Buyer's Remorse in New Jersey

Christie's Budget Woes May Hurt More Than Scandal.  (The New York Times, 5/23/2014)

An excerpt from the article.

What happens when voters don't pay attention.  And let themselves be bullied by a blowhard.

Related posts:
Christie conducts his own investigation, exonerates himself.  (3/24/2014)
Chris Christie circling the wagons.  (1/17/2014)
Meet Some Jersey Democrats Who Enjoy the Slop from Christie's Trough.  (1/14/2014)
Another storm hits Chris Christie's world.  (1/14/2014)
Pew Research emphasizes wrong element of poll.  (1/14/2014)
Bill Baroni, a regular Fred Astaire.  (1/11/2014)
Let's look back to September 2013.  (1/11/2014)
Chris Christie & the I/Me/My's (Appearing with Word of the Day).  (1/11/2014)
"Refreshing Forcefulness": A Euphemism for "Misguided Bullying".  (1/9/2014)
The Chris Christie option:  No October surprise here.  (6/5/2013)
New Jersey's Gov. Christie does not love and value libraries. (5/20/2010)

Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop

Comeback for the Lindy Hop (Give Credit to Sweden).  (The New York Times, 5/23/2014)

The Lindiest.  It was there that he met Mr. Manning, a legend among Lindy hoppers who died in 2009 at age 94.

The festival in New York was named Frankie 100 because Monday would have been Mr. Manning’s 100th birthday, and the events include a parade on Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

He Lindied from Harlem to Hollywood when he was a young man, appearing in the 1941 comedy “Hellzapoppin” in a marathon sequence that many Lindy hoppers revere as the best such performance ever filmed.

Frankie Manning & Ann Johnson at 1:56.


Lindyhopmoves.com

"Love is Blue": The Company It Kept

André Popp, French Composer of ‘Love Is Blue,’ Dies at 90. (The New York Times, 5/25/2014)

Correction.  An instrumental arrangement by the French conductor Paul Mauriat reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 chart in January February 1968 and retained the top spot for five weeks.

The top 10 when "Love is Blue" reached #1 for the first time.

 

The top 10 when "Love is Blue" spent its 5th and final week at #1.