{"id":2075,"date":"2020-04-24T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:37:06","slug":"calling-all-dtrs-and-an-ear-worm-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2020\/04\/24\/calling-all-dtrs-and-an-ear-worm-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all DTRs and an Ear Worm Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my newsletter. I get to use it however I want. Traditionally a newsletter alert from me is sent out as a service to let my readers know that a new book is due out. \u00a0And that\u2019s what this is.\u00a0Sins of the Fathers, the latest Beaumont book, goes on sale in mass-market paperback on April 28.\u00a0I\u2019m not sure you\u2019ll be able to go out and buy a copy. In some areas where buying tomato seeds isn\u2019t allowed, maybe buying books for fun isn’t considered to be an essential purchase, either. I would argue with that, but what do I know? \u00a0In the meantime, please consider your local independent bookstores. They may not be open for walk-in business, but it\u2019s a good bet that they\u2019ll be able to ship a copy to you.\u00a0So give them a call or check on their website for an e-mail address.<\/p>\n

\"\"I loved writing Sins of the Fathers.\u00a0It\u2019s a tribute to all those grandparents out there who, for one reason or another, are spending their golden years lovingly raising their children\u2019s children. Those people may be on the \u201cendangered\u201d list in this time of Covid 19, but they\u2019re also my heroes, just like the people staffing hospitals and the clerks stocking shelves and running the cash registers at grocery stores.\u00a0I hope my paperback fans enjoy reading the book as much as I enjoyed creating it. Within the first several pages, I was back in Beau\u2019s world and in his
\nmindset\u2014the more curmudgeonly the better.<\/p>\n

But as I said, this is MY newsletter. And if I feel like having fun with it, there\u2019s no law that says I can\u2019t, so here goes.<\/p>\n

I believe I\u2019ve mentioned that there was a lot of singing in our family when I was growing up. Our father who couldn\u2019t carry a tune in a bucket wasn\u2019t involved, but the rest of us were. We sang on long road trips. We sang while we were doing the dishes.\u00a0We sang while we were doing house work.\u00a0In musicals, like Sound of Music, for instance, it didn\u2019t seem the least bit odd that every once in a while people would break into song for no discernible reason.<\/p>\n

Occasionally one or the other my siblings or cousins or nieces and nephews will awaken with a song in their head, and they often hit their keyboards and send out a group-grope email intended to infect the rest of us with the ear worm of the day which we\u2019re automatically stuck singing and humming for the rest of the day \u2026 or the week, depending on how infectious the song happens to be.<\/p>\n

Oh, mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsy divey
\nA kiddle \u00a0divey, too. Wouldn’t you?
\nOh, mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsy divey
\nA kiddle divey, too. Wouldn’t you?
\nIf the words sound queer and funny to your ear,
\nA little bit jumbled and jivey.
\nSay, “Mares eat oats and does eat oats
\nand little lambs eat ivy.”
\nOh,mairz doats and dozy doats and little lambsy divey
\nA kiddle divey, too. Wouldn’t you?<\/em><\/p>\n

There you go.\u00a0Consider yourself infected!\u00a0You\u2019ll be stuck with this one for at least the next twenty-four hours.\u00a0There is no cure.<\/p>\n

This last weekend, out of desperation we ended up watching one of the many Mission Impossible movies on TV.\u00a0For the record, we were pretty much desperate. That\u2019s our excuse.\u00a0And the whole time, I kept wondering whatever happened to Cinnamon. In the old Mission Impossible TV show, she was always my favorite character, but I digress.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t bother paying all that much attention to the story because the stories are pretty much all the same.\u00a0What I did enjoy was the scenery.\u00a0A lot of the non-stop action took place in Paris, and I enjoyed revisiting it. The movie took both Bill and me back to our several trips to Paris\u2014the scenes along the Seine, the narrow shop-studded streets, the tunnels, I especially enjoyed the car chase where a guy on a speeding motorcycle escaped by going the wrong way in that astonishing Parisian round-about, Le’toile.\u00a0On one of our trips, Bill and I sat in a sidewalk caf\u00e9 watching that amazing traffic nightmare for hours on end.<\/p>\n

But what I mostly paid attention to was the music. \u00a0All you have to hear is the first few notes of the theme song, and you know you\u2019re signing on for a Mission Impossible adventure. And that made me think of some of the other readily recognizable music from those old television series. Just a couple of notes and you know you\u2019re hearing the theme to Bonanza or Johnny Yuma or Have Gun Will Travel or Star Trek or Voyager.\u00a0They don\u2019t make theme music the way they used to anymore.\u00a0A vocal with someone murmuring unintelligible lyrics to a forgettable tune just doesn\u2019t do it for me.<\/p>\n

So yes, take me back to the old days\u2014to Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney and Patsy Cline and Gentleman Jim Reeves.\u00a0Does that mean, I\u2019m officially old? I guess I am.<\/p>\n

And lucky to be so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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