The History of Music Is Good Stuff

The Badger loss is too painful to talk about so I won't. Lets talk about other stuff today.

I've been watching alot of music documentaries lately. Netflix and Amazon Prime are full of them. The one's we never get to see in the theaters. These docs are worth the cost of Netflix and Prime alone never mind the other value they have. Here are a couple worth checking out

The story of Clive Davis. He was responsible for finding and grooming some of the biggest stars in music over 50-60 years. I remember the rise of Arista Records in the 70's but hadnt heard alot of these stories. The Whitney Houston stuff was really good.

We've been waiting awhile but the final season of “The Man In The High Castle” is close

And the second season of Jack Ryan starts Nov 1st. John Krasinski is surprisingly believeable playing Tom Clancy's famous character.

Actor Bill Macy passed away last week. Not to be confused with William Macy, Bill Macy was best know for playing Walter Findlay on the comedy Maude in the 1970s.

More than a million votes have been cast for the on going fan Rock & Roll Hall of fame vote. Pat Benetar leads with the Doobie Brothers and Soundgarden right behind.

Candy Corn pizza is a thing. Yes or no?

The high school football playoff pairings are out for this Friday.

Wausau Newman will host Marion/Tigerton in 8-man football

Port Edwards at Oakfield

The area matchups include:

DC Everest at Appleton East

Wisconsin Rapids at Kimberly

Marshfield at Superior

Hayward at Medford

Lakeland at Menominee

Mosinee at New Richmond

Nekoosa at Northwestern

Rhinelander at River Falls

Spooner at Stratford

Crivitz at Abbotsford

Athens at Almond-Bancroft

Peshtigo at Amherst

Markesan at Auburndale

Spencer/Marshfield Columbus at Bloomer

Witt/Birn at Chilton

Colby at Cumberland

Greenwood at Edgar

Northland Pines at Freedom

Pittsville at Gilman

Rosholt at Hilbert

Loyal at Hurley

Covers Of The Day

Quotes Of The Day

“Evil comes in many forms—whether a president misusing entrusted power for private gain, a senator tweeting scripture while covering for that corruption, or Turkish proxies using white phosphorous to melt the skin off a 13-year old Kurdish boy—but good has only one form: love.”Walter Schaub

“If I may crib from Bram Stoker, Rudy Giuliani is so low he could put on a top hat and crawl under a rattlesnake.”-Stephen King

“Some folks seem more comfortable retreating into petty primary politics than confronting the unprecedented crisis of a Kremlin asset POTUS backed by a transnational crime syndicate and cyber warfare ops. Candidates should speak plainly about this crisis and propose solutions.”-Sarah Kendizor

“After three years of this chaos people are still trying to pretend like Trump’s some kind of secret strategist because they’re terrified of admitting that meritocracy is a fraud and that a madman is at the wheel.”-Jared Yates Sexton

“Pompeo’s odd fixation with trashing Obama only highlights that history will record Obama as a giant figure and Pompeo as a small, supporting actor in a criminal and incompetent Administration.”-Ben Rhodes

“His tweet says they're going to begin the process. Mulvaney said they had gone through a process. Which is it?”-Barbara Marshall

“Exactly. Supposedly there would have been a process that found the Doral to be the best site so why not now select number 2 on the list? Mulvaney also said he wouldn’t share the process details, probably because there wasn’t any process. Just grift.”-Carol Starr

“A fascinating thing about Trump and his band of idiots is that not one of them knows that they have the right to remain silent”-Andy Lassner

Migrant children quietly being adopted after their parents are deported: report

http://hill.cm/uQlpkcB

“That’s not adoption that’s kidnapping.”-Piper Anderson

“The big problem nervous Rs face is that Trump's recent behavior is just a continuation of what he's been doing since day one. So acting against him is an implicit admission that Democrats and Never Trumpers were right.”-Paul Krugman

“Dear Republicans,‬

‪The Constitution isn’t like the Bible; you don’t get to just pick and choose which parts you follow. ‬

‪Sincerely,‬

‪The Emoluments Clause‬”

“The CIA has now officially concluded that the Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s assassination.How much more evidence of human rights abuses does Trump need before we stop providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia?”-Ro Khanna

“Donald Trump is defending the notion that a historically oppressed ethnic minority had to be “cleaned out.” Anyone who defends this language is either wholly ignorant of the past or wholly evil.”-John Nichols

Retired Admiral William H. McRaven writes, “If our promises are meaningless, how will our allies ever trust us? If we can’t have faith in our nation’s principles, why would the men and women of this nation join the military?”