A little musical interlude from your weekend DJ. In honor of the Easter weekend – one of my favorite musicals. This song was added in the revival.
And of course, the musical I probably won’t be lucky enough to see, but the album is on my list to listen to, I just haven’t had the time I would like to focus on it. I guess that 16 hours on the road last week would have been an opportunity…hindsight, sigh. This is from the White House appearance (music starts at about 9:00 if somehow Barack being funny bores you):
I forgot this morning to share what my little niece says every time she hears Trump speak. She gives that big sigh only a nine year can and says, “why doesn’t he shut up. He is SOOOOO stupid.” No prompting from us. When you’ve lost the nine years olds…
Open thread.
EDIT post title because poopyman was correct.
Baud
Liberal elitist.
ETA: Probably drives a Volvo
redshirt
I come from a strange family, so I sincerely ask if Easter is a big deal for anyone?
It’s like a giant nothingburger in mine except for some going through the motions hiding chocolate for kids. Otherwise, no one cares. But we’re an incredibly atheistic family, and I’m sure that’s part of it.
redshirt
@Baud: No doubt has a totebag.
Brachiator
“You’ll be Back,” sung by King George III in “Hamilton” has echoes of Herod’s song in “Jesus Christ, Superstar.” Check out the notes.
Ruckus
It’s just that as a nine yr old she better understands tRump’s six yr old maturity.
That she is far more mature than he is a nice bonus.
NotMax
These are weird. Not bad weird, more like “um, o-o-o-kay” weird.
Brachiator
Also, Hamilton Trump mashup.
You know the Internets had to do it.
daryljfontaine
Your help in this matter won’t go unrewarded
We’ll pay you in silver, cash on the nail
D
Yutsano
@NotMax: Eh. I’d try them once.
Did a minor job search today but nothing promising yet unless I want to move to Rhode Island.
NotMax
Repeating from far down in thread below because this Open Thread went live at the same time as I hit Publish.
Meanwhile, in the land of borscht and vodka, From Russia with love: Why the Kremlin backs Trump.
Percysowner
@redshirt:
Not in my family, but I was raised Unitarian and Jesus wasn’t that big a deal. My son-in-law’s family are devout Catholics, so I suspect it is a big deal for them. He and my daughter will celebrate with them. My daughter is an atheist, so it can get interesting for her. She’s been told that her in-laws pray every night that she will turn to God, but so far, no luck. Considering we sent her to a Catholic school, because it was a really excellent school, so she got religion classes and had to go to Mass all the time, I don’t think she will ever convert.
redshirt
@Yutsano: Rhode Island is better than Oklahoma!
Darkrose
@Brachiator: Prove to me that you’re no fool
Walk across my swimming pool!
redshirt
@Percysowner: I respect that Easter is an obvious Spring holiday, just like Christmas is a Winter holiday. But on the one hand, not many people seem to care about Easter, and yet, the grocery stores are closed.
Is there a War on Easter?
rikyrah
I love Hamilton.
I’m even getting Peanut into it. One song at a time. It’s her first musical :)
rikyrah
@redshirt:
Well, I come from a Christian family…and pretty much the entire reason for the religion IS Easter…so, yeah, it was a huge deal when I was growing up.
raven
Fuck yes, one firecracker and BOOM!
Mai.naem.mobile
@redshirt: I’m not Christian but Easter is nothing but Christmas was a much bigger non commercial deal when I was growing up. I also think all holidays are a big deal nowadays because people in general work so hard and take off such little time.
NotMax
@redshirt
Where do you shop? Vatican City?
;)
None closed here, fer sure.
Baud
@raven: Someone gonna die.
raven
@Baud: Xin Loi!
NotMax
Sigh. Moderation. Again. No bad words either.
Site performance is deteriorating before the eyes.
TaMara (BHF)
@redshirt: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter morning are pretty big religious moments for serious church goers. It’s probably a more solemn holiday, thus for secular not such a big deal.
The story has much more drama than say the Christmas story – betrayal, forgiveness, love, questioning of faith, death and rebirth. So hard to put into a greeting card or buy gifts for – LOL.
So for most it’s low key with scary Easter Bunnies, egg hunts and ham.
Me, I’ll be hiking with the dog.
LAO
TriBeCa just pulled the anti-vaxxer film. jezebel.com/tribeca-film-festival-robert-de-niro-announce-theyre-p-1767288170
raven
@TaMara (BHF): I got my bride a nice doggie themed easter card. I’d buy her flowers but it seems pretty stupid because the place is covered with them!
sukabi
@raven: one cellphone a good bluetooth speaker and some sound effects played at appropriate levels and they’d be cleaning sh!t off the ceiling for months.
rikyrah
SATURDAY, MAR 26, 2016 06:00 AM CDT
This crisis is bigger than Arizona: Behold the travesty that is Wisconsin’s new voter ID law
Friday will mark the first major election voters are required to present pre-approved identification. It gets worse
SARAH SMITH, PROPUBLICA
On April 5, when voters cast ballots in Wisconsin’s Republican and Democratic primaries, the state’s controversial voter ID bill will face its biggest test since Governor Scott Walker signed it into law in 2011. For the first time in a major election, citizens will be required to show approved forms of identification in order to vote. The law mandates that the state run a public-service campaign “in conjunction with the first regularly scheduled primary and election” to educate voters on what forms of ID are acceptable.
But Wisconsin has failed to appropriate funds for the public education campaign. The result is that thousands of citizens may be turned away from the polls simply because they did not understand what form of identification they needed to vote.
Wisconsin’s failure to fund these public-service ads comes after a clash between the Government Accountability Board, the nonpartisan agency responsible for producing voter education materials, and the Republican-controlled legislature. In October, the agency met with Republican State Senator Mary Lazich, who was a primary sponsor of the voter ID bill in 2011, to inquire after funding and received a tepid response.
The board told Lazich that it would need $300,000 to $500,000 from the state legislature to broadcast advertisements. The legislature had twice appropriated money for public information campaigns during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles, but the ads barely hit the airwaves before court injunctions delayed the law from going into effect.
Eric S.
@redshirt: It’s one of 3 or 4 holidays the extended family gets together. For some of the more religious it has some meaning. For me is just a chance to see family I don’t the rest of the year.
eemom
@Baud:
Hopefully everyone in attendance. If the Second Amendment could rid us of the entire republican party, I’m a believer.
Rex
Could We Start Again Please is in the original JCS.
youtube.com/watch?v=oqvXquqTwoU
Ultraviolet Thunder
My in-laws start partying right after breakfast on Easter, and by dark the damage is starting to pile up. IOW, just a normal Sunday.
I’ll be at home by myself, as I prefer. I need a day to get my mood/attitude/temper under control after a horrible couple of weeks at work. And I need to pack and prep to roll out for work early Monday morning.
It’s pretty springlike around here. Grass is greening up and the lilies are getting serious about growing. This is most welcome.
eemom
fwiw, which I probably say every year at this time, it’s not Easter for Orthodox Christians until May 1.
schrodinger's cat
I went to a Catholic school and had many Catholic friends, so I got lots of goodies to eat but didn’t have to go to mass since I was not Catholic myself. So it was all good! Plus, Good Friday was a holiday, so we got a long weekend.
p.a.
@Yutsano: Jeet?
redshirt
@raven: I read the Free Republic thread on this subject because I like pain and unpredictably, the group consensus was: 1. Delegates should be able to open carry. It’s in the 2nd Amendment, right? and 2. Any trouble that might arise because of open carry at the convention would obviously be the work of DemocRAT saboteurs.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
OT, of course, butter lamb pictures coming soon. Perhaps I should get an actual life.
Baud
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
But then we’d miss you.
NotMax
@eemom
How dare they usurp Lei Day?
redshirt
@eemom: I’ve come to accept that the REAL Christian state church is Orthodox, since they were aligned with the still living Roman Empire for almost another 1000 years after the fall of Rome, proper.
Elmo
Hosanna Superstar!
redshirt
@efgoldman: Not sure about that. You can mostly breathe at least in Oklahoma. Not so much on Jupiter.
eclare
Jealous of all of you for whom Easter is not a big family deal. I get to attend RWNJ Horror Dinner Theater tomorrow. Myself, atheist. Which I keep to myself as they are all armed.
jon
@redshirt: I can’t hum a single song from Rhode Island.
But as musicals based on Biblical events go, this is the best one. Accept no substitutes.
SiubhanDuinne
Last night I had dinner with a young (early 20s) Canadian friend who’s in town for a few days. During the course of a wide-ranging conversation I asked him what he thought of “Hamilton.” He said he didn’t know Hamilton that well but had heard good things about it. He then began talking about driving around Toronto and its suburbs. It was a full minute before I realized that he thought I had asked him about Hamilton, Ontario. Talk about a conversation at cross-purposes!
(And, oddly for someone that age, he knew absolutely nothing about the musical! I was amazed!)
NotMax
Addressing efgoldman, a little above –
Comments without reply links are acting as per normal. Those composed with reply link(s) included are increasingly getting hung up for me today.
May be a precursor of site crashy crashy time tomorrow, as has occurred in the past after same symptoms evidenced.
redshirt
@eclare: Pity. Enjoy the ham and run an interior mocking monologue.
It’s pretty great to be raised atheist.
patrick II
Your niece is not alone. Kids react to Donald Trump
SiubhanDuinne
@eemom:
So I have to wait until ten days after Passover to greet you with “Christos anesti”?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Hate watching the Ten Commandments like I do most every year – can anyone explain to me why this is on every Easter? I love the Cecil B. DeMille over the top staging, and Edward G. Robinson asking “where’s your Moses now?” and John Derek as a slave. LOL. Everyone is so white.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Passover. I completely forgot about Passover! That’s why it’s on.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Christ has left the nest?
Eric S.
For reasons I can’t explain I’ve agreed to run with my brother and his training group tomorrow. I’m getting up at 6:30 to drive to his place and then put 9 miles on my shoes. (I’m training for a half marathon on 5/1.) Is going to be a long Sunday.
Baud
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I used to love that movie when I was younger. It is epic.
TaMara (BHF)
@Rex: It was written for the film but not included in the musical productions until the nineties, I think. I thought it was 2000 when I saw it, but time plays tricks and I’m guessing I saw the 1998 revival and it was in that production they included it and changed up a lot of the other numbers to freshen it up.
redshirt
@Baud: I love the SNL/Simpsons parody.
“Yeah, see, where’s your Messiah now, see, right?”
Ben Cisco
Easter was always low key at Chez Cisco; this one will be even moreso.
And, come Saturday, what would have been our 29th anniversary.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Baud:
I saw it at the movie as a little kid, with an intermission because the thing is like 5 hours long. (spoiler alert) The parting of the Red Sea with the chariots drowning was a mind blowing movie event that I’ve never forgotten.
Also, (spoiler alert) the earth opening up to swallow the revelers melting the gold for the golden calf was so cheesy and great.
Baud
@Ben Cisco: You got family to hang out with?
Brachiator
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Elmo
@Ben Cisco: Sending a virtual hug and all my warmest wishes your way. I can’t imagine.
redshirt
@Ben Cisco: Your equanimity slightly disturbs me.
Mike J
@NotMax:
Too many links? The reply link counts as one, and you only get three. Or is it three and you’re out? I forget.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: I’ll save you having to go to the gun sites. The synopsis is:
And:
Baud
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: The filming of (spoiler alert) the Israelites leaving Egypt was so amazing. Today, all the people would be drawn on computer.
Ultraviolet Thunder
All better now. Classical Music Broadcast plays the fantastic Cliburn/Reiner recording of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto every Saturday, possibly because I always ask them to.
I was all cranky, because reasons, but it’s impossible to be unhappy after the Emperor Concerto. I love all humanity now and the world is beautiful.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Ben Cisco:
I wish I could pick you up and take you out for a pizza and a beer, and bring you home with me for the next 3 hours of hate watching the Ten Commandments.
NotMax
Addressing Mike J, above –
It’s three total, including a reply link.
Well aware of that. Was mentioning it in the hope that someone who can will give Alain a heads-up to pop by tomorrow to check.
No links other than a single reply one in the comments going askew in the aether.
TaMara (BHF)
@Ben Cisco: [[[hugs]]]
redshirt
Eat, drink, and laugh, friends. For tomorrow, we die.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: If there’s one thing that MIGHT change the gun conversation in America, it’s the RNC getting shot up by open carry Republicans.
But even then, as I’ve already read, they’d blame Liberals.
Darkrose
@TaMara (BHF): It’s definitely not on the 1970 concept album, which is what I’m listening to now. My neighbors probably hate you.
Baud
@NotMax:
Odd. I’m not having any such problems.
Darkrose
@redshirt: Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
Don’t disturb me now–I can see the answers
To this evening is this morning life is fine.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@efgoldman:
I believe that there are people who believe this is a documentary – the same people who go to Epcot or Las Vegas and think they’ve been to Europe.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I’ll let him know. I haven’t seen any of your comments in moderation over the past three hours or so. So where they’re going, I have no idea.
Given that its a holiday weekend, I wouldn’t expect him to get to it before Monday.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@redshirt:
you forgot the *AAACK!
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: It wouldn’t change anything. The absolutist position on the 2nd Amendment is now closer to theology and dogma than ideology.
redshirt
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: It’s implied. Or a really clean head shot.
Either way, salud!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Gallup Poll — March 26 — President Obama Ratings
Approve………..53%
Disapprove…..44%
But, but…. baseball game! But, but….. Tango! But, but…… Brussels!
***
Gallup Poll — April 6, 2008 — President Bush Ratings
Approve………..28%
Disapprove…..67%
But, but… a nice guy you’d like to have a beer with! But, but…… he kept us safe!
NotMax
Heh. Raw vote totals from Alaska (55% of precincts reported):
Sanders – 316 votes
Clinton – 83 votes
TaMara (BHF)
@Darkrose: I listen to it every year. I still cry. Damn you Andrew Lloyd Webber.
debbie
@raven:
Signed by delegates or those who would rather be rid of them?
Baud
@NotMax: Holy cow. You’re kidding, right? My high school senior class pesident got more votes.
LAO
@redshirt: Not to be crude, but if 20 dead 2d graders didn’t change the gun conversation in this nation, nothing ever will.
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman:
There are super secret words that won’t throw you into moderation, they will cause the comment to disappear altogether. For instance, there was a troll here with an avuncular nickname based on a supreme court justice. At one point, just using him name would make your comment go * poof *.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: Only because wingnuts are now nearly incapable of self analyzing. Any failure is because of external reasons. The RNC getting shot up with an open carry allowance would be justified in whatever manner necessary to allow for gun and ammo sales to proceed apace.
NotMax
@Baud
Not kidding. Those are the actual numbers.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: I’m sure. I don’t have the codex, but I’m sure nonetheless.
opiejeanne
@Ben Cisco: Aw man, I’m so sorry. I hope a friend invites you over.
If you’re in Seattle, we’d love to have you.
NotMax
Adam, if you’re around, could you check moderation again right now? Replied to Baud and it went poof.
Shana
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Passover doesn’t start until April 22nd.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: On this issue it is certainly a very different understanding of American history – political, constitutional, juridicial, and social.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Nope, you made it without a hiccup.
Baud
@NotMax:
I generally don’t like superdelegates, but if so few people are involved on selecting our nominee, maybe the superdelegates have their place.
(Still hope they are not a factor this year.)
Cacti
@NotMax:
Having experienced my first one today (WA), I can say IMO that caucuses are a joke.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I just cleared it for you. As long as I’m on the site and commenting, I’m actively checking and clearing the sin bin.
Smiling Mortician
@eclare: Holy shit. Can’t you skip it?
redshirt
@LAO: Sorry to be harsh here, but I wade into their cesspool all the time, and stayed there for some time after Newtown, because I was fascinated how they’d justify it. It became either a liberal hoax, or the result of single parent (women) households, or, of course, that the people in the school didn’t have guns to respond. None of this is acceptable, but it fits into their mental models.
The Republican National Convention getting shot up from within because it’s an open carry event MIGHT – I emphasize the word “might” – break their mental conditioning. Republicans shooting other Republicans is not part of their mental matrix, and so it would certainly rattle some mental cages.
But no doubt they’d come up with a way to blame the Other soon enough and disavow all responsibility, since that’s what they do.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@NotMax:
Caucuses in all white states are not the Democratic Party. Sanders said that the voters in the Democratic Party primaries from the Southern State are more conservative. He has no fucking clue about politics, and his problem with people of color. Dismissive of them, actually. He can’t just be the president of young whites.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
They are legion. Sherlock Holmes’ doctor partner’s surname is one. Also too, Jeb’s superPAC name.
Mike J
@efgoldman: Anyone upon whom the banhammer has descended, I believe.
Someone should hardcore troll with the name “the”. BTW, fuck Apple for making it impossible to search iTunes for a band Johnny Marr was in.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: The argument would be the initial shooters/instigators weren’t Republicans. They were an outside plant. Or Muslims. Or it was IS.
Ruckus
@Ben Cisco:
Sorry man.
Baud
@Cacti:
I’m getting to the point where I might support the Dems becoming a dues paying party if the money can be used to do primaries right.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@efgoldman: especially when it’s going up against March Madness
opiejeanne
@efgoldman: Isn’t this a caucus? We had 37 show up today in my little precinct and the precinct only has 4 votes (delegates) total. Today we split them, 2+2. My husband and I are the two Hillary delegates.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: On Free Republic they’re already blaming liberal agitators for any violence that MIGHT occur with an open carry convention.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe Obama himself.
Elie
@efgoldman:
Today is uncommonly good — for a change. Its been a true nightmare at times where trying to comment was just almost impossible — comments would disappear or I would actually have a hard time typing them in…
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Of course.
opiejeanne
@Cacti: They are. We have several friends who have moved here from California and all of them are yelling about Washington needing to switch to a primary. Think of all of the people who could not caucus for various reasons today, and who would have had a voice if it had been a plain old primary vote.
Oh, and the number of delegates your precinct is entitled to is based on how many people showed up at the previous caucus. (I don’t know how the numbers work, but probably not 1 person =1 delegate).
eclare
@Smiling Mortician: Nope. Weird thing is that the older folks are ok, it’s my cousins who have lost their minds.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Hey, did you get my restaurant recs from this mornings thread?
gogol's wife
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
‘specially the slow movement
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: I love Free Republic in a sick, twisted way. They actively ban anyone who speaks against the current hivespeak so of course by now everyone is quite trained. But there’s this one guy who’s trying to ever so subtly suggest that maybe the idea of having so many people with guns in a high tension environment might be a bad idea… and yet, he couldn’t even finish his thought without blaming outside agitators.
It’s like reading Politburo chat boards.
gogol's wife
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
How can you hate a movie in which Anne Baxter says to Charlton Heston, “Oh Moses, Moses!”
And where’s lamh? She drools over Yul.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Rolled back the egg.
gogol's wife
@Darkrose:
I just listened to it. It’s great. I love Jesus as a heavy-metal screamer. I had forgotten how great it was, since I haven’t listened to it since virtually the year it came out. “Hosanna, Heysanna, sanna sanna Ho”
LAO
@redshirt: I don’t think you are being harsh. I don’t give a sh*t about those fckers, they will never change their minds because of …freedom. Whatever that means.
The majority of Americans favor gun control. Our political system has been hijacked by the a vocal and insane minority. My point was small and simple. If an elementary school massacre was not sufficient to create the political will to address the problems of gun violence in this nation then nothing will.
I still give my money to the cause but it is fruitless and hopeless. And I may joke about the sovereign citizen problem and the right wing loons on this site but they are a real problem in this country. I have given up any hope that it will change.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Everyone has their guilty pleasures.
JanieM
@Adam L Silverman: Yes, but there’s a magical ability that tells them who the bad guys are, so there can never be random chaotic shooting. After the initial provocateurs start firing, only they will get shot in return by the righteous.
ETA: See here, for instance.
Smiling Mortician
@eclare: I can relate. But I skip that stuff now, for the most part. Strength!
gogol's wife
Thanks for front-paging the Hamilton numbers. I guess we fans are getting on people’s nerves. But it is a truly great work of art. I’ll shut up now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco:
It’s bound to be a poignant day for you. Others have likely mentioned, and I expect you know it anyway, that the first anything after a loss such as you’ve had is exquisitely painful. The first of what would have been wedding anniversaries. Birthdays. Every possible holiday and private commemoration. You don’t forget, exactly, after that first year has passed, but you’ll have gone through the emotional shockwaves and it does tend to get easier. Thinking of you.
eclare
@Smiling Mortician: Thanksgiving this year is going to be interesting, after the election!
redshirt
@LAO: No no, your outrage IS important. We all need to feel this outrage, and do something about it! Because as you say, we’re being held hostage by a very small, committed minority, and they are causing deaths to pile up month after month.
We need MORE outrage. We need to be extreme in the pursuit of what’s right.
But as long as the Republican party has any influence in this country, the deaths will mount.
Darkrose
@gogol’s wife: I usually listen to it every year around this time, in the car on my way to work. But I forgot this year because I’m not working, so I’m glad TaMara reminded me.
Litlebritdifrnt
I am busily laughing my ass of at the story out of Georgia I think where three dudes loaded up an old riding lawn mower with explosives and commenced shooting at it with a rifle. To no ones surprise dude doing the shooting got his leg blown off. There is actually video of guy saying “it blew my leg off”.
mashable.com/2016/03/25/lawn-mower-explosives/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#7s5i_VEfUGq4
Adam L Silverman
@JanieM: I’ve seen that before.
Elie
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Sanders and his followers just cannot accept the reality of black people everyday and how that shapes our decisions and priorities. Yes, of course, economics play a role, but what I believe he can’t “grok” is the deep, shaping role of feral racism. He just cannot accept that even when you adjust out all other factors, race and racial hatred drive behavior to a degree that economic redress alone will not solve. Many black people are very wary of anyone who would lead them and not truly accept that because it blinds them and their ability to lead and protect black people’s priorities — number one, to stay alive and number two, to get our kids educated and some sort of jobs to survive the ongoing structural racism we encounter. He thinks if we just get the economics fair, the racism will go away or not be a factor. To do that, he had to ignore 8 years of experience with one of the most educated, erudite and smoothly confident Presidents evah — Obama. These folks figuratively spit on him for 8 years and he if no one, was one of the most “model” black men evah. And he was not poor either. He denies the evidence right in front of him to support his ideology. That fundamentally denies and pushes back on the experience of many blacks, including some of the most accomplished people in this country. Does he really think that the LA cop who stops and frisks the black man in the Ferrari is expecting anyone but a black thief? I tell ya, that bullshit just left me cold about him.
NotMax
@gogol’s wife
Well, Hamilton hasn’t graduated to the FYWP verboten word list.
Yet.
:)
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
My response: WHAT PART OF WELL-REGULATED DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?!?!?!
Adam L Silverman
@Litlebritdifrnt: Tanerite. There’s a huge group of folks that like to use exploding targets. My favorite parts of the story were the droll remarks by the local sheriff about the incident.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: I ain’t guilty. I’m always worried though that reading that trash corrupts me.
It’s a dialectic, as are all things: They get more extreme, we have to be more extreme in response, and so on.
eemom
Yul Brynner is sexy as hell, but Charlton Heston has to be the shittiest actor to also coincidentally have been a right wing fucktard. Watched Ben-Hur again the other night. OMG but he sucks.
Thanks to all who commented re Orthodox Easter. The reason it’s on a different date from mainstream Christianity most years is that it always follows Passover. I believe that’s because of the theory that the Last Supper was a Passover Seder.
Christos anestei means Christ is risen. It’s part of a song that everyone sings over and over again in the Greek Orthodox church in the service which begins at midnight on Easter, called Anastasei, which celebrates the resurrection. The church is dark and the priest comes out with a single lit candle whose light is then distributed to candles everyone is holding throughout the church, and then the singing begins. It’s pretty cool actually.
ETA: And people greet each other with “Christos anestei” on Easter Sunday. The response is “aleithos anestei” which means “truly he’s risen.”
All that being said, I’m not actually religious. But I was thrilled by that Easter midnight service when I was a little kid.
JanieM
@Adam L Silverman: After all, everyone is safer if everyone is armed.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@efgoldman:
Dunno, actually. No original broadcast station. I think it’s affiliated with Opera Music Broadcast and several sports talk online feeds. I send them $25 a couple of times a year. Worth it. I’ve bought a number of great recordings based on what I hear there.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: you managed to make it happen. Hip, Hip, Huzzah!
Mike J
@gogol’s wife:
Hammybros?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Lucille the butter lamb.
LAO
@Litlebritdifrnt: not quite a Darwin Award winner, but close enough.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
One of my all-time favourite moments in all music is that half-tone key change between the Adagio and the Rondo finale (B major to B-flat). It’s magical every single time. And the Rondo theme itself is surely one of the most exuberant melodies ever penned by a human being.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: I am merely the messenger. In all honesty the absolutists’ argument is that that only applies to militia membership, not individual ownership. Regardless of what the Supreme Court has consistently ruled for almost 200 years. Even in Heller, Associate Justice Scalia made it very clear that reasonable regulation was still permitted at the local, state, and Federal levels as he was writing that there is an explicit, enumerated right for individuals to keep and bear arms. The absolutists argue that “shall not be infringed” is the controlling clause, not well regulated nor militia.
LAO
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): how much gin did it require?
And you named it after my mother.
gogol's wife
@Mike J:
Yeah, someone compared us to Berniebros the other day. I was a little hurt.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Elie:
Oh, yes, all of this. Circulating on twitter now is video of him dismissing HIS WIFE tonight as he’s speechifying about his win, as she leans in to tell him something. He’s doing his hand waving finger waving bullshit thing, and he pushes her away, and she leaves the stage. He’s a 74 year old cranky white guy who’s unable and unwilling to listen or learn, and is uncomfortable with people of color and women, and now it’s pretty fucking clear now how and where the Berniebros come from. He was nicer to the bird than his wife. That’s all I need to know about Saint Bernie of Whitest White Burlington Vermont.
Monala
Sometimes I get so discouraged about our country, but then I listen to President Obama and get ‘re-inspired. I don’t know how he does it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: Is it wrong that I’m rooting for an armed convention in Cleveland?
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I limited requests to one a month (for the same piece or from the same people).
Patricia Kayden
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: It’s one of my favorite movies because my family would cozy up and watch it together every Easter. Ditto Sound of Music.
I assume it’s shown on Easter because it features the first Passover.
dogwood
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
“Caucuses in all white states aren’t the Democratic Party”
This is bullshit. Democrats of all races, creeds sexual orientation etc. have the right to weigh in on the democratic nominee no matter the racial make up of the state where they live. There a plenty of good white democrats in these states. They deserve respect from the party and the candidates.
Mnemosyne
Good, the Hamilton pods we’re planting in everyone’s garages are working.
I’m expecting Betty and geg6 to be running down the highway any day now, shouting, “Wake up!” at the passing cars, Kevin McCarthy-style.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Hell no!
Adam L Silverman
@JanieM: I saw that when it happened. That was just nuts. At that point they should have realized they were dealing with someone unstable and just eaten the $25 or $50 charge, let him go his way, and called the cops. That doesn’t excuse him shooting them, but it would have been the smarter course of action.
Unfortunately what I’ve noticed is the same people quoting Heinlein that an armed society is a polite society also think that if things get unpolite they’ll be more than capable with dealing with things. Heinlein was himself very wrong. Armed societies are scared societies where politeness is a survival mechanism. And no matter how well trained one is and how situationally aware, reality can be terribly inconveniencing.
Cacti
@opiejeanne:
With about 74% of the precincts counted, about 18,000 votes have been cast. By the time it’s done, maybe 25,000 people will have voted in WA today.
Barack Obama won over 1.7 million votes in WA in 2012.
Caucuses are a joke.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Your mother’s name is Butter Lamb (insert your last name here)? Must be a family name or something.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@dogwood:
Maybe Bernie should acknowledge that black votes count, and he ain’t gettin’ em, and that it matters to him, instead of dismissing ’em. Just sayin’.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
25,000/1,700,000 = 1.4%
irony: the 1 percent powered Sanders to victory.
Baud
@Cacti:
Holy cow. Didn’t Bernie have that many people at his rally?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Ben Cisco: You’re in my thoughts.
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne: And Militia? It implies an organization….
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: of all the comments I’ve made tonight, that’s the one you pick? Yes. It’s from the old country. My dad calls her Butty.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
She has become Betty Cracker’s butter lamh.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Cacti:
my twitter feed has many reports of Hillary caucusers being verbally and physically harrassed by bros, and not feeling safe around them.
BruceFromOhio
@raven:
This is clearly false. The RNC is painting the target, its danger is inherent in its existence – Cleveland is just the drive-by victim caught in the crossfire. The event could be in the middle of the desert and it would remain as perilous.
I really wish they had selected Antarctica or fucking Mars for the ferret circus in July.
Mike J
@LAO:
Your mother was BB King’s guitar?
Ultraviolet Thunder
@SiubhanDuinne:
I know what you mean. I studied music a bit and I can pick apart fairly simple compositions. But the Emperor just lays me out flat and all I can do is go with it. A really good performance has a pace that grabs you and carries you along. It’s a marvel and all too often I need that magic.
LAO
@Mike J: if only my grandparents were that cool.
NotMax
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Pidgin Lucille snippet.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: I did – thanks. The concert we’re going to is at the Brown Theatre (Dave Rawlings Machine – this is as close as they’ll get). We won’t be dressed for the Brown Hotel, obviously, though I do love it – and it’s certainly convenient.
I got to prosecute the steak house owner once. I lost, as I knew I would as soon as the jury was waived. It was still an entertaining trial.
Ben Cisco
@Baud: Mine are a timezone away; hers a couple of hours out. Not really ready to deal with either at the moment.
@redshirt: Ever see a duck cross a pond and wonder what was going on below the waterline?
@Elmo: Thank you, and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Cacti
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
My precinct caucus was a cordial affair. But I live in Pierce County (Tacoma), and it has a lower hipster quotient than King County (Seattle).
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Their argument is that the militia was all able males between 16 and 45 (or 50), therefore everyone is automatically in the militia and that this is reflected in the legislation that created the National Guard to replace the state militia concept.
In reality the militia was largely useless as a fighting force. When Washington took command of what would become the Continental Army his immediate resources were militia. They were horrible. Unable to fight, lacking basic discipline, poorly provisioned. Its why he immediately called for raising and training a proper Army. The militia didn’t get much better after the country was founded, that’s why the first Federal mandate, issued under Washington’s Administration, was to require all able bodied males who were members of the militia to maintain a specific amount of shot, wadding, flints, and powder and a long gun, that these would be under control of the state government, and that drilling would occur regularly. When he needed the militia to deal with Shays it was still useless. And it never got much better. By the early part of the 19th Century it was a joke. It was better in the South because the militia was often used for county law enforcement and slave patrolling. But overall, not particularly useful.
dogwood
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Your comment wasn’t about Bernie, it was about white states. Last time I checked, Iowa was a white state that went for Obama in both its caucuses and its general election. I imagine it will be the same for Hillary. Should we say those caucuses don’t count?
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Gillian too?
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: I’m whimsical like that!
True story: my paternal grandmother was called Bootie/Booty because of the rain boots she wore in elementary school.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Moses is giving his anti-slavery righteous rant in his oiled up chain wearing hot bodied self to Sethi (Cedric Hardwicke). Only 3 hours to go.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): You know they never released this
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Throw Me a Rope (2004)
opiejeanne
@eemom: We did that sharing of the candle in the Methodist Church, passing the light. On Easter we say “He is risen!” and the answer is “He is risen, indeed!” Sometimes there’s an alleluia or two in there.
My adult kids are not religious and these days we are not part of a church. I miss it sometimes, but mostly what I miss is the music.
Steve in the ATL
@redshirt:
We are not talking college basketball, right?
LAO
@BruceFromOhio: I thought the petition was a lefty scheme to call out Republican hypocrisy. Is it a real petition?
I know you can’t be enjoying this, one of my best friends lives in Ohio. She and her husband are coming for a visit during the convention.
Ben Cisco
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Sounds good; making do with some SoCo and Lime.
@efgoldman: I feel ya. Condolences and wishes for better days.
@TaMara (BHF): Thank you.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@eemom:
No John Wayne was a worse actor. Hands down. (though I’ve never seen The Searchers). Wayne is completely stiff throughout “True Grit”. No comparison to Jeff Bridges’s version of Cogburn
raven
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Bah. He’s good in that and in The Shootist.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: “Slave patrolling” pretty much sums up what they like about it.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@dogwood:
Bernie’s whole strategy is focused on winning white state caucuses and primaries. Hillary’s isn’t. Fact. Deal with it.
dogwood
@Baud:
Bernie’s rallies aren’t translating into votes.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@LAO: I thought the empty bottle would be a nice addition to the staging. No gin required, though perhaps I’d have done better with a nip. Spring is kicking my ass in a manner it hasn’t for years.
@Mike J: Exactly where her name came from.
redshirt
@Ben Cisco: No. But now that you mention it I do wonder. I know what’s down below.
raven
@redshirt: Fish
SiubhanDuinne
@eemom:
When I worked in radio I had a “community producer,” an Orthodox priest, who did a weekly program called “Sacred Music of the Eastern Orthodox Church.” He himself was Russian Orth, not Greek, but he was generous in including all Orthodox musical traditions in his program. Anyhow, he invited me one year to an Easter midnight service at his church, St Nicholas. One of the most moving and compelling experiences I’ve ever had, and I had long since given up religious practice by then. But something about that pitch-black church, not a smidgen of even ambient light, and suddenly the candles and the music and the incense — just thrilling. I can see how that would be a powerful memory for anyone growing up in that tradition.
redshirt
@Steve in the ATL: No college sports at all; just general Statehood.
Poopyman
@SiubhanDuinne:
… saw his shadow, and now we have 10 more weeks until Summer.
Sorry.
BTW, re: the title of the post – “The stakes we are gambling are frighteningly high.”
(ex-Caiaphas and 2nd trumpet)
Ben Cisco
@opiejeanne: Thank you.@Ruckus: And you as well.@SiubhanDuinne: Much appreciated.
Baud
@dogwood:
He’s winning what he’s winning. I’m just flabbergasted at these caucus turnout numbers. I would expect these type of numbers for a state attorney general election, maybe. Not president.
Roger Moore
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Alaska is scarcely all-white. It has a large and relatively active Native American population. But it does say something that Sanders does better in low turnout caucuses than he does in primaries.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: YES!!! She’s in the band, of course. I suspect they use their songs that aren’t quite the style (quality?) that they want to release under her name for the Machine. He is such a monster on that guitar.
redshirt
@raven: Below water is an obvious metaphor/symbol for everything we cannot/don’t want to deal with. Death. Pain. Suffering. Etc.
Mike J
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I thought Heston was good in Touch of Evil. I know people like to hate it because he’s a white guy, but there are lots of white guys in Mexico.
LAO
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Gin Makes everything better, till it doesn’t.
I checked Oregon pacer, no new developments. Will let Adam know if anything interesting happens.
Steve in the ATL
@redshirt:
We weren’t religious at all, though not quite atheists, but we were little we would do the egg dying and hunting, but the main tradition was brunch at the club.
We had a weekly chapel service at school; throw in weddings and funerals and that was enough churchin’ for me. We expressed our faith by treating people well rather than by sitting through services.
But, as noted above, Easter is a BFD in the Christian religion.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Actually there are developments! The Bundy Bunch sympathizers have stepped up their campaign of threats and intimidation against Oregon and Federal officials.
oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/threats_continue_against_troop.html#incart_big-photo
You can get the 37 page pdf of the threats at that link.
dr. bloor
@Cacti: They’re worse than a joke, they’re fundamentally undemocratic. In a regular election, spending two hours at a polling place is considered a massive fail. It discourages turnout from anyone who might be inclined to vote, and worse, it makes it a nonstarter for anyone with child care issues, who works on the clock, older voters…the list goes on. The lack of privacy involved in casting one’s vote is not just undemocratic, it’s antidemocratic.
The idea that this is how a major political party would choose to identify the individual they want to run for the most powerful office in the land is mind-boggling.
Steve in the ATL
@opiejeanne:
In all seriousness, that is the wildest thing I have ever heard happening in a Methodist church.
Ben Cisco
@Elie: Agreed.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Baud:
Caucuses are paid by the party, ironically, which in the most white states, benefits the non Democrat Sanders. Since primaries have to be funded by states, democracy is another victim of Republican budget cutting as a feature, not a bug.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: You enable us. LAO will let us know (via you) when there are new federal criminal legal filings she finds on PACER. I don’t have an account any longer.
Skerry
@Ben Cisco: ((hugs))
SiubhanDuinne
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
Yup, perfectly phrased. There’s a moment in the first movement of the Seventh Symphony that does the same thing to me.
Beethoven. Goddamn. Beethoven.
divF
@SiubhanDuinne: And respond with “Alithos Anesti”.
eemom
@SiubhanDuinne:
Wow, thanks for sharing that! The first time I went to one I was about 8, and I was totally thrilled.
Actually, the experience kind of sums up my entire attitude towards religion, or at least Christianity — I respond to it on an emotional level, but when I get into the dogma — most specifically, the “Christ is the only way” thing, I call bullshit.
John Revolta
@Ultraviolet Thunder: Hey UV, a question from a couple of weeks ago: your friend who’s the big Keith Emerson fan- are his initials PL? “Cause I think I knew him too, back in school.
JPL
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): You and Betty could start a business.
Baud
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Right. That’s why I was flirting above with dues paying above.
Why can’t we do vote-by-mail for the primaries? One stamp per voter doesn’t seem like it would be too expensive. (That’s not the only cost, I recognize.)
We are supposed to be the party that opposes voter suppression tactics.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Mike J: I didn’t like “Touch of Evil”. But, hammy as he was, Heston was good in “Planet of the Apes”. And I kind of liked him in “Midway”.
redshirt
@Steve in the ATL: It’s just odd to me that Fox ‘n Friends create such a sturm und drang over “The War on Christmas” and yet I don’t hear anything about Easter, though it’s arguably just as big a holiday, both religion wise and secular – my grocery story is closed.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Baud:
We need to vote out all Republicans. If only Sanders supporters understood more about the importance of Party, but they’re all too fucking pure.
Ben Cisco
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Thank you.@raven: Also, furious pedaling. An apt metaphor for what it feels like.
Cacti
@dr. bloor:
In my own case, my wife drew the short straw and stayed home with our two boys. Neither of them would have wanted to sit still long enough for either of us to pay attention to what was going on, so one of us had to stay home.
Hooray democracy.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): In my experience that’s not it. She had a conflict with a record company and just doesn’t headline that much. when I’ve seen them he’s just as killer on his axe.
They recorded this in the hall at the Theater with John Paul Jones from Zepplin
Dave Rawlings Machine – Going to California (Live at Georgia Theatre)
dogwood
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
That was part of Obama’s strategy in 08. He might not have beat her without cleaning up in Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Kansas, Iowa etc. I’m glad he didn’t ignore those states. Their votes count and their delegates count. These votes and delegates won’t help Bernie much, because he ignored the red state south because it’s too Black not because it’s too conservative. His comment about the South being too conservative is disingenous. I’m old enough to remember when black votes didn’t count at all in wide swaths of this country, so I’m pretty sensitive to the idea that the race if any voter in the Democratic Party should be discounted.
opiejeanne
@Steve in the ATL: Which, sharing the light or the He is risen? This is fairly common in United Methodist churches in California. As for the non-united Methodists, YMMV.
Mike J
@Cacti:
Of the 19 votes in our precinct, 3 were absentee. They had turned in their sheet beforehand, and they were in the packet sitting on our table, and were duly counted. Could you have done that?
Elie
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
I did not experience that in our caucuses in Whatcom County. I could see if not properly managed that passionate Bernistas might get carried away. Of course, the Hillary people may have responded in ways that made things worse. There are always two sides. In general, I believe in primaries where all that can be avoided.
Baud
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
I agree about the Republicans, but that’s general election stuff.
I don’t have any real life basis for characterizing Sanders supporters. The internet is a lie, so I’m not going to make any judgments based on that.
Ben Cisco
@Skerry: Thank you.
SiubhanDuinne
@opiejeanne:
I was brought up Presbyterian and deserted them for the Episcopal Church when I was 16. Both have wonderful music (with a slight edge to the Anglicans). It’s been 40 years since I attended a Sunday morning service anywhere, but I own, and still enjoy paging through, the hymnals from both traditions. My (former) (late) atheist husband could never understand how I could love tunes like “Be Thou My Vision” or “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” or the hundreds of great paintings and sculptures and oratorios and works of literature based on Biblical themes. He always thought I was being hypocritical.
Cacti
@Mike J:
Possibly. It was my first time though. I didn’t know that absentee voting for caucuses was even a thing.
Ruckus
@Elie:
Well stated.
I feel the same way about Sanders. He’s not wrong about the current financial and tax laws that cause problems for most of us, but seems to gloss over the fact that blatant racism was here long before the current financial situation and makes things far worse.
I wonder if he believes in the concept that we elected President Obama (twice!) and therefore racism really isn’t that important, after all a lot of white people voted for him.
redshirt
@Ben Cisco: I want to distract you.
As such, have you watched the two seasons of Daredevil on Netflix?
Roger Moore
@eemom:
You’re forgetting our 40th President.
Baud
@dogwood:
Agreed. Issues and debates about process shouldn’t be tied with particular candidates.
Cacti
@Ruckus:
That’s my problem with class reductionist philosophy as a whole.
Racial/ethnic/gender inequality doesn’t have a neutral origin. How could it possibly have a race/ethnicity/gender neutral remedy?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud:
That’s a pearl. Cole should add that to the rotating “Random Quote”
Ben Cisco
@redshirt: I’ve never done Netflix; Mrs. C. wasn’t a big TV person overall, and we never indulged. However, I am a fan of all things Marvel…
Elie
@dogwood:
The Bernistas also are incensed about the superdelegates — even after its explained that the Dems have that as a safeguard from situations like the Repubs are having with Trump. They want them to be uncommitted rather than voicing preferences where they have them. This of course, ignores the fact that they have lower overall counts and that the reality is that they have to win the overall delegate count to possibly influence the superdelegates. I just had to give up finally, since it was not comprehended along with the role of downticket races in helping Bernie get stuff done…
John D.
@Cacti: Um. I thought you were joking, but people treated your comment seriously and you didn’t correct them, so…
The WA vote reports are for state level delegates, not individual voters. There were at least an order of magnitude more voters than delegates, probably closer to 30 or 40 times the number. Caucuses are not one-man-one-vote affairs, so the reporting is very different than primaries.
debbie
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Nice!
Baud
@John D.:
Ugh. I can’t believe in 2016 this information is so hard to get right.
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
Eh?
Davebo
Absolutely nothing to say but I wanted to be #250.
Damn you debbie!
Baud
@John D.: There are 25,000 state level delegates?
Baud
@Davebo: You missed by quite a bit.
dogwood
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
It’s not just Sander’s supporters who need to understand this it’s Sander’s himself. His supporters take their cues from him. He campaigned all over Washington and never mentioned the importance of Patty Murray’s reelection. He campaigned all over Washinton and spent millions of dollars renting out venues like Key Arena and only managed to turn out 20-30 thousand voters on a Saturday. This is not much of a revolution.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Roger Moore: he wasn’t an actor. he was just stuffing for a playbill.
It’s pretty amazing how they used to do it. They’d have a newsreel, then some cartoons or comedic short like “The Three Stooges” or “The Bowery Boys”, then a raffle or sing-a-long, then the B movie, intermission, then the feature.
It’s one of few things you can say was better then, than it is today.
Aleta
@Ben Cisco: Will be thinking of you this week.
PurpleGirl
@Ben Cisco: Sending {{{{{ virtual hugs}}}}}.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Moses now wants to talk to god personally, and thinks he’s entitled to get an answer. Now we know the Bible was written by the mentally disturbed people of their time.
raven
Easter music from the great Leon Russell
Roll away the stone
Don’t leave me here alone
Resurrect me and protect me
Don’t leave me laying here
What will they do in two thousand years?
Cacti
@John D.:
You’re…half right.
You’re correct about the state level delegates. OTOH, the all-time record for a WA Democratic Caucus is about 250,000 voters in 2008. About 1/7 of the 1.75 million voters who voted Obama in the general.
SiubhanDuinne
@divF:
Yes indeed. The guy who cuts my hair is Greek, and whatever the first appointment I have after Easter (assuming it’s within the first 40 days), Dimo and I always exchange the greetings.
Darkrose
@Litlebritdifrnt: Evolution in action.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@John Revolta:
Different guy. My friend is JV, or professionally, CJV. Keyboard player and producer.
Emerson will so be missed.
raven
Oh, btw, here are the people on that Leon album
Leon Russell – piano, guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Buddy Harman – drums
Klaus Voormann – bass guitar
Mick Jagger – vocals
George Harrison – guitar[2]
Ringo Starr – drums[2]
Alan Spenner – bass guitar
Charlie Watts – drums
Bill Wyman – bass guitar
Glyn Johns – engineer, mixing
Delaney Bramlett – guitar
Eric Clapton – guitar
Jim Horn – saxophone
Bonnie Bramlett – vocals
Steve Winwood – keyboards
Jim Gordon – drums
Chris Stainton – keyboards
B.J. Wilson – drums
Joe Cocker – vocals
Merry Clayton – vocals
Mike J
@Baud:
LD level delegates. Each LD will caucus, and the delegates picked today will go. The delegates selected from the LD caucus will go to the county caucus. The delegates selected there will go to the state caucus. The state level caucus will select the 101 delegates that go to Philadelphia.
debbie
@Ben Cisco:
I’m sorry whenever anyone has to go through anything like what you are. Doesn’t seem right.
debbie
@Davebo:
Like I’ve never heard that before!
Steve in the ATL
@LAO:
This is why we keep you around!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: Are they in a fight with Almo/Allmusic or something? I thought everything from Time (the Revelator) forward was on their own label Acony. He is completely my favorite guitar player,
Speaking of labels, I heard a podcast where Jason Isbell talks about Atlantic courting him, and showing him Ahmet Ertegun’s office. He said, it would be so cool to record with Atlantic, but when I go to the mailbox to get the checks, it’s so cool to have my own label. Paraphrased, of course. Mr. Q doesn’t know it yet, but we’ll be going to his show here in July. We saw him on the Southeastern tour and it was terrific.
Baud
@Mike J:
Seems Rube Goldbergesque.
LAO
@Steve in the ATL: I have a particular set of skills…
Darkrose
@opiejeanne: I really do miss the music. More so at Christmas–I still have fond memories of Midnight Mass.
SiubhanDuinne
@eemom:
I love the high drama (bells and smells) of church services, particularly Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican. And I lied in a comment above when I said I hadn’t been to a Sunday service in 40 years: in fact, I often attend Remembrance Sunday services at the (very high church, very British/Commonwealth) Anglican Church each November, and despite my atheism, I always get caught up in the theatre and my own role, and find myself genuflecting and signing the cross and responding to the calls and reciting the communal prayers as naturally and enthusiastically as if I were a nun. And then the service ends, and I leave, and I’m a non-believer once again. It really is like accepting an acting role for which one may have no sympathy but which one still plays to the best of ability.
Mike J
@Baud: We’re Democrats. What did you expect?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@debbie: Thanks! And to JPL also, who cracked me up suggesting Betty Cracker and I start a butter lamb business.
LAO, I hope your mother doesn’t mind. I really named the lamb for the guitar.
dogwood
@Elie:
If Bernie Sander’s has the most pledged delegates at the end of this process, many of Hillary’s SD’s will change over, and the bulk of them who aren’t committed now will get on board. Turning this into some establishment against the little guy sob story is bullshit. Most of these SD’s want to stay out of it as long as possible.
Steve in the ATL
@redshirt: In theory, Easter should be a much bigger deal than Christmas. Coming back to life to surely more impressive than just being born–it doesn’t happen quite as often!
Darkrose
@Adam L Silverman: Outgunned…outmanned…outnumbered…outplanned…
dr. bloor
@Baud: Rube shot himself at “the delegates selected from the LD caucus will go to the county caucus….”
dr. bloor
@Steve in the ATL: There can be nothing bigger than bumping up end-of-year retail numbers and drinking heavily during the shortest days of the years, you dirty commie.
Ben Cisco
@debbie: @PurpleGirl: @Aleta: Thank you all.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Not really sure, I know when they played her a LONNG time ago she made a point of playing a mini-show at a indie record store.
Darkrose
@Adam L Silverman: Are these the men with whom I’m to defend America?
magurakurin
@Roger Moore:
I’d say the Alaska results are going a long way to redefine the lower boundaries of low turn out.
S 435
C 104
Some of the these cheapest delegates per vote to be had this cycle. Norther Mariana Islands was a pretty good deal, too.
C 102
S 65
Clinton got 4 delegates and Sanders 2. So Clinton “paid” 51 votes for a delegate there. But Sanders already has 9 delegates in Alaska, 48 votes/delegate, and 6 more to be allocated. So, he got real, real value in Alaska.
The primary system has many flaws. The caucus is a big one that could be changed fairly easily. Not sure what to do about the territories, I suppose they even out to a degree. Clinton will probably get a big net of delegates in PR, and probably many more votes than Alaska as well.
But, the number is 2026. Whoever gets that is the winner, everything else is bullshit. Senator Sanders can call black people in the south conservatives, consider his supporters in Idaho and Utah his liberal base, whatever. If he gets 2026 he wins. If he doesn’t he loses. Simple.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: I remember watching the Illinois National Guard unass their deuce and a half’s on the U of I campus after Kent State. I’d been back for about 6 months and was pretty salty and it was hilarious.
redshirt
@Ben Cisco: If you’ve ever read any Daredevil then you have to watch the show. It’s awesome – comic book come to TV. It’s amazing considering the source material.
JPL
@Ben Cisco: I do hope that you have plans in order to escape for a few hours. Starbucks or a movie might help. When I was at a low point, but not nearly as sad as yours, I watched foreign films. Why, you might ask, in my case, I had to read the subtitles and it kept be focused. We’ll all be thinking of you.
PurpleGirl
@eemom: The Lutheran Church I attended for a number of years also did an Easter Vigil with candles and the minister saying “Christ is Risen” and the congregation answering “He is Risen indeed.” There are a number of beautiful hymns for Easter. I miss the music.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Mike J: at least we’re not “run it like a business” republicans. it took them 16 days to figure out who won Iowa in 2012.
JPL
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: That was only because they didn’t want to know.. just guessing.
John Revolta
@Ultraviolet Thunder: Right. Yeah, my guy is a keyboard player/ producer as well, and idolized Emerson. This is shaping up as a rough goddamn year in show business.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: They’re still well worth seeing whenever they get close, in my view. Hence our trip to the People’s Keynan Islamofascist Socialist Republic of Louisville.
dogwood
@magurakurin:
There aren’t enough democrats in Idaho or Utah to form a base for anyone. But it is a mistake not to recognize that they are pretty liberal. I’m not an expert on the South, but I’d bet that the small number of white democrats in the South aren’t necessarily moderates.
Ben Cisco
@redshirt: Daredevil was one of my favorites as a wee bairn, along with Spidey, FF, Black Panther, and Power Man. Marvel kid all the way. It appears that my current TVs aren’t “smart” or Netflix-capable. Perhaps some shopping is in order…
Steve in the ATL
@dr. bloor:
Hey, I said IN THEORY!!!111!
Ben Cisco
@JPL: Saw Deadpool a week ago but (stupidly) missed the post-credits scene. Might be worth a fiver to find out what I missed…
redshirt
@Ben Cisco: You can get Netflix on your computer and then output it to your giant TV. Ask me how!
Steve in the ATL
@raven: Are you familiar with the Athens band Five Eight? Spent some time with their guitarist the other night. Seemed like a cool guy but I don’t know their music.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Thu | Apr 28th Athens, GA United States The Georgia Theatre
We just don’t go out hardly at all anymore.
Davebo
Just made what I’m sure is a big mistake. Sending an email to a reporter about a story he wrote that was totally wrong and I, because of information I had, knew was wrong.
I was being defensive because the subject of the story is someone I love and I knew it was BS. But since she’s a somewhat prominent public figure (especially after the story) I think my contribution was a mistake. These things are handled after all, by professionals.
God I hate the internet.
redshirt
@Ben Cisco: Did you like Deadpool?
I could spoil the teaser scenes if you want.
Adam L Silverman
@Darkrose: Not unless you’re sucked through a time vortex and wind up in the late 18th or early 19th centuries.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
The burning bush has spoken to Moses’s white guy mind in White Guy Speech, and Moses is jacked to go lead Men from Egypt. Wow. Thou shalt obey a burning bush because… reasons.
ETA: Bringing the word of god. That settles it, forever.
magurakurin
@Ben Cisco: or just buy a Chromecast dongle for $35. They work great. You can control your Netflix account from your phone or tablet or computer and then the media streams directly from your wifi to the tv. It’s great.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@JPL: yeah, Santorum winning was a sticky situation.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: I’ve seen the news write ups about that. The good news is, as I’m sure you know, that the NG is significantly better today. The bad news is that there are still major differences in the quality of personnel by state. I’ve prepped NG Soldiers from GA, from NY, and from PA. The NY and PA Soldiers were far better prepared, in an educational sense, than the GA Soldiers. Because NY and PA have far better elementary and secondary educational systems than GA.
magurakurin
@redshirt: this works, too. If you don’t mind moving the laptop, just connect it to the tv with an hdmi cable. I’m too lazy, so, Chromecast, but the cable works fine.
Steve in the ATL
@Davebo:
It’s a dangerous thing, especially when mixed with rage and/or alcohol.
Baud
@magurakurin: I like my Chromecast. It’s a nice investment.
Adam L Silverman
@Ben Cisco: @JPL: Just don’t see Batman V Superman. By all accounts that’ll make things worse.
We’re keeping you in our thoughts.
PurpleGirl
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I like how you did the “wool”. It’s cute.
magurakurin
@Baud: I put a folder of my own photos into the Chromecast photo screen, so some of my photos are displayed as the dongle shuffles through the images it shows when on standby. My wife loves to pay out on my inferior photography skills as they are graphically compared to professionals. As long as she is happy…
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: And everyone tells me I’m enabling (select) readers of this blog!
TaMara (BHF)
@Poopyman: Sigh. That’s what I get for trying to do it from memory and not listening to the song before I posted. Good catch.
Baud
@magurakurin: I haven’t done the photo thing yet. The nature pictures it comes with are pretty nice, however.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
The peasants are revolting.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: Are they still around? When I was in college at Emory I ran equipment for The Sleepwalkers (featuring Ruben Anderson). We routinely played gigs with Five-Eight. I found their music to be similar in style, at that time in 90-92, to Jane’s Addiction. I had a friend and classmate that loved them.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: And, bear in mind, I spent half of my tour in one of those 8 guard units that got called up and sent. We were decent at our “contingency” signal mission but the 138th Field Artillery (Kentucky National Guard) was badly mauled when their firebase was hit. I know that noit only the guard but all of the troops a better trained than we were. The idea of drafting 100,000 a year who didn’t meet basic military standards probably wasn’t the best way to achieve effectiveness.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: you said it, they stink on ice
Adam L Silverman
@Davebo: You stood up for someone you care about. Put it in the “did the right thing column” and let it go.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: You know th 5-8 guys? Damn.
Steve in the ATL
@raven: Do you know Sean Dunn? He probably wasn’t in it when Adam knew them.
ThresherK
@efgoldman: Oklahoma has an entire musical, and the OU fight song tune was written for Yale originally.
So they have two songs to identify their state with, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Cole Porter.
But at least you Rhodys have “You come from Rhode Island”, at least the equal of “Moonlight in Vermont” or “Canadian Sunset”.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: We don’t either. Which could explain all my time here. Along with underemployment in my consultant self-employment.
Seeing them might totally be worth it. Just sayin…
@PurpleGirl: Thank you! I found a site where these nuns use a dowel, and I used a chopstick. It was a pain to curl the garlic press strands last year. Betty Cracker has much more patience than I do.
Germy
Rawstory headline:
Democratic voters forced to caucus in Alaska parking lot after possibly smashing turn-out records
Ben Cisco
@redshirt: This involves the HDMI output, yes?
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Tracking. From what I’ve read on the history of the war, including the draft, I don’t think the draft, per se, was the problem. Rather that the need for seasoned Soldiers because of the op tempo made it hard for new arrivals, either one of replacements or entire units, to be effective.
Even during OIF and OEF the most dangerous times, which were also the times when we were the least effective, was during transfer of authority as units rotated in and out. The departing units had their minds on making it to the birds without further incident and the incoming units didn’t have the local knowledge down – no matter how many times they’d been in country before.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: I don’t know him, I know Dan and Mike is a very close friend of my colleague. Do you know the Glands? Ross Shapiro just died today.
Ben Cisco
@redshirt: Yes, I did, but no. I think the idea of getting out of the house has some merit.
Baud
@Germy:
Band name?
raven
@Adam L Silverman: Especially when your line officers punched their tickets for 6 months and then di-di’d.
Also, I think a balanced draft is good but that ain’t what Project 100,000 was.
Miss Bianca
@BruceFromOhio:
Ferret circus. You said “ferret circus”.
OK, you said it about the Republican convention, but still…I love it.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’m witcha.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Moses: Let my people go.
Pharaoh: I fart in your general direction.
Moses: Enjoy your plagues.
Germy
@Baud: Does one smash a record? I’ve heard of breaking a record…
Maybe the headline writer used a thesaurus.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: You ever get over here hollah, we’ll hit White Tiger!
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Haven’t seen any of them in 24 years, but yes, I once new them casually. The funniest thing I ever saw with them was during a charity gig in Five Points. It was the venue right at the point – literally. We were on after them. The organizer, who meant well, had annoyed everyone. Five Eight was on right before us. For whatever reason no one had properly secured the kick drum. So about halfway through the first song it decided to go for a walk around the stage. I think they did two or three songs and finished early and without warning. So we had to get started early. And I think the agreement was that because of limited time for changes, because it was for charity, everyone was supposed to use the same drum kit. Which made our drummer less than happy.
Mike J
Hey Adam, why not throw up another thread before this one hits a tbogg?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@efgoldman:
Word. It’s amazing how willfully disregarded this basic understanding of the rules is, when you’re a Berniebot.
Baud
@Germy: I think there are many no-good, bad things you can do to a record.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: I don’t even remember their names. Basically they’d nod at me as I was lugging amps around and plugging stuff in for my guys.
Germy
My cat threw up a thread last night.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: Does it count that I know Bootsy Collins and Adrian Belew? And Keith Lockhart – actually the most closely, (for efgoldman, who no doubt knows who he is).
CaseyL
@Ben Cisco: Coming in late to the conversation, but wanted to add more {{{hugs}}} for you.
Also seconding the suggestion to see a movie. I’d say go out and see it, rather than at home, if possible. Have people around, without the necessity of actually socializing.
Take care.
Steve in the ATL
@raven: Damn straight!
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Ben Cisco: I wish there were words that could help. Sending hugs.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: That never helps either.
Germy
@Baud: You can shatter a record. I suppose a record can be smashed.
But shatter would have made a better headline.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I take it, then, that you’ve seen this?
Mike J
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Let my people go go
Peale
@raven: these are really pathetic people.
opiejeanne
I think we might watch Chocolat tonight. It’s a pretty good Easter movie.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: Wonder if that was Patrick Ferguson? He’s been know to be a pretty wild dude. When my buddies son was in Iraq I sent him Music Hate’s You CD’s!
Steve in the ATL
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Would love to give you points for this, but the rules clearly state that only Athens musicians count tonight. Je suis desolee!
Germy
@Mike J: Edward G. Robinson smokes a cigar, wears black wingtips with black socks under his robe in the Ten Commandments.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
The Rolling Stones today in Cuba
(photo #1)
(photo #2)
Looks like a big fucking deal.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Belew moved to Champaign-Urbana right when I left!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
This is so much of what is going on, on twitter, tonight. Brogressives for Bernie. He’s their old white guy avatar.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: I have now.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: Done!
ThresherK
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: “Let My People Go Go.”
@Mike J: Damn. There’s nothing too obscure for this crowd!
raven
@Steve in the ATL: Two have died this week.
Germy
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: They look like muppets.
LAO
@efgoldman: she. ?
Baud
@efgoldman:
You complete me.
Miss Bianca
@Darkrose:
Episcopalian Church Choir – close as you can get to being Catholic without believing in transubstantiation and the infallability of the Pope. The music of Christmas and Easter the most glorious. Forty years later I can still sing at least snatches of my most favorite pieces.
We had very exacting choir masters. We were *good*. : )
@Ben Cisco: Yes, in all seriousness, getting out of the house would be good.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: As Five Eight’s drummer? If he was the drummer at the time, then yes, that’s him. He didn’t do anything he wasn’t supposed to do. Whoever set the equipment up simply didn’t secure the kick drum properly. He did his thing and off it went on walkabout.
Like I said, I never knew (don’t remember) any of their names even if the guy who ran our band, Jeremy Richmond (who, I understand, still plays shows in the Atlanta area) most likely introduced me one night as I was moving our stuff off stage and their folks were moving their’s on.
dr. bloor
@ThresherK:
Blossom Dearie, bitchez. Case closed.
SiubhanDuinne
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Hell, I’m in Atlanta and I know who Keith Lockhart is.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: His twin was T Rex at FDL! How’s that for irrelevant!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: But David Foster Wallace was playing junior tennis when you were doing parks there, so you are my hero. I have buddies who were in a band with Adrian, and he was always quite nice to me, though i never quite warmed to him. Go figure.
@SiubhanDuinne: LOL. I guess he is pretty well known now, come to think of it. I knew him when he was with a rather lesser Pops.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I’m going to send it to Anne Laurie and ask her to front-page it a day or two before the start of Passover.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Yea, that’s pretty cool even though I had no idea who he was until 6 months ago!
Have I also told you that I went to the Palm Beach Pop Festival in Nov 69 and King Crimson was the house band and played twice a DAY. I never liked that progrock stuff, maybe that is why!
Frankensteinbeck
@efgoldman:
You may be correct about many other parts, but I think what he says is wrong. He’s corrected it a few times, but he keeps reverting to racial tension being the result of economic tension. It’s not true. It’s never been true. Racism thrives in times of economic security. Racism is as or more prevalent in higher income groups, although it tends to be more politely phrased. Correct all other factors, and scientific tests will show that minorities are still discriminated against, usually without the person doing the discrimination even aware. And frankly, this is all hardwired into the brain by evolution. You can try to overcome it, but it’s no artificial construct, it was there first and has to be put down.
Ben Cisco
CaseyL: Yes, going to catch Deadpool again.
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Thanks!
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Space Bass!!
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Good to know. If you do talk to any of those guys, would you please ask them if they have contact info for Jeremy Richmond formerly of The Sleepwalkers? I lost his contact info somewhere along the way and would love to reconnect.
Thanks. And no worries if it can’t be accomplished.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ll take care of it. I sent it to my Mom to watch.
ThresherK
@dr. bloor: Nicely sung. I had known this song for ages but didn’t know that Schwartz and Dietz (“The Band Wagon”, “That’s Entertainment”, a thousand other things) wrote it.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman:
37 *pages* of threats??
raven
@Adam L Silverman: Roger that.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: He has a facebook page
facebook.com/jeremy.richmond.54
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Yep. The pdf isn’t directly linkable, but its at the Oregonian link in my comment. Some of that is email, some of it is transcribed voicemails. Some of it is Facebook posting or tweets.
Frankensteinbeck
@Miss Bianca:
Now imagine if the occupation hadn’t been handled so peacefully. These people thrive on being oppressed. They are starving and desperate for validation that the war has begun.
Miss Bianca
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Wait, did you say you knew Adrian Belew and Bootsy Collins? Sorry, no matter what Steve says, ALL BOW DOWN.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: I don’t do Facebook. I emailed him via LinkedIn and got no response. I even tried to call his Dad at one point when I was going to be in Atlanta – he’s a retired Emory professor. Of course there were two with the exact same names and it was the one I didn’t want that kept his contact info in the Emory directory…
ThresherK
@ThresherK: ETA: Any singer who favors Dave Frishberg’s work (per the wiki) has exactly that jenny say quoits this song needs.
(PS I can’t edit my own remarks?)
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: @Frankensteinbeck:
Da…fug. That’s all I got.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Thanks! I appreciate it.
Elmo
@Poopyman: Thank you. That’s what I thought but different versions sometimes have slightly different words, so I didn’t say anything. But it was bugging me.
We must crush him completely
So like John before him
This Jesus must die.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: The tree of Liberty isn’t going to water itself now is it?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: I’m delighted that I introduced him to you (at least I think I did, here with my tattoo. I’m inordinately fond of his work, as is my psychiatrist. Hungry Joe’s a big fan also, too.
Cool that King Crimson played twice a day, though I confess it isn’t music that I favor. As you may have guessed from what I do like…
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman:
Maybe not, but why does it always have to be watered with the blood of children and government employees?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Miss Bianca: Aw, thanks so much.
Ruckus
@raven:
I’d bet pretty large sums that you know that the powers that were, didn’t really give a shit about effectiveness, only warm bodies. And they didn’t seem to give a shit if they stayed warm either.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I’ll see your 1763 synagogue and raise you 28 years.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: I’m not even going to try to find any humor here. The simple answer is that most school shootings involve mentally ill or angry/alienated students/former students of the school. Government facilities are targets of those who deny the validity and/or need for the government and have grievances against it.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman:
Yeah, and you and I both know what the commonest common denominator is in these situations…no humor possible, it’s all just bitter as gall.
Ruckus
@Ben Cisco:
Not remotely in a similar situation as you but…. am in what sounds somewhat like the same mindset, for reasons I’m not ready to tell here, and getting out and about is helpful. It seems to open the mind a bit and takes some of the pressure off, even if it is just for a short time.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@efgoldman: I think we talked about this earlier, and I bow (appropriately) to your classical connections. But I do have my share of pop buddies. No pun actually intended, as much as I miss Keith (very) occasionally – he could be quite entertaining.
ETA: Lockhart; sadly, I am unacquainted with the only Keith who matters (Keef). Though I will never give up hope as long as we are both alive.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Adam L Silverman:
Did you read Malcolm Gladwell’s analysis of school shootings? I know he gets a bad rap, but he did a deep dive, and if he’s to be believed, the perpetrators are non-ideological ritualistic enactors of something from the deeply weirdly adolescently American male psych. Sad!
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Probably doesn’t really like being pissed on though.
Adam L Silverman
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Yes. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’ve read the studies done by actual people with doctorates in psychology and psychiatry. Here’s one of the paragraph from my preliminary report on Soldiers who commit mass shootings for the Army:
There’s five more paragraphs in this section dealing with other conceptualizations of mass shooters, including those done by students.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: depends whether its potting soil is low on uriac nitrate.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Low is one thing. And it is somewhat different than being over saturated.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: True, but I’m not the gardner in my family. I’m amazed I’ve kept my basil plant alive for almost a year.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman:
Damn right!
Signs up for atrocity.
Monala
@Cacti: were you at Curtis?
reality-based (the original, not the troll)
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
oh, yes – I love the emperor! i even still love it after seeing Richard Dreyfuss pretend to play it in “The Competition” back in the 70s! (Speaking of over-the-top movies)
even further OT – the other night, I was sitting in my car, listening to stunningly beautiful Bach Goldberg Variations on the Sirius Xm, too entranced to go inside – and also disconcerted, as I swear I occasionally heard a faint humming of the melodic line. – just barely and occasionally there – then I realized – of course, it’s Glenn Gould !
Does anyone know – did the editors try to get the humming out, but couldn’t with the technology of the time?
an unearthly feeling – but the playing was SO great.
gwangung
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Well, these (meaning the more irritating ones) are the folks who are blaming Arizona’s voting problems on Clinton.
gwangung
@Frankensteinbeck: And there are plenty of folks and institutions who are working to make it WORSE.
Which is why a lot of folks get frustrated when Sanders and his supporters insist that they have to take care of class problems first.
gwangung
@Miss Bianca: Because ammosexuals are moochers. They’re not paying the price; they’re allowing kids and innocents to pay it.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@gwangung:
I’m nuking the idiots on twitter with snopes, since they’re too stupid to use google.
reality-based (the original, not the troll)
@Mike J:
he was actually – believe it or not – a pretty Good Marc Antony in the 1950 film of Julius Cesear – I’m hearing Antony’s Oration in the living room TV (TCM) while washing dishes in the kitchen, step out to see who the actor is with that interesting take on the speech – and it’s CHARLETON HESTON?
coulda knocked me over with a feather
elftx
I want to see the Bundy Ranch applaud this play.
rikyrah
@Elie:
I hear you
DesertFriar
@efgoldman:
Go PC!
gogol's wife
@reality-based (the original, not the troll):
I thought it was Marlon Brando?
J R in WV
@raven:
I was in boot camp during Kent State, after spending a year working in the anti-war movement. The discourse among the boots was – upsetting. They were not willing but anxious to kill j random college students. As many as possible. Which was impossible for them, of course, we were all captives in boot camp, at least as strict as most prisons not maximum security.
So long ago, thank FSM.