Open Thread - Friday, September 1, 2017
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin -
Hello, my name is Tim, and I am a cynic. All the breathless analysis, pearl clutching and angst can mean only one thing. Time to rumble.
I have been waiting all summer for The Bull City Rumble. It is a campy kitschy good time.
I entered my 1982 BMW R65, which lets me drive right into the midst of the rumble.
I am enamored with the "no trailer bike" concept. It changes the vibe because the poseurs and RUBs are absent. My motorcycle certainly shows its age. It has 35 years of scuffs and bruises. Placing a motorcycle in the show, yields a t-shirt and free entry to the burlesque show.
I bought my motorcycle, when Sue and I first co-habitated. It allowed Sue to use my car, 1979 Ford Pinto, and I used the motorcycle to commute. I miss those care free, pay check to pay check, days gone by. The wonderment of youth has yielded to the cynicism of aging. But this weekend ->
Friday night's meet and greet is at The Green Room.
The event sponsors are British motorcycle enthusiasts, so the venue emphasis is beer, billards, rockabilly and motorcycles. Just perusing the parking lot is a treat. I booked myself a room a few blocks from Friday's brouhaha.
That way I can stay out and have a few beers.
Plus, I wouldn't want to miss any of Saturday's fun.
Especially, the main event.
Everybody have a great weekend! I know I will!
If you are in Durham, NC, look me up. I'm the DFH on the old motorcycle. The thread is OPEN.
Comments
Good morning, Tim ~~~
Sounds like a smashing good time awaits you. Don't miss a beat! I'm looking forward to three days of freedom, myself. Got up too early thinking the party already started. I'm about 12 hours early. I'm ready, though!
Have a beautiful Friday and weekend, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Me too
Of course, my clocks are set a couple of hours ahead of yours. I am enjoying a cup of coffee and Wn'B, listening to the rain falling. It looks like we will get Harvey rain for the next ~24 hours. The rain will influence the demographics and personality of the event. I can't wait to meet the other grizzled road warriors, who ride out into the night rain to meet up.
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 -
Honor Labor
Give the shitty bosses a middle finger! (sometimes I'd spend all day scratching my ear or eye with a middle finger, put that on your surveillance tape assholes!) Hug the good ones. Happy Labor Day Weekend
todd rundgren - bang on the drum all day
or just jump around and dance a lot
workers of the world unite
peace and love
Oops
Fixed the DFH link. It is fun.
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 -
Heh
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 -
Honor labor - heh. NOT what Monday is about, but see
my Monday Open thread for some more on that.
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 --
Take This Job and Shove It!
An old favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24&sns=em
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Work
While caring for my spouse, I vowed never to work for the man again. I am a highly skilled worker, who enjoyed the perks of the professional class, but always knew I was being exploited, and dreaded every day of servitude.
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 -
I Can't Get To Work Today
Boss: Why not?
Me:. Having trouble with my eyes.
Boss:. What's wrong with your eyes?
Me: I can't see coming in to work today. (click)
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
I "retired" from my last job once I got it
I was in my 50's, with a sick and then dying spouse. It made sense at the time. 4 falls today. well shit. Do you know how they Dx a broken nose? Tool and wiggle side to side.
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.
This Was A Record Breaker
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
More Tonage
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 -
I had a boss who'd walk by
and flip you off with a smile on his face. First I started holding up my pinky, you know, the feather. Then I began flapping my spead-fingered hand at him. First he asked what the heck was that. Then I explained it was a whole flock of these as I'd flip him off.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
The bosses taught me that subtle motion
Milton Friedman justifies not recalling the ford pinto
Here he is giving it to us @4:40. Awful guy.
Don't hesitate to give it back. With love.
You got a smile here with RUMBLE
I was kissed awake by my dog at an appropriate hour (like 15 min ago). But you tested Sue with a Pinto?
Definitely sock weather here. Not even getting up to 70? Glad I rescued my little olive tree from outside yesterday. And I do Have some clean long pants. If only my swollen (since March surgery) foot would stop that puffy stuff. And I could wear normal shoes. Crocs again.
My summer/spring of plant failure continues. Post-concussions is a testing time and I have mostly failed. I take care now, better maybe.
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.
Pinto
'79 was the last year of production, so the gas tank thing was fixed. Brandy new, I think it was about $3200. I remember the payments for three years were $117.
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 -
Gearheads ->
I think the guitar player that takes the first solo, far right, is playing a Gibson Barney Kessel. Nice.
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 -
Abused girls need to shut their mouths for the good of diversity
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/844850/Naz-Shah-Jeremy-Corbyn-Ro...
http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/23/mp-shares-tweet-saying-abuse-victims-shoul...
As of this writing, Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, has been forced to resign; Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West, has not.
The future of identity politics, on display in the U.K. right now.
P.S. Oh my, I’d forgotten that back in the U.S. it’s Labor Day weekend — have a good one, everybody!
How American of him
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 -
Encore
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 -
=^∪^= =^⊔^= =^⊔^= n/t
Was just in the kitchen doing the dishes from the day before,
getting ready for the routine of dealing with the infant and my partner tells me she's using her half day at work to have a "me" day and get a massage. She's two weeks out from delivering the 2nd baby.
I said ok, but I gotta get myself a motorcycle this weekend. She says we need a new car instead. I'm a bit torn, heh...don't seem to have the time for anything, let alone those two major acquisitions.
But am doing a lot of reading. Gotta check out Frederick Douglass's speech on John Brown. It's one of the most poetic and searing tributes to a friend and the singular magnanimity and courage of his life. What a writer Douglass is, and what a Man above men Brown is.
Gotta check out that Pink Floyd cover.
Have a great time, man. Zep having a party:
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Sidecar and a trailer, Mark?
That's nearly a car.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Mark could bring the monkey
Monkey
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 -
Mazda3. But not with two kids.
Although mine is a 4-door. For the athletic type it could work.
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.
Two?
Toddler/infants around the house? You will not have much opportunity to ride.
I did not bother cleaning the motorcycle. No point, if it is raining. I figure, I can throw the saddlebags on, and wear a rain suit. That will facilitate taking clean socks, underwear, t-shirt and toilet kit, plus stashing the rain suit and helmet.
The one liners, introducing the band, on the PF cover are hilarious. If you get them.
Durham is a working class town. It was a warehousing, railroad and production hub for tobacco. Compared with Raleigh (capital), Durham is much better for bars, restaurants, hipsters, dogs, little kids, live music and old farts on old motorcycles.
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 -
Have fun. Hope the weekend stays dry.
When we first got married, we had a little Convair Monza. It was blowing head gaskets every other week. It either got fixed or the fumes in the car would kill everyone. Our favorite was a 1988 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Our very first brand new car.
Have fun.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I had some really bad cars
The Ford Granada had to be the worst. It was literally like driving a boat. You didn't steer, you pointed it. The hesitation was so bad, that you needed to push the gas pedal several seconds before you wanted to go. I had a Mustang II, also.
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 -
Wow, you picked the baddies.
My first car was a VW square-back. $600 to get it running. Eventually, it was replaced by an early Toyota Celica. Used.
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You know you're talking to a biker
when RUB is used as a noun.you
I turned cranks on Bridgeports for a few years in my youth. Most of the shop were bikers. Getting to know them I found out why. They told me it took too long to get parts for their ride, if they could get them at all, it became easier to just make the parts themselves. So they learned the craft. A couple even had small mills and lathes in their garages.
Went to the wedding of two coworkers that I hung around with quite a bit. Service was performed by a South Broadway (Wichita) hooker who got a Divinity Degree mail order (internet was just beginning to get its legs and few people actually had computers in home). Anyone attending got free ink from a local artist. I declined 'cuz ya never know when you need burying in a Jewish cemetery. My luck I'd die in Israel and have to be planted at a crossroad with my ass pointed to the sky.
I have a cousin and his wife been RUBbing since the 80s. They're all decked out--heated seats, stereo, CB, camper trailer. Since retiring they and their "club" do a lot of touring. A dozen or so of these Volkswagens with haircuts would eat as much road as a tandem semi, and they'd be followed by a Winnebago and trailer in case of breakdowns.
As you can tell, I resemble the quote from your lead-in.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
At least ...
they could kiss your ass goodbye.
I am counting on the eclectic people to make the weekend fun. I think this is the Zundapp that rode into Eurobike. I expect to see it again this weekend.
I worked, engineering/software/project management, among the RUBs. I never did get any of them out for the weekend. It would have been fun to watch them disappear in my mirrors.
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 -
Minimum wage in California is $10.50, not $15
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_MinimumWage.htm
Workers have to wait another 5 years for $15. Jerry Brown built an exit clause to stop the increases, in case there is a recession. Meanwhile the cost of registering, insuring, and fueling a car in California is going up up up.
Google employees order 10-pound box of live lobsters for Burning Man meal
I guess they are still going to burn the man on Sunday night, because why not. The west is on fire already. Idiocracy of the richest kind. I weep for my birthplace, San Francicso.
google does no evil
war is peace
facebook is social
good luck
Can you tell?
I am feeling fiesty today? I'll probably need to ton up on the way to Durham.
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! Looks like tons to listen to, and me with a busy
day ahead. I'll finally have to take this outside, I guess.
YouTube's show up as a black square complaining about my browser. They play, but no preview cues as to what they are until clicked into action. Makes for a tendency to run through in the posted order that the author intended instead of jumping around as is my won't. Heh - accidental favor to the authors.
Supposed to hit 106 here tody - hot weekend, records and all that. Can't bake, so I'm contemplating using a crockpot, outside, as an oven - it allegedly works, but my first attempt, abouot a month ago, was a major fail.
Have a great one.
Oh yes, anti-war + green conference coming up, back east, later this month - I'll be posting something, maybe even today.
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 --
Crock
Holds in too much moisture to be effective for bake or roast.
The vids are somewhat contextual and thematic. Rockabilly, trios and the women rule the day.
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 -
The bread in question in a sourdough "artisan" loaf,
intended to be cooked in an earthenware cloche to keep the moisture in and up, giving that crust, so tht should be a feature and not a bug, in this particular case.
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 --
Plus you can throw it in the saddlebags
... for the journey.
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 -
I found cast iron with a lid worked better
But then I had to re-season the cast iron again. A mess to me.
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My cast iron dutch oven is a big camping monster that
won't play nice with my over. My wife makes artisan sourdough in a cloche in the oven, and I make sourdough sandwich loaves in bread pans in the oven. With the heat wave, and other high temp periods, the idea is to make a boule in a crock pot which will be done outside and not further heat the house. This is still quite experimental, but I decided to try it after reading somebody's report of success.
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 --
Just to expand on that, it is up, so give it a quick look
and see if you are interested in the event or the livestream. Maybe print and post some linked flyers in your locale.
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 --
Will do
I have been itching for some action. A couple weeks age, the KKK planned to march on Durham because the good citizens of Durham took it upon themselves to tear down the Confederate statue in front of city hall. I hopped on the Ducati and headed to Durham. The plan was to ride up and down the street while they tried to pontificate. Several hundred other people came out too. The KKK chickened out. Imagine that.
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 -
Two
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 -
Three
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 -
Satellite dish
covered in aluminum foil makes a good cookstove. I mean, what else are they good for?
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Heh
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 -
Four
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 -
OBTW
I just answered the door and the new PC is here! Retiring the Vista machine. It should be interesting since the browser knows my passwords, and I do not. Hopefully, the transition will not cause a disruption in service.
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 -
a little black book with all your passwords ...
... I try to keep it, but heh, what if you loose your little black book ??
you all had some fire this morning. thanks for being such good sports.
Hey Mimi
I am riding the Little Teutonic Terror into the British hood. I'll be wearing my Boxer Works t-shirt, to put them on notice.
PS - That's not me, nice boxer though.
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 -
Ready to roll
But, I think I will stay put for an hour.
I am a little to the right of the 'M' in Durham and need to get over by the 'R'.
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 -
Yikes. Nice to see it coming.
We had a driveway alarm. 900 ft drive is long. But it alerted to T storms. Annoying in the dark. No longer activated.
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.