The Slo-Man apparently has been quite busy going on looonggg drives with the LLBF. He finally had the time to hand over the complete list of references to his blog post "About the State of Affairs" The Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Coming Down The Who – Join…
http://slo-man.blogspot.com/2011/03/about-state-of-affairs.html 6. Bryan Adams – Summer of 69 7. Jimi Hendrix – The Wind cries Mary 8. Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue got Married 9. Little Richard – Long Tall Sally 10. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven 11. Steve Miller Band – Take the Money and Run 12. Kris Kristofferson – Bobby McGee…
Background to the piece (This was written late at night in Buffalo, NY as the Slo-Man watched TV in his hotel room. It was a snowy spring night in 2011 as he watched in succession the following items on TV. Stories from the Libyan uprising Jay Leno announcing that among his guests the…
is at http://slo-man.blogspot.com/2011/03/about-state-of-affairs.html And he asked me to post the first 5 references. Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Coming Down The Who – Join Together The Beatles – Eight Days a week Ace of Base – All that She Wants Says he will provide the rest later.…
is at http://slo-man.blogspot.com/2011/03/about-state-of-affairs.html And he asked me to post the first 5 references. Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Coming Down The Who – Join Together The Beatles – Eight Days a week Ace of Base – All that She Wants Says he will provide the rest later.…
"Disgraced integrity czar walks away with $ 500,000". The headline troubled the Slo-Man at multiple levels. Firstly, the use of the term "czar" to imply a senior-most position. The media is tempted to use this indiscriminately, with seemingly no regard to the history behind the term. Is the position really as autocratic…
The Slo-Man recently had some time on his hands to read the interweb and he stumbled upon this news story. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/101006/canada/canada_transport_police_offbeat The Slo-Man is, frankly, appalled. Is the world we created? The Slo-Man wonders - was this her first time driving to work? Surely, she must have gone there at least once before…
The English language evolves continuously, words change their meanings almost from generation to generation. “Sick” used to mean unwell, ill, under the weather. For anyone over the age of 20 it still does. Fro a modern generation it is akin to "fantastic". Somewhere, somehow, subtly sentences sustained a serious setback in their construction.…
and the anger management experts. He was downtown in an elevator that had a news feed on a TV monitor and a news item caught his eye. An anger management counsellor pulled a gun on someone who had blocked his car.Oh the irony! Too quote Sellers and Loren "Oh Doctor, I'm in trouble,…
The Slo-Man read this headline and called the LLBF for support. "Help me," he cried, "How could this happen?"."Obviously, someone flushed it down", said the LLBF, who is known for being practical when he's not dreaming."But what possessed anyone to go through the goop to find it? What hapless handyman, what investigative individual…