Roger Green: a librarian's life, deconstructed.
Labor Day weekend.
If you be so kind as to tell me:
1. Your favorite job, and why?
2. How much money would you need to never work again?
3. At what age, if ever, do you expect to retire, and what will you do then with your time?
BONUS: What was your worst job? (You’ll see my answer soon.)
I was going to give you even more statistical stuff, but the hot weather precludes it.
Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days for failing Major League Baseball’s steroid use policy. Allegations about use by Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds have also been made.
Palmero is only the fourth player, after Hank Arron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray, to hit 500 home runs (he has 569, in 9th place all-time, passing Reggie Jackson and closing in on Harmon Killebrew) and get 3000 hits.
McGwire had 583 career home runs, and practically saved baseball in 1998 with his exciting home run race with Sammy Sosa in 1998, after the disasterous strike of 1994.
Bonds not only has 703 homers, but the 7-time MVP was intentionally walked more last year than some teams; he’s been out with injuries all of this season.
Every eligible person (retired five years) who has hit 500 or more home runs has made it to the HoF.
So, I’d like to know:
1. Will Barry Bonds make it to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and should he?
2. Will Mark McGwire make it, and should he?
3. Will Raphael Palmiero make it, and should he
Bonus question:
And what about the chances for Sammy Sosa, who is now #5 on the HR list, behind only Aaron, Ruth, Bonds, and Mays, passing McGwire and Frank Robinson this year?
Given the fact that this month is the 36th anniversary of the moonwalk, the United States is trying to get back in the space shuttle business, and Scotty from Star Trek died,
Please tell me:
1. What character from a television program or movie about space travel do you most identify, and why?
2. What thing in space travel fiction (book, movie, TV) is most likely to turn out to be true/possible in the future?
3. As commercial space flight becomes a reality, how much would you spend to go up in space? How long would you have to be up there to make it worth your while?
Part 2 of Three Ramblin’ Questions
Alex Trebek, Canadian-born host of a popular American game show, turned 65 yesterday.
So, please tell me:
1. If your life were a game show, what would it be called and what would be the rules?
2. As you’ve gotten older yourself, how has that changed your attitude towards aging and the aged?
3. Can you sing the first verse of O Canada and/or name the current Canadian Prime minister and/or name the Canadian provinces (10) and territories (3)? If you said yes to any of these questions, what is your nationality?
BONUS QUESTION: Alex Trebek, better with the mustache, or without?
Here’s a new feature here at Ramblin’. It’s called “Three Ramblin’ Questions.”
OK, it’s not new. I was inspired by blogger Chris “Lefty” Brown.
OK, I stole Lefty Brown’s idea.
In any case, this month marks the 50th anniversary of “Rock and/or Roll,” as a cartoon minister once put it. Rock Around the Clock reached Number 1 on the charts on July 9, 1955.
(Yeah, yeah, I know about “Rocket 88” and all that)
About halfway through the Rock and roll era, one (or two) of my favorite songs about rock and roll came out on Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps album. (And neither do I ’cause it’s too darn hot.)
So, please tell me:
1. Will rock and roll ever die, or is rock and roll here to stay?
2. Is it better to burn out, or to fade away?
3. What king or queen of music is gone but not forgotten? (Gone means left this mortal coil, not a downturn in the career.)
BONUS QUESTION: I’ll be doing this feature:
a. Every week, religiously.
b. As the muse strikes.
c. Whenever I’m pressed for time.