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We Interrupt your Normally Scheduled Shitty Day For This

by John Cole|  November 1, 20163:41 pm| 46 Comments

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  1. 1.

    hovercraft

    November 1, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    A welcome reprieve from @Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class’s thought experiment about Trumps America.

  2. 2.

    kindness

    November 1, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    Looks like it’s from Dave Grisman’s daughters film. Nice.

    I can’t believe it’s been 21 years since Jerry left his mortal coil.

  3. 3.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    November 1, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    It’s a Tuesday and I miss City of Heroes because tonight I’d be Tanking.

    Tanker Tuesday Rules:
    1) Always follow the Tanker
    2) Witty Dies (No Exceptions)
    3) If Something Bad Happens, Blame Rangle.

  4. 4.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    And for you people who only know the Dead

    A friend of mine asked me
    Where has he been
    Where is he now?
    I said he’s been set free
    Shares a little joke with the world somehow

    Sounded like he’d make a halo
    When I heard his laughter floating
    It’s all for fun you know
    He said he just let go
    Shares a little joke with the world

  5. 5.

    jk

    November 1, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    God Bless Jerry Garcia

  6. 6.

    T S

    November 1, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    How many Deadheads here drive Caddies? Be honest.

  7. 7.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    Jerry Garcia & Jorma Kaukonen

  8. 8.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    @T S: 66 Chevy Pickup

  9. 9.

    Miss Bianca

    November 1, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    OK, I’m laughing now, too!

  10. 10.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    Some kind of edit problem. I had Caddy hubcaps on my truck until I found a sweet set of bowtie baby moons.

  11. 11.

    Miss Bianca

    November 1, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    @raven: Cool. I just got done listening to a bunch of vintage Fairport Convention, so this made a nice segue!

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    November 1, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Wait, my shitty days are scheduled? That explains a LOT…

  13. 13.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    @Miss Bianca: A Heart Needs a Home

  14. 14.

    Rob

    November 1, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    Perfect! I’m smiling now.

  15. 15.

    waysel

    November 1, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    @raven: They were so fine together.

  16. 16.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 1, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    @Miss Bianca: @raven: On the contemporary music scene, there’s a GOTV concert here tomorrow with The National (college dudes here). Sorry I’m too lazy to find something more recent.

  17. 17.

    bobbo

    November 1, 2016 at 4:31 pm

    He’s laughing at all of us, because he got out in time.

  18. 18.

    Mnemosyne

    November 1, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    @T S:

    Here? Probably not many, but I also don’t think there are many Deadheads here.

    Mustang Bobby might, but he’s a classic car aficionado, so he would do it ironically.

  19. 19.

    geg6

    November 1, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    So the goal was to ruin my day completely then?

    Mission accomplished!

    (Any time I am forced to deal with anything Jerry Garcia or Grateful Dead related is, ipso facto, a very, very bad day.)

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    November 1, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    @kindness: Have a pristine copy of “Old and In the Way” I need to dig out and spin. Perfect tonic, indeed.

  21. 21.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 1, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    @Mnemosyne: More Deadheads than you think.

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    November 1, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    @raven: saw Jorma live, solo winter 2015/16. I was 56 and brought the mean age of the crowd down, (considerably), yet there were several near-fights. Continual shouts of “Play it Jorma show ’em how it’s done!” followed by retorts of “Will you shut the fuck up so I can hear the music.” Rowdy hippies are cool!

  23. 23.

    Miss Bianca

    November 1, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): @raven: aww, thanks for the links, y’all. Right now Youtube has sent me down the rabbit hole of Garcia/Kaukonen/Papa John Creach jams, so I’m rolling with those for a while, but I’ll get back to ’em before I leave tomight, promise!

  24. 24.

    gogol's wife

    November 1, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    I blame my tinnitus on Hot Tuna.

  25. 25.

    Kilgore Trout

    November 1, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Here? Probably not many, but I also don’t think there are many Deadheads here.

    Some of us try to fly below the radar. But no Cadillac here (Prius).

  26. 26.

    Pogonip

    November 1, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    What are you talking about, Cole? I had a great day.

  27. 27.

    JPL

    November 1, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    This video has laughter also.. James Franco youtube

  28. 28.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    @Miss Bianca: The Janitor Drive a Cadillac!

  29. 29.

    Miss Bianca

    November 1, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    @gogol’s wife: WOT??

    jk – I can totally grok how that would happen!

  30. 30.

    kindness

    November 1, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    The Caddy reference….That was Cassidy. No one else in the family prized Cadillacs. Jerry drove a Beamer (or at least that was what he was arrested in at Golden Gate Park in that 80’s drug possession bust.

    There are many Deadheads here but it comes and goes. The Dead isn’t something one brags about as so many don’t know.

    I drive a Toyota Solara. I do have a Ford F-150 as my mountain car though.

  31. 31.

    Turgidson

    November 1, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    I’m seeing on the NYT homepage that Maureen “Pot Brownies Almost Killed Me” Dowd has declared herself a Cubs fan because she went to Chicago over the weekend.

    This lifelong, non-bandwagon Cubs fan says “Fuck off, MoDo. This is the ‘No MoDo’s Club.'”

  32. 32.

    amk

    November 1, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    David Atkins ‏@DavidOAtkins Oct 31

    A man fleeing rape accusations is helping a Russian homophobe dictator to help a serial sexual predator stop a woman from being President.

    0 replies 1,009 retweets 1,108 likes

  33. 33.

    amk

    November 1, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    At this rate, lil nate silver will give the presidency to the carnival barker on nov 9th and will still insist he is right.

  34. 34.

    Miss Bianca

    November 1, 2016 at 5:28 pm

    @raven: Dark End of the Street

  35. 35.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Nice

  36. 36.

    raven

    November 1, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    @kindness: Neal or Jack?

  37. 37.

    Ripley

    November 1, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): The National is an excellent band, recommended.

  38. 38.

    corry342

    November 1, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    I almost never Comment, but I am on the farther end of the spectrum with respect to being a total Deadhead, and I read Balloon Juice every day.

  39. 39.

    Sean

    November 1, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    Still miss Jerry. And I am a Deadhead who drive a Jeep

  40. 40.

    HinTN

    November 1, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    @raven: Always been an Airplane man.

  41. 41.

    HinTN

    November 1, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Deadheads? Yes there are!

  42. 42.

    tybee

    November 1, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    i was mostly a grace slick fan but i came around to see the value of the others.

    this is one of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-vQJtbFas

  43. 43.

    Zinsky

    November 1, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    The Grateful Dead are/were the most overrated band in the history of rock music. I have heard bands composed of junior high school kids with more talent than those flea-bitten losers. They sucked bad! Good riddance Jerry…

  44. 44.

    A

    November 1, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Longtime head here. Suspect Cole and I were at quite a few of the same shows in the 80s. Oh and fuck off Zinsky.

  45. 45.

    laura

    November 1, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    @T S: my friend Evan Edgar! One can see it parked on 21st st. Between Q and S. Gold, black roof, a great ship of the highway, dead head sticker squarely centered in the back window.
    He’s a character, runs the Edgar Institute which advocates closed-loop recycling. He peddles it to an increasing number of farmers of many diverse crops or industry. 100% bio-dynamic, waste reducing, alternative energy/revenue generating, deep-red California Valley Ranchers-converting.
    He lobbies at the Capital on same and has an incredible collection of political memorabilia and ephemera.
    Serious Deadhead since the Band began.

  46. 46.

    Bishop Bag

    November 2, 2016 at 1:01 pm

    @T S: 84 Cadillac El Dorado that I inherited when my mother-in-law passed away in 2008. Thing is a tank but it was the perfect High School cruising car for my kids…

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