Open Thread - Friday, December 14, 2018

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If there is no dance, there is not music.
-- Tito Puente

I logged into C99 to prepare the Friday Open Thread, and checked on EL's Tempus is fugiting, or is it?, which put me into a polyrhythmic funk.

I love salsa! The hotter the better! This summer, I had some New Mexico green chili. It was exothermic.

Polyrhythmic funk has the ability to reach inside of you.

No worries.

I hear Poncho Sanchez on that Cal Tjader. Sweet.

And tasty.

Well, I have to beat it and get my chores done.

Have a great weekend! The thread is OPEN.

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Yummy - New Mexico green chile - just made a pot of green chile stew last night. It was delightful! During this holiday season, our culture dictated the red chile foods be prepared. Thus, there are food items I only make during this time, but which are offered in restaurants all year long. For example, tamales, carne adobada, posole.

My granddaughter helped me make our traditional cookie, the biscochito, this year. She also helped me make cheese logs, which I gift to many people during the season.

I got released from the Doctor yesterday. My foot had mended. He said - go live your life! Ok!

Have a beautiful day and weekend, folks! Pleasantry

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"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

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@Raggedy Ann I am sitting here with a cup of coffee and banana chocolate chip bread. Nut logs from little sis', showed up in the mailbox yesterday. It's "girls night out" tonight. I made onion soup with sirloin tips, for the abandoned guys. We'll get our 420 on, dine and head for the pub. They are terrible wing men, but good company.

Great to hear the foot is better. I would still stay off the basketball court. One of the guys is a podiatrist, so I hear lots of foot stories. It is much worse than, "I met a man with no shoes". Lots of amputations, pins, prothesis and diabetic woes. Also too, people who do not listen to good advice. Stay off the basketball court. Smile

Culture: North Raleigh has a Polish grocery. The holiday meals include kielbasa, kraut and perogies. Awhile back, the Raleigh paper ran a story about the Polish grocery store. I stopped by to get my New Year's kielbasa and the place was hoppin'. Most of the patrons were 50 years old or older and it looked like a family reunion. People were wearing gang colors. Bears, Lions, Packers, Steelers, Bills, Giants and Eagles were all represented.

I always liked the Christmas school break. A couple of weeks off and kind bud would magically show up.

Have a great weekend!

And too.

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No basketball courts for me!!!! Nea

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Nancy Wilson has passed. RIP

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good reading and good listening. Caucus99percent's Open Thread authors never cease to amaze me. I love each and every one of them and (because?) I love each and every one of their threads.

Thank you, NCTim.

For those who are ignorant like me:

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter. The rhythmic conflict may be the basis of an entire piece of music (cross-rhythm), or a momentary disruption.

And so ends my momentary disruption. Have a great TGIF and a very enjoyable weekend All.

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@HenryAWallace Have a great weekend!

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Looks like rain through Sat. after 6+ inches last week. Ought to fill our aquifer. The spring is running strong and the pond is full.

Managed to get most of my roof painted this week. It is a spray foam roof that has to be painted every 10 years or so to keep UV light from breaking it down. Always something to do on the homestead.

Friday is my session night. I brushed up on this one to sing tonight. (4.3 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcawqEpIRVo]
https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Nineteen_Thirteen_Massacre.htm

I like early (pagan) pieces like Good King Wenceslas, Greensleeves, and God rest ye merry gentlemen as instrumentals. There will be other carols tonight as well. Only a couple more Fridays till the holiday is over and the carols put away till next year.

Have a good one everybody!

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@Lookout I avoid Christamas Holiday music. My youngest is over the top with Christmas. I would get into the car and the radio would be tuned to all Christmas, all the time. Have fun. Eat, drink and be merry.

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O, Holy Night. Especially the chorus. Not many can do that carol justice, though. IMO, large choirs do it best preferably boys' choirs. My sentimental childhood favorite, though, is We Three Kings. When I was in fifth or sixth grade, the upper grades in elementary school all walked into the center aisle of the auditorium in red and white choir outfits and up to the stage caroling.

My grade began entering the auditorium on the first note of We Three Kings. Even though I was one of many, many faces in the entire procession and "unseeable" once on stage, seated behind those who had walked in before my grade, I felt very important as we processed. I'm not sure even my eleven year-old self could have explained why and I certainly cannot.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uiqRCW6I8]

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ZOGTPsxng]

I'll add that banter in Christmas specials is uniformly horrible. I wish they'd just sing.

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@HenryAWallace

[video:https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfLl5OEDy8]

I took this while listening to it on Xmas day at Bodega bay. Special time.

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Merry Solstice, haw and everyone!

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Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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Ages ago, pretty ignorant of salsa, I dropped by a free noon salsa concert in SF somewhat promoting the group's upcoming week long performance at Ernesto's. There was a band with a bandleader up front on timbales, also up front. OK, I know this layout. He explained to all and sundry that "salsa is new, but mostly just mambo" and proceeded to rip into some Tito Puente.

So, un poquito homage to El Rey de los Timbales :

of course, having multiple drummers makes polyrhythms a bit easier, even if it's only one playing 4 and another playing 6, or any other damn thing they please -

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@enhydra lutris Heh, I am ready for politics.

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@NCTim
of the Soul Sacrifice Drum Solo of DJ is the yellow vest. Absolutely amazing.

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@mimi Good to read you.

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eating burritos from a place called "The Green Burrito" in La Puente Calif.
Their green burritos were the best, renowned across the nation.
After closing in the early 90s (the owner passed away) I tried to duplicate the recipe, experimenting with numerous chiles, even contacting the son.
The secret ingredient?
Hatch green chiles from the Hatch Valley, New Mexico.
Yumm!
Oh noes, my mouth is watering like a St. Bernard now.
Thanks for the OT, Tim.

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Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
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@earthling1 Luckily, you can have it sent to the house.

https://www.hatchchileco.com/product/green-chile-cooking-sauce/

For the first ~40 years, I lived in western Pennsylvania, which has a dearth of good Mexican food. Luckily, we had Reyna Foods. A regular Saturday pilgrimage. NC has a much better selection of stores and restaurants.

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@NCTim
took me to a knock off Hatch chile, not grown in Hatch Valley, N. M.
http://www.ihatchchile.com/blog/new-mexico-hatch-chile-labeling-dispute-...
They don't even sell whole chiles, just cans.
But thanks for the link anyway.
I can get whole chiles shipped from the growers assoc. in Hatch Valley.

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@earthling1 I use the farmers market. Peidmont is Ag country.

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Brought to you by an expert on the topic, Christiane Amanpour.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1bhHeCkoU]

Don't mock me, but the name didn't ring a bell and I was randomly surfing TED talks when one came up and I thought, "Sure, a TED talk on fake news!" I wasn't more than a few minutes into it when alarm bells were going off and I went and found out who Christiane Amanpour was. Now I think of her as Christiane "Aleppo Boy" Amanpour.

Father speaks out – Omran is happy and healthy
Omran’s father, Mohammad Kheir Daqneesh, had six children, including Omran and the late Mohammad Ali. In the year following the attack that injured Omran and his family, Mr. Daqneesh became sick of the way Gulf and Western media used the image of his son as propaganda to garner public support for further intervention in Syria.

He chose to speak out on June 5, 2017, giving interviews to Syrian media in which he gave his side of Omran’s story. He pointed out the ways in which Omran had been made into an icon without his knowledge or his family’s consent, as well as the false premises under which this was done.

Mohammad Daqneesh recalled scrambling to find Omran and his other children in the dark, moving them to safety before rescuing the rest of his family. At one point, Omran was taken to an ambulance by a White Helmets “volunteer,” with the iconic photo to be taken shortly thereafter while Daqneesh was still inside his home.

Mr. Daqneesh denied any knowledge of a Russian or Syrian airstrike, saying that he had not heard any airplanes at the time. He added that his son’s injury was mild, but had been exaggerated in the news, adding that Omran was at ease and had since returned to normalcy in his home in Aleppo.
-- MintPress

Where this story gets really uplifting for me is in the Youtube comments. NEVER in a zillion years would I have thought I'd find YouTube comments uplifting but wow. To say that she was ripped apart would be the understatement of the year. So apparently, TED viewers are pretty savvy to MSM's propaganda. I'll just leave this one here for your amusement, but it's fairly representative of the VAST majority that I read.

Ahahahhahaha is this some kind of a joke?! Wants to find truth, interviews the most fake reporter of all times, TED I think it's time for u to shut down, u hit the point of no return.

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Composed in 1843-44 by Adolphe Adam (better known for opera, operetta and ballet music) to words by wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau; turned into English lyrics by Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight in 1855.

Wikipedia has a direct comparison of the French original, literal translation, and Dwight's original version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Holy_Night

One thing to notice in recordings and live performances is that for the most part Dwight's differing "chorus" sections (which follow the French) get the heave-ho for repetitions of the first chorus.

On the other hand, where the French version faffs around a bit, Dwight's rendition throws things into sharper focus: "Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression shall cease." Although not an active Abolitionist, he does seem to have shared their general attitude.

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