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Post by AlanC on May 12, 2020 8:13:44 GMT -5
How much of his success is due to David Lindley?
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Post by AlanC on May 8, 2020 9:06:06 GMT -5
That is good stuff right there. Despite the Grand Canyon between our political beliefs I have never said you don't have good taste in music. Which is way more important anyway.
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Post by AlanC on May 8, 2020 7:45:37 GMT -5
"But it isn't symmetrical. Those outside the institutional main still get the messaging from that main. Then they (we) run to our sources to have our biases reinstated. But while those inside the institutional main are aware that there is another voice outside their walls, they are convinced that it is monolithic. The only actual exposure they have to it is filtered through their own institutional sources. They say they know what, for instance, Rush Limbaugh says because they constantly read it in Media Matters. They know what Trump says because they can see him quoted in the nightly news".
I thought about this statement while out on my morning walk- in between several battles with the dogs interspersed along the road as I endeavored not to be bitten- and I had several good examples of revelations that have come to light lately due to documents being pried out of various institutions.
But as I got here I thought..."Nah, toodle it, won't matter, ain't gonna waste my time". People are gonna believe what they want to believe.
Every time I read the fine print below James's posts I think about the great gulf between our sense of what is "right and true". His quote is correct but I see the reciprocal of what he sees (mostly). Kinda disheartening if you dwell on it.
That is why, here, in this place, "Toodle it" works for me.
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Post by AlanC on May 4, 2020 19:15:44 GMT -5
Can't you just go to the store now? Not in rural Mississippi.
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Post by AlanC on May 4, 2020 19:14:49 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks this new dynamic (Legal weed) is really strange? It seems to me, that a bunch of right leaning conservatives are partaking regularly, and old surfer lefties like me are abstaining. It’s like the world has turned upside down. Mike Well this right leaning conservative can’t partake regularly because he doesn’t know where to find any. I wouldn’t do it regular even if I could but wouldn’t mind occasionally checking out that smoker you drink player you get thingy.
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Post by AlanC on May 4, 2020 15:15:34 GMT -5
For the first time in decades I am no longer subject to random drug tests.... AND I DON'T KNOW THE FIRST GD MF'N DRUG DEALER TO SCORE A LITTLE WEED!
SHIT!
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Post by AlanC on May 3, 2020 15:16:04 GMT -5
We arrived in McNeill, MS this AM, set up the 5er on the slab, had lunch with Big Sis and BIL, took a nap, got internet and cable going, watched a little bit of the televised replacement for JazzFest, got kicked out of the camper and told to go do something in my office- see you around dark-thirty, walked by the kitchen and saw a mostly full bottle of Tennessee Honey, procured ice, took a few sips, and here I is.
We may be going to Montana the first of June to visit some cousins. One lives just west of Billings and the other is coming to visit him from Tennessee. We are hoping to meet up, visit some, drive down Bear Tooth Pass into Yellowstone, maybe finally visit Glacier NP if it's open, and who knows what after that.
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Post by AlanC on May 1, 2020 7:30:07 GMT -5
Greetings from Holt, Florida. We are migrating westerly. We are going to spend a few days in an RV park in Gulf Shores, AL and bum around with Faithful Wife's brother a few days. Then we will mosey on to McNeill, MS and see what's shaking in the old home town.
Absolutely gorgeous weather here.
PS, I, too, want to see this film that purports to demonstrate that Pete and Michael Moore are simpatico (I put sympatico but auto-correct disagreed).
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Post by AlanC on Apr 28, 2020 21:59:09 GMT -5
Nope, shoot
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Post by AlanC on Apr 28, 2020 21:58:43 GMT -5
Let me try.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 27, 2020 15:25:50 GMT -5
My son-in-law said their company had 43,000 employees in institutional food service. 38,000 had to be furlowed. They get their 90 days unemployment benefit. And the company is picking up all their health insurance. But Geeeze ! This thriving business has, all of a sudden, ZERO income. Management is scrambling coming up with contingency plans for all sorts of scenarios to what and when and how things might open up. Scary. Well, let's hope that the estimate for the vaccine is on the short side- a mere 5 years instead of 10.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 27, 2020 13:28:49 GMT -5
Asian Boss interviews top vaccine expert in S.Korea. youtu.be/5cYWd0N8nO4I didn't watch the whole thing but the normal development time for an effective vaccine is 5 to 10 years. Us old farts are going to have to dodge this bitch for a while.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 27, 2020 12:12:04 GMT -5
Envious. My dream job: Backup singer and rhythm guitar player for a kick ass cover band. I have shamelessly let these guys know that I'm available: www.facebook.com/runawaytrainmusic/So far- "If that's my phone still not ringing; I'll assume it still ain't you"
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Post by AlanC on Apr 25, 2020 21:07:45 GMT -5
Buford was locked up in the hospital.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 25, 2020 10:01:38 GMT -5
My $0.02. I would never vote for Biden or any other Democrat these days but that was slightly funny.
There is only one unforgivable sin: to be found unamusing. For that there is no redemption in this world nor the next.
(But hysterically funny? If you say so, Doc).
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Post by AlanC on Apr 25, 2020 9:51:34 GMT -5
That got me a little misty eyed. So sorry about your friend.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 24, 2020 16:04:37 GMT -5
If you are old enough you know what iron poor blood looks like.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 24, 2020 14:13:43 GMT -5
We interrupt this rabbit-trail with a report from the Wal-Mart in Titusville, FL. Barely half (if that) of the customers were wearing masks. I don't know what it means exactly but mask wearing seems to be in decline in Central Florida.
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Friday
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Post by AlanC on Apr 24, 2020 11:10:27 GMT -5
It has a bolt-on neck and it is pulled too far forward. The strings get really high towards the pickup. I like them pretty low for ease of playing. I had a neck reset done must be well over 10 years ago now.
FYI there are no "local dealers" here in the hinterlands and I don't have a hard shell case for it. I have a padded soft case. I wonder if the shipping company has something that would hold the guitar in the padded case?
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Post by AlanC on Apr 24, 2020 10:27:39 GMT -5
I'm thinking about getting a looper to use with my Yamaha AEX and acoustic amp. Anyone have one? There are about 10 million different brands and I don't know from shinola.
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