Diaries
03/04 Open Thread, Vivaldi and Mama Africa
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 5:00amThe Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 7:00am
Murder, Suicide, and Madness
The Gaza genocide continues unabated...now killing starving Gazans waiting to get a meager supply of food. Aaron Bushnell couldn't it take anymore and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy as he yelled, "Free Palestine". He wrote: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." Meanwhile Joe Biden eats ice cream and claims to be working toward a Gaza ceasefire. Russia continues making gains in Ukraine, as Napoleon Macron threatens boots on the ground. Wait, I believe Russia killed over 60 french fighters with one missile in Ukraine last month.
Album of the Week 3-2-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 3:00pmAfternoon folks!
It's a great week this week. Starting off, there's a compilation of later recordings by early Chicago bluesman Tampa Red. After that there's another compilation of some great r&b by piano player Joe Liggins and his band. Finishing off the blues category there's a half of a live album by B.B. King which I'll post the other half eventually after I do some more cleaning up of the disc. In a category of its own is an album by the Jimmy Castor Bunch which you'll probably recognize one of his big early 70's hits, "The Troglodyte Song," it's kind of an interesting album. In the blues-rock category there are albums by John Mayall and Canned Heat and finishing us up in the diversity category is a solo album by Rick Danko of The Band.
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Open Thread SAT 2 MAR 24 ~ welcome
Submitted by QMS on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 5:00am
Friday Night Photos Raptor Edition
Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 5:00pmHappy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes' or music you like.
Every Saturday in January and February the Wildlife Research Institute presents Hawk Watch, a two hour educational talk and Q&A about raptors.
The Evening Blues - 3-1-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 3:23pmTake a Leek for Saint Davy
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 11:51amOpen Thread 3/1/24 - TGIF Stuff 'n' Things
Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 6:00amIt is difficult to discuss recipes and meal plans with friends, how delicious this meal or that meal is, when infants are dying from starvation due to my tax dollars funding a genocide. I am also fixated on taxes. This weekend, I will finish gathering info, turn it all in to my preparer, and pay thousands of dollars to support genocide, as well as illegals coming in for their profit. I will pay proportionately more taxes, if not dollar for dollar more, than Gates, Biden's brother, or Trump.
And voting. I will wait until Tuesday, just in case some candidate locally gets killed over the weekend, wasting yet another vote. Think I am joking?
In re presidential candidates, it appears the Gazan conflict (genocide) has split the Ds, giving RFK Jr. a ballot spot. The same people who turned on Biden will not vote for him, either, if that is their line in the sand. He could 'a been great.
Just thought of the origin of the line in the sand phrase.
Here it is, movie form: