04/15 Open Thread: It's Bessie Smith's Birthday
I really couldn't come up with anything today and the column I was working on instantly turned to shit late yesterday, so I fell back on the calendar. One thing I noted was a boatload of "Holidays", all but the outlandish one of which I'm going to list here. It's a strangely eclectic mix, and I bet everybody will find a favorite, I know I did. A couple or more, in fact.
Anime Day
ASL Day
Jackie Robinson Day
Microvolunteering Day
National Banana Day
National Bookmobile Day
National Glazed Spiral Ham Day
National Griper's Day
National Laundry Day
National Rubber Eraser Day
National That Sucks Day
School Librarians' Day
Take a Wild Guess Day
Titanic Remembrance Day
World Art Day
Next, in honor of the Titanic, a little tune in celebration:
And on to the star of the show
So, it's an Open Thread, go for it.
Comments
Titanic Day
is one for the ages.
I actually worked today, sort of, in a socially distant fashion.
In order to have a coherent phone chat with the love of my life tonight (dammit about distance and travel restrictions!), I took a nap, and am now going into the fog with no sleep tonight, other than that nap. The things you do for love.
Good grief, I just want my routine back!
The phone chat was just all that, and if he and I had only one seat in the lifeboat, he would get it.
My tiny town of 800 folks has had confirmation of 2 more COVID-19 cases.
It is here.
I hope everyone stays well.
Take care of one another.
And Bessie Smith rocks.
I will have to be schooled on sizing these these embeds! So sorry if that goofs anything up! So sorry, people!
JtC will hopefully school me on sizing.
It is his site. I am sure he wants to keep it running, "Blog Owner" that he is! Lol!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. Glad for your phone chat, though the
lack of sleep isn't so cool. Sorry to hear about your covid-19 cases, blame it on the CIA and you'll feel better. It would be interesting to to know how many cases there really are, but we'll never know.
One way to resize is in the link below the box that says "More information about text formats", one line of information is this example:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId width:X height:Y]
I think the youtube line is what you get with "share" or something, I always just grab the embed code and post it straight up, though there are width and height parameters in the embed code, iirc.
be well and have a good one
edited to remove blockquote of instruction line, line shows up in comment box but not on screen and still same effect, probably square barckets so--
left square bracket video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId width:X height:Y right square bracket
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 --
Legend of the USS Titanic
Jamie Brocket 1968
fun stuff
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg]
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
Aww, Man!
Great stuff!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning QMS, pretty funny, but, really,
The USS Titanic??? I do believe that she was the RMS Titanic, n'est ce pas?
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 --
True that EL
a bit of poetic license on Brockett's behalf
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
No Bessie Smith Strut this year
In fact the Bessie Smith center in Chattanooga is shut down due to COVID
Here's a view from a couple of years ago...
Kinda explains the cancellation doesn't it?
Well, thanks for the holidays and music.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, hope things are otherwise cool
back thataway, strut or no. Thanks for reading
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 feel certain JtC
will read me the Riot Act, and then patiently show me the tech tricks of the trade that he knows, and that I do not know, as if that isn't obvious.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hey otc, I can help.
just take the video url, in this case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgptvsHHYK4
copied from the address bar at the top of the YouTube clip. (highlight, rt click, select the copy option, left click).
Then type
video: paste address here (rt click, select paste, left click)
...and enclose with these brackets at the front and end [ ]
And this is what you get...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgptvsHHYK4]
Voila!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
My goodness, as someone who loved visiting Paris in the 1980s,
I can’t believe it’s already been one year since fire gutted Notre Dame.
https://www.dw.com/en/unanswered-questions-remain-one-year-after-notre-d...
Good morning lot. Not a date I kept track of, but a sad
one. Glad that I saw it before. Thanks for reading.
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 --
Glad I got to see it
before the great burn.
Paris got me broken in to disdain for Americans. Since then, I am used to people anywhere, in any country, despising us.
When I agreed with the Parisians, they were taken aback.
That attitude of mine works well with bartenders in Panama, for example.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Bessie Smith is in one of my favorite chick flicks . . .
. . . . The Butcher's Wife
A truly wonderful chick flick movie.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Good morning m. Don't think I've ever seen or even heard
of it. Glad to see she still gets some play.
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 --
First we were given "not me, us"
Now we have to settle for "not us, them"
Sheesh, what a scam.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
not us
- they that work not for us...
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There is no word to describe THEM
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 --
THEM!
Terror
Horror
Excitement
Mystery
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
Not Bessie Smith, but ...
Here's my earworm for today, a charming little rendition of a Juan Luis Guerra tune from 1990.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9O5jUcfQus&t=101s width:500 height:300]
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning Az. That was certainly more than
cheerful enough, nize beach too. I won't fire up my earworm destroyer for that one.
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 morning, el ~~
It's amazing how, here in NM, we can have a 10 inch snow one day, and it melts away the next day. It's what I love about living here. It was a wet, heavy snow, which was great to receive in April. In preparing our garden, this unexpected moisture gives us a boost. We are planting new shrubs and it's easier to dig the holes! Our wheat/barley field (food for the chickens) is now coming up. We are ecstatic!
Hope everyone has a nice hump day!
"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
Good morning RA. Glad the weather gave you some help
with the planting. It can make a big difference.
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 --
morning el
et al
Glad to have an outside to be in here that's for sure. Yes, we here are still organizing if you can really call it that.
But one has to think seriously where this is all going. What will it look like on the other side. As a computer scientist I play around, a lot, with worst case scenarios, because that is how you make a program, or whatever you want to call it, NOT fail.
So I get that social distancing works. It's working here. Really well. But, again, what is the world going to look like on the other side of this scamdemic. Not saying it isn't real. Just saying it is yet another op for the upward movement of resources. Yet another. So here's my real question. What, if anything beside howling, are we going to do? Because, as we are all held captive in our domiciles, we could be organizing. Whenever have we had such a chance to work for change with so few distractions. Heh. Cause if we don't we lose. So there.
Ja, have a good one. Ja, ser gut.
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Good morning magi. I get what you're saying and have
neither solutions nor suggestions except the obvious number 1 of boycotting the Axis of Lesser Evil, and hoping to coalesce around some sort of viable alternative.
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 --
Anyone up for some forest bathing?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDjVEpEOdQ]
Good fternoon CB. Thanks for dropping by. The nearest
batheable forest isn't near enough nor probably private enough either. I do recall "bathing" and skinny dipping it both the Navarro River and the Big River with a certain fondness that probably derives from age, distance, and forgetting how cold north coast rivers get.
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 caught that...
and it sure validates my sentiments. Love the terminology...forest bathing - especially as I walk through the forest daily. They (medcram) also did one on the benefit of sauna. That is on the summer list of our slo-mo construction company...build a wood fired sauna.
Dr John continues to promote Vitamin D...sounds pretty convincing.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCSXNGc7pfs]
Davis suggests blood test to see what level of supplement is best for you.
https://blog.undoctored.com/diy-vitamin-d/
I would like to get one but I ain't about to go to a doctor in current circumstances and don't want to pay the $75 or so to home test. Last time I had blood work I was on the high side but that's been a ways back. I am taking a D (and C) supplement, when I can remember.
Hope you can meander in the forests on occasion too!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”