From Ernie Kovacs to The Lovin' Spoonful

I'm so used to getting visitors and comments over on my business blog, and so unused to getting them here. I really appreciate the cross-blog interplay. To that end, responding to a comment on a previous post from Lisa...OK. I've opened up the comments to "Anyone". I just got tired of comment spam, although it was "open." You just had to register.

Anyhoo...Two things.

(Actually, three.) The Way Things Go - an episode of the late lamented Live from Off Center - is available at Amazon. (Oh, and it had to be an inspiration for this Honda ad.

There was also another act from Live and Off Center that I wish I had a video of. It was about 20 or so people passing balls back and forth up and down back and forth up and down in amazing sychronicity. Wish I had it when I was touting synchronized production and project management in my old independent consulting days.

Finally, as a proud New Jerseyan also proud to share Hungarian lineage with the creator of the Nairobi Trio, I often feel compelled to point out that his name is actually pronounced Ernie Kovach.

(Let's make it 4 things while I'm on a roll...)

A mention of "hoi-polloi" over in Lisa's comments was driving me nuts while writing the first version of this post, knowing that somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory were song lyrics containing the phrase. Gave in to it and Googled, and found...

I was floatin' in the ocean greased with suntan lotion
When I got wiped out by a beach boy
He was surfin' when he hit me but jumped off his board to get me
And he dragged me by the armpit like a child's toy
As we staggered into land with all the waiters eatin' sandwiches
He tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi
He emptied out his eardrums, I emptied out mine
And everybody knows that the very last line
Is "the doctor said, 'Give him jug band music
It seems to make him feel just fine'"

Courtesy John Sebastian and The Lovin' Spoonful.