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Fun-Filled Friday: Pentatonic Scale, Fouad Djaoublia On ‘X-Factor’, Hall Of Famer Michael Jordan, And 9/11 Tribute

After getting pummeled over the head last Friday for sharing my opinions about how the slaughter of baby chicks gets more outcry than the killing of human babies in abortion, I think this edition of “Fun-Filled Friday” will be rather tame by comparison. The reason I started this weekly blog post that is mostly unrelated to the subject of nutrition and health was for me to express myself on other areas of life that intrigue me while also invoking some fun, funny, and rather peculiar items of interest to that tickle my fancy.

Here we go for this week:

As a music lover, I couldn’t resist showing you this absolutely AMAZING video featuring Bobby McFerrin (from “Don’t Worry Be Happy” fame) demonstrating the awesome power of the pentatonic scale through audience participation at the “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus” from the 2009 World Science Festival in June 2009.

That is so cool! And it is indeed universal because most people get that. Except for maybe this guy who tried out for the UK-based “X-Factor” show that is reminiscent of the early auditions on “American Idol.” I LOVE Simon Cowell’s priceless reaction to Fouad Djaoublia singing a famous Mariah Carey song. This guy makes William Hung sound like he’s really good. Check out how the audience responds to him singing along when he starts belting out his second song.

HA HA HA HA!!! Well, that guy got his 5 minutes of fame, didn’t he? Somebody that got a little more than five minutes of fame is the man who is arguably the best professional basketball player of all time — MICHAEL JORDAN! I was fortunate enough to grow up watching Jordan from the beginning until the end of his career and now he is about to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Check out this highlight reel of Jordan in his early years with the Chicago Bulls.

ESPN analyst and great basketball player in his own right Jalen Rose perfectly summarizes what so many of us think about the career of Michael Jordan in the NBA.

Finally, since this is the eighth anniversary of the tragic attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that happened on September 11, 2001, I would be remiss if I didn’t post this fitting tribute video featuring images from that sad day in our nation’s history. God bless America!

Have a great weekend and feel free to send me your “Fun-Filled Friday” stuff anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. SEE YA!

September 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: 1
  • Greg

    Sheesh. Here we go again. Abortion = “the killing of human babies”? Does the “Morning After” pill, for instance, kill “babies”? Even if we’re just talking about a few weeks and a few cells and an organism that no one in their right mind would argue is aware of the world in any conceivable fashion? I think the word you were looking for was “fetus”, perhaps? But I forgot, it’s all black and white. Which is fine, but again, here I am again trying to read your blog for low carb news, and again here we are with abortion – after all those “THANK-YOU FOR YOU WONDERFUL COMMENTS” posts, you open with talking about how beat up you feel from people taking issue. Well, DON’T POST ABOUT IT, THEN! See? Easy!

    (And do you really think people in general make more of a fuss about baby chicks than about abortion? Really?)

    Greg, give it a rest dude.

    –Jimmy

  • Greg

    I think I’ll give your blog a rest, then, actually. It’s clear by how you opened your post that you just don’t get where those of us who are put off by this stuff being in here are feeling – that opening sentence is just rude, Jimmy, whether you see it or not. So, fine. I’m done. Have a good one.

    Do what you gotta do, Greg, but it sounds like you’ve been looking for a reason to leave. There was nothing in this FFF even remotely related to your concerns and yet you continued the conversation from last week. I wasn’t even close to being rude and simply expressed my opinions. You should start your own blog to express your opinions too. It’s quite cathartic. :)

    –Jimmy

  • http://lorettasjourney.blogspot.com/ Loretta

    Hi Jimmy!
    Hey, it’s your blog, write about anything you want, okay? I for one am loving it. It’s educational, inspirational, entertaining, and even if I don’t always agree 100% it always makes me think!

    I was touched by today’s tribute to 9/11, in the little video. Thank you for that.
    Loretta

    Thanks for getting it Loretta! Glad you enjoyed the 9/11 video.

    –Jimmy

  • http://www.easytobethin.blogspot.com Nancy

    aww that poor guy, he likes Mariah Carey so I have to like him since I love her too, ha ha Too bad he couldnt sing.

    Bobby McFerrin is so cool! I love the dont worry be happy song especially.

    about the last FFF and what people thought about it, well some people didnt “get” what you were saying, it happens. Just dont worry……be happy!

  • Andrea

    Nicely handled, Jimmy. Thanks for keeping your cool and being gracious. And for telling the truth.

    Thanks Andrea. It’s possible for us to disagree from time to time without being disagreeable. I appreciate your feedback. :)

    –Jimmy

  • staceylben

    Thanks for the 9/11 video. God bless you!

  • http://www.mylowcarbreality.blogspot.com Lee in Nashville

    I remember getting a “feeling” when I read your comment about baby chickens and thinking, oh, boy, you’d hit on a hot word. It were as though I could feel your emotion coming through, and I knew you would be hearing from people as a result.

    I’m sure this kind of thing has happened before, and I’m sure it will again.

    Yep, I’m sure it will, Lee. :)

    –Jimmy

  • Dana

    I’m not sure, but I suspect part of the reason people get more het up by the baby chickens is that nobody’s going to die as a result of not slaughtering them, but sometimes when you don’t allow abortion, a woman does die as a result of that policy.

    I don’t care if you don’t think women die often enough when abortion is illegal for it to be worth your concern, but as a woman myself, it’s certainly worth my concern, particularly given my “advanced age” if I were to become pregnant again (35 going on 36) and a history of inflammatory response in my last pregnancy, plus the fact I’ve had a C-section now, which increases my chances of uterine rupture in subsequent pregnancies.

    And of course if abortion is OK in those instances then it’s not really about the humanity of the baby or whether the procedure is “murder,” is it? Is it also murder to refuse to be a blood or organ donor? Why aren’t “pro-lifers” equally fervent about those matters?

    I can respect someone who wouldn’t ever get an abortion because the idea is distasteful to them. But I find the Catholic Church’s beatification of women *solely* because they died in childbirth to be appalling (because there is very definitely the attitude that it’s “better than abortion,” even if the woman in question had other, already-born children who now miss her terribly), and I find the typical pro-lifer’s stance on this almost as repugnant because it’s as if y’all believe women aren’t alive at all.

    And really, the notion that a pregnancy is just desserts for what you view as incorrect behavior… and then you want to turn around and adopt the “punishment”… that’s just sick.

    If you are uncomfortable with abortion, that’s fine. But the rest of the pro-life ideological “package” is sorely in need of work.

    This is not to say, of course, that I find the pro-choice position ideologically perfect. Neither side seems particularly interested in helping pregnant women in crisis (NOT women with “crisis pregnancies”–the only “crisis pregnancy” is one that will maim or kill you) beyond either killing her baby or selling it to the highest bidder. Even when the pro-life side offers help to pregnant women, either it’s inadequate or it’s contingent upon her giving up her baby. What kind of help is that?!? Poverty is often temporary, but a broken family is forever.

    In my perfect world abortion would be totally legal, but contraception would be low-cost or free to obtain, adoption would only be possible in very limited circumstances (and the children would keep their original birth certs and not be lied to about their origins), and parents who need help parenting–either financially, culturally, spiritually, or otherwise–would get it. It’s hard enough parenting when there are both a mother and father present. Even more so when you’re alone, your own parents and extended family have abandoned you, you’re in an at-will employment state and no one will hire you, and the preacher down the street’s calling you a dirty whore.

    Food for thought, anyway. I doubt it’ll help, but I try.

    THANKS for your input, Dana! I LOVE your idea about adoptions in light of the fact that Christine and I can’t have kids of our own. That would help tremendously. Your “food for thought” is welcomed anytime!

    –Jimmy