I went through a phase a while back, of wearing suspenders (braces, if you're from the other side of the pond) just about all the time. Well, maybe not with shorts, but the rest of the time. Not sure if I was inspired by Mork from Ork or another source, but I ended up owning multiple sets of the in all colors and designs; gaudy and conservative. The thought crossed my mind recently while pondering tension and release in music, then suspense in movies leading to how that concept is such a common element in entertainment. When we seek escape from the concerns, commitments and responsibilities of everyday life, we desire suspense. Why is that?
(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suspense)
the state of being suspended : suspension
mental uncertainty : anxiety
pleasant excitement as to a decision or outcome a novel of suspense
the state or character of being undecided or doubtful : indecisiveness
suspensefulplay \-fəl\ adjective
suspensefullyplay \-fə-lē\ adverb
suspensefulnessplay \-fəl-nəs\ noun
suspenselessplay \-ləs\ adjective
OHO Original Songs:
1. Blood Brother
2. Back On the Streets
3. Close But No Cigar
4. Denial
5. Dot On Your Door
6. Hidden Agenda
7. How Is Where We Go
8. It Will Not Be Late
9. Limousine
10. Live & Long To Be Latin
11. Ocean City Ditty
12. Out Of Thin Air
13. Paleolithic Goddess Figurine
14. Plunge
15. Ring In the Rightness
16. S/he
17. Shouts In the Street
18. Slough of Despond
19. Third Hand Intelligence
20. Unique
21. Where Words Do Not Reach
22. You Should Envy Me
Experience OHO on
Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
at 3:00PM
MILLSTONE CELLARS
2029 Monkton Road
Monkton, MD21111
443-895-9991
Price: $5.00
OHO brings their unique, refined rock/prog/folk/pop/jazz music to Millstone Cellars for a beautiful late summer afternoon.
(from John Adams, by David McCullough)
". . . Because wisdom and education were not sufficient of themselves, he had added the further "duty" of government to "countenance and inculcate" the principles of humanity, charity, industry, frugality, honesty, sincerity - virtue, in sum. And amiability as well - "good humor," as he called it - counted for the common good, the Constitution of Massachusetts was to proclaim, suggesting that such delight in life as Adams had found in the amiable outlook of the French had had a decided influence. . . "
(from http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-s-presidency-enters-uncharted-waters-n793446)
". . . Four in ten Americans now support the impeachment of President Donald Trump - a ten point jump in the last six months - according to a new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). . . The survey found that 40 percent of Americans - including nearly three-quarters of Democrats but just seven percent of Republicans - back impeaching the president and removing him from office. That's compared to 30 percent who said the same in February. Trump's overall favorability rating in the poll stands at 38 percent favorable, 56 percent unfavorable. . ."
(from John Adams, by David McCullough)
". . . All that part of Creation that lies within our observation is liable to change. . . Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading their influence, until the whole globe is subjected to their ways. When they have reached the summit of grandeur, some minute and unsuspected cause commonly affects their ruin, and the empire of the world is transferred to some other place. Immortal Rome was at first but an insignificant village, inhabited only by a few abandoned ruffians, but by degrees it rose to a stupendous height, and excelled in arts and arms all the nations that preceded it. But the demolition of Carthage (what one should think should have established it in supreme dominion) by removing all danger, suffered it to sink into debauchery, and made it at length an easy prey to Barbarians. . . England immediately upon this began to increase (the particular and minute cause of which I am not historian enough to trace) in power and magnificence, and is now the greatest nation upon the globe. . ."
(Source: Prince George's Co. Executive Calls for Trump to Resign - NBC4 Washington http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Prince-Georges-Co-Executive-Calls-for-Trump-to-Resign-440629033.html#ixzz4puawjVsJ )
". . . Prince George’s County (Maryland) executive Rushern Baker is calling for President Donald Trump to resign after remarks the president made about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. On Tuesday, Trump declared again "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those protesting them. . . Baker issued a statement, calling Trump’s comment doubling down on refusing to directly criticize the hate groups involved in Charlottesville. . . "President of The United States Donald J. Trump is unfit to serve the people of our country and should resign, effective immediately. His equivocation on the incidents which transpired this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia is an affront to the promise of this nation, our World War II Veterans, the families of the Charlottesville victims, and every citizen past and present, and his actions have no place in the Oval Office. . . During these times of unnerving, regressive, divisive, heightened rhetoric, Americans of all creeds and colors have traditionally looked to the Presidency as a moral compass to guide our way through the morass and right the ship. Empathizing with the message and mission of organizations linked to a bloody legacy of domestic terrorism, racist attacks, and anti-Semitic violence leaves too many citizens of this great nation with no confidence that their President honors or understands the responsibility of the office, or can assure application of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. . . Regretfully, as a citizen, and as an elected representative of over 900,000 Marylanders who come from all over the world, who are veterans of foreign wars, who have struggled for civil rights, who have participated in suffrage movements, and who love peace and prosperity, I contend we have gone far enough under President Trump and that he should resign for the good of the nation.". . ."
