117 thoughts on “Happy Fourth!”

  2. Happy Fourth of July, or should we have celebrated the Second of July?

    Today is a special day never the less, as the copies of the newly signed Constitution were being made and sent to the states.  As I learn of my many ancestors in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, possibly Pennsylvania too, I try to imagine how they felt as many were directly involved in the American Revolutionary War.  We often forget that the war was ongoing when the Constitution was written and signed.

    Today I believe that the current administration will fail and America will survive the Russian war on our country.  In spite of what is obvious support of the Russians by the administration and many in the Congress, we the people of these United States, will prevail.  The American Experiment will continue, severely wounded by traitors and white supremacists, we will bandage our wounds and once again become the Republic formed so many generations ago.

  5. from think:

    Thus, in 1852, Douglass saw fit to tell the nation about herself: His address is as much a powerful historical record of moral outrage as it is a poetic document. A conscientious objector, a dissident and a patriot eschewed silence and civility and issued a torrent of eloquent anger to rouse the spirit of northern whites to advocate the end of slavery for a nation who reifies her origins as a beacon of freedom and the embodiment of the enlightenment era’s highest ideals.

    And in 2018, Douglass’ words still rattle and sear the soul. How can anyone celebrate our forefathers independence from tyrannical rule when we are witnessing in real time the separation of families and migrants, who emulate those who for generations sought refuge on these shores for our entire history? How can anyone celebrate the founding of this nation when civil liberties and systemic injustices yet persist for all who are non-white men?

    […]

    Reading Douglass’ sharpest, most famous rebuke, read in 2018 — after 500 days of the Trump administration — is great to meditate during the 242nd anniversary of this nation’s founding.
    “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” he asked. “I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”
    “There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour,” he added.

    Douglass’ words cut to the quick when Americans have to face cruel acts done in our name.
    [….continues…]

  6. Do they still give Logic Tests in school? I remember we were given one in 4th grade & a question was:

    Does England have a July 4th?

    Of course it does, just another day for them. But a majority of Americans answer no to that. Interesting how the brain thinks.

    A number of people also fail when asked to print; writing disqualified many a student. We read what we want 😉

     

  7. Raining in old Caroline……will make it hard for those who have uncovered grill areas to crank up the Barbie…….maybe it’s just a squall and it will roll on thru….
    I think I’ll just grill some day-2 spaghetti on the stove…..
     

  8. Reading the Douglass article brings back a fact ‘northern whites’ want to forget or not acknowledge: they had slaves too, both African & Native American. The 1790 Census is an interesting read for those with Connecticut ancestry.

    A maternal great-great grandfather who came from Meriden, Connecticut has a murky past, though descendants from him who’ve taken dna tests show a surprisingly large percentage of ancestry from Senegal & Nigeria. A cousin pointed out how this shared heritage is a common link.

    Hmm mm …. very interesting.

  10. sjwny, in 1776 musical, mr. Rutledge sang this to the northern delegation:

     

    Molasses to rum to slaves, oh what a beautiful waltz
    You dance with us, we dance with you In molasses and rum and slaves

    Who sail the ships out of Boston
    Ladened with bibles and rum?
    Who drinks a toast to the Ivory Coast?
    Hail Africa, the slavers have come New England with bibles and rum
    And its off with the rum and the bibles
    Take on the slaves, clink, clink
    Then hail and farewell to the smell
    Of the African coast

    Molasses to rum to slaves
    ‘Tisn’t morals, ’tis money that saves
    Shall we dance to the sound of a profitable pound In molasses and rum and slaves
    Who sails the ships out of Guinea
    Ladened with bibles and slaves?
    ‘Tis Boston can boast to the West Indies coast Jamaica, we brung what ye craves Antigua, Barbados, we brung bibles and slaves!

    (Spoken dialogue mixed with Auctioneer chanting)
    Molasses to rum to slaves
    Who sail the ships back to Boston
    Ladened with gold, see it gleam
    Whose fortunes are made in the triangle trade

    Hail slavery, the New England dream!
    Mr. Adams, I give you a toast:
    Hail Boston! Hail Charleston!
    Who stinketh the most?

  11. Happy 4th everyone. Gonna be another hot one in West Bumfuck, BGWV. Gonna hang with Mrs P,  do a couple hours of lawn work and turn perfectly good rum into perfectly good mojitos and turn perfectly good ground beef into delicious hamburgers. Oh, and try to keep the dog calm while the neighbors try to blow their fingers off.

    Oddly enough I don’t see any of the traditional stations looping war movies or anything similar to celebrate the fourth. Starz though is playing a marathon of Mel Gibson’s the Patriot and Sons of Liberty and ESPN classic is doing a marathon of the past Nathan’s hot dog eating championships. I guess nothing is more appropriate for the for the 4th.

  12. Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, youngest signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

  13. Patd

    Molasses To Rum to Slaves is one of the most chilling songs in 1776.  Naturally we will be observing our family tradition of watching that movie today.

    After Nixon screened this film at the White House, Nixon asked Warners to delete Cool Cool Considerate Men from the film.  Warner did as Nixon asked and it was only put back in years later in the fully restored video.

     

  15. All of the folks making cuts to school budgets should be reminded of Adams’ letter to Abigail from Paris about his purpose:

    To take a Walk in the Gardens of the Palace of the Tuileries, and describe the Statues there, all in marble, in which the ancient Divinities and Heroes are represented with exquisite Art, would be a very pleasant Amusement, and instructive Entertainment, improving in History, Mythology, Poetry, as well as in Statuary. Another Walk in the Gardens of Versailles, would be useful and agreeable. But to observe these Objects with Taste and describe them so as

    to be understood, would require more time and thought than I can possibly Spare. It is not indeed the fine Arts, which our Country requires. The Usefull, the mechanic Arts, are those which We have occasion for in a young Country, as yet simple and not far advanced in Luxury, altho perhaps much too far for her Age and Character.

    I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelain if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The Science of Government is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematics and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Music, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelain.

  17. The DC eagles nest is almost to the end of the season for Mr. P and First Lady.  This year’s chicks are now branching and should fledge in the next couple of weeks.  They are now named Victory and Valor.

    Nest Web Cams

     

  19. Happy 4th everyone!

    Going to the family camp for barbieQ, swimming, taking saunas and other high jinks.  I will declare Civil War upon the lily pads.

  20. Happy 4th!  I remember parades and carnival food and fireworks of my youth in northern Vermont (really just one of those nasty border-crossers, scuffing up my shoes in order to save 3 bucks). Anyway, one night, we were all munching on hotdogs on the shore, waiting for the fireworks to start on the pier.  But the firemen (or who know, maybe the mayor?) made a huge mistake and the entire box went off at the same time. What a hoot! (for us, I guess it wasn’t much of a hoot for him).

    I’m wearing my rainbow shirt for the #SecondCivilWar and reinforcements are standing ready to the north.

    Enjoy your day!

  21. Jamie, to which part of those lyrics did Nixon object?
    Come ye cool cool conservative menThe likes of which may never be seen againWe have land, cash in handSelf-command, future plannedFortune flies, society survivesIn neatly ordered lives with well-endowered wives
    We sing hosanna, hosannaTo our breeding and our bannerWe are cool
    Come ye cool cool considerate setWe’ll dance together to the same minuetTo the right, ever to the rightNever to the left, forever to the rightMay our creed be never to exceedRegulated speed, no matter what the need
    What we do we do rationally We never ever go off half-cocked, not we Why begin till we know that we can win And if we cannot win why bother to begin? Rutledge: We say this game’s not of our choosing Why should we risk losing? All: We are cool

  22. Mark Twain for your 4th: “I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.”

  23. Although the Second Civil War is raging around somewhere, I have “Drinks With The Director” starting at noon.  This will be around the corner on the South River at New London Towne.  Near here is where my multi-great grandparents married in 1682.  I will be wearing a Red White and Blue sun dress and a floppy Disney safari hat, with sandals.

  24. due to the expected heat, I’m wearing white with a touch of flag.

    just filled doggy pool in shade of oak trees for billie bob and bu to enjoy and celebrate bu’s 1st birthday….  am considering treating her to half a hot dog in lieu of cake to suit the occasion.

  25. The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
    When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”

    Alexander Hamilton

     

  26. I predict the Union will win the second civil war, started by Trumpsky & waged in the media.  I’m wearing a tee-shirt, capris, flip flops & natural insect repellent to fight the war of the mosquitos.  Sunglasses & a hat to fight the rays; I don’t believe in sunblock.

    They don’t even teach cursive in school; it’s now a print/cursive mashup…cuz keyboards, y’all.

    Have a safe & happy 4th!

     

  28. Forget U.S. press coverage of GOP senators meeting with Russians this week. Our side banned reporters, but the Russians didn’t (see Shelby of Alabama at the 1:00 mark)..

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  29. abc news:
    The head of a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Russia said Tuesday he hopes for “a new day” in repairing relations between Russia and the U.S.
     
    Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow two weeks before the countries’ presidents are to meet in Helsinki.
     
    “We come here realizing that we have a strained relationship, but we could have a better relationship between the U.S. and Russia, because we have some common interests around the world that we could hopefully work together on,” Shelby told Lavrov at the start of their meeting. “We could be competitors — we are competitors — but we don’t necessarily need to be adversaries.”
    […continues…]

  30. usnews:  US Senator: Moscow Must Not Meddle in the 2018 Election

     

    MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S. senator who is part of a congressional delegation visiting Russia says Moscow could help improve ties by not meddling in the midterm U.S. election in November.

    Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Russia’s “change in behavior” is essential for better relations. Thune says “the best way to demonstrate this as we head into the 2018 election is to show the American people and our Congress and our administration that the Russians have no intention of messing or playing with the American election.”

    […continues…]

  36. To me America doesn’t mean agreement…  to me it means diversity.  That chart, Craig, looks just right, IMO.

    off to the camp now…   everyone have fun and stay safe!

  39. We are having tacos and margies and it’s cold and foggy here so I am wearing my America flag sweater with the eagle buttons.  It’s a party at a friends and there will not be any Trumpians there.

  40. Sturgeone – Shortly I will make the drive over to New London Town to enjoy Colonial drinks

    Raise a toast to independence and explore the Colonials’ passion for potables during Drinks with the Director. Rod Cofield, London Town’s executive director, will play bartender, serving up punch and cider while sharing the important role of taverns in the 17th and 18th centuries. Enjoy a relaxed afternoon of drinks and conversation on taverns, archaeology, and early America. Come when you can; leave when you must!

    Drinks include Hard Cider, the Lord Mayor’s Punch (Rum, Brandy, Lemonade, Limeade, Sugar, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg), and the Little Lord Mayor’s Punch (Lemonade, Limeade, Sugar, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg)

     

  41. Tres Cool, BB…..I guess I might crack open a brewski, or maybe some Capt Morgan spiced rum, since that’s what’s on hand…..

    might just be we need a Declaration of Independence from the GOP.

  44. J.K. Rowling
    @jk_rowling
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    Replying to @jk_rowling

    ‘pour’ hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    JK’s response to his “I’m a great writer” post before he corrected pour to pore.

  45.  

    J.K. Rowling
    @jk_rowling
    17h

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha someone told him how to spell ‘pore’ hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 

    That woman is simply adoreable……

  46. Brexiter, Aaron Banks, like his Russian counterpart on this side of the pond (Trumpsky), likes to get into twitter wars he is not equipped to win.  However, he has nobody to correct his spelling…except the person he has decided to target for no apparent reason.

  47. We thought this was one of the greatest songs ever…..we laughed like drunk hyenas……

  48. Larry Henley, lead singer, was co-writer of “Wind Beneath My Wings”……the other two, Mark and Dean Mathis were great players, had many bands……

  51. “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”

    — Samuel Adams

  52. pic above is the twit tweet rowling laughed at about the misspelling.  according to

    newsweek:  Trump Biographer Slams President’s Boast About Writing Many Books: You Didn’t Write Any of Them
    President Donald Trump may have boasted about his writing ability in a misspelled tweet, but his former biographer claims the businessman did not write a single one of his books.
    Trump touted his writing skills on Tuesday as the author of “many” bestsellers, prompting Tim O’Brien, a biographer of Trump, to point out that the president didn’t do the brunt of the writing himself.
    l[….]
    Following Trump’s tweet, O’Brien shot back: “Another one of those tweets that sure seem staff-written. Regardless: President Trump didn’t write any of his books. Ghostwriters on all of them,” also sharing a link to the president’s original boast.
    He later added: “Does the conversation among Trump staffers prior to tweeting on his behalf go something like this?: “Let’s dumb these down and introduce spelling and grammatical errors so they sound like the leader of the free world.”

  53. May the Ford be with you.

    “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

    –Paine

  55. the guardian:  Fireworks aren’t cause for celebration for veterans and gun violence survivors

    [….]
    Emma González, the 18-year-old activist from Parkland, Florida, shared a request for this kind of sensitivity earlier in June, with those in the area where her high school there, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was the scene of a mass shooting on Valentine’s Day that took 17 lives. She asked those in Parkland and nearby Coral Springs to be aware of the impact fireworks might have on their neighbors, including “nearly 3,500 students and faculty facing the short and long-term effects” of the school shooting.
     
    “Fireworks produce noises much like gunshots, and unexpected fireworks can/will cause physical and mental distress in those directly affected by the tragedy. Please be careful,” an image González shared on Twitter advised.
     
    The post suggested that local Florida residents notify their neighbors of any plans to set off fireworks, consider alternate ways of celebrating, including using sparklers or decorating cakes, and allow for a “judgement-free zone” for people sensitive to loud noises.
    [shows poster]
    In California, a veterans group sold and gave away 150 yard signs advising neighbors to be sensitive about fireworks because a combat veteran lived there.
     
    “I’ve had phone calls from Kentucky, from Florida,” Jesse Leal, the vice-commander of Marines: Central California Veterans, the group that organized the sign campaign, told the Guardian. “We’re completely sold out.”
     
    Leal, a retired gunnery sergeant who served for 22 years, including in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq, said he posted a sign on his own lawn.
    “I suffer from PTSD myself,” he said. “Every year, the noise, the bang, the flashes – it does bring flashbacks of being there, and I wake up, and my wife says I’m covered in sweat.”
     
    Displaying the sign prompted a conversation with his neighbors, who came over to tell him they had not known that fireworks might affect him that way, and to promise that they would set off their fireworks away from his home.
     
    Like other service members, Leal said, he had previously been reluctant to talk about his post-traumatic stress. “I never went out there,” he said. “It’s more of a pride thing. That sign speaks for us.”
     

  56. above parkland students poster.

    signs at vets houses posted by Marines: Central California Veterans read: “Combat Veteran Lives Here. Please be courteous with fireworks.”

  57. Saw a commercial for CNN’s upcoming “2000” series.

    Did Howard Dean’s scream really lose him the nomination or was he just not liked by bigwigs?

  58. Just returned home from the “Drinks With the Director”.  Met several other members of Historic New London Town, and had the director alone for quite a while.  They like to talk to people who can link directly to the 1680’s town.  The grounds are beautiful, green lush with many summer plants in bloom.  I learned about current projects and future projects for the rebuilding of the town to the days of 1690 to 1710.   It was too hot for people like me to wander around.  Later this year when the temperature is cooler will be better.

  61. hope old sea gets a laugh out of this by Alexandra petri
    Not the Vineyard, no!
     

     
    There is no greater ignominy than this, to be shunned by the crowd who Summer in a Location.
     
    Truly you have not known oppression until you have gone to the Vineyard and not been Received, as Alan Dershowitz has.
     
    This is an unthinkable horror, this breakdown of civility. The tiny whales on the shorts of strangers all pointedly turn in the opposite direction when you enter the room. The Black Dog barks ominously at you, as though you were a stranger and not a Friend of the Family. Yacht captains pointedly pull up their gangplanks at your approach, and your martini includes no olives even though you expressly requested olives. To see other people in a boat in boat shoes, drinking cocktails, while you must stand on shore, in boat shoes, drinking cocktails!
     
    No, until a man in shorts the color of radioactive salmon has turned away from you midway through what you were certain was an interesting anecdote, and you have been refused admission to a party that was going to break a bottle of champagne over the hull of a boat named Yacht So Fast, or Market Float, or Would You Like to Sink With iTunes Now, can you say that you have been oppressed?
    Think what this means, and let the full indignity dawn on you. Men in cable-knit sweaters with names like Trip and Trey mixing drinks — apparently for you — and then offering them to others. The casual cruelty of a J.Crew catalogue cursed and made animate.
     
    Others may claim that they live in a society poisoned against them — but imagine not being invited to a party where everyone is wearing seersucker. To see everyone else invited to “There’s A Seersucker Born Every Minute,” drinking Dark and Stormys in your absence! This must be expressly prohibited in the Bill of Rights somewhere.
     
    When I see people massed with signs to complain about oppression, I wonder: Have they seen other people leaving for croquet and known they were excluded? Have they seen what Jared and Ivanka may suffer at the Hamptons? This is a nightmarish fate that the Founders would not have wished upon us. People may scarcely nod in their direction at group gatherings! They may heat the gazpacho before serving it to them. They may give them a peculiar number of forks and spoons in no way correlated with their number of courses. At the bottom of their martinis, curled inside the olive, may lie a rude note. To what depths will these foes of free social intercourse not sink?
    This is like when John Lewis was not allowed to join a bridge foursome. Or he had some other bridge-related problem. Anyway, this is the cruelest cut of all. A paper cut. From real stationery. It is too far.

  65. Aww, I’m sorry, I don’t even know the guy…..

    l wonder if they’d shun me on the Vineyard…..Old Sea wouldn’t, but I don’t know about all them other Vinyardians……besides…….I really hate croquet, even though as a hobby I have made a set or three for people……

    Haha…..one time I made one where the balls were off-shaped a bit so they’d wobble when they rolled…..it was an Art Piece.

  66. I used to dabble in Art back when I had more time…..nowadays I just dabble in work. And it takes a lot of dabbling to pay the nut.

  68. A dabble in time saves nine.

    Unfinished doors to be stained and finished by others in situ.

  69. No, I can’t lay brick, even tho my dad was a mason….he was also a welder, but I don’t like electricity or sparks and hot metal shit, so I didn’t get that either. I got the wood part.

  72. One of our early endeavors in raising the child was from earliest days, I’d utter speech in the idiom of my colloquial roots, only to be corrected by The Other…..the child grew and learned to play the game very well as she progressed….she picked up the nuance of language….

    That semester in Developmental Psychology was really a great investment……I loved the story of John Watson and the baby.

    Baby Albert?

  73. The best part was Watson got in trouble for something and said screw it and went and made a million bucks selling Fleischman’s Yeast……or maybe that was a different guy…..well, it was something like that, it’s been a long time…….

  74. What Dev Psych told me was that the first 5 years were the key to everything….1 thru 3 being crucial…..it was exhilarating to put it into practice and view the results in real time.

    At that time, I had the luxury of only working 3 nights a week and so we were together every day……ho boy I told her some stories…..

  77. Ok….I’m braggin’ now….lol… This was a photo shoot backdrop for the attendees of an event, so she made one of herself for us…..

  78. It’s y’all’s fault for going out doing cool Fourth of July stuff  and leaving the Fishcamp at the mercy of ne’er-do-wells with no particular place to go……..

  79. BiD – the Mermaid was on a bowl discovered during a dig on the New London Town grounds.

    My ancestors on my Mother’s side came up two paths.  The first and oldest is they arrived in Virginia at either Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown or Gloucester Point (indentured servents).  They almost immediately went across the Bay, starting in 1630ish to the Pokomoke River and started plantations, the first town was Rehobeth.
    The second was arriving at St. Mary’s, Maryland colony and travelling up the Patauxtant River and settelling around Marlboro, Maryland County then moving north in the mid-1700’s to what is now Hyattsville, Maryland.

    My public website is Moi.  It is not quite up to date.  I need to do another merge between that tree and my Ancestry tree.  Then clean out the obvious incorrects and post the updated tree.

  81. We all copied Roy Orbison, Chuck, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, the Everly Bros, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee, Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, and Elvis…..it’s where every rock n roll band in the world came from…..

  84. BB – It seems your folks were Southerners compared to mine up in MA; Dorchester, 1640.  I found a great antiquarian book detailing the area.  I imagine you can/have found something similar about your kin.

  86. My favorite story is about a dispute over money between my 11th great-grandfather and a neighbor.  Grandpa finally paid the money by hiring someone to throw “bauls of paste” continuing coppers onto the person’s property.   Was “paste” just mud or something more odorous?

  91. The Beatles copied their bowing shtick and Lennon copied Orbison’s “stance”.      Fun times.

  93. Jerry Lee’s secret: a deep irreverence and the strongest left hand in Show Business……oh, and raw unquenchable talent….

  94. But he could also show a sweet side as in this old favorite penned by the great Harlan Howard…….

  100. Yesterday I stopped and talked to miss Tam the manager and boss at the Vietnamese Buddhist temple. They were making steamed stuffed  buns, she gave me 2 one for me and one for Mrs Jack.  We ateone last night and had the other for breakfast. I need to learn how to make them. This is the first time I have ever eaten a steamed bun/roll that was fit to eat. These were really really good.

     

  101. Jerry Lee no comprende “mellow”.  He was just trying to be a good little Nashvillian…..keeping his inner Jerry under wraps…..got to see him live once, dropped by the dressing room and met him and his wall lined with pints of Old Grandad…..autographing women’s panties and bras……a big brash hillbilly with immeasurable talent…..some kid was heckling him from ringside….jerry Lee came to the edge of the stage, grabbed the kid by the collar and I was close enough to hear him say, “Boy, don’t you know I’ll cut you into eighty-leven pieces?”

  102. So we had a Vietnamese stuffed roll for breakfast, tacos for lunch and we just got back from a relaxing dinner, a sea food mixed plate with a wine from New Zealand, We are finishing the evening with a margarita.

    Hey aint that America?

    Jack

  106. As much as it might comfort me to know Patsi was lurking, I’m afraid I can’t subscribe to that theory of life….To me……when you go thru the Endgate all you are is whatever you were. All you have is whatever you may have been able to have had……..sayonara.

     

  108. Jack, great menu. I broke the Ain’t that America theme and had a beer and burgers for lunch. Had bbq pork repurposed as Mexican for dinner.

    Sturge, great musical choices for the 4th.

    So I flipped from A Capitol 4th, Macy’s 4th fireworks and something or other at the White House, and they are ranked from best to worst. The WH one was particularly lame – and has a small crowd. (And it’s carried by Hallmark).

  109. The ones who disquiet me are the ones who are still here…….but not here……the fabric has a run in the warp and woof…..

  111. Those were not musical choices for the fourth, if I may be so bold as to object……they were musical choices for all time.

    “ALL time.”

    –Warner Wolf

  112. Being a lackadaisical kink of fellow, I leave to you a pair of song hooks which are solid gold in the land of Nashville songwriting……lacking the ambition to actually write a complete song, I content myself with writing hooks…..these two if fleshed out by those who follow will be Nashville Bonanzas.

    Pay no attention to the man behind the hurtin’

    caught between the bottle and the deep blue sea.

    the third one I actually wrote a couple of verses to…….Dont wanna get there, just wanna ride……that was my obligatory train song…..

  113. As Coonass, the handsome cat from Baton Rouge, approaches his 18th birthday he contemplates the deeper ramifications of the phrase, “Fourth of July”.   He’s very astute about that shit.

  114. His main gig is stalking around inside the house deciding where next he might nap……..he don’t get out much, Bobcats and alligators….

  115. He came to me at 4 weeks old after being born in the closet of a ratty/ass apartment my daughter and two other girls rented to attend LSU….so Coonass came. And the girls all left LSU for saner pursuits….. Did I mention I wound up with a cat?

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