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Marvin/Michael Lee Aday: "One of a Kind. Who Could You Compare Him to? No One. THAT'S How You Define Greatness."

Paul Stanley's words concerning the singer-songwriter known as 'Meatloaf' - whether worthy of Michael Aday or otherwise (I would hardly have any legitimate clue or idea, truth be told) - are nevertheless a wonderful tribute to grace the life of anyone, although one could as easily substitute the word 'unique' for greatness, to be pedantically accurate (and I'm saying that again in a general sense, as opposed to being any kind of commentary upon Aday himself). Yet 'unique', which seems to fit the aforementioned statement better (in, as I maintain, a generic sense) doesn't necessarily mean good or decent etcetera, which by all accounts those who knew Aday well most definitely seem to have considered him. Yes, an idiosyncratic iconoclast and all the rest - even someone with outspoken political views and staunch religious convictions, apparently - but for all of that, what ultimately matters the most: a thoroughly decent human being (insofar as people in...

*'In A Good Old Age', **'Old & Full of Days', As the Scribe Might Have Termed Things, ***Another (Famous) Beloved Black Man Departs This Earthly Life...Sydney Poitier, The Watching (Western) World Salutes You: For Ever Bearing Yourself With Dignity, Grace & Aplomb - & Guts, Gumption & Grit (Whether Upon the (Big) Screen Or In Public Life) & Serving As A Role Model (Way Ahead of 'the Pack', Long Ahead of the Times) For So Very Many, I Have Little Doubt...

*/**/*** Above references are (respectively) to: *the Old(er) Testament King David ( 1 Chronicles 29: 28a)  **the Old(er) Testament patriarch Job ( Job 42: 17). ***My own recent blogpostings going back to Colin Powell early last November (though he died a couple weeks earlier while I was vacationing), and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

A Belated Farewell to Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, A Diminutive Giant of A Man, Who Truly Spoke 'Truth to Power', *'Dang' the Consequences...Putting Some Serious Shoes Upon His Christian Profession...

*Not being able to resist this odd term, having just read it upon the record cover of an LP I've been playing this afternoon, 'Country Super Hits: Volume Three', the song being 'Dang Me', sung (and evidently written) by Roger Miller; my here substituting 'dang' for the more usual(ly coined) 'hang', as in 'hang the consequences...