Again I Got the Final Jeopardy Correct While the 3 Contestants Missed it

This anthematic song was the first #1 by an Australian artist in 1972.

The ironic thing was that all three contestants were women.  That is unusual for Jeopardy.  In recent years there have been more women contestants, but it is unusual when all three are women.  I am sure that Julia Collins would have gotten it right.

Chris Christie Must Resign or Be Removed from Office

I live in New York, but work in New Jersey and pay taxes in both states.  I have observed that Governor Chris Christie seems very insensitive to the needs of citizens of the Garden State who put him into office.  I read that for 261 days out of 365 days he was out of state likely running for president.  He gave up after getting 2% in Iowa and 7% of the vote in New Hampshire.  Now he is spending much of his time campaigning for his new buddy Donald Trump.  Just weeks ago he trashed Trump while now he is actively supporting him.  If Trump becomes president, heaven forbid, Christie would likely get a cabinet appointment.

It really bothers me that Christie is doing nothing about averting a possible NJ Transit strike which would be devasting to the entire state.  Maybe he'll do something when his limosine is stuck in traffic. Since people he appointed orchestrated Bridgegate, he is indirectly responsible for it.  The man on top must take blame when subordinates fail.

Several newspapers in the state including the Star-Ledger have called for his resignation.  I think it would be almost impossible to gain enough signatures to recall him.  I concur that it time for this jerk to go.

Thanks to Desolation Row by Bob Dylan I Got Final Jeopardy Right Tonight

Warning - this song is 11 minutes long

I don't know much about poets and poetry, but that was the category on Final Jeopardy tonight.  The correct question "Who was T.S, Eliot?"  All three contestants got it wrong.  I really didn't know it but I ventured a guess based on Desolation Row by Bob Dylan.  Partial lyrics are below:

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
“Which Side Are You On?”
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain’s tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Johnny Cash Tribute at BB Kings

Lee never had the pleasure of seeing Johnny Cash in person.  By the time Lee became a fan, Johnny was too ill to tour and passed away in 2003.  I was looking at Facebook on Friday night and found out there would be a tribute concert at BB Kings on Sunday night.

We arrived at 6 PM when the doors opened and ate dinner before the show began at 7:30.  The opening act was a tribute to country star Waylon Jennings who was a big friend of Johnny Cash.  they both played in a country supergroup called the Highwaymen.  The Johnny Cash impersonator was Johnny Kinniard who played Johnny in the Broadway show Million Dollar Quartet.  He played over 30 songs from all eras of Johnny's career.  He sounded almost exactly the same as Cash, but was wearing a gray suit.  Simon Chardiet, JJ Murphy and Guy Kurshenoff were in the backup band.

Lee with his Johnny Cash shirt c. 2011

Tampa Bay Lightning 4 NJ Devils 0

Two times during every hockey season Karen and Lee meet me at the Prudential Center after work.  I finish at at 4 PM so I have to hang around for a few hours until game time.  The Devils looked a little weary as they played two nights in a row.  They lost 4-0 as Steven Stamkos of the Lightning scored in his fifth consecutive game.

Game recap

Today Would Have Been George Harrison's 73rd Birthday

Sadly we lost George at age 58 in November 2001.  His music with the Beatles and as a solo artist will live on.  Right now I am listening to an "All George Extravaganza" on Dennis Mitchell's Breakfast with the Beatles.  I fondly remember Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversaary Concert  in October 1992 when George covered Absolutely Sweet Marie.  Enjoy!

Trivial Pursuit on Pogo.com

I reported a month ago that Facebook dropped Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.  I always looked forward to playing it when I went online for the first time every day.  Another of my favorite games was Trivial Pursuit.  I remember playing the board game in the early 1980s.  It was not on Facebook, but I found it on Pogo.com.  I get 20 questions a day and must get 1200 points to get a wedge.  The Wikipedia reports that there was a television version of it that was seen on the Family Channel from June 1993 until December 1994.  I can't remember if I watched it back then.