 |
| Liberty Square Monument, Taipei Taiwan (Formosa) |
I found out the name "Formosa" came from Portugese explorers who named it Ilia Formosa, which translates to Beautiful Island, the word formosa being Portuguese for beautiful. Not to mention they "found" a place that had been occupied by 30,000 years already, kind of like "discovering" America.
I'm still hung up on On The Sunny Side of the Street. The song was written in 1930 and it's never been worn out; not even when Rod Stewart recorded it. It has been recorded by almost everyone in music who has a name you'd recognize and some you wouldn't. From Stewart to Willie Nelson, to Louis Armstrong, and it's been popular by all of them, even John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun).
I see that the President and Congressional Leaders has agreed on a package that will raise the debt limit, and cut spending - that will worsen the recession (my opinion) which in the case of us up here in Maine is still bad. I guess we have to wait and see the final edition when Congress discusses, cusses and votes on the damn thing.
It really would have been nice to see those people show up for "work on time" and had the whole messed settled when it should have been - at the beginning of June! We'll see if they can finish us, I mean it, off on time.
 |
| Taipei Taiwan |
 |
| Part of the words, not original, the word "Babe" in the first verse and "there" following pitter-pat are not original |
 |
| The newest rendition, I don't can't get a contract. |
No comments:
Post a Comment