You made me feel like I was almost there.

Great, that you enjoyed it and spread the joy widely.

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Commercialized everything. ...Can't you do red beans and rice at home? I would rather eat new, or classic NOLA myself.

Calling in friend help soon to deal with plantings I dare not do with a broken clavicle. At least by myself. Going more into Tillandsias for my house, less worry about mis-care, and I see the blossoms are colorful.

Last(?) visit to foot orthopod today for my still-swollen foot. The only place I go seems to be doctor's offices. Bonus: if it's broken, no copay!

I wonder if there is a way for the N.O. Jazz and Heritage Foundation to take back the festival?

Glad you had an good enough time with your buds and the town to book for next year. Sorry about that rain, man.

I'd be in the bar eating pizza with your other friends. I grew up a picky eater, actually more strange than picky. Ok, both. I have food aversions based on color, content, and habitat. I would eat an orange sweet potato, but not an orange carrot. So after 50 years of this, I decided I would eat anything that didn't have innards. After all, how awful can any plant really be? I also have an aversion to food that lives in water. No pact will I make with it, or food that eats and poops. My husband on-the-other-hand will eat anything.

Sounds like you had a good time. Sometimes when things change too much, they prove the saying that "we can never go home again".

mostly “modern” rather than “Dixieland,” without, however, knowing exactly whom or what I was listening to.

“Radio” in this case means the web-streamed simulcast from a Japanese town’s community radio station, which after midnight plays either jazz or tinkly, sleepy-time “music box” versions of popular music, until 6 a.m. wake-up time in the Japan time zone rolls around.

There may have been some easy way to find out exactly what number was playing in real-time — I just never stumbled across it.

Now here’s a couple of good articles on working-class America versus progressive academia, from the standpoint of a maverick anthropologist:

Trump and anthropology

Half-heads: a dominant force in U.S. politics

It may well be that the linked website, Zero Anthropology, was just highlighted on c99p by another essay or comment I saw earlier today! Apologies — I’ve simply forgotten who exactly, or which website it was, that led me to it.

for her graduation on Saturday. She will receive a Bachelor's in Biomedical engineering with two minors: 1) Biology and 2) materials engineering.

Graduating with high distinction (Dad bragging now).

Everyone have a great weekend.

Figured I would add another classic by the good Dr. himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ksV9YXMTA8

I have always loved bands like the Meters and BeauSoleil. I'm a bit confused here. Did you stay for Stevie W's whole set? Did the crowd drive you out early? Man, I'll tell ya: we NEED that rain down here. Major drought-- high temps (90s), dry and breezy. It's precisely how the experts warned about climate change years ago. Speaking of bikes and travel, I fly up to TN for a family HS graduation. Then, on 6/1, Biker hubby and moi fly out non-stop to Portland, OR. We have an Indian cruiser rented for a week, and head out the next day for points north. ***Any tips, info, advice, etc. from PNW c99ers will be greatly appreciated.*** One stop will be the Jimi Hendrix museum in Seattle. Yee Haw!! Gonna get some EXPERIENCE! We are aiming for the Canadian Rockies, weather and time permitting. Fly home from Portland on 6/9. Do I sound like I'm psyched? You bet I am!!! Anywho, this comment is turning into a book. Rec'd!!

Ro Khanna is the silicon valley, corporate whore that knocked off Mike Honda on his second attempt. He sees the future is progressive and is falsely recasting himself as one. He was on Jimmy Dore show last week and watch his eyes during the clips, he's corporate slime and exactly the kind of snake we do NOT want burrowing its way into the progressive movement. He is incredibly vulnerable to a real progressive challenge which is why he's trying to insulate himself, he's San Jose and we can get a better prog in there in 2018.

This along with the spat between TYT and those reporting on the DNC Lawsuit (something TYT is trying to sideline and discredit) takes a giant bite out of the benefit of the doubt and credibility the JD/BNC initiative to primary corporate Dems has.

I'm hoping that there will be a big third party announcement this coming Labor Day.

Just feeling guilty, using Open Thread for relief. Skip it.

Fishface is the new name that has come to me, replacing DarkCloudCrying, at least that seems less sad. Their faces, that is what I remember most about killing thousands upon thousands of pan-sized coho and steelhead fishes, with my bare hands, over about four and half years of my life. Then next day deliver them to fancy restaurants in San Francisco, literally. Yeah I delivered fancy cakes, and fancy de-boned fishes to snot-heads in the financial district, that's my working class pride 1980s style. Six bucks an hour if I recall correctly. I also trucked live white sturgeon from Sacramento back to our tiny process plant on the coast there, got plenty of fish tales stored in the old lint trap. lol

Where I worked is now protected forever, thank goodness. It is where I lived when Sebastopol was the closest supermarket: Land conservation collaboration protects 547-acre Estero Ranch
There is a flyover video at that link, shows the mouth of the estero completely shut. Our intake pump and filter for the fish tanks was inside that sand bar. My boss used a Caterpillar D9 to keep that mouth open when mother nature wanted it shut, I can't believe it now. It is too much. The company paid for me to get certified as an Open Water Diver, to scrape mussels and crap off a yuge stainless intake screen at the end of a pipe inside the surf line, right in the middle of the estero. When it was open, the tide was waay to strong for diving, so always had to pick slack time of day.
It's where I learned how to rebuild 300HP Goulds pump, more than once The backup unit seemed tiny at 100HP, that sandy brackish water ate through cast iron impellers pretty fast. We crammed an engine lift inside the pump house, it was insanely unsafe, but I sure learned a lot. Lucky lucky me.

So I'm just going to put this link from the LA Times, and say I know what it looks like when millions of living things suffocate to death, it is not pretty. I still cringe remembering the "proprietary" method of killing the fish, after I spent months raising them from fingerlings.
Star-crossed salmon survive spillway erosion at Oroville dam but suffocate after hatchery's pump fails That is a lot of mortalities to dispose of, I hope it was done with respect. So many things wrong in that article, with our state, it is depressing.

Even closer, right down the street from Coppola's place, what? lol There is no clue, all is bucolic where the Salvation Army used to be. Resort coming soon.
Drive-by shooting wounds 2 on Hwy. 101 in Healdsburg
I guess I won't take the bus down there after all, not for a while anyway.

Inner Peace

Have a great day and weekend. Spring is finally beginning to set in, so we're starting to spend more time over along the coast, though this weekend looks like wine country instead.

and among those interested in working on such a project. We really have nothing resembling command and control structures but an essay proposing that an ad hoc group form up and work on such a thing would be a good way to go about trying to get such a project started.