Diaries
Open Thread - 10-13-23 - TGIF the 13th
Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 10/13/2023 - 7:58amSo, we are going to a concert at Gruene Hall, Texas' oldest dance hall, staying in New Braunfels tonight and tomorrow night. The performer we will see is Junior Brown.
Junior Brown: 3 songs, about 3 minutes each, most interesting little riffs and teasers at or near the 6 minute mark
The Evening Blues - 10-12-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 3:41pmWhere you can criticize Israel
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 1:28pmIt's Israel. But not in most of the U.S.
Open Thread - Thurs 12 Oct 2023: Dance and Sing in Russian!
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 5:00amDance and Sing in Russian!
I was gonna write a bit about the economy. But, there were some minor panics in the family arena: nothing major (parents' tax return from the accountant was late, one of their car's wouldn't run (until my husband touched it, then it ran!)); all hands on deck were needed for a few days. And then the new war (Hamas/Israel) started and I'm... yea. I just want to get my comfy-est blanket wrapped around me, put it over my head and mumble once in a while. Maybe I'll eat a gallon of ice cream too. Or this great apple tart Hubby made me. I'll peek out when something good happens, like, Halloween or something.
I think I'm getting too old, or I just don't watch enough current thought-manipulation, err, main stream media. All I could think when the Hamas/Israel thing started was, 'Ahh, now 'they' have another war! And we can all forget about the Ukraine thing which wasn't going so well! Just in time. Imagine that!' And, 'How did this Hamas stuff happen without the intel in the USA, Nato, Israel, not knowing?' I mean, apparently Egypt knew, and tried to tell them. So, were those poor people who died so awfully just sacrifices to gin up enthusiasm for a new war, which is really horrible, frankly? Am I too cynical?
Okay now here's an offhand thought.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 8:24pmWhile Hamas et al. are in the third day of fighting, some Ukrainians are going off-script:
Russia Seeks to 'Frame' Ukraine with 'Trophy' Western Weapons in Gaza: Kyiv
Not only is this an admission that the Russians have been capturing gobs of Ukrainian weapons, but it's a suggestion that great US gifts of weaponry to Ukraine are going to find their way to the Middle East.
The puzzling moment in Brave New World
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 5:58pmHopefully my reading audience here remembers reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Brave New World was a novel, published in 1932, depicting an imaginary future in which everyone was a designer idiot.