I realize nobody has had much to say here for years but come on. Is anybody actually okay with going about our daily lives while our Country is taken over by a fascist dictator? Not to mention his sycophants?
Hell no! But I have to give a lot of credit to the protesters of Los Angeles: Trump has been trying to provoke a riot, in order to give him a pretext for assuming dictatorial power, and the protesters have been steadfastly refusing to give him one. Sunday evening, I attended Igor Levit's recital at Disney Hall (postponed from January!), and the only difficulties I encountered were a need to change trolleys at 7th/Metro (because Union Station was closed, and the Blue Line was only running between Long Beach and 7th/Metro). And make no mistake: he's a puppet, and the sycophants are the ones pulling the strings.
Oh yes! That's why I made sure to mention them. I just saw a video posted by a protester. It seemed to be mostly a rally and police were sitting on their cars watching. When our "leaders" are allowed to just plain lie, over and over, without any fact checking; what do we do? At least Newsom is calling him out.
I just heard on the "regular" news that there are more troops deployed on US soil than in any war zone.
And now, Senator Padilla has been arrested for daring to ask Noem (now THERE is somebody whose U.S. Citizenship should be revoked with extreme prejudice) a question at a public event.
When you're as old as I am; this really strikes a raw nerve. We never thought we'd have to experience this again in our lifetimes.
Rock not being my preferred idiom (to put it mildly), that is a song I've heard dozens, perhaps hundreds of times, without ever having the slightest idea what the title was. And about halfway through the video, it occurred to me that it would work very well for the Hampton String Quartet. Or for the lesser-known (but also quite real, although they may not still be active) Uptown String Quartet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/DQHbTDspNaY?si=3p_ZWFTBeK5hgJfG Your post got me thinking and I looked around YouTube and found this.
Okay, so that didn't work. I guess you can't just copy and paste a short. There's a guy named Avery White who does a cello version of For What It's Worth. But I can only find it as a short.
Sheesh. We used to have an edit button. The first time I hit that link it just gave me shorts with babies talking. But now it seems to be working. Hopefully you got to see it. I think it's pretty cool.
The link works. . . but if you scroll down even a little bit, it stops playing, and the video below it starts. Weird. Interesting arrangement. As much sel-sync overdubbing as Les Paul and Wendy Carlos combined. If there was ever any doubt about Trump being a mamzer, he has confirmed that status as of yesterday.
Yiddish is such an expressive and colorful language. Both the part that comes from Hebrew, and the part that comes from German. Jon Stewart also nailed Trump when he called him our "first openly <profane term for anus> President."
Well, well: boards up again, down again, up again. Actually did a good trouble protest today. So many baby boomers out there. I guess young people have lives. We remember and resent going backwards. Pretty good turnout for our hick town.
Dang, I thought the boards were down for good! Haven't even looked in ages. I have to say that as scary as things seem sometimes, Trump actually does often back down AS LONG AS SOMEONE STANDS UP TO HIM. Like all bullies. Chicago's mayor and Gov. Pritzker stood up to him and he's at least postponed invading Chicago for now. And it looks like the NY Times is not going to fold in the face of that ridiculous lawsuit he's bringing. My hope is that they counter-sue QUICKLY and force him into a deposition-under-oath... and then watch him fold in a very humiliating way, because there's no way he will testify under oath.
So good to see you. The boards go up and down but I try to check once a week because there seems to be someone, somewhere that cares enough to keep them up. I just wish they cared enough to make a link on their homepage so people can find us. I just spent 3 days in Reno with 3 friends from highschool (we're all 72). So between fabulous meals out and climbing a mountain; we ignored the news as much as possible. But on my 4 hour drive home I listened to some YouTube. Can you sue the news for endorsing the opponent who lost? Can you murder fishermen from another country on a whim? Is it actually probable cause to exist while being brown? (Head exploding emoji if it doesn't show up.)
Hmm. Kimmel back. It would seem that The Walt Disney Company found its <censored> I wonder if they turned up in this vault.
When I was looking up the commercial I linked to, I also found a rant from some nutjob claiming to prefer "Pain in the Night." As far as I'm concerned, the only mistake they made in the last several MSEP encores was not using the Don Dorsey version of the score. Then again, we're talking about the same company that went with Daft Punk for the first TRON sequel, and Nine Inch Nails (?!?!!) for the second. I wonder if Disney's taste in music is also locked away in that vault. But I digress. Actually, I don't think I've ever actually seen Jimmy Kimmel Live. I've probably seen more of him hosting the recent Celebrity WWTBAM than I have in anything else. (For that matter, I haven't seen much of the post-Carson iterations of The Tonight Show, either. Just about the only TV I pay much attention to any more is Jeopardy! and my DVD library. But nobody deserves to be silenced for speaking out against Trump. That's why, whenever I sign an online petition against Trump, I don't just give my first name; I give my full name, including both middle initials.
