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Rip Brian Wilson and Sly Stone…

Well…damn, yesterday Sly Stone and today Brian Wilson…I so remember the song “Hot Fun in the Summertime” the year I got my driver’s license and having it blare out of the AM radio of my 62 Comet…that song always made me smile and still does…and Brian Wilson? The first record I ever owned was “Little Deuce Coupe” that my older sister got me for my birthday when I was 11 and I just loved the California sound that came from Brian…one of my favorite songs of all time is “Wouldn’t it be Nice” that showed me what came with growing up and the wistfulness that came with it…”wouldn’t it be nice if we were older, then we wouldn’t have to wait so long, and wouldn’t it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?” Simple but profound at the same time…RIP Sly and Brian…

Good on you, Brian Wilson…

Well…this one is going to be a little different…not about politics or anything else that I normally talk about but it’s about the slaughter of endangered animals by supposed “big game hunters” for profit….this one came to my attention by a tweet by Brian Wilson, the founder of the Beach Boys, castigating Mike Love, one of the other members of the band, for booking a concert at the yearly convention of these animal murderers, and a place where most of these “safaris” are sold….now, don’t give me the BS that if I eat meat, I can’t object to rich assholes shooting animals for “fun”…I have no objection with people hunting for food…and I love the fact that I have friends that hunt and give me venison every winter…after all, I try to not be a hypocrite…but to kill some beautiful, endangered animal just so you can take a grinning picture with the corpse is morally wrong…look, all you have to know is that the evil trump spawn are always in the news for doing just that, and one of them is the “keynote” speaker at this convention of murder where animal parts will be sold to other jackasses who think that killing a defenseless animal makes them a “man”…haven’t we gotten past killing just for killings sake? It’s just like the rich assholes who run this world to continually take, take, and take from the rest of us just so they can get their jollies…now, if they are such “he-men”, send them out against a leopard with just a knife and without the 13 rifles protecting them….you don’t have to wonder if any of them would do that…never in a million years….I guess all I have left to say is good on you Brian Wilson for calling out these assholes…