Monday, August 12, 2024

Monday's video: Voter ID is a must, Harris & tips plus more stories

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Harris critical of Biden-Harris border policy

Harris critical of Biden-Harris border policy: It's been a weird year and it got weirder yesterday. VP Kamala Harris spoke of the border and how she was going to fight gangs and fentanyl. Let's check it out: “After officially securing the Democratic nominee despite no...
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August 2013: We heard about Eydie Gorme


Like some of you, I often think of those early days in “el exilio”. In our case, it was Wisconsin, snow and watching my parents listen to Spanish ballads.

Eydie Gorme died on this day in 2013.  She was a few days shy of her 85th birthday. Edith Gormezano was born in New York City in a Sephardic Jewish family.  This is why she grew up speaking English and Spanish.

In 1964, her career took off with “Amor,” a wonderful LP of Spanish tunes recorded with Trio Los Panchos. It became a best seller all over the world.  Later, they recorded a second volume of songs plus even Christmas tunes in Spanish.

I can still remember my parents enjoying that LP when we were freezing in Wisconsin……a bit of the musical soundtrack of our “exilio” story. 


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1987: The day that John Smoltz joined the Atlanta Braves

On this day in 1987, the Tigers traded a young John Smoltz to the Braves for veteran Doyle Alexander.    The Tigers went on to win the AL East and Alexander played a huge role down the stretch.
No one knew that Smoltz would turn into one of the best right handers in the NL.
John Smoltz won 213 games with a 3.33 ERA.   He also saved 154 games when he was turned into a closer.     Awesome career!    
The Braves won the NL pennant in 1991, 1992, 1996, 1999 and the World Series in 1995.  Smoltz was a big part of that pitching staff!


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August 1973: Happy anniversary American Graffiti



We celebrate another anniversary of the release of "American Graffiti", a movie that I've grown to like over the years.

 It must have been 1984, or maybe 1985, when I rented a copy of the movie to try out my new VHS player. 

I rented "American Graffiti" because there weren't that many other options available.  In fact, I remember that I checked out "Blood and Sand", the story of the Spanish bullfighter dealing with fame and fortune, and "For whom the bell tolls", the Hollywood version of Ernest Hemingway's book about the Spanish Civil War.

 My new VHS player introduced me to "American Graffiti" and specially the amazing soundtrack of songs.  I fell more for the songs than the script.  Eventually, I came to like the story, too.

 American Graffiti was about a bunch of kids in their first summer after high school.  It was great and I like it a lot now even if I was too young to enjoy songs like "See you in September" by The Tempos.

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"I'll be alone each and every night
While you're away, don't forget to write
See you in September
See you when the summers through
Here we are Saying goodbye at the station
Summer vacation Is taking you away
Have a good time but remember
There is danger in the summer moon above
Will I see you in September
Or lose you to a summer love
Counting the days till I'll be with you
Counting the hours and the minutes too
Have a good time but remember
There is danger in the summer moon above
Will I see you in September
Or lose you to a summer love....."

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