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So...were you in Amarillo by happy hour? Or Breakfast? By the time you got to Phoenix, you'd be hungry as hell! You might want Elon Musk's money, but you might well already have more money that Nikola Tesla died with! But it's not just Musk talking about WW111, Putin's talking about whoever controls A will rule the world. So you know if "powerful" people are starting to talk openly about it like that, it's already well under way. So...stock up on peanuts and enjoy the parade.

Not so fast - AI (and genetic sciences) will allow us to become Gods!

Speaking of Leone, "Once Upon A Time In The West", the full-length version, is a new favorite. Saw it for the first time a few months ago as was transfixed by the sloooooow burn of the tempo, not unlike a Shirley Horn ballad that lasts a few hours. If you do TV Westerns, do not go without Have Gun Will Travel, the whole series. On the whole, as dark as any cinematic Western.

Evacuations have begun in Florida, correct? I'm seeing images of long, slow (but moving!) lines heading north on TV. With no Martin & Lewis, I'll pass, thank you.

Has Groening himself made actual comments along those lines? If so, yeah. Alf Clausen contribution to the show's history has been immense. Respect, please! I've not watched the show regularly for years, but still find it funny enough when I do. But it's really a formula now, it seems. A funny formula, but....a formula is a formula. I bet AI could write a script, if not now, sooner rather than later. AI is supposedly capable of "creativity" now...I suppose this is the wave of the future, so...think of all the free time we'll all have to watch Simpsons reruns now! The funny ones! https://www.axios.com/why-brands-should-care-about-ai-2468323821.html

Definitely NOT: Some Lemmon in your water? NOT THIS TIME! Still no way to know for sure where this thing will land stateside, of even that it will. But it's looking like hell right now, especially for our Caribbean neighbors. Y'all stay in touch as possible, please.

The cat creeps in on foggy feet, it gets on its haunches and shits and then looks at you. And then it moves on, because cats don't give a fuck.

Yeah, I've gone back and forth with that about him many times over the years, at first finding it "cool" then obnoxious and then ping-ponging in-between/all over the place until finally just accepting that it was whatever that "was", it was not just shtick. It was real, and it was funny (because people be who they be, so take it all in and laugh - and THAT'S the lesson right there, take it all in and whatever else you do, LAUGH). If it had not have been funny... And I really freaked out the first time I saw the credits and found out that it was him playing Larry David's dad on Curb. I didn't recognize him in any way, but was laughing my ass of wondering who IS this guy, and then I saw "Shelly Berman" and I was like, oh shit, NO WONDER! Some of those bits, though...I can still LMAO, like Kafka on the phone. Funny premise, funny execution, just funny, period.

Maybe you have to be of a certain age/demographic, but I remember this cat being everywhere for a while, in person, on radio/TV, records. Then I think maybe he pissed some/enough people off by being "difficult" and hit a slow spell. But I always found him funny, even if his tone got a little, uh..."strident"? at time. The bits were always funny and the timing always on. I guess he had an eternal beef with Bob Newhart about the phone call thing, but hell, a premise is just a premise, a premise doesn't work itself. Those were two different minds running in two different directions. They're both champs in my book! "Stewardess, how long does it take to get to Los Angeles?" "I don't know, we've never made it." RIP.

John Worster, for sure. Jay Daversa? Who else?

File Under: Something that You Thought Would Be Good For A Laugh But Instead Ends Up Being Total Shit That Basically Fucks Humanity Right In The Tenderest Part Of Its Soul And Never Stops, It's A Fucking Machine-Beast Of Soul Killing, That's What It Is

Trane - hell, the whole Quartet - going all in, the stuff of which legends are made! Still hasn't been legitimately released, so that just adds to the legend! I'll take things you play at a party when you want everybody to leave, but those who stay get to stay forever for $500, Alex.

It's not when I can't get the link to go by right-clicking it in some form or fashion. Thanks for the thought, though.

It was a fun band to listen to. Not a LOT of fun, but fun enough, in small doses. The voicings often enough we surprising enough to perk up the ears. "Modern" in their own way. And the phrasings often stretched and compressed in some unique ways. I've had opportunity to play some of those charts in various dance bands over the years. Definitely not a book to sleepwalk through, things end up in places you might not expect them to land. And you got to watch out to not swing too much or too little. That style has its own pocket, and anything outside of it just doesn't work. It's not a jazz book, it's a dance book informed by jazz.

As to what it is, yeah. But where does one go to find it at a non-stoopid price point?

Just came onto my radar, seems to be stupid rare AND stupid pricey. Any ideas?

Tell me something I don't know. Not that I want them to "have my Texas back"...Me and mine got our own, thank you. But I ain't gonna let a good cover go to waste and I ain't gonna let it ruin my day. This, however, is quite true - as far as it goes: "But a recurrent crop of crackpots and ideologues has fed the state’s reputation for aggressive know-nothingism and proudly retrograde politics"..."One can drive across it and be in two different states at the same time: FM Texas and AM Texas. FM Texas is the silky voice of city dwellers, the kingdom of NPR. It is progressive, blue, reasonable, secular, and smug—almost like California. AM Texas speaks to the suburbs and the rural areas: Trumpland. It’s endless bluster and endless ads. Paranoia and piety are the main items on the menu." I defy anybody who has lived in Texas and traveled it for years to find otherwise. It\ s not a value judgement, it's just the basic reality. And it's what I really, really love - and hate - about my home state. But the reality is that you don't get a chance to have one instead of the other. You either take them both or else...I don't know...,move to either Oklahoma or California. But if you stay, and if you want to feel the real Texas love, you gotta learn that beauty and ugliness are only a minute away, no matter which way you turn your radio dial.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2017-09-11?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories Watching the apocalyptic photographs and videos released in the wake of Hurricane Harvey this week, the cartoonist Chris Ware singled out moments of grace as inspiration for this week’s cover. Ware, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, reflected on his experience in the Lone Star State: “I lived in San Antonio in high school, in the mid-nineteen-eighties, and attended college in Austin, occasionally driving to Houston with my fellow art students to visit museums, and sometimes alone, just for the change of scenery. I liked Houston for its big buildings, its diversity, and its slack zoning laws, which made neighborhoods unpredictable and surprising. One night, my cartoonist friend John Keen and I stopped at a restaurant-bar that was about halfway to Houston, in the very Texas-sounding town of Winchester. The parking lot was locked and loaded with about two dozen pickup trucks, and, as scrawny liberal Austinites, we braced ourselves and pushed open the saloon doors, only to find black and white farmers talking and laughing, playing poker, and shooting pool together. In a corner, an interracial couple quietly ate barbecue. This Winchester bar, we realized, was more integrated than the University of Texas we’d just left.”

http://video.kera.org/video/1189641236/

Archaeology appears to be in order!