We wake every day, or we don’t. I’d like to keep it that simple but man is it hard to contain the sadness as more and more beautiful people perish.
The latest is a great musician and friend Big … Read the rest
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Damn, Bowie Is Gone
Is it a hoax? While releasing his latest album, and already receiving amazing reviews, David Bowie, 69, passed last night from unreported cancer.
So many unanswered questions here, like who knew, how they were planning the promotion of the new … Read the rest
Re-Watch Cosby?
Fascinating article and comments by someone who recently re-watched the iconic 80’s sitcom and came away very conflicted.
I have yet to see a Cosby show post-allegations. I may try the experiment and see if I can still enjoy it. … Read the rest
Trump And The Narcissistic Christians
Outstanding piece explaining why a man like Donald Trump is actually polling well with so-called evangelical christians, even though he has no outward connection to them and should, at first glance, truly offend them.
He doesn’t.
They seem drawn to … Read the rest
Travesty Of Justice
True story: 12 year old kid gets a toy gun from the dollar store.
He runs up his street to a small park and pretends he’s shooting various things. Plays with his toy.
A man on a bench … Read the rest
Pollution Logic
We all pollute to survive. How much you are comfortable with is a personal decision, and then a societal decision for the community you belong to.
The weather has been crazy. Granted where I’m from it’s almost always … Read the rest
Trump Has No Schlong
This donald would be entertaining if he didn’t have millions of maniacs believing his every nonsensical utterance. Now they are shouting Nazi slogans, they are shouting down protesters and neutrals, roughing people up, getting scary.
Walking right down the path … Read the rest
Racists For Trump
Initially it was just the hype lovers. The bombast believers.
The louder the better. The simple message.
The common sense that doesn’t add up. Anti-intellectual of W done without the ‘compassion’ BS.
Macho billionaire Palin version 2.
Demagogue. Real life … Read the rest
How To Best Close Up The Internet?
If a President Trump decides we need to “close up the internet in some way” like Candidate Trump wishes, is it even possible?
[Someone not to ask is Sarah Palin. She’s gotta be steaming mad that Trump stole her act.]… Read the rest
Ban Trump
Boy what a disaster. Trump’s implosion into full hater mode is entertaining for TV but disastrous for America’s beaten-down reputation.
First off, Trump does business all over the world. He owns properties all over, including in many countries … Read the rest
Imagining A World Full of Left Wing Crazies
In America, seemingly every week some crazy person filled to the brim with AM Radio talking points, Fox News theories, and right wing internet fueled nonsense pulls out one or more of their many guns and starts shooting innocents.… Read the rest
Only Stream If You Also Buy Music
If you stream and don’t buy anything ever, you are hurting us all.
We all do it, or know those that do. Since about 1999 (the early Napster era) the idea of actually paying for your music collection has been … Read the rest
Language Splits; Music Unifies
Very interesting article here about how humans use music psychologically, and how we have evolved with the help of music.
Language divides us into groups and parses all types of information into specific, tribal code.
Music on the other hand, unites … Read the rest
The Difficult Life of Phuc Dat Bich
Some poor chap is actually named Phuc Dat Bich. Granted, when pronounced in his native language it does not sound like that. But Facebook can’t sort it all out and has deleted his account several times.
No Facebook account is … Read the rest
Free Upgrades For Life
Funny how reality got in the way of the Pono bashing and Neil Young hating that was all over the internet in 2013-2014.
The emperor has clothes. He usually wears yellow.
- They claimed Young was trying to
The Wall
Most of the people in the united states illegally did not walk across the mexican desert to get here.
This simple fact is continually ignored by Republicans. They don’t like facts.
Any kind of serious immigration reform isn’t … Read the rest
Water Works
Witness the awesome power of music. Tissue please.
… Read the restA Tale Of Two Setups
I was in my new all-analog studio last night with a simple task – dump from the 4-track tape machine to something digital so I could share the tracks just recorded with the artists.
First I needed to do … Read the rest