you, so please love me do"...
He then wrote "Love Me Do" by the Beatles which was released in the U.K today in 1962.
It was their first single.
Mr. Purple said this group passed the audition.
ON this date in 1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.
The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
Traffic controllers Bun Man and Mr. Purple were both asleep in the Homestead Tower and were later busted to Airman First.
The Boyz mustered out of the AF a short time later, frustrated over never getting the chance to get their wings and joining the mile high club.
Saw Al once live in a Richard III production a the Walnut
St. Theater in Philly.
That tall dude from the Jeffersons show was in the play also.
What I remember most:
The actors spitting at each other as they projected their voices.
I don't repeat this story often for fear Trump may pick up on this spitting strategy as a way to win a debate.
Someone once said, I got the music in me, I got the music in me, I GOT the music in ME...
Or some such foolishness!
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ON this date in 1968 - "Magic Carpet Ride" was released by Steppenwolf.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple, original band members before John Kay took it over and made it his, had co-written the song, a seminal 60s hit.
The Boyz enjoyed their time w/ the 'Wolf', they had spent many years as wolves (a story for another day...)
If you didn't dance to the over-produced songs of the 80s...
You don't dance
I HOPE YOU DANCE
I said it in 2020, I'll say it again...
Less than a month...
Less than a month to SAVE...
Less than a month to SAVE A...
Less than a month to SAVE A COUNTRY...
We won't ever change Trumpies, but we can focus on what we offer...
Love America by showing what progress brings, not what turning back reveals...
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Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277