Pounding The Keyboard

       Life is truly unpredictable.      You can be a doctor, rich and popular, who does nothing but advise people on how to live longer and live a healthy life, on how to avoid illnesses including cancers, on what to eat and what not to eat, on what to do and what not to do your body to stay healthy, and on why it is very important to avoid stress, as stress will make you sick and even kill you.     Stress will make your mind and body feeble, you can't stress it enough, so you regularly spew out ways to avoid stress.     People are saying that you'd probably live up to 150.      Then, tragically, suddenly, you are diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease (so deadly one would be so lucky to survive a year after diagnosis). And the reason you developed the illness? Stress. You claim that you've been dealing with stress most of your life. How you were unable to avoid stress is what beats a lot of people.      Then there’s this man in your neighborhood, who’s already in hi

       David Gilmour, former Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist, released a new album yesterday, September 6, 2024. Entitled Luck and Strange , it is his fifth studio album. Last time he released an album was 2015 ( Rattle That Luck ). David Gilmour reportedly said that he considered Luck and Strange his best work since Dark Side of the Moon, which is considered by many as Pink Floyd’s greatest album, and which I consider the greatest album of all time ( The Wall comes close).      I listened to Luck and Strange yesterday, and nope, the album doesn’t come close to DSOTM , or to The Wall , for that matter, or to Wish You Were Here or Animals or even Meddl e. But don’t get me wrong, Luck and Strange is a good album. “Scattered,” “Sings,” “The Piper’s Call” and “Between Two Points (which his daughter sang)” are good. It would just be sacrilegious to say that it as good as the aforementioned Pink Floyd classic albums.      The thing with David Gilmour solo albums is that he does

       His eyes were greeted by a blinding light when he opened them. And when the light slowly revealed a figure, he saw a small fairy, which reminded him of Tinker Bell, floating just a few inches away from his face.      “Hi,” Tinker Bell said. Of course, it wasn’t the fairy’s name, he just decided that he would call it that. “I’ve been going in and out of your house for quite some time now, eating your candies, which are always delicious, and I thought, maybe I should reward you, the head of this family, as I know that putting candies inside an open jar near the window is your idea. You believe in fairies and you know that they like candies.”      I just read it in a book, he thought.      “Tinker Bell’s nice but it's taken. My name is Eialem,” the fairy said, which obviously could read his mind. “So, like I said, I’m going to reward you,” she continued. “I would give you the ability to speak, but only three words. You can speak these words anytime, anywhere. It’s not