Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Not quite sure what the requirements are for play-by-play person for T.B.S., but if Ernie Johnson can do it then anyone can do it! What are they thinking down there in Atlanta? Except for Ron Darling, it's nearly unwatchable. http://amplify.com/u/c44z
Since I'm picking up lottery tickets later: An interesting fact about October 2010: This October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays, all in 1 month. It happens once in 823 years. These are money bags. Paste this on your status and money will appear in 4 days. Based on Chinese fengshui. Whoever stops this will experience none. http://amplify.com/u/c3u1
I am the reason for you to set your clocks for 6AM ET on Saturdays!! It's an All-Classic weekend on I95. Some of these bad boys you haven't heard in awhile. Plus it's the snappy patter that your crave! http://i95rock.com http://amplify.com/u/c3rw
I am the reason for you to set your clocks for 6AM ET on Saturdays!! It's an All-Classic weekend on I95. Some of these bad boys you haven't heard in awhile. Plus it's the snappy patter that your crave! http://i95rock.com http://amplify.com/u/c3rw
Jazz Stew's latest: Lazy, Rainy, Sundays, Coffee & Stew! There's also a Sunday Breakfast Bake recipe on the Recipe Page. If you haven't sampled Jazz Stew, try the archive page...it's all Good & Delicious. http://jazzstew.com http://amplify.com/u/c3rp
http://www.google.com to see how Google is celebrating John Lennon's 70th birthday. http://amplify.com/u/c3qw
At the time of John Lennon's murder, David Sancious recorded a stunning solo version of "Across The Universe" for WNEW-FM. Over the years, and that's many, I've tried procuring it to no avail. If you have it, why not share it? It's absolutely amazing. http://amplify.com/u/c3qc
Saturday, May 1, 2010
It was 40 years ago today, that Sargent Pepper took our lives away!
May 4, 1970. I was student at Kent State. I was on my way to an Italian language class. The Professor, a tiny Italian woman from Rome, started the class. She faced the windows with a view of the outside. In less than 10 minutes she gasped, her face lost all color and, in her broken English said, "...You should all leave!". We looked at each other and with shrug and an expression of, "what was that" on our faces, we left the classroom. I headed to my dorm to find friends or maybe they's be in the cafeteria. I had to pass the old football stadium where they had the P.A. blaring a News radio station from Cleveland. Here's what the newscaster reported: "2 National Guardsmen killed and 2 students injured on the Kent State University campus....". When I got to the dorm my head was spinning. I tried finding roommates. No one was around. I went to get my mail on the first floor. As I came downstairs I had a view of the Commons where a sea of people were sitting. The Commons is an open space where students threw Frisbees, hung out on a blanket reading or perhaps "making out". However on May 4th, the Commons was the route the National Guard took to fire into a crowd of students, taking four lives. The Guards final destination was the parking lot, behind the Architecture building, right next door to my dormitory.
I made my way through the crowd and found one of my roomies, Lew Goldberg from Fairlawn, N.J. He was visibly upset and nearly in tears. When I told Lew what the news was reporting he screamed, "They're liars! They killed 4 kids!". It was at this point that everything changed. I was 19, trying to get a college degree, but Ohio's Governor James Rhodes, who called the Guard into Kent, decided that none of us might make it. As I was trying to make sense of what was happening, a sobbing Professor was on a bullhorn urging us to disperse because the Guard's guns were loaded and they'd take more lives. Then, just minutes later, we were told that the University was closed and we were to leave. Really?! Where to? A few of us, from all over the country, got into a friends "hippie" van and headed to Pittsburgh. Trouble was that he was on fumes. We all chipped in to buy gas. We stopped at one gas station. I remember it being a Phillips 66. Closed. No problem - there's another one just down the road. Closed. As we pulled out, I looked out of the rear window and noticed a representative of every law enforcement department in Ohio on the rear bumper of the van, lights flashing, sirens blaring. We pulled over and the doors were flung open and voices screamed at us to get out with our hands up! I was just in Italian class!! This was surreal and truly an out of body experience! We were put up against the wall, in true 60s style, and frisked. The only woman with us was frisked and I could see that this sheriff, cop or whatever he was, took his time and was enjoying himself. We explained that we were students from Kent State trying to gas up and leave the city, the law enforcement representatives said that it looked like we were looking for gas to make Molotov Cocktails in this "hippie" van. Sorry but back then, these law enforcement representatives were truly pigs!
After we were let go, we decided to stop in the next town, Ravenna. Here we could gas up and get something to drink. Inside the gas station there was a woman customer and a woman behind the counter. They were discussing what happened earlier at Kent State. One said to the other that they found 2 of the students not wearing any underwear. I believe this is the very first time, in my 19 years, that I uttered, "What the fuck?". We couldn't leave any faster!
We reached Pittsburgh without further incident in the "hippie" van and we were fed and put up for the night at Chuck's parents house. (Forgive me, Chuck...I've forgotten your last name.) His parents let all of us call home to let our parents know that we were physically OK. Imagine having a kid at college, hearing about the shootings and not being able to get in touch with your kid. No cell phones, email or internet. The next day, they drove us to the airport and Lew and I flew back to New York. We had to finish our classes via mail.
It's been 40 year's and the impact on all of us, who were students at Kent State, is still with us. For me, I can never trust a politician again. After all, Governor Rhodes was running for Senate on a "law & order" plank in his platform. Kent State was an ideal way for him to prove, to his constituency, that he meant business by calling in the Ohio National Guard. The blood of 4 kids is still on his hands.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Crime And Punishment Rocco Style
I'm a reasonable person.....really. In fact, if you knew me, you'd say that I lean toward being a liberal. But enough is enough! At a party, 5 young men had sexual intercourse with a 7 year old. Yes, you read correctly, a 7 year old. It was a gang bang. Of course the 7 year old's 15 year old sister 'gave' her sister to these scumbag miscreants. By the way, the 15 year old was 'charging' for sex during this party. So what should be done with these six columns of fecal matter? The males should have their sexual organs cut off, without any pain killers, and let them bleed out until they are dead. The 15 year old sister should have her ovaries and fallopian tubes pulled out via her vagina. All of this shown on national television. It should be mandatory that all high schools and colleges have assemblies and all students should be forced to watch. Let the the 6 animal's screams be forever etched in the student's minds so that they all would know what's in store for anyone who would dare do something similar. Oh! If you're a priest and have sexually abused a child - boy or girl - you're going to face the same fate. If you're the head of a small nation and a church and you're proven to have helped these bastards in any way, you should also face the same fate. There's no excuse for this.....EVER!
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