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Thursday, January 13, 2011

A new twist on Westboro.

January 13, 2011: January 13 is … Make Your Dream Come True Day and Blame Someone Else Day

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

While some of you are reading this, I will be under the knife. I must be at the hospital at 5:45 a.m. with surgery scheduled to begin at 7:00 a.m. I am the first surgery of the day for my doctor.

This day in 1962 saw singer Chubby Checker set a record, literally, with the hit, The Twist. The song reached the #1 position for an unprecedented second time -- in two years. The Twist was also number one on September 26, 1960. The Philadelphia boy made good twice!

Chubby’s birth name is Ernest Evans, but he changed it for show biz at the urging of Dick Clark’s wife. His smash success was also a twist of fate. Hank Ballard was supposed to record the song for Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Hank didn’t show; Danny and the Juniors, Clark’s second choice, couldn’t make it in time. Chubby Checker showed up complete with energy and enthusiasm to turn The Twist into a hit and a dance craze.
Others followed: Pony Time, The Fly, Limbo Rock, Slow Twistin’ with Dee Dee Sharp and Let’s Twist Again.

Out of the goodness of their stone cold, non-beating heart, members of the Westboro Baptist Church have decided not to picket at the funerals of the victims of the fatal shootings in Tucson, Ariz., in exchange for publicity, a spokeswoman says. Shirley P-R, daughter of the Kansas-based church's pastor and founder Fred P, said Westboro agreed to drop its plans to protest outside the funeral of Christina Taylor Green and the others killed last Saturday because it preferred to reach a wider audience over the air waves, the Topeka Capital-Journal said. I think the Church of cowards, jackasses and freaks changed their mind because someone in Arizona was hopefully going to take them out. These morons are too afraid to meet their maker. I would help if they only asked me for help. Just because you have the right to do something does not mean it is right to do something.

1957 - The Wham-O Company developed the first plastic Frisbee. The most popular theory as to how this flying disc came to be dates back to the 1920s when Yale students invented a game of catch by tossing around metal pie tins from the Frisbee Baking Company in nearby Bridgeport, Connecticut. They would frequently shout “Frisbieeeee” to warn passersby of the oncoming pie plate. Building inspector Fred Morrison puttered with and refined a plastic flying disc that he sold to WHAM-O (for $1 million) on this day in 1955. The disc was introduced to the consumer market in 1957 as the Pluto Platter (the name inspired by the U.S. obsession with UFOs). Wham-O changed the name to Frisbee in 1958, upon hearing the Yale pie-tin story. (Mattel now owns the rights to Frisbee, which has become an American icon.)

Ted Williams, the homeless man, by choice, from Ohio that received all the publicity and job offers over the last two weeks has entered rehab. That didn’t last long. Good luck Mr. Williams but live your life out of the limelight, it will be easier for you.

The twenty by thirty foot flag that hung over the World Trade Center, we have all seen pictures of it, will be on display at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on September 11, 2001. The flag was hoisted over the World Trade Center rubble by firefighters during cleanup.

Music at the top of the charts throughout history;

1949 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood)
A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight
I Love You So Much It Hurts - Jimmy Wakely

1957 Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell
The Banana Boat Song - The Tarriers
Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine
Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins

1965 I Feel Fine - The Beatles
She’s a Woman - The Beatles
Love Potion Number Nine - The Searchers
Once a Day - Connie Smith

1973 Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
Clair - Gilbert O’Sullivan
You’re So Vain - Carly Simon
She’s Got to Be a Saint - Ray Price

1981 (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard