M Is FOR MASHUP - August 4th, 2021
Having A Cowabunga With Surf Mashups!
By DJ Useo
I actually failed to find all the correct words I wanted for this article, so bear with me if I use any algebraic equations. But, on subject, by mixing months ahead, I’ve easily been able to meet my 2021 goal of one mashup album a month.
Lots of power, internet, & phone outages locally left me plenty of time to enjoy mixing along various themes. Now, for your August pleasure, here’s
“Surfin’ With DJ Useo”
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2021/08/surfin-with-dj-useo-mashup-album.html ) , 18 surf mashups to tickle your 18 senses.
You’ll notice that among the rock, rap, & pop acapellas used, there’s a ton of wacky singing. I hope you enjoy the variety, because I just couldn’t resist. When you get the chance to mix Danny Kaye, Groucho, or Huckleberry Hound, you just gotta go for it. Plus, there’s surf music from many of the best, like The Marketts, The Huntington Cads, The Trashmen, & many more.
Preview track "Vacant Bonnie" ( The Sex Pistols vs The Ventures )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/22494/dj-useo-vacant-bonnie-the-sex-pistols-vs-the-ventures- ) gives a fine example of the content featured. It’s not often you hear 70s punk rock singing over 60s Surf Rock.
I urge ya’ll to stay home away from the beach, & covid, & watch lots of surf movies, with supplemental patches of surf mashups. You’ll feel large benefit, & hopefully avoid sunburn. \-x+sqrt1-x2\-=sqrt2(2x2-1).
So, you realize I have another album ready for September! But, you don’t know what kind of music it’ll feature. The one thing you can be sure of is that it won’t be surf music. Or Tejano. So that’s two things. Oh, & it won’t be folk music. So that’s three things you can be sure of. Not a bad deal in this day & age.
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
PS. Don’t lose the ’s’ or you’ll be playing “urf” mashups, & that’s just wrong.
PSS. Last week I posted a mashup podcast celebrating Marty’s 20 year anniversary. "Bartcop E 20th Anniversary podcast (47:03)” brings attention to what a great contribution her page has been. I am told the show made the top ten for its hosting. There’s lots of classic rock mashups, & plenty of on-topic discussion. I hope you enjoy it. -
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-bartcop-e-20th-anniversary-podcast/ )
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Pitchers
• George Jessel lived long and prospered, being born in 1898 and dying in 1981, with many years of fame, fortune, and divorces in the middle. In 1910, he was batboy for the New York Giants, managed by John McGraw, at the Polo Grounds. At this time, the big stars were Ty Cobb and, near the end of his career, Rube Waddell. Mr. Jessel used to tell the story of Mr. Waddell being called to pitch with the opposing team having three men on base and no outs. Mr. Waddell made his outfielders come in and sit on the bench, then he struck out the next three batters.
• When pitcher Greg Maddux first reported to the Chicago Cubs, he was very young and he looked small in comparison to many major leaguers. One of the Cubs coaches, John Vokovich, asked team manager Gene Michael, “Aren’t you going to say hello to your new pitcher?” Mr. Michael looked around, saw Mr. Maddux, and said, “That’s the batboy.” Mr. Maddux ended up becoming the first person ever to win the Cy Young Award four years in a row.
• In 1934, brothers Dizzy Dean and Daffy Dean pitched a double-header for the St. Louis Cardinals. Dizzy had a no-hitter until the 9th inning, when he gave up three hits but still won the game. Daffy, however, pitched brilliantly for the entire game and earned a no-hitter. After the game, Dizzy congratulated Daffy and said, “Why didn’t you tell me you were going to pitch a no-hitter? Then I would have pitched one, too.”
• New York Yankees rookie pitcher Henry Johnson was just starting to eat a sandwich in the bullpen when he was called up to pitch relief against the Philadelphia Athletics. He asked, “Who’s coming up to bat for the A’s?” The answer came back — three power hitters: “Cochrane, Simmons, and Foxx.” Mr. Johnson put down his sandwich and said, “Don’t let anybody touch that. I’ll be right back.”
• Former major league pitcher Johnny Sain once faced the great hitter Rogers Hornsby. Mr. Sain threw a pitch, which was ruled a ball by the umpire. Then he threw another pitch, which was also ruled a ball. Annoyed, Mr. Sain walked halfway to the umpire and said sarcastically, “Will you let know when I pitch a strike?” The umpire replied, “When you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know.”
• Joe Garagiola once was catching for a young pitcher who was facing the great hitter Stan Musial. Mr. Garagiola kept giving signs for pitches, but the pitcher kept shaking them off. Finally, Mr. Garagiola went to the pitcher’s mound and asked the young pitcher what he wanted to throw against Mr. Musial. “Nothing,” the pitcher replied. “I want to hold the ball as long as possible.”
• The great hitter Stan Musial once faced pitcher “Bobo” Newsome and hit a single, a triple, and a home run. The fourth time Mr. Musial was set to hit against Mr. Newsome, Mr. Newsome’s manager decided to send in a rookie pitcher. The rookie pitcher took the ball from Mr. Newsome and asked if Mr. Musial had any weaknesses. “Yeah,” replied Mr. Newsome, “he can’t hit doubles.”
Practical Jokes
• While attending Syracuse University, Dave Bing roomed with Frank Nicoletti. Mr. Bing is African American, while Mr. Nicoletti is white. Both enjoyed playing practical jokes on the other. Sometimes, Mr. Nicoletti would be in the dorm hall late at night when suddenly Mr. Bing would open the door to their room and roll some cans down the hall. Mr. Nicoletti would immediately run for their room to try to escape being blamed for the noise, but the resident assistant would come running to investigate the noise and see Mr. Nicoletti going into his room. The resident assistant would then enter the room, see Mr. Bing innocently kneeling and saying his prayers, turn to Mr. Nicoletti, and put him on probation. However, Mr. Nicoletti also played practical jokes on Mr. Bing. Because Mr. Bing was involved with Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, he had to get up early to do ROTC drills. Mr. Nicoletti would change the time on Mr. Bing’s alarm clock so that Mr. Bing would think that he was getting up at 7 a.m. when it was actually 5 a.m. Sometimes, when Mr. Bing went outside on a bitterly cold morning for ROTC drills, he would discover that he was the only person up. Then he would look at his wristwatch and discover that his roommate had fooled him again.
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Music: "Only One I’m Thinking Of"
Album: TROUBLE IN MIND
Artist: Jodie Marie
Artist Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Info: “Jodie Marie Warlow is a Welsh singer-songwriter better known by her stage name, Jodie Marie. She was signed to Decca Records in 2010. Jodie Marie's 2012 debut album MOUNTAIN ECHO has been described by THE GUARDIAN as 'velvety and bittersweet' and THE INDEPENDENT as 'having a light-blues and jazz-folk-edge recalling late-1960s singer-songwriters such as Carole King.’”
Price: £1 (GBP) for track; 7 (GBP) for 11-track album
Genre: R&B.
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Clarifies Rules
'Jeopardy!'
Matt Amodio is currently riding a nine-game winning streak that has netted him more than $310,000, but some of the show’s fans have a bone to pick with him because he responds with “What is ... ?” or “What’s ...?” for every clue, regardless of what he answers.
For instance, he once said “What’s Updike?” when referring to author John Updike, instead of “Who’s Updike?”
Some viewers have become so puzzled by his style that “Jeopardy!” had to address the matter.
“What’s up with Matt Amodio? A lot of ‘what’s’ in his responses — and that’s totally acceptable!” the show tweeted Monday.
“The rules state, ‘...all contestant responses to an answer must be phrased in the form of a question,’” the show said. “It's that simple. ‘Jeopardy!’ doesn't require that the response is grammatically correct.”
'Jeopardy!'
"Parted Ways"
Judge Napolitano
Fox parts ways with , legal pundit who opposed Trump, after male production assistant accuses him of sexual harassment
Fox News has "parted ways" with legal analyst Andrew Napolitano after a producer at the network accused him of sexual harassment.
Producer John Fawcett, who works on Larry Kudlow's show on Fox Business Network, alleged in a discrimination lawsuit that Napolitano had stroked his arm and made a sexually suggestive comment while they were sharing an elevator.
Napolitano had worked as a legal commentator at Fox News for more than two decades, AP News reported, and he emerged as a firm critic of Donald Trump at a network know for backing the former president. Before that he was a judge in the New Jersey court system.
The lawsuit, which was filed at the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, said, per DailyMail.com: "Even though the two had never met previously, Judge Napolitano stood awkwardly close to the plaintiff, started stroking his arm, and asked who the plaintiff worked for."
Judge Napolitano
Wedding News
Derek - Corbett
John Corbett and Bo Derek tied the knot — last year!
During an appearance on The Talk on Tuesday, Corbett told co-host Jerry O'Connell that he and his longtime partner wed "around Christmastime."
"Jerry I can't believe that I forgot to tell you that around Christmastime we got married. Bo and I got married!" the Sex and the City alum revealed.
"After 20 years we decided to get married, we didn't want 2020 to be that thing that everybody looks back at and hated. We thought, 'Well, let's get one nice thing out of it,'" Corbett concluded.
Corbett, 60, and Derek, 64, have been together for nearly two decades. In April 2020, the 10 actress opened up in an interview with Fox News about why the pair had yet to wed.
Derek - Corbett
Sumo Scare
Equestrian Jumpers
Equestrian jumpers aren’t keen on surprises. Neither are the horses, and it takes years of training to keep them from getting spooked.
Of course, no horse in Tuesday night’s Olympic jumping qualifier had ever seen anything like obstacle No. 10.
“As you come around, you see a big guy’s (butt),” British rider Harry Charles said.
Riders say a life-size sumo wrestler positioned next to the 10th obstacle on the 14-jump Olympic course may have distracted several horses in qualifying for the individual jumping final Tuesday night. A few pairings pulled up short of the barrier, accumulating enough penalty points to prevent entry into Wednesday’s finals.
The statue is positioned to the left of a jump placed in the corner of the arena. Hunched over and seemingly ready to attack, the wrestler is facing away from approaching riders, meaning that when they complete a sharp turn to take on the jump, the first thing horse and human see is the wedgie created by the wrestler’s mawashi.
Equestrian Jumpers
Anti-Union Conduct
Amazon
Amazon interfered with a union-certification vote, and a second election should be held, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official wrote in a report released yesterday. Amazon's anti-union misconduct made a "free and fair election... impossible," the report said.
A majority of Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted against certifying a union in April. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union subsequently filed a complaint with the NLRB and was able to convince the hearing officer that Amazon interfered with the election.
"[T]he evidence demonstrates that the employer's conduct interfered with the laboratory conditions necessary to conduct a fair election," NLRB attorney and hearing officer Kerstin Meyers wrote. The report continued:
More specifically, the conduct which interfered with the result of the election relates to the employer's polling of employees by distribution of "vote no" paraphernalia in the presence of supervisors and managers, as well as the employer's unilateral decision to cause the United States Postal Service to install a generic unlabeled mail collection box less than 50 feet from the main entrance to its facility, at a location suggested by the employer and immediately beneath the visible surveillance cameras mounted on the employer's main entrance. While this is a case of first impression, the employer's conduct in causing this generic mail receptacle to be installed usurped the National Labor Relations Board's exclusive role in administering union elections. Notwithstanding the union's substantial margin of defeat, the employer's unilateral decision to create, for all intents and purposes, an onsite collection box for NLRB ballots destroyed the laboratory conditions and justifies a second election.
The ruling is not final, so a second election is not yet definite. The NLRB process allows appeals and will give Amazon several "opportunities for delay" even though its mailbox-related conduct was "pretty egregious," University of North Carolina professor of labor and employment law Jeff Hirsch wrote in a Twitter thread yesterday. "The next step is for the hearing officer's recommendation to be reviewed by the head of the Atlanta Region," he wrote. The regional director could order a new election, and Amazon has already said it will appeal.
Amazon
Low Vaccination Rates
LAPD
A tenth employee of the Los Angeles Police Department has died from complications of COVID-19 amid rising coronavirus cases across the region and internally within the department.
The death of Officer Becky Strong and the increasing number of infections among the LAPD's ranks come as the department struggles to convince more officers to get vaccinated, and as activists continue to call out examples of officers appearing to violate mask mandates and other COVID-19 protocols on the street — including when they interact with members of the public.
Strong's death and the rising number of COVID-19 cases within the department were also noted by LAPD Chief Michel Moore before the civilian Police Commission during its meeting Tuesday morning.
A total of 2,796 members of the department of more than 12,000 have now tested positive for the virus.
The LAPD has said that just over half of its personnel are vaccinated, despite broad access and promises from Moore that the department is doing everything it can to encourage participation.
LAPD
Iceberg Wall Collapses
Titanic Museum
Three people have been injured at a Titanic museum in Tennessee after an iceberg wall collapsed.
WATE reported that the owners of the museum, Mary Kellogg Joslyn and John Joslyn, said the incident took place on Monday.
Those harmed in the collapse have been taken to a local hospital but the extent of their injuries is currently unknown. The names of those injured have not been released.
Immediately following the accident the attraction was closed, but as of Tuesday morning it was back open to ticketed passengers.
They said it would take at least four weeks to rebuild the ice wall at the attraction which was opened by Cedar Bay Entertainment in 2010.
Titanic Museum
Does It Even Exist?
Planet Nine
Planet Nine - also referred to as Planet X - is a massive, hypothetical object in an elliptical orbit far beyond Pluto, roughly at a distance that would take 10,000 to 20,000 Earth years for it to complete a single trip around the Sun.
Though no direct observations have ever been made of an object fitting the description of Planet Nine, unexpected patterns in the orbits of other, smaller objects in the icy outer reaches of the Solar System could be explained by the gravitational pull of such a body.
In early 2016, California Institute of Technology astronomers Mike Brown (famed for his role in demoting Pluto from its rank as the ninth planet in 2005) and Konstantin Batygin announced their observation of dwarf planet 2012 VP113's orbit lining up uncannily well with the orbits of five other extreme trans-Neptunian objects.
Though potentially a coincidence, the odds of this clustering occurring without something tugging them into place were around 1 in 14,000, according to Brown.
To date, the best evidence of an undiscovered planet in the farthest reaches of our Solar System remains this clustering, along with a strange inclination of their orbits and the orbit of 90377 Sedna that can't be explained by the presence of Neptune.
Planet Nine
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