Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Reel . . .

-life . . . 

(real-life [text] conversations, continued)
#1 - So the Os are in Chicago playing the Cubs. Last time they were there was in 2014. That's when we were there! That was a great trip, in spite of the fact that we had to leave the game early because we had plans later in the evening (and the game was delayed due to weather - a bizarre snow squall! Remember that?!
#2 - I do. Also Brian Matsuz and Ubaldo Jimenez both snubbed me when I asked them for autographs during the rain delay. And now they're both outta baseball, so that's what happens!!!
#1 - They got their just desserts!
#3 - Yeah!
#4 - Ziing!
#5 - What they said.
#2 - They weren't even doing anything when I politely asked. The two of em were just sittin around the dugout during the rain delay, finger popping each otha's assholes!
#4 - That seems to be a frequent past time of people you don't like. 
#2 - (#1 and 5, that last part is a quote from 21 Jump Street, so you can't be offended, just fyi)
#1 - No problem. 
#5 - What #2 should have said, "I've come all the way from Baltimore to see your sorry asses play baseball. We PAID to be here. YOU are getting paid (LOTS) to be here. You can't even get those sorry asses off that bench to scribble on a baseball for me? . . . WELL, EXCUUUUUUUSSSSSE MEEE!" There. I feel better. 
#4 - I bet they could be contacted online somehow. . . or if we find their addresses we could sent them exotic animal feces. 
#5 - Nah. 
#4 - That's fine, just tweet at em then.
#5 - Tweet tweet. 
#2 - Had some excellent pizza in chi town too tho.  And remember when #3's pants got stuck in the doorway of the el?!?! Classic!! I knew you'd remember that thing with #3's pants #5. 
#5 - Ummm? Hey #3 . . . 
#3 - Yup?
#2 - #3 also got stuck in your hotel room toilet. 
#3 - I probably could have been convinced otherwise if everyone got on board, but no I don't. 
The toilet thing 100% happened though. 
#5 - That, I remember. 
#4 - Well, who doesn't do that accidentally at least once a week?
#1 - Too funny!!
#5 - Twice a week for me.




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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Competition . . .

. . . is highly overrated

(from Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of American by Kurt Andersen)
". . . When I was a little kid whenever we had to play musical chairs in school or at birthday parties, I never enjoyed it. I hated the tense seconds of waiting for each drop of the needle onto the record. Musical chairs made me anxious and made everyone manic and delivered a nasty set of lessons - life is an accelerating competition of one against all for diminishing resources, survival is just a matter of luck and a touch of brute force, and success is a momentary feeling of superiority to the losers who lose before you lose, with just one out of the ten or twenty of us a winner. . . "


Superman

from the newly-released album GRAINS


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Monday, July 18, 2022

Prep . . .

 

. . . for live performance of 'The Hours' 

   Gm 
On and on flow the hours

  Gm                           F7       EbMaj7
Like rolling waves upon the sea

  Eb                               EbMaj7-D-  Eb-E- 
And like so many and so var   -ied flowers

F7                                                         D7sus4
Each one some nectar for the bee

  Gm
We're keeping tabs and writing numbers

  Gm                        F7        EbMaj7
Logging each minute in the book

  Eb                                   EbMaj7-D- Eb- E-           
We have a choice to either dread the counting

F7                                                D7sus4
Or see the forest if we look

(Instrumental- Db  Dbsus4  Db-5  Db / Db  Dbsus4  Db-5  Db / Eb  / Eb  D  Eb  E  Fm)

(Chorus)
Fm                   Eb       Db7 
Store the knowledge
                       Eb        Fm
Hoard the wisdom

Take the years

               C7           
And just run like crazy

Fm           Eb   Db7
Party’s only

                          Eb    Fm
What you make it


Make it into the 


C7
Best you can
                            >
(Instrumental- / Dbm / Dbm  D7sus4/ )

Gm
There’s no protection from the power  

  Gm       F7       EbMaj7
Generated everyday


  Eb                                                EbMaj7-D- Eb-  E-                               
The blazing lights shine from each lof      -ty  tower


F7                                          D7sus4
Just to illuminate the way    

(Instrumental- Db  Dbsus4  Db-5  Db / Db  Dbsus4  Db-5  Db / Eb  / Eb  D  Eb  E  Fm)
(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Dbsus4  Db
Things  that never occur to you

                       Db  Eb 
In the spring

E
Become clearer with each

Ebm7    Ab7
Passing season

                >      >      >
(Horns / Gm /Gm-Gm-Gm  Gm)

Gm
All options must be on the table

  Gm                      F7          EbMaj7
All points of view be understood

Eb                                     EbMaj7-  D-   Eb-E-
And if you don’t do ev’ry thing    you’re a- ble

F7
Make sure you do those which are good

(Instrumental and Chorus [as above])
(Fade on Dbm piano improvisation)




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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Tenacious? . . .

. . . or just plain STUPID?

(from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-toss-wisconsin-election-results-victor-ballot-boxes_n_62c9f69ee4b0d74019844775) 
". . . Donald Trump is now calling on the Republican speaker of the Assembly in the Wisconsin state legislature to snatch back the state’s 2020 electoral votes to declare him the winner of the presidential race he lost in the wake of a court ruling on ballot drop boxes. . . He pushed the astonishing plan a day after he baselessly declared himself the winner in the state when the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday restricted the number of absentee ballot boxes in future elections. He again insisted in his message Saturday that he is the “actual winner (by a lot!)” in the battleground state. . . "


Stupid Love

- Salbakuta



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Saturday, July 16, 2022

The Root . . .

. . . of so much evil . . . 

(from Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen)
". . . legal scholar Jeffrey Rose, nowadays president of the National Constitution Center, wrote that "we are all originalists now." He meant that everyone in the legal world acknowledged that the original  meaning of the Constitution and its amendments couldn't be ignored. But originalism became a crude and self-justifying meme that the right used, from the 1980s on, simply to serve its own interests and prejudices. Originalism's most important hidden agenda was to keep courts and judges completely out of the business of business, as if what worked for the U.S. economy for its first century, before modern corporations existed, was how things should work today. It was like the Friedman Doctrine, which turned a reasonable capitalist truism (profits are essential) into a simple-minded, unhinged, socially destructive monomania (only profits matter). . ."
 

So Wrong

Patsy Cline
 



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Friday, July 15, 2022

OHO Live . . .

Photo by P.S. Jozwiak 



. . . and new music from the NEW OHO release - 'AHORA'



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Fish . . .

. . . on recorded telephone conversation asking an election official to break the law 


(from https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senator-graham-says-he-will-not-cooperate-with-georgia-trump-election-probe-2022-07-06/)
".. . . Senator Lindsey Graham will not comply with a subpoena issued by a grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, attorneys for the lawmaker said on Wednesday. . . "Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena, and expects to prevail," attorneys Bart Daniel and Matt Austin said in a statement made on behalf of Graham. The grand jury was selected in May to consider evidence in a probe launched after Trump was recorded in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call pressuring Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the state's election results based on his claims of voter fraud.  . . Graham's attorneys said in the statement that the senator was being called as "simply a witness" in what they called "a fishing expedition.". . ."


Haven't Got A Clue

The Flaming Lips



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