You have to imagine how stressful fifty four years of being Elvis Presley’s daughter really was. This is a celebrity death that doesn’t hit me hard.
Prince, Walter Payton, David Bowie, Robin Williams… those were painful losses.
It happens in three’s most of the time. So who are the other two celebrities that will be tied to Lisa Marie? It sure as hell better not be Willie Nelson! That will be a hard one to take.
Dead Pools were always a New Year tradition on the trading floor. There was some big money thrown around at the expense of pop art life. The trick was picking someone young who didn’t live a volatile lifestyle.
It was easy to pick someone long in the tooth, but if you parlayed a long shot into your selections… you’d win a nice chunk of change. Someone picked the girl from TLC and made a boatload of money one year. It will go down in Chicago Board of Trade history, “the Rosemary Clooney, Mayor Bilandic, “Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes Dead Pool.” I know I was in the running because I took Dudley Moore that year.
Today in Boston a statue will be unveiled before the MLK weekend. It’s a bronze statue of arms. The arms of Doctor King and his wife Coretta. It is designed after the embrace Mrs King gave here husband after he won the Nobel prize for peace.
Speaking of embracing…. I’ll continue to embrace this weather tightly. Very little snow and one Arctic blast so far this winter. I know we are going to get jagged over in March or April. We are going to pay the price for a mild winter in someway. Probably at the Saint Patrick’s Day parade when it is twelve degrees and my Guinness freezes up.
Have a great Friday and don’t worry about today’s date.
