mixers, what’s your name? kimmel’s “don provolone” might also do in commemoration of the big cheese (aka “limp-booger”)
Lynyrd Skynyrd brought Southern hard rock to a global audience during the 1970’s. They released “What’s Your Name” in 1977 and it reached number #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 US singles charts. It is the opening track on their 5th album “Street Survivors”. 3 days after the album’s release in October 1977 the band’s chartered plane crashed en route to Baton Rouge, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backing singer Cassie Gaines. 3 others including the plane’s pilot also died.
Alabama’s Final Four run, brought to you by a 5th-century Indian scholar
GLENDALE, Ariz. — To study Alabama’s first presence in a men’s basketball Final Four, it’s relevant to read about the Pali language from the Indian subcontinent, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Dharma, 5th-century Indian scholar Buddhaghosa, his work Visuddhimagga and his time in the Great Monastery in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
It’s atypical material for a debut Final Four appearance.
Those historical matters from a side of Earth where almost nobody fills out brackets do relate to the Crimson Tide as it prepares to play Connecticut, though, because of something that happened in early January when its season looked muddled. That’s when the players heard the word they have been bringing up at interview daises in March and early April, for a concept Buddhaghosa stressed: “mudita.”
It means the vicarious and unselfish joy in the successes of others, a rather flawless way to approach something as collaborative as basketball, and its complex history traces to and through those far-flung beginnings. It came to Alabama players in another worn-out, time-honored tradition: a speech from a softball coach. Basketball coach Nate Oats requested that speech in early January, when the Crimson Tide had lost to Ohio State, Clemson, Purdue, Creighton and Arizona. Of all the speakers brought to all the teams in all the sports, many of which go into ears and out of others, this one stuck.
In Los Angeles, when No. 4 seed Alabama upended No. 1 North Carolina and then beat No. 6 Clemson to win the West Region, Tide role player Jarin Stevenson told of how his teammates bolstered him even when he shot “my two air-ball threes,” and listeners knew “mudita” had to be a powerful component if it could ameliorate the strain of two air-ball threes.
Mark Sears, Alabama’s star, followed then with how the word “really stuck with us and really changed our season around,” and how “you could see it on our face cheering for others when they’re succeeding even though we’re not succeeding,” and how it “really helped us [reach] this Final Four because of ‘mudita.’ ”
That softball coach, Patrick Murphy, who has helmed Alabama since 1999, was unable to comment late this week with a weekend series upcoming against Mississippi, but in the Alabama student newspaper the Crimson White, Orry Cantrell told of how Murphy discovered “mudita” in late 2013 while in bed reading Kevin Pritchard and John Eliot’s “Help the Helper: Building a Culture of Extreme Teamwork.” When Murphy saw “mudita” in the third chapter, Cantrell wrote, he sprang from bed realizing he “finally found a name for the sermon he has been preaching to his players” during his Alabama years, which have featured 1,264 wins, 14 appearances in the College World Series and one national championship.
By now, the word rang again in interview room after interview room Friday, when “mudita” got its first known turn as a Final Four-related term. With no apparent English equivalent even while having opposites — with “jealousy” and “schadenfreude” among those — it might matter just to have the word itself. That seemed clear in the answer of 6-foot-10 forward Nick Pringle, who said his mother, Kwajalean, had always aimed to instill the relevant qualities. “I feel like ‘mudita’ is something that I’ve always had within me,” he said, “but it’s just a word that I’ve never heard before, and by me having that word, it’s made it easy for me to spread it.”
[…]
“The word ‘mudita,’ ” Sears said, “having vicarious joy through others’ success, even though you may not be playing to your best . . . and you know, just being joyful for others, that’s really how we got here, and that’s really what brought us to our success.”
“Around the time where we had that speech from our softball coach,” Pringle said, “we were still finding our identity. We were still finding out our whys and what we were good at. And I feel like that was definitely the [turning] point, the ‘mudita’ thing.” That was when the Tide realized “this is more than just about for ourselves. We’ve got to do this for each other. We’ve got to be happy for everybody in the locker room.” It stoked “another connectivity to ultimately be where we are today.”
As Estrada put it, “The ‘mudita’ thing was probably the best thing that happened for this team, honestly,” stressing that it replaced thoughts about acts that might seem selfish, such as missing an open teammate. “I feel like when Coach Murphy spoke to us about the ‘mudita’ thing I think it changed our whole season.”
By the end, Buddhaghosa would have approved of Alabama.
Anyone interested in taking up to 50 goats can make an official request with the community by April 10, the mayor said, though he added that he would extend the deadline until all the goats were adopted.
I’m back. Yeah we got some snow and ice… about 6 inches.
Wednesday… I guess I ate something bad… it gave me a bacterial infection in my gut and inflamed my bowels. I was rushed to the hospital that night while it was raining ice. Everything is under control now… I’m home… and on a heavy dose of antibiotics.
Rick tells me that we never lost power. The birds ate everything out of the feeders and he had to figure out how to refill them. He did a good job.
Nice to be home now… I’m a bit weak from the episode. Just starting to eat some solid food again.
“The Time Travelers”
Tonight on MeTV- a 1964 film foretells the future with a wall-mounted flatscreen TV- but a freak accident turns the screen into a path to a frightening future on a decimated earth- overrun by fierce mutants and the struggling survivors of humanity! It looks like existence could run out of time for “The Time Travelers”!
One of the interesting nuggets in the history of television was how most or many towns in the US had a local guy whose job was hosting the monster movies. I remember those guys, they were all the corniest guy you could ever imagine. Svengoolie (Rich Koz), out of Chicago, having inherited the character from a predecessor, seems to be the last of his breed.
Monster on, Friend Sven.
Rich Koz (born March 12, 1952)[1] is an American actor and broadcaster best known for his portrayal of horror-movie host Svengoolie, as well as his early ’90s children’s cartoon showcase The Koz Zone. Koz is also the host of the syndicated Stooge-a-Palooza program. In 2021, he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards’ Monster Kid Hall of Fame.
“Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Ecuador’s capital Quito on Friday night to arrest theformer vice president, who is seeking asylum there, an escalation of tensions that Mexico decried as “an outrage against international law.”
“A rift between the two Latin American countries had been growing since Mexico’s decision to grant political asylum to Glas, vice president under leftist ex-President Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017.”
“Convicted twice on corruption charges, Glas says he is the subject of political persecution and had been sheltering inside the embassy.”
“What you have just seen is an outrage against international law and the inviolability of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador,” Roberto Canseco, head of chancellery and policy affairs of the Mexican embassy, told a reporter from CNNE, calling Glas’s arrest “totally unacceptable.”
“Adding to current tensions was Lopez Obrador’s apparent criticism of Ecuador’s recent elections, saying the 2023 run-off vote took place in a “very strange” manner and suggesting that presidential candidates had used the media, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s assassinationand overall violence in their favor while campaigning.”
Yeah, there’s a lot of that going around. Also, it makes me wonder if there’s a foreign embassy here who would shelter him?
*If MAGAts get Dulles renamed, I will be calling it Dullard’s airport. Doubtful that it will happen unless he wins. I’m hoping POTUS Joe gets a second term with many more Dems in the House & Senate.
Forecast looks cloudier each day, but if it’s windy like today there will be breaks in the clouds. I’m going to a wooded area near here, so I can see the shining eyes of raccoons and bobcats as it gets dark. I may wear my glow-in-the-dark Biden tee-shirt.
“Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday raised the possibility that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was not a “true insurrection” and expressed concern about the “weaponization of government” against those charged with crimes in connection to the riot.”
“It is quite clear that many of the January 6 protestors broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot. Because it happened with the encouragement of President Trump, and in the context of his delusion that the election was stolen from him, many people see it not as a riot but as an insurrection,” he said in a statement.
He continued, “I have not examined the evidence in detail, but reasonable people, including Trump opponents, tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection.”
“Like many reasonable Americans, I am concerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment,” Kennedy said in the statement. “That would fit a disturbing pattern of the weaponization of government agencies — the DoJ, the IRS, the SEC, the FBI, etc. — against political opponents.”
“One can, as I do, oppose Donald Trump and all he stands for, and still be disturbed by the weaponization of government against him,” he continued.
“His rhetoric, whitewashing the January 6 attack, mirrors some of the commentary coming from Trump and other right-wing figures.”
RFKJ sounds like a nazi sympathizer…just like his grandpa, Joe.
“Undercutting Kennedy’s claims that the cases have been politically motivated, the rigorous prosecutions of January 6 rioters began almost immediately, while Trump was still president, and while his appointees were running the Justice Department.”
“Further, prosecutors have used discretion while deciding who to charge. They have largely focused on people who entered the Capitol itself. Thousands of Trump supporters who were captured on video blatantly breaching Capitol grounds, but not stepping foot in the building, are not currently facing any charges.”
“A bipartisan majority of Congress voted that January 6 was an “insurrection” during Trump’s second impeachment, though Trump was acquitted at his Senate trial in 2021.”
“Kennedy’s statement comes after his campaign sent fundraising emails earlier this week that referred to January 6 defendants as “activists” who have been “stripped of their constitutional liberties.”
“On Thursday, Kennedy campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear told CNN the language in the fundraising email “does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views” and said Kennedy believes those who “violated the law” in connection to January 6 “should be subject to appropriate criminal and/or civil penalties.”
“Kennedy has recently downplayed the risks to democracy that either candidate poses, telling CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday he believes neither candidate poses a genuine threat to democracy, but labeling Biden as the candidate who poses the greater threat. Kennedy’s argument was based in being banned on some social media platforms during the Biden administration.”
“In a formal written statement on Friday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the wildly inaccurate claim that the participants in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol “carried no weapons” – and then, three hours later, said he was retracting the claim because he had learned he was incorrect.”
But he knows if he says it, if he writes and posts something, if he puts it out there, it will stick. Did he not watch the J6 hearings? Is he really that unaware of the details or is he lying?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Crooked Judge Juan Merchan is not allowing me to talk, is taking away my First Amendment Rights, he’s got me GAGGED, because he doesn’t want the FACTS behind the Gag to come out. How many Corrupt, Biased, Crooked Joe Biden-“Protection Agency” New York Judges do I have to endure before somebody steps in? I had New York Federal Judge, Lewis Kaplan, with a woman who I never knew, and had nothing to do with, until she sued me for “defamation.” She did not know what day, month, or year the supposed “incident” took place – She knew nothing. Kaplan, a Hillary friend, wouldn’t even let my lawyers put on a proper case, made it two cases instead of one, took away my American Right to defend myself, and was a Crazed Bully as his wife and friends sat in the Courthouse, every day in their little roped off section, and prodded him on in awe. This mysterious lady, who said rape is sexy, got $91 Million Dollars. Apr 06, 2024, 1:06 PM
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Trump: “How many … Judges do I have to endure before somebody steps in?”
Henry II to his knights when he wanted Thomas Becket killed: “Will no one rid me of this troubleome priest?”
“Ohio’s secretary of state on Friday signaled that the Democratic National Convention may take place too late for President Joe Biden to appear on the general election ballot in the state, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.”
“The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which occurs more than a week after the August 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate to the office,” Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters.
It just dawned on me why there is so much about “fifty years ago”, such as “50 Years ago ABBA . . .”, is going on now. The early Baby Boomers have finally retired and the younger Boomers and Gen X are taking revenge upon us by making us feel old. They get to write the articles. Worse yet are the Milenials and Gen Z, they see and read something and have no clue what it is about. The funny videos of them trying to make a call on a dial phone as examples.
I feel old on my own, I do not need some young clueless kid telling me.
Funny, tRUMPsky doesn’t seem to be “gagged.” He’s pretty LOUD.
BB – Jimmy Fallon did an on-the-street thing, asking folks in their 20s to address a letter. They didn’t know where the address, return address, or even the stamp went. (Well, I’m sure their edit was only the clueless ones, but jeez.) A friend of mine was at a grocery store a decade ago or so. There was a rotary phone (maybe internal) at the cashier’s station, and her daughter asked how it worked.
Folks are traveling for this thing. One friend headed to Maine from down south, and one to Austin from up north. Lots of folks at the AirBnb house down the street. So many cars parked on the street.
Renee, glad you’re improving. Gut bugs suck big time. Ginger ale and saltines, yum. 🤤
Dumbass, if you have evidence tell your lawyers. Merchan will listen if you actually present it in court. Your bullshit to the media ain’t evidence. If you don’t have it to present in court (like in your 60 or so election cases – remember them?) then fuck you.
Pat, thanks for the mudita piece it’s fitting. Bama’s got that little engine that could thing going on. NC State had it a Purdue showed that only works to a point.
And RFK Jr…screw him. He’s Dumbass in certain respects. Lies. Only difference- he takes some of it back when he’s called on it.
And now, buckle up for Bama’s shot at that windmill.
…thought of you, RR, when the show i watched (“Tudor Monastery Farm”, which i linked here) demonstrated how to set-up a loom, the explanation was more thorough than the usual documentary 👍
Wiki
Yerby was originally noted for writing romance novels set in the antebellum South.[2] In mid-century, he began writing a series of best-selling historical novels ranging from the Athens of Pericles to Europe in the Dark Ages. Yerby took considerable pains in research and often end-noted his historical works. In all, he wrote 33 novels.
This is really depressing.
a ruse by any other name would smell as bigly bad?
BiD, gold stars for “Dullard” airport and “Mar-a-Lockup” fed prison
mixers, what’s your name? kimmel’s “don provolone” might also do in commemoration of the big cheese (aka “limp-booger”)
Lynyrd Skynyrd brought Southern hard rock to a global audience during the 1970’s. They released “What’s Your Name” in 1977 and it reached number #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 US singles charts. It is the opening track on their 5th album “Street Survivors”. 3 days after the album’s release in October 1977 the band’s chartered plane crashed en route to Baton Rouge, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backing singer Cassie Gaines. 3 others including the plane’s pilot also died.
The Rock stars oughta stick to the Bus. Them planes will getcha. Buddy Bopper and Havens, Otis, Ricky, Skynnard, Stevie, John Denver……
Joseph R. Biden International Airport
Tom Williams
More good numbers for Joe Biden that the media will ignore
via
@PalmerReport
considering this story, the GOPers might opt for re-renaming it pootie int’l
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP (msn.com)
for Pogo and Ivy, a new word “mudita”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04/06/alabama-final-four-mudita/
Could I interest you in a free goat?
in 2022 Trump social media saved by Russian-American currently under criminal investigation.
I’m back. Yeah we got some snow and ice… about 6 inches.
Wednesday… I guess I ate something bad… it gave me a bacterial infection in my gut and inflamed my bowels. I was rushed to the hospital that night while it was raining ice. Everything is under control now… I’m home… and on a heavy dose of antibiotics.
Rick tells me that we never lost power. The birds ate everything out of the feeders and he had to figure out how to refill them. He did a good job.
Nice to be home now… I’m a bit weak from the episode. Just starting to eat some solid food again.
Thanks, Pat. Namaste.
Svengoolie tonight.
“The Time Travelers”
Tonight on MeTV- a 1964 film foretells the future with a wall-mounted flatscreen TV- but a freak accident turns the screen into a path to a frightening future on a decimated earth- overrun by fierce mutants and the struggling survivors of humanity! It looks like existence could run out of time for “The Time Travelers”!
One of the interesting nuggets in the history of television was how most or many towns in the US had a local guy whose job was hosting the monster movies. I remember those guys, they were all the corniest guy you could ever imagine. Svengoolie (Rich Koz), out of Chicago, having inherited the character from a predecessor, seems to be the last of his breed.
Monster on, Friend Sven.
Rich Koz (born March 12, 1952)[1] is an American actor and broadcaster best known for his portrayal of horror-movie host Svengoolie, as well as his early ’90s children’s cartoon showcase The Koz Zone. Koz is also the host of the syndicated Stooge-a-Palooza program. In 2021, he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards’ Monster Kid Hall of Fame.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gilbert-gottfrieds-amazing-colossal-podcast/id883308059?i=1000394169440
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/06/americas/ecuador-vice-president-arrest-mexico-embassy-diplomatic-tensions-intl-hnk/index.html
“Mexico is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raided its embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.”
“Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Ecuador’s capital Quito on Friday night to arrest the former vice president, who is seeking asylum there, an escalation of tensions that Mexico decried as “an outrage against international law.”
“A rift between the two Latin American countries had been growing since Mexico’s decision to grant political asylum to Glas, vice president under leftist ex-President Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017.”
“Convicted twice on corruption charges, Glas says he is the subject of political persecution and had been sheltering inside the embassy.”
“What you have just seen is an outrage against international law and the inviolability of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador,” Roberto Canseco, head of chancellery and policy affairs of the Mexican embassy, told a reporter from CNNE, calling Glas’s arrest “totally unacceptable.”
“Adding to current tensions was Lopez Obrador’s apparent criticism of Ecuador’s recent elections, saying the 2023 run-off vote took place in a “very strange” manner and suggesting that presidential candidates had used the media, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s assassinationand overall violence in their favor while campaigning.”
Yeah, there’s a lot of that going around. Also, it makes me wonder if there’s a foreign embassy here who would shelter him?
*If MAGAts get Dulles renamed, I will be calling it Dullard’s airport. Doubtful that it will happen unless he wins. I’m hoping POTUS Joe gets a second term with many more Dems in the House & Senate.
Forecast looks cloudier each day, but if it’s windy like today there will be breaks in the clouds. I’m going to a wooded area near here, so I can see the shining eyes of raccoons and bobcats as it gets dark. I may wear my glow-in-the-dark Biden tee-shirt.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/rfk-jr-january-6-statement/index.html
“Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday raised the possibility that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was not a “true insurrection” and expressed concern about the “weaponization of government” against those charged with crimes in connection to the riot.”
“It is quite clear that many of the January 6 protestors broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot. Because it happened with the encouragement of President Trump, and in the context of his delusion that the election was stolen from him, many people see it not as a riot but as an insurrection,” he said in a statement.
He continued, “I have not examined the evidence in detail, but reasonable people, including Trump opponents, tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection.”
“Like many reasonable Americans, I am concerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment,” Kennedy said in the statement. “That would fit a disturbing pattern of the weaponization of government agencies — the DoJ, the IRS, the SEC, the FBI, etc. — against political opponents.”
“One can, as I do, oppose Donald Trump and all he stands for, and still be disturbed by the weaponization of government against him,” he continued.
“His rhetoric, whitewashing the January 6 attack, mirrors some of the commentary coming from Trump and other right-wing figures.”
RFKJ sounds like a nazi sympathizer…just like his grandpa, Joe.
“Undercutting Kennedy’s claims that the cases have been politically motivated, the rigorous prosecutions of January 6 rioters began almost immediately, while Trump was still president, and while his appointees were running the Justice Department.”
“Further, prosecutors have used discretion while deciding who to charge. They have largely focused on people who entered the Capitol itself. Thousands of Trump supporters who were captured on video blatantly breaching Capitol grounds, but not stepping foot in the building, are not currently facing any charges.”
“A bipartisan majority of Congress voted that January 6 was an “insurrection” during Trump’s second impeachment, though Trump was acquitted at his Senate trial in 2021.”
“Kennedy’s statement comes after his campaign sent fundraising emails earlier this week that referred to January 6 defendants as “activists” who have been “stripped of their constitutional liberties.”
“On Thursday, Kennedy campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear told CNN the language in the fundraising email “does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views” and said Kennedy believes those who “violated the law” in connection to January 6 “should be subject to appropriate criminal and/or civil penalties.”
“Kennedy has recently downplayed the risks to democracy that either candidate poses, telling CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday he believes neither candidate poses a genuine threat to democracy, but labeling Biden as the candidate who poses the greater threat. Kennedy’s argument was based in being banned on some social media platforms during the Biden administration.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/fact-check-rfk-jr-january-6-weapons/index.html
“Fact check: RFK Jr. repeats, and then retracts, long-debunked claim that January 6 rioters ‘carried no weapons’
“In a formal written statement on Friday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the wildly inaccurate claim that the participants in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol “carried no weapons” – and then, three hours later, said he was retracting the claim because he had learned he was incorrect.”
But he knows if he says it, if he writes and posts something, if he puts it out there, it will stick. Did he not watch the J6 hearings? Is he really that unaware of the details or is he lying?
ps – He seems pretty comfortable with lying.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-nyc-earthquake-sign-god-displeasure-1234999736/
“…Marjorie Taylor Greene had an explanation, writing on X (formerly Twitter) that the quake was evidence of God’s displeasure with America.
“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,” the Republican from Georgia warned.
Question for mtg: Are you saying that to pander to evangelicals or are you actually that stupid?
Addicts are adept at lying.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Crooked Judge Juan Merchan is not allowing me to talk, is taking away my First Amendment Rights, he’s got me GAGGED, because he doesn’t want the FACTS behind the Gag to come out. How many Corrupt, Biased, Crooked Joe Biden-“Protection Agency” New York Judges do I have to endure before somebody steps in? I had New York Federal Judge, Lewis Kaplan, with a woman who I never knew, and had nothing to do with, until she sued me for “defamation.” She did not know what day, month, or year the supposed “incident” took place – She knew nothing. Kaplan, a Hillary friend, wouldn’t even let my lawyers put on a proper case, made it two cases instead of one, took away my American Right to defend myself, and was a Crazed Bully as his wife and friends sat in the Courthouse, every day in their little roped off section, and prodded him on in awe. This mysterious lady, who said rape is sexy, got $91 Million Dollars.
Apr 06, 2024, 1:06 PM
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Glad you’re better Renee. Those gut punches are the worst.
Deep in the heart of cloud-covered Texas now. The second coming of the eclipse will have to be a God-thing.
Love the wildflower bloom. Thank you Lady Bird.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706
“Ohio’s secretary of state on Friday signaled that the Democratic National Convention may take place too late for President Joe Biden to appear on the general election ballot in the state, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.”
“The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which occurs more than a week after the August 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate to the office,” Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters.
WTF?
RR – sorry you got a bad dose of it.
It just dawned on me why there is so much about “fifty years ago”, such as “50 Years ago ABBA . . .”, is going on now. The early Baby Boomers have finally retired and the younger Boomers and Gen X are taking revenge upon us by making us feel old. They get to write the articles. Worse yet are the Milenials and Gen Z, they see and read something and have no clue what it is about. The funny videos of them trying to make a call on a dial phone as examples.
I feel old on my own, I do not need some young clueless kid telling me.
Funny, tRUMPsky doesn’t seem to be “gagged.” He’s pretty LOUD.
BB – Jimmy Fallon did an on-the-street thing, asking folks in their 20s to address a letter. They didn’t know where the address, return address, or even the stamp went. (Well, I’m sure their edit was only the clueless ones, but jeez.) A friend of mine was at a grocery store a decade ago or so. There was a rotary phone (maybe internal) at the cashier’s station, and her daughter asked how it worked.
Heart of Texas:
Folks are traveling for this thing. One friend headed to Maine from down south, and one to Austin from up north. Lots of folks at the AirBnb house down the street. So many cars parked on the street.
New SNL tonight.
blue: Dallas is the heart of it. ❤️
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/06/opinions/solar-eclipse-ancient-civilization-history-election-colavito/index.html
“…by c. 100-300 CE, scholars from the Mediterranean to China had begun calculating the timing of solar eclipses, though they could not predict where on Earth they’d be visible. That skill took until 1715 to master.”
“As science worked out the mechanics of eclipses, some of the traditional terror abated, at least among the educated.”
And then there’s mtg.
Renee, glad you’re improving. Gut bugs suck big time. Ginger ale and saltines, yum. 🤤
Dumbass, if you have evidence tell your lawyers. Merchan will listen if you actually present it in court. Your bullshit to the media ain’t evidence. If you don’t have it to present in court (like in your 60 or so election cases – remember them?) then fuck you.
Pat, thanks for the mudita piece it’s fitting. Bama’s got that little engine that could thing going on. NC State had it a Purdue showed that only works to a point.
And RFK Jr…screw him. He’s Dumbass in certain respects. Lies. Only difference- he takes some of it back when he’s called on it.
And now, buckle up for Bama’s shot at that windmill.
…thought of you, RR, when the show i watched (“Tudor Monastery Farm”, which i linked here) demonstrated how to set-up a loom, the explanation was more thorough than the usual documentary 👍
Get well soon! 🌸
And dammit, Sturg, you’ve got me starting to get hooked on Svenghouli. Im supposed to be hooked into Bama v. UConn. Later dudes.
Author of the Day
Frank Yerby
JUDAS, MY BROTHER,
THE SARACEN BLADE
And many more.
Pogo……lol……He kinda grows on ya
Wiki
Yerby was originally noted for writing romance novels set in the antebellum South.[2] In mid-century, he began writing a series of best-selling historical novels ranging from the Athens of Pericles to Europe in the Dark Ages. Yerby took considerable pains in research and often end-noted his historical works. In all, he wrote 33 novels.
…actually watched the movie adaptation of Yerby’s “Foxes of Harrow” last year for the younger Rex Harrison
NEW THREAD by Jack