BUENOS DÍAS good Saturday morning.
Something new this first
day of summer in Rink Rats. On our off weeks this summer we will have a short
(1,000 words) Saturday edition, enjoy.
HAPPY
FATHER’S DAY - Five songs we are listening to this Father’s Day
weekend on our iPhone:
1). “Tennessee
Whiskey”, 2015: Chris Stapleton
2). “Green
Onions”, 1962: Booker T. & The Mg’s
3). “Mr.
Soul”, 1967: Buffalo Springfield
4). “Tupelo
Honey”, 1971: Van Morrison
5). “Can’t
You See”, 1973: The Marshall Tucker Band
RR QUIZ – Fill
in the blank: This
week, _____ suspended its plan to sell up to $500 million in stock in a
last-ditch effort to raise money.
A). Hertz
B). Quicken Loans
C). Carnival
D). Delta
007 QUIZ - The 25th
James Bond movie finally has a title, “No Time To Die”. To celebrate, we’ll
give you four cocktails. You have to decide whether they’re traditionally
shaken or stirred.
Manhattan
Cosmopolitan
Daiquiri
Martini
Answers at the end of
the blog.
GOOD WATCH –
How about a good music documentary to add something
different to your pandemic viewing list:
Amazing Grace (2018)
Sydney Pollack
originally shot this documentary in 1972, capturing Aretha Franklin as she
recorded her live album, Amazing Grace. Due to technical issues syncing the
footage and the audio, the film languished in a Warner Bros. vault until 2007,
and then, after producer Alan Elliott restored the footage and got sued by
Franklin, it sat around for a few more years until after the artist’s death,
when he came to terms with her family. Finally, you can see the concert film
nearly 50 years in the making!
Fleetwood Mac: The Dance
(1997)
The scandalous
interpersonal drama among the members of Fleetwood Mac is well known to their
fans, which is why it was such a big deal when, in the late ’90s, everyone who
had made the group so successful in their heyday—Lindsey Buckingham, Mick
Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks—reunited for this
tour, memorialized on the live album The Dance, and in this accompanying
concert film.
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Long before winning an
Oscar for directing The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme was already a
legend for helming Stop Making Sense, in which the Talking Heads perform songs
from Speaking in Tongues at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
The Last Waltz (1978)
Martin Scorsese directed
this acclaimed film, in which the Band puts on their “farewell concert
appearance” in San Francisco. In addition to the members of the Band—Rick
Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson—special
guest performers include Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, and Neil
Young, among many others.
A Hard Day’s Night
(1964)
The Beatles’ first film,
directed by Richard Lester, is a lightly fictionalized comedy about
Beatlemania, following the Fab Four through 36 hours of their crazy new life in
London. Amid the madcap set pieces are several early hits, including “Can’t Buy
Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better,” “Tell Me Why,” and (of course) the
title track.
THE OLDEST WORD - What did the first
words sound like? Did cavemen grunt like they do in cartoons and movies? Did
they say, "me, man, you, woman"? Humans have been speaking for more
than 50,000 years (some estimates say 150,000 years), so we really don't know
what they sounded like. Evidence of written language dates back only 4,000
years.
But if we want a clue as to how the building blocks of
language developed, we can take a look at the oldest identified words. And
that's just what researchers at the University of Cambridge did when they
studied 23 words in an extremely ancient language believed to have been spoken
around the Black Sea area. These words gave rise to an extensive language
family, Indo-European, which includes everything from Sanskrit to Latin to
Russian to Irish to, yes, English.
Researchers found the meaning of these early words hadn't
changed much over thousands of years, showing how truly durable they are. Just
think, you could show up to a Paleolithic barbecue some 15,000 years ago and
actually talk to your ancestors!
What's the first word you'd need to introduce yourself? How
about “I”, the ultimate pronoun? This first-person singular personal pronoun
develops from the Old English ic and ih. Humans have always needed a way to
refer to themselves (as opposed to their mother, brother, husband, child).
Self-identity was and always will be important. It would make sense that some
of the most basic, nuts-and-bolt words are very old.
THE SWAMI’S
WEEKEND PICK – The Belmont Stakes, Grade 1, $1,000,000; 06/20. 5:00
pm (EDT), NBC: Clearly, this is not your father’s Belmont Stakes, or yours, or
anybody else’s. Not only does it precede the Kentucky Derby and Preakness
rather than occupy its traditional position as the third jewel, it has been
shortened to a mile and one-eighth and thus becomes the first Triple Crown race
ever to be contested around one turn. With several potential contenders either
injured and off the trail or bypassing the race to point for the rescheduled
Run for the Roses (Sept. 5), this year’s Belmont will offer what surely will be
an odds-on favorite, thus requiring creative wagering strategy to manufacture
value.
The
Swami likes:
1). Tiz
the Law (6-5): Velazquez / Tass
2). Tap
It to Win (6-1): Franco / Casse
3). Dr.
Post (5-1): Ortiz / Pletcher
4).
Modernist (15-1): Alvarado / Mott
Remember,
bet with your head not over it.
RR QUIZ
ANSWERS –
Hertz
Manhattan - stirred
Cosmopolitan - shaken
Daiquiri - shaken
Martini - shaken
HAPPY
FATHER’S DAY TO ALL DADs –
Next Blog: “The Future
of Collegiate Sports”
Until
Monday June 29, 2020 Adios.
Claremont,
California
June 20,
2020
#XI-5-411
1,011 words, four minute read
CARTOON OF THE WEEKEND – Pepper … And Salt
RINK RATS POLL – Do you think
Juneteenth should be a national holiday?
___ Yes
___ No
___ I'm not sure
QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND – “In America justice should be a
verb not a noun.”
—
Bakari Sellers
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