The Queen of Hang: Sheila E. Anderson

Things to ponder...

I must admit that I loathe most e-mail jokes but I found the facts below to be interesting but, most amusing, the comments are on point. Perhaps this will make you smile....Enjoy!

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the..?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

How True!

If you're in jazz and more than the people like you, you're labeled commercial.

Herbie Mann

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukeboxes play.

Willie Nelson

Funny!

"Never have anything to do with a son-of-a-b*!@! unless you need him."

-Lee Shubert, famous Theatre owner/producer

Excerpt from Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers (1975):

Lorenz Milton "Larry" Hart {1895-1943} was a brilliant lyricist who penned myriad classics like My Funny Valentine, My Romance and Manhattan, to name a few. Unfortunately, he was a raging and unpredictable alcoholic:

"One of the better influences on Larry was his maid, Mary Campbell...Among the guests at one dinner party was the glamorous Black entertainer Josephine Baker. Josephine, who grew up in St. Louis but was then living in Paris, batted eyelashes at Mary and asked grandly, "Donnez-moi une tasse do café, s'il vous plaît?" Mary shot Josephine a look of incredulity mixed with contempt. "Honey, you is full of s@*!. Talk the way yo' mouth was born!"

From George Wein

On Thursday, November 2, at the WBGO, 88.3 FM gala, Jazz Impresario, George Wein, creator and organizer of the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, was honored. In his acceptance speech when getting his award he told a story about Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who Bill Clinton referenced in his Jazziz article (see articles).

George said that Rahsaan was an angry man and always complained about how things did not happen for him because he was Black. One bus ride, while on a tour, the great drummer, Kenny Clarke, asked Rahsaan how long he had been blind. Rahsaan replied, "all his life," to which Clarke responded, "then, how do you know that you are Black?"

Folks, you can't make this up...And, take a look at the photo of Rahsaan's widow, Dorthaan on this blog.