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WhatTheBuck

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  1. Back to Move Me Brightly. For your convenience. Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk3fDgkZmfI&t=32m8s Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk3fDgkZmfI&t=1h7m24s Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk3fDgkZmfI&t=1h37m4s
  2. This was the episode of Weir Here I revisited recently and was planning to share here before I got distracted. Those were such a treat. Bobby had a pretty wide variety of guests. Sometimes he didn’t perform a lot himself but it was best when he did. Then the “couch” portion of the show when they sat down and reminisced with Steve Parish was always fun and informative. This one was with Phil. I don’t want to give away too many spoilers but it starts with a Bobby solo Sugar Mag that is just a gem in its own right. Then Phil comes on to join in and before he can even get fired up Bobby utters a typical Dead line: “This is already not going according to plan.” No Sunshine Daydream, instead they segue into a duet of Cosmic Charlie. There are other musical guests. I won’t spoil those. But when they adjourn to the couch they reminisce about Pigpen (and a little bit about his romps with Janis). Then they come back and play a pretty solid Operator. That’s another highlight, imo. I’ll just leave it at that.
  3. It was a staple in JGB setlists. The Dead only played it 5 times, all in June of ‘76. The fact that Bobby wasn’t in the lineup when they played it for Jerry’s 70th might be a clue. It’s probably just a better fit for JGB and not so much for the Dead.
  4. In case you were wondering — yes, that’s Sammy Hagar.
  5. She’s awesome. The film’s only saving grace. She was better in Stripes.
  6. Oh, also Days Between. That’s my favorite version of that song. I never really “got it” until I heard that performance by Bobby. What a gift. Okay, thus is the documentary, not the complete show. I’ve seen it before and it’s excellent but there’s a lot of music that’s not included. Some of the music, and some of the performers, didn’t work out as well as others. (Anytime Joe Russo wasn’t drumming, or at least participating on percussion like on Franklin’s, the music took a step back, for example.) This video has the 2-ish hour doc plus what looks to me like a funky silent glitchy replay tacked on. I don’t know what’s up with that. But the Mission, Eyes, and Days haven’t been up on YouTube before so check all those out. That was my introduction to Lukas Nelson. He’s legit and pretty cool. I like what I’ve seen from his band. Donna kicked ass in this show. Screw the haters. RIP Neal Casal. Bobby rules. I love his tone in this show and he threw down some serious licks.
  7. Holy crap! It’s up! It’s just 6 days old. I search for this periodically. There are bits and pieces but this is the first time I’ve seen the whole thing uploaded. I’m just diving in so I’m just assuming it’s all there. I was just about to post an old episode of Weir Here. I miss those old Wednesday night free shows from Bobby’s TRI Studios. Then Jerry’s birthday fell on a Wednesday and holy shit, what a night. Speaking of Eyes, make sure you catch this one. Look at the smiles on the faces of the young musicians when the magic happens. Mission in the Rain is another must see.
  8. Just tie her up and make her wear a ball gag. Lock her in a closet. Lose the key.
  9. You were probably high. On a side note, I spent hours and hours and hours as a child sitting in front of our big stereo console that was like a piece of furniture, listening to the red and blue Beatles greatest hits albums, reading and singing along with the lyrics in the liner notes. I could never find an exact match but the stereo console looked something like these:
  10. That sounds like a rule. So if there are always exceptions to rules then there are not always exceptions. By rule.
  11. Maybe you should’ve kept quiet about that.
  12. Call it what it is. It’s theft. They’re not “settlers,” they’re thieves.
  13. Riiiight. No way in hell is that true.
  14. “Digital World's former CEO Patrick Orlando and former Trump business associates Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss have separately sued to block the merger, arguing they are entitled to more shares for their previous work on the deal.” Lulz. What? You thought you were going to do business with Trump and not get screwed over? Suckers.
  15. Just like Benghazi. It’s political theater intended to affect Biden’s polling numbers, nothing more. Donald Trump was impeached twice so the more they can expose the American public to messages where the words “Biden” and “impeachment” are heard in the same sentence, the more they can create the illusion that there’s no difference between the two. “Both sides!” Ah, fuck it, everybody does it. The problem is that it works.
  16. Sooo…we don’t know. Oh well. I assumed since there was an autocomplete that there would be something on the other end. (And that you would’ve already checked them out, natch.)
  17. Fuckin’ A right, man. ‘Reagan wasn’t as bad as he’s cracked up to be’ is never going to fly. No, he was much worse than the mythology would have you believe. I know, I fell for the illusion at the time. But the results are in. Fuck him and fuck Grover Norquist for perpetuating the myth.
  18. Thanks! I first volunteered for the special election last year when the Ohio GOP decided to hold an August election that they had just banned several months before. They were trying to sneak through a referendum to make it harder to amend the constitution, specifically to foil an amendment enshrining abortion rights that was on the ballot in November. They were having a hard time finding volunteers during the summer so I figured volunteering was one way to fight back. It’s a long day. We have to arrive at 5:30 am and don’t get out until about 8:00 pm but I’ve found that it’s pretty rewarding. There are always some voters who make a point of thanking us for our efforts and that’s nice to hear. It feels good to be part of the process. More people should consider giving it a try. If it weren’t for Republican skulduggery, I never would’ve thought about it.
  19. In case you didn’t know, this is how Bernardo Moreno, a Colombian immigrant, launched his Senate campaign.
  20. At my location the votes were: Dolan: 69 LaRose: 24 Moreno: 90 Now we’ll have to wait and see if Brown can peel off some of those Dolan voters.
  21. I got my provisional voter at 7:28 pm with 2 minutes to spare! Last voter of the night. He cast a Republican ballot which I was counting on. You see, I had accidentally grabbed a Republican ballot for the second 17-year-old girl but caught my mistake before she could mark it up and I gave her the correct ballot. But I had already marked a big “X” in the corner of the ballot which makes them unreadable by the machine counter. I was holding on to it in hopes of a provisional voter using it so I wouldn’t have to mark it as a spoiled ballot and document my error. My partner at the table was really gung-ho to start packing things away early and I kept saying we should keep things in place to process a voter up to the last minute. You never know, that R provisional voter could still show up. The polls are open until 7:30 means the polls are open until 7:30. But she just kept tearing shit down. So when I heard him walk up and announce to the roster judge that he needed to cast a provisional ballot I had to scramble to retrieve the necessary materials she had rushed to pack away. (He was registered but still had an out-of-state ID. I informed him he has 4 days to present a valid Ohio ID at the Board of Elections in order for his vote to count.) And then I had to call several times for her to get her ass back to the table and double check his ballot envelope. Ugh. I like everyone else I work with at that polling location but she just grates on my nerves. She doesn’t really understand the process and everything she does on her own, thinking she’s helping, is just a nuisance that slows things down. Sorry, just had to vent. But everything came out seamlessly and I was vindicated for trying to keep the store open until closing time. We can break down a lot of shit in the final 30 minutes but a certain minimum set of accoutrements need to be present in order to process a voter even up to the last minute. If I’m stuck with her again in November then I’ll remind her of tonight’s ordeal. Yes, I know it feels like no one else is going to come, but as long as the polls are open we have to be prepared for the possibility. Today was really slow. November is probably going to be insane.
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