Some Girls

from husband Bill, June 9, 2026

On June 9, 1978, the Rolling Stones album "Some Girls" was released. This album is near and dear to my heart because it is the official album of West Islip High School's Class of 1979 of which I am a member. Location: West Islip, Long Island, New York, near New York City.

Of course, I have this album on CD. Long ago, I had two copies on vinyl: one uncensored cover and one censored cover. Several celebrities and their estates—including Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the Marilyn Monroe estate—threatened to sue the band for using their images without permission, so the images were removed. George Harrison agreed to remain on the cover. He thought it was funny.

Our unofficial senior prom song is "Shattered" from this album. Our official prom song is "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" by Seals & Crofts. Both songs were played at our prom by the live band.

Also, someone (in 1979 around graduation day) spray-painted (in black paint) on the side of the high school: "Class of 1979 Shattered." By the time I retrieved my camera, it was already gone.

"Shattered," a song about New York City, is the last song on the album.

"Shattered, shattered

Love and hope and sex and dreams are still surviving on the streets

And look at me, I'm in tatters

I'm shattered

Shattered"

https://youtu.be/Wjz6l_4MqHM?si=ZOiqR27x82SuHrO6

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My all-time favorite Stones song is from the "Some Girls" album: "Before They Make Me Run."

"Worked the bars and sideshows along the twilight zone

Only a crowd can make you feel so alone

And it really hit home

Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine

Well here's another goodbye to another good friend"

"Watched my taillights fading, there ain't a dry eye in the house

They're laughing and singing

Started dancing and drinking as I left town

Gonna find my way to heaven, 'cause I did my time in hell, oh yeah

I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well

… Oh after all is said and done

I gotta move I had my fun

Let us walk before they make us run"

https://youtu.be/2dGoKgSknuk?si=X3nnRDTh2t8IaBhu

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, June 9, 2026

I am taking donations to buy Donald a pair of pants. 😉

from husband Bill, June 9, 2026

I have endured nine surgeries between March 2022 and May 2026: 1 heart, 2 chest, 2 spine, 1 right ankle, 1 both legs, 1 left foot, 1 left leg. Believe me, I am in touch with many doctors. 

from husband Bill, June 9, 2026

... not for me ... I dislike strawberries, and I think that I dislike rhubarb.

from husband Bill, June 9, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, June 8, 2026

What more can I say? I like jelly-filled donuts/doughnuts, particularly raspberry, cherry, blueberry, and apple.

I am reminded of a donut-shop baker whom I interviewed, as a new business owner, for a newspaper in upstate New York in 1989, maybe 1990, when I was just starting my journalistic career (series of gigs). For my article, I wrote that if readers wanted to know how the jelly got inside a jelly donut, they would have to ask the baker because I wasn't going to reveal his secret. Yeah, I know that was rather corny, but back then I was the quintessential neophyte.

from husband Bill, June 8, 2026

My "poison" is Campari and orange juice in an Old Fashioned glass over ice. I haven't had one in quite a while.

from husband Bill, June 8, 2026

Dinner

Dinner (delivery): Sushi, specifically Fried Bagel Roll, photo below: salmon, cream cheese, white rice, and scallions wrapped with seaweed, and then tempura-fried. Of course, it is accompanied by pickled ginger and "wasabi." I also enjoyed gyoza (Japanese pork dumplings) with a soy sauce-based dipping sauce.

June 7, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, June 7, 2026

Of the basic flavors, I prefer chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream, and I dislike strawberry ice cream.

from husband Bill, June 7, 2026

Ladies, today (technically yesterday, as the first Saturday in June) would be a good day to travel to the forest to visit the bear you would prefer to encounter than a man. (I'm only half joking.)

On a hunting trip in Canada long ago, my uncle shot and had mounted a record-setting, 650-pound black bear. My mom and I nicknamed him Max after the boxer Max Baer, whose son, Max Baer Jr., played Jethro Bodine on the TV sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies." Both my uncle and his father (my grandfather) were pugilists.

from husband Bill, June 7, 2026

June 7 is National Cancer Survivor's Day.

from husband Bill, June 7, 2026

I still have many VCR-format videotapes, but no videotape player. I even have videotapes with the PAL format from Austria, which I couldn't play here in the United States even if I had a video player due to incompatibility. I watched one tape long ago at my cousin's home in Austria of a pop concert tour of Rainhard Fendrich that we had attended with her and her then-husband in Vienna, Austria, in 1997. Yeah, I brought the tape with me on a subsequent vacation to Austria so that we could watch it together.

My dad purchased a videotape recorder in the mid-1970s. I remember that one of my earliest recordings from when I was 15 years old was of George Harrison and Paul Simon performing on the show Saturday Night Live in 1976. Also in the 1970s, I recorded a music show with promotional films of ABBA and Thin Lizzy, and a live concert by the Electric Light Orchestra.

from husband Bill, June 7, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, June 6, 2026

I do like the occasional applesauce cake.

from husband Bill, June 6, 2026

I have a fair amount of higher education: a bachelor's degree in communications with a minor in the French language from Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania (graduated: December 1984); and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri (graduated: May 1988). I also have TWO high school diplomas: June 1979 from West Islip High School in West Islip, Long Island, New York; and May 1980 from Northfield Mount Hermon School (two campuses in northern Massachusetts).

from husband Bill, June 6, 2026

I prefer Prosecco to Champagne.

from husband Bill, June 6, 2026

I wear eyeglasses with progressive lenses.

from husband Bill, June 6, 2026

Improv Video: Enhanced

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026 

I decided to visually enhance one of my older piano improvisations from October 22, 2019, and upload it onto my YouTube channel. (length: 3 minutes, 1 second) 

I like to sit at my digital piano and just start playing whatever is in my head at that time. I make it up as I go along. This is my method with all of my piano improvisations. 

Piano Improv from Oct. 22, 2019: visually enhanced (June 5, 2026) 

https://youtu.be/o8q9zDLfbS4?si=hVZTuY0DIas04qsN

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026

I like those Krispy Creme vanilla custard-filled or vanilla frosting-filled doughnuts with the chocolate glaze on top. I also like Tim Hortons vanilla custard-filled donuts with the maple glaze on top.

Dunkin' Donuts

Krispy Creme Doughnuts

Notice the spelling difference. When I was a journalist (1982-2017), this was just one of thousands of bits of information that I needed to know, just in case. (It came up once.)

Oh yeah !!! I also like Krapfen, which are Austrian jelly donuts popular during the days before and on Fasching (Mardi Gras).

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026

I have restarted my life many, MANY times due to many changes throughout my life: many educational facilities, many jobs, many religions, many living locations, many medical issues, many interests, however, just a couple of women.

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026

I like ketchup on hot dogs, scrambled eggs, and omelets, but for french fries, I prefer traditional mayonnaise and sometimes tartar sauce.

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026

I used to eat veggie burgers when I used to be a vegetarian. I occasionally still do.

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026

I somewhat like gingerbread. I do like crystallized ginger and ginger-honey-lemon tea.

from husband Bill, June 5, 2026