Good morning, fellow inhabitants of the third rock! Its Monday, August 25, and it looks like summer break is going out in sunny style, here in Portland, with highs around 90 today and tomorrow, and no rain until Saturday. Todays the last day until April when the sun sets after 8 PM. Theres an enormous amount of damage--including thousands upon thousands of shattered bottles of wine--in Sundays Napa Valley earthquake, but thankfully no lives were lost. Around 170 people were injured, some seriously; at magnitude 6,0, it was Northern Californias strongest since the World Series quake of 1989. With his father pleading for calm in the community, Michael Brown will be laid to rest in Fergusen, MO today. Mosier, Oregons firefighter of last year was killed by a drowsy driver as she rode her bike along Interstate 84. Ten members of the Lake Oswego High School football team will be suspended for the first four games for a code-of-conduct violation at a team retreat. The schools not saying what they did, but a parent says it involved a joint around a campfire. The Portland Timbers lost 5-2 to archrival Seattle. Its reported that Beyonce stole the show with her closing performance, but I caught only enough of the MTV awards to see Miley Cyrus test out the high road, in the style of Marlon Brando, by allowing a young homeless man to accept her best-video award (for Wrecking Ball) as she stood offstage. Mileys proud papa Billy Ray Cyrus is 53 today....thoughtless lout Gene Simmons is 65..and that fabled Scottish gentleman and independence advocate Sir Sean Connery, is 84 today. And did you know that elephants dig Bach? Check out the video. Enjoy your Monday...squeeze as much summer as you can out of this week, share whatever news and comments that you may have, and please join us on the radio. Oh, and thank you for the birthday wishes--I read and appreciated every single one. See you on 103.3!
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:49:17 +0000