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Willfully Horn

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  1. 3 hours ago, Hate said:

    I'm liking the show musically, but damn Jerry sounds horrible.  This may be the worst I've ever heard him sound.  The sound is fantastic and the Dupree Diamond Blues is always nice. 

    A standout run of shows. First show ends with a classic second set,  
     

    That Garcia was off, vocally, was lost to my memory. Don’t let that stop you from giving those Philly shows A listen.

  2. As my MIL, who is a gem, lives with us, is in her mid 80s and has lived most of her life with but one kidney, zoom was the choice we made for our HS sophomore. 
     
    I agree the reporting suggests we can be cautiously optimistic. OTOH, my buddy reports two LT middle school teacher’s within the same department, have suddenly quit due to perceived flaws in safety protocol. I don’t know specifics, just that two teachers felt unsafe, and quit. The remaining teachers are feeling overwhelmed by the news. So, that fucking sucks.

  3. Thinking about the order of, and which shows I’d attend with my time travel allotment, made me think of this story, told by the fat man.

     I don’t think it’s been posted.


    Asked if he had a favorite among deadheads, Jerry says: “Yes. This guy used to stand up front, and he would conduct the show. He was at every West Coast show, and it was nice, because if you lost your place, you could look at him, and be back on time. You could count on him. And then, he was gone. I didn’t see him again until I was at some party, and I went up to him and asked where he’d been. He said, “Well I used to stand up front and conduct the band, now I stand in back and conduct the room””

    is a good feeling.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Sleepygrad said:


    Sooo you don’t like the dead? But you’re in the Grateful Dead thread? I think you may already be a convert...

    I suggest you start with their ‘65 shows and listen to everything through ‘95, then report back here

    This reminds me of my reaction to the time travel thread. Started wondering which show I would pop into.

    As I’ve previously stated, I am halfway convinced I saw such arrivals in New Orleans. The Neville brothers played with the band during the second set. 

  5. 53 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    so we can sum this up in "the leadership of BLM says the org is Marxist but the underlings might be a) a little bit marxist b) somewhat marxist c) marxist d) none of the above".

    the thought that they aren't anti-capitalist because the goals don't seem to be "expressly" that is pretty funny though.

    My understanding is BLM  is member-led, so a top down power structure is another issue yet to be confirmed. However, I wish we felt unified enough as a country to address a legitimate problem, and stop momentum for any under-the-radar Communistic plan that might be afoot.
     

    I am uncomfortable lending support to something I really don’t understand, but I’ve been convinced there is work to do to meet our common goal: equal under the law. 

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  6. While waiting on my copy of “Gulag Archipelago,” I did some more digging.

    Politifact turns to a Hoover senior fellow for the following;

    “Noting Cullors’ declaration of being Marxist trained, "one has to take that seriously: if the leadership says it is Marxist, then there's a good chance they are," said Russell Berman, a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at its conservative Hoover Institution who has written critically about Marxism.

    But "this does not mean every supporter is Marxist — Marxists often have used ‘useful idiots.’ And a Marxist movement can be more or less radical, at different points in time," he said.

    Black Lives Matter’s "emphatic support for gender identity politics sets it apart from historical Marxism," and the goals listed on its website "do not appear to be expressly anti-capitalist, which would arguably be a Marxist identifier," Berman added.”“

    Perhaps learning more about Marxism will shed some light in the subject. As it stands, I don’t understand the difficulty in showing your work, and wonder why something is commonly believed when the facts are elusive.

     

     

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