January 22, 2007

Yesterday, Today, and "Manana"

By James Fulford on January 22, 2007 at 7:50pm

Mark Steyn has a reminiscence of Peggy Lee, who died five years ago yesterday, and I found this little note in the middle of it:

The novelty number they'd recorded a week earlier--Manana--was Number One for nine weeks in 1948....

Even more irritating, Miss Lee lived long enough to see "Manana" rendered all but unperformable, a harmless novelty number ("I'll go to work manana/But I gotta sleep tonight") scuttled by political correctness. Steyn's Song Of The Week #39

George Grayson on Calderon

By Allan Wall on January 22, 2007 at 3:26pm

I still maintain a guarded optimism about the new Mexican administration of Felipe Calderon, who has certainly hit the ground running in his new presidency (see here , here and here.

"Reason", Sam Francis and the Duke atrocity.

By Patrick Cleburne on January 22, 2007 at 2:14am

The immensely active Reason "Hit & Run" blog (resources make a difference, unfortunately) slipped in a characteristic sneer at the late Sam Francis last week: (Three-Fifths of a Man David Weigel January 16 2007)