OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Diversity without inclusion is an empty gesture. Inclusion is a feeling of belonging, and so creating an empowering, embracing, egalitarian environment starts with the heart. ~ David Asai: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00282-y?utm_source=Nature+Bri...
Instead of flowers and annuals in livid snow a forest
of nameplates: Ammobium alatum
(everlasting), Myosotis (forget-me-not),
Textus ubiquitus. All that’s left is to believe
in the roots and tubers buried in the earth.
Though what does it matter in winter? Only
in the palm house is life richly flourishing,
words spiral into stems and leaves, entwining to form
epics and philippics. They wither and rise again
under the caring dome of a plexiglass sky. In a nursery
at the edges of the garden, in perfect order,
new words are already germinating.
A Botanical Garden in Winter
~ Tadeusz Dabrowski, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Fifty-nine years ago, yesterday, downtown on Elm Street: Courage.
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After being refused service at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's, four African-American men launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America. (Jack Moebes / Corbis). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/courage-at-the-gr...
On a cold, gusty, grey afternoon half a century ago, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr climbed the five storeys of their office building at 3 Savile Row in central London. They then made their way out onto the roof, where they played an unannounced 42-minute set for friends, employees and office workers who clambered out of windows and onto adjacent roofs. A crowd steadily gathered in the street below.
There was no way of knowing it then, but Thursday, January 30, 1969, turned out to be the last time The Beatles performed together in public.
https://thewire.in/the-arts/the-beatles-rooftop-concert-50-years-ago
Sitting and writing on the dining room table,
I want to tell you what it is to be alive,
the yellow oilcloth table takes the imprint
of my thoughts; the tablecloth reads back
“I want.” The mark of my pen
presses on the floral print: “I want to tell.”
An explosion of daisies stands fading
in the flower pot, a used Dundee marmalade
jar, ivory. The ordinary daisies, as steadfast as a
woman, hold their yellow centers: he loves me,
loves me not; he picks me as he
likes: he steps on me.
The daisies make a still life
next to sour apples and, rotting
in a green bowl, artistic
sour lemons. They are trying
to look yellow. The children
are crying “We want milk” at the door. It
is dark, the sky’s uneasy; it will rain.
The swallows’ repetitions
swooping through my ears, the note
of the bobwhite, calling in the bushes,
remains, I feel, long after
any sound I make has gone:
when my hands have done the dishes;
after I’ve recorded what it’s like to mop the floor.
Why do I keep so clean, like all the other
animals? Why do I worry
if the children lie too thickly
dreaming their dreams, in a heavy sleep
like fog I write so much
on the inside of my brain
that I forget what it was
that I wanted to tell you. But
through the open door, warm
white rose petals blow in.
~ Kathleen Spivack
Today's illustration ~ Señor Salme from Extreme chemistry: experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Wherever you are, hoping you've a marvelous day.
Comments
In more recent years,
McCartney said, "People forget that we were a pretty good rock and roll band."
They were, but I don't know who forgets that. Even people born decades after they split get that they were "a pretty good rock and roll band."
oops, morning and thanks, Henry; fixed it.
Sun trying to make a little appearance today; warmer weather predicted for the weekend, yea.
Have a good one and thanks for reading.
LOL, I messed up, too, smiley!
I just saw that I had posted the link to the video as an image, which means nothing showed in my original post but some little lines. However, inasmuch as you changed your post to substitute a video of the Beatles for a video of Them Beatles, I've revised my original post to delete my reference to a video. (If that makes no sense, no worries: It's all moot now, anyway.)
Tip offs: The drummer in Them Beatles was clearly not Ringo. Also, none of the tribute band members moved to the music the way that his actual Beatle counterpart did.
I don't know if I am the only person in the world who notices how differently John moved to the beat than did Paul and how differently George moved from both of the other two, but that always catches my eye when I watch one of their films or videos.
I've never checked to see how film critics review(ed) their films, but I think they were genius and soooo fun to watch.
In recent years--or maybe I watched on youtube--don't remember which--Paul described how he brought George into the group. Much has been said about what a perfectionist Paul was in the early days. However, John wanted to know if George could really play guitar. One of them asked George to play Raunchy. The then fourteen-year-old Harrison did so perfectly. Despite his youth, he thereby became a member of the Quarrymen, which later became one of the wealthiest, most loved rock groups ever.
Info below about Raunchy is from the song's wiki article.
The original recording of Raunchy is by Justis in 1957 on Sun Records, "where rock and roll was born." (This video includes as well two covers by other artists, also released or "dropped" in 1957.)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6EyaleQY18]
Very soon after Justis's release of Raunchy, Duane Eddy (and probably others) began copying and emphasizing Justis's "twangy" style. Eddy released his version of Raunchy, according to wiki, in 1965. youtube says 1963. I didn't see any mention of Raunchy in Eddy's wiki, so I don't know which is correct.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9XVizZ2mU]
[video:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raunchy_(instrumental)]
Paul, George and Ringo 1994
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBX7E_OV0g]
Good morning, HAW. I remember Bill Jusis' Raunchy and
both of the covers in that video, as well as most of Duane Eddy's ouvre. There was a sort of golden age of instrumentals, off and on, back in those days. It was somewhat revived by surf music (the real stuff, not crap like the Beach Boys). If you listen to good surf closely you hear Spain/Mexico with the inherited Sephardic, Mediterranean and Arabic influences and the Bill Justis/Duane Eddy twang, all of which is missing from the California Sound groups' attempts to go surf (Jan and Dean, Beach Boys, et. al.).
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 --
I think Brian was/is very talented. The problem
for me with many of the songs he wrote is not his music, but his less talented cousin's wretched lyrics. F
or me, Good Vibrations is a prime example of that. "They're giving me excitation?" Mike, please. But, obviously, I am not a musical expert. I just know what I think is fun to listen to and/or to dance to. Then again, Good Vibrations may not be considered surfing music.
Wilson wrote at least one of Jan and Dean's songs, too. Their first hit, I think. I saw either Jan or Dean on TV talking about friends asking them if they'd heard the new Beach Boys' record on the radio, but it was Jan and Dean singing Brian's music. I don't know if Mike Love did their lyrics, though.
I also once saw Love on TV really dissing Democrats with the "tax and spend" trope. It probably wasn't even true at the time he was saying it, but, as you may have gathered, I don't consider him an intellectual giant. In general, I find it annoying when people that rich can't see their way clear to paying taxes. The people of the US were responsible for his wealth, but he resents sharing a slice of it with them? Ugh.
Actually, I know one instrumental that has been highly-praised was copied note for note from an Arabic song (with Arabic lyrics) that pre-dated the instrumental by a decade or two, maybe more. It was not musical genius, but outright, shameful theft that I have never heard anyone mention on air. I can't think of the name of the instrumental and I never knew the name of the Arabic song. However, someone played both records for me and it was disgraceful.
Can you name one or two for me that you consider to be echoing Arabic music, whether or not filtered through Spain (or Portugal)? The Arab influence on the music, dance, cuisine, etc. of the world has been largely ignored until relatively recently. On the other hand, I think that Hindus originated at least some of the some of the math and science for Arabs get credit came first from Hindus. So, maybe it all evens out in some karmic, cosmic way.
Fun linguistic fact: "Guadalajara" comes from an Arab phrase meaning a dry place of the stones, or a stony, dry place. I'll do my best to transliterate: wadi il hahjar. If you know that "h" in Spanish is often silent, it's not too big a leap. I told some Lebanese people I met about that and they found it very funny for some reason. It could very well be that my pronunciation of the Arabic term was what they found funny. If so, they were far too polite and cosmopolitan to correct me.
Another fun linguistic fact. The Arabic word for "alcohol" is "alcohol."
Ain't I just a barrel of laughs, though? (-;
Hey! I can't help it if I get a kick out of stuff no one else finds remotely interesting. Or, maybe I could help it, but I don't want to. I guess I like that I enjoy what I enjoy.
Mike Love is a formulaic pop music hack.
All he ever gave a fuck about was getting rich, getting laid, and probably getting high, though I don't know that for certain.
Whatever Brian Wilson is/was, he isn't/wasn't that.
Mind you, I'm not one of the people who thinks Pet Sounds belongs up there with Sergeant Pepper, Abbey Road, Songs in the Key of Life and Astral Weeks. I think the best song that ever had anything to do with Brian Wilson was this one, which I think is a masterpiece:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE3mFOwUxdk&frags=pl%2Cwn]
BTW, the truly amazing thing about Astral Weeks is that it was one of those contractual obligation albums. Van Morrison (who is a colossal jackass) cranked it out in just a few weeks. He claims that he never listened to it again, until he did that AW tour a few years ago.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I'll only address part of that right now - I think you may be
talking about Miserlou, which is actually, I thought, Jewish. At any rate, it is commonly danced at Jewish weddings. It was done by Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Bobby Fuller Four and the Surfaris, who dropped in a short passage from malaguena just for grins:
Walk Don't Run, btw, is a great example of the twang, but only 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 --
“Miserlou / Misirlou” = “Egyptian,“ from “Misr” = “Egypt”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou
i seem to recall that Raunchy was one of the songs
George played in his audition to join the beatles.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
George seems appropriate today.
My depression waxes and wanes. I just have to remember these days not to make decisions at either the high or low tide. Hope to get out and about today.
Side Note: Last night I played a modern game for the first time in forever, and fell asleep in the middle of it. And then I realized what they're designing stuff for. Just like the Matrix (In the Matrix Series) doesn't work when it inspires and encourages actions, games these days are a rigorously designed hedge maze with only one destination and path there. Saying NO to violence and destruction is no longer possible even in ones where it used to be. Well, it's possible but the game effectively ends at that point, sometimes quite literally. They're becoming prisons for the mind, IMHO.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4s1KVJaVA]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Great observation. Even games discourage us from thinking
independently. When I hear Democratic and Republican politicians, pundits and talking heads saying the same things about, for example, RUSSIA, and talking about unity with each other, my blood runs cold. More than once, I have shuddered involuntarily. Land of the free is becoming land of the free to be Stepford citizens.
I guess whenever some clever author writes a dystopian novel, screenplay, etc. the PTB uses it as a "how to" manual. Horrible and scary. *shudders involuntarily*
Trying to write my own "How To"
Only it's "How to beat the system" more than anything else. (Yup, back at work at the novel, and actually pretty happy with some of it. Researching Tall Ships and Naval Procedure of the late 19th Century has been a lot of fun. Then I started researching how to block wifi signals, gps, etc... and low and behold the FCC wants to remind me that this information is not to be advertised, built or sold. Which of course means that it's EXACTLY what my main characters will be doing, because it's clear it works wonders at confounding the corporations. Hey I remember the Rhino in Iraq.)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9eSffLoX28]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Your characters may well have a first amendment
right to share stuff the government doesn't want them sharing, as long as they (or you) did not steal the info (as did Ellsberg).
I think, but am not certain, that that is what the New York Times case, aka the Pentagon Papers case, holds. I emphasize my uncertainty because it's been a good while since I read that case, or even the wiki about it. I do know that, in that case, there was a distinction made between a prior restraint--meaning forbidding the Times to publish--versus punishing the Times after after they published. The Court left open the punishment afterward issue because that issue was obviously not yet before it.
That distinction comes right out of the Peter Zenger case in colonial times that was the very reason the good people of 1789 conditioned their ratification of the Constitution on, among other things, including ASAP a clause about freedom of the press. However, once the Times and others published the Pentagon Papers, the government did not try to punish the publishers, only Ellsberg. So, we still don't know for certain what would have happened if govt had tried.
I'd like to think the NYT would have won that case, too, but you can't count on the SCOTUS. And, if such a case were to arise now, with all our national security TERRA! hysteria, I don't know if I'd trust them. After all, Congress has rejected language that comes straight out of the Bill of Rights on at least two occasions (4th and 1st amendments).
The FCC's stance is that selling, operating, or creating
a jammer of any kind is forbidden. Since my characters will not be relying on that instead depending on other low tech solutions to defeat signals, I figure I'm good.
Of course, I half plan on doing the "Sun Glow" grape juice tactic during prohibition, and have the characters explicitly say what they should NOT do, because that would result in breaking the law... Yes, I admit I may be pushing my luck a bit here.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZJrwQr_t7Y]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
It is safe to assume that your characters will not be creating
a jammer, but merely informing others how to create one. So, they'll be cool--unless, as I said earlier, you stole that info. In which case, your characters will still be safe, but you might get prosecuted. However, I am sure that you did not steal the info.
Right?
Right?
Please tell me I'm right.
jk I would be stunned it you had stolen it.
Currently public information.
However, with the newsguard stuff, and the ramping up of the war on information, I do worry.
Part of using any technology should be understanding its limitations, IMHO. Censoring the information about vulnerabilities doesn't make the vulnerability go away. It's like everybody pretending that body armor will save all the cops while conveniently forgetting how peasants used to take down fully armored knights. But then, I'm the guy who wants to know what my opponent is going to do, because I have to be ready to counter his counter... (One thing I love about Judo and Blacksmithing, both really emphasize thinking ahead, if you want to be proficient.)
Course, I always have wanted to do things that I'm not supposed to do. I blame my childhood.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUPGAth6OY]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Holy Shit!
Just for kicks and grins I ddg'd that topic and So Many page not found, Blank page, or rerouted to a non-related page.
Just wow.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Yup. Cell Phones are the new "Vital Infrastructure"
That you are not to even THINK about messing with.
Of course if I ever bring that up, the first thing that people mention always is...
"What if you need an ambulance?"
"What if your loved ones need to get in touch with you?"
"What if you get lost?"
"Well, maybe you're fine, but won't you think of somebody else?"
And amazingly, the first thought that came to my mind was...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFqhjaGh30]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
This is what capitalism is. (More on Venezuelan Coup)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0fJ-HXZgs]
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Adaption and death...
After the cold weather this week it was a warm 40 degree sunny morning. Headed to the 60's. There was a time when weather like this guaranteed a large bustling Trade Day. But times have changed...fewer traders. It is an older crowd that gets out early on Sat AM and the reality is the old heads are dying. Trading has moved on-line and not to the old outdoor market. It continues to be a gathering spot for the older crowd. I like walking the whole thing 2 or 3 times. Along the way you visit with the folks you know. Visited with the old retired judge this AM. Said he had re-read the constitution recently and our government simply was ignoring it...with endless undeclared war....presidential decreed tariffs...conducting coups. He suggested the role of president has become king...exactly what the founders hoped to prevent.
Anyway came home with the feeling that trade day is another passing event in a long cycle of market evolution.
Hope you are all having a lovely day. Enjoy.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Bright wishes all
Thanks for the OT Smiley. Watching a tree crew take down beautiful old trees across the street. Hurts my old heart. Reinforces my quest to maintain the many we have here. A place for the birds to play.
Good Luck
question everything
Good morning, Smiley. Raining here, started the night of the
30th, off and on, then all last night and continuing. Needed, as always, but we have a huge backlog of outdoor shit to do that clearly won't be getting done.
Hilariously, we have a ribes along the fence that we annually prune(d) to the top of the fence and also in girth. This year we waited until all of the berries fell before starting, then came out trip to Mexico, 10 lousy days, and now the damn thing already has buds so we have to let it go - Ah well.
Thanks for the reminder of the sit in at the Greensboro Woolworths. Our collective memory needs frequent refreshing as to these things, reminders that we aren't and never have been what we claim to be, and that we need to step it up and become what we should be. Your judge friend was right, I still remember when Trump started declaring tariffs and thinking that he totally lacked any authority to do so. The Bill of rights is pretty much dead, Congress is out of the loop on wars, and we continuously violate both our own and international laws in a manner not provided for in our foundational documents.
Have a good Saturday.
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 --
Paul McCartney on Acid
here is my contribution for the day. cheers
nothing changes
nothings change
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I am watching the river rise on the California Data Exchange site: Russian River.
It just stopped pouring so gonna go down there and give gratitude. It could be so much worse, like in Iran where the river only runs on occasion, and people go to see it like a circus. Selfies on display.
PHOTOS: Euphoria in Isfahan as water flows into Zayanderud river
pistachio wars
surprisingly thoughtful for a guy who often
in later years comes off as a bit of a doofus.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I never thought of it that way, but yes, young Paul seems
much more intelligent than today's Paul. We speak of America's getting dumbed down, but I didn't think individuals who once seemed intelligent got dumber, too. Then again, this topic may be one that Paul had heard discussed by others, including Lennon, before this particular interview.
Craig Ferguson used to be merciless on McCartney when Craig was doing his late night show. Whenever he played McCartney speaking, the face of Angela Lansbury would be on the screen. Or Ferguson would ostensibly be impersonating McCartney, but he would do the same high-pitched voice as he would do when portraying an elderly English woman. I never knew why, but Ferguson used to get the biggest kick out it. For him, it was uncharacteristically mean-spirited, I thought.
I hadn't realized that people were talking about "mass media" then. What other kind of media was there then? They didn't even have cable TV then, much less the internet or radio like Sirius.
I must seem as clueless as all get out, but I don't know what the adjective "mass" was distinguishing from simply Sixties "media." Then again, I have never been shy about seeming ignorant. Stupid gives me pause; ignorant doesn't. Then again, maybe it should be the other way around. I can't be any smarter than I was born to be, but how uninformed I am is on me. Sigh.
there used to be a thing called the public airwaves
thanks, remember when analog TV got killed? So the
Clintonscronies could sell that portion of the public spectrum to their private pals. TV then was like youtube now, but better 'cause we owned it so to speak. Anyone with an antenna got the signal, usually. And newspapers were all over the place, every cafe had a free copy you could read every day, no 99 cent bullshit paywalls tyvm. shakes tabloid at skyLOL This one's for Trump get it:
Rare John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Hair Peace (With Sound) (...!)
do it
want a peace
get a peace
Heh, stupid false assumption that public figure ==
role model. I'd wager that more public figures habe been anti-role models than the obverse. But, in this case, the missing reply to the interviewer is "and, BTW, why not?It isn't a bad thing, ya know.".
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 --
The Beatles
When my Sister and I were barely in our pre-teen years, we inherited some old Beatles albums from the daughter of one of my Mother's girlfriends, which we would play on the same record player I used to play my Mary Poppins album years before. Even though the Beatles music had moved on from their earlier work, my sister and I thought this is what the teenagers were listening to. So we pretended we were a bunch of teenagers and got up on the desks in our bedroom and danced to "Twist and Shout" and thought we were very, very cool.
Much later, I was introduced to their Sgt. Pepper album via Aerosmith's "Come Together" cover. Strange, now that I think about that.
When my Mother passed away, she requested we play a "Long And Winding Road" which I thought was the saddest song she could've requested and I still can't listen to it now without bawling my eyes out.
Such was the influence of the Beatles throughout my life.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
The Beatles' version of
Twist and Shout was a cover.
Despite their songwriting ability (not that Bill Medley was a slouch) the Beatles did a lot of covers of US rock songs. They admit freely that they also copied from America's early rock and rollers, like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
Everyone in music has been "influenced" by someone. The good musicians just pick better people by whom to be "influenced."
The Top Notes did the first version, but the Beatles were clearly "influenced" by the Eisley Brothers' cover, which was the first big hit version of the song. The Beatles are almost doing a tribute to the Eisley Brothers, rather than coming up with their own interpretation of the song. So much irony in the Beatles behaving like a tribute band! (Heaven help me: I love looking up this stuff and comparing versions.)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDGmogV1Qw8]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaqn8_gMR0]
Interesting...
I had no idea that was a cover. And you're right, the Beatles do play that song very much like the Eisleys. It's true about musicians getting their influence from other musicians. I think I really appreciated that when I listened to Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, for example, was definitely influenced by jazz musicians and brought that into what was arguably the tightest group of musicians of that era. Instead of following the beat of the bass guitar which is what a lot of drummers do, he'd following Jimmy's beat instead. It made for an amazing sound.
[video:https://youtu.be/UvOm2oZRQIk]
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Little Richard was McCartney's big vocal influence.
You can go to youtube and compare their versions of Long Tall Sally (written by Little Richard) to see what I mean.
Come Together is on Abbey Road. As I've mentioned before, when arguing with Stones fans about the whole Beatles v Stones thing, I'm willing to allow as how, if you took the 10 best Stones songs and put them all together on an album you'd have a hell of an album -- right up there with Abbey Road. I first heard Abbey Road when my 13-year-old babysitter brought it over. My sister and I were scandalized by the line, "Such a dirty old man," in Mean Mr. Mustard. (We never understood, incidentally, that he was "mean" in the british sense -- miserly. "Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park, shaves in the dark, trying to save paper.")
I have the vaguest memory of watching the Beatles cartoon show on Saturday morning TV.
Supposedly, the Zeppelin song, Dyer Maker (pronounced as certain Brits pronounce "Jamaica" -- Jermaker -- it's the punchline of an old joke) was a practical joke by Page and Plant. Bonham had claimed that he couldn't play the syncopations of reggae music, so the bastards went ahead and wrote a song where he didn't have a choice. The result is pretty damned bizarre.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I'd agree about the Stones
But they were never my absolute favorite band growing up. Although, I do like to sing along to "Beast of Burden" at parties if I'm sufficiently intoxicated.
Amusing anecdote about the back ground of Dyer Maker. Listening to the song, it's difficult to believe Bonzo thought he couldn't do syncopated beats.
[video:https://youtu.be/xje-1sw3T0s]
Guess he showed them, eh?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Hi friends, just wrecked my new-old car, no one was hurt, but
my front left is damaged rather badly; wheel warped and pushed back left fender, and front bumper done in, hood bent and lelft light assembly crushed, had it towed in.
First accident since college years, been lucky in that respect and no one was hurt and the car in front i hit as we were all trying to get stopped from the forth car in from braking too quickly to turn left was not damaged much, my fault as i rear-ended.
So sick about wreaking the little car that had been taken good care of and worried about the other stuff; unfortunately i did not get collision insurance as that's beyond my monthly budget, so i'm up the creek without a paddle once again. Life has too many challenges, sometimes.
Oh well, i'm home, safe and can make no inquiries until Monday anyways, so i've a 12 pack and going to drown my sorry this afternoon; i'm all shaky still.
Try and get replies to the good comment later.
Thanks for being here.
sorry to hear of the collision
sending good thoughts. hope all can be resolved soon and with little hassle.
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Jeebus. Thank goodnoss no one was hurt. So sorry it
happened at all. Tha bit about collison insurance really stinks. We had a car stolen when we were practically newlyweds and thought we had stopped carrying theft insurance because the car had over 100,000 miles on it. Uncharacteristically, we got lucky that time, though. It's such a bind, much like great health insurance coverage. You can't afford it, but if some really expensive health issue arises.....
Well, that's America for you.
Hugs for smiley7
so glad you were only shaken. I just saw a rainbow during a cloud burst at the river, sending you all the good vibes, every color. namaste
May the transport goddess and gods bless you again smiley7, after the beer is gone. Until then take care and try not to worry. Something good is bound to happen once more. Thanks.
Peace & Love
Hate it when that stuff occurs
Auto contortions happen, sometimes to the safest among us. Sounds like an ugly mess. The inconvenience of being shipwrecked out in the boonies sux. It's why I keep 2 beaters around. While one awaits surgery, the other gets the paycheck to pay for it. Hope you can find parts / or a similar model to scarf the two together.
Will toss a couple back for you in the blessing of being unhurt.
question everything
Beer works, feeling more relaxed and i'm
okay and comforted by friends who are calling. And i haven't sold my old car to the young folks yet; we were going to do that on Tuesday as they had gotten funds together to license it, pay taxes and insurance; feel bad for them as they need a car, but, we will work all this out in time. No one was hurt, thank the stars.
Going to escape, i'll catch up to comments much later, maybe tomorrow. Love to all and thanks community for being here.
Let us know if we can help
Perhaps some of us can throw in a few bobs.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Glad you're OK!
sorry for the bad luck with the car.
Poppin' a cold one
in sympathy, Smiley.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
When I think about you at this time,
I think about your strong spirit, and the support it must generate.
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