Slumberland

You’ve all heard this news already. There’s not much I can add to what so many others have already said, lifelong Beatles fan that I am. All I can really say is, Rest In Peace, George. You did make a difference in the world.

Today I will listen to my favorite “lost” Harrison single, “What is Life?” Maybe I’ll try to play the riff on the guitar. Damn.

There’s just something neat about this, even if I can’t read it very well: news headlines in Latin. “Papa Legatos Religionum Convocat” (that one just seems right in Latin), “Osama Bin Laden Fugitivus.” It’s kind of neat that some people still use Latin on a regular basis. And this site comes to us from Finland, of all places!

Early Sunday morning we drove out past North Bend to get a good look at the Leonid meteor shower. It was stunning — just an amazing sight. We didn’t get any photos, but some people did. Wow.

Rumors have continued to fly about George Harrison’s health; here’s a site that is compiling all the information on the Quiet Beatle’s medical status.

I stumbled on this site today, while trying to identify a painting on someone’s web page. (The painting turned out to be this one.) What a beautiful site; clearly a labor of love. I do like Waterhouse’s art, for example Boreas, The Shrine, and The Lady Clare.

The Justice Department is letting investigators listen in on communications between terrorist suspects and their defense lawyers. Attorney/client privilege? What’s that? Yikes.

Once again, there are rumors that Beatle George is ill and near death. I hope it’s not true. He’s still quite young, really.

Did you know that the government regulates the ingredients of frozen pizzas? To the extent that they can’t have a non-tomato-based sauce such as pesto in place of the traditional marinara sauce, if the pizza has meat on it? Weird but true.

“In the face of illness, baseball chooses to blow noses by putting gun barrels up nostrils.” That’s a rather strong way to put it, but Art Thiel is right when he says Minnesota and Montreal did not fail baseball. Baseball failed them. And the rest of us. The greatest game there is, and yet the owners and the so-called commissioner seem to want to do everything they can to kill it.

Ogden Nash will be featured on a US postage stamp! I think that’s kind of neat.

The Minnesota Twins had a good season this year, but it could be their last. What a travesty. Wouldn’t Tampa Bay be a far better candidate for contraction?

Even as I type this, I am sure that somewhere ASCAP and BMI are plotting ways to bill us for whistling popular songs. After all, even wireless phone ring tones aren’t below their notice.