Frankie Sullivan
If the world does end on December 21st, we will only have ourselves to blame… Well, ourselves and Survivor.
Only slightly more famous than Travis Tygart, Frankie Sullivan is mostly known to 40-something fans of the early Rocky movies. He’s the only founding member of Survivior to still be with that mildly iconic, hopelessly dated rock band. Sullivan is co-writer of such 2 a.m. 80s CD compilation classics as Burning Heart and Eye of the Tiger.
It is that second song which has brought him back into the limelight again. Evidently the pompous blimp known as Newt Gingrich was using Eye of the Tiger during his campaign rallies. While I figure he was mistaking the title of that song with his favorite candy treat, Sullivan decided Eye of the Tiger’s use was a great affront to the honor of his legacy and the good, upstanding name of his subsisting Survivor brand.
So everyone went to court and some kind of a settlement (possibly in the tens of hundreds of dollars) was reached the other day. Now maybe Sullivan can travel Grayhound Platinum Business Class to Survivor’s next show at Isle Casino in majestic Waterloo, Iowa.
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I know where you’re coming from Teddy, but don’t be hating on the Apple.
Once upon a time I would walk past the Apple store, look in and laugh at all the trendy young trendsetters/early adopters blowing their meager earnings on the latest iPod, iPhone and iPad just for the status of having the latest gizmo with an Apple logo on it.
While the Apple ‘culture’ was annoying to me, I’ve been using MacBook’s at work for years and always liked them. They’re more intuitive than PCs and not as prone to viruses. Pretty much a trouble-free experience.
Well, the hard-drive on my Mac finally crapped out which meant a trip to the Apple store. It was a Tuesday morning and the mall was dead…except for Apple. It was teeming with annoying people spending large sums of money in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression.
A lightbulb went off in my head and now I love those annoying people and here’s why: I bought Apple stock shortly after that trip to the store and it is going through the roof with no sign of letting up soon. If it continues this way for the next few years, I’ll actually get to retire some day. Long live Apple.