Have you ever had the experience of having seen something, and then realizing later that you were probably just remembering a dream?
OK, it’s just me. I’m the crazy one, right?
So anyway, we were in Fort Myers, and I was walking down a concourse in an airport, and there was a stack of USA Today’s, and the headline read “Snow will soon be a thing of the past.”
And, for several days I had it in my mind that this would be a good blog post, as the time to write about the end of snow is not during an Artic blast that has frozen two-thirds of the country. Why, even here in the mountains of Colorado, we are getting snowed upon.
So, I went to the USA Today website to find the story and I looked and looked and it was not there. Did I then realize that I was remembering a dream? No. I imagined that USA Today took down the article out of embarrassment.
Then I began to reflect. I asked my wife if I had mentioned the story to her, and she said yes, but not until we had returned to Colorado. Then I was not sure that USA Today even puts out a paper edition (they still do), but it was odd that the papers were just stacked there, and were not in a vending machine. I slowly came to realize that yes, indeed, I am the crazy one. It was a dream.
However, my web search was real, and did produce something tangible. The New York Times predicted the end of snow on February 7, 2014, almost ten years ago. Climate Scientist David Viner predicted it too in 2000. And now the Times has hit us again … an article by Elizabeth Spiers published just this month titled …
Now, the Spiers article, published on January 2nd of this year … I have not been able to read it as it is behind a pay wall. And it’s outrageous! The Times wants $1.00 for a one-week introductory subscription, which is, in my view, wildly overpriced.
Anyway, Buffalo, New York, which had to postpone a football game for a day due to three feet of snow, begs to differ on the timing of the end of snow.
Piece of Mindful 
If you really want to read that garbage, it’s archived here
https://archive.is/CnE0N
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I did not want to read it, but now that it is there in front of me, I have to. Of course there is always procrastination.
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Hello Mark,
May I post here about something that’s been bugging me for the past week? I don’t know where else to insert it. In 2019 I saw the movie “Yesterday.” I wanted to love it as I had not yet thought that The Beatles were not what I now believe them to be. I hated the movie. It was choppy, bouncing here and there and I didn’t like the characters much. Very little of the movie stuck with me. Except the ending. Last week I watched it again on Amazon Prime. I always have closed captioning on even while watching football on TV. But the dialogue is so fast moving I still missed a lot of what was said so I really relied on CC. Seeing the movie in 2019 I remember Ob-la-di Ob- La- da being sung at the end with the credits rolling and a shot of Lennon’s beach studio as well. I always watch the credits till the very end. Spoiler Alert: John Lennon, now elderly, is shown in a small, remote house near a beach, in his art studio with his art supplies and paintings and drawings, and we get a pretty good look at him while he mutters something about Yoko that he basically should have kicked that “witch” to the curb long ago. Also I thought Elyse Chapelle aka Morwenna in Poldark, had a much larger role than Lily James. My recent viewing shows Jack Malik in his parent’s living room trying to play Let it Be for them but keeps getting interrupted. Dad tells a visiting neighbor the song is Leave it Be but the Mom says it’s Let Him Be. Hmmm. In 2019 I don’t remember Jack speaking to JL. But in this movie they do. And none of the jab at Yoko is part of the scene. Clearly in this version the part is played by Robert Carlisle who is way too short, too young even with makeup and not convincing in the least yet the actor I recall made my heart race thinking what if? This scene was shot outside. I was 23 when Lennon was “shot.” Now, it is said the Lennon part was uncredited to preserve the actor’s privacy. What? This reminds me of reading on Wiki about Eve Plumb from the Brady Bunch as having 4 kids but now Wiki says she has none. I did not imagine that. I thought Wow! Four kids! What is going on here? It really looks to me like the movie was heavily edited and scenes re-shot or expanded, inserted that weren’t in the theatrical release. Too many people suggesting Lennon was actually in that version? Thanks Mark!
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I am happy to give you a “maybe I can help a little” response on this lovely comment, but not until tomorrow or later. Thank you for dropping in.
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That’s really interesting. Now I am tempted to watch it. Lennon (real name Stanley), if still alive, is 83. I’ve no doubt he is. These bloodliners tend to live long lives, excellent nutrition and health care, no vaccinations to mess them up.
John on a beach? A house near the beach? Where? Let Him Be placed him north of Toronto, but not even Canadians want to live in such a cold climate.
In “How Do You Sleep” about Paul he said “you ain’t done nothing since yesterday.” “Yesterday*” was not capitalized, as a song title would be. My suspicion, which could be completely bogus, is that Lennon, unlike Paul, had a conscience, and did not like being the working class hero songwriter who didn’t actually write any songs and was not a good guitarist.
McCartney on the other hand has no shame. He went through an exercise some years back of identifying which songs he wrote, which by John, which together. That was classic misdirection, as he wrote no songs at all** as I view it, though some nice work came out of his post-Beatle years. Did he write Band on the Run? Maybe I’m Amazed? Maybe, but if true to form, nope. *Yesterday? He is a twin, there were two of them, so the question is, “Which one wrote that song?” I would guess neither, as a guy called Sage of Quay, a tool in my view, claims that Yesterday and Hey Jude are of Italian origin.
Paul in an interview claimed that George never practiced. Quay says that a certain black drummer sat in on at least 21 of their album songs, that Ringo was no good. That speaks of a group going through the motions while others, real musicians, were writing the songs and playing the instruments. They did, however, sing well, alone and as a group, which means, like the Beach Boys, they only had to show up on certain days to lay down the vocal tracks. Massive fraud committed on us by a group carrying out an agenda that they only followed orders about, to change ways of dress, break up nuclear families, feminize men, ease sexual mores, and introduce drugs into mainstream culture.
**Not too many people remember that “Paul”, who could not read music, is credited with a symphony, Standing Stone. It went nowhere and is long forgotten, and I suspect was done to reinforce the idea that the guy is, as Lorne Michaels says about him, a “fucking Mozart.” *** Even Mozart was overrated and not that good, certainly Paul did not have the chops to write a symphonic piece with scads of instruments playing a part at once. He is a complete phony.
Thank you for stopping by, write more here whenever. Maybe I will watch Yesterday to give you a forum to share your insights. Maybe I just give you the forum without actually watching it. I am all Beatled out these days.
*** https://pieceofmindful.com/2017/05/11/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-an-early-version-of-elon-musk/
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I don’t think my comments are making it through.
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I just came across maybe half a dozen comments that have been relegated to Spam or trash, including one each from Steve Kelly and Horst, two regulars here. I did not do this, nor have I censored your comments, though I did not find any others than the one here that I am replying to. You can contact me directly at mark at mpthct dot com and we can sort this out. I do not understand why things happen as they do.
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That’s okay Mark. I didn’t suspect you of foul play. Or censorship. Did you receive my reply about Lennon being on the Isle of Man in the original theatrical release of Yesterday?
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i did not. Try again … mark at mpthct dot com.
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