Open Thread - Friday, March 31, 2017
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
– Helen Keller –
Hola como estas? I am sorry, I missed my deadline last week. When I went to produce an essay, there was no Internet, so I went for a walk and waited for the magical fix yourself. Still no Internet Thursday night, so I did trouble shooting and decided that my DSL modem was kaput. I had a house guest coming for the weekend and switched to getting ready for company and did not get back to getting onto the Internet until the middle of the week.
Before my house guest arrived, I had some anxiety over not being able to get onto the Internet, but once there was someone here, it did not matter. A good friend, going back to the 1980s, came by and we did some Jazzfest training. My recycling was full this week.
The guy who visited is/was the person who kept up with me the most, while Sue was sick. We only see each other once or twice a year, so it was good to spend a few days enjoying one another's company.
Thank goodness he went home, I need the rest.
There are only five weeks to Jazzfest, just enough time to recover. Then we get to do it all again, with more co-conspirators. The cubes came out, while we were together, so the remainder of the krewe was texting and chattering.
I will have to get myself ready to be gracious about condolences, yet skillful at changing the subject.
Have a great weekend!
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Conversation changers need to be audacious, out-of-character
Then they leave, believing you have left your sense at the last bus stop. Too much thank-you murmering gets hard. Hard to set the face, resolute, but wistful about the past. Mirror practice may be needed, after a point.
37F here, a hole in the rain overhead, but a rainy day. Plants to plant and a cast--do not get wet, on my foot. And no painkillers, so I have to gut it out now. Works best horizontally with a Kindle (for me, YMMV) and then eliminating years of sleep deprivation, which does not work. I sweat under my cast, and worry the staples there. Another week to go before a new cast or something.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I was thinking I could go with
"Have you gained weight?"
Pouring here, no walk or motorcycle ride today. Chocolate muffin and coffee instead.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Need help holler.
I ain't that far away.
wink@netrootsradio.com
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Like Ben said...
It is great to see old friends, but after a few days it is nice to see their backside!
Enjoy the spring wherever you are (unless you're in the S hemisphere, in which case enjoy your fall.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Heh
The art museum has an Ansel Adams exhibit. I suggested we pass through. We made it to the brew pub, went for pizza, went for BBQ and listened to music.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Hola mi (soul fine) amigo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkJlLBP3MM
Wow, the Jazzfest countdown begins. Like, I am SO Jealous!! saith the (east central FL) Valley Girl. Rec'd!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jvdy6khEmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFvRvSxsW-I
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Hope you enjoy the tunes.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Que pasa?
Three tunes, three memories. We used GW Jr. "Just The Two of Us" for our bridal dance. The songs brushed up against two story/conversations from this weekend.
When, Ali and Foreman fought in Zaire, James Brown took an allstar troupe of musicians to perform a concert. The Crusaders were there and I think Larry Carlton may have been the only cracker on stage.
The movie is very good.
Sue and I visited Memphis for our 25th anniversary and went to a juke joint out in the hood. The band was basically The Bo-Keys, which includes the guitar player from Isaac Hayes' "Shaft". They have Isaac Hayes gold plated Cadillac at Soulsville/Stax Studios.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Who moved the cheese?
The site is working differently. Comment formatting is odd and videos need the 's' in "https". Once upon a time the 's' needed to be deleted. That's funky.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Hola compadre. Sounds like good times and energy. JtC
got us a security cetificate, check the addy https://caucus ... . He also got the comments & replies to nest, so dropped some of the other indicators. I forget the other changes, but he did an OT on it last Saturday when I was delinquent with mine.
Hope you are doing well and progressing well. One clasic diversion you can use at JazzFest is to go all mystic and recite the mantra of the universal core value as per the blind owl:
WE MUST MAKE "BOOGIE MUSIC" THE ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE LIFE OF ALL.
IN PRESENTING THE SONG TO THE WORLD WE MUST THEN EXPLAIN AND
JUSTIFY OUR POSITION BY FORMULATING A DEFINITION OF "BOOGIE MUSIC" IN SETTING FORTH IT'S MAIN PRINCIPLES IN SUCH A WAY
THAT THEY ALL UNDERSTAND INSTANTLY THAT THEIR SOULS THEIR LIVES
IN EVERY RELATION WITH EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE DEPEND ON "BOOGIE MUSIC" AND THE RIGHT COMPREHENSION AND RIGHT APPLICATION THEREOF -
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Two days in a row
Since I missed Friday. I am more Sunflower, than Blind Owl.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Amen, enhydra lutris! :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZwwRH6XU
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Soul/Boogie Power to the People!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Boogie is inherent to the Fest
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Is Biden a Putin Puppet?
Or at least sexist?
Ninety thousand a year with only 2 kids?
That's Biden's reference for a financially-terrified couple? Does he know what minimum wage earners make a year? (putting aside the outdated stereotype of the guy making twice as much as the woman). And he's supposed to be the "in touch" guy.
Also, I am more and more repulsed by the fact that Democrats don't even mention the poor. Gee, maybe if we pretend they don't exist long enough, they'll either vanish or inherit a fortune? Is that the strategy?
The richest nation in the world--allegedly--and gofundme is the social safety net?
Damn!
@HenryAWallace
And Biden also needs to lose
Around here, at least, assembly-line workers make not much over the minimum wage for once-well-paid factory work and a lot of people working in restaurants get often part-time work - and what about US States where wait staff get some miserable sum of a few dollars an hour because of being 'tipped workers'?
They don't like to mention or think about the poors because if their god - the Dominionist Mammon - loved them, they'd be wealthy; so as far as they care, the faster they die and go to their devil (unless needed for desperation jobs) the better.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I don't think Dominionism is the reason they don't
mention the poor. For one thing, we're both quoting Biden, who is Roman Catholic and the Pope sounds just like Jesus on the topic of the poor.
It's that the existence in this country of the poor is an inconvenient truth for politicians. If they say they will help them, a lot of people will protest and they have no intention of helping them anyway because Bill Clinton ended welfare as we know it; people can't afford Obamacare and changing any of that takes money and votes.
If they say, screw the poor, a bunch of other people will rightly call them bad words and shame them. So, best to pretend the poor don't exist in America and a family of four making ninety K a year is the worst example of need that Biden can conjure.
Shame on the internet!
No apologies necessary, NCTim. After it became evident that you were probably not going to post, another Caucuser stepped up and started a Friday open thread. So, you were covered. Not that you weren't missed anyway. We just wanted to be sure you were okay. And now we are.
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Good food (I'm assuming), good music, good friend. "Sure beats a sharp stick in the eye," as a friend is fond of saying. (If a sharp stick in the eye is your base line expectation, you may well have some welcome surprises.)
Have a good week.
Thanks HW
I procured a tent and dry bag to pack. I already had a Thermarest and bags, and a too big tent. Thanks for the motivation.
Food: Night#1, Our local brew pub, walking distance 0.5M, is beer only, but the Italian place delivers. So, beer and pizza. Night#2, downtown Raleigh for Crank Arm and The Pit. We ate and drank too much. Another reason he had to go home.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Thanks for telling me that! I tend to throw out suggestions,
hoping one will make some sense to someone some day.