Ozzie's Tears

Baaah....we swipe the air. We hit the gym yesterday and reinflamed our right big toe. What a night. For a few hours the toe positively burned. We may be in for a rough day. We'll see. [Why don't you lay off for a few days, knobhead?-Ed] Because we like going to the gym and don't know what else to do in the late afternoon you dumb Liverpudlian...[Get bent, mate. Just do the laundry and cleaning -Ed]. We're not necessarily in the best mood. 

Good morning, Stroock's Books recipients, how's your day going? 

In America when you tell the emergency room you're having chest pains, they see you right away. We've done it three times. 'Come on back, sir. We'll sit you down right here take your blood pressure and hook you up to this EKG....' Not so in Canada. See the second comment at that link.

And see also this comment, 'You’re not wrong…..recently a friend was in the Kingston hospital, he was 89 and was checking out, his health had deteriorated to the point where the doctor gave him 3-4 days to live. That evening, the MAID vulture arrived to offer her service to an obviously dying man...' For those blessed not to live under socialist medicine, MAID is bureaucrat assisted suicide. In just a few years MAID healthocrats will give MAID workers monthly quotas to fill. The Q's will of course receive equalization assisted suicides. Exit question, is it racist for First Nations to be underserved or overserved?

Ozzie: We remain shocked at the man's cultural clout and respectability. When exactly did he transition from Metal God to music icon? Looking back at his discography, one see's a decade of good Heavy Metal albums, and good music. Right now people are focusing on Mama I'm Coming Home, which Ozzie sang for the last time at Black Sabbath's farewell concert. Rightfully so. 

But have a listen to No More Tears, from the same album. Check that bass, the backing synth, the rising cadence of the bridge, and finally the falling cadence of the refrain. My word. Ozzie wasn't the best singer, but he had talent and vision. 

As Bowling for Soup asked some twenty years ago, 'When did Ozzie, become an actor?' We watched the transition. In the early 2000s, MTV had a show called Cribs, in which celebrities gave viewers a tour of their home. The Osbourne's tour was hilarious. Ozzie was supposed to be the notorious Prince of Darkness, Heavy Metal's Dark Lord. Turns out Ozzie was just a middle-aged boomer whose kids wouldn't listen to him and couldn't work the remote. From this one MTV Cribs episode came The Osbournes, which itself was a cultural phenomenon for a few years. 

DOGE Report: we read through chapter II of the Battle of Derry. It's a bit long winded and POV characters keep seeing the same thing. Flames in Derry, church's smoldering, riotous crowds etc etc. It feels a little redundant. But that may not be a problem. We could probably chop a couple of scenes. Overall we are pleased. 

Related. Our book about Martin McGuinness and the IRA in Derry has finally shipped. We will spend another summer LBI trip reading about the Troubles. This is both good and bad.