Sunday Jazz

Well I made it through Christmas. Yeah I’m over dosed on the sweetness and light. I need something with an edge for the new year. I’m afraid it is going to be one of those years.

Nina Simone seems to hit the spot

Enjoy, Jack

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  1. I’ve been binging my way through The West Wing.  There is a special that takes place is Season 3 Episode 23 – “The Documentary Special”

    If you read the link it shows all the real politicians and various White House staff it featured.  There were several great speeches, but some truly stood out.  Someone needs to go ask Peggy Noonan if she still believes what she said about the qualities needed in a President.  If she isn’t a total fraud, this presidency must be killing her inside. 

     

     

  4. dave barry’s “year in review” from wapo mag:

    It was an extremely eventful year.
    We are using “eventful” in the sense of “bad.”
    It was a year so eventful that every time another asteroid whizzed past the Earth, barely avoiding a collision that would have destroyed human civilization, we were not 100 percent certain it was good news.
    We could not keep up with all the eventfulness. Every day, we’d wake up to learn that some new shocking alleged thing had allegedly happened, and before we had time to think about it, the political-media complex, always in Outrage Condition Red, would explode in righteous fury, with Side A and Side B hurling increasingly nasty accusations at each other and devoting immense energy to thinking up ways to totally DESTROY the other side on Twitter, a medium that has the magical power to transform everything it touches, no matter how stupid it is, into something even stupider.
    Fact: This year O.J. Simpson got a Twitter account, and the reaction of nearly a million people was: “What? The attention-seeking psychopath who got away with murdering two innocent people wants followers? Count me in!”
    Speaking of attention-seeking psychopaths: The epicenter of the year’s eventfulness was of course Washington, D.C., an endlessly erupting scandal volcano, belching out dense swirling smoke plumes of spin, rumor, innuendo, misdirection and lies emitted by both sides, A and B — or, if you prefer, B and A — filling the air with vicious rhetoric, always delivered with the pious insistence that OUR side, unlike the OTHER side, is motivated not by ego, power-lust, greed or hatred, but by a selfless desire to Work for the American People.
    Meanwhile, from out beyond the Capital Beltway, the actual American people warily watched the perpetual tantrum that was supposed to be their government. And more and more their reaction, whatever side they considered themselves to be on, was: Nah.
    Which is pretty much how we feel about 2019 in general. And not just because of politics. There was a continued general decline of human intelligence, as epitomized by the popularity of increasingly elaborate “gender reveal” events. Originally these involved simply cutting open a cake that had been dyed with food coloring, but they have escalated to the point where this year they resulted in — we are not making this up — a fatal explosion and a plane crash. It is only a matter of time before a major city is leveled by a pink or blue mushroom cloud.
    Can we say anything good about 2019? Was there any positive news, a silver lining, a reason to feel hopeful about the future — to believe that we, as Americans, can recognize our common interests, overcome our differences and work together to build a better tomorrow, for ourselves, for our children and for the world?
    Nah.
    Anyway, before we shove 2019 down the garbage disposal of history, let’s take one look back and remind ourselves why we want to forget this train wreck of a year, starting with …
    JANUARY

    [and so he continues through 2019 in his usual droll way ending with this]

    Finally, mercifully, this highly eventful year draws to a close. As New Year’s Eve approaches, the nation pauses to look back on 2019 and throw up a little bit in its national mouth. But then the nation looks forward to 2020, and it feels faint stirrings of hope in its national heart. Because America has been bitterly divided before. There was the Civil War, for example, and that time we could not agree on the color of that dress on the Internet. If we got through those troubles, we can get through the current ones. Because in the end, despite our political differences, we’re all Americans, and we care about each other and want the best possible future for everyone. Right?
    Nah.
    But happy new year anyway.

  7. Jack, jazz. Always good.  
    I love Dave Barry’s yearly recap. 
    Had a great week with LP in NYC. Have decided that 4 days makes more sense. I’m too old and tired to do a week there any more.  Now I need to get over the cold I was gifted there. 

  8.  A Millennial’s reply to Dave rant is “ok, boomer” the millennial’s eyeroll when dealing with the cranky lost boomer.
    And I’m kinda with them on that one. 
    A few days ago I watched George Carlin’s last comedy special. I hadn’t seen it before but somewhere along the line George had transformed in to the ultimate “get off my lawn” cranky old man. Kinda sad as I remember his hippy dippy weatherman days.
    Jack
     

  9. OMG!  LOL!  So true! Funniest thing I’ve read in forever!  Dave Barry,
    “Meanwhile the city of Riviera Beach, Fla., pays nearly $600,000 in bitcoin to hackers who paralyzed the city’s computer system by attacking it with “ransomware,” which is sort of like a Windows update except that at least there’s somebody who knows how to fix it.”.

  11. From Dave, ““We’re not for sale,” states Greenland’s minister of education, culture, church and foreign affairs, whose name — we are not making this up — is Ane Lone Bagger.”
    Wiki:  “Ane Lone Bagger is Minister of Education, Culture, Church and Foreign Affairs of Greenland. An aircraft mechanic by training, Bagger was employed as a flight attendant, air traffic controller, and insurance agent prior to taking up her current post. She is a former member of the Qaasuitsup Kommunia municipal council.”
     
    Interesting.

  13. Pat
    Good music and on the first one, What a guitar player, I’ve never seen such nimble fingers incredible. And Old Dylan is always worth listing to.
    thanks, Jack

  14. Jack….  hey that was great… thanks!
     
    a good way to weather any coming storms
    The weather people are predicting a major ice storm up here starting tonight and lasting until Tuesday morning.  So…  if you don’t hear from me for awhile…  you can take a guess why.

  15. OK, millennials, who can’t focus on your jobs, or anything else,  because you need to be on your phones.   Let’s hope Rusher and Chiner haven’t hacked their brains with misinformation.  (Faux Noise has already zombified the far, right boomers.)
    What are those born 2010 and beyond called?  
    Schools (and parents) need to teach responsible use of social media.
    I think we are in decent shape with the young folks with regard to the climate and guns, if they stay focused on the issues and not the garbage popping up on their phones. 

  16. OK, generation Z-er.    Zed-er.      Nope, it just doesn’t have the same ring to it as millennial.  Nothing comes after Z.   Maybe one of those asteroids, or viruses, finally wipes us out and we start over…or something starts over.

  18.   “Let’s hope Rusher and Chiner haven’t hacked their brains with misinformation.”
     
    oh, the irony

  21. I work with some who don’t understand why they can’t watch Netflix while working, or, why they can’t check their phone every time it pings.   
    Get offa my digital lawn.

  22. the 1920s were the roaring twenties. the way things look the 2020s are set to be uproaring (uproarious?).

     

     

  26. ”I work with some who…”
     
    Yeah, and they’re likely much more tech-savvy as a result.  Modern culture is phone culture.  Resistance is futile.

  28. Bink – I cannot stand condescending little twerps who think they are tech geniuses because they have fast thumbs.  I do like to bring them down a bit if they make a comment about me.  I ask them if they program apps for their cell phones, almost none have a clue about that process.  Then I nail them with I write them and I will give them one they should write to impress their friends.  Only one in a dozen will ask about writing apps.  Less than that will actually do it.

  30. i’m sorry, i just have no sympathy for such complaints as it’s not possible to conceive of the kinds of technology to which i’ll have to adapt if i am as fortunate to live as long as some of you, but i’m already overwhelmed.  Smart lightbulbs, for instance, are, indeed, a good product, but i don’t need them.  Eventually, i won’t have the option to opt-out of technologies like that.  So i’m going to be the old guy who can’t figure out how to turn on the lights.
     

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