Everybody is talking about Latino superstar Jenny Rivera, who died in a plane crash that took off from Monterey, Mexico on Saturday or whatever and crashed, and all the parties were presumed dead, and i guess that has now been confirmed. Along with Rivera, her attorney, her publicist, and her make-up assistent also died in the crash of a private Lear jet. She was a super star for twenty years and I must confess I never followed her carrier, but she was still reaching for the peak of her carrier, and had a lot of upcoming things planned in the immediate future. I guess she specialized in Banda music, which some say is related to Tex-Mex music. I'm vaguely familiar with that. She was genuinely charismatic and beloved by all her fans, and I guess she sang about many of her actual personal problems. She was born in Long Beach.
We have that strange saga of the Austrailian disk jockey duo that hoaxed Buckingham Palace, and got through to the hospital where Kate Middleton was suffering from that horrible complication from the morning sickness condition. The lady had the Queen's accent down to a tee, when she asked "about her little tummy virus". I'd give them an A for impersonation. But then we got the grim follow-up to the story that the nurse who had field the call to the hospital and accepted it as genuine, a couple of days later she was found dead, presumably of suicide, but you never know- - perhaps it was some kind of vengeance murder. Of course those two dick jockeys have been thrown off the air.
Saturday was the 22nd anniversary of the shooting of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman. KLOS on Sunday played a full blown version of "Grow Old with Me" that I had never heard before- - with the strings and the multi-track layering and all of that. Before it had just been Lennon at the piano, on the vinyl Milk and Honey record. I'd like to go back to 1990 when I that Saturday night was recording a lot of John Lennon songs, back in the era when they still had cassette tapes and you could do that. I was belting down the Black Velvet- - and the next morning woke with a spltting headache that lingered till noon of that day. But that did not stop me from going to church with my parents. This is because we were having a congragational meeting after the service to approve a new pastor named William Halliday, whom I was told was a relatively new convert to the denomination, and used to play tough guys in Hollywood. The sermon Halliday gave that day was on Religious Doubts. This is the first and last time he ever gave a sermon like that. He was approved with only one dissenting vote in the entire congragation, and I voted for him. After this we went to some sandwich place for lunch, where my Dad complained about smoke coming over the partician from the smoking section of the resturant, back when they still had those. I had just gotten into GWBASIC computer programming, and was all excited about that, but I have a feeling I talked a blue streak and bored my parents stiff. This was back when I was attending ROP classes.
Today is the anniversary of the death of my grandmother - my mother's mother. This was in 1973 and next year will be the 40th anniversary. And she was the last of my four biological grandparents to die. She died in the doctor's office where she had gone because she'd had chest pains. So she drove herself, and had a fatal heart attack right there in the doctor's office, I believed they called a myro-cartio-infarction. Coincidentally at the time (meanwhile) I had just gotten back from Morning classes at Cypress and had just poured myself a glass of Thunderbird and was relaxing. It was soon after this I got the call my grandmother had died. Later my Mom was annoyed with me because I had not called her at work to tell her. I figured it was such downer news perhaps she'd prefer to be told in person. There was a full moon this night. Grandma was 75.
John Darling from around here died. He used to eat at the table with is before Irvin Burger came on board. I only noticed he'd sometimes get confused and forget where the table was- and start looking around at all other parts of the room. There are also roomers that David Shaner has died, but this has not been officially confirmed. David used to relate the lunch and the dinner menus at breakfast time before they were posted. He was a Christian and my brother knew and liked him, and he was known for his patriotic speeches on 4th of July gathering. However his was record in Viet Nam is a little dubious, but I won't comment on this without having all the facts.
Stephanie Miller has newfound hope about this whole Proposition Eight ruling by the Supreme Court. Her reasoning is that there is a "major historical trend" in the country now like the Civil Rights movement and no supreme court judge "wants to be on the wrong side of the movement". It is argued that whoever has the pivelege of writing the majority decision will go down in history and be famous twenty years from now, as societal tastes change to a more gay friendly environment. When I heard that the High Court has accepted this case- - I naturally assumed myself it's because they wanted to overturn all those bad lower court rulings. But Stephanie and Chris don't see it that way. Thergred Marshall is famous for Brown vs the Board of Education in 1954. I guess alas that for people of the over fifty set like me, who are set in our ways, that it's another case of "Your old road is rapidly fading, get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand, for the Times they are a Changing".
In terms of real estate mortgages that are in negative equity, the laws are on the owner's side, favoring your being able to keep your house with new laws pushing banks into letting you refinance. It seems according to these ads they are running that loan officers will lie to you and say "the most effective way to protest your loan is not to pay it". These sheisters know that laws can be used so that banks actually profit more if you default on your loans. And these ads suggest that with the right legal team on your side, these loan officials won't even want to face seeing the judge because they know that they will lose. Let's hope they are right. Personally, what you should have done is paid a down payment. That's kind of why they invented down payments - to get the initial principal right down, so that the interest rates don't accrew monthly as rapidly- and you're able to knock down the principal significantly with each payment- instead of the loan company getting virtual free money for the first several years. Believe me - I've written these programs. I know how they work.
In personal news we had our anual Christmas Party here last Saturday night. I wasn't feeling all that well on Saturday and arrived late and left as soon as possible. We had ham, and roast beef, but it had an odd reddish cast and an odd taste, and for all I know it could be horse meat. There was also a dinner roll and mashed potatoes and gravy. The coffee they served tasted like radiator water. I managed to get three pieces of apple pie. And I did get seconds on salad and whatever that strange reddish beef was. They showed a long boring video made by the owners of this place of our activities during the year, quite professionally done. The husband is a regular computer whiz. However we had to watch it BEFORE we ate, and- - we hadn't had that much for lunch and my stomach was getting tied up into knots. But otherwise there hasn't been that much hard news over the weekend, which is why I did not post on either Saturday or Sunday. All we know is that the President and John Boehner were meeting privately over the weekend to try and hammer out an agreement.
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