FAKE NEWS?
STEVE SMITH ON ROAD. HIM LEAVE CASCADIA, GO THROUGH IDAHO. HIM SAD HIM NOT SEE SPUDALICIOUS… (WHY HIM HIDE?) BUT DID SEE POTATO MUSEUM! AND ATOMIC PLACE!
STEVE SMITH GET TO WYOMING NEXT. WHERE HIM GO IN WYOMING THAT FUN?
HERE SOME LINKS, WHILE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE FIGURE OUT WYOMING FUN FOR STEVE SMITH!
- THAT LOT OF SPACE THINGS. LUCKY THERE NO SUCH THING AS SPACE SMITH. NOPE.
- HA HA, YOU MAKE NICE TRY! AND EPSTEIN KILLED SELF.
- IT CRIME WHEN FEED CHICKEN?
FREE CASCADIA!
Don’t First with me. You come for the First, you get the horns. Ok hombre?
/and I oop
sk sk sk
Tres is a thirteen year old girl.
I knew it.
Broketard thinks that first give him first opportunity at gulping up some dick. It is known.
How do you know when Hyperion wants dick?
It’s a day that ends i y.
Broketard wants dick so bad he can’t even spell!
It’s a day that ends i y.
Lololol, someone give Broketard some penis, quick!
Do they have a statue of Dan Quayle at the Potato Museum?
Ahem..that is the Potatoe Museum thank you very much.
Good point.
It’s right beside the McMuffin statue.
Potato potatoe
Hmm, thought I could make my way to zoom tonight, but gotta celebrate middle child b-day with some Greek food. Might be on afterwards though..
We have much more cultured persons than myself on here. Who would you say is the best composer of the modern era (say 1950s on)?
Edward Van Halen. Get the fuck out of here already.
Are there any?
Shostakovich, Bernstein, Glass, John Williams, Grant Still
And Stravinsky was alive till 71 but I’m not sure he was productive.
The best part of Glass is you never know if he’s fucking with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afW7RGY-CQw
I like some Glass. Big Bro got me into that shit decades ago.
For some reason that piece always makes me think of the 80’s
I do enjoy some Shostakovich, and glass can be good, though not what I consider a typical composer.
Not John Cage, master of pretentious asshole
Maestro
50’s on composer? As in, writer of music but not necessarily lyrics?
Probably Mike Portnoy.
You chose Portnoy?
No complaint here.
oof
Gil Evans
Big fan of Samuel Barber and John Adams.
Steve Reich made some good stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWobfclhGo
More stereotypically, Ralph Vaugh Williams and Ottorino Respigi don’t quite make the 1950 cutoff, they did make it well into the 20th C.
Kharak is burning.
Danny Elfman
Good point. I prefer Elfman to Zimmer, who I usually think of as a sound designer instead of a composer.
Zimmer’s score for Interstellar rocks. Never paid any attention to him before.
Are we also counting Broadway composers? So many “musicals” are completely sung-through so that the only reason they’re not operas is the branding.
And then there are composers who write as if they’re writing film scores but aren’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRUPYrAQoE
That’s how I feel about Philip Glass, too.
Ooooh, good call.
If we’re going movie composers, is Howard Shore too popcorny?
His score for the Lord of the Rings was quite good, but I don’t know that he’s really had any other scores that I’d consider outstanding. He did a good job with several others (Silence of the Lambs, Seven). I’d certainly put him behind John Williams, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, and Bernard Herrman.
LotR was pretty formative for me. But, again, popcorn af
Unlike this gem.
If nothing else, a film trilogy that lives up to being a trilogy.
Bernard Herrmann and Georges Delerue.
I always figured that In an earlier century, movie theme composersJohn Williams and John Barry would have been great classical composer.
I listen to a John Barry compilation CD at work sometimes.
Yanni
Don’t know if he’s “the best” but John Corigliano is a composer well worth seeking out. He scored “The Red Violin”, a really well done movie. I helped premiere his Dylan Thomas Trilogy, a terrific piece of music, if somewhat strange and disturbing to those mainly familiar with Bach and Beethoven.
I’d add another vote for Philip Glass. His music does start to sound the same after a while, but there’s no mistaking his work. He’s also scored some good films. Although “The Hours” is a interesting watch and “Koyaanisqatsi” was influential, I’d check out “Dracula” with his soundtrack. I’ve watched it several times and he really did a great job of scoring what was originally a silent film.
Eric Whitacre is a very talented choral composer.
Reich is ok but he wears me out quick. Adams is good. Arvo Part is interesting if you like neo-chant stuff.
I’d like to put a good word in for John Rutter – primarily choral, but not exclusively. Here’s a snippet of one of his instrumental works.
John Rutter was also great on Three’s Company.
Thanks, Rosanna.
Giogio Moroder
Hell yeahHell yeah
New browser and Eyepiece keeps doubling my shit ?
Midnight Express had a fantastic soundtrack. There’s a ballad on there, too, that I think would be cool if it were turned into more of a rock ballad.
Ennio Morricone
waa waa waa
Mike Post.
Huge Zappa fan but his orchestral pieces don’t move me. I’m a baroque kinda cat.
I’ve been posting on a different site. It’s no political at all. I need a break. But there is a guy on there named ‘Seasmith’. I’m serious.
Splitter!
I want my choice of gulags.
Don’t think they aren’t clever enough to split us up.
Mulching devices = slip them up, hahahaha!
I was in 9th grade when Putin took power. Even at that age, I knew he would be a wannabe Stalin, because I had been reading a biography, Stalin: Breaker of Nations, by Robert Conquest.
“I told you so, you fucking fools!”
-Conquest, after the KGB archives were released
I salute Navalny’s bravery. Not many survive the creations of the KGB poison lab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services
KGB assassins practiced on dogs, as it was felt this was the closest thing to killing a human.
Psychologically, or physiologically?
Sociologically they should have practiced on sheep.
Good point. Really.
There was a KGB assassin who defected and confessed. His name was Bohdan Stashynsky. He said that he saw a demo where a weapon containing hydrogen cyanide (also called Prussic acid and the active ingredient in Zyklon-B) was sprayed in a dog’s face. It was dead in less than a minute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Stashynsky
I find it interesting that the Soviets were excellent at killing on the sly, but the Chinese feel no need to hide it at all.
Or the Norks.
The Roadside America site doesn’t have Roadside America listed? OK, the place is permanently closed.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday he wanted it known that he had no plans to commit suicide in prison, as he issued a message of support to his followers on the eve of protests the authorities say are illegal.
Sometimes people change their minds.
Officials in Key West are cracking down on people who feed a group of feral chickens famous for wandering the island — saying the popular poultry are getting too plump and causing a public health nuisance.
People feed them? Sheesh. I just took pictures of them.
LOTS TOURISTS AT DEVIL’S TOWER. STEVE SMITH TOUR GUIDE. AND BY TOUR GUIDE, MEAN
SMITTY’S STILL THERE?
I thought he had to move on because the virus was keeping the count low?
STEVE SMITH GET TO WYOMING NEXT. WHERE HIM GO IN WYOMING THAT FUN?
Yellowstone? I hear it is full of warm, moist holes, which might be up STEVE SMITH’S alley.
Atomic City is close to the EBR-1 and museum. I went there on my big road trip in August 2019. It was fun using the big robot hands to manipulate fake plutonium. There was a plan for a nuclear powered bomber that could fly for 120 hours at a time around the world. JFK cancelled the project when ICBMs became practical. I learned that SCRAM stands for safe control rod axe man – if a reactor was getting too hot, his job was to cut a rope which drop a graphite rod into the reactor pile to stop it.
He was actually holding the rope. When he died, he’d lose his grip on the rope and the graphite moderator would drop into the pile.
That’s most of what I remember from my college job assembling calibration point sources…
“Hold this”
Appropriate link for a STEVE SMITH post: Schumer says senators will decide if Trump incited ‘erection’ at US Capitol
It’s the NY Post, so if you are into puns and lowbrow humor it’s worth a read.
“If”?
A brief glimmer of hilarity from the Onion..
STEVE SMITH is coming to Idaho?
*covers buttocks with steel plate*
“IT CRIME WHEN FEED CHICKEN?”
As long as I can still choke the chicken.
I wonder if the chickens all tell each other that everything tastes like humans.
I bet when STEVE SMITH gets to Wyoming, he heads straight to Jackson’s Hole.
Aw, *I* want to go to Wyoming…
But if STEVE SMITH is there, hard pass.
Just dress in a Ghillie Suit. Even STEVE SMITH would avoid a murder bush.
*edit* Jackson Hole, dern it.
fun fact: the US Geologic Survey forbids apostrophes in place names as it implies ownership.
[the more you know star]
So, Ted’S works for the geological survey people?
I deliberately put them in when I get the chance.
I hope so, but maybe he should wait until the next fed meeting there
Im off to work kids. Hold this ish down while Im gone.
sk sk I oop
For the SpaceX launch I recommend using this site:
https://heavens-above.com/
Change it to your location on the top right. Use the SpaceX link and the live sky link to plot out your viewing time.
For a few days after the deployments watching the satellites is pretty cool. They look like a closely bunched string of pearls crossing the sky.
If this song isn’t playing at my funeral, I’m not going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSH7wmGntfo
Off to eat pizza in meat space. Y’all have a good one.
It’s a good song.
Chinese buffets are no fucking fun in the age of covid. I don’t go there to be served by someone who’s piling up my slop on a cafeteria plate, especially not someone who weighs sixty pounds less than I do, especially not three trips in a row. The buffet is supposed to be my own personal hell, my overeager gullet a shameful secret between myself and the serving ladles. It’s like having your pizza delivery guy hang out in your kitchen watching you make sure the order is right.
Spud, no stupid.
Public Service Announcement:
New Thomas Sowell documentary coming out next week: Common Sense in a Senseless World.
Produced by Free to Choose Media, and will be available to stream on Amazon and several other outlets free.
https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/programs/thomas_sowell/
It will probably be deemed racist hate speech and removed from Amazon.
Amazon includes lots of libertarian and conservative stuff.
They have all the Free to Choose video content.
I think they would rather not lose over half of their paying customers. Dropping Parler from their web servers was a risky move, and they’re hearing about it.
New heavy metal
Those are some mighty fine herons, or egrets, or puffins
that nestbuilding is pretty metal
Needs more tits.
I just take that for granted.
If you wanted to know why the latest Jacobin cover felt so Russian Orthodox, here’s the answer.
Cover art by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva
I don’t understand.
Ditto.
I don’t speak… whatever language that is.
What do you mean? This is Russian iconography.
All of the above, Mr. Malice
An example.
check mate!
This random comment from Zerohedge seems more insightful than what you can read in WSJ or NR.
Gosh… I wonder what they mean by “Globalist Central Banker”. Is that some sort of dog whistle?
It’s obvious that they are referring to the notoriously powerful cabal of Polacks who secretly run the world.
Never mail it in.
https://twitter.com/WilhelmDerErste/status/1352607160790904835
Harsh.
Gosh. Season 3 of The Expanse is substantially less good than the first two seasons. Does it get better in seasons 4 and 5?
I had to watch it a couple times for it to gel – the pace seems too fast. In fact, I’ll probably have to watch it again before I start S04.
Ive really enjoyed the series so far, but it was the second half of season three after they resolved the whole kids plot thread that it has started going sideways. They introduced a bevy of unlikable secondary characters and tried to make them all into heroes.
Anyway, I’ll give season 4 a chance with the hope that all of these annoying characters get spaced or mowed down in a hail of gunfire or whatever cockamamie way the writers can find to kill them off.
Season 3 was all about Miller right? Can’t remember. Season 4 was okay and 5 in my opinion lets you know there is a whole solar system out there. At least how I have seen it.
Yes. It never gets back to the level of the initial world building, but it is worth sticking with.
I know Donald Trump was a controversial president, but it’s truly alarming to see what his political opponents are doing to him now that he’s a private citizen.
They aren’t content that he lost the “election.” Thru want to drag him through dubious legal proceedings, take his name off his own buildings, delete his cameo from a movie, and worse.
I just read that two Florida banks where ztrump had a few million in money market accounts have closed his accounts.
I seriously doubt he’ll get a Presidential library, secret service protection, or any invitations normally given to ex-presidents. They will remove his Hollywood walk of fame star.
He’s better off leaving the country before it gets worse for him.
My guess is the over-the-top beating of his defeated corpse is roughly half about revenge, and half to serve as a warning to other outsiders who dare disrupt the status quo in DC.
He should go live it up in a country that won’t extradite him to the US. Maybe wait until Biden’s socialist dictats have destroyed what remains of the post lockdown economy, then run some ads with the “Miss me yet?” meme on them.k
Making it absolutely clear to the people that only the chosen select shall ever rise to the level of president ever again.
It really is orwellian. It kinda makes you the crazy one if you don’t believe in some form of kooky conspiracy theory.
They are already laying the groundwork for bringing back war in the middle East. Why? It is almost impossible to reconcile without a kooky conspiracy.
The minute Biden takes office, the WHO moves to reduce the sensitivity of Covid testing, saying the numbers have been exaggerated. Hard to reconcile that without joining a kooky conspiracy theory. Or the fact that the big Pharma companies sat on the news of their success in creating a vaccine until after the election.
The largest companies on earth, all colluding to silence Trump and Trump supporters… On the same day. I mean, if you had told me a story like that in 1987 I would not have stayed for the conclusion. Too nutty. Yet this is not only reality today, it is a widely supported reality.
It is kind of impossible to incorporate all of that into a single world view without invoking some truly insane conspiracy theories.
At which point …. Re-enter Orwell. He had an entire framework for existing in such a reality. Doublethink. And with impressive prescience, his invented term seems to perfectly describe the major chunk of society.
Goddamn tuberculosis. Got Vivien Leigh too.
PS. #3 best seller on Amazon this week. (Who is Julia Quinn [1, 2, and 4]? Sounds like someone Moj would know of.)
We’re already invading Syria again, right?
Huh…Snopes did a ‘fact check’ about the Guard being relegated to parking garages and they actually said it was true.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/national-guard-parking-garage/
Because everyone got in front of it and expressed outrage… Including the people who made it happen.
Off to work, have a great Saturday everybody!
Clippers to the noggin even tough it’s turning cold. I’ve always copped to being the dullest Glib…
Mornin’, F. How’s the kitty doing?
Sup Festus? Top of the day to you!
Fat and happy! Even did the crazy-eyed run around last night. Festus and Festus are pleased.
That was meant for Tox but I guess it works on levels.
Aw, good to hear.
Much happier Kitteh. Happy Pussy, happy man!
All good news is welcome, and that good news is especially welcome! Mornin’ Festuses.
Eh oh, Po!
Eh oh, Toxty Winky!
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This has alerted me to the fact that there does not appear to be a vacuum cleaner emoji.
*riot*
Yeah, I looked for it.
The London Calling podcast reminds me of you.
Over the hills and far away, Glibertarians come to play, down in Dingly Dell.
How did the serpentine go yesterday?
Serpentine, Shelly! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0
I should go do something productive…
John Brennan might be one of the most dangerous people in the US. That is to say, one of the most dangerous people that are in the public sphere.
He was on Dax Shepard’s podcast recently, if anyone feels up to taking it for the team. https://armchairexpert.simplecast.com/episodes/john-o-brennan-RZ1_LPVW
That’s a good candidate for a “would you rather…” pitted against a romantic evening with STEVE SMITH.
Why? A B-List celebrity interviewing a former director of the CIA? It smacks of desperation on both their parts.
He’s human filth.
Good morning you bunch of glibbers!
Mornin’
It’s friggin cold out. Mornin.
It’s late in the game but I recommend World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides with Henry Cole. There’s an episode where he rides up from California to Idaho and visits the Potato Museum. Nothing special, and he never goes into any great detail about the places he stops at, but it’s a nice casual watch. Bonus fact: Cole is distantly related to William Ewart Gladstone.