01/15 is Hat Day
~~ Magritte_son_of_Man.jpg
The last time I did a January 15th column, I led with this:
As many (most?) of us know (or should know) by now, the US' and states' Gedankenpolizei have long targeted "deviant" thought and groups, meaning anybody but mainstream conformists and those to the right or far right thereof. Examples include zoot suiters, civil rights activists, beatniks, socialists, union organizers, hippies, peaceniks, juggalos and totally made up shit like “Black Identity Extremists.” It appears that the UK is into the act too. The Guardian reports that:
Counter-terrorism police placed the non-violent group Extinction Rebellion (XR) on a list of extremist ideologies that should be reported to the authorities running the Prevent programme, which aims to catch those at risk of committing atrocities ...
The full linked article seems to say that also student strikers and anybody whatsoever expressing any level of concern for the environment is also some sort of very, very bad person. But of course we are, señor.
( https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/10/xr-extinction-rebellion-... )
Boy, little did I know. The vast quantity of stuff that is taboo today boggles the mind and the governments are openly waging a war on "disinformation", as if they could know, and as if they could be trusted to make that call. The first amendment exists because they cannot. The government once claimed it had nothing to do with the bay of pigs. The Warren Commission posited what became mockingly known as the "magic bullet theory" until some secret service guy recently disclosed that he found it in the car and took it and dropped it on a stretcher. What about Saddam's WMD and mobil anthrax labs and the centrifuge tubes? I could go on for days. Ah well, such is life. But really, they, the promulgators of vast amounts of BS, who openly admit that they are in an information war with one or more "foes" are going to rule on what is fake news? That's just sad.
It is the third Monday in January which makes it Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It is also Martin Luther Luther King, Jr.' Birthday.
On this day in history:
1582 – Truce of Yam-Zapolsky ended the Livonian war until the Poles invaded Muscovy in 1605.
1759 – The British Museum opened to the public
1818 – A paper was read to the Royal Society, announcing the discovery of the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals
1870 – A political cartoon first symbolized the Democratic Party with a donkey
1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans was published
1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1911 – The Palestinian Arabic-language newspaper Falastin was founded
1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass was completed
1943 – The Pentagon was dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia.
1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1970 – Muammar Gaddafi was proclaimed premier of Libya.
1975 – he Angolan War of Independence ended with Angola's independence
2001 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, was launched.
2015 – The Swiss National Bank abandoned the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro
2020 – The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Japan.
Some people who were born on this day:
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
~~ Martin Luther King Jr.
1622 – Molière, actor and playwright
1623 – Algernon Sidney, politician, political theorist, and philosopher
1754 – Richard Martin,activist and politician, co-founded the Royal SPCA
1809 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, anarchist, economist, and politician
1842 – Josef Breuer, physician and psychiatrist
1850 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician and physicist
1858 – Giovanni Segantini, painter
1879 – Mazo de la Roche, author and playwright
1893 – Ivor Novello, actor, dramatist, singer, composer
1908 – Edward Teller,physicist and academic, father of the H-Bomb
1909 – Gene Krupa, drummer, composer, and actor
1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian and academic
1923 – Ivor Cutler, pianist, songwriter, humorist, and poet
1929 – Earl Hooker, guitarist
1929 – Martin Luther King Jr., minister and activist
1931 – Lee Bontecou, painter and sculptor
1933 – Ernest J. Gaines, author and academic
1941 – Captain Beefheart, singer, songwriter, musician, and artist
1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, singer and songwriter
1964 – Osmo Tapio Räihälä, composer
2004 – Grace VanderWaal, singer and songwriter
Some people who died on this day:
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
~~ Rosa Luxemburg
1896 – Mathew Brady, photographer and journalist
1919 – Karl Liebknecht, politician
1919 – Rosa Luxemburg, economist, theorist, and philosopher
1945 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, mathematician and theorist
1955 – Yves Tanguy, surrealist painter
1964 – Jack Teagarden, singer, songwriter, and trombonist
1973 – Ivan Petrovsky, mathematician and academic
1987 – Ray Bolger, actor, singer, and dancer
1993 – Sammy Cahn, songwriter
1994 – Harry Nilsson, singer and songwriter
1996 – Les Baxter, pianist, conductor, and composer
1998 – Junior Wells, singer, songwriter, and harmonica player
2003 – Doris Fisher, singer and songwriter
2007 – James Hillier, computer scientist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope
2014 – John Dobson, astronomer and author
2015 – Kim Fowley, singer, songwriter, producer, and manager
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2018 – Dolores O'Riordan, pop singer
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Humanitarian Day
National Bagel Day
National Booch Day
National Hat Day
National Strawberry Ice Cream Day
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
Wikipedia Day
Elementary School Teachers Day
Today's Tunes
MLK Jr.
Gene Krupa
Ivor Cutler
Earl Hooker
Captain Beefheart
Ronnie Van Zant
Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Grace VanderWaal
Jack Teagarden
Sammy Cahn
Harry Nillson
Les Baxter
Junior Wells
Doris Fisher
Kim Fowley
Dolores O'Riordan
Bonus Hooker
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Martin Luther King Jr., Hat Day, Gedankenpolizei, Gene Krupa, Earl Hooker, Harry Nillson, Junior Wells
Comments
A “hat” for all seasons
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/03/new-einstein-shape-aperi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheech_Wizard
Good morning lotl. Thanks fur the hats. The "einstein"
tiling was brought to my attention the second it was published because "tiling". In retrospect, the method by which it was created seems simple and obvious, but isn't/wasn't. The Cheech Wizard is completely news to me, and perhaps just as well. So, apropos the "einstein" tiling, interested parties might take a dive into "Penrose Tiling" similar insofar as not repeating, but different in that more than one shape is used:
and, furthermore:
be well and 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 --
Where did you get that hat?
Thanks for the Monday report professor EL.
A little ditty for hat day.
question everything
Good morning QMS, a tip o the hat for that ;-)
Thanks for dropping in
be well and 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 --
I've got my hat on ...
...cause it is cold...and will be all week.
I wear a wool felt fedora in winter, but I have many hats for throughout the year.
Thanks for all the music and the OT!
Keep your hat on!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. I know exactly what you mean,
though I sometimes wear a turtle (now called a buff?) for cold. I've worn hats since childhood because of really light sensitive eyes, and shades too, generally both. I had a wondeerful fedora I wore through most ot the sixties and early seventies, but a dog tore a chunk out of the brim. I have a couple of replacement fedoras, but they don't fit right, and modern hats, if reasonably priced, don't really come in sizes. (S,M,L & XL aren't "sizes", in my book.) I generally fall back on caps (Much easier to get in and out of vehicles or to even drive them), or a sort of wide brimmed crowned hat that is not a fedora.
be well and 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 --
Time to break the Stetson out...
We're going to go see Lyle and his Large Band on January 23 in Galveston.
Heh. Some wag once wrote a simple yet elegant proof
of the proposition that "No cowboy is a gentleman" that ran, roughly, thus:
A gentleman always uncovers (removes his hat) indoors
A cowboy never removes his hat
Ergo no cowboy is a gentleman.
Galveston seemed like a relatively nize place the one time I was down there, but I mostly just passed through on my way to a day on Padre Island. Enjoy your concert. That very day we shall be heading out for the Mexican Riveriera for WARM, great food and much, much more.
be well and 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 --
Your upcoming trip sounds great!
Will you be staying at a resort? Those sort of cruises with a stay at a resort are very popular here. I am not a fan of cruise ships, but flying sucks.
A friend was so restricted on her flight to Europe, she was force to ditch her carry on in favor of further stuffing her check in suit case. Her suitcase was then overweight, and she either had to ditch clothing, or pay extra. She was able to put a jacket and a pair of panties in her back pack. No toiletries. Then, the airline lost her checked bag. She spent 3 weeks in a primitive part of Ethiopia, never saw a town or a store, had to wear the same shoes and pants daily, was able to borrow a pair of socks and a tee shirt.
Coming home, her flight for the connection a layover was delayed. The final flight back to the US was taking off as she walked into the airport.
She was stuck sleeping in an airport chair all night, had to pay for a ticket home, airline would not reimburse her or comp her a hotel room.
She went on multiple international trips in 2023, said none of them went off without some sort of hitch.
No way. No damn way I will risk that.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hola, OTC. No resort, unfortunately, just getting out
of town. Dislike cruise ships but hate flying and Mazatlan is a looong drive. There is a cruise out of SF that we take south every now and then, just to get out of town, be waited on, and get to Mexico. We drive across the bay and park in a structure about 3 or 4 blocks from the ship terminal, though once we took BART and then the F line trolley.
Jan 23 San Francisco 4:00PM
Jan 24 At Sea
Jan 25 At Sea
Jan 26 At Sea
Jan 27 Puerto Vallarta 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Jan 28 Manzanillo 7:00AM - 4:00PM
Jan 29 Mazatlan 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Jan 30 Cabo San Lucas 7:00AM - 4:00PM
Jan 31 At Sea
Feb 01 At Sea
Feb 02 San Francisco 7:00AM
On ship we keep busy in various ways and relax and fart around. We know all of the ports of call like the backs of our hands, have favorite restaurants, markets, panaderias, gelato shops, museos, parques and all whatnot and walk ourselves silly while feasting and such. If the locals have Negra Modelo we do that, else whatever assorted bebidas appeal to us at the moment. (I had my first mezcal con gusano at 15, to ensure a long and good?? life, so some trips I make sure to get in a booster
)
be well and 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 --
Sounds like fun!
Last time I saw Lyle was with Bonnie Raitt outside of Boston years ago. Enjoy.
A portion of the hat collection. This time of year, tend to wear a knit cap
over a ball cap to warm the head and shield the eyes. Not sure if the one
up in the corner is a fedora, got it in Charleston at a mad hatter outfit.
question everything
Hard to tell from that view and they can be blocked/worn
in a variety of ways/styles. My favorite is the classic snap brim
be well and 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 --
good looking hat
mine has a bit higher crown and a narrower band
but the brim is the same
shim sham shooey man
where the hell is my C99 cap?
probably in one of the stash bags
question everything
my c99 hats (Plural, heh) are close at hand and often
worn out and about, alternating with my EFF hat.
be well and 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 --
And there it is…
.
A new way to say 15 minute cities.
Smaller households to dominate Utah's future. Can walkable neighborhoods accommodate them?
Whether any of the polls are true, the idea of ‘walkable' cities is being pushed on us. 20-40 housing units on 1 acre has been built in any empty space here and gawd are they ugly. Surrounded by asphalt and right next to busy streets. Lots of balconies overlook streets and some are as close as 5 feet away. How fun it would be to bring kids up in these nightmare apartments. Oh well..other cities have survived this, but it’s just sad to see Utah joining in. So much for republicans standing up for freedom…yes I know. But the citizens of republican states still believe that.
And how fun would it be when the kids get on mom’s last nerve and she can’t send them into the backyard to blow off energy? Another thing that doesn’t happen anymore is building smaller houses like mine and others all over Ogden. Mine is only 1,500 sf divided up and down stairs, but now they are building huge behemoths with tiny windows and they are butt ugly. Or even bigger ones that have no yard.
Yeah this article hit a nerve. What are y’all seeing in your state?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Around here, new developments are largely autocentric,
but many are coming to prefer older "small town" walkable towns and cities and migrating to them, often resulting in infill building on some of the really large lots.
be well and 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 --
It’s fine I people want to live in small cities
It’s another if people are manipulated or forced into living in them. Forced 15 minute cities are a WEF dream so that people give up their cars and freedoms. In many countries people can only drive or fly so many times a year. Maybe you haven’t seen these reports? It’s part of the WEF's great reset.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I've seen and been informed of them, but I don't really see any
such movement going on around here. I was responding to: What are y’all seeing in your state?. I don't see much decrease in automobile ownership, so far, among those living in such places, though I know people who have opted to be car free, mostly special cases.
The CA master plan does call for each urban area to come up with a plan to house some somewhat arbitrary number of additional people, and I'm sure that a lot of that will be apartments or condos, but there is currently a ton of pushback. Long established places don't have the infrastructure or any place to build it out, the places that do are our auto-centric sprawlburbs where apartment complexes will require vastly increased parking and traffic management. I don't think this is derived from the WEF, but simply from populaton growth projections combined with our already significant "homeless" population.
be well and 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 --
At the other end of the housing spectrum: McMansions
https://mcmansionhell.com
Absolutely
And those who want to force people into the gawd awful apartments that they can only rent have numerous huge houses that they fly to in their private jets. It’s the definition of hypocrisy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
We are filling up
with colonias. Mobile homes and wooden shacks, fancy green houses full of still illegal marijuana, no roads, sewers, water, sometimes no electricity. All the people who settle in them are illegals, virtually all members of the cartel.
A state rep has been revealed to be an huge investor in a utility company that is supposedly going to turn the state's biggest colonia into a real paradise. (I kid.)
In my county seat, some rich developers have plans to build 2 apartment complexes. Supposedly, they will have a pool, gym, and restaurant. I have no idea what population they predict will be able to afford the rent. What we have now is one tiny apartment complex, and one HUD housing apartment complex. They are strictly for low income renters.
We might have some walk to work 15 minute zones in Houston, Austin, and Dallas. I would not expect the concept to catch on in Texas.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Army v Navy hat
I started buying military ball caps at the truck stops when I became an OTR driver in the mid 2000s. My rationale was I needed a visor (is that what they call it?) to shade my eyes from the sun. The military ball caps were always on sale so I usually kept 2 at all times. I also had flip sun lenses so as the weather conditions changed I could flip the tinted/polarized lenses up and down without too much trouble. The hats were also useful in the truck stops generally so I would fit in. They are my elitist disguise.
I preferred my navy ball cap for sentimental reasons. The one I have now is filthy from wearing it every day. I've got to find another. I had already dropped my army ball cap in the mud. I bought a new one, the last time I was in the VA canteen. So I was wearing the new one, much too loud with the Army gold lettering when I walked smokey past a neighbors house. He's an old retired Army warrant. It was a real icebreaker, we ended up talking for a about a half hour about aches and pains, the flood evacuation experience we shared, difficulties getting our homes repaired, etc. His wife isn't doing well. Obviously, they're having a hard time.
In the BP video below after Sagar gets done with his discussion, Krystal goes on to describe the details of two navy seals missing at sea. Brings back some navy memories of watching planes and aviators going into the drink.
I remember being dropped into the sea during basic and waiting for the helo to drop the cable in the water to hook on and then being dropped back in waiting for the U boat pickup. It's lonely out there. I cued the video to Krystal's discussion, but the whole thing is worthwhile.
Great open thread EL! I had a print of that Magritte painting hanging in my home for years. Brain police and Etta also bring back some memories.
語必忠信 行必正直
I have no idea but this might be helpful in your situation.
I don't regularly wear caps but I did come across this and it supposed to work in a washing machine.
yeah, OK thanks for that
your link shows up as a small box with a question mark inside it
washing machines and hats are normally not very compatable
question everything
Maybe this attempt will work.
https://www.amazon.ca/Eiito-machcine-Baseball-Dishwasher-Cleaning/dp/B08...
Yeah, got that one
the dishwasher is an interesting approach
none of that tumbling stuff, thanks
question everything
Ha!
I've never seen something like that before. Remarkable. What will they of next? Thanks Humphrey.
語必忠信 行必正直
Monday Monday
Hi all, Hey EL!
So you got those pigs with wings, the Band-tailed Pigeons, back eh? Cool bird in the yard.
It's too cold here. This morn 18f with about 7-8f chill factor. Might have hit freezing. Started yesterday and lasts to Wednesday. It is colder than an eskimo on an ice floe, colder than a ten foot indian ass-deep in a bank of snow, colder than a well=diggers ass in the Klondike, colder than a Dovekie's keister.
Birders have hats. They excel in them, at times perhaps somewhat eccentric one might say. For the 60's and 70's into early 80's when he passed away, a mentor, Shum Suffel was the #2 California State List, always a bird or two behind Guy McCaskie of San Diego. Shum wore a pith helment and explorers attire right out of central casting, but was dead serious about it. I too am light sensitive, so hats and shades always. I often wear a driving/cabbie hat (the camo one is neat) or ball cap. Also use a military wideish semi-floppy brim, camo. Presently have a ball cap with nothing but a Striped Skunk beautifully embroidered on it. I love it. People do too, especially the guy with the ranch called 'Polecat Heights'. A friend sent it for me not visiting him in too long. I have a pic of me somewhere with a favorite retired one. Half the story is that I bought it at a truck stop on I-10 in Deming N.M. It says Damn Seagulls' with some Dali 'dripping' gull doo on it. There aren't any friggin' Gulls in Deming N.M.! ROFL. Guess they knew I was an I-10 warrior and would be by eventually... My prize ball cap is one I found whilst birding on Sandy Hook in N.J. I found a Connecticut Warbler, and myself in a large patch of poison ivy/oak. And then spotted a ball cap further in. I could read a couple letters on it and knew I had to have it. My concern was ticks, 90% there carry Lyme. I dashed over to the hat and got out, tick and seemingly itch free. It is an official U.S. Coast Guard cap, metal insignia pin on in, embroidered with USCG Sandy Hook on it, where there is a station. I suspect it blew out of a chopper which go in and out all the time, at some point, but recently as it was in mint condition. I birded a lot at Sandy Hook, it is a famous Jersey birding place.
What a great songwriter Nilsson was.
Nilsson - Jump into the Fire
Every great drummer from the 50's and 60's cites Gene Krupa as a major influence. He was amazing.
Zappa revisited the brain police with the 'Central Scrutinizer' in Joe's Garage.
...the white zone is for loading and unloading only, the white zone...
Thanks for the OT and sounds man!
Be well all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good morning Dysto. You might get a kick out
of 3 of my caps I wear when I wish to be semi-bland; one is the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory logo, black necked stilt on representation of the bay with name under from when I used to do GBHE nest monitoring for them, one is a pair of roosting gulls above the words "Inn at the Tides" from said establishment, and one is the Tusker Premium Lager logo that I picked up in Nairobi. The SFBBO one is great for airport security checkpoints and such, instantly converting "suspicious wierdo" into "some damn bird nerd".
be well and 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 --
the stilt hat?
Hey EL!
I knew it... birders are great with hats!
ROFL. I have seen that Stilt hat! Too funny!
Amen on 'just another of them pinko bird nerds' privilege. A butterfly net is great for that too.
I don't care if they think I'm a poofter.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Afterthought re: Krupa; there are some Krupa-Cozy Cole,
videos on You Tube, plus one with Lionel Hampton thrown in too plus, I think, Garry Moore of all people:
be well and 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 --
yeah man, Gene Krupa
great vids, thanks man!
I love the movie the Gene Krupa Story, with Sal Mineo.
thanks!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Thanks el
I have nothing to contribute to the subject of hats, but a similar painting of 'Son and Man' by Magritte has always captivated me. Looking at it still always presents questions that I don't think have answers.
And, Osmo Tapio Räihälä and Les Baxter are great finds for me.
Another version
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thank you otc
After listening to Marvin Gaye I listened to more versions on you tube.
There was this ...
and this ... (Clydie King and Bob Dylan)
... and this
and this ...
...
...
So many beautiful voices and spirits inspired by MLK.
Good morning Janis, glad you liked those two. Osmo
was new to me too. Les Baxter was all over the airwaves back when I was a kid with all of his exotica stuff, him and Martin Denny. Thanks for that Dion, and all the versions you post further down.
be well and 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 --
what a song!
thanks Janis,
what an awesome song... thanks for all the other versions too!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein