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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 24, 2019 22:12:02 GMT -5
He never gets old.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 23, 2019 15:23:21 GMT -5
I haven't seen it either, but I intend to. Maybe I won't be as disappointed, because I'm not going expecting a structured movie story. I just want a chance to see as I've never seen before realistic color[ized] moving images, with actual speech (or good approximations of) of people who were alive in an era so different from mine. I suspect just that experience in itself will be enough for me, a reminder that except for their clothes and accouterments, they were very much like us. Making the whole WWI story itself even more complex and moving, as I imagine myself as one of those who appear in front of the camera. I suspect it will also have extra meaning for me because I had an uncle who served in the infantry in Belgium, and came back with what we now call PTSD. He died before I was born, but I grew up hearing talk about how he was never the same after he came back to the family farm in North Carolina. I wonder if he could have been one of those faces.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 22, 2019 21:45:35 GMT -5
I remember writing about these critters for the National Geographic news service in the early '90s, when they were gaining a foothold in the lakes. One way they spread from river to river is by hitchhiking on boats. Another problem they cause is clogging drainpipes and other underwater structures.
Being a fan of mussels dipped in drawn butter, my first reaction was, let the good times roll. Unfortunately, though, because they are so efficient at filtering water, they tend to build up a lot of toxins in the tasty parts.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 22, 2019 21:09:15 GMT -5
My highest expectation of the Mueller report is it will string together as comprehensive a narrative as we've seen of how the Russians tried to influence the 2016 election.
My highest hope is Congress will respond by taking steps to prevent that from happening again - though they'll probably have to go over the President's head to do it, i.e., pass veto-proof legislation.
My strongest hunch is that the explanation for Trump's weirdly obsequious behavior whenever there is a Russian in the room will be seen as motivated by old-fashioned greed: hopes of doing mega-real estate deals in Russia after he leaves the White House. (Or, in light of his brass-plated balls, before.)
Whether the Kremlin has sex tapes of Trump cavorting with hotel staff in Moscow is still an open question.
All that said, I agree with James Comey in his recent NYT op-ed piece that Trump should not be impeached, because even if it succeeded (which it would not as of now), there would be a febrile minority of Kool-Aid chuggers who will believe it was a coup, driven by ideology. Better to defeat him the old-fashioned way, at the polls. And if the Democrats are stupid enough to put up some left-wing ideological bomb-thrower to run against him, maybe they deserve another four years in the wilderness
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 22, 2019 18:48:41 GMT -5
So ... if he gets the goods on Trump, some people are all over him for that. If he doesn't get the goods on Trump, some people are all over him for that.
Why do I get the feeling he can't win with some people?
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 22, 2019 18:39:50 GMT -5
Maybe this would help the Great Lakes situation.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 21, 2019 21:25:29 GMT -5
From Rob's Facebook:
I work with a lot of young folks who are wanting to pursue a career in music. We work on ear training, transposition, substitution theory and arrangement as well as technique, but for those who sing, we work on vocal phrasing. As poorly as I sing due to my adenoids, my work coaching vocal phrasing and harmony arrangement have always been a large portion of my business. My dad gave me great advice when I was young. He told me not only to think before I speak, but equally important, to read before I think. To apply this to music, I would advise young folks to learn the phrasing of great singers. The young lady you see here has been working on vocal phrasing and we have been studying the phrasing of many singers. Perfect pitch and great tone are wonderful things, but the rhythmic phrasing of a singer adds so much to the performance. Toria LeGris has been working with me for several years and has been very open to listening to all of my favorite singers, (Peggy Lee, Connie Boswell, Bea Wain etc.) and had done very well in imitating the essentials but we have also been working on R&B techniques and she did a great job learning Sunday Kind of Love by Etta James. I wanted to keep moving in that area and picked a song that she had never heard. As a young guy, I had an old 45 of Charlie Rich singing Mohair Sam, and though a lot of people recorded it afterwards, nobody seemed to match his performance so we went through that tune and got what she could use and then by attrition, she added her own style in parts. Since I haven’t been doing many YouTube vids lately, I thought I would film a little session we did and share it. Not exactly from the hit parade. I don’t think this tune has been popular since the 60s, but I have always been a fan of Dallas Frazier’s songwriting and I still like listening to Charlie Rich do it on YouTube. Here it is, for those who’d like to hear it; Mohair Sam.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 21, 2019 21:23:42 GMT -5
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 20, 2019 22:48:30 GMT -5
A few more clicks, and I found this. Guess she's still in the game.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 20, 2019 22:38:30 GMT -5
Before you go to lazy whatever, do yourself a favor and go check out stressless. They are very comfortable, stylish, and don’t in anyway say you’ve just given up on life like the big box store chairs. As to heat, massage, etc. all stuff that jacks up the price and goes wrong more often than it works. Get a really comfortable chair and you won’t need any add ons. I've had my eyes on that type of chair for the reasons you mention. I'm very claustrophobic, and afraid I might feel smothered in one of the heavily upholstered ones. But I clearly need to do some real ass-on-the-seat research. In situ, so to speak.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 20, 2019 22:19:36 GMT -5
I came across this 2006 clip of an eight-year-old child prodigy named AJ Lee at an event put together by the California Bluegrass Association's youth group.
A few years after that performance, AJ was fulfilling her promise, performing with a progressive BG band called The Tuttles and AJ Lee.
I know what happened to the guitarist. Wonder whatever became of AJ.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 20, 2019 21:50:43 GMT -5
If you are getting one, go all the way. Get one that can pop you out like a toaster and propel you into a running start for the refrigerator or bathroom. A good one can shoot you half-way across the room if you use the "Turbo-Boost" feature. I am sooooo glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read that right there.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 20, 2019 21:34:16 GMT -5
This thread brings to mind The Inheritors, a 1955 novel by the British author William Golding, he of Lord of the Flies. About ninety percent of the book follows a family of Neanderthals around their prehistoric landscape, and itself tells an absorbing story - all from the point of view of this pre-modern human species, or how Golding conceptualized how they might have thought and spoke and behaved: in short, how they perceived the world. Of course this is all as imagined by Golding; but subsequent paleontology and anthropology has suggested that he had some very plausible ideas. In any case it is a tour de force of POV writing, using a limited vocabulary, and postulating that they navigated the world largely by sensory perception. Plot spoiler: In the end, they are wiped out by a band of newcomers who suddenly show up in their stomping grounds. That would be us: homo sapiens.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 20, 2019 21:03:34 GMT -5
You want a recliner. Something for the man-cave to watch TV from, take a nap in, or even read a book, with a glass of something alcoholic standing by, in.
I've never seriously thought about getting a recliner, maybe for fear people would think I was getting old. But now that am old, that's not a problem anymore. Maybe my image of recliners as something only for the mature crowd is mistaken, anyway. Does anyone here have one of these? Any advice on what to look for, what to avoid, etc.? Horror stories? Like getting a hand caught in the gears and losing a finger? Also, I see you can get chairs that give you a massage. I suspect that's one of those bells-and-whistles you only use once or twice, then forget about. Again, I could be wrong.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 17, 2019 22:48:16 GMT -5
Could this be a Google gremlin having a little CGI fun? It looks a little too perfect.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 17, 2019 18:06:18 GMT -5
If people weren't so friggin' helpless lazy-assed they'd go to wikipedia and put $ in the search box. Guilty on all counts.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 17, 2019 14:02:43 GMT -5
So now that you've explained where the L comes from, and the line through it to indicate money, how does the S with a line through it indicate a dollar? The panel is stumped.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 17, 2019 13:59:12 GMT -5
She is actually a 35-year-old midget.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 16, 2019 20:54:47 GMT -5
You mean we're serpents? Go lb. sand. I had something more pescadorian in mind. You're always going on fishing expeditions.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 16, 2019 20:43:02 GMT -5
Tell your wife you have had it for years and act offended when she doesn’t remember it. Say, “I thought you said you liked this one.” Guaranteed to work. If you could convince her of that, you probably could convince her that she bought it for you. What the heck, go for broke.
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