Rock trailblazer Heart reunites for a world tour and a new song https://t.co/ponSOMGNY8
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 19, 2024
Because I keep meaning to share these snippets with you, but there’s always too much serious news…
Ashley Judd opened up about her mother Naomi Judd– who died nearly two years ago — during a panel discussion hosted by the White House. This week the Biden-Harris Administration released the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. pic.twitter.com/ajmkXRzGhJ
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) April 24, 2024
Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall https://t.co/90NuxIeZ0T
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 22, 2024
… The induction ceremony will be held Oct. 19 at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. It will stream live on Disney+ with an airing on ABC at a later date and available on Hulu the next day.
Those music acts nominated this year but didn’t make the cut included Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, the late Sinéad O’Connor, soul-pop singer Sade, Britpoppers Oasis, hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim and alt-rockers Jane’s Addiction.
I hope Cher shows up for that event, because last December…
Ringo Starr says there’s “not a lot of joy” in Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Beatles documentary, “Let it Be,” which is slated to be made public for the first time when it heads to Disney+ in May. pic.twitter.com/VtRqv3phUh
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) April 24, 2024
Betty Cracker
It’s good to see the Wilson sisters back together after their recent estrangement, which is alluded to in the linked AP article:
My sister and I are like that. We can’t stay mad at each other more than an hour or so.
NotMax
“Okay, who’s the wisenheimer who nominated Nickelback?”
//
raven
If you haven’t seen them do Stairway do yourself a favor.
Baud
@NotMax:
Nickelback.
Splitting Image
Dreamboat Annie is one of the best albums of the 1970s.
I still think it’s funny that they wrote the song “Barracuda” about a jackass promoter who published a scurrilous rumour about the two of them, and Sarah Palin came along years later and decided that this would be a dandy anthem for herself.
Soapdish
I know it gets on the nerves of the LGM folks, but I can name a hell of a lot more Foreigner tunes than I can Warren Zevon tunes.
lowtechcyclist
There are plenty of Foreigner-level bands in the Rock & Roll HoF already. Cleveland is where it belongs.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
That’s cold as ice, man.
Baud
Did they actually locate it in Cleveland because of the Huey Louis song?
lowtechcyclist
@Baud: 😁
TBone
OT but really huge good news if true!
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains
TBone
@TBone: 🎶 hope and faith in science
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOhPNnFOJU
lowtechcyclist
@Baud: I doubt it. Wikipedia strongly implies that heavy lobbying by the Cleveland business community, especially combined with their pledge to put up $65M towards construction of the HoF, was the main incentive for choosing Cleveland.
Also, Huey Lewis’ song mentions a whole string of cities besides Cleveland.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Soapdish:
Always a plus. Liking Zevon is an essential element of being an Insufferable Music Snob which personality wise is in keeping with that crowd.
Mousebumples
@raven: that’s impressive and awesome, thank you. Kennedy center honors tend towards quality musical acts.
SiubhanDuinne
@TBone:
Sounds very promising! And even better news for needle-phobic people like me:
OzarkHillbilly
@TBone: In other big vaccine news: ‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled
Baud
@TBone:
@OzarkHillbilly:
If you think righties are antivax now, wait until there’s an mRNA vaccine against STDs.
TBone
@SiubhanDuinne: a real mood brightener, and after yesterday’s baloney, one I really needed.
TBone
@Baud: 😆 I was gonna say, but don’t bring me down, Bruce!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
The R&RHOF is pretty much all about Foreigner-level bands. I don’t say that as a slam the way a lot of people do. I’m no real big Foreigner fan (they haven’t aged well to me) but they’re pretty much a poster child for the Hall so I’m surprised it’s been this long for them to get in.
Ann Wilson has a helluva set of pipes (I met her once in 2000 when she was part of a Beatles tribute tour “A Walk Down Abbey Road”) but if you want to see an incredible cover of ‘Barracuda’, this one at the MTV 2007 “Rock Honors” show will blow you away. Gretchen Wilson (country) and Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQkECIn738
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: HOLY COW! 💜😍
3Sice
Lou Gramm, Paul Rodgers, Foreigner, Bad Company, solo, super group, or replacement vocalist?
I can’t always tell, but without them, “classic rock” loses half of its playlist.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Heh. At my age I think I can skip that vaccine. As long as I stay away from the Villages, which I don’t think will be a problem for me.
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: I hope vets get this technology as quickly as human doctors so our furry families will be treated quickly as well! Soonest!
Ken
They had me right up to the end.
Although quite possibly there’s no AI involved, and they just threw that in because marketing insisted. I just saw a commercial for Wendy’s that said their new app used AI, which is ridiculous for a program that is literally choosing things from a menu.
Baud
@Ken:
It’s definitely the newest buzzword for marketing.
TBone
🎶 hope is the thing with feathers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g
NotMax
@TBone
Speaking (loosely) of science, dredged up from the musty depths of yesteryear, Jerry Engler.
;)
TBone
Hope is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –
I’ve heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet – never – in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of me.
– Emily Dickinson
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wtj59opWKg
TBone
@NotMax: 💙💜❤️😍
And on that note
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3s3QvRqco
NotMax
Did someone mention stupid AI?
Rice rice, baby. :)
Geminid
This morning’s Politico Playbook promoting a Politico Magazine article:
I have not read the article yet but if it’s like most Politico Magazine articles, it’s very detailed and very long.
Among other items, Playbook also reviews David Pecker’s testimony in New York yesterday.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@3Sice:
Add Van Halen, AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd to that list and you have the other half.
Back when I was in Central Misery, I drove to offices I supported in Flyover Country (NE, KS, IA and for a while OK). 3-5 hour drives which meant driving thru 3-5 local media markets which meant 3-5 “classic rock” stations.
I’d station surf the entire time and the homogeneity of the groups on such stations from market-to-market only grew over the years. I’d often hear “Gimme Three Steps” 5 times on a 5 hour drive from Jeff City to Lincoln on 5 different stations.
The interesting thing is that some groups would drop off the playlist for a year or two, Bad Company and Foreigner being two. But, after a year or two, they’d be back on regular rotation. I never could figure out why those two bands, as opposed to others, were pulled from time to time. Lord knows “classic rock” playlists would have nothing without their uber reliance on Van Halen.
TBone
@NotMax: today I believe destiny ordained that you and I should meet here in the ether. IT can’t be an accident 😂
Betty Cracker
@Geminid: I might have to get around to reading that! I find it mighty entertaining when horrible Florida Republicans start flinging poo at each other.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Yep — “AI” is at the peak of the hype-cycle, and most of the marketing references are bullshit on stilts.
catclub
@Baud: The marketplace news on the radio advertises some AI product, but then it makes a point of listing all the bad things that it is NOT. Including ‘hallucination free’. Very strange.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Kay
I know we’ve beaten the NYTimes/Biden story to death but I had forgotten this:
It was absolutely bizarre. Ken Vogel and this “freelancer” were writing and disseminating stories from Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was their source! I remember Ken Vogel went on CNN and solemnly intoned that there was “something there” on Biden/Ukraine.
Just complete invented bullshit. They were doing another Judith Miller/Iraq and they almost got away with it.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Kay:
The receipts are longer than CVS’s. Keep bringing them.
Kay
And, the NYTimes reporting on Hunter Biden now looks even worse because Republicans desperately spent 3 years and millions of dollars trying to get something on it and came up with nothing.
The NYTimes should ask Ken Vogel and the freelancer if they regret misleading readers and if they should consider an apology/correction.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: It’s cold comfort, but Vogel missed the scoop of a generation while sniffing around Giuliani’s chum line, and if Vogel’s behavior on Twitter back in the day is any indication, he knows it. A sitting president was shaking down a vulnerable ally, and the clowns in his admin had Vogel and the Times completely snowed.
Eyeroller
@catclub: Current LLMs (large language models) cannot be free of hallucinations. It isn’t possible. There may be some different types of model that greatly reduce hallucinating, but they aren’t currently in production.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: Fun Susie Wiles facts:
Susan Sumerall grew up in New Jersey . Her father Pat was a well-known sportscaster and NFL receiver.
Wiles earned a B.A. at the University of Maryland and in 1979 she took a job with Congressman Jack Kemp, a former teammate of her father’s.
Her first campaign experience was as advance team scheduler for the 1980 Ronald Reagan campaign. Making the trains run on time.
Ken
@catclub: There have already been several cases where a company’s “AI assistant” has given people wrong information — stuff it hallucinated — and the company has been successfully sued. So the legal disclaimers are getting slapped on every interaction.
I’ve also seen, in actual training materials for “prompt engineering”, the note that working with an AI is like working with a defiant teenager who will deliberately misconstrue what you tell it, so you have to be careful to close all the loopholes. You can find examples online, which extend to literally telling it not to make up any information, and requiring it respond in the same language as the question.
Kay
@Baud:
I love “the freelancer”. THAT’S odd. They have some bullshit Guiliani wants them to launder thru the newspaper and this “freelancer” appears. Some horrible Giuliani crony from his time in NYC?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: My building had its monthly trivia game on Monday, and one question was “Who was the first woman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?”
As an old Detroit girl, I suggested Aretha Franklin but my teammates thought she might not really be rock and roll. We wound up putting down something like Madonna.
It was, of course, Aretha.
SFAW
@Baud:
And their tribute band, Dimebag.
TBone
Too good to skip. Although I believe that no human is illegal, Dotard does and so sticking this right in his eye is an enormous pleasure.
https://twitter.com/herotimeszero/status/1783227252760559717
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
That is so unlike you. Are you feeling OK?
Tony Jay
@Kay:
You can always tell when a Newzmeedyuh organ knows it’s pushing a completely bullshit narrative for reasons totally divorced from the 4th Estate’s sacred role in civilised society, because once it’s succeeded or failed in achieving its aim, they will never, ever discuss the nuts and bolts of it again, though they will leave it hanging around in the background as dressing for the narrative set – like a bad smell in a public toilet or small-handed scratches on the walls of a Bishop’s private boudoir.
lowtechcyclist
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Is it OK to like Zevon just because I like Zevon? I gave up most of a lifetime ago on keeping track of Who’s Cool To Like According To Whom, so I just listen to stuff and either like it or not.
Betty Cracker
@Geminid: Wiles is formidable, but she, like dozens of lawyers getting paid by the RNC, has a fool for a client. Hopefully that will be her Waterloo. And if the ever-percolating ugliness between the DeSantis and Trump factions oozes through the seams in the interim, I am here for it! :-)
SFAW
@Kay:
Oh, come on, you libtard. MTG’s dick-pix presentation was not “nothing.”
Oh, wait — I bet you meant nothing legitimate. Never mind.
Baud
@Kay:
They laundered the Clinton Cash stuff in 2016 too. It’s their M.O.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken:
Beyond some point you have to wonder if this kind of natural-language prompting that turns into a second-guessing exercise out of an Asimov robot story is really less work than just writing some code in a real programming language.
Barbara
@Baud: One word: Whitewater.
There is a long ugly history for personal pique dressed up as news.
Kay
@Tony Jay:
Trump knows NY media so well. He knew they’d bite. God, it must have been like catnip when “Americas Mayor”, another of the authoritarian assholes they all love, showed up with the dirt.
They created him and he consumed them. He absolutely dominates that whole media corporation.
Geminid
@Baud: Maybe some company will come up with an AI system and name it “Plethora.”
But maybe not; that word seems to have gone out of style already.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
Heh heh, I see your point.
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that some artists get that kind of association as in “If you don’t like Artist X, you don’t know shit”.
I saw him in 1981. He was doing a co-headlining tour with Kansas of all bands. I liked them far more than him back in the day but he was far better that night than they were. Enjoyed his half of the show.
Really good piece on his life and legacy:
https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/9/7/17830460/warren-zevon-career-music-albums
Matt McIrvin
@Geminid: Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
I’ve used AI to create some small bits of code. And I’m not a coder. I think that’s neat. And easy to verify because it either works or it doesn’t.
lowtechcyclist
@TBone:
I’ve never read much of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, but I’ve often heard that she wrote practically all her poems in ballad meter. So i sang this one to the tune of the “Leave It To Beaver” theme music.
OzarkHillbilly
@lowtechcyclist: The epitome of cool is to be unashamedly uncool.
lowtechcyclist
@Betty Cracker:
At least it seems to have driven crypto off the stage for awhile.
Eyeroller
@Kay: From the name, probably somebody who speaks Ukrainian.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
BJ is cool!
Kay
This testimony is just fascinating – he’s admitting everything – all of it. I have to read it over the weekend. I keep trying to compare my impressions of what was happening at that time with what was actually happening – the elaborate lies and machinations, all the gross Trump hires frantically working to cover up all Trump’s shit. Just wild.
Gin & Tonic
@Kay: I have always thought, and have sometimes even written here, that Rudy Giuliani must have been the easiest mark in Kyiv for anyone with fake bullshit to sell. Even easier than the pasty overweight upper-middle-aged American men you see there shopping for a tradwife.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@lowtechcyclist: God will punish you
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Kind of easy when the mark comes up to you as asks if you have any fake bullshit to sell.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Well, code can trick you by seeming to work in your test instance. But I’ve done that too, for the kind of donkey work that you could imagine doing by filling in a template–it can get you past the opening stages of coding something with output that is typo-free.
The weird part is when it hallucinates and tries to use an API feature that isn’t actually there, but seems like it could be there–I’ve seen that happen too.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
That’s more advanced than anything I’ve tried.
ETA: LOL test instance. Who has time for that?
Nelle
@TBone: Exactly what I needed, at the moment I needed it. What a welter of tragedy and wonder in the big picture of the world. I was just thinking that, while reveling in the blossom and song of spring here, a child is losing her mother in Gaza, a mother in Ukraine has lost her child. Then there is eastern Congo and Sudan and all the other conflicts. It is fitting to remember that it all happens at once..as the Northern Hemisphere whirls into spring, the Southern Hemisphere has the chill of autumn and readies for darkness and winter. Some days, I can’t find balance. Then, I’m reminded that Hope is the thing with feathers. Thanks.
Manyakitty
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: but he’s good, if uneven. I never even GO to LGM, even if they’re named after his song.
Betty Cracker
@lowtechcyclist: I’m old enough to remember when major corporations were shelling out real money for fake “metaverse” real estate. Good times!
Eyeroller
@Baud: Speaking as a coder, if it’s small you can tell whether it works or not, but testing of larger bodies of code is much more difficult (you may get an “answer” that is wrong), especially in areas that aren’t Web programming/markup (writing HTML is not “coding”). Sometimes an entirely different group of software engineers is responsible for testing what the “coders” write because it’s difficult to see your own mistakes.
3Sice
Think of it like a George Miller movie plot.
The machine was built by the old gods and served the interests of the elites. The elders have passed and now orange god worshipping primitives have found and climbed aboard the ghost ship. They have no idea what all the controls do, but keep pushing and pulling them in tribute to their god.
Gin & Tonic
@Kay: Worse. Mendel is Ukrainian, and worked (after that Vogel piece was published) as Zelensky’s press secretary. I’ve never figured out her angle.
Baud
@Eyeroller:
In that case, I haven’t done it. I’ve only tried simple html with form fields and a little bit of visual basic.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Or, you could be me: unashamedly uncool, and in fact the epitome of uncoolness.
Now, get offa my lawn!
Baud
@3Sice:
I think that was turned into a Star Trek episode, no?
sab
@Barbara: I never understood their pique against the Clintons, who were always resptful to them. One theory I believe is that Howell Raines resented another Arkansan being more successful than himself.
Delk
Heart 1978 – still in my all time top ten concerts.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: Your lawn??? This is MY lawn!!!
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: I’m already looking forward to Wiles’ memoirs. She has seen a lot, especially the last 4 years.
I’m also hoping McConnell holds on long enough to write his book, but I’m not sure he will; McConnell looks like about to dry up and blow away any day now. There’ll be proof of life this weekend though, ’cause McConnell is scheduled for two Sunday political shows.
Mark Milley is another political figure whose book I want to see published. I’ll probably get to, because General Milley doesn’t look at all like he’s about to dry up and blow away. I’m hoping Milley writes most of his account, “with the bark on.”
Another Scott
@Ken: +1
“The AI said that you wanted to have plaid hair, so we included a gene for that. You’re welcome.”
People need to stay in their lane. Grr…
Otherwise, good. Gradually, and then Suddenly, indeed.
Cheers,
Scott.
Liminal Owl
Going back to bed (because sick), but here’s a nice bit of morning news: New HHS rule provides speciific extra HIPAA protection for abortion patients and doctors.
Ken
His scene in that Borat movie provides more evidence, as if we needed it.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, bullshit. You have too many flowers and vegetables growing for there to be room for a lawn as well.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Nah, too many of us septuagenarians like it. Therefore…
Another Scott
@Kay: The first series of questions their oh so serious Editorial Board asked Joe in their 80 minute interview with him in January 2020 were about Hunter.
They’re clowns.
Grr…,
Scott.
Geminid
@Matt McIrvin: Could you repeat “I have a plethora of Pre-Raphaelite piñatas” three times fast?
pieceofpeace
@raven: Outstanding! Thank you.
Jeffro
Mrs. Fro and I saw our first ladyslippers of the season today! They popped up in their usual spot along the trail.
That’s our cue to go check out a few other spots in our local parks and SNP that have had them in the past. Just in time for the weekend, too!
lowtechcyclist
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
God’s put up with a lot from me over the years, but for some reason he still keeps pouring out his love on me. :D
TBone
@lowtechcyclist: 😂 I have a very large paperback volume containing all of her work, a birthday present from Mom one year. I should unearth and reread some with that in mind!
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: 👍😍
Ken
A phrase that in association with AI reminds me of the latest Tesla vehicular homicide. The owner had put the thing in “autopilot” mode, which basically keeps it in the lane, so it stayed in the lane and ran over a motorcyclist. Google “tesla motorcyclist death” for details.
TBone
@Gin & Tonic: I posted on Fascistbook over and over “Rudy is the mole” because he was (is) such an easy mark. Back when I had an account in the before times.
Betty Cracker
@Jeffro: Nice! Good looking orchids.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Manyakitty: I like Zevon and also think some of Foreigner’s stuff is fun. I gravitate to a lot of “music snob” music but don’t hold anyone else’s musical tastes against them.
@Baud: I think the justification for putting the Rock and Roll HOF in Cleveland is because that’s where Alan Freed got his start – in Akron and then Cleveland. He was a very popular DJ in the 1950s who played a lot of the sub-genre of R&B music that became known as Rock and Roll, and he’s credited with inventing the term “Rock and Roll” for that new style of music (at least he’s credited in some circles as the inventor or at least popularizer of the term). So, arguably, Cleveland is where the term Rock and Roll originated.
Gin & Tonic
Today marks 38 years since the nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl, arguably the catalyst (one of the catalysts) in the collapse of the USSR.
Manyakitty
@OzarkHillbilly: amazing 😍
Soprano2
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I like a lot of music that’s not “popular” or “cool”. I’ve loved Dan Fogelberg since I was in college. I went to an acoustic concert he did here at SMS in 1982 that was an amazing show. I also like Barry Manilow, so sue me! Then there’s all the classical music I like.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: I have 12.5 acres, I think I can squeeze a little lawn in. Much to my dismay. Now I have to cut it from time to time.
scribbler
@Tony Jay: THIS is why you have to read to the end of every Tony Jay comment!
Melancholy Jaques
@Kay:
Same source for the “FBI has enough evidence to indict Hillary Clinton” stories that were a staple of NYT 2016 coverage.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jeffro: Jealous am I. In all my years of running up and down the hills and hollers of Ozarkistan, I have only come across Ladyslippers once.
Scout211
In other music news for all of the jackal boomers: Link
Days of Future Passed. Oh, the memories.
Kay
@Gin & Tonic:
Thanks. Weird.
Another Scott
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: I’ve never liked Foreigner for the inane lyrics.
“It feels like the first time.
Like it never did before…”
What??
Different strokes. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
I knew you had some acreage, envious that it’s that much. Although I guess I should temper that envy, given the upkeep required.
I have a little over three, which I am not currently using to its highest purpose or some such. Maybe this is the year I get serious about a garden. [Tried some tub-planted jalapenos last year; turned out they were banana peppers, because Burpee’s wholesaler (allegedly)screwed up on the seeds.]
Soprano2
@Another Scott: If only they had enough awareness to know that’s most likely the reason he’s stiffing them now. Perhaps if they apologized for their idiocy he would give them the interview they crave.
3Sice
I like Zevon well enough, but…
Mid summer, golden hour, just off of work, Friday night in America?
I’m blasting Lou Gramm (or maybe that’s Brian Howe era Bad Company) out of the T-Top.
Melancholy Jaques
@lowtechcyclist:
“Yellow Rose of Texas” also works.
scribbler
@Soprano2: I saw Fogelberg in Chicago in the late 70’s and it was amazing too. He was great especially in his early songwriting years.
Manyakitty
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: reasonable, and yes, that’s why the RRHOF is in Cleveland.
Kay
@Another Scott:
To be clear I think questions about Hunter are legit. I don’t think his drug addiction protects him from questions about how he used his father’s position for gain. I’m not a big fan of ol Hunter. I read excerpts from his book and he strikes me as having a huge fucking ego (like a lot of addicts). Some of Biden’s family members are horrible – his brother Frank is a huge charter school scammer – the for profit schools he promotes are for the most vulnerable kids – kids with behavior problems. Just a gross person. You can find him pushing the schools on you tube. He’s only ever been able to sell them to Florida.
I love addicts – I have many in my family and certainly in my juvenile practice but they’re really manipulative and often have huge egos -because they’re addicted doesn’t make them nice people.
The questions were fine. i don’t want a corrupt President. The NYTimes took it way beyond that. They had NOTHING yet they continued to mislead readers that there was “something” there. They can’t just go forward as if they found something when they didn’t.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Soprano2:
I’m not the Insufferable Music Snob here. My wife is a massive Manilow fan.
An acoustic Fogelberg show must have been great given as his career progressed, he moved more and more in that direction. I’ve always preferred his earlier, rockier (Joe Walsh produced) stuff.
I’ve found over the years that I’ve learned to appreciate a lot of artists more *after* I’ve seen a live show by them.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: the 12.5 is mostly holler with just enough hill for a house, shop, and a few outbuildings, as well as our gardens. Total mowable yard comes to something a little less than an acre I would guess. Just enough that I need a lawn tractor, a push mower, a weed eater, etc. The other 11.5 acres are timber and dump all their leaves in the yard every autumn, such that I also need a blower.
Jeffro
Back in the day I really dug LG’s solo albums – good stuff!
Steeplejack
Oof. Now I’ve got “Urgent” stuck in my brain.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Damn you for writing that! I didn’t even click and now I have the Urgent cooties in) my brain..
(meant in the nicest possible way
Tony Jay
@Kay:
You know, I don’t even give them the credit of being naïve or easily caught up in ‘events’. They knew full well that Stench and The Ghoul (amongst a host of other RW choads) were shovelling metric tons of toxic waste their way in place of manure, and they chose to spread it all over the fields and gardens of their readership.
It’s not even complicity. It’s full-on co-dependence and conspiracy to deceive.
And it’s most definitely not restricted to the US Newzmeedyah.
Tony Jay
@scribbler:
Ha! Usually.
I feel every non-punchline sign off is a wasted opportunity for a bad joke.
Peke Daddy
@NotMax: Also, this.
https://youtu.be/GaK0fS8WhLg?si=ZL-wz70b_SuwGGsD
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: The Wilson sisters were at odds? I didn’t know.
Ann and Nancy, along with Grace Slick, were my rock ‘n’ roll goddesses back in the day. Still are, really.
Kay
@Tony Jay:
I genuinely don’t believe it’s ideological. I think it’s temperament and (certainly) background – elite media hire really fancy people. They hire for rigidity and conventionality.
It reminds me of that essay that was making the rounds a while ago – a professor was bemoaning the fact that his “star” students were like expensive racehorses – trained to run around a track and win. He wanted them to veer off the track they had been on since kindergarten and give him something original to them, try something, maybe fail, but they can’t. They’re afraid if they do that they won’t get an A+.
You see it on social media with the NYtimes reporters defending their bosses – NEVER an admission of the slightest error, not even any doubt. They can’t be wrong. They were all raised to be the smartest people in any room and ALWAYS right. Natural ass kissers.
Geminid
@Jeffro: Have you ever been to St. Mary’s Wilderness, over in the Shenandoah Valley near Vesuvius? That’s worth a trip. Might be crowded on weekend, but a great weekday trip if you can find the time.
Miss Bianca
@Barbara:
Oh, man, ain’t *that* the truth!
Kay
@Tony Jay:
It’s like how they had 4 years of Trump and it took them 3 of those years to even figure out that their boilerplate “cover politics” approach wasn’t working. They still haven’t come up with a way to cover him. They haven’t even tried anything at all. Apparently they have ONE approach to this job industry wide and it’s insanely narrow and no one is even interested in looking at whether it still works or is relevant. They’ll just keep hammering on that square peg in the round hole, forever.
TBone
@Nelle: 😍💜💜💜
Another Scott
@Kay:
OTOH, …
Froomkin at PressWatchers.org (from March 7):
Grr…,
Scott.
Kay
@Another Scott:
Right, but their star reporters are all on social media vigorously defending him. It isn’t required. Surely they could just NOT defend him. They’re creating and operating these accounts – No one orders Maggie Haberman or Peter Baker to immediately rush to the defense of this powerful person- they volunteer.
Natural ass kissers. Racehorses easily looping a track, over and over and over.
Miss Bianca
@Geminid: Thank you, you’ve just given me another great tongue-twister for my actors’ warm-up!
3Sice
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Female go to is Pat Benatar. Some Heart or post Farndon/Scott Pretenders, but mostly Benatar.
Maybe the listeners have some input here, but probably cost of the clearance rights is the driver.
Kay
Our public school takes the band kids to the Hall of Fame as a reward for the football season – I chaperoned one year. They were very funny, laughing at how old the honorees are.
Kay
I told them “Hall of FAME” -have to be old to get in.
NotMax
@Kay
Methinks you’ve identified a sizeable chunk of the problem right there.
Tony Jay
@Kay:
See, I can’t even see it as that. The truly rigidly conventional way of covering politics should – should – be about talking to the Administration about its aims and policies and telling their readership what they are and how successful they are in getting through the sausage machine of Congress. That is, after all, how they cover the GOP when they have the White House. Conventional should mean applying to both sides, right?
But it’s not. They two Parties are treated very differently. So yes, there is a rigid convention, but the convention is to support and appease Republicans while undermining and attacking Democrats, and it’s followed very, very rigidly, even when the Republican is a demented fascist and the Democrat is the most traditionally conventional mainstream politician i can think of in decades.
I really can’t put that down to anything but ideology. The ideology being “Who gives our class the best tax cuts and our business model the easiest clickbait?”
Jeffro
@Geminid: I’ll have to check that out – thanks!
Rudi666
@raven:
In 2017 Ann Wilson appeared at Lockn with Govt Mule. They covered harder LZ, blues and a Heart song.
https://www.jambase.com/article/ann-wilson-shares-stage-govt-mule-lockn-festival
These two have collaborated since then.
https://wdrv.com/ann-wilson-releasing-new-solo-album-fierce-bliss-in-april-features-collaborations-with-govt-mule-others/
Chris T.
@Soprano2:
He does write the songs. Including those ad jingles that get stuck in your head, like Band-Aids get stuck on you.
VOR
@Ken: No, Wendy’s is actually working with Google on using AI for their drive-thru. I think the idea is for the AI assistant to take the order, with humans relegated to supervision and correction. I suspect someone thinks this will reduce the amount of labor needed to run a drive-thru. An extension to their mobile app seems like a no-brainer.
IIRC, IBM was working with McDonalds on similar initiatives.