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Mdhorn

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  1. Curious about Boy Harsher—80s ish sounding techno. Have seen A Place to Bury Strangers a few times and they are fun, although I don’t know what lineup this is. And Mdou Moctar could also be interesting.
  2. was told by the doorman there were only 7 tickets left when I took this pic.
  3. But again, you have to subscribe to it. Now if it becomes part of the youths school curricula, then we have a certified brainwashing happening.
  4. I'm proud to be an American but it's just the luck of the draw. I could've just as easily, probably more so even, been born in India or China, and lived a life at the whims of their government. Instead, I was born American, white with all my fingers and toes, in a lower middle class family with both parents in 1970. That was a pretty good draw.
  5. Went to breakfast the other morning and a vet with a walker started talking to me while we were waiting to be seated. He asked where we were from and we said Texas and he said "so sorry to hear." We laughed and said that's why we're now in Maryland.
  6. That’s amazing. What’s really interesting is how blind I really am. There are two sizes for an animal—one when a person is in a vehicle and the other on foot and becomes so much larger. In separate occasions a warthog and an elephant were directly in front of me in the brush and I couldn’t see them. I took a pic so people could see how difficult it is to see.
  7. Did our trip without an agent and it was great. We landed in J'burg and drove to Kruger for four days, flew into Port Elizabeth and then stayed in Addo for a couple of nights and then drove down the garden route and stayed at thunder river and then down to Bontebok and ended at boulders beach/Cape Town. Trip was amazing. Saw everything--miles and miles of cape buffalo, totally surrounded at one point and just turned the car off and sat, a dozen rhino's with babies, leopard, lions, cheetahs, porcupine, dwarf mongoose, wild dogs, caracal, herds of elephants, secretary birds, kudu, hippos, spotted eagle owl, baboons, wildebeest, everything, and mostly, it was just my wife and I. I would say this--do not drive fast. So much can be seen in the rear view mirror or after other cars pass, let them. Drive slow and when you get to rest stops, look at the boards and see what's been spotted in the area. They won't include rhino's but take a walking or driving tour and you're bound to see several. These are in the parks of course, but you can see a lot along the road too. We saw Nyala by a regular road. At Kruger, went to bed while lions and cape buffalo went at it for hours. In the morning there was a fresh buffalo kill. Also, bush babies and fruit bats are really loud at night, which some of the camps have. Others have honey badgers and warthogs. SANPARKS.org forums. check out KNP Activities & Sightings thread, such as Lake Panic. Next time, we'll do the falls and Kgalagadi park-but we spread out our time knowing we'd go back. These are all parks you could die in, make no mistake. Elephants toss cars as do the cape buffalo. They're parks where the animals roam free and you don't carry, which is fine. I remember being on top of a hill overlooking a lake with signs that said you could exit at your own risk with an overlook. I walked over and looked down at kudu carcasses littering the shore of the lake. It was a killing zone when animals went down to drink.
  8. I wonder--there's lot of people from up and down the seaboard and internally that come to NYC, DC, Philly, etc. It may still hurt but I wonder if it'll be COVID like?
  9. Same. It's the whole car sits in front of you at the green light rather than pull off while they figure out where to go or people stand in the absolute middle at the top of the escalator while looking at their phone and people have to stream around them to get off the escalator. There's absolutely no awareness of others. And please don't group up and converse in front of a doorway that has lots of people passing through it. Pick a side, any side and move to it. I never say anything but it's so obvious that others don't exist in their orbit.
  10. They take a while to get used to but once you get it, you may really like them. The Spits were like that too--they're not likable, and do yourself a favor and don't ever read the lyrics. But they can eventually really plug into that buried 17 year old in some of us.
  11. I'm seeing your daughter's band here in June. I really enjoy DC9 and they have their poster in their door--meant to take a picture and post.
  12. The Damned prolly had two original members playing but I would've liked to have seen the Adverts 30-40 years ago. They're playing at Ottobar or the Metro in Baltimore which seems ideal. $55 to see the damned in DC is damned insane. I'd say the same for the Sex Pistols.
  13. If you don't like dumb punk, you may not like them. I enjoy bands like the viagra boys, the spits, the damned, the cramps, etc. They're not great at their instruments, you won't like every song, and you probably shouldn't pay more than $25 to see them. But if you're going to chill with a few beers, in a smallish venue, and look to shut your brain off for a while, they're fun. Emos or Liberty Lunch would've been perfect for them and an ideal set time prolly lasts 45-50 minutes max. Have seen Luna, Dean & Britta many times, and just missed out on Galaxie 500. Could kick myself for missing Dean & Britta play music for Andy Warhol screen tests at the National Gallery of Art. They may also slip in a VU cover, which is always fun. Granada should be a great venue to see them.
  14. Only thing I’d add is check places like the SAAM, which stay open till 8 on thursdays. Great museum and make it to the top and walk around the stacks and upper gallery. Also, the clock tower is free in the old post office.
  15. Biden's camp and the democrats had to prop Biden up or the Republicans were going to 25th amendment his ass. It's not complex. The problem is that Biden then thought he was still the only hope and salvation even though his public gaffes were increasing. I respect Biden and really wanted him to be the answer, but that debate against Trump even caught Trump off guard how mentally off Biden was. There was no hiding it at that point, and he had to go but that left little time at that point for anybody to coalesce and win the public over on an unknown. Even still, we knew Kamala wasn't corrupt and that should've been more than enough. What we're fighting over is that a bunch of winey turds didn't show up for whatever reason, even though they all have reasons afterwards for not doing their basic due diligence in a Democracy. The apathetic and all those that voted against their interests because of the likes of Joe Rogan bullshit fucked us over.
  16. There was the option of voting for a criminal, found guilty of 34 accounts of fraud, rape, admitted tax evasion, grabbing women by the pussy and being able to shoot somebody or the option of voting for someone that prosecuted criminals but was female and black. Guess which option they chose? Well the Democrats screwed it up you see, Biden.....no, they still voted for a legit criminal that ran on being able to commit crimes, was found guilty of committing crimes and then said he'd go after all the people that indicted or brought indictments against him. Those were the options. Rape and crime meant less than racism. Anybody saying differently is trying to bury the lead and their past--you know, recreate reality.
  17. Where you gonna go that the rich won't want to take a huge slice? Everything belongs to them is their view. Colonialism 101. Also, we have a history of breaking treaties, yet we thought it wouldn't ever affect us, regular people? We're watching the rule of law now to see what breaks and which way, with 2 SCJustices admittedly ready to concede everything to the rich. Any of them that take gifts are ready to sign off--that's the cost of what they're receiving. What I don't get is how billionaires and soon to be trillionaires can direct people to believe that immigrants, poor and minorities are taking all their money and benefits. It's all right there in the word billionaire, yet we look at the impoverished and decide they're the ones fucking us over. But in the end, the rich will end up on hooks, which is the way it's ever been. Yet they persist, same as criminals with the belief that they can make it work for them. The masses will eventually take back their pound of flesh and it will all repeat again.
  18. And no media calling him out. We're all eventually going to be unemployed in about 6 months. Better stock up on dog and cat food, toiletries and non perishables I guess. On the plus side, I'll probably be cycling more. On the down side, buying pharmaceuticals just got more expensive. So what happens to insurance during lost wages and inflation? Do people just not pay them?
  19. Dems should be hammering, hammering, hammering Trump Tax over every microphone all day and night long. And what makes that tax even more brutal to pay, is when you're unemployed. And regardless of what they say, they are still paying it. And yes, he did that. Tie that shit around Dotards neck and don't let him forget it.
  20. You have the entrenched folks with experience that also benefit from Dotards tax cuts to the rich. Need more AOC and less Pelosi and Schumer. Those two can ride off into the sunset off a cliff.
  21. Or up until the next vote, when they reactively do the same thing but expect something different. Transparency, freedom of speech, 14th amendment with due process, separation of church and state and religious freedom, all of it is being infringed upon by one side, voting rights, bringing child labor and measles back, yet they still claim both sides. You know all your employment benefits? Any guesses as to the next domino about to get fucked with next, dumb mouth breathing sumbiches. But both sides, sure, sure gif.
  22. And heroin. However, I wonder how many addicts this current admin is creating? Sorry, newly vaccinated/medicated.
  23. Litmus test for when you know everything is going so great, it can run itself, with too many failsafe backup checks to fail. So of course, let’s elect the guy running on unraveling it all, or worse, not care at all.
  24. Can’t wait till the free states overturn the socialist states right to grow legalized weed, based on state rights and less government intrusion.
  25. As the combined saying goes, even a blind squirrel with a broken clock can find a nut twice a day.
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