I am getting so frustrated with WordPress’s constant idiotic changes I am ready to stop blogging. The issues the developers introduce are not worth the frustration of trying to comment, reply to comments, and put posts together. I just don’t need the added frustration right now.
Like the rest of our house, where there is little difference between outside and inside, so it goes with the temperature.
Yes! That is a badger about 15 feet from me listening to what I have to say.
When it first saw us, it hunkered down, but then as I talked to it lifted its head up to listen.
I got close to the minimum focus distance of 11 feet for the Bazooka lens on this shot. The badger looks like, “Yeah! Yeah! Ahuh! You’re so full of crap, paparazzo!”
Captain Jack. Lyrics and Music by Billy Joel.Vocals by Timothy Price
Captain Jack from Billy Joel’s 1973 album, Piano Man, is my latest cover. I first heard this song around 1974 after I purchased Piano Man. I fell in love with it. It’s not at all biographical; however, I had friends who got messed up with drugs in the 70s. A few died of overdoses, and a few committed suicide. Seeing how drugs destroyed people’s lives, I never had a reason to experiment with them.
Lyrics by Timothy Price. Music by Elton John. The lyrics are at the bottom of the post.
An Old Man’s Blues is my rewrite of Elton John’s Screw You (Young Man’s Blues), which was on the flip side of the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road single (45rpm) released in 1973. I bought the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road single in 1974 before I could afford to buy the album. I ended up playing the B-side more than the A-side because I identified with Screw You (Young Man’s Blues) when I was a sophomore in high school. I was a misfit weirdo, and I was teased a lot. One of the many reasons I dropped out of high school when I was 16.
I was working on a cover of Screw You (Young Man’s Blues) when I decided I needed to update the lyrics from 1970s England to 2024 New Mexico. Plus, the way I rewrote the bridge addresses some of the recent strange encounters in the blogosphere.
One of the images I did for the song art for An Old Man’s Blues.
More bloomin’ blooms
An Old Man’s Blues Lyrics by Timothy Price Music by Elton John
Now that I’m old, I don’t have much fun I can’t see or hear or talk to anyone My back’s a pain. There is so much strife I’m gotta clean the kitty litter, oh what a life
I say screw you I ain’t got nothing to choose I live on my laptop Cause there’s nothing else I can do
Screw you, I ain’t got nothin’ to choose I’m livin’ on my laptop cause there’s nothin’ else I can do
I was workin’ downtown when I got in a fight I was beaten in an alley out in broad daylight The cops could care less; they were downright scary Sayin’ “Make my day!” Just like Dirty Harry
They said, “Screw you!” Oh, you stupid old fool You work downtown You get beaten by a Tool
Screw you! Oh, you stupid old fool You work downtown You get beaten by a Tool
See, there’s femmes who get laid for being slaves Femmes who get paid for being laid There’s femmes behind screen names who prey with delight Those femmes they are liars; they are as dark as the night They lie, scratch, and whine, trying to make a dime And all of them say, “Get out my way! Screw you!”
I’ve stared at a screen from seven ’til nine The wear on my eyes nearly drove me blind Tryin’ to make riches with nothing to share Gettin’ hell from my staff, but I didn’t care
They said, “Screw you!” That’s all we’re gonna do We’re not existing for someone like you
Screw you! This is all we’re gonna do We’re not existing for someone like you
Off Center & Not Even 