Four For Friday - The Idea
Happy Friday everyone. Sunday is not only Father's day, but the first day of summer. The longest day of the year and then everything goes downhill from there as the days start to get shorter and the next thing you know it's Thanksgiving and you only come up for air after the third football game of the day for another slice of chocolate pecan pie. Normally I would say this in the photos, but since it is Friday, will do it here. Just ten more days of Random Photos to have your reader photo displayed in Random Photos and then again on Reveal Day. July 4th is close. I can smell the fireworks at Flavor Flav's house. If you want your photo included, e-mail it to entlawyer90210@yahoo.com I will be here all weekend blogging so stop on by. If you want to follow me on Twitter, I am @entylawyer
I hate when someone says, "Come on, it will be fun." It rarely is. It means they think it is pretty sucky and don't want to go by themselves so they try and convince you it is going to be great so you can join in on the suckitude. So, even though I hate it when it is done to me, there I was doing it. Kind of whiny. Not Caillou whiny, but I really did not want to do this alone. Actually I needed her help. Her being JC. She was an A list singer for about two seconds. A one hit wonder. Comes from a great singing family though. No, not the Osmonds. I'm not ever going to try and convince one of them to hang out with me or take a trip with me. Did I ever tell you my Marie Osmond story? Well, lets just say that she will always regret messing with my head. OK, where was I? Oh yeah. JC. I needed her because my other contact RO was really busy right then enjoying her own one hit wonder status. Everyone still knows that song and her name. The other person I was going to enlist (GR) to help was a one album wonder who has managed to make that album last a lifetime. He was notoriously famous for not showing up when he promised and also if he did show up was probably going to be wasted. He still has A+ list name recognition.
So, that left me JC. Plus she was here and now and not at the other end of a 12 hour flight. She had the connection. A big connection. Her ex. He is not really important to the story but the purpose for all of this was to land the impossible. Through her ex she had met the impossible. The impossible loved her. I would love to have loved her, but she was having no part of my bacon loving self in that kind of way.
This had all started a few weeks earlier. I had been talking about the impossible and another person started kicking around the idea of the impossible. Could it be done? There was a lot of money to be made. Some phone calls were made to people with deep pockets and they were in. One catch. Needed a yes. Impossible. Probably, but I was going to give it a shot. There was not going to be any money in this for me. All I wanted was for me to be able to say I pulled off what no one said could be done. I remember thinking it would take a lot of phone calls and a whole lot of back and forth, but that it could be done. The phone calls got some buzz going and things were looking up. Then, all of a sudden the door slammed shut and I knew who was behind that door closing. This was going to require face to face. The person behind that door would say no to me and probably not even meet with me to listen. That person would listen to JC though. He adored RO and tolerated GR. The thing is all three of them could get me that meeting. I knew the three. The tough part was getting one of the three to help me out. So, there I was, backstage at a concert waiting patiently for the meet and greet to finish and talk to JC. I told her my plan. I told her what I needed. She volunteered to call her ex which was nice, but not enough. She really didn't want to go back. She had been there a long time and never felt comfortable there. She liked what she was doing now and where she was living and was about to go into the studio and blah blah blah. I begged, I pleaded. I told her it would be fun. She rolled her eyes, but agreed.
On Monday, we meet RO and GR.
Its too hot tovdeal with this mess
ReplyDeleteKylie Minogue
Dido
James Blunt?
WTF did I just read?!?! Anyone?!?! I usually can understand Enty but me thinks he started the weekend early today
ReplyDeleteIt's Juneteenth day today
ReplyDeleteJuneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas in June 1865, and more generally the emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the Confederate South. Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and is recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in most states.
The holiday is observed primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and readings by noted African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Celebrations may include parades, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, or Miss Juneteenth contests.
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863. It declared all slaves to be freed in the Confederate States of America in rebellion and not in Union hands (this excluded Tennessee, "West" and Southeast Virginia and lower Louisiana, which were occupied by the Union). It also announced that the Union would start recruiting former slaves and free blacks to serve in the military and recruitment began in the spring of 1863. Slaves often escaped to Union lines for protection and many began to serve in the military. In some areas, contraband camps were set up to house the freedmen temporarily, as well as start schools and put adults to work. Lincoln had urged the governments in the Border States, which had remained in the Union, to free their slaves under a system of gradual abolition and compensation, but none did so. Those slaves were not emancipated until the end of the war.
Even when slaves gained freedom, this was a difficult era. Conditions in contraband camps were crowded, with poor sanitation, as existed in most military encampments. Just as more soldiers on both sides died of disease rather than wounds, because of the social disruption from the war and general harsh conditions, many former slaves died of disease in the years from 1862 to 1870, including from a smallpox epidemic.
More isolated geographically, Texas was not a battleground, and thus its slaves were not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation unless they escaped.[6] Planters and other slaveholders had migrated into Texas from eastern states to escape the fighting, and many brought their slaves with them, increasing by the thousands the number of slaves in the state at the end of the Civil War.[7]
By 1865, there were an estimated 250,000 slaves in Texas. As news of end of the war moved slowly, it did not reach Texas until May 1865, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi did not surrender until June 2. On June 18, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived at Galveston Island with 2,000 federal troops to occupy Texas on behalf of the federal government. On June 19, standing on the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of "General Order No. 3", announcing the total emancipation of slaves:
The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere. You can read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
GR- Guns & Roses-- Axl Rose
ReplyDeleteBummer..I gotta run-no time to decipher this ...the early guessers are online already so,
ReplyDeleteCALLING: TheDude78
CALLING: TheDude78
JC --Roseanne Cash
ReplyDeleteIs JC Lisa Marie Presley?
ReplyDeleteGR---El Debarge---from Grand Rapids
ReplyDeleteRO=Ntalie Imbruglia-T-OR-n?
ReplyDeleteEx =Michael Jackson
ReplyDeleteLisa Marie Pressley ex=Michael Jackson
ReplyDeleteMO---Moon Zappa
ReplyDeleteToo old, too many hits. late 80's - mid 90s, like every other personal long blind of his, especially musically related ones like this.
ReplyDeleteNah, none of these so far. I've got nothin, but none of these work.
ReplyDeleteI think GR might be Boy George. He had one huge album, but really nothing major after that, but he's everyone still knows who he is. No idea on the others.
ReplyDeleteI always thought Lisa Loeb was RO? Her famous bf was Dweezil Zappa, but she wasn't dating him at the time of "Stay" so doesn't fit!
ReplyDeleteI WOULD agree with that, but G&R had more than one great album.
ReplyDeleteJC---Jane Child---her parents are classical musicians---her hit was "Dont wanna fall in love"
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