tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83724402024-03-13T23:47:39.720-07:00CATBOXXAdepto vestri simul stercore©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.comBlogger2523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-25471337138444307162017-08-21T11:11:00.000-07:002017-08-21T11:11:42.067-07:00eek!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-87150192294626356152017-07-19T17:34:00.000-07:002017-07-19T17:41:23.705-07:00oxybelis fulgidus, aka slenderman<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qiUoSeBS-D4/WW_KtDpCoRI/AAAAAAAAOzs/tNYFM_aP6gQeN5g-7pze40uqGcuaubj9wCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/220px-Oxybelis_fulgidus_%2528Yasuni%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qiUoSeBS-D4/WW_KtDpCoRI/AAAAAAAAOzs/tNYFM_aP6gQeN5g-7pze40uqGcuaubj9wCK4BGAYYCw/s320/220px-Oxybelis_fulgidus_%2528Yasuni%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may have never heard of the vine snake, even though the species (there are several) are found everywhere in the tropical world, from Texas to the ghats of western India. Some are brownish, but most are bright green with racing stripes. All of them are about 3/4 of an inch thick and between 1-1/2 and 2 meters long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apparently, these long, skinny guys never leave the tree when hunting. They hang around by their long and delicate tails, and watch the ground, looking for a mouse (or a mouse's nest), a frog, or whatever. They try to get close enough to carefully smell the intended prey, and if it passes the sniff test, drop down far enough to grab it by the head, and immediately raise it a foot or more into the tree. They waste no time giving the fatal bite and then immediately once it's immobilized, eating the victim. Then they head straight for the top of the tree and a month or so of napping and digesting,</span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-54716310244484032332017-07-12T09:03:00.000-07:002017-07-12T09:23:02.570-07:00branwell & me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>This was in Utah in 2014. There were some brontosaurus pups, and one of em followed </b><b>me home a couple of times, but I wasn’t allowed to keep him. I named him Branwell after</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Uh oh! Branwell Bronte sawr us."</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Every other day or so I’d have to walk him back up to ye store, where he and his family lived on the </b><b>produce that otherwise would have been dumpstered.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Kit took this pic on Dec 13, 2014, as we were leaving town. I just had to stop & say g'bye to the little </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">guy, who was about 12 weeks at the time. He’s fully grown by now, and having a </b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">better life than his namesake did, I'm sure.</b></span></div>
©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-58459087274152887372017-05-22T10:10:00.000-07:002017-05-22T10:21:30.056-07:00destiny, and all that<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As usual, <a href="http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/do-you-mr-jones/">Mr. Kunstler</a> is great this morning. He uses postgraduate words at times, but mostly simple syntax and un-convoluted ideas to explain to a mostly clueless American public what we're up against.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today's final short paragraph, plus the stinger (para fragment) on the end say pretty much all that need be said about our current predicament.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump could never be a Franklin Roosevelt or a Lincoln. These were figures who, if nothing else, could articulate the terms that reality had laid on America’s table in their particular moments of history. Mr. Trump can barely speak English and his notions about history amount to a kind of funny papers of the mind. A sinister host of adversaries who ought to understand what is happening in this country, but don’t, or can’t, or won’t, are coming after him, and they are going to get rid of him one way or another. They have to. They must. And they will.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I spent the early hours of the morning today listening to outtakes from old speeches by Oswald Mosley, the English </span><span style="font-size: large;">fascist who was a political heavyweight in the 1930's, and a study in contrasts with Preznit Trump. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first contrast is that Mosley was literate, educated, and an excellent public speaker, for whom A. Hitler provided the speaker's template. Secondly, he knew what he was doing in manipulating crowds -- one reason he did it so well. His problem lay in the same place as Trump's, and Mussolini's and every Fascist who ever lived: he was a romantic who believed in destiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This belief in destiny is dangerously close to a belief in God's Plan. And wh0's to say -- it might be God's plan that we become ever more fat, stupid, diabetic, and addled by TV and lack of exercise that over a couple of centuries we'll die off. The dams will crumble, the continent will revert to ownership by bears & lions, moose & elk, salmon & trout, rattlesnakes, beavers, and birds.</span></div>
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©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-91195425247510526892017-05-12T14:04:00.000-07:002017-05-12T14:04:22.253-07:00prisoners of trumpistan -- day 112<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looks like Fearless Leader has really got his tit in the wringer now. Check out this front page article from </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/12/trump-fbi-visit-cancelled-james-comey-firing"><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Guardia</u><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> (UK), or the front page of any other world-class daily (NY Times, LA Times, etc.). A dispassionate reading of these sources leads to the inescapable conclusion that Trump is on his way out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of the end. Remember Watergate; recall how the story first broke in early 1973, a full year and 2/3 before Nixon's resignation. Since the end of this sad chapter is not in doubt, we need to move a little more quickly this time; the U.S. was healthier in the mid-70's than it is now, and I don't know if we're mentally or spiritually equipped to handle another "long, national nightmare."</span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-16067944602395949752017-05-10T17:38:00.000-07:002017-05-10T18:05:51.707-07:00try walking a few steps in somebody else's shoes...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The greatest weakness of the present day incarnation of the U.S. (since 1945 or the end of</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WWII) is and has been its foreign policy. Informed by an extremely defensive doctrine of exceptionalism, which appears to have conferred on those who hold this conviction that they are the <i>de facto </i>owners of the earth and everything in it, the U.S. has run roughshod over various peoples who share the planet with us, and have been surprised whenever we met with resistance or condemnation for our aggressions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Americans tend to believe in their own virtue, a posture which would be exploded if we were to walk half a mile in the shoes of a typical citizen of Central America, or a Vietnamese veteran of the Vietnam war, or anyone who was "shocked and awed" by the events of 2003. So if you were to credit the bluster coming out of the White House, no matter which party occupies it at any given moment, or the paranoid nonsense coming from the Perennial Aggression Wing of the Pentagon, I'd expect that you haven't noticed the huge loss of international power America has suffered since 2003, nor the rise of other powers that neither fear nor have an excess of respect for us. Chief among these is our old enemy Russia, now divested of its weak economy crippled by communism, and led by the enormously popular and democratically-elected dictator Vladimir Putin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This country's shabby treatment of Russia has been continuous for the last 15 yrs or so, moving seamlessly from the Bush administration to Obama, which tells you the policy originates somewhere else other than the White House. I suspect the Pentagon is where the "Ukrainian crisis" was first cooked up, along with Putin's "mad desire to re-annex Ukraine and restore the old Soviet Empire," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This piffle followed Russia's calling for a vote in the Crimea, which was found to be 90% in favor of the Russian navy resuming its business in Sevastapol -- the country's only year-round warm-water naval base -- a fact which never appeared in U.S. press or TV accounts of America's mad desire to stir up trouble with Russia. Instead everyone followed the lead of the NY Times and the Washington Post, which chose to act as stenographers for the State Department in this dispute rather than doing any real reporting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I've written here is not a comprehensive history of the last 15 years, but simply a brief recounting of the two main areas of dispute. it doesn't even begin to ask "Why?" Why is the U.S. so eager to pick a fight with people who have done nothing to offend, and why has Vladimir Putin failed to react to the provocation?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first question can't be answered except to point out that the U.S. appears to be the lunatic of international relations, with Kim Jong-un running a close second. And we can now answer the second question this way: Putin did react to the provocations and aggressions, by waiting for the right circumstances to arise for him to act. Now, as the debris from the 2016 election begins to settle, we see the right circumstances for Russian action present themselves in the person of Donald J. Trump.</span></div>
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©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-40629096722763691922017-04-16T09:09:00.000-07:002017-04-16T16:02:19.134-07:00march of the jiggle ohs<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm still not sure of the spelling of the topic (i.e., "Jiggle ohs,"), but it's phonetically sound so it must be OK, according to my way of thinking. I believe that if you take care of the sounds, the sense will take care of itself, and vice-versa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That may sound like nonsense, especially when you learn that Lewis Carroll had a hand in it, as he originally wrote it, but believed the other way, that is, he believed the versa, and wrote "take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves." But that in itself is a corruption of ye olde English witticism "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves," which also makes just as much sense upside down as right side up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A better name for it might be "A Beautiful Nightmare."</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The central pictorial element, the yew tree, is universally known in the west as the primary tree in cemeteries, and as such is a death symbol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plus I have always found the moment or hour when the full moon is obscured by clouds and is seen shining behind them as ominous, mildly frightening by itself, and suggestive of death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's no denying the beauty of this scene, but it's scary as well.</span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-15497898988780153352017-04-11T18:29:00.000-07:002017-04-13T12:08:31.781-07:00ptoo! waugh!<span style="font-size: x-large;">This goat may have a limited vocabulary, but he's an awfully effective communicator. I wonder if he's as fluent in English as he is in Spanish.</span><br />
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©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-40688445552171379412017-04-01T10:56:00.000-07:002017-04-02T08:20:06.351-07:00"you call this a gummint?"<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nk-AqUuJGzY/WN_iZnj-K4I/AAAAAAAAOxg/3bs8Lz-sV5ohi6iKA2fk_MVTzYyts9cgwCK4B/s1600/wkpf-pap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nk-AqUuJGzY/WN_iZnj-K4I/AAAAAAAAOxg/3bs8Lz-sV5ohi6iKA2fk_MVTzYyts9cgwCK4B/s320/wkpf-pap.jpg" width="243" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">..was the question Huckleberry's intoxicated father ("Pap") kept asking during his last few drunken days on earth. It's a better question now than it was then, because it's painfully easy to answer -- "No, I call it a mess." The best semi-objective view of this mess I've seen ran as a front-page <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/president-trumps-leaky-ship-of-state.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Felizabeth-williamson&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection">op-ed by Elizabeth W</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/president-trumps-leaky-ship-of-state.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Felizabeth-williamson&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection">illiamson in today's NY Times.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It may sound paranoid, but I'm convinced that the cob at the top is deliberately causing this clusterfuck, to punish us "little people." We've been so ungrateful, such a bothersome crew, we may as well all be Berniecrats. The fact that some of us still identify as conservative Repugs mitigates nothing. After all, who are the worst people in Congress?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You thought the job would be as easy and as much fun as campaigning: surprise surprise! Watching 6 hrs of TV</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> a day and tweeting all night don't match the job description, and if we don't pull this turdlet out of that office</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and send him packing next week, the fault's in us.</span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-71680253619609718812017-03-22T18:45:00.001-07:002017-03-22T18:45:15.833-07:00no wheels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Folks flock to Phoenix because there’s money here, and lots of it. It’s a city heavily populated by fleshy white people with gluttonous ambitions who drive around in brand new cars that cost more than what my bungalow would sell for. They fear brown skin and live in gated communities. Their own skin rarely touches sunshine or wind. They move from an air-conditioned residence to an enclosed garage to their air-conditioned cars to underground parking garages to air-conditioned buildings. I always figured that if you don’t feel the elements, you shut down inside</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're like most of us, you can be forgiven for not knowing a thing about what's likely to occur on March 15, 2017. The national government's ability to borrow any further money ends that day, and the next debt ceiling crisis looms as the temporary agreement engineered by Obama and John Boehner in 2015 runs out.<attachment webkitattachmentpath="/Users/davidbrice/Pictures/Photo Booth Library/Pictures/Photo on 10-4-16 at 7.05 AM #3.jpg"></attachment></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I watched 3 or 4 hours of network news yesterday & never heard a word about it. We're now in countdown mode (Zero minus 9), and I'll be watching the dinner hour news and trying to determine who is the first to give this story front-page play. Other than <a href="http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/great-expectations-not/">Jim Kunstler</a>, no one seems to have picked up on the gravity of this crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's the second thing I'll forgive Americans for today. "Why is this a crisis?" they ask, knowing that disasters in the past due to the debt-ceiling running out were fairly easily avoided, and could be again this time. All it would take is for Congress to agree to raise the debt ceiling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But unless you're one of those who thinks it's possible to get blood out of a turnip, you know why THIS Congress will never raise the government's ability to borrow. This means that on March 16, 2017, we'll be living in a country with huge debts but no income, and by June we'll be dead, stone broke and in total default mode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unless we get rid of at least half this government and replace it with one able to accept reality, and maybe even deal with it to some degree, we're looking at a variation on the theme "Weimar Republic, 1923." Either way there are rough times ahead.</span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-16459383160613294622017-02-03T15:58:00.000-08:002017-02-03T16:13:15.507-08:00krap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are you feeling this way too? Many who wouldn't admit to having a negative feelings lie awake in the small hours wondering what they ought to pack for FEMA camp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This feeling is most intense when I read the list of cabinet secretaries Trump says he wants to appoint. Typically, these are dweebs with ø gov't experience, whose only qualification is fantastic riches. For example Betsy Devos, his choice for Education Secretary has no gov't qualifications, though she must know something about how to </span><span style="font-size: large;">dismantle education since she's been pushing charter schools for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I feel really good since that nap, like there' s nothing I CAN'T DO IF I'M SMART and go slow. (except talk)</span>.©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-35349996707106050792016-12-21T06:03:00.000-08:002016-12-21T08:25:04.118-08:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">by trevor @ f***b***</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Donald Trump And Mike Pence Want To Roll Back LGBTQ Equality</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Together" </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">4 the ugly details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;">I don't know about U, but that "together" bit in the video title sounds vaguely suspect 2 me.</span></span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372440.post-69037698422717460122016-11-10T08:47:00.000-08:002016-11-10T08:54:40.295-08:00you got 2 b a football hero...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">...2 get along with the beautiful girls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"You R the nunne sent from above,</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm glad you feel that way, very</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Much so." And off they sailed</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">For a year and a day, till they came to </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Says the pyrate "O Pig will you give for a Morgan</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a depiction of the structure of contemporary neo-feudalism, & the way living under such a system feels in the first world, it's accurate. The third world is represented here too, with the 6 tiny figures at the bottom of the page standing in for the billions of India, Africa, Latin America, and all he various places on earth where the people feel as if they're the property of North American and/or western European corporations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wilkinson has become a <i>cause celebre </i>in England where he is known as <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245070/Britains-smallest-thug-Liam-Wilkinson-gets-Asbo-bringing-terror-town.html">Britain's smallest thug</a>. At 19 years he's attained a stature of 3' 9" and is apparently through growing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's a very tall order for a very short guy. I've Been There and DoneThat and it's never easy for anybody to quit drinking, especially one familiar with its anaesthetic effects in ameliorating negative social situations such as being bullied or harassed, and so forth. Even geography is working against young Liam; the northern shelf of Europe, the broad plain that runs from the frozen wast</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">es of Siberia west to the Atlantic, then continues across the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, is home to the most hard-core rummies in the history of civilization. Alcoholics Anonymous is not a popular organization in northern Europe, with</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> its antri-religous mass culture and near-universal aversion to the G-word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unpopular or not, AA is still there, still a possibility for the afflicted, and while Liam Wilkinson and millions of others may be repulsed by all the musing about God and AA happy talk at first, many will eventually return to listen and learn, and find a better way of life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Andy Schumm-cornet</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alex Hall - drums</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those of us who feel we've been wasting away in a culturally valueless universe this past half century</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, 'never fear,' b'cuz the cavalry is here. Fat Babies, drawn from the 20-40 age cohort, play a scholarly, wonkey, square jawed, and restrained version of the music that started in Chicago and migrated to New York City in the 20's. They render it carefully, with great precision, but leave plenty of room for individual expression.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Babies' organizaton is key to their approach;</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> it's the brain child of bassist and front man </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beau </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sample. On the bandstand, the front line of horns appears to be directed by Cornetist Andy Schumm, a talented </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">& dedicate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">d Beiderbecke devotee. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's the cornet which provides Z energy that propels this precision instrument called 'fat babies.' Check out the sounds AND the sources, and I think you'll agree.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUlYnFN5KdI">"Stampede"</a> by Miff Mole's and Red Nichols's Stompers (1926) highlights the New York style at it most idiosyncratic. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fletcher Henderson wrote this tune when the Bix movement was waxing strong as a pop influence, AND Andy SCHUMM's superb </span><a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF01&hspart=Lkry&p=fat+babies+--+stampede#id=2&vid=018fa3992af5d1c93fd15c0637651980&action=click" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">re-invention</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> (cue up yr tape player to 14:00 minutes to catch the beginning) is reverential enough 2 satisfy the strictest know-it-all purist; I only wish the Babies could get a drummer who doesn't need to read every stroke he plays. A little more starch in the rhythm section generally is in order if the Fat Babies are going to come up to the (very high), old - timey standards of our ancestors. </span>©∂†ß0X∑®http://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.com0