Monday Open Thread: May 13 is what you make it
May 13 is the 133th day of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Boomtime, Discord 59, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.8.14 by the Mayan Long Count
GO BEARS!
Sure, I majored in "sex, drugs, and treason"; proud of it too.
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in history:
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 – The US declared war on Mexico.
1861 – John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia started
1917 – Three children spotted Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, which is why she isn't, like, our Lady of Milwaukee
1952 – The upper house of the Indian Parliament held its first session
1960 – Hundreds of UC, Berkeley students cgathered to protest HCUA hearings in S.F. and were dispersed with firehoses and force. This was one of the reasons I chose to go to Cal
1985 – Cops bombed MOVE headquarters in Philly killing 6 adults & 5 kids and destroying the homes of 250 people.
Born this day in:
1221 – Alexander Nevsky, prince and saint
1943 – Mary Wells, singer and songwriter
1945 – Magic Dick, harmonica, trumpet, and saxophone player
1945 – Lou Marini, sxophonist and composer
1950 – Stevie Wonder, singer and songwriter; harmonica, organ, and piano player
1969 – Buckethead, guitarist and songwriter
1969 – Eric Lewis, pianist
1976 – Ana Popovic, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Died this day in:
1945 – Tubby Hall, drummer
1975 – Bob Wills, singer, songwriter, musician, and actor
1977 – Mickey Spillane, businessman
1988 – Chet Baker, singer and trumpet player
2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, bass palyer, songwriter, and producer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Music goes here, iirc, well,
Mary Wells
Magic Dick
Lou Marini
Stevie Wonder
Ana Popovic
Tubby Hall
Bob Wills
Chet Baker
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Donald "Duck" Dunn
Lou Marini and Donald "Duck" Dunn
BONUS: 3D+Elvis
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Good morning
It cleared last night and this morning is fresh and cool with blue skies. We got another 2" of rain this weekend. The forests have responded and world here is green. The garden is doing well too.
I'm framing up and getting ready to pour a 4x8' slab today for a new wellhouse. Took the old one down piece by piece last week. Onward....
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Thanks for the OT and the music. Hope the trip is going well, el. Have fun!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
GoT was awesome last night.
My husband and I never watched it until season 6 or 7. After watching that one season, we decided to watch them all. I am so glad we did. When we're done watching season 8 week by week, we're are going to binge it. There is something very different about watching it all in one swell foop than waiting a whole week inbetween episodes.
I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I would highly recommend this HBO show.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Not for me
I tried to watch it for the first time ever last night. I was unable to make it through the entire episode due to too much reliance on violence / special effects. I fail to see what makes this show such a BFD.
So much for the very first amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, in the Bill of Rights:
Constitution of the United States
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Live stream tonight at 7 pm Eastern
Green New Deal rally in DC with --
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sen. Ed Markey
Naomi Klein, author and activist
and others.
via Sunrise
Lotta gunfire last night.
Of course, I hope I'm mistaken and a lot of people have not been doing proper maintenance on their cars. Mostly to the south of me, in SoCalTown... Yes, I am calling that very particular style of mini mall/big box with huge parking that these days. Feels right and appropriate. No apologies to any Corporate Americans I offend with that. I'm at least old enough to remember that things used to be different.
But hey, I know I'm just an old Cynic who can't keep up with all these new fashions. When the Sneetches run out of money, I always wondered why the Sneetches didn't beat the shit out of the guy grinning about how he had everything and they had nothing and there was nothing they could do about it because they were stupid... (Dr. Seuss had another moral in mind. I saw it more as, "if you have money, somebody will try to scam you out of it...and then try to convince you that it was a good thing." )
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.