What Keeps Me Up At Night

I seriously started this blog for yesterday, got heavily distracted and never got to finishing it.... Hopefully worth the wait.

It's the 6 year anniversary of 9/11.... a very troubling time to think back upon. I see a lot of memorial emails, signs, and even a Text Message on Tuesday morning.... but there's something even more honorable and touching when I drove by a fire station in the morning and they had the fire truck ladder fully extended over the street with a huge American flag hanging down from the bucket. That was pretty sweet. I won't take this opportunity to create a political discussion (I hope our folks at the national level do the same thing) out of respect. But I will take this opportunity to say that while life has moved on and people have gone on with their daily lives, people have yet to forget what happened on 9/11. I think it's one day a year that our country at least tries to come together and live a day unified for once - something I think is very important for my generation.

But now back to what keeps me awake at night.... or at least figuratively!

When was the last time you woke up sweating realizing that you were so restless through the night wondering what ever happened to Biz Markie? Yeah, the "YOU SAY HE'S JUST A FRIEND" guy (think 1990). Well it was driving me nuts so I did some home work for you so you don't have to (and can get back to visions of sugar-plums dancing in your heads). Turns out Biz isn't ready to give up the Rap life quite yet.... nor is he ready to leave his ability to be on TV. You'll remember that he was the beatboxing alien postal worker in Men In Black 2 (or did you know that was him in the first place)? Here's a video of Biz doing a kid's show - "Yo Gabba Gabba". Gotta love the "Hey Kids" at the beginning:



Ahhh.... good Ol Biz...

The other thing that keeps me awake lately is wondering what the true lyrics to Steve Miller Band's The Joker. You know the verse:

Some people call me the space cowboy
Some people call me the gangsta of love
Some people call me Maurice (WOO-HOO)
Cause I sing of the POMPATUS of love

Is he really singing of the POMPATUS of love? What does that mean? I first checked dictionary.com. Nothing, not even close to anything like pompatus. Lyrics database confirms that he is saying "pompatus", and wikipedia has the word, but confirms it is a made up word just by Steve Miller Band.

Then I found this sight where a guy asks the same question, with alternative suggestions of wording. While I'm pretty convinced he is indeed saying pompatus, just not sure what he means by that.

Anyways - GO CLONES!!! Everyone should be wearing their red colors this week with pride!

Haiku of the Day
You Got What I need.
But you say he's just a friend...
Oh Baby Youuuu-uuuuuu

two syllables on that last "you".... if you're in the know, you'll follow...

Entertainment of the Day - I watched Zodiac this past weekend. It has Jake Cyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. in it and is about the Zodiac killer who left a cryptic trail in the 60s/70s in the San Francisco area. Interesting "based on a true story" movie and keeps you interested the entire 2.5 hours. Yeah, one of those unfortunately. Still recommendable.

Weblink of the Day - Wheeler suggesting today's weblink... a neat video of shadow puppets singing for you. Well done!