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dcbc

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  1. Ain't nobody got time for that. Turn it on. Warm it up. Rock.
  2. . . . with a poodle under one arm and a 2-foot salami under the other. Bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Guy says . . .
  3. He enabled Keith to be as Keith as Keith could be.
  4. Spot on. My favorite tidbit about the Stones was that, unlike a typical band, which follows the drummer. In the Stones, Keith sets the rhythm, and Charlie follows Keith.
  5. Charlie Watts was the most proficient musician in the Rolling Stones by miles. Mick Taylor is a more technically proficient guitar player than Keith. And the Stones keep rolling because, in the end, it's Mick and Keith.
  6. I used to fly when I was much younger. I stopped because I didn't have enough time to dedicate to it, and the last thing I want to be in this life is a mediocre pilot. I'm also, possibly as a result, not the best passenger (but I do okay). I do not love watching Air Disasters (assuming we're talking about the TV show). /I also was on a Pan Am 747 that lost an engine (maybe 2; I was young and memory fades) over the Pacific and had to head back to Honolulu. I'll still fly, but it's not my favorite thing anymore
  7. . . . until it isn't.
  8. Planes require parts and constant maintenance. That takes money. Who wants to bet that airplane maintenance is somewhere down the monetary to-do list or that he stiffs the company that maintains the plane.
  9. Yeah, I understood that. It's not an unreasonable take.
  10. *not counting George Martin Holden? I never read much about his personal issues, but there's no excuse for that sort of thing. On the musical side of the equation, I'd say that if you're the third or fourth best Beatle, that's not for nothing. That is to say, I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea that he was the least musically-talented member of the band. But it would not have been the Beatles without him. And to whatever extent he made noteworthy contributions over the years, it made a difference.
  11. Anyone remember Stephen King's The Dead Zone? Talk about prescient.
  12. Okay. I've got one of those (Ranco) on my chest freezer from when I used to homebrew. I've been thinking about rigging it up to a reptile heater pad and tossing that in the cooler to keep the brisket warm. Perhaps cheaper, but I still like the look of the $300 warmer from some of Amazon's Asian importers.
  13. I thought about that too. These aren't much more than a cheapo Masterbuilt though and I might be allowed to bring it inside at Thanksgiving. Plus, the warmer maxes out at 150 (on the dial). I'm sure the sweet spot is somewhere lower than that, but how low will a cheap electric smoker go?
  14. I'm offering good money that it's beer. And let's be honest, smoke, beer, and other things emanating from touring musicians which get absorbed into speaker cones are one of the reasons old speakers sound monumentally better than a broken-in new speaker, particularly the smoke. Because smoke is the common denominator additive in about 95% of the speakers that survived the 20th Century.
  15. As much as I'd like to see him punished for this and a litany of other shitty things, after more than two decades of working for the judiciary, I can say with great confidence that judges do not consider themselves "court staff." They are the court; they are not the staff.
  16. Love this video of them listening to the rough mix of Wild Horses.
  17. Trump was the perfect storm. And enough republicans will act like they were against him all along when the next guy tries to invoke his name. It won't get the idiots excited like Trump somehow did. The party types and usual voters still will vote lock-step along party lines, but the fringe types that Trump brought out of the shadows aren't, if I"m right (and I hope I am) going to show up for the next guy, even if his last name happens to be Trump.
  18. I think, like Brisket notes, the brand dies with him. And he wouldn't want it any other way.
  19. There are lots of great SK quotes. Here is my favorite, from my favorite book: “For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.” ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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