This is a benefit for Fair Fight, Warnock and Ossoff Campaigns – as I told raven when he brought this to my attention, Good Music + Georgia Runoffs is right up our alley.
Posting this now for anyone who might be interested, so you can plan ahead. Then I will pin it to the top of the blog at 7:30 for the duration of the concert.
The concert is free. They will ask for donations between performers.
I have never heard of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, but just reading that name brought tears to my eyes.
Open thread.
MattF
I think there’s a need for a hashtag #BlackVotesMatter.
TomatoQueen
If a wander around yootoob is accurate, Rhiannon Giddens and the Revival Resistance Chorus could maybe do us “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” which tune has kept me steady these last weeks.
https://youtu.be/dWUa7aAIfLE
Kelly
Open Thread: Charlie Pride
In the sixties we lived in a tiny two bedroom house with an adjacent unheated bunkhouse. My brother and I slept in the bunkhouse during the warm months. We shared a hide-a-bed in the living room once the cold rain set in. The wood stove was there. Dad always got up first, before daylight. Left the lights off. He’d turn on the radio, always tuned to KXL. It was a country station at the time staffed by DJs with classic mellow radio voices. Built the fire then sat in the rocker next to the stove smoking a hand rolled cigarette. Charlie Pride would sing “Crystal Chandeliers”. Dad turned a light on when he finished his smoke. It was as cosy as I’ve ever felt.
Yutsano
Bonnie Raitt alone would attract some bodies.
geg6
Just an FYI, WaterGirl. Just sent you an email about a site issue. Am currently on my laptop but site is inaccessible through my phone. I’m taking a wild guess that it’s the banner ad. But I don’t know a damn thing about it, thus my plea to you.
raven
Art Rosenbaum is a retired UGA art prof who won a grammy for:
BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM
Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum.
Hawk Proof Rooster and Hog Eyed Man are dear friends who love music and love the effort.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We just said goodbye to an old friend. This couple had been very important to my wife when she was an undergrad, and we saw a lot of them when we were first married, but in recent years they’d kind of faded to Christmas card friends (funny how that happens, isn’t it?)
We heard from the husband that his wife had died on Thanksgiving Day after a battle with cancer, and he passed along a recording of the Zoom service which we just finished watching.
So… kind of in a somber and melancholy mood here at the moment. They are our age or just a few years older.
MattF
Open thread, so, some links:
Feel-good article from WaPo on judges slapping down Trump campaign lawsuits
Rod Dreher on the shitshow on the Mall yesterday
Cookie Monster
WaterGirl
@geg6: I just saw that and replied.
Not sure if the ad guys is reachable on Sunday, so I made a few changes that could possibly help. Or not.
I asked you to try a couple of things so I can see if the problem is limited to the front page and to ask you to check to see whether what I did helped
edit: Thanks for writing. I can’t fix what I don’t know about.
zhena gogolia
@Yutsano:
I love Rhiannon Giddens.
I’m on a monthly donation to FairFight already, and we were going to watch TV tonight. I hope maybe this will be recorded.
Yutsano
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Oh no. Much love to you and your espoused at this time.
LuciaMia
Everytime now when I hear some Maga spoiled brat huff, “Im never voting again!”
Please proceed, darling!
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: A lot of these live fundraiser events this year have not been recorded – not sure if this one will be that way, or not.
But I imagine the idea is that if a person can watch later, they will be less inclined to give, and you can fast-forward through the “please give us money” parts!
It sounds good. I am going to watch as much of it as I can.
debbie
I follow some guy who follows Parler so I don’t have to. It’s proving to be rewarding just for the chuckles. Roger Stone is trying to decide who to run against in 2022:
John Revolta
Well I don’t know anything about them but “Hawkproof Rooster” is my new favorite band name so I guess I have to check them out.
NeenerNeener
OT, but scary if this is real:
https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/1338197708079771649
debbie
@NeenerNeener:
Unfortunately, I agree with this response:
raven
@zhena gogolia: The Hawk Proof Rooster folks say it will be on youtube, I’ll keep track and let folks know.
Here’s the YouTube link for today.
raven
@John Revolta: They are the sweetest couple in the world!
WaterGirl
@NeenerNeener: I don’t know any of those people so I have no idea whether they are credible or not. But if that is legitimate, and that is really happening, that is scary for real.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
I could get in with the direct link. If you have other questions, email me at my email address on my account here. I’m happy to answer.
MagdaInBlack
@Kelly: That is a lovely story. Thank you for sharing =-)
trollhattan
@debbie:
Weren’t the Beagle Boys the gang always trying to get into Scrooge McDuck’s vault? Connect the dots, folks.
Catherine D.
I got an email from Stacy Abrams about the concert. Rhiannon Giddens and Bonnie Raitt, yah you betcha! And I just upgraded my intertube connection in time.
geg6
@geg6:
It’s still a problem on the main page.
WaterGirl
@geg6: Thanks for clarifying. Bummer. Then I’m guessing it’s likely to be an ad issues. I asked Cole to contact the ad guy, but I don’t have high hopes on a Sunday.
Cameron
With all that talent lined up, might run pretty late. If they’re still going strong at midnight, I’m thinking of taking my Kindle and sitting on the step in front of my apartment, so I can listen to music and watch the meteor shower. Hope that makes facing Monday easier…
Chris Johnson
@WaterGirl: Meaningless. How the fuck do you ‘launder’ the entire United States Treasury? It kind of just draws attention to the fact that all this is sort of fiction anyway. Increasingly, money isn’t tied to anything tangible (no I am NOT a gold bug) and while it is possible to ‘hack’ the Treasury, at some point you get to a place where you’re like ‘okay, that was stupid, restore from backups’ and then you just deny that anything happened.
Again, how do you LAUNDER a United States Treasury? I don’t think that works the way you’d think it would work. It’s possible to hack MY bank account and then I’m stuck trying to justify that it was a mistake and not a ‘real transaction’. I don’t think it’s possible to hack the Treasury in quite that sort of way.
trollhattan
@Cameron:
Will NOT bitch about our clouds because we’re getting the first winter storm here, so no meteors for us but they had better be gone for the Jupiter and Saturn show upcoming.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
I can take the rest of the day off from BJ when I’m sick of sitting with my laptop. I suspected it was an ad issue. Never really had one before this, other than the irritation of those huge full-page ones that used to pop up whenever you clicked on the front page. I hated those.
JPL
@Chris Johnson: 2020 sucks just sayin
MagdaInBlack
@Chris Johnson: Reuters story says they ( the hackers) were monitoring Treasury Dept emails. No mention of laundering anything, that I saw.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
There’s also a pay-per-view one tonight at 8:30 ET with the Hamilton cast (minus Diggs).
Alison Rose
LOL BYE FELICIA
WaterGirl
@geg6: Others are having the issue, too, and I don’t like people walking away from BJ because of technical issues.
I don’t know for sure that it’s an ad, but last time this happened I believe it was. We’ll find out, and if it’s not an ad, then we’ll figure it out.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
Oh, I’m not walking away! I’ll be here. It’s not a bad thing to take some time out to do other things. It’s just that I’m a junkie jackal and get panicked if I can’t get on the site. ;-) Glad to know I’m not the only one with the problem. I’m such a tech idiot, I always think I did something wrong.
trollhattan
@Alison Rose:
Good riddance to old trash. Ten bucks says he’s getting back slaps at WSJ for riling the Lib Dems. Maybe he can hit the Vineyard with Dersh next season.
mrmoshpotato
@MattF:
They lost and really aren’t getting over it. Also – fuck their feelings.
TS (the original)
@Chris Johnson:
Just became front page news on Wapo
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Also for Georgia?
Do you happen to have link?
TS (the original)
First time in ages, a post disappeared. It contained a large quote from WaPo – don’t know if that was the reason it went into cyber space (or spam or wherever such posts go)
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: I’m all for that scumbag primarying Little Marco. (and then getting his shithouse rat ass beat.)
pamelabrown53
@trollhattan:
LOL! Ten bucks says you’re at the top of the cynical scale but “Dersh” will welcome some company at the Vineyard.
mrmoshpotato
LOL A bass line for you.
raven
@WaterGirl:
Chip in to get access to the Hamilton holiday celebration!
Chip in any amount to join the original Broadway Company of Hamilton for a virtual holiday celebration featuring performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Jonathan Groff, Sasha Hutchings, and more! With special appearances by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Cory Booker.
Hurry! It will only be live-streamed once on Sunday, December 13th at 8:30pm ET.
mrmoshpotato
@Chris Johnson:
What do they have to Gain? (I’ll see myself out.)
jonas
When Rod Dreher is telling you your religious fanaticism has gone too far…damn.
Someone really needs to write a good novel about a guy, thinking he’s all righteous and brilliant, creates a monster who soon rampages out of control and turns on him. Call it, I don’t know, Dreherstein or something.
WaterGirl
@TS (the original): That went into spam. I just released it. It’s at #39.
p.a.
Read most if the Dreher article. He ‘both-sides’ the shit out of that mofo. They just can’t help themselves?
Catherine D.
@raven: Nice, but I’m sticking with Rhiannon Giddens. Already donated.
WaterGirl
@raven: It would be nice if they didn’t compete with each other on the same night!
Phylllis
@mrmoshpotato: All…of it? I’ll join you at the proper distance on the way out.
TS (the original)
@WaterGirl: saw it – thanks
mrmoshpotato
LMAO!
jonas
@NeenerNeener: WaPo and other outlets are on this now. Seems to be a Russian attack. This is a bfd. I wonder if the point isn’t to give Trump cover to claim the election was hacked: “Hey if Russia can break into the Treasury department, China could steal votes!”
mrmoshpotato
@Phylllis: Not sure. Let’s check the Tide.
raven
@Catherine D.: I just wanted to provide the information. I suppose actblue is taking everything they can get.
debbie
@jonas:
Still likely Trump approved it.
mrmoshpotato
@jonas:
“Jhina filled out everyone’s paper ballot who didn’t vote for meeeeee and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!”
Phylllis
@mrmoshpotato: Surf conditions report imminent.
Tdjr
@mrmoshpotato: I’m not sure whether to Cheer you on.
raven
@Phylllis: There was a monster break at Mavericks and Steamer this week
It Is Really Intense’: Surfers Brave Big Waves at Mavericks, Steamer Lane
Mary G
They’ve found a way to go even lower:
First of all, they’ve all caught from each other, so it’s both malicious and stupid to take doses from nurses and doctors on the front lines.
Jay
Jay
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hamiltonga
Anotherlurker
Legit question here: How big are the actual numbers of these shit eating Proud Boys and their equally malodorous other Nazi supporters?
If the shit keeps rising and ends up in a shooting contest, what actual effect could it have?
Do the cops go all in on supporting these assholes? Do they support them when a cop is killed?
I guess this is a question for Adam Silverman.
For the record: I would expect some very ugly outcomes, but I don’t think there are enough fanatics to really overthrow the Government. I think the loudmouths and the cosplayers will fade into the woodwork and leave the fanatics hanging out to dry.
Yup. I’m a starry eyed optimist.
Phylllis
@raven: Totally rad. Have you read Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan? He writes so cogently about how waves work and break I could see it in my mind’s eye.
Catherine D.
@raven: I’d dearly love to see both, but I’m sticking with my folkies ?
raven
@Phylllis: Yes! I Also have a friend who grew up on Oahu at the same time and she really related to the experience there and then.
Kathleen
Deleted. Information already covered in earlier comment. Note to Self: Dear Kathleen: Please make it a point to read the entire thread before commenting. Thank you and make sure you stop in the gift shop as you exit the thread.
Geoduck
@MattF: Dreher made some interesting points, but after about the fifth gratuitous The Left Is Just As Bad swipe, I bailed.
Kathleen
@Tdjr: It depends on whose Oxy’s are being gored.
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: If everybody waited until they finished reading all the comments, no one would ever comment on Balloon Juice!
Plus, there’s been many a time when I haven’t clicked a link, or have skimmed a comment and moved on, only to find a second comment about the same thing that catches my eye.
Phylllis
@raven: I devoured it; related to it in the sense of also being that last generation of ‘feral’ children. We roamed for miles across my hometown both by foot and on our bikes and skateboards.
Another Scott
@Kelly: You have an evocative voice.
Post more often.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
mrmoshpotato
Mmmmm…..cocktail kits.
sab
@WaterGirl: I agree.
I sometimes comment midthread and find somebody else said it better earlier. So what? My comment affirms theirs. Not everyone reads every thread through at once (not all jackels are retired.)
Also, many threads remain open for a long time, with the end of the thread different from the beginning, and some people don’t read the first half of the thread they a jumped into until many hours later if ever.
We just wander around here. That is who we are.
Didn’t you comment earlier today about someone apologizing for being off topic on a no topic thread?
Another Scott
It looks like the GA concert is starting in less than 2 minutes according to the YouTube link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WjOlbXySGE&feature=youtu.be
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
The Georgia concert is starting, if anyone is interested.
Pro tip, which you all may know by now: If you click play in the post, open another version of the post that you can comment in and not interrupt the concert when the page refreshes. Or click to open in YouTube.
WaterGirl
@sab: Maybe yesterday, but yes, I did.
WaterGirl
These two have a lovely sound.
This second fellow (John McCutcheon) reminds me of a preacher. In a good way.
Now he’s singing “vote, dammit!”
I miss John Lewis.
Raven
Looks like audio only on youtube. The Facebook has vid
Raven
Weird, only on the Roku youtube
WaterGirl
@Raven: My youtube has video.
Click from the youtube video up top.
Misterpuff
@mrmoshpotato: And now I have to live with the revelation that Ralph Wiggum grew up to be Trump and I can not think of anything that could refute that.
Raven
@WaterGirl: I’ve got it on Hogeyed Man’s Facebook. I tried YouTube on the Roku but no go.
Another Scott
Video works for me on YouTube, using my link at #79, also too.
McCutcheon’s “Vote Dammit” is a good song!
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I have liked all three acts so far.
edit: I have listened to Deidre McCalla. She had one song years ago that I just loved, but I had never seen her before.
Catherine D.
Loving the GA voices!
ETA: John McCutcheon is Pete Seeger’s heir.
raven
@Raven: NOW it has the vid on Roku!
raven
I’ll be interested in what my friends do, Art generally does Sea Shanty’s, Hog Eyed Man old time and Hawk Proof fun ukulele tunes.
WaterGirl
I love this Dana Goldberg!
edit: now Rhiannon Giddens is up!
raven
Rhiannon. . .
WaterGirl
@raven: We may be the only two listening! She is very good. I had never seen her before.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: They’ve all been excellent.
I don’t think I’ve heard Deidre before – she’s great.
Rhiannon is always wonderful.
A really great show.
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
@WaterGirl: Carolina Chocolate Drops and she figured greatly in the Ken Burn Country Music Doc.
Catherine D.
This concert is making me so happy!!!
Catherine D.
Rhiannon has taken over the Silk Road project from Yo Yo Ma. She’s so amazing.
raven
Rhiannon Giddens is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who also happens to be a classically trained opera singer. Having grown up in North Carolina, she’s now on a mission to re-frame the history of African Americans and their contributions to the musical landscape. Giddens sits down with Walter to discuss her latest album, “There Is No Other,” and play a little banjo.
raven
IGina Louise Breedlove in 1997, she originated the role of Sarabi in the Broadway production of The Lion King.[2] She has appeared in the 1987 Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies.[3] Breedlove sang in 1995 with Harry Belafonte in Costa Mesa, where their duets on “Skin to Skin” and “How Do You Keep the Music Playing” were praised by the Los Angeles Times.[4] In 1996, she was part of the cast of Sheila’s Day.[5] She also contributed a song to the soundtrack of the 1997 Shaquille O’Neal film Steel.
raven
Charlie, Nancy and Art!!!!
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: It is a great show, and they are really moving it along. Nicely done!
Citizen Alan
@Misterpuff: Nah. Trump is what you’d get if someone gave Eric Cartman $140 million.
Catherine D.
Listen to Songs of our Native Daughters. Chills down your spine.
WaterGirl
@Catherine D.:
Rhiannon is an amazing singer. I loved watching her sing and play, too.
Tony Jay
@p.a.:
I used to frequent the American Conservative site where Dreher had/has his column right up until November 2016 (something happened around that time that put me off spending any time with those people, can’t recall what it was) and I can confirm that he is a deeply committed adherent of the School of “Yes, but the Leftists!”
This is the man who once explained that ‘The Left’ were entirely hypocritical in chastising Paula Dean (is that right? Southern style TV chef who was exposed as entirely racist in the mid-2010s) for racism because, while pondering the topic, he’d listened to Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones and realised that, since no Leftists have ostentatiously rejected their Stones records and thrown them on the Bonfire of the Profanities, then they were obviously the most terrible hypocrites and should, therefore, be dismissed as commentators on Rightist behaviour.
He does that a lot. It’s basically his second most common trope after being a lunatic theocrat who wants a God who will whip him hard all day and tell him what a bad, bad boy he is, but not as bad as those people.
Might go back to the American Conservative now, see how they’re suffering.
Anotherlurker
Great concert!
Yutsano
Not sure how I feel about the storyteller. Especially cutting the wonderful folk music off.
EDIT: EMILY!!!
WaterGirl
I saw the Indigo Girls years and years ago, in a small venue – in a church. They were amazing there.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: He wasn’t my cup of tea, but that’s okay.
raven
This is obviously pre-recorded so they are trying to mix it up some. I think the whole thing is just an hour.
Catherine D.
Blues guitar now!
raven
@Catherine D.:
Every generation or so, a young bluesman bursts onto the scene and sends a jolt through the blues community. Jontavious Willis may just have that effect on people. The 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2020 thanks to his latest album, Spectacular Class. Through original lyrics written by Willis himself, the gifted musician delivers a timeless album that features dynamic vocals and all types of blues: Delta, Piedmont, Texas, and Gospel. His stand-out fingerpicking, flat-picking, and slide prowess are also on display.
frosty
@Phylllis: Not the last generation. Younger Son told us a year or so ago about riding around miles from home with friends on their bicycles. Pretty much the same thing I did in the 60s. I had no idea!!
This would have been a few years on both sides of 2010.
raven
Josh Kornbluth is an American comedic autobiographical monologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has toured internationally, written and starred in several feature films, and starred in a television interview show.
Catherine D.
@raven: Well deserved!
Another Scott
They upped the thermometer from $120,000 to $150,000. Here’s hoping they get there.
(I enjoyed the Statue of Liberty story very much, myself.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Yutsano
Okay the father-son* duo are delightful!
*I assume. It is the 21st Century after all.
raven
Rob and Jason! Hog-Eyed Man from just up the street!
Brachiator
Breaking news (via BBC News)
Real name of author, David Cornwell.
I loved the hell out of the adaptations of the Smiley novels shown here on PBS.
RIP, Smiley and all his people.
raven
Athens has been all instrumental.
Catherine D.
Wow, don’t see much on the lap dulcimer.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: Blue broke loose in Georgia!
raven
@Catherine D.: He plays it quite a bit along with a bunch of other strings. I was lucky enough for him and Charlie to play at my retirement gig last year. They were really excited to play before Bonnie! The fiddle player is a law prof who specializes in immigration law.
Catherine D.
Yes! Bonnie. I saw her in concert longer ago than either want to remember.
Yutsano
@raven: I had to look up the lap instrument he’s playing there. They’re pretty nifty looking!
Patricia Kayden
Prick
Catherine D.
@raven: We are olds :)
WaterGirl
I wrote the Medium Cool post this afternoon, long before Raven told me about this fundraiser. So it’s dumb luck that MC was about music, but it’s not jarring to go back and forth between MC and this Georgia musical thread.
Definitely better to be lucky than good.
raven
@Catherine D.: Bonnie was born 2 days before me!
raven
@WaterGirl: I was workin under my truck when Charlie and Nancy walked by and reminded me!
raven
Easy Chair!
WaterGirl
Hog-eyed man (men) is great!
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: I know he’s normally a prick, but why tonight? I just skimmed because I am listening to the music, but I thought he was basically saying “it’s over”. No?
Another Scott
1628 people have donated according to the thermometer. 1752 people watching on YouTube at the moment. 92+% (ignoring people who left, people watching other ways, etc.). Not too shabby.
Cheers,
Scott.
Catherine D.
And Maria Muldaur! doing my happy dance all night.
O. Felix Culpa
Donated! (again). Thanks for the heads-up about this fine concert and great cause.
raven
@Another Scott: And I think the Facebook stream is strong.
raven
@Catherine D.:
Muldaur was born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D’Amato
Another Scott
Oh, Maria. No masks. :-( Maybe it’s a Before Time performance?
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
Great show. $131,000+. Well done.
Cheers,
Scott.
Catherine D.
@raven: My favorite song of hers (which I think I still have on vinyl) is It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion.
raven
@Another Scott: I wouldn’t be surprised. Hawk Proof was on their back porch and it ain’t light out here.
O. Felix Culpa
It looks like the program is still up for viewing, if anyone missed it or wants to watch a particular act again.
raven
@Catherine D.: yowsa! Reminds me of Runnin after Fools by Asleep at the Wheel.
“The pants may be baggy, but it could be worth your while”!
O. Felix Culpa
@Another Scott: $136K and counting per the comments.
WaterGirl
Who was singing Let It Shine? That was fun.
edit: oh, that was the revival resistance choir.
WaterGirl
Why do I know the name Maria Muldaur. Is she famous?
raven
@WaterGirl: Midnight at the Oasis.
https://youtu.be/VkRm2cRGN9s
Another Scott
@raven: Send your camel to bed.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@O. Felix Culpa: I predict they will double their donations from during the show by the end of the night TOMORROW.
Chris Johnson
@Brachiator: Yeah, that one hit me.
I shall betray somebody in his honor :)
wvblueguy
Great concert raising over #132,000 before it ended, It can be watched again at the YouTube link given. Awesome to be able to help out this wonderful cause.
Catherine D.
@raven: I have a lot of Asleep at the Wheel, but not that one!
Oh, this whole concert has made me so happy.
JanieM
@WaterGirl: He said this:
“his three justices”? This guy taught law at Harvard…?
Another Scott
Howard University public TV is playing a Fleetwood Mac concert as part of their begathon.
Playing “Rhiannon”.
Synchonicity. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@raven: of course! I just couldn’t place her.
WaterGirl
@JanieM: I do see your point about that!
raven
@Catherine D.: You call me shabby, you say my hair is not in style. . .
Ray Benson is my doppleganger, He’s about 6’5 but, damn. I went up to him when I was in a full body cast after I broke my back and it freaked him out how much we looked alike.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I noticed in the comments that lots of people donated more than once tonight. No, I am not able to define “lots”.
Catherine D.
@raven: Do you have the baritone?
raven
@Catherine D.: No but I have a falsetto teeth!
Another Scott
$152,173.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
Good, good.
(via NotLarrySabato)
Cheers,
Scott.
Catherine D.
@raven: Snicker, snicker.
Another Scott
Hehe.
More, please.
(via TheRealHoarse)
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
@Catherine D.: Groucho
Frosty Fred
@WaterGirl: I loved the storyteller, he repeatedly brought tears to my eyes.
JanieM
@Another Scott: Great news, but please please please, oh please don’t let them be called the Spiders. :-(
WaterGirl
@Frosty Fred: Something for everyone. :-)
Rokka
@WaterGirl: who started out as the kazoo/fiddle player for the Jim Kweskin Jug Band.
youtube.com/watch?v=-uw41o9cdW0
Mary G
@Phylllis:
@raven:
I also loved Barbarian Days! He gets the ocean.
Amir Khalid
@Patricia Kayden:
The Supreme Court — any court, anywhere, come to that — isn’t supposed to be for anyone to “count on” in that sense. Trump’s assumption that justices he had appointed would/should be partial to him was wrong as well as corrupt.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
Aw hell, I wish I’d known about this. Mick Kinney was my banjo teacher a few years back. His whole family is just scary talented.
dnfree
@Catherine D.: We saw Bonnie Raitt at a concert at Ravinia (north of Chicago), along with John Prine and Corky Siegel (I think that’s who we went to see). I think it was 1972. Yes, a long time ago….
dnfree
@dnfree: and Steve Goodman, apparently.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-john-prine-steve-goodman-music-chicago-20200410-ddhzuehga5cv5hdcxrjqchn56m-story.html
dnfree
@dnfree: and whoops, looks like it was Bonnie Koloc. Sorry! I get my Bonnies confused.
O. Felix Culpa
@dnfree: Oh my, you’re bringing back memories of WFMT’s Midnight Special.
satby
@O. Felix Culpa: And what great memories they are!
OMIGOD, that Rick Logan article is talking about my teen years, fake IDs, Earl’s and all.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
But mostly stupid and ignorant.
mrmoshpotato
WEAK. SAD. POOP.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Thankfully Dump is dumb. He’s also a walking sack of shit.
Bill Arnold
@MattF:
That whole piece by Rod Dreher is worth reading, even with the swipes at the left. He is genuinely worried about the damage that the Trump Cult is doing to Christianity [Mmm. Funz have been had. Trump has been a test, and Trumpism is a multi-purpose wedge. :-) ] . Formal link for the record:
What I Saw At The Jericho March (December 12, 2020, Rod Dreher, American Conservative) (bolds mine)
Oh, and Alex Jones thinks Mark Zuckerburg is a “miserable slave of Satan”. (Stopped clock.)
And Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano made a video appearance:
mrmoshpotato
@Bill Arnold: What the suckers-of-Dump’s-fat-orange-fascist-ass, Batman?
Yutsano
@Bill Arnold:
Someone is cruising for a phone call from a miffed Argentinian tomorrow…
Jay
John Revolta
@dnfree: Yeah, those names bring back memories fer sure. My band opened up for Siegal-Schwall at some high school when they were the rage in Chicago, c.1972. (Can’t say which high school because my dog chewed up the poster I brought home from the gig, about 30 years ago. Pretty much the only thing she ever chewed up, too. Stupid dog.)
sdhays
This woman discovered a Democratic gold mine in Georgia. It could help win the high-stakes runoff.
Interesting article about the organizing which turned Newt Gingrich’s stronghold into a key source of Biden’s win.
Another Scott
@Alison Rose: Apparently Epstein was a monster at Northwestern. Shocking, isn’t it??
https://twitter.com/Sigmundine2/status/1338194541581651971/photo/1
Grr…
(via TheRealHoarse)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike in NC
@sdhays: Worst person in the world for the past 50 years would be Trump, next to Gingrich.
Another Scott
@Mike in NC: Dunno. Moscow Mitch is really far up there on the list…
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay
https://ia601406.us.archive.org/19/items/cia-and-nazi-war-crim.-and-col./CIA%20AND%20NAZI%20WAR%20CRIM.%20AND%20COL..pdf
Jay
Calouste
@Bill Arnold: Divinizing MAGA is not going to tear churches to bits, because people have already self-selected which church they go to, and their fellow church-goers think more or less the same. The days that people just went to their neighborhood Catholic/Lutheran/Presbyterian/etc church are long gone.
WaterGirl
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): In case anyone hasn’t mentioned it, the concert is available for viewing even now that it’s over.
Bill Arnold
@Calouste:
Trump tore apart my local Reform synagogue. In particular, he, the Republicans and Netanyahu turned support for the current Israeli government into a partisan political test and conflated it with support for the simple existence of the state of Israel. I loath the national US republicans and their propaganda apparatuses for this. Though that was just part of it. Dreher is talking about religious institutions that are attempting to remain non-political, by my reading.