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Bama Llama

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  1. I would watch The Commitments on a loop until the world ends. God dayum, that was a foyne fillum. And what I wouldn’t give to spend a month one weekend with those three backup singers. Then again, Try a Little Tenderness is my favorite song. Otis sang, “Young girls, they do get wearrriiett, . . . Wearing that same ol shaggeh drayuss, yayuss” Cropper, Dunn and Booker T, tempo changes, perfect harmony horns, beautiful piano and organ riffs straight from the aorta, and the big GOT-ta GOT-ta GOT-ta GOT-ta finish. Best shit evah!
  2. If (when) the defecation really hits the ventilation, these Lt Cols will pay floor sweepers from their corporate HQs to serve in their places a la 1861. Motherfuckers conjured up by Motherfuckers. Next the Orange One will appear on the White House balcony in a full Plaza Doorman uniform getup, as the Commander-In-Chief. I’m figna vommick!
  3. Biopic series from a few years ago: GRANT. Very, very well done and revealed so much history I never knew before. Brit actor Justin Salinger portrayed Grant and did a fine job of showing how USG never lost sight of the objective. Plotline shared common themes with Surly CR threads. Grant was branded “dictator” for sending US troops to quell mobs during Reconstruction. When Grant died in 1885, Reconstruction was essentially over and America devolved. Jesus, my _grandfather_ was born in 1880! A gritty, bloody biopic. Sherman was right. War is all hell.
  4. What’s wrong with singing the Anthem in Spanish? Hell, the first word is “Jose,” right?
  5. Point taken. Who gets to define “so evil”? It’s a Twilight Zone episode and I think Rod Serling just stepped out of the scenery and into the foreground.
  6. NO ONE deserves to be atomized. Don’t even send that idea out into the Van Allen belt.
  7. Have a good time ALL the time!
  8. I stand corrected, sir. Good on you. Where I come from we look up to a feller from Moro Bottom, Arkansas, played high school football at Fordyce.
  9. Becoming Led Zeppelin was primo. In August of 1969 I began college life with a 4-ft long Led Zeppelin “misplaced” by an Alabama record store hanging from my dorm room ceiling at the Institute on South Main. It held its air all year, a quality item, Clark. A gift from a comely female companion (no pics). LZII, Abbey Road and The Band were all released that fall. Ahh, yes, Stimpy, those were the days. Gimme a hit, dude, side 2’s next. Tuyn it up.
  10. His hillbilly accent eas real as it gets, buddy. I think Levon was from Arkansas somewhar. As fine and soulful a drummer and sanger as they ever was. He was born to be in the Band.
  11. Levon WAS Loretty’s papa in Coal Miner’s Daughter. “Don’t do it, Loretty. Don’t thow yore young laff aweigh. Girl, you’re my shinin pradd. Stay in Butcher Holler.” I had no idea that was Levon Helm until I read it somewhere. Made me feel like a fool! I thought they rounded up a coon hunter from fown the holler somewhere. He was so beautifully authentic.
  12. So glad this heinous douche is in custody. Caveat the entrance of Jack Ruby. He’s been dyin oot theer et tha leek, doncha know? Come to think of it, the killer looks kinda like the guy shoveling snow who said that line. Hmmmm.
  13. This is a healthy thread and good on the OP for starting it. Somewhere in America, Donald Trump is trying to figure out how he can con someone with actual wisdom into telling him how to broker a truce between Iran and Israel. I lived through October 1962 listening to air raid drill sirens in the night not knowing if my family and I would live through the next week. A gang of steel tank manufacturers somehow ended up in my fifth grade classroom showing films of Hiroshima and Nagasaki walking dead with radiation burns and scaring the shit out of ten year olds. We all went home begging our parents to go immediately and hire Dixie Steel (their real name) into putting a fallout shelter in our back yard. My father listened to my ranting and calmly said “We are not having a fallout shelter installed. We have a basement. If that won’t save us, then . . . we’ll just have to tough it out.” He asked me what I would do if my buddies from the neighborhood tapped on our “lid” wanting to get in and share our shelter, which was knly big enough for three? I had no answer in my pea brain. Right then I decided to find a way not to face that horrible choice. It is up to us. Elect good people.
  14. I’m enjoying my 42nd father’s day, much the same as my first. My daughter left out a basket of nice goodies and dark roast coffee for me, and my sweet and beautiful bride just wished me a good day. This has been a difficult year but we are rallying. I’m so thankful to have my girls living under the same roof again just as we were in 1984. I can honestly say I am married to the most beautiful female I have ever seen and she is more beautiful inside than out. I am one lucky dog. I hope all Surly fathers have a very pleasant day.
  15. When my daughter, Baby Llama, was barely two years old, Mama Llama and I were driving with her from our home on the Gulf Coast to Tuscaloosa to spend the weekend with my inlaws. I was driving. Mama was shotgun and Baby was directly behind Mama in back sucking a bottle, making a little bubbly intake sound. We were on US 43 crossing a bridge on a rather long upgrade. A vehicle was poking along ahead of us. I swung out to pass. I looked to be sure I was well past the vehicle before moving to the right lane, noticing a large AU decal in lower left corner of their rear windshield. As we overtook the car, the bubby sound suddenly stopped abruptly. From the back seat, “UGH! Auburn.” Mama looked at me with a broad smile on her beautiful face, and we bumped fists silently. That kid, now only 41, has always made us proud.
  16. I really don’t care if he has hobbies or likes music of any kind or whatever. I just want him the fuck out of disrupting my country. It was a pretty good country until he flipped so many chips in so many vulnerable heads. I had so many relatives and friends who were apolitical before Trump. It gave me real hope to see (on Surly this morning) the big No Kings turnout at The Villages, literally a Trumpism retirement destination elder zombie assisted living residential community and one of the reddest zip codes out there. You go gettem, my gray panther brothers and sisters! Now where’s my walking stick, Martha?
  17. A handful of extras in a movie about ancient Rome raise trumpets when the emperor rides by and play a fanfare sounding like the entire brass section of a big symphony orchestra (or the LHMB)
  18. Along with 99 44/100% of the internet and 100% of what comes from the orange orifice (the one with the capped teeth in it). The Friday/Saturday timeline’s not adding up to me.
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