Today’s selection is Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile or St Cecilia Mass, composed by Charles Gounod.
St. Cecilia Mass is the common name of a solemn mass in G major by Charles Gounod, composed in 1855 and scored for three soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. The official name is Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile, in homage of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
It is a beautiful composition with the soloists, choir and orchestra coming together in a way that gets our Thanksgiving week off to a pleasant start. I’m not an enthusiast for this type of music but I could listen to this Mass all day.
Enjoy, Jack
thanks, Jack, not just for the great selection but for introducing me to the octobass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobass#External_links
anonduh, thanks for the kind words about yesterday’s toons, here’re 2 more from austria and 1 from bulgaria:
Attribution: ZELENSKYY AT THE PSYCHIATRIST by Marian Kamensky, Austria
Attribution: CAPITULATION DOVE OF PEACE by Marian Kamensky, Austria
Attribution: The Dove of Peace for Ukraine by Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria
speaking of cartoons in re ukraine and how things never seem to change, here’s a story by Latin Times this past february about an animation on trump’s peace plan at that time:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ukrainian-cartoon-mocking-trumps-proposal-to-end-war-with-russia-goes-viral/ar-AA1zGpjq
aforesaid animation:
also see https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/
Senate GOP’s Russia hawks push back on Trump’s Ukraine ultimatum
and https://www.rawstory.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/world/europe/ukraine-switzerland-russia-peace-talks.html
Harrumph
Some bass players will do ANYTHING to get attention.
Rubio’s Excuse Tour:
From ‘We Didn’t Write It’ to ‘The Dog Did My Homework’
So the backlash to this Ukraine plan has gotten so brutal they’ve moved past “Not my final offer” and into “The dog did my homework.”
Multiple senators say Rubio told them the draft was basically Russia’s wish list, and now everyone’s scrambling to say actually it was totally U.S.-authored, just “based on input from Russia.”
Which is like saying your term paper is original except for the parts copied from the guy sitting next to you.
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It seems that maybe the entire “peace plan” was translated from Russian.
That’s REALLY greasy.
I bet Susan Collins is all concerned and shit.
Lindsay Graham is fighting to hold back the crocodile tears.
Craig,
Our visitor yesterday spouting Russian propaganda didn’t have to go farther than our Congress to find them.
This mass with the chorale voices is just beautiful.
Thank you, Jack
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/donald-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-rcna245307
Trump would ‘love’ to see Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene return to politics despite clash
In a brief phone interview with NBC News, the president said, “It’s not going to be easy for her” to revive her career in politics, though he added, “I’d love to see that.”
In the meantime, Trump said, “she’s got to take a little rest.”
*Evangelicals will read this as: tRUMP has forgiven her. He’s just like Jesus.
That fiddle will rattle some teeth.
Wiki
Saint Cecilia was a Roman martyr and is the patron saint of musicians. She lived in the 3rd century, took a vow of virginity, and was martyred for her Christian faith after distributing her wealth to the poor and converting others to Christianity. Her feast day is celebrated on November 22nd.
“Vow of virginity” I think most bass players have a thing like that.
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“she’s got to take a little rest” sounds more like he thinks she needs to be committed to a home with comforting nurses.
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ME TV is airing a historically-inaccurate, Thanksgiving marathon this morning, starting with the Brady family making a home movie with a cringy take on it.
Sturg – The next Svengoolie will be:
A Very Brady Christmas
Funny, but true story. We are getting a new hire tomorrow in the department I work in at work. His name is “Christopher Christie”. LOL!
Blue in
I listened to a Gilbert Gottfried podcast the other day where the Brady film was a topic that came up…..
Funny stuff …. I’ve been missing old Sven lately, so much meeting of many paths and errands.
But next week ima be ready for ‘im.
Corey, come join us! Haven’t seen you in chat yet. Sturg, you’re always welcome, just raise your hand when we need to shut up and let you talk….
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tatiana-schlossberg-jfk-granddaughter-terminal-cancer-rcna245308
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has revealed her terminal cancer diagnosis in an essay published by The New Yorker on Saturday.
“My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half,” she added.
Her brother, Jack Schlossberg, announced earlier this month that he is running for Congress. The 32-year-old is running for the New York City seat which has long been held by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who in September announced he will not seek re-election.
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https://people.com/tatiana-schlossberg-slams-cousin-rfk-jr-in-emotional-essay-about-terminal-cancer-11855195
In an essay published by The New Yorker on Saturday, Nov. 22, the 35-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg revealed that she has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Schlossberg received an official diagnosis shortly after her second child with husband George Moran was born in May 2024, and she has been receiving treatment since.
Toward the end of her New Yorker essay, as she recounted her most recent treatments, she criticized RFK Jr.’s agenda as health secretary. In particular, Schlossberg offered scathing criticism of his anti-vaccine stances and decision to defund various medical research, as well as the harmful effects the actions can have on those receiving care similar to her own.
“During the CAR-T treatment, a method developed over many decades with millions of dollars of government funding, my cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was in the process of being nominated and confirmed as the secretary of health and human services,” she wrote. “Throughout my treatment, he had been on the national stage: previously a Democrat, he was running for President as an Independent, but mostly as an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family.”
Next, she recounted how, in August 2024, RFK Jr., 71, suspended his own presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump, “Who said that he was going to ‘let Bobby go wild’ on health.”
“My mother wrote a letter to the Senate, to try and stop his confirmation; my brother [Jack Schlossberg] had been speaking out against his lies for months,” wrote Schlossberg. “I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government.”
“Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky,” she continued. “Doctors and scientists at Columbia, including George, didn’t know if they would be able to continue their research, or even have jobs. (Columbia was one of the Trump Administration’s first targets in its crusade against alleged antisemitism on campuses; in May, the university laid off a hundred and eighty researchers after federal-funding cuts.).”
Referring to her husband, a doctor, she added, “If George changed jobs, we didn’t know if we’d be able to get insurance, now that I had a preexisting condition.”
Schlossberg then explained how her cousin’s anti-vaccine stances could affect her as she continues to receive treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
“Bobby is a known skeptic of vaccines, and I was especially concerned that I wouldn’t be able to get mine again, leaving me to spend the rest of my life immunocompromised, along with millions of cancer survivors, small children, and the elderly,” she wrote, citing the health secretary’s past comment that “there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.”
Her cousin, she added, “probably doesn’t remember the millions of people who were paralyzed or killed by polio before the vaccine was available. My dad, who grew up in New York City in the nineteen-forties and fifties, does remember. Recently, I asked him what it was like when he got the vaccine. He said that it felt like freedom.”
As Schlossberg spent more of her life “under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others,” she wrote, “I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings.”
Grants and trials were canceled, “affecting thousands of patients,” she said, also adding that she was “worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering,” where she had been transferred.
“I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission,” said Schlossberg. “Early in my illness, when I had the postpartum hemorrhage, I was given a dose of misoprostol to help stop the bleeding. This drug is part of medication abortion, which, at Bobby’s urging, is currently ‘under review’ by the Food and Drug Administration. I freeze when I think about what would have happened if it had not been immediately available to me and to millions of other women who need it to save their lives or to get the care they deserve.”
…her “plan, had I not gotten sick, was to write a book about the oceans — their destruction, but also the possibilities they offer.”
This included “one of my chemotherapy drugs, cytarabine,” which she wrote “owes its existence to an ocean animal: a sponge that lives in the Caribbean Sea,” a discovery made thanks to government funding — “the very thing that Bobby has already cut.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G6WTXzdWQAAXDt0?format=jpg&name=small
Another 500+ viewers for a live show today. We’ve moved from American Legion hall to a Holiday Inn ballroom
Jamie, here’s what i figured out. By right-clicking that image in your link above i could get the jpg address and post here:
(Yes, that’s today’s Sunday Serendipity playing in the background)
In today’s Trail Mix Live chat we see Russia’s “Wish List” out in the open. Trump’s Ukraine plan reads like it was drafted in Moscow —which is how Secretary of State Marco Rubio privately describes it.
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Craig any idea how long the viewers stay with us?
And it was kinda fun getting a little interaction with the commenter.
Jack
Now Rubio is out with public comments to reporters … We have made great progress today. Nothing is settled. Just because it was in writing, doesn’t mean anything is agreed …. blah blah blah word salad.
Jack, I referred your question to AI Sam:
“Jack, YouTube splits the numbers in a way that makes us look worse than we actually are. The “average view duration” on the replay is about 29 seconds, but that’s because it counts every drive-by click, every bounce, every person who taps for half a minute and wanders off.
During the actual live show, the folks who join us tend to stay much longer — often 10–20 minutes or more. The regulars stick with us. And yes, getting that interaction today was a blast. More of that coming as the chat keeps growing.”
i don’t hate trump
i hate trumpers
Don’t wanna bring them into the fold, don’t wanna build bridges to them, just want them to move to Russia
or never vote
…and Kamala wasn’t great but i’ll bet she wouldn’t literally roll out red carpets for Putin and take orders from the Kremlin 🤮
The Oval Office is all it’s stuff from Home Depot painted gold glory.
Craig
I don’t know if I’m happy or sad to think somebody would spend 20 min listening to our rambles.
It is the brave new world and something I don’t think any Science fiction writer imagined.
Jack
i keep telling you they did
heinlein
asimov
clarke
hubbard
et. al.
Chrichton was visionary AF also
i’m telling you there’s Doctor Who episodes from the 70s that debate the ethics of AI
the early 70s!
they even predicted corporate techno oligarchy
And speaking of brave new world, here is an interesting read. To read the whole thing
I’ve read them all, they all missed it. None of them understood what changes that the computer era would bring. At most they nibbled around the edges. Just like their grandfathers didn’t realize what changes electricity and the internal combustion engine would bring.
Jack
lol no
there are signposts
some choose not to see
it’s like Latinx trumpers who are surprised their communities are upended by trump, they were told explicitly beforehand 🤦♂️
same phenomenon
Finding voters in today’s media landscape is almost impossible, political ops say. And if you do find them younger voters tune out ads the instant they see what it is. Both sides are studying Mamdani’s phenomenal breakthrough for clues.
Mainly because of one corporation, we are depleting the ocean of fish.
It’s the Most Important Fish in the Sea, and It is Disappearing.
By Mark Robichaux
Mark Robichaux, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is a fisherman and author.
For 15 years, I’ve launched my bay boat, the Bayou Belle, into Long Island Sound before sunrise, chasing striped bass like generations of coastal fishermen before me. But lately, the water feels empty. The surface no longer shimmers with baitfish. The gulls don’t dive. Everyone at the marina says the same thing: The stripers just aren’t here anymore.
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The stripers didn’t vanish on their own. The food that sustains them went first.
Menhaden — also known as pogies or bunker — are small oily fish that feed nearly everything in the Atlantic. They are the foundation of the East Coast’s marine food web, fueling striped bass, bluefish, tuna, whales and seabirds. Yet each year, a single industrial operation hauls out hundreds of millions of pounds of them — not to feed humans but to grind them down into oil and meal for aquaculture, supplements and animal food, much of it for export. More at link.
Have to admit, I’m trying to figure out how Mamdani is going to add housing to New York. The island is already sinking due to the weight of the huge skyscrapers, and the ocean is rising enough to flood the subways due to climate change.
Gurgle gurgle gurgle.
Jamie
Annex New Jersey.?
I have heart stress test tomorrow morning. See you all tomorrow afternoon.
Craig
If they are like my local family they so divided into little groups. That is where Republicans have an advantage with evangelicals. You can find them. But where do you go to find gamers, larpers or anime fans.
Jack
I’ll stop in the chat one of these days, Craig.
comicons and twitch
AOC was joining twitch gamer streams during the 2020 campaign season, it didn’t go particularly well because those spaces tend to be dominated by toxic-masculinity
there’s a whole culture war being fought over on reddit, there’s a subreddit for every topic you can think of
Reddit used to be amazing but then the dummies found it, has gotten reductive
You’re right though the Democrats do a shitty job mobilizing nerd culture
They’re hard to mobilize though
gamer culture is awful though it needs to be destroyed, not uplifted
Trumpism dominates the gamer space because it is a culture of stupidity and laziness
and violence
they squeezed their hippest voice out of leadership and now they’re going to ask for your money
corey, please do hop in sometime.
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Good luck, Jamie. Mr. Ivy passed his, better than he thought.
One clip they should’ve replayed from the Cheney funeral, but didn’t, was the eulogy by his long-time cardiologist. It was an education. One good deed Dick Cheney did if none others was as benefactor to the cause of heart health treatment and education. ❤️
Yes, Ivy.
Jamie and I watched the cardiologist in real time in our livestream. He was marvelous, first speaker:
He starts at mark 30:45
“America will help you surrender.”
This clip is from today’s Trail Mix Live chat, and part of our running Ukraine Files coverage . Watch the full playlist here →
Looks like Newsom picked his running mate?
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has retreated from the national stage in recent months and privately expressed ambivalence about running for president in 2028 — moves that have stunned many top Democrats. — AXIOS
Craig
I just watched the whole 90 min of todays chat. You and the crew are getting good at this. I was the star of course but you and Jamie weren’t bad either. ];-0
Jack
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