Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

In my day, never was longer.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

T R E 4 5 O N

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

This really is a full service blog.

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

So many bastards, so little time.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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  4. 4.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Been listening to a lot of The Tallest Man On Earth because my vehicle’s audio player is attached to my iphone and it pulls it automatically and plays it on the commute. Kristian Matsson likes birch trees.

  9. 9.

    Poe Larity

    I’m not sure which music goes with getting my second Pfizer dose today and a realization that my chips could be part of a custody battle between Bill and Melinda. Mom, Dad?

    So I’ll go with a virtual session of the Seatbelts’ Space Lion from Cowboy Bebop.

  14. 14.

    rm

    Nothing problematic at all. The song has deep layers of New Orleans musical and linguistic* history. The Playing For Change group connects musicians around the world. There are deep musical connections between New Orleans and many African musical traditions. And this music inspires everyone. That’s all in the video. I don’t know what problem anyone could find in it.

    * Google around sometime to find the various theories about how many languages are represented in the lyrics of “Iko Iko.”

  15. 15.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    I hate to be the one to ask, but why would this be problematic?

  18. 18.

    raven

    Louisiana Creole cuisine (French: Cuisine créole, Spanish: Cocina criolla) is a style of cooking originating in Louisiana, United States, which blends West African, French, Spanish, Amerindianinfluences,[1] [2] as well as influences from the general cuisine of the Southern United States.

    Creole cuisine revolves around influences found in Louisiana from populations present in Louisiana before the sale of Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

    The term “Creole” describes the population of people in French colonial Louisiana which consisted of the descendants of the French and Spanish upper class, and over the years the term grew to include native-born slaves of African descent as well as those of mixed racial ancestry.

    Like the people, Creole food is a blend of the various cultures of New Orleans including West African, French, Spanish, Caribbean, and Native American, among others. Creole cuisine is thought of as a little higher brow or aristocratic compared to Cajun.[3]

  23. 23.

    HumboldtBlue

    I pulled out my Gipsy Kings last night and sweet mother of fun I love that group.

    I also love these collaborations.

  35. 35.

    dexwood

    Summer, 72, three hippie types from Baltimore wandered into a New Orleans bar where the good Doctor was Night Tripping. Have been a fan ever since. Read a story about Dr. John quitting a Frank Zappa recording session once because Frank was anti-drug and the Dr. couldn’t smoke a joint at the piano.

  39. 39.

    Anotherlurker

    @raven: For some musical elaboration of this, watch “Rumble: Indians in Rock” available on Prime.  It is an excellent look at Native American influence on the music of America.  If you listen to The Blues and its spawn you can hear it.

    They do a good explanation of the New Orleans Indians.

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    While some of us were bantering about celebrity endorsements downstairs, put up one there that falls into your sports wheelhouse.

    (Although unsure whether Manchester places on the nice or on the naughty list chez Khalid.)

    ;)

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    The Night of the Hunter (1955; Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters; directed by Charles Laughton) coming up on TCM at 11:15 EDT.

  51. 51.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    Wayne Rooney, a Scouser, doesn’t like Liverpool FC. He started out with Liverpool’s local rival Everton FC before going to Manchester United. So he’s very much on my naughty list.

  53. 53.

    patrick II

    Musicians have had a tough time during the pandemic and many have turned to is internet doing analysis and voice coaching on Zoom, Instagram, Youtube, and Patreon — where you can follow them for a small monthly fee, often just $1 or $2.

    Here is Julia Nilon a singer and voice coach reviewing Filipina singer Morissette Amon’s  Akin Ka Na Lang (will you be mine).

  54. 54.

    J R in WV

    While my Navy ship was in Mobile Bay drydock for hull work, some of us hippie sailors went to a small arena across the bay in Mobile proper to see Dr John opening for Spirit. Dr John was amazing, won’t attempt to describe his set, but he strutted onto stage between a row of sidemen ramping and jiveing and showering him with glitter. He had a cane he used like a drum major, and a pouch of glitter he tossed back at the sidemen and girl singers.

    After he did two sets, he announced that because the arena didn’t sell enough tix, Spirit was not going to appear. Show’s over.

    There was a R&R riot, and many if not all the giant glass panels around the lobby of the arena were shattered by hoods using folding tables as battering rams.

    My buddies and I fast walked away into the darkness, wanting to avoid the cops, who we could hear running with sirens in the distance as we fled into the night. Eventually we found a bar, ordered drinks and called a cab to ride back to the shipyard. Dr. John was a master of Zydeco — Rock and Roll, and I wished I could have seen him many more times.

  55. 55.

    Feathers

    There was a boyfriend back in the 90s of whom I remember very little except the fact that we once went to an excellent Dr John show.

  57. 57.

    J R in WV

    @Kayla Rudbek: ​
     

    Good news from the doctor today; clear margins and lymph nodes are negative!

    Big congratulations on the good news~!!~ So glad for you…

  58. 58.

    divF

    @Kayla Rudbek: Congratulations! “Clear margins” is one of the sweetest phrases in medicine. I heard it nine years ago after they whacked out a cancerous chunk of my left kidney. The music in the OP gives a perfect joyous response.

    Still with music, but in a very different style, here is a short choral piece that just turned up a few minutes ago. What makes it noteworthy is that the 21 voices + video were recorded separately (by the choristers, at home), then assembled together electronically.

    ETA: it was an excruciating process for the singers, but it gives them hope that they will sing together again sometime in person.

  59. 59.

    J R in WV

    @Feathers:

    All of Dr John’s live shows were excellent, his albums were good but now inspired like the live shows. Be glad you remember the show!!

  65. 65.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @prostratedragon: also Mitchum is one scary mojo in that movie

    and I was thinking of a different river scene that probably gave me nightmares when I was a kid… I think the first time I saw Shelley Winters in anything pre-Poseiden Adventure

  68. 68.

    patrick II

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Thank you.  That was very interesting.  That Lani Malmberg is a very smart lady. There are many more lessons here than just goats.  And another thing — PBS is the only place where programs like this are produced.

  69. 69.

    prostratedragon

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: So many memorable images in that movie (cinematographer Stanley Cortez). Unfortunately it appears a remake was in the works as of last year, which couldn’t be beat for pointless exercises imo. This article gives a good idea why that could be so.

    Now you have me wanting to watch The Poseidon Adventure for the first time in ages. References to earlier portrayals by actors are common, and sometimes those are presented as continuations or alternative futures for the earlier character.  (Maybe a slight spoiler)  Did Willa Harper avoid one fate only to meet it again down the line? (Hey, the picture is over 60 years old.)

  70. 70.

    HumboldtBlue

    @patrick II:

    That was a wonderful lesson and what makes it so fascinating is it is so intuitive. Even an ignoramus like me can immediately connect the dots.

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    I feel it a safe bet he won’t be getting any phone calls from the Old Vic looking to snap him up for his acting chops.

    ;)

  76. 76.

    Ten Bears

    <a href=”https://homelessonthehighdesert.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/where-there-is-no-pebble-tossed/”>Did someone say Jimmy Buffet?</a>

  77. 77.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @NotMax: Not only a bad pun, but utterly unoriginal. Somewhere in the Avuncular-Cosmic Archives I have a one-panel newspaper cartoon from at least 25 years ago showing backstage at the symphony with a silhouette of a beaver’s tail, with the (paraphrased) caption:

    Having devoured the priceless Stradivarius, Barney the Beaver discovers that there’s always room for cello

    :^p

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