Or get your New Years Eve off to a good start, with a little New Orleans style jazz.
Jon-Erik Kellso and The EarRegulars
From the link:
Jon-Erik Kellso and Matt Munisteri formed the EarRegulars in 2007. The band’s weekly residency at New York’s Ear Inn has continued ever since, the trumpeter and guitarist working with an ever-changing roster of players. For this album, the band’s second, clarinettist Evan Christopher and bassist Kerry Lewis join in the fun – and fun In The Land Of Beginning Again most certainly is.
Most of the tunes are well-established if not well-known. The quartet plays each one with an authentic flair and a laid-back, low-key approach that reflects the spatial limitations of the Ear Inn (even though the album was recorded in a New Orleans studio). The musical interplay is complementary rather than combative: epitomized by Kellso and Christopher’s interaction on S’posin’. The mid-tempo jollity of Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans Stomp opens proceedings, Benny Carter and Irving Mills’ Blues In My Heart showcases the EarRegulars’ fragile and tender side, Kissing My Baby Goodnight and Once In A While give Kellso a chance to play with a little more attack as his colleagues maintain a more relaxed style.
Enjoy and be careful tonight if you are out and about. Jack
thanks, jack. there’s also a poem by louise fletcher titled “the land of beginning again” but not quite as lively as yours:
I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor selfish grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door,
And never put on again.
I wish we could come on it all unaware,
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail;
And I wish that the one whom our blindness had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates like an old friend that waits
For the comrade he’s gladdest to hail.
We would find all the things we intended to do
But forgot, and remembered too late,
Little praises unspoken, little promises broken,
And all of the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might have perfected
The day for one less fortunate.
It wouldn’t be possible not to be kind
In the land of Beginning Again;
And the ones we misjudged and the ones
Whom we grudged
The moments of victory here
Would find in the grasp of our loving handclasp
More than penitent lips could explain
For what had been hardest we’d know had been best
And what had seemed loss would be gain;
For there isn’t a sting that will not take wing
When we’ve faced it and laughed it away;
And I think that the laughter is most what we’re after
In the land of Beginning Again.
So I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor selfish grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door,
And never be put on again.
Bing sang a sappy version of a song of same name in 1945’s “the bells of st. mary’s” also not as lively as the EarRegular’s jazz nor the lyrics as good as louise’s poem.
Attribution: Nostradamus Predictions For 2024 by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
sounds like a great big OOPSIE in one land that tried to begin again
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back to happy celebratory music for your new year’s eve
for more happy street singing and dancing click here for tuba skinny’s “going back home”
From BB yesterday and very very true.
A tip of the tam to Hogmanay by Willie Sinclair
They didny touch a drap o drink, ‘til it turned twelve o’clock
“Be sober in the next new year”, said maw, (in her new frock).
The Auld years nicht, was ending fast, As faither polished every glass
We counted doon….Three, Two, One…. oor bright new future had begun
Wi the doors n windaes open wide, we’d hear the foghorns oan the Clyde
Beltin’ oot fur a’ tae hear, the comin o’, the perfect year
Oor big first-fitter, wi hair o’ black, Wis freezing’ cauld, (stood roon the back)
Jist waitin tae, fulfil his role, Wi Dundee cake an’ daud o’ coal
Let the auld-year oot, and the new year in, ha’e a richt-guid greet, let the party begin!
Sae grateful for, the past years health, surrounded by family, surrounded by WEALTH!
“A guid new year tae ane an a’ and mony May ye see”
As we raised oor glasses, tae the roof, wi tears filled in oor eeye
This New year cycle never ends, embrace it, while you can
One day WE’LL be those ‘absent friends’ , they ‘greet-oor’
………….When we’re gone.
May 2024, bring everything you wish for…happy new year, when it comes…stay healthy, stay happy xxx
jamie, for you – particularly that heilen coo that shows up off and on in the vid/p>
wiki on hogmanay
What exactly is Hogmanay? These Scottish comedians explain why us Scots have our very own name for what is otherwise known as New Year’s Eve!
When in Jersey do as the Jerseyans do. (edibles)
Happy to have made your acquaintance, y’all. May we long continue…
Nice tune for making my cajun-style Hoppin John for the New Year — black eyed peas and rice, the Cajun “holy trinity” (chopped onion, bell peppers and celery sauteed in oil), sliced Andouille Sausages, bring to boil in chicken broth with Cajun seasoning and simmer for at least an hour until liquid absorbed.
Sound familiar?
Reagan Should Not Seek Second Term, Majority Believes
The Washington Post, September 17, 1982:
In a close to serendipitous moment, last night LP and I went down to our local bar/restaurant for a quick dinner and I ordered what brown brew they had on tap – Scotch ale (delicious btw). Wish I could say I had Hogmanay on my mind, but, no, just thinking about a good beer to go with their excellent street tacos.
Hoppin’ John is on the menu tomorrow, sans the rice, along with pork and mustard greens. I’m not superstitious but I am a bit of a slave to tradition, and I’ve had pork, black eyed peas and greens on New Year’s Day since I was a kid – no need I see to change that now.
Poobah, the difference between Reagan and Joe (one of them) was that Reagan WAS actually losing his connection to the world around him.
Ah yes, Pogo, I forgot to add that I will include collard greens in my Hoppin John. Btw, my grandmother always insisted that you don’t cut up collard greens with knife or scissors, but tear them by hand along the stems to maintain the flavor. No idea if that’s for real, but I do it anyway.
The whole country was abuzz that Reagan was losing it after the first debate with Mondale, but he recovered at the second debate with that line about not criticizing his opponent’s “youth and inexperience”. Yet he was still obviously losing it, tried to tell a long story about driving on the California coast but suddenly switched topics clearly forgetting whatever point he was trying to make.
“Floo-Doop?”
-SNL character as Reagan (quoting Reagan).
Ideal gop president: Stupid actor with Alzheimer’s.
2nd Best: Idiot fratboy
3rd Best: Oops……..More worst than they ever could have imagined.
But, hey…. They got their rich people tax cuts and their Roe overturners.
“…he recovered at the second debate with that line about not criticizing his opponent’s “youth and inexperience.”
It was funny. Also sad. Sad that in seeking leadership, we-the-people are more swayed by entertainment than reality.
In his early and mid-Alzheimer’s, when they wanted my dad to appear lucid for awhile they’d shoot him up with B-12
I am kept busy these days chewing the scenery of my past.
Our New Year Hoppin John ready for slow cooker
Happy New Year
I hope this year brings us
the end of the GOP and I hope all the
party people involved in Jan 6 go to jail.
love the tune Jack!
today’s meme…
Love that meme RR. Truly words to live by.
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Spend today swearing at whoever spread norovirus at this time of the year.
Newest annual New Year’s Day tradition, cleanout refrigerator of stuff that should no longer be allowed to live and grow in there.
I find her daily more impressive and brave.
I have rarely celebrated the new year as I’ve never needed an excuse to party. So I let the light weights have their day and I stayed home that night. I still do, I can remember one year when I went into the neighborhood quick stop, it was busy and the only sober people besides the people working there, were me and a cop. The rest were stumbling drunks.
Tomorrow, it is blackeye peas with a big chunk of ham and corn bread. The next day I’ll add the greens, onion and a jalapeno for the hoppin john.
This year it will be turnip greens because of this mild winter I still have some in the garden.
Jack
i found ethanol-free 87 octane gas at Quick Trip yesterday and was disproportionally happy about it 😃
BB
Yeah, this is the time to look at things that I bought through the year, like that stuff for Korean BBQ and ask myself, “Am I ever going to try and make that again” ehh, probably not.
Jack
Whenever a i see a mugshot of an alleged criminal with a robust hairline in the news and accused of some terrible crime, i think “but you had such a good head of hair, whyyyyyy??”
Renee
About your meme,
So many good things accomplished are just seeing some small thing that needs done and doing it. If you keep doing that for a few years you can look back and say “damn, we got some stuff done. Like so many things in life it is just putting one foot in front of the other. The compound interest solution to life.
I also think you need to understand the problems with a solution and those that just come back, time after time and not let the later get you down.
In my neighborhood work, we always had trash to pickup. You could have a cleanup, count the number of bags of trash, write the success story and know it will always be back next year. While, I can go back to the old neighborhood and look at the park that is there only because of the work Sherry and I did and I can take pride in it. The twenty years of annual cleanups we did were just as important to the neighborhood and except for the pictures you can’t tell we ever did it.
Jack
I thought I had linked to the play list for the whole album not just one song.
Here is the playlist, I hope.
As i was leaving Quick Trip, yesterday, buzzing with joy over my procurement of ethanol-free 87 octane gas, two black gentlemen approached the outward-swinging door, and being a big door-holder (it’s the easiest nice thing one can do for another), myself, i stepped out and held the door for them.
“Hey, man, thanks a lot!”, one of the men said.
”No problem at all, dude, have an awesome day!”, was my reply as they took the weight of the opened door from me
“Thanks, man, you too!”, they both smiled in tandem, and the good vibes permeated the chilly late-December air, blended with the sweet perfume of petrol, along with a hint of that burger smell the neighboring McDonald’s pumps out
AND THEN
…an obvious trumpistani man (they have ‘a look’) approached the door, surly in his countenance, typical of such folk, while the two men still held the aforementioned door. With a mind of paying it forward, they both held the door for the trumpistani, who had stopped cold in his tracks, as he made a silent nod of refusal with his head, as if to say “i neither need nor desire assistance with this door”.
The two gentlemen insisted cordially, gestures made that universally would be interpreted as “go ahead, man, it’s cool, we are all in this together”, but the apparent trumpistani man continued to refuse to accept a simple act of kindness, so the two nice men chuckled and entered the store as i looked on at and laughed at the solitary figure of the man standing before a closed door.
i feel like there’s a moral to that compelling story 🤔
Happy New Year! ✌️
Bink – I have seen racists refuse to touch a door handle that a person of any color had touched. I have also seen that when I used a door to enter a room and a transphobic idiot walked around the place to use a different door.
Go right if ya wanna get left.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/us/5-things-december-31-trnd/index.html
“…22 states and in at least 40 cities and counties across the country, January 1 is the day they get a pay raise. Seven states and the District of Columbia will have minimum hourly wages of at least $15, up from just four states plus DC in 2023. The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50.”
“However, 20 states are still clinging to the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which hasn’t gone up since 2009.”
Why do fools keep voting for anti-worker candidates aka Republicans? “Right-to-work” is New Speak for right-to-work-for-next-to-nothing.
Bink
I’m not sure who passed this bit of wisdom on to me, but in such a situation you never know what is on somebody’s mind or why they react as they do. We often react irrationally for the silliest reasons, It may be he just had a fight with his wife and was pissed at the world. Tomorrow he may be a more pleasant person.
Jack
Bink – I call that “arrogant hair” syndrome. See: Tom DeLay, Rod Blagoivich, Joe Manchin, RonDuh Santis, George Santos, etc.
I think this maybe the best version of Angel from Mongomery out there
It is now five thirty pm in the BB household. The cats are taking their five pm nap, doggie is out cold too. I have a good three or even four hours left in the tank. Looking like I will once again celebrate New Year’s arrival on Brazil time zone, a record going back many years now.
i knew there was a moral to that story! 🫡
Ok, guess what my resolution is! 👋 ✌️ 🇺🇸
For business owners laying off employees because minimum wage is increasing, YOU DON’T DESERVE TO OWN A BUSINESS IF YOU CAN’T PAY EMPLOYEES A LIVING WAGE!
The owner of my company had houses everywhere, a private jet, and refused to replace employees who quit, nor even give cost-of-living raises many years. So glad to be rid of that shitshow.
They would be happy to pay you zero and keep it all for themselves. Fuck ‘em all! Unionize! Vote blue!
Biden/Harris 2024
https://goodmorningamerica.com/food/story/pizza-hut-restaurants-california-lay-off-thousands-minimum-105971137
“…Chipotle CEO Jack Hartung said on a November earnings call that the pricing at the popular fast-casual Mexican restaurant would have to change “to take care of the dollar cost” and cover the new margins.
“We are definitely going to pass this on. We just haven’t made a final decision as to what level yet,” he said.
But, it’s darned sure not gonna hit his personal wallet.
If fast food prices go up and they lay off employees, it’s time to eat the billionaires.
We just put the NYE casserole together and it’s smelling yummy. Semi-Italian fare – ground beef, Victoria Fradivolo sauce (btw, really good jarred sauce from Brooklyn), penne pasta, garlic, onion, jalapeño, Italian seasoning and cheese (mozzarella and Romano/parmeson). Hearty as they say.
Auld lang sine, y’all.
Given that I’ve survived 70 of these events, I probably should be a little louder in my celebration. Poured my first drink of the night, bourbon straight up, sipping and relaxing. Turned the TV off about 30 min ago, enjoying the quiet.
I did bake some good bread, as usual, ate too much.
Happy New Year everybody, I wish you all well.
Jack
NEW THREAD and a brand new happier year for the Trail