By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Something for the season. Everyone has a favorite selection from the Nutcracker. This is one of mine.
Enjoy the music, the dance, but most of all your day!
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By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Something for the season. Everyone has a favorite selection from the Nutcracker. This is one of mine.
Enjoy the music, the dance, but most of all your day!
More Posts by Jace
jace, not just enjoying the music and dance, but also the living expressionist painting of snowdrop flowers gracefully bowing to the winter winds…..if you squint your eyes just right with a big dollop of imagination as they dance. snowdrops or galanthus are also called “Fair maids of February and White ladies” according to wiki and in addition notes: Early names refer to the association with the religious feast of Candlemas (February 2) the optimum flowering time in which white-robed young women proceeded in the procession associated with the Purification, an alternative name for the feast day. The French name of… Read more »
and now to break that wonderful mood jace put us in….it’s Saturday Night LIVE!
https://youtu.be/A8HLnDP6uRM
Jace & Patd
This place is great on Sunday!! Thank you for the beauty musical and visual and thanks for the much needed SNL snark.
Jamie, thanks, but hated to ruin the nutcracker ambiance. however that snl bit was a nut cracker in its own way so to speak. stumbled on fuel to feed the crazies’ fires today, a 2nd curious death re the twit…. remember the old guy in Chicago who was about to give info, now this. shades of vince foster type conspiracies and ghosts of christmas pasts to haunt the scrooge in chief. usnews: Judge Dies Days Before Trial of Private Eye Over Trump Taxes Court officials say a senior federal judge in Louisiana has died, days before he was to preside over the… Read more »
Following the musical theme: honoring the memory of the great Otis Redding 50 years after his death. The lake where his plane went down wasn’t far from my sister’s apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. Beautiful area with a sad memory.
Everybody start whistling the last few bars of Sittin’ on the Dock of Bay …
Also in the way back machine on this date, Congressman Wilbur Mills resigned as chairman of Ways & Means after the Fanne Foxe brouhaha in 1974. Back then it was seen as a joke, fodder for comics everywhere. The details made us chuckle. Imagine the coverage & reaction today.
Met Big Otis oncet…… I was at a gas station in my little military school uniform waiting on a city bus when his big tour bus pulled in for gas and a coke break……I waited by the bus door as the musicians piled off and then there was Otis…..he was a giant……don’t see how he could have been any nicer than he was……not road grumpy, or just plain grumpy, just all smiles and a little chat……he signed my little military hat. Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa…… Those musicians could well have been Duck Dunn, Booker T,… Read more »
Great piece.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7QY8G4OJG6c
It did impress me that here in the deep-south civil rights early sixties, there was a bunch of blacks and whites together traveling around on a tour bus. It registered.
Craig,
You have a new Florida Resident. Say hello to two day old eaglet NE-18. Still waiting on the brother or sister to join the party.
the guardian: A battle for public opinion: Trump goes to war over Mueller and Russia In recent days, the rightwing media and Trump loyalists have been scrambling to discredit the special counsel and smear his Russia inquiry as a liberal plot Illegitimate and corrupt. Using the FBI as a political weapon and America’s secret police. “Secret surveillance, wiretapping, intimidation, harassment and threats. It’s like the old KGB that comes for you in the dark of the night, banging through your door.” This is special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, as seen through the… Read more »
business insider: Attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators escalated sharply last week, culminating in a partisan haranguing of the FBI director on Thursday over the perceived missteps of his predecessor. Conservative and far-right media outlets, already skeptical of Mueller’s probe into President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, grew louder in their calls for FBI Director Chris Wray to either clean house or for Mueller to resign. It came after news that two special counsel investigators at one point exhibited perceived political bias. Trump again characterized the criminal justice system as “rigged” during a rally in Florida on… Read more »
I nominate Sturgeone to dedicate Saturday to sharing his musical memories.
Saturday With Sturge
Sunday Serendipity With Jace
Perfect weekend.
If I could use a typewriter I might could spin a yarn or two but it’s just hard to sustain a narrative on a phone or mini-iPad which is all I have till daughter outgrows her current laptop….lol…..I hate having to look at the keyboard and the copy….
If I could plug this in I could hack it…….
Sometimes I just stare into every little part of that thing….one of the most remarkable machines I’ve ever come across…..
Give the ball to Leroy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c
1956 Underwood.
Good for those suffering from weak fingers from typing on computer keyboards. You also have time to think while composing your love letters.
wapo: In Franken’s wake, three senators call on President Trump to resign Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and two of his Democratic colleagues have suggested that President Trump should consider resigning, after a run of sexual-harassment scandals has driven out some members of Congress. Sen. Al Franken “felt it proper for him to resign,” Sanders said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, referring to the Democrat from Minnesota. “Here you have a president who has been accused by many women of assault, who says on a tape that he assaulted women. He might want to think about doing the… Read more »
Nikki Haley says the women accusing trump deserve to be heard.
I guess Ms Haley has achieved “name recognition” now that one no longer feels the need to explain who she be….
Hillary smashed the glass but now there’s many other ladies lining up to be the first woman president. I’m all for a female president, but please…..not one of those horrid GOP ladies.
Nikki, bless her heart, is actually not “horrid”.
Being a lady or being a man is not what determines what or who a person is.
In fact, as most know already, it’s quantumously irrelevant…..
problem is those who allow themselves to remain unable to process that understanding.
And that there are so many of them and that they have a history which stretches back by writing to the sackings of Jericho and Troy.
Book of the Year:
Hands down, by Mark Twain…..JOAN OF ARC……..utilizing actual transcripts from her “trial”.
Mark and Jean D’Arc
Chucque was a schmucque……
Just watched Episode 8 of Season 2 for the Crown. It concerned negotiations to keep Ghana in the Commonwealth and out of Russia’s arms. Involved a whole lot of interesting dialogue from the Kennedys and Queen Elizabeth. It ends with the Kennedy assassination. This is a great Netflix series that should seen by history buffs. They are doing an excellent job.
Sean Hannity is getting fatter and fatter
I was in Madison, Wisconsin when Otis and co crashed into Lake Manona I was at UW
Brando, definitive moment in 20th C film.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBiewQrpBBA
What I always liked about that clip was that Charlie knew he was facing certain death…..,who was the greater actor…… Steiger or Brando…..,
hahahaha
I can hardly believe Troy but Jericho was a military marvel.
It’s not as if I care.
Mr Steiger. The whole film is in his face in that scene. No disrespect to Mr Brando, but Mr Steiger pulls my focus even during that iconic dialog. For me, that’s what rounds out Mr Brando’s delivery and makes the scene complete.
Western military science didn’t change much over time from Jericho to the Horns of Hattin (3000 years +/-). There were a few technical improvements, but mostly the problems was how do you feed and water men in the field. Then, Gulf Fiasco II & isis (another 800+/-) the technology changed with increasing rapidity, but the prime problem expanded to, how do you feed and water men & women in the field and on the seas. I sometimes wonder whether Joshua’s horns might have been primitive cannons. Or maybe they just blew the rams horns & cattle horns to signal the… Read more »
Love that edit button, I do.
Oh yeah. & I second Mr C’s nomination of Rod Steiger. But, gimmee Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire.
steiger was a terrific scary jud (as in okla’s “poor jud is daid”)….maybe not so great a singer tho’
https://youtu.be/Euq8Z4l6Iwk