Well….still bored today since the space x launch has been postponed until Friday…but, I did want to comment on a little article that I just read about the idiot trumps….it seems that there was an election for mayor of New York in November that the idiots tried to vote in but they are all so damn dumb that not one of them who tried to fill out absentee ballots got it right….so, these supposed geniuses…the “best people” couldn’t follow the instructions that are written for a 6th grade level education…man, are these people stupid….
Category Archives: Misc
Still a little bored today…
Well…sitting here still a little bored today and wondering if it is too weird to be geeked up about the Space X launch that is going to happen in about an hour. This will be the first time the entire rocket and capsule will be used ones and the booster will be landed back on the cape…and it is going to be streamed live on their website that I already have up with a little countdown counter in the corner…okay, I’m more that a little bored but this will help with that….
No trump today….
Well…yeah, I know…some of you are getting pretty tired of me going on and on about the idiot trump so today, no trump. Okay, one little thing…the idiot boy was not chosen to be Time’s person of the year…he is such a loser he can’t even win that….and that makes me laugh….have been watching some new tv lately over on netflix…finished off “Godless” and started “Dark” yesterday and, while I liked “Godless”, after two episodes of “Dark”, I’m not sure what I think about it…there are times that the English dubbing is distracting…but the story is just weird enough to keep me interested…we’ll see after a few more episodes….there is a new show on syfy tonight called “Happy!” that looks just about weird enough to give a try….about an ex-cop hitman who has a blue, flying horse that he talks to…and it is supposed to be full of blood and gore…and it’s partially a comedy so it may be interesting to see…ordered that up on the server along with “Godless” today….since all of the DC shows on the CW ended this week….tv is going to be a little bare for the next month or so…will probably have to go back to some of the shows I have kept in reserve like “Stranger Things” or “Sense8″ to fill the time….but I don’t really want to end “Sense8″ since it has been cancelled and there won’t be any more of them….but, I guess they all have to end sometime….
Steely Dan
Well…no politics today with the excitement building for the SD concert tonight….even after seeing them 5 other times, I think I feel the same as I did the first time back in 2002….it will be different without Walter but life goes on….my only concern is that they haven’t been playing two of my favorites, FM and Pretzel Logic….but they have gone into the solo catalogs of both of them with a couple and that may be cool…it would be neat to hear Slinky Thing done live….whatever happens, it will be a nice, relaxing night…think I may take my earplugs just in case….
Not Steely Dan without Walter?
Well…just ran across a thread on facebook where people are commenting that since Walter died, it’s not Steely Dan anymore and they want their money back for the concert here in GR…now, these must be people who have never seen SD before…while I loved the way Walter played, there were many concerts this year where he was sick and wasn’t there and they had a fill in do his parts…to be honest, most of the time you really didn’t know he was there or not…and I’ve seen them 6 times….it was the same for me when John Entwhistle of the Who died a week before I was to see them here and it never occurred to me to want my money back…and Ox was more a part of the Who’s sound than Walter was to SD’s…and I’m a bass player fan that was looking so forward to seeing his unique style of playing. I wonder where this all comes from? Would you want your money back for Eagles tickets because Glen Frey died? Or not go to see them because he’s not there? All I know is I’m going to go see them and enjoy the night….I’m sure that Donald will be firing on all cylinders to make up for it…I know that it won’t be the same without Walter….but, we’ll still get to hear what Walter has left behind….and we can revel in the fact that he was here at all….
RIP Tom Petty
Well…didn’t think this day could get any crappier…but then it did..it was just announced that Tom Petty died this afternoon from a massive heart attack. Not sure if I ever owned any of his music but one of the best concerts I have ever seen was when I saw him here in GR a few years back…great musicians and wonderful songs…I think we spent most of the concert on our feet dancing and laughing and just enjoying the night…too damn early Tom….RIP…
I was going to say boycott NASCAR…
Well…after the comment by Richard Petty and Richard Childress today that they would fire anyone who exercised their 1st amendment rights and took a knee before the race today, I was going to say that you should boycott NASCAR….but, while I am done with them, it is up to everyone how to respond to this crap…I sure do hope they fire someone for following the constitution, they would probably be out of business with all of the lawsuits since it is settled case law that you can’t do that…especially since these two idiots already announced their intentions….there is one thing that you can do to express your displeasure that would really hurt these troglodytes as I have done…send e-mails to their sponsors that pay their bills…Petty’s car is sponsored by Smithfield foods and I’m sure they would be concerned when they get lots of e-mails of objection…and one of Childress’s cars is sponsored by Dow Chemical…so make them pay the only place they care about…in their wallets….
More on SD…
Well…just can’t get over the fact that Walter died….and I thought I needed to write more about it today…so, I will…Donald and Walter have been such a big part of my musical life since the 70′s that this is going to leave a hole there…I know the music will still be there but it’s like when John Entwhistle died the week before I was to see the Who here in GR…there’s just something less in the world knowing they’re gone…knowing that I’ll never again be surprised when I take the wrapper off a new SD disc and some new theme or lyric makes me smile….whenever I need to be soothed, whenever I need music to help quiet my brain when things aren’t going exactly right, I put on my SD playlists that I have heard a thousand times and I always feel better…Whenever I hear Doctor Wu and the emotions of loss and despair get replaced by elation by the end of the song, I am there waiting for Katy…that is the magic of Donald and Walter to me…that I can still be transported to other worlds with their story songs…and I grieve that there will not be any more of them…a sad, sad, day….
RIP Walter Becker…
Damn…this is one that I never wanted to do…Walter Becker, half of Steely Dan, died last night at the age of 67. I am still catching my breath about this…the Dan has been my favorite group for decades now and the plan was to see them for the 7th time in October here in GR. I knew there was something seriously wrong with him when he missed most of their concerts this year, and he didn’t look well at all in the youtube video of a concert from May….but his death still hit me like a ton of bricks, to use the old cliche….the Fagen/Becker partnership has given us some of the best, snarky and literate music that was really hard to describe…but the themes of old guys and young women, of outsiders that really liked being outsiders, and yearning for pasts that never were still resonate to me…and always will….RIP Walter…I’m going to miss you….
This is sick…
Well…just a shorty in response to some tweets I’ve been seeing today that have said that since Texas is a red state and run by repubs, they can just go to hell and don’t deserve help from the blue states…now, I really don’t care much for repub lawmakers who do nothing but make the country worse for most of us, but these folks losing everything in Texas are Americans and all of us on the left and right have a duty to help anyway we can….and to say because you have different political views you deserve to die is just one of the most sick things I have ever heard….and I reject anyone saying this crap….we’re better than that…at least I hope we are….geez….