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It’s postcards and music time!

All the details on options for writing for Ohio Issue 1 and for Virginia – and images of postcards – are always available in the sidebar.  To make it extra easy to find, I have copied it just below the postcard image.

Chime in if you know about others good post-card writing options for OH or VA.

Also, send me a photo of your postcards and I’ll post it in the thread and add it to the link in the sidebar.

Postcard by Blue Guitarist!

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Music!

No playlist from brendancalling tonight, but we’ll have a metal playlist next Saturday.  So add your musical links in the comments!

I can’t stop watching this video that Alison Rose linked to last week.  It makes me so happy to watch, and yet so sad at the same time.  All those great musicians, so youthful, so long ago.  Time is passing, dammit!

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  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    @Alison Rose: Yeah, it looks like tonight the Music will be the headliner!

    They all looked so happy in that video, in particular Tom Petty and Neil Young, as you said last week.  They were all in their prime and happy to be doing what they are doing.

  8. 8.

    H.E.Wolf

    Happy postcard night! The people united can never be defeated. (I am still salty that I didn’t keep my “VIVA LA RAZA” button from high school….)

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: That is amazing!

    edit:  I just saw comment about the changes at your currently location.  Yikes.  Everything changes on a dime, it sounds like,

    Wondering, any news on the job you were interviewed for?

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @H.E.Wolf: I think you might be the only postcard person here tonight.

    Mousebumples is out of town and Blue Guitarist wrote to say that he hopes to be able to come to the thread later.

  21. 21.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: I wasn’t selected for that one.  I think the interview went well, but I suspect they only interviewed me because I was a former student, which I appreciate, but I put in sooo much effort on the damn presentation part of it so, I kind wish they woulda just never done the interview.

    Anyway, onward to something else.  I’ve got a zoom interview for a fed position coming in about 2 weeks!

  23. 23.

    H.E.Wolf

    @WaterGirl: ​
     Yes, I’m here! But only as a quick fly-by… I can be online *or* write postcards, and tonight I’m going to log off and write. :)

    I think our various forms of GOTV work are going to pay off in exciting ways this November!

  24. 24.

    SenyorDave

    Not a bad lineup, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Petty, and singing one of Dylan’s best songs (although I like the Byrds version best).  One of my favorite lines in a song, “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: Yeah, that happened to me once, too.  That’s when I learned to ask whether they had an internal candidate apply8ing.

    It’s no fun to give it your all if they have something else in mind.

    On the other hand, it was probably a good experience to have under your belt, so let’s go with that. :-)

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: Def appreciate the experience.  I haven’t had to come with up with a powerpoint presentation in years.  I was/am very proud of the presentation I gave and my interaction with the teaching faculty

  32. 32.

    brendancalling

    A preview for next week, and also for me because I’m in training for the Philadelphia Marathon (5 more weeks). Today I did 18 miles in a cold drizzling rain, and it was fucking glorious. I wound up shirtless by mile 10. Iron Maiden, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.”

    Turf of the track with the windAnd the rain that’s beating down on your backYour heart’s beating loudAnd goes on getting louderAnd goes on even more ’til the sound is ringing in your headWith every step you tread and every breath you take
    Determination makes you run, never stopGotta win, gotta run ’til you dropKeep the pace, hold the raceThe mind is getting clearerYou’re over halfway there But the miles, they never seem to endAs if you’re in a dream, not getting anywhereIt seems so futile
    Run, on and onRun, on and onThe loneliness of the long distance runner…

    Such a great running song!

  33. 33.

    Raven

    My softball team in Urbana was “The High and Mighty”!

    Crimson flames tied through my ears
    Rolling high and mighty traps
    Pounced with fire on flaming roads

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @BlueGuitarist: You are a postcard-writing fiend.  We are lucky to have you.

    Speaking of Virginia, we hit $20k – $10k for each of our two candidates, and frosty will add his $500 sometime this weekend.

    So we’ll end up at $20,500!

    Then on Monday the 3rd quarter fundraising comes out, so we’ll be looking to see if anyone still needs our help for the House of Delegates or the Senate, or if our fundraising for VA is complete.

  36. 36.

    Mousebumples

    Checking in remotely! I’m not postcarding tonight but wanted to say hi. I’m hoping to get my first batch all addressed and I’m the mail Monday. Hopefully. 🤞

    Today is about enjoying barrel aged beer from a favorite brewery. Lots of fun with fellow beer afficionados! (❤️ to Mr. Mouse for being my designated driver tonight!)

  39. 39.

    BlueGuitarist

     

    @Alison Rose:

    a great show, except for the part of the audience that booed Sinead O’Connor.
    How could they not know that the people booing at a Dylan concert are the narrow minded bad guys? Was disappointed that Neil, who came on next, did not point this out.

  44. 44.

    scott (the otherone)

    Let’s stipulate that Eric Clapton is an anti-vax idiot who has said some–to be extremely charitable–really dubious stuff in the past. And that he was, with the exception of the basically never-heard-of by almost anyone under 40 years old Roger McGuinn, by far the least cool one up there, at the time or at any time after the early 70s (when Tom Petty was totally unknown to the public at large).

    All that notwithstanding, Clapton has not only by far the most conventionally attractive voice of any of them–not the highest of bars to clear–but was at that point in time a fine vocalist, period. He had a pleasantly accessible timbre, excellent sense of pitch and good range.

    He’s just about my least favorite artist up there, and if you want to say the majority of his catalog is disappointing fluff, or that he’s yet another rich old white crank, I’m with you. But the dude could sing. It’s why he made sold far more albums than anyone else up there (excluding George Harrison’s old band).

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    @brendancalling: That’s amazing.  18 miles!  cold rain.  shudder.

    Cold and wet is my “get sick” weather.

    Speaking of which, I may (theoretically) be getting my Covid shot on Monday, depending on whether I am one of the unlucky ones where CVS has booked more people than they have doses.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @scott (the otherone): Yeah, I gritted my teeth through Clapton, even though his guitar playing is great.

    I think I have to disagree that Clapton had the best voice on that stage.  I want to say it was flat, but not in the musical sense of “flat”.  It just seemed cold, and he didn’t seem to sing with any heart or any joy. Either way, he’s an arrogant prick, and awful.

    I saw the other folks on the stage as happy warriors.  Tom Petty, Neil Young, George Harrison – all of them looked like they were having a great time, happy to be there.  I also thought their voices were the best.

    Never a big fan of Bob Dylan’s voice.

  50. 50.

    BlueGuitarist

    @WaterGirl:

    the concert was a couple of  weeks after Sinead ripped up a picture of the pope on Saturday night live, protesting abuse in the church.

  53. 53.

    BlueGuitarist

    @WaterGirl:

    You deserve a lot of the credit, for all your organizing and encouragement, as does this awesome community.

    I’m hoping MazeDancer is better soon, and writing some extra postcards for them in the meantime.

  56. 56.

    Alison Rose

    @kalakal: He was such a great showman. I saw them…I think 6 times? Every time was amazing, and he did the same thing with Breakdown at one of those shows. Hearing the whole audience singing it with their entire chests was so much fun. I can’t sing worth a God damn, but in that setting I was happy to belt it out.

  58. 58.

    BigJimSlade

    @scott (the otherone): Speaking of George Harrison, I can recommend his last/posthumous album, Brainwashed. I think it’s great and really is full of George-ness. (His voice is getting thin at that point, but, hey, he was dying of lung cancer.)

  59. 59.

    sab

    @WaterGirl: I agree with you that Clapton has a very dead, dull voice. No affect at all. I don’t care about his musicality because there is no feeling there at all even if he hits the right notes at the right time. Still dead.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @brantl: You wrote Bob Dylan, but you mean Eric Clapton, yes?

    I agree – those early songs were great!

    Maybe his heart died after they lost their young son in the tragic accident, falling out the window, as I recall.

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