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I don't think the young folks will get this one. (BTW, I like the piano solo in this song)

If he doesn't get one, he'll have to wing it.

Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend — Marilyn Monroe

Nippon Soul — Cannonball Adderley

Cool Eyes — Horace Silver

I'm going to buy some Velcro for my shoes instead of laces. Why knot?

Face #26

Feel No Pain — Sade

I Dig Go-Go Girls — Cheap Trick

I tried to make a pun about escaping quicksand, but I'm stuck.

Most of the people with flimsy houses are from 'up north' and were not aware of the conditions here. The developers were allowed to build flimsy houses because their huge campaign contributions amounted to a tacit bribe of the folks who got elected. That enabled out-of-state developers to build stick houses, take the money, and run. Corporate greed. When I was young, new construction was supposed to be cement brick and steel reinforced houses (CBS). The allowable roofs were ceramic tile, barrel tile, tar and gravel, or Bermuda construction. An asphalt tile roof, on a 2x4 frame house, was not allowed. Now it is dominant. Little by little, huge land developers gave big tacit bribes to candidates who got elected. Those legislators then watered down the building codes, so they could make huge developments of stick houses on land that used to be underwater swamp and sell them to the northerners, who had no idea of the trouble they were getting into. After every hurricane, you can see scores to hundreds of asphalt tile roofs covered with plastic tarps until they can get them fixed. Most Floridans who have been here for a long time wouldn't buy those homes. IMO what the developers did is criminal. I've always lived on the Eastern Sand Ridge. I grew up in a CBS house, and mine is now CBS with exterior paneling and faux bricks. The ceiling is held up with beams that are made of two 2x6" beams side by side. And that is real 2x6, not the 1.5x4/5" type. They are made of Dade County Slash Pine. The house was built in 1950, and sap was still dripping in the late 1990s. Plus as you can see, it's low profile. It had a tar and gravel roof, but the tar isn't the same as it used to be. The old tar wasn't environmentally friendly. So I had it replaced with a 2.5" thick, polyurethane roof. It's actually better than the old tar and gravel. For people living in mobile home parks, they definitely should know not to ride out the storm in one, but go to a shelter. I'd never buy a house on a barrier island. Barrier islands move. Sand washes from one part, and moves somewhere else. After the storm, you see parts of the islands washed out, and others covered in new sand. It's been happening forever. Looking at an animation of the nautical maps since the 1800s shows the dance. Fort Meyers Beach averages 3 feet above sea level. The average storm surge is much more than that. I've seen it wiped out 4 times in my life. Yet they rebuild. Why? When I was young, I saw 1/4 mile of barrier island disappear in a hurricane. They tried dredging sand back, but the currents changed, and it washed away about as quickly as the put it back. Sometimes I think we are both the smartest and stupidest animals on the planet.

I used to advertise my aftermarket Band-in-a-Box styles in Music & Computers, Keyboard, Electronic Musician and a few others. I got 'free' subscriptions as a bonus. But as time went on, they started doing fewer and fewer real articles and subbing covert advertisements for articles. The first sign they were in financial trouble. Eventually they faded away. I learned a lot from them back in the 1980-90s though when I was learning how to make music on my Atari and later PC and Mac computers.

The hurricane blew it.