Good morning everyone.
Up at the farm today. Was going to try to till in some bonemeal and composted manure before I cover the raised beds with leaves.
Don't know if we'll plant crops this year or not. Our trip up to Alaska will impact the timing.
We may let the whole thing go fallow for the season.
One of the notions offered in this series of diaries is that "political music" matters.
We've known the US is an oligarchy not a democratic republic from the Princeton Study..."analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts." That's old news. The issues today revolve around the blatant hypocrisy of so called democratic countries canceling elections that will see nationalists win office as in Romania where it was actually the opposition party NOT Russia which was interfering., The refusal to step down after defeat as was the case in Georgia and France. The rigging of elections by controlling who has access to the ballot box as was the case in Moldavia. The attempt to eliminate the AdF party in Germany. There was an attempted military coup in S. Korea, and this week the police attempt to arrest the impeached president was thwarted by his personal military guards. And of course all the usual Western tricks of coups and color revolutions as in Bangladesh. Not to mention the US/UK/Israeli support of HTS and other terrorist groups to conduct the coup in Syria on their behalf. I ask what democracy and rule of law does NATOstan support. Looks to me like authoritarian dictatorship rather than democracy.
Hot damn, it's a new year!
This week we got blues. There's a BB King album, an Albert King, Steve Cropper and Pops Staples album and there's a live Louis Jordan album from the Netherlands. After that we've got some blues and rock from NRBQ and we finish up with a reunion album from The (original) Animals with a few good tunes on it. Since I was out of town, I didn't get to upload as much as usual, but what the heck, there's some good stuff to enrich your weekend.
You all have a good one and enjoy the tunes!
Good morning, good people!
The holidays are behind us, and normal life resumes in the USA January 1st.
Strolling in the NO French Quarter, which I have done 4 or 5 times, won't happen again. Same for Las Vegas. There are other quaint places to visit. Speaking of which a town we meant to visit was Pass Christian, near Biloxi and Gulfport, MS.
The day we had planned to go was hit with a heavy fog that didn't lift until after 3pm. I read some local news, and there had been an armed robbery at a convenience store in broad daylight the day before. We passed on Pass. Just before we drove home on the 1st, we heard about the stroller slaughter in NO. Interesting how that crowd crash is becoming a thing around the world. German Christmas Market, and also in GB, iirc. Hmmm...
Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.
Happy new year everyone. We're three days into the new year and the assholes in charge (does anybody really know who's in charge?) have not unleashed nuclear armageddon yet. So far, so good.
To help bring in the new year are photos of the newly renovated botanical garden in Balboa Park. After being closed for the last two years while undergoing renovation, the garden reopened to the public just in time to usher in the new year.
This is a continuation of a previous music diary. At any rate, I wanted to add something to the thesis I set out in the first diary, which was that the popular music of today has important origins in the Sixties and Seventies given the convergence of technologies, drugs, politics, and the zeitgeist of those times.
