29 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. jack, thank you.

    hard not to think of the pop song lyrics and all the movie background scores for which that lovely masterpiece was co-opted  

    See the source image

  2. nostalgia night at snl’ season finale

    The SNL cast reflects on writing and performing season 46’s sketches during the coronavirus pandemic.

  3. more snl from the last last night

    Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like President Biden test driving an electric pickup truck.

  4. these threats must have been what liz cheney meant when she said they were “afraid for their lives” and feared for their safety if they voted to impeach (or now to even acknowledge the insurrection and support a commission to investigate it).

    Police records show threats to kill lawmakers in wake of Capitol attack | US Capitol breach | The Guardian

    The revelation of the seriousness of the threats comes amid Republican opposition to forming a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January attack, which saw the Capitol roamed by looting mobs hunting for politicians and involved the deaths of five people.
    The police documents were stolen and published by the ransomware attack group Babuk, and some were redistributed by the transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets, from whom they were obtained by the Guardian….
    […]
    The threats continued for weeks after the attack.
    Almost a month later, a bulletin reported that “an identified militia group member” in Texas was claiming that if their “operation failed at the US Capitol”, there was a “back-up plan” involving the group “detonating bombs at the US Capitol during the State of the Union”.
    The group was not named but was described as “a large organization allegedly with members from every state, which included individuals who were former military and law enforcement”.

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  5. Back to the CNN Santorum send off. I’m not sure exactly who might have ever accused Sanctorum of being smart. Whoever thought he was was wrong…flat wrong. He’s just another white supremacist who’s overcome his Catholic guilt and has no capacity for remorse for his ignorance and stupidity, which by the way is a bad combination. 

  6. speaking of another bad combination,  the so-called smart + smart-alecky 

    Ted Cruz reacts to ‘Kremlin Cruz’ nickname given to him by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams after the Texas senator shared Russian army propaganda

    poor wittle guy got his wittle feewings hurt when big bad brian called him names. seems detesTED can’t take nasty name calling from anyone other than his mentor and master baiter*. 

    *merriam webster def to bait:

    transitive verb 1 a : to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks bait minority groups : to try to make angry with criticism or insults baiting a politician…

  9. Patd

    Love so many of the classical compositions that became popular songs.  My favorite is still Debussy’s Moonlight Sonata as Moonlight Love

     

  10. So, Santorum said there “isn’t a lot of Native American culture in American culture”, but he’s from Pennsylvania, where half the towns and counties are named for Native American tribes that were expelled by European colonists.  Kind of a dolt, that guy🙄

  11. I can’t see how in the land o’ Goshen that loser extraordinaire scumtorum got hired in the first place. Who DID that?
    THAT’S who ought to be fired. Santy-wipes was a known quantity. Who at cnn hired that freak? 

  12. I can’t think of Victor Borge without considering punctuation.  It should probably be used for all political speeches:

     

     

     

  13. Once upon a time in Denver while locked down by a blizzard, I stumbled up Colfax a short way to the nearest bar.   There were a few people in, not a crowd, and I pulled up a stool next to a rather well dressed older lady, the kind of lady who would pull out a cigarette and wait patiently for some gentleman to light it, looked kinda like Marlene Dietrich.   As sometimes happens in bars we eventually struck up a conversation.  Noticing her accent, I asked and found out she was Danish, and had come to America after the war.  So naturally I mentioned the probably only other Dane I knew of, Victor Borge.  The lady turned in her swiveling bar stool, said his name,  and spat.   So, yeah, I’m wondering what the hell that’s all about and she don’t at all mind telling me.  I’ve forgotten most of it but it was something like Vic was living high on the hog while the rest of the Danes were catching hell.  I’ve tried to look into it here and there but not lately.   He was a funny guy, though.
    But it just shows to go ya.

    I’m sure she had a legitimate beef, given the vehemence of her point of view, I just can’t remember what it was.

  14. sturge, what a way to start off a noir novel with those 2 sentences of yours

    Once upon a time in Denver while locked down by a blizzard, I stumbled up Colfax a short way to the nearest bar.   There were a few people in, not a crowd, and I pulled up a stool next to a rather well dressed older lady, the kind of lady who would pull out a cigarette and wait patiently for some gentleman to light it, looked kinda like Marlene Dietrich.

    i can just hear bogart as the voice over in the movie based on it.

  17. I came here to escape road rage , and six year old boy. 
     
    And Strug  has a bar story from Denver in a blizzard  with a Danish MILF.
     
    Tell me more.

  18. And !
     Victor Borge  was  really clever, and very funny. 
     
    This discussion   of Victor dates  us like tree rings. 

  19. So,  I’ve been thinking of old instrumentals , Apache , Tellstar , …… etc. 
    Then I remembered “Saint James Infirmary” .
    I know it’s got lyrics , but it is an American Dandy Lion .
     

     

  23. KSTP =
    Late night out of  Minn.  , we were near the top of the divide.  Running radios on car batteries. 
     
    This was another hit  ………… 
     

  24. The Colorado DOT   has tamed  Wolf Creel Pass. But they all will eat
    your ass. 
    The down hill into Denver  “Truckers You’re Not Down Yet”. 

  25. I crossed Rabbit Ears  into Steamboat on my water cooled , drive shaft Honda, a V-Twin  500 . This is how I sold  T-shirts in Wyoming at 3 AM.
    The North side of Rabbit Ears is a very long grade  it had a passing lane. 
    I am hauling ass  down hill into Steamboat .
    A  big truck  is pulling the grade ,   a car pops into the passing , no sweat.  Then another car pops into my lane, passing both of them. 
    I drifted to the white strip at 75 mph .  The Rocky Mountains  were 18 inches from my front wheel. 
    I spent that winter in Steamboat, fixing shoes , and makin pizzas.  
     
     

  27. There is a myth  about growing old.  The part where your body or your brain betrays you. 
     
    They don’t sell that. 

  28. There is something about your body  when it can’t haul  your brain around. 
    It did it for decades , and now you get this message  ……………… 
    “Sit down and shut-up” you no longer matter. 

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