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Afternoon folks!

We've got some serious blues and blues-rock this week. Starting off we've got an album from Texas bluesman Albert Collins from early in his career (1962-63) followed by a late career live album from blues guitarist Jimmy Burns. After that, it's on to a bunch of live blues-rock albums starting with Canned Heat with John Lee Hooker and the Chambers Brothers, then it's on to Santana in 1968 and The Allman Brothers in 1970. We finish up mellowing out with New Orleans piano player James Booker.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope you are all in fine fettle and enjoying your weekend.

There is never any good news, but occasionally, there is a good source of opinion and even satire concerning the constant bad news. Gallows humor, I suppose.

A few weeks ago, I subscribed to Lee Camp's Redacted Tonight channel. I watched his RT show back in the day, and was actually surprised he is anywhere to be found.

He hammers Israel for their genocide. Up until I saw this 14 minute video, I had no idea he was a Jew. I enjoyed him skewering Jordan Peterson.

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

After weeks of beautiful weather and cooler than normal temps (low 80s), the mercury finally hit the century mark yesterday for the first time this summer. We're in a mini 3 day heatwave that started on Wed.. Tomorrow the temps are supposed to drop back to the upper 80s, which is more normal for this time of year.

Needing photos to post for tonight's FNP, I went to the zoo on Wed. I had planned to spend about three hours there. About 20 minutes after arriving my back said otherwise. So we had a discussion and came to an agreement. My back agreed to stay for 90 minutes but only if we stayed on flat ground and didn't go traipsing up and down through all the canyons. If you've never been to the San Diego zoo, there's a lot of walking up and down through the canyons on your journey through the different habitats. It worked out well. It's been a while since I photographed the reptiles and they're all located on flat ground.

Jamaican Iguana

Recent Gallup Poll
So recent poll numbers are interesting. The Trumpster's favorable rating has declined. His net favorable rating is around negative 16 points, which is lower than former President Biden's is. Biden's net favorable rating is negative 11 points. The new pope, the American one, had the highest favorable net rating. And after him came Zelensky!?? at 18 positive points and then Sanders at 11 positive points. What the heck, Zelensky???? And btw, what's with the headline of the article (Trump trails Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders in favorable polling: Gallup), listing AOC before Sanders as coming higher than Trump. Yea, she did, but she's at negative 4 points net favorable rating, and Sanders is way above that and in the positive range!

From the NY Times. Doesn't that chair/head combo in the back between Trump and what's his name (Vance) look like a black skeleton? That's what I thought it was a first... I though the picture had been modified into a kind of joke! (Sorry, the link to the pic is in Spanish, I got it while working on my Spanish language learning)

I was in high school from 1968 to 1971. The "news" of the day included much palaver about "Women's Lib." Norman Mailer made an ass of himself as the self-appointed cultural voice of ridicule toward "the Libbies." Within the foment of that era, there were many seemingly loony ideas floated on television talk shows: "Sexual intercourse is rape." I have to cut Mailer a dab of slack for his Male Chauvinist Pig routine.

Here we are on a special Wednesday (aren't they all ?).
Sitting here at the local library wondering if the writers group