REMEMBER WHEN...?

1. Loggins & Messina w/Gary Wright......$7.00
2. Jethro Tull................................................$6.00
3. Doobie Brothers.......................................$6.50
4. Moody Blues.............................................$9.50 (oooh-weren't they expensive!)
5. Frank Zappa.............................................$6.50
6. The Kinks..................................................$11.50 (of course this was `83)
7. Bruce Springsteen....................................$8.50 (over 4 hours long!!)

And these are real prices from my old ticket stubs I found over the weekend. Back then you could smuggle in your own alcoholic beverages (we used a wine bota filled with Sangria or Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill-remember when that was 99 cents a bottle?) & smokeable consumables! And even get up from your seat and wander around the venue to take pictures of the band from the front of the stage.

Yes...life was good!

LAST 6 BOOKS READ

1) The King Of Torts by John Grisham: Clay Carter makes $121 million in 18 months suing drug companies, and then loses most of it. Another interesting Grisham, and you'll see why so few
people (other than lawyers) get rich from malpractice/drug suits.

2) Slan by A.E. Van Vogt: Jommy Cross the Slan goes looking for others, and has space-operatic adventures along the way. Standard 1940s science fiction.

3) The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury: In the vein of DaVinci Code, Khoury weaves a tale
of mystery and adventure centering on the Knights Templar.

4) Flags Of Our Fathers by James Bradley: Not my normal reading, but loaned by a friend. A
fascinating book written by the son of one of the 6 flag raisers from the famous photo, and
the only one to live into old age. And it wasn't the original flag raising either. Read this book before you see the movie.

5) John Lennon:The Definitive Biography by Ray Coleman: A thorough and engrossing
look at John Lennon; updated to include events after his murder in 1980.

6) The Policy by Bentley Little: Another slice of normal life gone haywire. This one will
make you think even less of insurance companies than you probably already do. Creepy.

A nice selection of books this time around, with the exception of the Van Vogt, who is a very dated writer, and has not kept the popularity that many of the 1930s & 40s SF writers still
have. Both this book and another one in a future 'last 6' list are old editions that I picked up used. I don't think they even reprint any of his books anymore.

NUTRITIOUS? - HAH!

The New England-based chain, Hannaford Brothers, recently announced the results of its review of more than 27,000 popular supermarket products. Rating the nutritional content of the products on a scale of 0-3 stars, with three stars being the best, Hannaford Brothers grocers reached a surprising conclusion: 77% of the so-called "health foods" available in its stores received a zero-star rating. Among the "healthy" items to flunk out were many of Americans' most popular brands, including Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine frozen dinners, Campbell's soups, and Yoplait and Dannon yogurt cups.

Thanks...I'll just have another beer...

TERROR ALERT...DANGER,DANGER WILL ROBINSON

DUBAI (Reuters) - A two-year-old boy was briefly banned from boarding a Turkey-bound flight in the United Arab Emirates after his name appeared on a list of wanted suspects, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Emirates Today said the boy's passport details, including the date of birth, matched those in an arrest warrant. The reason for the mix-up was not known.
"While going through the passport checking procedures to get on board, one of the officers on duty said they wanted to take Suhail," Emirates Today quoted the boy's father, Abdullah Mohamed Saleh, as saying.
"I thought he was kidding me and said 'Take him if you want'," he said. "He showed me a print-out of a document that said Suhail was wanted and there was an arrest warrant for him."
Officials said they would investigate the incident, the paper reported.

And how many real terrorists got through while this went on...?

SPINACH - A TERRORIST PLOT?

Did you know...spinach actually originated in the area of what is now
Iran. It did not spread to other parts of the world until the beginning
of the Christian era.

So kids - remember...

If you eat your spinach...the terrorists win...