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Post by jdd2 on May 17, 2024 5:31:05 GMT -5
What's the documentary? "disjointed, strange" sounds interesting. In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon www.imdb.com/title/tt28484472/It's charitable to observe that Paul Simon comes across as doddering. And altogether not very pleasant man. There's an old joke about a man who falls in love with an opera singer and marries her. On their wedding night she removes her makeup, her glass eye, explodes from her girdle, removes her wig, and climbs into bed. The man cries, "Sing woman, SING!" Sing Paul, SING! So you support biden, yeah? --tha paul simon of the present day political world.
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Post by jdd2 on May 10, 2024 0:49:43 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Apr 9, 2024 19:05:57 GMT -5
I've watched the whole apple+ series. I preferred the earlier episodes (maybe first 2/3 - 3/4? of them all)--more continuity. After that, it seemed to broaden its scope to the entire (air) war, tho in the final episode or two it did bring some of the people central to the earlier episodes back into focus. I think my dad would have enjoyed it, he was radio and belly gunner on one, and spent a year and a half in stalag XVIIB, walked west at the end, and the series captures a lot of it all. Also watched the companion "The Bloody 100th".
My sister and nephew are going to Norway in early May, to participate in the dedication of something set up last fall (80th anniversary), to commemorate the farmer who sheltered the crew and my dad for about a week before the germans found them (they'd bailed out after a mission there). The farmer has passed, but apparently some of his family will be there.
This is what one of his crew members wrote up later:
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Post by jdd2 on Apr 7, 2024 5:57:49 GMT -5
... Did you know "Manic Depression" by Jimi Hendrix isn't on Youtube? Strange. It was the first 3/4 song that came to mind.
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Post by jdd2 on Apr 2, 2024 7:51:03 GMT -5
Remember when the American flag motif was rebellious?
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 26, 2024 6:08:16 GMT -5
gee, nothing about the bridge?
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 9, 2024 19:13:54 GMT -5
A new one:
shufti -- 1940s (originally military slang): from Arabic šāfa ‘try to see’. Or -- shufti is in origin the Arabic word šufti, meaning “have you seen?”, and comes from the verb šāf “to see”.
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 3, 2024 6:21:14 GMT -5
happy already over birthday, howard
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Post by jdd2 on Feb 21, 2024 8:57:20 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Feb 7, 2024 0:09:10 GMT -5
Bill--you left off one of the more interesting wikipedia parts:
Beaker Street in Cuba The KAAY nighttime signal was so strong that young people in Havana City and in other places in Cuba were able to receive it clearly. In the late 1970s, music sung in English was restricted by the Communist Government. Cuban radio stations were allowed to devote only about 20% of their time broadcasting music sung in English, so many young people used to listen to American radio stations as a response to that limitation, and the KAAY was one of the most popular. Today young people from those years still remember the DJ announcing "Beaker Street... an underground music service from KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas..."[4]
Modern day conspiracists might even come up with the idea that beaker street was invented/funded by the CIA as a way to subvert castro.
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 31, 2024 6:58:34 GMT -5
Here you go.
And stick with this till the last long arppegio/chord:
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 31, 2024 6:55:31 GMT -5
... The problem with predicting the future is it keep changing. Time travel. Go to the future(s) to see what's there, then come back casually 'tweak' some things so that it turns out like you want it to. And your comment about PHEVs -- tho they've been criticized for not going full EV, that seems to be what toyota is betting on (and some other companies).
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 26, 2024 17:01:25 GMT -5
If trump does win, I wonder who will work for him? (with him?!?!)
The generals from before seem to have thrown up their hands on the way out. Are there more generals waiting in line? (Other than Flynn.)
Even his last chief of staff (Meadows, a tea party type) seems to have turned on him. Barr, too. (and other lawyers seem to desert the guy) Jarrod and Ivanka seem to have clearly signaled, 'no more'.
Just where will 'the best' come from this next time?
Maybe this new lawyer, Alina Habba, who just got him off with only $83 million to pay, could be his attorney general?
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 25, 2024 22:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 24, 2024 7:24:45 GMT -5
OTOH, what about the non-thinking persons, who do seem to have confidence...?
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 24, 2024 7:23:19 GMT -5
Michelle?
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 24, 2024 6:44:05 GMT -5
I'm the diversity in my neighborhood... I was talking to one sister, the last call or the one before. She taught for years in chicago, went back for an MPA, and ended being principal at an elementary school in Skokie. She said they had over 30 languages at that school, and gushed on about how thankful the people were to have their kids in school there. No sense/air of entitlement from either the parents or the kids. What school? Mom was the media center director (librarian) at Fairview from 1989 - 2005 or so. It may not have been the same school, but she had similar stories regarding the population (and some doozy stories about parents, but that holds true for any school). Sis's name is Marla. Ask her if she knows that name?
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 24, 2024 6:42:07 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 23, 2024 7:16:30 GMT -5
After a period of really mild weather, we're finally getting some snow. Characteristically, it's 'thunder snow'--like spring thunderstorms, but the storm cells bring lightning and thunder along with snow, not rain. Temps aren't bad, it'll only just touch freezing tonight.
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 23, 2024 7:08:29 GMT -5
I'm the diversity in my neighborhood...
I was talking to one sister, the last call or the one before. She taught for years in chicago, went back for an MPA, and ended being principal at an elementary school in Skokie. She said they had over 30 languages at that school, and gushed on about how thankful the people were to have their kids in school there. No sense/air of entitlement from either the parents or the kids.
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