Remembering Trail Friends and Others

Tony, Flatus, Ex-Republican – so many so recently, too many – and never forgetting Jace, Sean and all our other Trail friends who’ve left us.

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  1. encore with a little more beat to it

    Willie Nelson – Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / Uncloudy Day / Amazing Grace Recorded Live: 7/25/1999 – Woodstock 99 East Stage – Rome, NY
    Personnel:
    Willie Nelson- guitar, vocals
    Jody Payne – guitar, vocals
    Bobbie Nelson – piano
    Bee Spears – bass
    Mickey Raphael – harmonica
    Billy English – percussion, drums
    Paul English – percussion, drums

  2. in case you missed all who participated in that 1st video, here’s the list:

    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1989, Jeff Hanna,Jimmie Fadden,Bob Carpenter,Jimmy Ibbotson ,Johnny Cash ,Roy Acuff ,Bruce Hornsby ,Paulette Carlson ,Michael M.Murphey ,Earl Scruggs ,Roy Huskey Jr. ,Randy Scruggs ,Ricky Skaggs ,Chris Hillman ,Jimmy Martin ,Levon Helm ,Emmylou Harris ,John Hiatt ,Roger McGuinn ,Bela Fleck ,Sam Bush ,Mark O’connor ,Rosanne Cash ,Jerry Douglas ,Chet Atkins ,Marty Stuart ,Vassar Clements ,the Carter Family ,John Prine

  3. a ‘toon that I think Tony would have liked and approved of. at least it’s message reminds me of how gracious and kind he was.

  6. Dec 14, 2022

    Florida’s governor once promoted Covid-19 vaccines, but now wants to investigate them. As Tesla’s share price sinks, Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person, and TikTok faces a new challenge from a group of U.S. lawmakers led by Sen. Marco Rubio.

  7. for those who missed last sunday’s sunday morning there was a real treat revisiting the smothers brothers.

    click here to enjoy tommy and dickie once more.

    Dec 11, 2022

    In the late 1960s “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” turned primetime TV upside-down. But folk singers-turned-comedians Tom and Dick Smothers challenged the powers-that-be, from the White House to CBS, until the network famously cancelled their top-rated counterculture hit back in 1969. Today the brothers, now in their 80s, are back for a live stage tour. They talk with correspondent Lee Cowan about sibling rivalries, censorship, and sharing a bond that’s outlasted their critics.

  12. thanks for putting up this tribute, patd…
     
    thanks for remembering all those others, Bink…

  15. Patsi

    …a few i’m not sure about so am reticent to greatly exaggerate rumors, hadn’t heard about Solar
     
    Thanks for being you, Renee

  16. So many brilliant, engaging  occasionally challenging people have been on the trail.  i didn’t realize so many were actually gone.  lucky to have crossed their paths. thanks for the post patsi, and kind words, pogo, sturge, renee and bink.

  17. The last thing i said to Flatus, on here, and by which he was offended, to my regret, is that “we’re all just words on a screen, here”, but i didn’t mean it in a negative sense, it’s what i’ve always thought was the beauty of the format and of what this place was, is that it doesn’t matter how old one is, or what one looks like, or what one’s circumstances are, it’s the meeting of minds in open space, stark in black and white, souls mingling in the ether, sharing joy and fear, anger and love, inspiration and information, anxieties and encouragements… you get the idea.
     
    If i have a way with words, it’s a terrible way, and for that i’ll be eternally sorry, it’s just that this thing in my head didn’t come with an instruction manual, and if it did, i lost it.  Patsi once told me she didn’t believe in apologies, and frankly, neither do i, and if we’re both wrong, it’s too late for them anyway.  Just know that i always read your posts, always paid attention, and never forget a thing, which is my punishment.
     
    Thanks for tolerating me, i hope something i’ve said was of some value to someone at least once.
     
    …and all of THAT is what Horsedooty referred to as my “inner horseradish”
     
    Ok, Happy Holidays, if you’re having them, i’m hiding out for a while, i’ve got the suspicion we’re being systematically eliminated because we know too much 
     
    ✌️

  19. Somewhere online, there is a painting of Yo Soy Horsedooty; he’s wearing a Santa Suit and holding a sign “Will work for Carrots and Cookies” (I think) – that was from years ago when I had a FB account. 

    We never heard anymore from the great state of Minnesota, either, did we? Assume covid.
     
     

  20. My holidays start January 1.  
    Old Nashville stage joke: Old Jeb has a way with words.  (Aside: I think he may have gotten away with THOSE.)
    Bink…..You may have inadvertently  become an integral part of the local discourse.  

    I know especially the damage done by one’s words being misunderstood. One instance was on FB when Mad Mustard put up a favorite Eagles song. I commented, thinking Mad would recognize a quote by The Dude, Lebowski: “I hate the fuckin Eagles, man.” He took it literally, got angry, and quit righ then and there and i havent seen him since. Regrets happen.

    Many used to say of Lenny Bruce: “They killed him because he knew too much. “

  21. AP–  wonderful
    EdVanB “I’m going to stab my mind’s eye for that picture”

  22. Patsi is still so fondly remembered particularly her mama bear defense of Keith Urban.  Loved the country music conversations.

     

  24. And we must remember Jack’s Sherie….  that too was cancer.
     
    Jamie… I remember Patsi giving me hell for making fun of Barry Manilow’s white suit.

  25. Beautiful memories for 9/11 survivor sort of (no longer surviving).  His daughter Vanilla Birdies is on FB under her real name, Arabella Friedland

  26. OSH
    Thank you for letting us know about Tony, I wrote a thank you post last night but for some reason got interrupted and never got back to my computer.
    Ha, I just looked at that last line, it is a great description for what happens with online acquaintances. Some days life interrupts and maybe we get back or maybe we don’t.
    That seems to be the way it works.
    Jack

  29. craig, can we please dump the “dump the trump” thingy at the top of the thread?   at least for now pretty please?  just doesn’t seem to go with the subject matter today.

    even something on the order of this would be more fitting if nothing else comes to mind

    See the source image

  31.  “… it is a great description for what happens with online acquaintances. Some days life interrupts and maybe we get back or maybe we don’t.”

    jack, a phenomenon not limited only to “online acquaintances” sorry to say

  37. With today’s most recent AYSM grift from the fat grifter, besides staring and urping up lunch, I remembered what the morons neice said over the weekend.  He is going to be very much down the rabbit hole.  All the trials, investigations, giving up his IRS lies, constantly called “loser”, and probably much more in the gold tone commode.  Along with probably the most important, SFB florida style.  It must ripe his fat ass to be living just a few miles from the FL governor, and he is not the one getting headlines.
     
    Expect the block chain grift to be the start of a lot of spectacular idiocies. His ego stroked, he probably can’t bring in strippers or porn stars anymore so something has to be stroked, by the artist interpretation of Hell beast.  I hope they got paid in cash up front to do the deed.  He filed a campaign for prez and it was a failure, but there is still time to get that money.  As he sinks deeper into madness I expect great and wonderful disasters, each bigger than the last.

  38. He stood up and literally said, “I am fucking Superman.”   He might as well have said, “I am fuckiing Popeye the Sailor Man”.  

  39. If I had to pick out a super hero to be I guess I always liked that Flash character. Of course, he wasn’t able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

  40. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/us/aaron-dean-trial-verdict-atatiana-jefferson/index.html

    Atatiana Jefferson

    “A former Forth Worth, Texas, police officer was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday in the 2019 shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home.”

    “The verdict comes more than three years after Dean and his partner responded to Jefferson’s house around 2:25 a.m. on October 12, 2019, in response to a neighbor calling a nonemergency police line to report that her doors were open.”

  41. I think this digital, pokey-Orangeman card is a spin-off from his wife’s unsuccessful grift.  

    Looks Like the Auction of Melania Trump’s First NFT Was Such a Dud She Had to Buy the Thing Herself

    “Public records on the Solana (SOL) blockchain indicate that the auction winner is the same address that minted the piece—albeit through a very convoluted process.”

    “Trump’s website discloses that the buyer’s digital address is 497Zu5gfWSv4VNsoQfjixWXQZmKZ2pDzkVSASDBqnFL2. This is where she got creative. At the end of last month, that address was given 1,800 SOL by an address that was itself funded by the very address that created Melania’s NFT. Once the auction concluded, the original creator’s address sent 180,000 SOL back to this newly invented and self-funded address, which converted it into USDC (a stablecoin linked to the U.S. dollar). Dizzy yet?”

  42. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/crypto-exchange-binance-temporarily-halts-usdc-stablecoin-withdrawals.html

    A “stablecoin linked to US currency”?

    Stable??

    “Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, paused withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC on Tuesday while it carried out a “token swap.”

    “The move comes as investor concerns grow about Binance’s stability following the collapse of rival exchange FTX as well as a report of a potential criminal investigation from the U.S. government.”

  43. Never, ever, bet against a computer.  And, the entire hoax of electronic funds is nothing but a computer program.  It is like a ponzi scheme in a way.  You buy up for the first boxes, you sell more boxes to others (advertising and “sports figures”, and at some point you sell your boxes making a lot of money. And, walk away, real fast.

  44. thanks jack, of course i posted as soon as i composed myself.  i remember one day, many years ago now, when i realized how much i would dread this world without you jamie, sturge, renee, flatus  and others, these people i had never met yet they mattered so to me.   didn’t want to see tm without any of you, figured  tony , corey and i were the youngins here would end up with the whiskey bottle. go figure.  fuck covid.

  46. Looks like sfb lite has decided to get rid of certain members of media from his twit.  The reporters that covered his banning of the people and sites that used public information about him flying around are now banned.  Yup the guy is going full nuts nutty.  Ah, little temper tantrums are so becoming of the sfb types.
     
    Right now many on twit are sharing their various addresses on other media, especially Mastodon, Post.news and instagram.

  47. So the DC bar committee recommends Rudee be disbarred over his bullshit election fraud claims. Good for them. 

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