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- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
On the merits, "everyone" is appropriately shocked at the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Trump's immunity claim. But what else is new? As my parents would have said, the Court is a shonda* and has been for some time. If one assumes the best, i.e. that they will eventually deny Trump's claim, then c...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Heathens Homecoming 2024
- Replies: 138
- Views: 19388
Re: Heathens Homecoming 2024
I think it is mathematically or spatially impossible for us to occupy the exact same ground 72 or 96 hours a year but not meet (I think we did meet briefly years ago when the hangout was at that bar, not cine but I don't recall meeting you since). Maybe next year. Yeah, that is weird lol. There wer...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Polar Vortex wtf???
- Replies: 467
- Views: 178228
Re: Polar Vortex wtf???
I guess it's a good thing that this thread had sunk to the 2nd page, but What. The. Actual. Fuck????? :shock: :shock: :( Six to twelve FEET of snow predicted this weekend for the Sierra Nevadas. With winds over 115 MPH and blizzard conditions. I mean, seriously. Has anybody actually heard of 12 feet...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: 3DD English Premier league Fantasy Football League
- Replies: 465
- Views: 212801
Re: 3DD English Premier league Fantasy Football League
I was quoted today in Rory Smith's NYT soccer newsletter. I think that's worth at least 50 extra fantasy points, don't you?
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Heathens Homecoming 2024
- Replies: 138
- Views: 19388
Re: Heathens Homecoming 2024
I knew nothing about The Paranoid Style until homecoming and since being introduced to them, have become obsessed. Admittedly I was only able to understand roughly 1 out of ten lines sung but the one line I understood was usually a really good one. Also I can understand issues with Elizabeth’s voic...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Today's newsletter from David French is, I think, a fascinating take on the growing sociopolitical divide between men and women (title: "Men are from Mercury, Women are from Neptune"). Since it's a newsletter, I can't link to it and it's too long to copy wholesale. If you subscribe to the NYT I assu...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
No doubt a lot has been going on lately but it strikes me that it all adds up to nothing. Just a lot of churning of the same old same old, some days better, some days worse, but none of it changing the overall state of play. But damn one could go blind reading even a small fraction of the words devo...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Heathens Homecoming 2024
- Replies: 138
- Views: 19388
Re: Heathens Homecoming 2024
Nice, brett. And thanks for posting here. I think it is mathematically or spatially impossible for us to occupy the exact same ground 72 or 96 hours a year but not meet (I think we did meet briefly years ago when the hangout was at that bar, not cine but I don't recall meeting you since). Maybe next...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39362
Re: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
If it were Chicago, I can imagine "steam rising" could be a homeless person on a steam grate, but in downtown Birmingham it seems like actual "innards". Though it is part of his early catalog, the "time travel" within a song, or the "shifting perspective" (see "Filthy and Fried") is a common theme....
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39362
Re: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
And we appreciate it.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: Who's Everyone Seeing Live?
- Replies: 7484
- Views: 2059216
Re: Who's Everyone Seeing Live?
Audra McDonald at Boston Symphony Hall last nite complete w/ orchestra. What a talented woman! And what a great entertainer. Highly recommended if you get a chance.
April 30: Teenage Fanclub at the Paradise, Boston
April 30: Teenage Fanclub at the Paradise, Boston
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39362
Re: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
I hope 3DD never cedes to FB, because (the collective) "you guys" are the best... this song is still percolating nearly 2 weeks after HHC I don't think 3dd is going anywhere but its future really depends on some of the former regulars (or newbies I suppose though that seems unlikely) coming back mo...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Books Thread
- Replies: 2426
- Views: 784029
Re: Books Thread
I realized that I never posted about Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, which I read a couple of months ago. The book was a sensation last year, winning all kinds of rave reviews, prizes and top ten (often top 1) listings. Whatever else I want to say about the book, it's clear why it earned all those acco...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39362
Re: DBT Tracks - Week # 6 - One of These Days
I'd say it's a deep dive into the psyche of fathers and sons, a regularly recurring topic for Cooley. Bringing my own experiences/biases to my interpretation of the early part of the song, he's making fun of his dad for always saying "one of these days" he'll do this or that but never doing it. By t...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The TV thread
- Replies: 3666
- Views: 1043843
Re: The TV thread
Masters of the Air - I'm watching it, but for some reason I don't like it. I don't have a particular reason and don't really want to dive in deeper to try and understand why. However, unfortunately, 4 episodes in, I feel like it is my patriotic duty to finish it. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to mak...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Just wondering: Do Trump's fundraising problems have anything to do with his target audience finally starting to realize how badly they're being ripped off? Seems unlikely, but hey, anything's possible and if there's even a little bit of truth there, the guy is in serious trouble. Once those being c...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
I had a thought. What if everyone except his sheep just ignored him. Might push him over the cliff. Ironically I think the answer to this very good question is wrapped up in "Trump Derangement Syndrome," an exaggerated but real attempt to explain the Donald's hold on the public's imagination. Love ...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
But sanctions? What is left to sanction? Didn't we drop the hammer repeatedly post invasion? Didn't we kick Russia out of Swift (the global banking standard)? WTF is left to sanction and why the hell WOULD there be something left to sanction? I'm lost as to why any democratic-NATO-adjecent-type cou...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
In what I assume is a major departure from pretty much everyone's bingo card, Fox News actually interrupted a live broadcast of a Trump speech to say that Trump was wrong about multiple matters and "you are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts." I call that a big ...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The TV thread
- Replies: 3666
- Views: 1043843
Re: The TV thread
Agreed. It's not always possible to tell where the fault lies.305 Engine wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:47 pmI think there are attempts to give him some depth and good lines but unfortunately Alan Ritchson aint exactly De Niro.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The TV thread
- Replies: 3666
- Views: 1043843
Re: The TV thread
Currently well into Monsieur Spade but am withholding judgment until I see the whole thing. One thing I can say is that I love the idea of it (Sam Spade retired and living in the South of France forced by circumstances to get back into "the game"). Finished Monsieur Spade and we liked it, but neith...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62466
- Views: 14041627
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." Or so wrote William Faulkner.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Sort of sorry for the mixed movie references. It's Florida, Jake. Always has been and always will be, Elwood. It was one thing when the most likely victims were the elderly, the fat and the otherwise not suitable for prime time. But now they're taking direct aim at kids. "They" being the vaccine den...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
PS It helps a lot if you call them escargots.beantownbubba wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:10 amBut s/he really ought to learn to like eating snails
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
It's a murder, not just a death. From what I've seen (admittedly random and not conclusive) the media has been mixed on this w/ at least some of the MSM referring to this as murder and to Putin as a murderer. It could be better but by recent standards I think it's not too bad. But sanctions? What i...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
The slings and arrows of daily political life are what they are, and don't change much from day to day. Some days I handle them better than others but on the whole I think I've gotten better at keeping my equilibrium. Recent events that haven't had the effect they might have include Congress being ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: Misc Shit
- Replies: 433
- Views: 213161
Re: Misc Shit
Not sure where this should go so I guess that means it goes here. Excellent column in the WaPo today about the joys of music, its place in our lives and its ability to link families and generations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/21/music-brings-families-together/?utm_campaign=wp_to...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The TV thread
- Replies: 3666
- Views: 1043843
Re: The TV thread
After a long interruption, I was finally able to finish Reacher. I was disappointed. Violence and overcoming daunting physical odds are certainly part of the Reacher character and mystique but if that's all there was, he'd be no different than a thousand other characters. What makes him special are ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
As you may know I am a huge fan of Professor Heather Cox Richardson and her substack blog. But even so, her most recent column, the one dated 2/21 is outstanding. Her ability to synthesize apparently disparate events and to weave the big picture story from the many small picture events that take mos...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20794
- Views: 4878975
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
hey BtB, i saw a facebook post that eerily mirrored yours: I had to go back to work while I'm here in Portland and I just got my benefits package. I'm an RN and the hospital I work for owns the health insurer that runs the plans (kind of like Kaiser but not quite). To insure my family (medical, den...