An interesting assortment of people died on February 27th, including Pavlov (1936)and Lillian Gish (1993). I chose this quote from film producer Harry Cohn who died in 1958. I picture him with a cigar and an old-fashioned.

"Give me two years, and I'll make her an overnight star."

Slow day

"There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work."

French diplomat Joseph Marie de Maistre died February 26, 1821.

The best I coul come up with today. Not many people with anything interesting to say died on this day.

"I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste."

Grace Metalious, the author of Peyton Place, died on February 25, 1964.

I enjoyed Peyton Place, but not because it was the most finely crafted piece. I am not sure Ms. Mealious really thought she was a lousy writer. It made for a good quote.

The leader of the band is tired...

As if the trip down memory lane with the soft rock sounds of Dan Fogelberg wasn't emotional enough, I found out at the end of PBS's Soundstage that he passed away last year. He was just 56.

I don't know why all of his tunes are so familiar to me. I can't remember any Dan Fogelberg records at my house when I was growing up. I need to ask my mom and dad if they liked him. I bet my dad went through a Fogelberg stage, while my mom thought he was too sappy. Oh, and I suppose the KDWB-am playlist was heavy on the Fogelberg in the late 70s.

How disappointing...Jewel? Come on.

Your 1996 Theme Song Is: Who Will Save Your Soul by Jewel

Who will save your soul when it comes to the flower Who will save your soul after all the lies that you told, boy Who will save your soul if you won't save your own?

What's Your 1996 Theme Song?

What's yours?

"A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it."

John Keats was twenty-five when he died on February 23, 1821.

Can you imagine this kind of insight and talent from a twenty-something today? Really from anyone of any age, but especially one so young.

What?

"Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?"

Author Elizabeth Bowen died on February 22, 1973. I am not sure what she means, but it sounds like something the daughter of an Anglo-Irish landowner might say...is this offensive to the Irish?

I am ashamed.

I never heard of Mary Edwards Walker. She died February 21, 1919.

"Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom."

What an amazing person. She is the first and only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service in the Civil War as a surgeon. She was just fascinating - a suffragette, an abolitionist, a spy, a POW, an inventor, a writer, a lecturer, a cross-dresser.

She was a passionate advocate for women's dress reform, saying women's dress was immodest and inconvenient.

Frederick Douglass died on February 20, 1895.

"The mind does not take its complexion from the skin."

I wish this was my Irish Fest.

I really enjoy Dan Regan. He cracks me up while keeping me current on Irish stuff. He talks about what's going on in Ireland as well as at the Kansas City Irish Fest. They seem to have so much fun in KC being Irish.


I feel like the Irish community here in Minnesota is less Irish and more Renaissance Fest. I don't get into the Renaissance Festival. This is a generalization, I know, but it is something I have observed as of late.

"The color of truth is gray."

Andre Gide, French novelist and essayist, died on February 19, 1951.

I have to mention another of his quotes - he had so many gems.

"I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves."

444 years ago...

Michelangelo died. February 18, 1564.

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

Maybe I was adopted...

On 60 Minutes tonight they had a story about how the people of Denmark are the happiest in the world. Apparently the keys to happiness are low expectations and contentedness. A word of advice to Americans from one young Danish man: stop believing in the American Dream.

Duh.

Mrs. Clinton

Excuse me, Cokie. I think you mean Senator Clinton. I haven't heard anyone calling him Mr. Obama or Mr. McCain. That bothers me.