Weird Al

 I have always enjoyed his music. Seeing this 6/23/26 Variety article makes me respect him more. He explained that he was offered seven figures to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival:

"But I’m doing enough that I don’t need to take any amount of money if it makes me feel icky, and that kind of did.”

Saudi Arabia is slowly inching towards the 16th century. It still needs to sign the Abraham Accords and treat women as equals. 

I Have the Weirdest Dreams

The dream involved talking to a recent college graduate and somehow we started taking about our junior high and high school teachers.   The ones that I had,  Brophy, Emch,  and a few others were still teaching.   A a very sad song starts playing.   All that I can remember is this refrain:

"Let's face it.

The time has come, 

Your job is done."

This applies in multiple sad ways:

1. You are obsolete in your work.

2. There are younger people who expect lower pay to do your job. 

3. All we are is dust in the wind.

4. Empty nest.

None are happy.  All are inevitable. 

How Much Has America Changed?

I was listening to the great music I grew up with, and I noticed this song which was very popular sung Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler.


Most people hear Green Berets and think of the John Wayne movie and Vietnam, but they were liberators in South America.  My HVAC guy was a Green Beret sniper in the first Iraq War.