Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Be a wild strawberry.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Hot air and ill-informed banter

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

When I was faster i was always behind.

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  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Jukebox the Ghost, Shawn Colvin, Bela Fleck with the Marcus Roberts Trio, Jerry Douglas.

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    gbear

    How about a French version of a Bob Dylan song played by an English band with the great Sandy Denny singing? It even has a drum break consisting of a pile of chairs falling over and breaking some bottles.

    Actually I’ve been listening to Joni Mitchell and Simon & Garfunkle this morning. Some folkie friends volunteered to help me weed my garden this morning so I was playing music for them. I’ll probably be listening to the new dB’s record this afternoon and I’m going to the record store to pick up a new 3-disc reissue of Small Faces’ Ogdens Nut Gone Flake. Love that record.

  4. 4.

    lamh35

    This weekend is the Essence Festival in NOLA. Since I’m stuck working here in DFW, I’ve been listening to some of the artist who are scheduled to perform, in the privacy of my own home, while trying not to be PO’d about all my friends and fam in NOLA posting their festival pics…bastards!

  6. 6.

    Hypatia's Momma

    I’ve had Patrick Moore plays the xylophone stuck in my head for three days. Which is fine, I guess. I just don’t know why.

  11. 11.

    hilzoy

    Ach, Mutti, kann das das Ende sein: Wieder in Mobilen mit die Memphis-Blauen angefangt zu sein …

  16. 16.

    aimai

    I love Marie LaForet, we had her albums when we lived in Paris in the 60’s. It is the soundtrack of my childhood although I’d lost them for about thirty years. Thanks to the internet I rediscovered her a few years ago and ordered one of her albums from Amazon France. This is not one of her better songs. She had an amazing voice. Its a scream to listen to something in French and then realize its an American classic like “Go, Tell It on the Mountain.”

    aimai

  18. 18.

    Duff Clarity

    Jay Reatard’s “Blood Visions”. Daft Punk’s “Discovery”. The 1969 Texas live show by the Velvets. The Gories. Gene Ammons.

  22. 22.

    Bill Murray

    Veronica Falls, Dot Dash, Time to Go: The Southern psychedelic Moment 1981-86 — a compilation on Flying Nun Records with bands from New Zealand’s South Island

  23. 23.

    Haydnseek

    Coltranes A Love Supreme, Johnny Winter And-Live, Sibelius 2nd Symphony, Leo Kottke-Mudlark…Oh, and Josef Haydn, of course. All on glorious vinyl…

  27. 27.

    MikeJ

    The heat has me logy. Listening to Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Cat Power. Eagerly awaiting the new album by Cat Power too.

  28. 28.

    Suffern ACE

    After 15 hours on planes trying to find something to listen to, I decided the Superfly was my best option. Cause how can you turn down Japanese country music. Roll over that rainbow! Or whatever anthem keeps you goin’ I suppose.

  29. 29.

    burnspbesq

    @Haydnseek:

    Dig this: the new Vienna Philharmonic/Dudamel recording of the Mendelssohn Third on DG is vinyl only. The yellow label is back, bitchez!

  31. 31.

    Davis X. Machina

    I’m not listening to my governor. I know your governor is probably a douche, but is he this big a douche, huh? Huh?

    Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address to blast President Obama’s health care law and described the Internal Revenue Service as the “new Gestapo.”
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    The IRS description was a reference to a provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires most Americans to buy health insurance or pay an annual penalty when filing their tax returns. The provision, known more broadly as the individual mandate, was the subject of a multi-state lawsuit, but was recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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    LePage said the court decision has “made America less free.”
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    “We the people have been told there is no choice,” he said. “You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo – the I.R.S.”

  34. 34.

    Suffern ACE

    @Davis X. Machina: Jebus. I wonder what we’ll do when there is an actual Gestapo/Stasi/KGB remix? When it appears, will the people subject to it cry that it’s worse than the National Forest Service and their vile land management techniques.

  36. 36.

    burnspbesq

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Naw, he just gets to levy on bank accounts and garnish wages. He needs more seniority before they let him kick in doors.

    True story: when I was a litigator for the IRS, I had a case involving a guy who threatened an IRS collections person with a gun. When he got out of prison, he went to the District Court clerk’s office to try and get his gun back. They said he could have it, but then he’d be a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and the nice FBI agent standing in the corner would have to arrest him. So he claimed a theft loss deduction for the value of his gun on his 1040 for that year. We, having no sense of humor, disallowed the deduction.

  37. 37.

    gbear

    @JPK: Kind of late with my reply here but that new dB’s record really is great. I bought the vinyl version of it last week and it came with a CD version too. I’ve been listening to it every day.

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    Alphonse de la Guerre Victoriouse Pour La Liberte et La France

    @aimai: Can’t imagine how powerful this post of Ms. LaForet’s cut must be for you. For me (lived in Walloon Belgique in early ’60s, a bunch more in France and Belgium in late ’60s), this is a major time machine to hitch-hiking and living on the streets right in the era LaForet released this. It’s like all those roadside and sidewalk guitars and singers are right in my ear again. I’ll probably have one more hit of hash, then roll over and go to sleep while the last guy up, that Norwegian, picks out some quieter tunes…

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    Amir Khalid

    I hope the thread is not so dead that some front-pager won’t notice this and plan an appropriate post. We are a week away from a significant centenary: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, whose songs’ continuing relevance to our times I need not explain, was born on July 14, 1912.

  41. 41.

    Yutsano

    @burnspbesq: Hey! I get to do liens too!

    (Actually they opened up an RO position just one above my GS level. I elected to pass for now.)

  44. 44.

    eugene

    @tybee:

    It’s frustrating because I know all the words individually, but “Of to be to you” doesn’t make any sense :(

  46. 46.

    Haydnseek

    @burnspbesq Ah, it’s tomorrow, and you probably won’t see this, but thanks! Thrift store DG’s, among others, were (and still are) a big part of my classical education.

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