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Let's add mothers and grandmothers to that list as well..it's not like any of this is a new type of human behavior... Along those lines, I'm not sure if I really feel the term "rape culture", although what is meant by it, yes, especially, perhaps, as it applies to the Cosby scenarios. But let's also consider that before the world was overpopulated, it wasn't, and that in many places at many times, it actually must have felt under-populated. Sex drive itself not particularly complicated or chrono/geo-specific, hardly. We fuck because...we fuck. Even educated fleas do it, or so they say. Channeling those impulses, though, is anything but simple. Roles change, cultures change, population density changes, EVERYTHING changes except the basics, of which sex is certainly one...the line between one person's "rape culture" and another's "natural virility" is only clear until it's not, and where that "not" is gets into all sorts of psychological sociological grey areas beyond just every horny dude being a rapist in waiting, and although not here, I see that vibe going around today, and...doomed to fail because it's seems to be based on blaming nature rather than understanding it. I get that from a lot of people my kids' age. AIDS and NetPorn have worked hand-in-hand to fuck up our collective natural sex drives. People be scared and confused about sex, and for waaaay more of the reasons than they would normally/naturally be. We're a predominantly male community here, sure, but we're also a predominantly older one too. All this just to say that the sexual acts of which Cosby has been accused are not really "wrong" in and of themselves. Let's get high and fuck, who has NOT been there, eh? And yes, some women do enjoy being "dominated", and that takes on all kinds of forms too (would you like another glass of wine? oh, i really shouldn't but......ooooooookaaaaay). Some women enjoy the "hunt" just as much as do some men, this is too deeply personal to be looked at strictly as "culture". So let's be sure that when we talk about "rape culture" that we are indeed talking about rape itself, and not the "stud mentality". They may seem connected, but if they are, then the urge to take food off of somebody's plate is connected to the urge to eat everything on one's own, and if you're at a buffet, especially, which is to say, evolution is an ongoing process, always. If there was no consent, it's rape. If there was unclear consent, then he's an opportunistic predatory asshole, which is reprehensible from my standpoint, but not illegal, and certainly not anything that seems to be discouraged in other aspects of life. And if there was initial consent but then things got kinky...this is 2015, not 1975, and definitely not 1945, forget about 1492. You can pick your targets, but you can't pick your judges. Hey hey hey.

Not sure why rhythmic push and pull and long lines of eight notes are mutually exclusive?

Innocent until proven guilty is - and god willing, will always be - the most scared of principles of American justice. and Iw uld hope that it carries over into our personal and business lives as well, that it objective analysis be our grounds for decision making. But on the other hand, the only power I have in this Bill Cosby affair is...none. I'm not in position to be on his jury, or do advise him legally, or even to affect his position in the market place. So in my world, his "innocence" or "guilt" or anything in between, really means nothing in terms of actionable energy. All I can do is have an opinion, and then piss it into the wind. What we can tell with almost absolute certainty is that Mr. Cosby was a bit of a freak, and hey, who amongst us, etc. What we don't know is if all of his accusers were a bit of a freak themselves at the time of their encounters, and if so, how much. My gut feeling is that the more recent the encounter, the more likely that something unsavory occurred, be it drugging by Cosby or entrapment by the women, or maybe a bit of both, really, like hey, here's this old guy with power and money, let me see if I can fuck some of it out of him, and then Cosby pulls HIS shit and they're like, wait, did this guy just fuck me over while I was trying to fuck HIM over? Fuck HIM if he thinks he can get by with THAT. What we also don't know is if Cosby has been sticking with Quaaludes or has moved on to Rohypnol or some other shit like that. That matters,if only to the extent that Ludes generally leave people awake and aware (ish), whereas the other stuff is a lot more incapacitating. But it's a huge, ginormous huge, difference between offering somebody a Lude to get them to relax and slipping them rufies so you can fuck an essentially living corpse. Of course, even the Lude is wrong if it's not represented in advance with the fullest accuracy The whole thing is very human, in the most sordid way, really. People should reach a certain level of experience in life to realize that fucking brings exposure, all kinds of exposure, physical, metaphysical, legal, paralegal, hell, it's the most powerful force on the planet, really. So a dude who goes through life thinking he can fuck anybody anytime and not get exposed is as ignunt as is any chick who thinks they can play pussygames with the rich and powerful all they want and there not be a price. And really, people, that's where we are now, everybody wants unlimited exposure and nobody wants to pay any kind of a price. What kind of people have we become? Quest For UnBurnable Fire? Seriosuly? Anyway, next time I see Cliff & Claire Huxtable dancing to "Dear Lord", I'm still gonna be moved to tears. Just for new reasons.

That's interesting. One of the early episodes has Uhura taking command of the ship because all the men have fallen under the influence of a seduction wave from an all-female planet, or something like that. and Kirk, Spoc, & Bones are all being held hostage on that planet, where they're aging rapidly. That's it, roughly. Anyway, Uhura takes command and saves the Enterprise, and the entire crew

I'm not willing to write off every woman wanting to see Bill Cosby after the show as a starfucker. If you do that, you rule out the possibility that some women can admire a man for accomplishment, stature, whatever, and just want to experience being in the presence of a hero, without wanting to get DrugFucked. It's crudely sexist - in today's climate - to figure that a dude can go hang out with a hero after a show just to do it, just to get the rush of star-presence, but that if a woman want to do the same thing, she's gonna need to sign up for getting fucked, or at least for the attempt to be fucked. Seeing as how these accusations go back several decades, and how radically the climate towards the true meaning of "no" has changed during that time, I would advise against lumping all of these cases together under the same "profile". And, really, "consent" has become a very much fluid thing these days, the lines are being redrawn as we speak. Consent to oral sex is not necessary consent to intercourse, consent to vaginal intercourse is not necessarily consent to anal intercourse, consent to anything with one partner is not necessarily consent to anything with your homies in the next room. And really, consent to a flirty, sexually-tinged let's see where it goes hang with Bill Cosby is not necessarily consent to being DrugFucked. And Bill Cosby has for a plenty long enough time to have been an old enough man to realize that. This has all changed in MY life time, never mind in Bill Cosby's lifetime. Back in the day, "seduction" basically was the front given to keep trying to get whatever you could get and then keep going, the perception being that for a "normal" woman, "no" hardly ever REALLY meant "no". Now, "no" may still not always mean "no", humans still be human, but if you're a thinking man, you gotta take it at face value and start thinking long game, if game at all. Truthfully, the less game the better.

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whoa....

I don't find that line strange at all..a bit grandiose, perhaps, but in the sense that she probably could have destroyed his career (or at least the career he's had based on the image he's made for himself) at probably damn near any point over the last half-century, not strange. I'll say this - I don't know anybody who is married to a habitually "wandering" spouse who doesn't know it inside, no matter what front they put on it to public, friends, family, even to each other. An intimacy betrayed yet continued is perhaps the deepest intimacy of all. Myself, I think its also the most twisted, but...I can only speculate about that. To that end - the key to these allegations and their criminality is "consensual", and it's my opinion that even an encounter that begins with an air of mutual consent becomes decidedly non-consensual when one party is drugged without their knowledge or consent. I don't know if that's the law's opinion as well, but I would certainly hope that it is. "Impaired state" or something. But if you can get that to stick - that it was in fact non-consensual due to the plaintiff(s) not giving consent to all of it in a sober (enough) condition, then you have Bill Cosby, Felon. Otherwise, you just have Bill Cosby, FuckYouAssholeYouBetrayedAnEntireFuckingCiviliazationGoddamitFUCKYOU. Because, sure, everybody makes mistakes, and yeah, playas gonna play, but unless and until DrugRape becomes A Noble Pursuit For Humanity To Pursue Until Perfected, yeah, fuck you Bill Cosby, FUCK YOU. That's a public life devoted to some moving some meaningful shit wasted. Ideas still valuable, but ideas tend to need a face to really steamroll, and whose face is there to use now? Cosby was, hell still is, a unique set of factors to bring to the table, the man himself no doubt pompous as hell sometimes, but, education? self-image? self-reliance? self-respect? jazz? parenting responsibilities? economic imperatives? Fuck it if Bill Cosby was an insufferable asshole sometimes,, he carried some weight anyway, easily rolled eyes at, but not so easily dismissed out of hand. And now...how much weight do you feel comfortable letting a not yet convicted but very quite probably a Serial Drug Rapist carry in questions of moral and cultivar imperatives and directions? Once a respectable distance has passed after their death, yeah, there's that conversation to be had of individual demons vs contribution to the greater good. But while still alive, and while still asking the legal system to protect them from "embarrassment? Hmmmmm.... Otherwise, the odds that every Cosby Accuser really did consent to DrugSex and have now been hired by some giant post-Hoover Right Wing Fascist-Capitalist agenda to destroy EVERY Black Hero that America has ever had are not zero (that would require some laws of physics being broken, and behavior is not yet physics...not yet, and I for one do not yet feel all that comfortable with letting go of the notion of a giant post-Hoover Right Wing Fascist-Capitalist agenda to destroy EVERY Black Hero that America has ever had ), but are pretty damn close to it. I guess the one lesson we can take from this is the same lesson we always take from things like this - you want a hero, be your own goddamned hero. Otherwise, take your inspirations where you find them and keep on moving.

Just confirmed that Jim Sangrey & Summusic will have a slot on the Monday July 27 Outward Bound Mixtape Session hosted by Stefan Gonzalez at the Crown and Harp. Specifics not yet finalized, but the night itself runs 10-2, so if you plan on coming, take a nap...I know I will. Crown and Harp1914 Greenville AvenueDallas, TX 75206On Lower Greenville next to Daddy Jack'sFree parking behind Billard Bar.(214) 828-1914

Yeah, the stories are really kicking ass...some are a lot better than some of the live-action shows of Season 3. The one where Spock is removed from time and then goes back to Vulcan to save his own life as a child do he can return to the present as himself, if that had been done live-action, it would be legendary, I think.The writing was top-shelf, and Nimoy brought real feeling to the voice-over. That's been true of almost all of them I've gotten to. You can almost watch it like a radio show, just listen to the audio, since the animation is so rarely relevant and you already know all the voices so well.

I do not object to the assumption of the overwhelming likelihood of Cosby's guilt. I share it myself. I do, however, object people saying that somebody "said" something when that something is part one of statement combined with a set of circumstances not (yet) tied to the events which said statement pertains. That's just sloppy logic, not too far, if at all, removed from Donald Trump Land. The noose of Truth is tightening, Rushing to pull it tighter yet with some emo anger logic will only give it a chance to come loose again. Of such things are "legal technicalities" born, and rather than bitching about their existence, the smart thing to do is to understand how they work, and then have a system that does it damnedest to avoid triggering them so that the truth cannot help but will out.

No fans of The Animated Series?

http://www.cheezeball.net/mp3s/WeeWillieShantz-HushPuppyHush-OddballAuditoriumVersion.mp3 http://www.cheezeball.net/mp3s/WeeWillieShantz-CooCooBird-OddballAuditoriumVersion.mp3

15 bucks at Amazon, 4 DVDs. I've completed TOS and the VI original cast movies, and am NOT going to move on to Next Generation until I get through these. Much better than I was expecting, although, still, yeah, Saturday Morning Cartoon visually and at times, vocally (but far less often than expected). Fascinating to think of this not in terms of "canon" but in terms of reality of existence in 1973 - original series four(?) years gone, cultdom still in the building stage (correct?), no budget/production interest for ANYTHING except, apparently, a cheap cartoon. But they took it and freakin' RAN with it, Star Trek Franchise in EXILE, baby. Survival move executed brilliantly. The booklet contains a few paragraphs about whether this stuff is "real" or not, which is pretty dam funny to somebody who's in no way a Trekkie, just enjoying the shit out of discovering it all, but as far as "canon" and shit goes, hell, who was involved here and/or what was done that would in ANY way render this "invalid" and/or "un-real"? Serious Trek fans who agree or disagree, input appreciated.

If somebody who's, like, 15 today is ever going to buy jazz on a digital disc, wouldn't it be for as comprehensive an inventory-per-item as could be had? Look at all the EuroMusiPorn 8000 Classic Albums On ONE Baloney Sandwich collections out there now, the only way for original rights holders to compete is to offer more music at better quality for a same-enough-ish price. Or are original rights holders even thinking about that? Maybe they're just trying to gimmicksqueeze the last profits out of their holdings before everybody "our" age/demographic/buying habits dies and leaves our kids mammoth stockpiles of objects nobody wants full of content people can already get otherwise?

This is the one they were selling when I was buying. I still prefer it, although it's definitely anachronistic.

Uhhhhh....Cosby admits to buying Quaaludes, but not to giving them to anybody, especially not the 25 women who claimed to have been drugged and raped by him. See, that's why people do go to law school, thank god. I say he should be sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his natural life, just him and Camille (when she feels like it) in a silent, windowless room, with Pudding Pops on the hour, 24/7, 365. Let's see how long he holds up under those conditions.

http://atane.tumblr.com/post/2897620329/sonny-rollins-wore-a-mohawk-hairstyle-long-before This one here looks early 60s to me:

Even better yet, make the G-Man cut the lead tune to Falling In Love With Jazz instead of "For All We Know", which is a completely disposable, and then put the CD on repeat, When it loops back from "Amanda" to "G-Man", you might be surprised at how little a drop off you feel, if any. And then you get the magnificent "Little Girl Blue" as a cool off. People either not hearing this shit or taking it for granted or I don't know. But it's not on YouTube ("Tennessee Waltz: is, though, and that's another one that is splendid), so all I can say is who you gonna believe, me or YouTube? And by this time, we've all seen enough live Sonny Rollins (real or footage) to put the whole-body-swing to the audio, and oh lord help me jesus, please don't anybody say that such a thing is not relevant. Not that I care, I don't, but I'm y'all's friend about shit like this, and I'll tell you, ok Dancing In The Dark, get that one - and any number f others - if you feel like it, there's some fun stuff on there, but once more, this time with feeling, Falling In Love With Jazz is worthy of repeated listening. Whole-body-swing, body all in the music, who will deny?

Shark jumped when lawyers pleaded for testimony to not be released to the public because it would be embarrassing. After that, the material started writing itself.

I'll say it one more 'gin - Falling In Love With Jazz is worthy of repeated listening.