Hey, hi, howdy, kiddios. Hope you all managed to ride the storm out with relative ease.
We at the karaoke compound are counting ourselves extremely lucky in the aftermath. Power went out for maybe thirty seconds Monday evening, and that was it.
In fact, I worked most of the day Monday- though we did cut out a bit early after Norcross PD sent out their "stay off the streets" warning via text.
Some neighbors down the street got the worst of it in our neighborhood when a tree clipped the corner of their house. Mainly, though, what we have is a bunch of twigs, leaves, and pine straw.
What we don't know yet is the extent of the damage elsewhere. Let's hope it's not as bad as was expected.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a lower court’s analysis of parentage law in finding two daughters of a former security chief at Paisley Park "who Prince regarded as a brother" was correct, and that the two were not entitled to share of the late superstar’s estate. The three-judge panel upheld a lower court ruling that excluded the two women as rightful heirs.
The pair had claimed that their father, despite not being a blood relative of Prince Rogers Nelson, had been raised by Prince's father- Duane Nelson- as a son.
The Minnesota Supreme Court also rejected five other would-be heirs last week.
With his Outlaw Music Festival Tour wrapped up, Bob Dylan announced that he'll hit the road again next month for a short tour featuring Mavis Staples as his opening act.
The month-long, 21-stop tour kicks off October 13 at Harrah's in Valley Center, CA and finishes up on November 16 at Agganis Arena in Boston.
A little more than a week after Walter Becker's death, Donald Fagen said vowed to "keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band" and would honor that commitment next month with an eight stop North American tour.
The tour kicks off in Thackerville, Oklahoma, on October 13 and wraps up in National Harbor, Maryland, on October 25 and will be the Steely Dan’s first performances since July’s Classic East and Classic West festivals in New York and Los Angeles. Becker missed those shows due to illness and last played with the group he help start on May 27.
A piece published by The Guardian says that poet Ira Lightman found out by accident, via a Facebook post, that late Canadian poet laureate Pierre DesRuisseaux had plagiarized Maya Angelou's Still I Rise. Then, after checking more of DesRuisseaux's work, Lightman found plagiarized Federico García Lorca, Tupac, and countless others, as well.
It's thought that DesRuisseaux "got away" with ripping off the other artists by translating the work into French- and no one had bothered to check the veracity of the work.
The Grand Ole Opry's website announced yesterday that the Opry would hold a public memorial for Troy Gentry on Thursday. The service will be streamed online as well.
A private interment will follow the service.
Birthdays today include: Jennifer Hudson (36); Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland (43); Liam Gallagher of Oasis (45); Ben Folds (51); Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens (60); Barry Andrews of XTC (61); Gerry Beckley of America (65); and Neil Peart of Rush (65). #MusicalBirthdays
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