Fifteen Minute Blind Write (Blogophilia 53.11)

Something I haven’t done for a while.
Fifteen minutes...anything and everything that comes to mind.
The Midnight Special is the topic and if you are old like me, you might remember the show coming on Saturday night after the evening body count. Sometimes the had a host, other times not. What they did have was the hottest music available on the planet. One act would be Disco, while the next was metal. All the fun of a club without the DUI danger. The only show anywhere close to it these days is “Later, with Jools Holland”, and we can only get year old shows here in the States.
Speaking of music, anybody know what Willie Nelson’s first #1 song is? It’s Crazy. It allowed him to move out of his car and kept him Walking the Floor over her ever since.
This week’s picture looks like the yellow brick road, curling into the Emerald City. I have to admit it is a gorgeous shot, but be sure not to look behind the curtain as you come under the bridge. You might find someone stopped by a cop feeding the treasury, or worse, dealing with a five car insurance seminar as you try to head uptown.
And times up.

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Topic-Tyler Myrth
Pic-Christine Wichman
Pic guesses- Yellow Brick Road (in blog), Emerald City (in blog), Sunset Skyline, Pot o’Gold, Big City, Streaks, Headlights meet tail lights.

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