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cactusflinthead

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  1. You want to look at the numbers dead from Covid because the POTUS called it a hoax? That shit alone is enough to shoot this idea like a Russian tank getting a pop top. The choice of President absolutely impacts the life and liberty of the average dude. It had a direct influence on what happened to average dudes in other places too. Ukraine would like a word about the difference between Biden and Trump. It's a fucking binary choice that sometimes goes right to the very core of your existence. It might not make a shit for you, but for a whole lotta people it makes a very real difference. Like life and death man. Count the fucking bodies.
  2. Yes it is. I got the book and the set. That article settled it.
  3. Anyone gotten his book yet? Or the box set? https://www.wsj.com/articles/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door-review-mack-mccormicks-musical-discoveries-cc304817 His riveting prose on his search for Johnson, carefully edited, was released earlier this year when the Smithsonian published a version of his book “Biography of a Phantom.” But that was hardly McCormick’s only area of obsessive pursuit and artifact hoarding. A fascinating collection of 66 of the field recordings he captured in Texas and nearby locations has just been released as a 3-CD boxed set, “Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings From the Collection of Mack McCormick 1958-1971,” which includes a lavish and informative 128-page book spelling out who the largely unknown artists he found were and McCormick’s recording adventures that led to the tracks. (A 6-LP version will follow next month.) The set reveals much about what the obsessive self-made folklorist was hunting for, and lets loose hours of exciting, previously unheard music. More on McCormick And I had the evidence in my hands: a secret manuscript about Johnson’s life found in the archive of Houston folklorist and record producer Robert “Mack” McCormick. This wasn’t just any archive. At the time, it was one of the most sought-after collections in the country—the Library of Congress wanted it, and so did the Smithsonian and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Rock star Jack White was interested in it, as were Austin’s Dolph Briscoe Center and San Marcos’s Wittliff Collections. The archive had once filled almost every corner of Mack’s home—dozens of file drawers and boxes crammed with tens of thousands of documents, photos, and recordings. Mack’s computer was full of still more files—manuscripts, plays, interviews. The archive was so vast that Mack gave it a name: the Monster. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/mack-mccormick-quest-to-find-real-robert-johnson/
  4. Oh there were cheesy touristy knick knacks and some cool local carved stuff. I had to get a banana slug for the offspring.
  5. Me either. Not a lot of any fungi. A few shelf types
  6. It's a cheesy roadside attraction, but it's accessible for anyone. It is hard to get a full shot of a single tree.
  7. I only saw birds. I was too focused on not getting impaled on the downed trees over the trail at the end stretch to really hunker down and watch. I suspect any self respecting reptiles or amphibians headed the opposite direction of white guy crashing through the woods.
  8. Necrobump Any of y'all want to crow some more?
  9. Fuckers I got your goddamn pix I tired. The road adrenaline crashed hard
  10. I just got back from up around Eureka in Humboldt County. It's been on my list for a long time. I didn't care about fishing. But, there's plenty of that. I wanted to see the big old trees. Ferns growing out of the side of a canyon deep in the big woods. I can understand why it is so isolated. Before the roads were paved it was an epic journey. Most of the ones that went there in the early days took a ship to get around the endless hills and countless rivers. Fern Canyon was pretty damn cool. The first part of it is easily accessible to even hobbling Nanas. The last of it is a damned obstacle course. It ended at this big ass fern that you had to grab ahold of and clamber up. Beyond that you would have to figure it out yourself. I wandered around in there for a while. I think the ravens were telling me to quit fucking around and find some more humans because they aren't going to come fetch you and that phone won't get shit for a signal. I agreed. I didn't want to make the news. Eureka has a lot of Fredericksburg about it. Shopping and cool old buildings. It was a helluva haul to get there to that clump of ferns in the big woods, but I would do it again.
  11. It's bad enough that the NYT has a pitchbot writing plausible nonsense, that MSNBC has to key up the outrage and concern, but I keep looking at things like the off season elections in places like Wisconsin for their SC and Ohio on whether or not they should be able to vote on stuff and that doesn't feed the fear factor. I'm not feeling complacent, but I'm damn sure not going to feed the fears. Get out there and do something. Feed the workers and make it happen.
  12. I can hear an echo of Craig Ferguson "It's a great day for America!"
  13. 5'11' 280 Barron is taller than he is. Which he hates.
  14. Been out of loop as day or two. Not sure if posted.
  15. I don't want to watch it yet. I don't want it to be over.
  16. Don't y'all know tree ordinances are an assault on our freedoms?! But HB 7, unlike SB 744, says municipalities can't charge homeowners fees for removing trees that are under 10 inches in diameter. It also more specifically stipulates who can offset fees, and by how much: homeowners can entirely eliminate fees by planting new trees, while residential developers can offset 50 percent of fees and owners of commercial properties can offset them by at least 40 percent. Abbott — who himself ran into tree trouble several years ago when the city of Austin asked him to replant trees on his property — has railed against city tree ordinances as a "socialistic" evidence of local government overreach. Regulation of tree removal was one on a slate of local control issues Abbott put on the agenda for the special session that ended on Tuesday. https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/16/abbott-signs-bill-regulating-tree-removal/
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