…where they serve churrasco with arroz de coco,
C-O-C-O, coco.
He walked up to me and he asked me to vote,
I asked him his name and in a crooked voice he said Lula,
L-U-L-A, Lula.
La-la-la-la Lula.
Archive for April, 2018
I met him in a place down in São Paulo…
Thursday, April 5th, 2018Random note.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018I’ve been binge-watching episodes of “Seconds From Disaster“.
One thing that kind of surprises me is that there are a lot of disasters – serious disasters, causing major loss of life – that I’ve just simply never heard of until I stumbled across the relevant SFD episode. Mont Blanc Tunnel fire? Totally missed that one. Kaprun funicular disaster? How did I manage to miss that?
Interesting safety note: one of the talking heads on the Kaprun SFD episode made what I thought was a really profound point. Fire will always do the unexpected. Fire doesn’t necessarily behave in an intuitive way. 12 people survived at Kaprun because they ran downhill, towards and past the fire at the rear of the train. Which is counter-intuitive: why would you run towards the fire? Because:
Everybody who went uphill away from the fire died.
Also interesting: the trench effect.
Peanuts and popcorn.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018Well, once again, Gonzaga folded. And they didn’t even reach the Final Four this time. I’ve paid off my bet with Lawrence.
And, having learned nothing from history, I’ve bet another $5 with him on baseball. This year, I’m picking the Indians to win it all: the humor value of betting on the Cubs isn’t there any longer, I can’t stand the Dodgers or Yankees, and (as I’ve noted before) some of my family pull for the Tribe.
And 538 is giving the Indians a 13% chance of winning it all (as of today, April 3rd), second only to the Astros. So I’m feeling kind of good about my chances…
Obit watch: April 2, 2018.
Monday, April 2nd, 2018Man, it’s been a really busy couple of days.
Deborah Carrington, actress. Among her credits: Thumbelina in the original “Total Recall”, Valerie Vomit in “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie”, various Ewoks, and the “Bride of Chucky”.
Stéphane Audran, Babette in “Babette’s Feast”.
Delores Taylor, also an actress. She appeared in a bunch of her husband, Tom Laughlin’s, films, including “Billy Jack” and the two sequels.
Anita Shreve, noted novelist.
Separated at birth?
Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt
INS reporter Carl Kolchak.
Finally, noted TV producer Steven Bochco. (“Hill Street Blues”, “LA Law”, “NYPD Blue”, “Doogie Howser MD”. And where’s my damn “Hooperman” box set? I’m not kidding: I remember that being a kind of fun show.)
Let’s go out with a bang, shall we?