When I look at this video at some point I usually ask, “How could we not love her (Diana Rigg – Mrs. Emma Peele).” And the character of Mrs. Peele was so ahead of her time. She didn’t wait for John Steed to step in to save her, and quite often she saved him. She did her own research and came up with her own conclusions. So much about the character was a guiding light on how young girls should grow up to be women. “I want a girl with a short skirt… and a long jacket.” I also want some clear Paulson Bubble Goggles so that I can wear them when I watch “THEM.”

Suzy Bogguss was so damned sexy in this video and I love the feeling of this song. Her outfit and especially the hat was perfect.

I was in an IGA grocery store several years ago (in Benson, NC), walking up and down the isles shopping and I stopped when I heard this song start playing. I couldn’t have told you who it was, but it was just rock-n-roll that took hold of me that day. Since I’ve listened to a bunch of ELO and Jeff Lynn and I also like his concert where Rosie Vela was backing him up. She was also, so damned sexy singing and swaying in that long dark dress. *I’ve only been to that IGA a few times (2 or 3) and I bought Honey Crisp apples for the first time there going away from Fayetteville that day, and stopped and bought 4 more Honey Crisps on the way back home later that day. The apples were gigantic and I bought four of them. I get to the check out counter with only the four Honey Crisp apples. The clerk rings it up and says to me, “That will be $10.25.” I stopped for a brief second and then handed her the money. But I immediately calculated that it was more than $2.56 for each apple. That price, per apple in today’s economy, might not cause a pause, but this was probably just before Covid and that was an outrageous per apple cost. But, they did have an exceptionally distinct and delicious flavor. For fried apples, I almost always buy Galas and am completely satisfied.

You can see St. Pauls Cathedral in the background and you realize that the Millineum Bridge would be built right here, years later, and the band must have been facing the Tate Modern Museum as they played. The base violin player always reminds me of Bocephus – Hank Williams, Jr., even though I wasn’t a Williams fan. **One bit of info about Rosie Vela that has stuck with me was that her boyfriend in college died of a terminal illness. It might have been cancer. So when I’m looking lustfully at her singing and see her beautiful face, I usually think, “Yeah, but there is a great deal of pain in her eyes. She’s suffered.” And that’s even though I can’t really see her eyes that well in the music videos.

I think it’s probably true. That you look at a beautiful woman and you forget briefly that she’s a person like everyone else. She’s not a goddess. She’s suffered the little and big things in life that come to us all. But maybe that makes her even more special because even, in spite of great pain, her physical appearance is much like Dorian Grey. Most of the scars do not appear on her physical appearance.

For some reason the above comment reminded me of some personal wisdom that I haven’t adhered to most of my life. The wisdom is, in any competition, you should try to come in first place or very near first place every time. Why? Because getting there first, in almost all situations, grants you more & varied choices for later. I’m not sure if a less stressful life, or having to make less stressful choices during your life actually makes you live any longer, or even live better, but given the choice of living life poor or living life well off, I’ll choose “not poor.”