The Schloss-Blog is thinking of things all over the place today, from rapper Mickey Avalon to singer Dean Martin to Raphael Warnock for President and all things in between.
Played golf yesterday with my friend Brian. Had a hole in one (no, I didn't).
It was his 60th birthday and it was my job to keep him out of the house while his wife set up his milestone birthday surprise party.
Almost didn't pull it off, but we had a great round and it worked - he was surprised. And I didn't have to park around the corner from his house so he wouldn't recognize my car.
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Families of victims of 9/11 sent a letter to Donald Trump, letting him know in no uncertain terms about how they feel about his hosting the Saudi-sponsored LIV tour this weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course.
A lot of great golfers have signed on to that tour.
Fuck them and the terror-sponsoring, human rights-denying, journalism-killing assholes paying them.
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News junkie that I am, I've been thinking about all the things I miss about the short life of CNN+.
Haven't thought of anything yet.
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Jewish rapper Mickey Avalon did a great show at the Social Club last weekend in West Chicago. No, he doesn't do it in Yiddish.
But he is talented and has a message that young people deserve their kind of music and it's OK to drop an F-bomb in there every once in a while. His dancer. Lizzy, a stunningly beautiful blonde, is a virtual gymnast on stage alongside him, prosthetic leg and all.
Mickey has respect for the great rappers who preceded him and/or are his contemporaries. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him pay tribute to them in is mood, his attitude, his presence and his lyrics.
Amen.
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Is it just me, or does just about every commercial I see on TV these days include Dean Martin singing a song?
Yikes.
Is he that popular or are they rebooting the Matt Helm spy series of movies in which he starred? Speaking of which, Ryan Gosling is starring in the Gray Man spy series. His character's name is - not making this up - '6,' well, actually "Sierra 6," but '6' for short.
He's also going to play "Ken" in the "Barbie" flick, opposite Margot Robbie in the title role. Click on the link for a peek.
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Raphael Warnock for president.
Seriously.
He's a man of god (a pastor).
He's already a Georgia senator, gaining valuable political experience.
And he's a level-headed Democrat.
His opponent for the senate seat he holds believes that our clean air has blown over to China and China's bad air has blown over to Georgia.
Really.
The former Heisman Trophy winner also believes that if man evolved from apes, how come there are still apes? Seriously.
The race for that Senate seat in Georgia is tight, which ought to tell you everything you need to know about the IQ level of so many Republican Trump voters in Georgia (see Greene, Marjorie Taylor).
Republican senate and gubernatorial this year candidates are Donald Trump on steroids.
Anyway, Warnock is not Joe Biden, who, apparently, nobody wants to run for a second term, Reconciliation Bill being so close to passage notwithstanding..
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Thirty years ago, Dan and Dave were duking it out in commercials for the decathalon.
At the Barcelona Olympics.
Except Dan didn't qualify and Dave didn't win anyway.
All Reebok got out of it was egg on its face for the campaign.
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It's the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the legislation that ensures that women have equal rights to funding and facilities at schools that receive federal aid.
Republicans have tried to rewrite it at every seminal anniversary, especially during the 'W' administration.
But women have prevailed. Now, 10 times more girls participate in sports at the high school level than when the act was passed.
The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team now gets the much-deserved consummate pay of the men's team it so deserves.
Women rock the sports world. And they deserve more and better. And will get it.
Now though, about Roe... wonder if the Supreme Court realizes that its ruling has actually endangered more women's and babies' lives than they believe it may have saved.
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On a lighter note, a Texas brothel recently went out of business and put this sign on its door to prospective walk-in customers: "Beat it. We're closed."
Can't make up this stuff.
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More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show, and Sunday morning as I sit in for Joe Catanzaro. Join me for a cup of coffee.
And then a nightcap.
Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Title IX.
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