A Legend Passes
RIP country music legend Loretta Lynn, 90. Neither humble beginnings, marriage at 15 nor motherhood at 20 deterred the coal miner’s daughter. Born in Kentucky, her career spanned six decades. She had 24 number one hit singles and 11 number one albums. She earned 18 Grammy nominations, winning three. She is the most awarded female country recording artist ever, and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade, 1970s. She is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She wrote two autobios and a cookbook. The adaptation of her first autobio, Coal Miner’s Daughter, was released in 1980 and was the seventh most popular film at the box office that year. It received seven Oscar nominations, Sissy Spacek winning Best Actress and a Grammy. The soundtrack went gold. Lynn was a mom of six. She was married nearly 50 years when her husband passed away in 1996. Here’s what she said of him: “… there’s something else that made me stick to Doo. He thought I was something special, more special than anyone else in the world, and never let me forget it…” She was an American original, Americana incarnate. Thank you, madam. Photo from Facts from Wiki, photos from Google Images:
Headline from foxnews.com: “Analysts warn Americans to brace for rising gas prices.” The inevitable rears its ugly head. The Strategic Reserve is now only half full.
Politics is the ultimate hardball. Headline from FN: “HOWARD KURTZ: Herschel Walker hit on abortion payment report, Dr. Oz on alleged quackery as midterm attacks escalate.” If the two have dirt on their opponents, Warnock and Fetterman, let it fly.
From FN: “Europe activates two new pipelines, decreasing reliance on Russian gas ahead of winter crunch: report.” Maybe the continent has seen the light.
Is this a turning point? Headline from nypost.com: “George Soros-backed DA realizes that soft-on-crime ‘reforms’ are a failure.” Hopefully it’s not just “re-elect me” rhetoric.
This New Yorker decided to go for a stroll — across the top of the 115-year-old 90 West St. building in lower Manhattan. Photo from GI:
Headline from an NYP op-ed piece by Benjamin Weingarten: “The outrageous, Democrat-friendly census errors you’ve heard nothing about.” According to the article, population was inflated in blue states, deflated in red. This may affect the number of seats in the House of Representatives, and the allocation of funds. I engaged in a mild form of protest by not filling out a census form. I don’t regret it. The powers that be simply do what they want.
From NYP: “National debt surpasses $31 trillion for the first time in history.” Anyone surprised?
After 40 pages I abandoned The Power of Music: Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song by Elena Mannes. It’s mostly science to that point, but there is this nifty bit of info in the introduction: “Historians and anthropologists have yet to discover a culture without music.”
Finally! After four days the rain seems to be moving away. I got in a full session of the floating book shop. Since the sky remained threatening, I put out only ten percent of the wares, even forgoing displaying my own books. My thanks to the woman who bought an issue of the Spawn comic despite the sullied condition of the front and back cover; and to the one who selected a paperback in Russian; and to Wolf, who I was surprised showed on Yom Kippur and who purchased a hardcover thriller in Russian; and to Alice, who did a swap, Stuart Woods for a Patterson co-write.
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