Really?

People who I thought were Dead already

• Leonard Cohen- I've thought he's been dead since the 70's when my Mom listened to him all the time. Aren't you supposed to be dead when they do a bunch of tribute albums of your songs?
  
• Fyvush Finkle - He's been playing old guys for a long time
  
• Evel Knievel - Again, thought he was dead in the '70's
• Syd Barret - Rock snobs know he was an original member of Pink Floyd. When people always said he "left the band" I figured he had died. Turns out he just died a few weeks ago.
• Milton Freidman - Just died the other day. He lived long enough to to see if his theories panned out.
  
• Jerry Blavat
  

Still here

• Lou Reed - In 1966 he wrote "....Heroin - will be the death of me" and he's still alive? What is he doing wrong? Or right?
  
• David Crosby
• Fidel Castro - Has outlived about ten U.S. Presidents. He has proven that Cigar smoking must be good for you
  
• Salman Rushdie
  

Why?

Johnny Carson deceased; Ed McMahon still alive

John Lennon and George Harrison gone; Ringo still here

Frank Sinatra dead; Englebert humperdink - still playing Vegas

Perils of Global Warming

I've had a theory (well maybe you would just call it an observation) that involves when it really starts to get cold in the Fall. I've noticed that there is always a cold snap right at Halloween- cold enough so your mom would make you wear a jacket over your costume when you went out Trick or Treating. This would, of course, totally ruin the costume you had been working on for months.

"Mom!! Spiderman wouldn't wear a jacket"
"He would if his mother told him to.."
"Awww, Mom"

I've been telling people this "theory" over the last few weeks when the subject of the weather comes up. And you know how often that is. This year I was proven wrong as kids here in Philadelphia could have gone out in shorts for Halloween. It was a beautiful night - probably still in the 60's in prime candy collecting time.

Now its a few weeks later and we're still having highs in the 60's and 70's. All the rain we've been having should have been snow - or at least some freezing rain or sleet. It hasn't even got below freezing even at night. I've hardly had to use my new heat pump dammit. Thanksgiving is a week away and nobody even realizes it because of the weather. It just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving. Well, maybe Thanksgiving in California, but here back east we like to freeze our asses off watching football and running home to a big blaze in the fireplace. This year it'll probably be nice enough to have dinner in the backyard. Maybe by Chrsitmas....