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I’m not usually one to post blog entries quoting song lyrics. I’ll annoy you with that kind of thing in person… but I rarely do it online.

But tonight I went to walk the dog and grabbed my recently recharged MP3 player on my way out the door so I could listen to some tunes while walking around the block.

As it happened, the first song queued up (being the last song to almost play just before I shut if off the last time) was by Warren Zevon, from the Preludes double disk set.

Here are the words I heard tonight:

Don’t let us get sick
Don’t let us get old
Don’t let us get stupid, alright?

Just make us be brave
And make us play nice
Let us be together tonight.

Simple words. Wise words.

Allan

In an email tonight a friend noted to me that she’d once met Lindsay Wagner, which I thought was pretty cool since I’d been a huge fan of The Six Million Dollar Man as a kid. And of course, you all know your TV spin-off trivia well enough to know the connection between those two shows. I’m not betting against you on this one.

So I thought to myself, “self, which famous people have you met over the years?”

Below is the short, but mostly complete, list in chronological order:

- Ernie Coombs

- Leah Adler

- Alfred Yankovic

I’ve also met a lot of musicians over the years, but the list above is probably the most “famous” of folks that I’ve met. Not that fame itself particularly impresses me. It doesn’t. What impresses me are people who are genuine and kind. And for the record, the people on my short list above were all genuine and kind.

Allan