Wednesday 8/7 Open Thread: A Day Between
Jerry Garcia was born on August 1 and died on August 9, and that period, those nine days, are widely known to deadheads as The Days Between. This is such a day, and, really, what else could it be?
It's Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day and I could easily rip out a rant on that subject, but it seems that I do that enough as it is already and it's maybe time for a break from that.
It's National Lighthouse Day, rife with potential as a metaphor, the need to shine lights on things, to bring light, to raise beacons, turn on one's love light, and, generally, all things Fiat Lux but I can still do that anyway, but today, as I write this, I'm not particularly in a rabble rousing mood.
It's National Sea Serpent Day as well as Beach Party Day and those two go so well together that it would be unseemly to separate them and exalt one over the other.
Hence, a day between. A brief almost Monday style ramble through history plus whatever comes to mind, but first, on to page 7985(B)2(c)(iii) in your hymnals:
1789, oh yeah!
On August 7, 1789, the U.S. War Department (DoD) was created. It was the second agency of the new fledgling US government created, the Department of Foreign Affairs (state Department) having preceded it in July. Why so late in the day? It wasn't, forget 1776, the US was pretty much born in 1789. 1789 is worthy of some study if only for that reason. The first Presidential elections were held. The first elections for the House and for the Senate were held. Departments of State, War and Treasury were created. The First US Congress met as the legislature and adopted the US Constitution and declared it to be in force. With that, the bicameral US Congress replaced the previous unicameral Congress created by the Articles of Confederation, which were now no longer in effect. The real biggie, IMHO is The Judiciary Act of 1789. It created the lesser courts and granted and divvied up their respective jurisdictions. It also granted the US Supreme Court the power to issue writs of mandamus as part of its original jurisdiction, thereby setting the stage for John Marshall's decision in Marbury v Madison which worked to give the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review. If there is really one year you should get a handle on and appreciate the scope of, it is 1789. (All hell broke loose in France, too)
On August 7, 1794, President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion.
On August 7, 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip. IT took them 59 days to make it from New York, NY to San Francisco, California. She drove a Maxwell and used Triple A maps, but navigated mostly by power poles. Her friends couldn't drive, and seemingly left all the other automotive chores to her as well, she changed flat tires, cleaned spark plugs and fixed a busted accelerator pedal.
On August 7, 1955, the predecessor to Sony, sold its first transistor radios in Japan. When you think back upon it, this was a world changing event, soon we'd have baseball games, news and music anywhere and everywhere, any time and all the time. And look when it began, 1955. I mean Bill Haley had himself a hit with See You Later Alligator in '55, really.
On August 7, 1964, the U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This essentially gave LBJ permission to wage war without any formal declaration of war and on false pretences. This was not the first time we went to war based on a lie and certainly not the last. LBJ proceeded to escalate the hell out of the conflict. The ship of state sailing off to war as a carrier task force, and nobody remembered "Remember the Maine"
On August 7, 1978, Jimmy Carter declared a Federal Emergency at the Love canal. Symbolically polluting Love because long running dumping of toxic waste was permitted because no stink was raised about it because, perhaps, nobody loved the earth enough, or perhaps all were blind.
And after all of that, if you're still here, I think it is a good time to go visit 1958 and the legendary Johnny Otis Show just for the fun of it.
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Fun stuff EL
Driving across america, listening to the transistor radio playing dead.
Going to the beach to visit the light house for a view of the serpents.
Codifying war as a pretext to justify government. Or visa-versa?
Cheers!
question everything
Good morning QMS, you've got it all packaged and related
quite nicely there. Government justifies war to justify government in a non-ending vicious circle. Recall that govt exists to provide those services that we cannot effectively and efficiently provide for ourselves, and, really, killing on that scale pretty much requires government of some sort, even if it is only a centralized religious power structure.
Have a good one.
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 --
24 lost eyes to French police. Can we call Macron “fascist” yet?
German Green and Left progressives say grass-roots movements here in former East Germany are “fascist” and everyone should be afraid of them.
At the same time, they want Berlin to team up with the top-down neoliberal authoritarian in Paris, Emmanuel Macron, who has police attack French grass-roots Yellow Vest protesters with tear-gas grenades and rubber bullets.
Back when I was a member of the Greens, they were grass-roots and on the receiving end of police violence themselves.
Huh.
https://www.wptv.com/news/world/at-least-24-yellow-vests-lost-eyes-in-vi...
https://taz.de/Polizeigewalt-in-Frankreich/!5610995/
Also:
Out of the desert: internment camp art
And: has anything among the U.S. power players really changed since this the-day-after analysis of the 2016 election? The “influence elites“ Professor Wedel talks about have only sealed themselves even more hermetically inside their bubble by promoting the fiction of RussiaGate.
[video:https://vimeo.com/190904014]
Why we sure can. I can't remember where I saw it,
but early on Macron was called the French Reagan. He has privatized as much as he can as fast as he can: TGV - our wonderful train system especially the large stations; dismantling the rural train lines and closing stations; the three airports near Paris; he's working on dismantling the French social medical system which is spectacular; road works; gosh the list is endless. Other previous presidents have one by one privatized some of the French social system. I'll try to find a list. Hollande, the supposed Socialist did as well.
Macron is anti union, bigly. Hates the grassroots. He is a horrible man. He is setting up an air force/space agency to put weapons in space with the US.
The French look to the US for a lot of innovation, world policy, corporatization, finance and banking, medicine. They do these things at the highest government level without much imput from the citoyens.
They are incredibly capable of their own thinking and have wonderfully innovative people in every sector. It's getting the kind of leader they expect not a copy cat of the US that is difficult.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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Sad, very sad to think the beautiful train system
is being privatized. Shame for this iconic treasure's loss.
Good morning lot. Interesting art out of the camp. Don't know
exactly what to call Macron, but he is definitely proving to be an enemy of the people. Forget to plug in my hadphones last night, so I'll hae to put off the videos until a bit later.
Off the top of my head, the power players seem to always steadily consolidate more power and get more arrogant, but that's just a superficial knee-jerk reaction on my part.
Have a good one.
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 --
macron
will need to get in the fascism line, and well behind such chunders as the Nazi Le Pen klan, as well as the "birdshit" on "the dunghill of German history."
In other goosesteppers, the white supremacist Tucker Carlson says white supremacy is just shit made up, not a problem. He is dumb as two rocks, The Klansman's Baghdad Bob.
Ocasio-Cortez says, correctly, that the debate is over, as to whether The Klansman is a vicious, howling racist—the debate was actually over in the early 1970s, when The Klansman was declared such by the Nixon Justice Department—but that it is not too late for the people of The Klansman.
Meanwhile, I'm liking this recent Dead run, el. ; )
Good morning, hecate (a day late here). Glad you're enjoying
it, thanks for reading/listening.
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 --
Jerry
and the Grateful Dead at Alpine Valley, 1989.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Good morning Centaurea. Thanks, can't wait to listen to that.
Have a good one.
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 --
Totally should be a Nine day Festival.
Very Dionysian in feel. Jam Bands, Pot, maybe get a few wineries and distillers to sponsor, and have a few theatrical productions.
You know, a Nine day party with minor religious/spiritual elements. The FUN way to do it.
I mean, because if you're going to cut loose might as well make it holy.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Good morning detroit - I fully agree. There are some wineries
with a deadhead flair and influence, including darkstar winery down in Paso. One year somebody gave me a bottle of Grateful Red, but, sadly. it was a merlot.
Have a good one, and get that anvil fixed.
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 --
Gotta go check out
Chronic Cellars. Any winery that'll make a tasty wine and call it "Sofa King Bueno" is a place that deserves *my* business...
g'morning skod. I'll try to remember next time we're down in
Paso, we don't get down there too often anymore, maybe once or twice per year.
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 --
*snort*
I feel ya on that one..
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
merlot
What's wrong with a merlot?
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Paul Giamatti's character didn't like Merlot wine
Because he regarded Merlot as the "underdog" to Cabernet Sauvignon. How come? Because cheap commercial Merlot has given the grape a bad reputation.
I don't care for Merlot because the tannins are typically so strong they leave my mouth puckered. For non wine drinkers drinking reds, I'd suggest beginning with Pinot Noirs. They are a little lighter as reds go.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Lughnassadh
The Pagan feast of Lughnassadh (simplified spelling-as-pronounced Lúnasa) falls on August 1, and is the feast of the incoming summer fruits and the start of the grain harvest. It is the annual memorial to the Caltic God Lugh. Many of us Pagans consider Jerry Garcia to be either inspired by, or an Avatar of, that Deity.
And the simultaneous celebration and mourning of the Jerry Days (August 1 - 9) fits the traditions of Lughnassadh perfectly, as well!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Especially enjoy your use of music to sing this morning, el.
More to do on the home front i care to do especially as my sciatic nerve thinks it's responsible for supplying electricity to the town; need an exorcism to remove the nerve from the brain.
Oh well, time won't wait so must forge on and get chores done.
Thanks for the great OT and have a good one.
Good morning smiley. Sorry to hear about the sciatica, I've
been there and cannot suggest a remedy. I have some specific exercises for my chronic back issues, which I, like most back sufferers, only bother with once it starts acting up. Unfortunately, they aren't any kind of quick fix and even sometimes exacerbate the pain for a while first.
Good luck and try not to overdo it. It'll all still be there in the morning.
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 --
Feel better Smiley!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Thanks, Anja; it's a
recurring theme, sciatica. Your thoughts appreciated.
Good Morning EL
Madison Square Garden, sometime in the 1980's, was the first time I saw the Grateful Dead perform. Knowing nothing about the band, I assumed I was going to hear heavy metal music. Much to my surprise, I didn't. Other memories of that evening include smoking some really good weed, buying a tie dye shirt, and enjoying being introduced to the whole Grateful Dead vibe.
Come to think of it, I think we all could use more of the whole Grateful Dead vibe...
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
'mornng Anja. Sounds like you had fun. Thanks for the great
poster pic.
Have a good one.
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 --
Flying Lizards
(1979) The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want)
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hamster wheel
The absentee llord was here for two hours yesterday, while an Orkin truck and van idled out front... for two hours in the blazing heat... as they spewed their rodentcide about. So happy and grateful to be paying half my income to live in toxicity, and now I can't go out the front door without seeing fugly disgusting traps all over the place. never mind
I haven't seen any cats hunting the field next door for a couple weeks, since the llord decided the most efficient way to get his income streams flowing again was to poison everything, despite all my offers of help. I am not a write-off for him in the economic sense. just kill me now
My cat died of lung cancer after three years breathing the air on my tiny deck, busy street two hundred feet from HWY 101. noxious She couldn't drive a car, she could only breath their air, because I can't afford to live in a healthy community. Instead I live where all the groovy wine-grape get grown. outta sight outta mind
Just pour gas on my flaming head.
...
Anyone remember that radio show on KPFA in the 90s, and maybe other Pacifica stations, a series about a private investigator in space sailing the solar winds, and one of the characters was called Rodent, who insisted it be pronounced like Roden. I think P.I. was in the title "Adventures of..." kinda thing. They sold the package in CD-ROM format, I'd like to find a copy but can't remember and my search fu is stifled lately. rats
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thanks
PEACE
' Morning eyo. Thanks for the music. Sorry about the llord
the cats fate and the locale. Nize art further down, though. Tube RADio, tre's rad. Cord doesn't look original anyway, so might as well fix.
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 --
spell much? I'm a frayed knot
lol and thanks you for the Grateful Dead Between Days. In the commons on archive.org is a bigly collection:
https://archive.org/browse.php?collection=GratefulDead&field=year
So of course I clicked on 1965, heh. Only two audios. NP Now playing:
I like the comments over there too. Wow 1990 has the mostest entries, coliseums:
next up
right on
PEACE
edit: I PM'd Lookout and said "you're message" so yeah I do spell much. sounds good
“What the h— is going on here, anyway?”
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/07/28/what-the-hell-is-going-on-here-a...
Yeah, a pretty good article and recurring theme for her iirc.
If we drag our egos and polluted frames of reference everywhere, like boat anchors, naturally we don't get anywhere fast and have trouble coordinating and cooperating. Losing the big ego underlayment is a hefty task needing frequent refreshes and refurbishes, however, so taint as easy as it should be.
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 --
RA Art and Tube Radio
I can't think or say RA without Raggedy Ann now, thanks for that. cheers coincidence
upload jpg mode = on
Written upside down inside the back of a moving truck, that's my excuse. heh
box retrieval
What might end up with Lookout, in return for tomatoes. right on
5x5 inch serigraphs
RA '78
RA '79
Ya have to use your imagination, those are horrid photos. I still like OpArt, and am keeping the peice that is mounted and labeled like a a museum would do 'cause that's how my Aunt rolled. with class
Ye olde Philco
original tubes
Last time I turned it on was about 20 years ago. It took a looong time for the tubes to warm up, but after that when I turned the knob along the wire near the beginning I got KSFO! omg wtf The cord is too frayed now, but I'm tempted to replace it and try again. Me and Nobody are the two people interested in preserving old useful stuff around here, plus the AM band is overwhelmed by EFI pollution anyway. ~shakes fist at sky~ oh well a girl can still dream
Have good days between all. Thanks.
PEACE
Just one minor word of warning
about those old radios. A lot of appliances of that era are line-powered, without an input transformer- which means that one side of the incoming power cable can actually be connected *directly to the chassis*. With their old non-polarized plugs, you then have a 50/50 chance of having the chassis connected to hot (120V) instead of neutral.
Modern Edison plugs are polarized (the wide blade is neutral, the narrow blade is hot) in the handful of cases that they aren't 3-pin grounded. But the old nonpolarized ones can go both ways, one of which can be excessively exciting. If/when you replace your cordset, make sure that hot goes to the right place.
Just be careful out there, says the guy who has been bitten _hard_ by getting in between too many cool old guitar amps and well-grounded microphones...
be careful
Also: that high-voltage electrolytic filter capacitor which hadn't seen a charge in 20 years can fail, catastrophically, when next exposed to power. So I would recommend having a means separate from the set and its cord to cut power in an emergency. Once the set has run for a few sessions totalling an hour or two, this concern is minimized, but never goes completely away unless the cap is replaced.
Again, just be careful out there!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Ain't that the truth!
There's nothing quite like that shhPOP! followed by the stink of burning electrolyte, is there?
Old amps are fun. I always carry a couple of Ebtech humbusters and an old Stancor 500W isolation transformer in my gig warchest, just to help tame the angry beasts when I encounter them. A good amp repair guy resurrecting an ancient amp will always power up through a variable autotransformer just for good measure, and ramp the voltage up a little slowly.
One of the greatest guitar sounds I ever captured was a seriously beat-up Danelectro played through an old Sears Silvertone line-powered amp, with the amp placed inside my clothes dryer. It was the guitarist's idea: we then mic'd the dryer from outside, turned everything up to "stun" (all 10 stump-pulling watts of it), and just let the player wail. Magic! At least after I'd fixed the amp, of course; the dryer drum was grounded and the first time the guy set up the amp he had flipped the power plug around the wrong way. Very exciting, but it delayed us an hour or so.
Don't even get me started on the number of club stages with modern-looking grounded receptacles that have hot and neutral reversed, or worse yet hot and *ground* reversed. The other thing that I literally never leave home without is an outlet checker: there are 3 in the gig toolbox that lives in my car at all times, and with good reason. It still amazes me that any of us rockers have lived beyond age 20...
Here's the canonical example:
Witness the awesome power of the All American 5 line-powered vacuum tube radio. You just gotta love the daisy-chained heaters running right off the line.
Generally speaking, if the thing is from the 30s-50s and says "AC/DC powered", expect a certain level of drama- and definitely don't use it near a sink or bathtub! Ahhh, the joys of electronic design in the days before the CPSC...
OmiGoat, TRF!!
Holy Pre-Superheterodyne, Batman!
edit: correction: It's a primitive superhet, with that 12SA7 doing triple duty as 1at (and only) RF, Local Oscillator, and Mixer.
Memories......
(and thank you, skod!)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
455 kHz(ish), man...
It’s not just a good idea- It’s The Law!
Too much fun. You are most welcome, and thanks for the discussion.
Nope you airn't alone eyo
I have 3 radios with transistor tubes in them. One is a grandfather's clock that my grandpa built that used to be reeally tall when I was 5. The other one he also built that we kids would have on in the basement whilst playing darts and pool and listening to the oldies and one more that looks like yours. All 3 still work.
transistor tubes?
Umm, you mean "vacuum tubes" or "receiving tubes", don't you?
Good old firebottles.....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Probably
I'm a girl so I don't have to know what they are called. How bout I go with tubes?
forgive me, snoop
Forgive me, snoop. I spent my entire adult life and a good chunk of my adolescence having to "know what they are called". Not true of everybody, I know.
You meant to say that those old radios had tubes doing the jobs done by transistors today, if I understood you correctly. And still doing it well, If you get a lucky set of firebottles, it can happen....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Yup
And again you can see why I rarely comment in the am.... my brain just doesn't get up to speed for some time. This and the fact that I'm allergic to morning.
I did use to know the right word for them, but.... can you see the dials on the side?
dials on the side
Sure did!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
And EFI pollution is what now
lol thanks, you missed my goof and so did I apparently. I had to search my own acronym and still don't really know wtf I was meaning, maybe electromagnetic interference? Yeah, that sounds better.
--- watt you say
I still have my Klein pliers with the 14 gauge hole perfectly burned in the steel cutter groove, which is what happens when your boss stops at sweet janes before going forth to install a million ceiling fans around Marin County. "Hey boss is the lighting circuit off? Yes... bzzzt!" Sorry squirrel, wrong breaker. bullwinkle jolt
--- from that year I played an electrician's apprentice to survive, 'cause being a plumber's helper really did not resonate. donk
NP: Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Grateful Dead Live at Hartford Civic Center on 1990-03-19
it's a sing-along! right on
PEACE
roots i tell ya
thanks a million! let's dance
cheers snoopydawg
edit: screech! stop I thought it was gonna be the feral(heh) williams happy audio with the peanuts gang dancing video. sorry search fu broke file not found - hah I can't even fake booze without failing. life story
Peanuts - Snoopy drunk on root beer - Happy Dance
sentimental
leggings rocklate to the party today...
Had hired help from GA...arrived 6:30 CT. Finished up an hour ago. Got all the bracing in. Still a few support poles needed and one more gate to build. The one old woman, one old man slo-mo construction company in action!
Hope to get the wire up next week.
Hope you're all having a nice day and are not wired yourself!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
'morning, Lookout. All progress is good, so congrats and
have a great day.
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 --
good evening el
et al...
great music, food for thought and super comments everyone. Late to the party these days but enjoying the comments mucho.
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Good morning magi, got seriously busy yesterday afternoon
and into the night. Thanks for reading and have a great Thursday.
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 --