The Schloss-Blog is looking at Elon (Shithole) Musk, World Cup soccer (futbol) and problems for Generation Z.
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Have I mentioned that I am through with Twitter? I need it for my coverage of high school football for the Arizona Republic. And as soon as that's done, I'm done.
Elon Musk's forgiving of and reinstating all suspended accounts is an insult to people like me who use it to insult him.
Big advertisers are abandoning him. As well as loyal users who keep it clean, for the most part time. I believe in free speech too, but not speech that incites violence or puts good people in fear for their lives.
Ironically, although his account is reinstated, Donald Trump is not leaping at Twitter for a second time around and is, instead, opting to stay on his Truth Social platform.
The next time he tells the truth on it will be the first time.
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Read an article about parents reacting to their children coming home from college at Thanksgiving for the first time during fall semester.
It leads to awkward moments in conversation and in reactions to style, culture and taste.
For me, first time home after being away brought about my mother (Hennie) telling my father (Murray): "Murray, get a scissors and cut his hair."
Will never forget that. Exact quote. Really.
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According to a study published by Fast Company, Gen Z'ers are having trouble paying their bills on time.
Seriously.
Seems their paychecks are not keeping up with inflation, let alone the cost of living. Gen Z, defined as people born between the late '90s to early 2010's, apparently are not finding jobs that pay well enough for them to keep up with the cost of living or they're not doing a very good job of managing what money they do have.
Some are moving back in with their parents to keep a cap on their costs of living.
Are your kids or grandkids doing that? What's been your experience?
Life isn't easy. It's always expensive and we all spend as much money as we make. The problem for Gen Z is they're not making enough.
Until they become millennials. Then they spend more.
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Irene Cara ("Fame," Flashdance") is dead at 63.
Cause of death undisclosed.
You're tapping your feet right now, aren't you, to "What a feeling," singing it to yourself.
I am.
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World Cup soccer has been full of surprises so far: Saudi Arabia over Argentina, Iran over Wales, U.S. plays to a scoreless tie with England.
But off the field, Iranian players not singing their national anthem, people are wearing Iran protest insignias and no beer is being served at the stadiums. All tat has been bringing attention to a tournament marked by bribery for where it is being played and by censorship of foreign journalists being restrained from reporting anywhere and everywhere around Doha.
The World Cup at Qatar is a Doha-ha-ha.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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