LIKE A ROLLING STONE

photo by Andrew Currie

Rolling Stone magazine is celebrating 50 years.  I don't know that it's the biggest act in the show anymore, but it certainly had its day!  Seasons come and seasons go.    news    

 

Principle in the type:  "Sometimes we procrastinate the closing and opening of our doors.  Habits we would like to break, new projects we would like to embark on, great things we say we are going to do ... New doors can be opened anytime we choose, and the old ones can be closed , even today."     Robert L. Backman

       

IN WITH THE NEW

photo by mctjack

Last Wednesday, Theresa May on invitation to govern from Queen Elizabeth II, became Britain's new prime minister.  This Brexit is a big deal, lots of change over there, David Cameron resigned, Brit's have differing view of the best next move.  Nonetheless (perhaps with that 'stiff upper lip,' those folk have always been so good at), May said "Britain would 'rise to the challenge ...' " of all there is ahead.    news

Principle in the type:  "Forget yourself and go to work."     Bryant Hinckley

WADDLE IMPROVED

photo by Craig Murphy

Okay, the Craigslist sold printer story left a sour taste in your mouth, right?  I know.  Let's leave on a high note regarding printers, okay?  What if printers can make wittle ducky feet?  Feel better?  
Using a 3D printer, Wisconsin middle school teacher Jason Jischke and his class, took "six weeks of trial and error," but were able to make prosthetic feet just right, for a duck that had lost its feet to frostbite.     story      

Principle in the type:  "You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."      Unknown

CALLING ALL CLEVERNESS

photo by Neon Tommy

Carol Burnett, who was given a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in January, would tweak today's television shows if she had her way.  "Some of the sitcoms I see make me feel like they might be being written by teenage boys in the locker room.  I'd like to see cleverness back," said Burnett.   You can't knock good ol'fashioned cleverness.     news 
                  

Principle in the type:  "They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."      Andy Warhol

THESPIAN TOUCHBACK

photo by Benjamin Thomas

I detect a football theme this week.  So let's continue.  

Eddie George, the Heisman Trophy winner in 1995 and eight seasons Tennessee Titan, has a new gig.  And it's on Broadway.  He is playing Billy Flynn in Broadway's production of Chicago.  For years George struggled to both find himself and re-invent himself post football, when the acting bug finally bit and fit.  “I really enjoy getting on stage, moving myself and telling a story through a character’s eyes and to deliver that in an honest way. A lot of the stuff I was going through in terms of anxiety and fear and depression and doubt (after football), I channeled all that in to the arts,” he said.      story                 

Principle in the type:  "There are signs and gifts everywhere, particularly in setbacks, but you need to keep your eyes peeled.  They come wrapped in missed opportunities, in unfulfilled promises and lost jobs.  They come born out of disappointments you never saw coming and also in those you should have.  But they bring you better things and take you to where you were meant to be. . . . Our setbacks bring us forward; we wander in the wilderness so the road can bring us home."    Rob Lowe 

GO AHEAD, POP MY BUBBLE

photo by Izzy Smith

A Seattle landmark, "the famous 'gum wall,' dried onto the bricks of a corridor in the city's Pike Place Market," is coming down.  20 years of chewed gum plastered in wads will be "pried off the wall with powerful steam cleaners . . ."  The decision being made because, among other things, "the sickly sweet scent began attracting vermin" and well - reason enough?  Change can be good.     story

Principle in the type:  "We hold hands with our high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.  We scrape ice off our cars and feel like winter will never end, and it does.  We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, "Stop getting old, face.  I command you!" and it doesn't listen. . . . Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being."          Amy Poehler   

LUNCH IS OVER

photo by anna Hanks

Former subway pitchman Jared Fogle, as you very likely already know, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison "for trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes."    ---Leaves very, very much more than a bad taste in one's mouth.      news            

Principle in the type:  "Societies depend in large part upon religion and church to establish moral order.  Government can never build enough jails to house the criminals produced by a society lacking in morality, character, and faith. . . . It is impossible for government to control the attitudes, desires, and hopes that spring from the human heart.  And yet these are the seeds that grow into the conduct government must regulate."    Wilford W. Andersen 

YES NOT NO

photo by Disney / ABC Television Group

Television producer, writer, actress and general bigwig Shonda Rhimes wrote a book, Year Of Yes, inspired from"her habit of saying no to 'scary' opportunities," she told People magazine.  "Doing something you're afraid of makes it stop being something you're afraid of," shared Rhimes.    story    

Principle in the type:  "Fairy tales are more than true:  not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."    Neil Gaiman