Tedovich

 Apparently my songbird, Sandy Denny, is not the cup of tea for either of the dawgs.  Well so be it.  And yes there was nothing that special in her early demise like Jimi, Janis, and Jim, or more recently Amy Winehouse, but the thing about Sandy was her star rose and fell and I knew nothing about her at all, and when I finally stumbled upon her her story was all done and wrapped up fifty years ago, who knows where the time goes.  That is all.

I wonder why the crowd twittered when Joni sang Both Sides Now.  I was on the other side of the continent in  Berkeley when Old Dog was in the Cellar Door.  There was a new thing going on on the radio at the time, album rock I think we called it.  FM radio stations would play the whole album instead of the the single and this was considered so much deeper than top forty.  

One of the stations was playing the Judy Collins and Dave Van Ronk versions of Clouds (I always called it Clouds) back to back and people were to call in to vote for one or the other, and it seemed like a big issue at the time but then it drifted off and I never heard who won or whatever.  Who knows where the time goes.

Things were looking not so bad yesterday.  The Russkies had supply chain problems and the Ukrainians were intrepid.  CNN showed one of those battlefield reporters walking down a road of abandoned vehicles and dead Russkies.  He bent down at one point and picked up a small scorched teddy bear.  The good luck charm of some soldier's girlfriend one assumed.  "Carry Tedovich and he will carry you safely back to me."  Maybe he was some poor schlub who got drafted and never even knew where he was going or why until the Ukrainian bullets shot him down.  Or maybe he was a big prick who bragged to his buddies about how many of those stupid Ukrainians he was going to kill.  But now it doesn't matter who he was.

Anyway that big convoy is way bigger now and way closer and likely Putin's strategy now is kill them all.  Bomb and shoot, and bomb and shoot until they are all gone.  There is a faint hope that the troops seeing they are just killing people without rhyme or reason might refuse.  Okay a very faint hope.  Maybe his generals who likely don't care about civilian deaths will be alarmed about the damage being done to Mother Russia and take over and put a bullet in his head.  The whole world (absent China) seems to be against this move and they have all kinds of financial instruments that I never heard of or understand but they can make Russia go broke, but that likely would not happen in time.

I don't know.