Another Stunning Solo Jam From Luca Stricagnoli: “CRAZY FROG” (Axel F, Popcorn, Blue)

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Have you ever heard of Crazy Frog? I bet you did. This CGI animated character brought some already popular songs to an even greater popularity, and that’s how I also discovered some of them. For this video, I chose 3 songs remixed by Crazy Frog that I especially like: “Axel F” by Harold Faltermeyer, “Popcorn” by Gershon Kingsley, and finally the epic “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by fellow Italians Eiffel 65.

We decided to dress and hold the guitar in the style of classical guitarists because I love contrast and paradoxes, and I like the idea of a classical guitarist crossing over to a complete different style.

I am using a X4 carbon fiber guitar made by the brand ENYA MUSIC enya-music.com . I am also using a WS-70 wireless system by SWIFF AUDIO, as well as their tuner. swiffmusic.com .

Come to one of my live shows to hear this song and many more. Tour dates on: lucastricagnoli.com

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GUITAR MANIFACTURED BY:
Enya Music: enya-music.com

TUNER & WIRELESS SYSTEMS BY:
Swiff Audio: swiffmusic.com

I recorded this piece using LCT 640 TS microphones by Lewitt Audio:
lewitt-audio.com

MIXED BY:
Meg Pfeiffer and Luca Stricagnoli

SHOT IN:
Nashville, TN

STRINGS BY:
D’Addario: daddario.com

#crazyfrog #fingerstyle #guitar

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289 comments
1
Rightwingconspirator  May 11, 2024 • 4:18:28pm

Carbon fiber guitar? Huh. Different resonance, thats for sure. Guitar players feel free to reduce my ignorance…

2
Charles Johnson  May 11, 2024 • 4:19:09pm

TWO HOURS until #horrorwatch! HELL YES. Dagon here we comes! The restless old ones want for none. Stuart Gordon, so that means we’ll probably get sexy Lovecraft retelling with tons of camp and gore. Should be loads of fun! Join in!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=72D1…

— Paul Jessup says buy a copy of The Skinless Man Counts to Five (@pauljessup.com) 2024-05-11T23:00:52.490Z

3
Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 4:20:25pm

We are doomed as a species

4
Decatur Deb  May 11, 2024 • 4:21:48pm

Luca Stricagnoli would have an opinion about pineapple pizza.

5
Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 4:22:15pm

re: #3 Dangerman

We are doomed as a species

[Embedded content]

Yup. Doomed

6
jeffreyw  May 11, 2024 • 4:29:50pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2024 • 4:36:01pm

re: #1 Rightwingconspirator

Carbon fiber guitar? Huh. Different resonance, thats for sure. Guitar players feel free to reduce my ignorance…

Lighter weight, without the harsh ride of aluminum.

Oh, wait. That’s bicycles.

8
nines09  May 11, 2024 • 4:37:53pm

Yeah. Philly boy knows. Yum….

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Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 4:40:05pm

re: #8 nines09

Yeah. Philly boy knows. Yum….

[Embedded content]

Speaking of cheesesteaks, Jim’s on South Street reopened. They expanded both the menu and the restaurant; they incorporated the art gallery next door that was damaged in the fire as well.

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nines09  May 11, 2024 • 4:40:41pm

re: #9 Mattand

Yep.

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 4:41:00pm

39 years ago, Jot and I got married. On Friday the 10th, on our lunch break. But Saturday we had a party. I wish we had known to invite you all.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 11, 2024 • 4:44:23pm

re: #8 nines09

And so does the Philly Pretzel. That looks delicious.

13
Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 4:44:30pm

Recommendations from the Lizard Hive Mind, GO!

1. Looking to get a Wifi 6 router. Replacing a Wifi 5 Netgear that I regret buying almost from day one. Our internet speed is 300/300; we’re using TV streaming and work from home, with occasional PS5 gaming.

2. Any recommendations on how to get two guitars appraised? Philly or South Jersey area would be great, but open to highly regarded online options.

14
jeffreyw  May 11, 2024 • 4:46:53pm

Went to pick up dinner from our local Chinese take away but a brawl broke out over the last spicy chicken dish.

That’s right, everybody was kung pao fighting.

— Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder (@andycruns.bsky.social) 2024-05-11T15:50:42.073Z

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Rightwingconspirator  May 11, 2024 • 4:49:05pm

re: #12 PhillyPretzel ✅

re: #8 nines09

Saturday night dinner! So I grab a pack of chicken out of the freezer for thawing. Thinking thighs. Had a plan for thighs on pasta. White sauce. Oooops. It was legs. Now rethinking what to do. Maybe herb roast in olive oil.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 11, 2024 • 4:50:57pm

re: #13 Mattand

I am not sure of the name of the company but there is a guitar appraiser in Philly and he has appeared on Antiques Roadshow.

17
Rightwingconspirator  May 11, 2024 • 4:51:11pm

re: #7 wrenchwench

From what I saw in fabricating small jewelry shapes of the stuff, it was all awkward to make. And a look that carries a tiny niche.

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jeffreyw  May 11, 2024 • 4:51:35pm

re: #15 Rightwingconspirator

Saturday night dinner! So I grab a pack of chicken out of the freezer for thawing. Thinking thighs. Had a plan for thighs on pasta. White sauce. Oooops. It was legs. Now rethinking what to do. Maybe herb roast in olive oil.

thewoksoflife.com

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 4:52:04pm

There’s only one solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Two states for two indigenous people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. And if you’re not for that, if you’re not for ending the violence and for hostage release, if you’re only condemning one side and not the other, you’re not morally serious.”

— Thomas Friedman, quoted by CNN.

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danarchy  May 11, 2024 • 4:53:34pm

re: #13 Mattand

Recommendations from the Lizard Hive Mind, GO!

1. Looking to get a Wifi 6 router. Replacing a Wifi 5 Netgear that I regret buying almost from day one. Our internet speed is 300/300; we’re using TV streaming and work from home, with occasional PS5 gaming.
.

Just a stand alone wifi router or a mesh wifi system?

21
nines09  May 11, 2024 • 4:54:47pm

re: #9 Mattand

There are so many great cheesesteaks on the corners in Philly you would never find or have the stones to find.
You can make a good one at home.
Roll is the magic.
Good roll can make a bad cheesesteak great.
The. Roll.
And of course and the cut of meat.
And we grow weary of ours….
Fuck. 5th and Indiana streets in Fairhill.
I was a kid.
We ate like kings.

Sigh…
Geno And Fran. Nailed it.
Long ago and far away….
Close…..

22
Decatur Deb  May 11, 2024 • 4:54:54pm

Another Saturday Night

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 4:56:24pm

re: #19 Dangerman

He’s not wrong, but this seems to be a minority view among the most affected.

24
PhillyPretzel ✅  May 11, 2024 • 5:00:49pm

re: #13 Mattand

I found it.
Frederick Oster
Vintage Instruments Inc in Philadelphia PA.
pbs.org

25
nines09  May 11, 2024 • 5:01:47pm

Maybe we see tonight….

Then again….
26
goddamnedfrank  May 11, 2024 • 5:01:49pm

re: #19 Dangerman

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DodgerFan1988  May 11, 2024 • 5:07:20pm


But let’s talk about senile Biden.

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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2024 • 5:07:48pm

re: #25 nines09

We have a great sky, if the aurora is strong enough to reach this far.

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Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 5:08:04pm

re: #20 danarchy

Just a stand alone wifi router or a mesh wifi system?

Probably just need a stand alone. It’s a relatively small house and every previous router’s coverage has been good.

To be honest, I’d buy Verizon’s own router if it wasn’t $400. I had it for a week or so until I got the Netgear in and I’ve gotta say, it was pretty decent.

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Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 5:08:50pm

re: #24 PhillyPretzel ✅

I found it.
Frederick Oster
Vintage Instruments Inc in Philadelphia PA.
pbs.org

Awesome! Thanks. I emailed the person down at Broad and Lombard earlier today. I’ll check these folks out as well.

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sagehen  May 11, 2024 • 5:10:23pm

someone beat me to it.

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Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 5:11:41pm

re: #21 nines09

There are so many great cheesesteaks on the corners in Philly you would never find or have the stones to find.
You can make a good one at home.
Roll is the magic.
Good roll can make a bad cheesesteak great.
The. Roll.
And of course and the cut of meat.
And we grow weary of ours….
Fuck. 5th and Indiana streets in Fairhill.
I was a kid.
We ate like kings.

Sigh…
Geno And Fran. Nailed it.
Long ago and far away….
Close…..

I’ve been partial to Sonny G’s lately at 3rd and Market lately, but I don’t get over there that often. There’s a place in Westmont, NJ called Dar’s that’s been really good. And at some point, I need to get to Donkey’s in Camden. My brother says they live up to their rep as being in the best in the Philly area.

I almost went to John’s Roast Pork last week, but they’re closed on Sundays.

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 5:11:50pm

re: #27 DodgerFan1988

Scary immigrant stories are so rare he has to break out the fictional boogeyman.

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Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 5:13:34pm

re: #30 Mattand

Awesome! Thanks. I emailed the person down at Broad and Lombard earlier today. I’ll check these folks out as well.

Oh, wait; that is the guy I emailed earlier today.

God, I hate getting old. My reading comprehension is in the shitter anymore, LOL.

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2024 • 5:13:50pm

re: #33 jaunte

Scary immigrant stories are so rare he has to break out the fictional boogeyman.

Was he about to suggest eating the immigrants?

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 5:14:50pm

re: #35 wrenchwench

I think he’s trying to claim we’re being invaded by a caravan of cannibals.

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danarchy  May 11, 2024 • 5:15:29pm

re: #29 Mattand

Probably just need a stand alone. It’s a relatively small house and every previous router’s coverage has been good.

To be honest, I’d buy Verizon’s own router if it wasn’t $400. I had it for a week or so until I got the Netgear in and I’ve gotta say, it was pretty decent.

If you are looking for gaming performance, the Asus ROG line is very good, but can be pricey.

I have a pair of $1300 Extreme WAPs that I picked up for free from a client that went out of business, but if I was buying my own I would get the Unifi Express from Ubiqiti. It is a stand alone router w/ wifi6, should cover about 1500sq ft for about $150. It also has the benefit of being able to mesh with any of their other APs if you decide you have a dead zone you need to expand to.

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 5:16:24pm

The Donner Party was actually from Springfield Illinois.
highways.dot.gov.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 11, 2024 • 5:17:55pm
Man linked to viral dress pleads guilty to endangering wife’s life

A man who became famous after a dress bought for his wedding “broke the internet” has pleaded guilty to endangering his wife’s life after admitting to strangling her.

Keir Johnston, 38, pleaded guilty to the attack at the high court in Glasgow on Thursday and was remanded in custody until a sentence is passed next month.

Johnston and his wife, Grace, who lived on the Isle of Colonsay after their 2015 marriage, found fame when the mother of the bride wore a dress that caused a global debate over its true colours - black and blue, or white and gold.

theguardian.com

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2024 • 5:19:59pm

re: #36 jaunte

I think he’s trying to claim we’re being invaded by a caravan of cannibals.

Competition?

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nines09  May 11, 2024 • 5:20:12pm

North of Cleveland.
Along the banks of Lake Erie.
A great person who is a relative caught this gem. That’s him.
Just afraid to give up too much.
Damn

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Mattand  May 11, 2024 • 5:20:23pm

re: #37 danarchy

If you are looking for gaming performance, the Asus ROG line is very good, but can be pricey.

I have a pair of $1300 Extreme WAPs that I picked up for free from a client that went out of business, but if I was buying my own I would get the Unifi Express from Ubiqiti. It is a stand alone router w/ wifi6, should cover about 1500sq ft for about $150. It also has the benefit of being able to mesh with any of their other APs if you decide you have a dead zone you need to expand to.

Awesome, thanks. Sound’s like what I’m looking for. Will check it out.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 11, 2024 • 5:20:38pm

re: #34 Mattand

Well it goes to show that we both had great ideas that led to the same conclusion. :)

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Belafon  May 11, 2024 • 5:29:54pm

Season 2 of My Adventures With Superman begins May 25th.

45
Unabogie  May 11, 2024 • 5:31:32pm

I know they won’t be, but even his supporters should be outraged at this. We all pay taxes, and the people working at his hotel should not pay a higher tax rate than the guy living in the penthouse. It’s offensive.

Former President Donald Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an IRS inquiry uncovered by ProPublica and The New York Times. Losing a yearslong audit battle over the claim could mean a tax bill of more than $100 million.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Semper Fi  May 11, 2024 • 5:33:39pm

re: #34 Mattand

Oh, wait; that is the guy I emailed earlier today.

God, I hate getting old. My reading comprehension is in the shitter anymore, LOL.

Glad you have a sense of humor as it only gets funnier.

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jeffreyw  May 11, 2024 • 5:33:53pm

A few dinner ideas

The family is not fucking around tonight

— Erica Henderson (@ericafails.bsky.social) 2024-05-11T23:44:31.119Z

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Florida Panhandler  May 11, 2024 • 5:34:07pm

re: #36 jaunte

I think he’s trying to claim we’re being invaded by a caravan of cannibals.

Being invaded by well dressed, well -mannered, cultured, woman respecting and intelligent cannibals I’ll take any day over what Trump and his cohorts have in store for us.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2024 • 5:34:22pm

I’m not going to lecture anybody about the need to vote for Joe Biden instead of Donald Trump. I’ll just keep posting information about Trump’s openly, clearly stated plans to turn the US into the Fourth Reich starring him as Der Apfelsine Fuehrer.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-12T00:27:21.653Z

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 5:35:24pm

re: #45 Unabogie

It’s really nuts that people who can afford the lawyers and accountants to do so can evade taxes at will, while the IRS can mostly only afford to audit waiters.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2024 • 5:36:21pm

re: #50 jaunte

The rich can easily stack the deck in their favor, part eleventy billion.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 11, 2024 • 5:39:22pm

BEAT: Performing the 80s Music of King Crimson

Now I have to win the lottery to afford tickets.

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TedStriker  May 11, 2024 • 5:39:54pm

re: #48 Florida Panhandler

Being invaded by well dressed, well -mannered, cultured, woman respecting and intelligent cannibals I’ll take any day over what Trump and his cohorts have in store for us.

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 5:39:55pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 11, 2024 • 5:42:16pm

re: #28 Decatur Deb

We have a great sky, if the aurora is strong enough to reach this far.

The Aurora showed all across Canada and the US last night, except here. Clear sky but not a blip of color. Maybe tonight. 😢

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2024 • 5:44:36pm

Totally overcast in LA. I am bereft.

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TedStriker  May 11, 2024 • 5:45:00pm

re: #55 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The Aurora showed all across Canada and the US last night, except here. Clear sky but not a blip of color. Maybe tonight. 😢

Don’t feel bad, I didn’t get shit here in Nashville last night either; I went outside about midnight and, even though the sky was as clear as a bell, no auroras for us:

Looking roughly NNE. It might look some aurora is there, but I took this pic in night mode, so it looks more impressive than it was by the naked eye. I’m in the middle of the city, so light pollution is most evident here.
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 11, 2024 • 5:45:26pm

re: #45 Unabogie

I know they won’t be, but even his supporters should be outraged at this. We all pay taxes, and the people working at his hotel should not pay a higher tax rate than the guy living in the penthouse. It’s offensive.

talkingpointsmemo.com

They think that’s what makes him a great businessman.

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 5:46:12pm

re: #54 Dangerman

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 11, 2024 • 5:49:01pm

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 5:49:42pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They think that’s what makes him a great businessman.

Being a thief?
And, essentially, stealing from them
Then again yeah. Noone seems to care they’re getting grifted

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 11, 2024 • 5:51:52pm

Oy. mediaite.com

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 5:52:40pm

re: #61 Dangerman

It’s too big; they can’t feel it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 5:53:02pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

Eastern part of the sky here in Koreatown is blue but I see the clouds approaching from the west…damn…

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 5:54:00pm

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Belafon  May 11, 2024 • 5:56:06pm

Two minutes into Doctor Who episode 2 and I’m already enjoying it.

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Charles Johnson  May 11, 2024 • 6:00:46pm

I’m checking out ad-supported streamer Tubi to see how obnoxious the ads are, and so far it really isn’t bad compared to the mainstream TV network experience. Started watching “Dagon” (only available for rent elsewhere) and it went almost 30 minutes before the first ad. If it doesn’t get any worse than this, I could consider using the network more.

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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2024 • 6:04:47pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Tubi here is very erratic. We get a lot of buffering when all other streamers are fine. The ads seem to be intelligently placed, and some late-night (less popular?) shows have few or no breaks.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 11, 2024 • 6:22:03pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

I am a ridiculous fanatic for low-budget 80s horror and action movies. Tubi is a golden oasis for that kind of content. Absolutely love it.

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Decatur Deb  May 11, 2024 • 6:23:27pm

It’s full dark with no aurora, so I’ll knock off and check again when the dog wakes me at 0200. ‘Nite, all.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 6:23:57pm

Well my goodness is this Pulpit Pimp coming clean?

Sort of…

For many years, televangelist Benny Hinn was a vocal proponent of the “prosperity gospel” or “prosperity ideology” — an evangelical school of thought that equates poverty with sinfulness and argues that the rich achieved prosperity because God blessed them.

But in recent years, Hinn has rejected the prosperity gospel. And according to Christianity Today, promoting that ideology in the past is now one of his two “biggest regrets.”

The other is promoting “prophecies” he later realized were bogus.

Hinn told “Strang Report” host Stephen Strang, “I was not too wise a number of times with prophecy…. Sadly, there were some prophesies I gave that were not accurate or from the Lord. But who’s perfect? And for that, of course, I ask people to forgive me.”

Hinn first came out against the “prosperity gospel” in 2019, and he is still rejecting it five years later.

Christianity Today’s Leah MarieAnn Klett quotes Hinn as saying, “I don’t want to be known as the prosperity teacher. Prosperity is one thing in the Bible. There’s a whole lot more in the word of God than prosperity, but it’s become a major issue now because of the gimmickry involved in it. That needs to stop.”

alternet.org

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 6:29:34pm

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

if a parent of yours started blurting out sentences like this you’d call a doctor and take their drivers license away

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

I mean this is sub will ferrell doing harry carey level

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 6:32:21pm

re: #72 jaunte

Let Trump go to Pink’s in Hollywood and do the Orson Welles thing—eat a dozen chili dogs, couple orders of fries, 3-4 Diet Cokes and 2 slices of coconut cake.

My buddy Jim worked weekends at Pinks and he couldn’t believe how Orson Welles inhaled all of that…

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 6:33:30pm

His good buddy “Pavoratti.”

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 6:34:33pm

A hundred degrees in South Florida today? Yuk!

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 6:35:35pm

re: #72 jaunte

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

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@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

Frank Sinatra and Pavoratti. Way to stay hip and fresh with the kids, Donny.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 11, 2024 • 6:36:15pm

re: #11 jaunte

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 6:42:05pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

Sinatra died in 1998. Luciano Pavorotti stayed with us until 2007.

I’m sure Fuckface was just great pals with Pavarotti, they shared many a hamberder and Diet Coke together in his opulent penthouse every time “Loochie” was in town to sing at Carnegie Hall.

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 6:42:35pm

re: #77 HRH Stanley Sea

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 6:43:02pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

A hundred degrees in South Florida today? Yuk!

Yup
We were outside working in it all day

Brutal

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 6:44:52pm

Yes, Sinatra’s been dead for 26 years. From 1980 to now is a longer period of time than when The Wizard Of Oz film came out (1939) and 1980.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 11, 2024 • 6:49:06pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Tubi has the best stuff. Check out the Cult Classics category.

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 6:51:04pm

re: #81 teleskiguy

Yes, Sinatra’s been dead for 26 years. From 1980 to now is a longer period of time than when The Wizard Of Oz film came out (1939) and 1980.

Still remember the one comment I heard once: “I knew I was getting old when I heard someone say ‘20 years ago’ and realized they weren’t talking about the 1980s.”

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 6:52:10pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

Still remember the one comment I heard once: “I knew I was getting old when I heard someone say ‘20 years ago’ and realized they weren’t talking about the 1980s.”

The 1990s were 30 years ago! lol

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 6:52:21pm

Frank being Totally Frank about both of these B-Holes!

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 6:55:23pm

I was the kid coming home from school every day before Mom and Dad got home from work and blasted “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the ‘rents high end stereo and running around and jumping like a maniac… every day for probably a couple of months. I’m such a fucken 90s kid…

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 6:57:02pm

re: #86 teleskiguy

I used to drive my oldest daughter and her friend to the mall while blasting that for them.

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 6:58:54pm

“Weird Al” Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana

Right on! Wait…

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sagehen  May 11, 2024 • 6:59:05pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

Still remember the one comment I heard once: “I knew I was getting old when I heard someone say ‘20 years ago’ and realized they weren’t talking about the 1980s.”

I knew I was getting old when I heard songs I played as a college radio DJ in the supermarket and the elevator.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 7:00:49pm

re: #89 sagehen

I knew I was getting old when I heard songs I played as a college radio DJ in the supermarket and the elevator.

Me? When I told folks in the office about Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show…and they said “Who is Ed Sullivan?”

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 7:02:04pm

re: #89 sagehen

I knew I was getting old when I heard songs I played as a college radio DJ in the supermarket and the elevator.

For me, I knew I’d started getting old when I heard Green Day played on the local “classic rock” station.

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Belafon  May 11, 2024 • 7:03:43pm

re: #11 jaunte

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Inviting 15 year old me probably would have been a strange request.

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 7:04:23pm

re: #92 Belafon

We had a wide variety as it was.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 7:05:16pm

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 7:07:00pm

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

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Yeah, as if Meal Team Six there has ever seen war.

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Belafon  May 11, 2024 • 7:07:47pm

re: #89 sagehen

I knew I was getting old when I heard songs I played as a college radio DJ in the supermarket and the elevator.

“Enter Sandman” was on the classic rock station the other day.

While we were watching Doctor Who, a woman starts playing the piano and my wife went “Go Grandma!” I had to tell her the woman is our parents’ age now.

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jaunte  May 11, 2024 • 7:07:48pm

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

“Ironic Tees”

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 7:08:33pm

We’ve been watching Wrexham.
Its exciting

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Belafon  May 11, 2024 • 7:08:58pm

re: #97 jaunte

“Ironic Tees”

That was my thought: Normally the image in the middle is an example of the words.

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Belafon  May 11, 2024 • 7:09:20pm

re: #98 Dangerman

We’ve been watching Wrexham.
Its exciting

Money can solve some problems.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 7:09:48pm

re: #95 Targetpractice

Yeah, as if Meal Team Six there has ever seen war.

That clown is a member of Weighty Waddlers.

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BeachDem  May 11, 2024 • 7:10:07pm

re: #72 jaunte

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

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@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

Frank Sinatra Loathed Donald Trump, Daughter Nancy Sinatra Claims In Tweet…

Pavarotti’s widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, heard about Trump’s unauthorized use of his music and demanded that it be pulled. “The values of brotherhood and solidarity that Pavarotti upheld are incompatible with the world vision of Trump,” Mantovani said in a public statement.
Also, in 2017, after Donald Trump called Luciano Pavarotti a “great friend”, seemingly unaware the opera singer passed away nearly a decade ago. “Friend of mine, great friend of mine,” Trump said of Pavarotti on Thursday afternoon during a press conference with the Italian prime minister. Speaking in the present tense, […]…

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austin_blue  May 11, 2024 • 7:10:36pm

re: #89 sagehen

I knew I was getting old when I heard songs I played as a college radio DJ in the supermarket and the elevator.

We knew we were getting old when we lost all four parents in nine years.

That punches you right in the mouth. Hard.

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sagehen  May 11, 2024 • 7:11:40pm

re: #98 Dangerman

We’ve been watching Wrexham.
Its exciting

I love how they integrate the town and the fans and the athletes’ personal lives into the documentary. They’re making me like the game enough that I actually look up the league standings so I know if the series will have a happy ending. Also, I love that dragon. I might even buy some merch.

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austin_blue  May 11, 2024 • 7:15:08pm

re: #103 austin_blue

We knew we were getting old when we lost all four parents in nine years.

That punches you right in the mouth. Hard.

And night all, be nice to each other.

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wrenchwench  May 11, 2024 • 7:15:45pm

re: #81 teleskiguy

Yes, Sinatra’s been dead for 26 years. From 1980 to now is a longer period of time than when The Wizard Of Oz film came out (1939) and 1980.

We should base our calendar system on the year The Wizard of Oz came out. Separation of church and calendar.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 11, 2024 • 7:16:28pm

re: #27 DodgerFan1988

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But let’s talk about senile Biden.

We’re aghast, but beware. They see it & relate to it. He is really P.T. Barnum/Charles Lindbergh.

People believe.

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Florida Panhandler  May 11, 2024 • 7:22:36pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

The 1990s were 30 years ago! lol

Kurt Cobaine would be old enough to be getting annoying AARP Membership applications in his mailbox.

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 7:24:12pm

re: #108 Florida Panhandler

Kurt Cobaine would be old enough to be getting annoying AARP Membership applications in his mailbox.

AARP hosted an Everclear concert back in 2021.

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Dangerman  May 11, 2024 • 7:24:19pm

Earlier today

Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican strategist who was chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, helped stave off efforts to thwart his nomination at the convention, went to prison and was pardoned by Mr. Trump, has begun advising efforts for the Republican National Convention,” the New York Times reports.

Just now

Paul Manafort, the longtime political power broker who served as the 2016 chairman for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is no longer planning to help manage this summer’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” the Washington Post reports

.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 7:26:31pm

re: #87 jaunte

The album, and their body of work, hold up. They were a great punk band that invented a whole new kind of pop music, not a small feat. Kurt Cobain was the first celebrity death that really got to me, that fucken sucked.

Gonna dump a couple of bangers that are NOT “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “Aneurysm,” I think, is the most representative of their songs. Someone in your life has never heard Nirvana? Don’t play them “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” play “Aneurysm.” It’s fucken Nirvana distilled.

Nirvana - Lounge Act (Audio)

Aneurysm

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 7:27:44pm

re: #88 Targetpractice

Kurt Cobain said in some interview that he thought it a great honor that Weird Al spoofed his song.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 11, 2024 • 7:29:19pm

re: #38 jaunte

The Donner Party was actually from Springfield Illinois.
highways.dot.gov.

One of our techs works out of Springfield, IL

I once asked him if he knew the Donner Party originated in Springfield. He’s a real bright guy, but he didn’t even know anything about the Donner story.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 7:32:48pm

Damnation! Just like last night, it’s cloudy as shit.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 7:40:43pm

It’s been snowing nearly every day this week above 8,000 ft. Great for the creeks and rivers. In some SNOTEL places there’s still 25 inches of water sitting on the ground, mainly in the high subalpine region of the mountains. In some places there’s more water on the ground than this time last year. Bodes well for reservoirs all along the Colorado River system. Two good winters is still not enough. We need, like, seven good winters to fill the two big ones again, Powell and Mead. I don’t see that happening.

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sizzzzlerz  May 11, 2024 • 7:41:07pm

re: #90 Joe Bacon ✅

Me? When I told folks in the office about Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show…and they said “Who is Ed Sullivan?”

I’m surprised there wasn’t someone who asked “who is Elvis”. Considering he’s been dead for 47 years and first became famous 70+ years ago. I wonder if the reason he is still in the public consciousness is because it’s we Boomers are the last generation who still remember him. When we’re gone, I’m pretty sure he will be, as well.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 11, 2024 • 7:45:31pm

re: #57 TedStriker

Don’t feel bad, I didn’t get shit here in Nashville last night either; I went outside about midnight and, even though the sky was as clear as a bell, no auroras for us:

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No aurora visible last night in Nashville Warner Park area.

But we have cicadas.

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sizzzzlerz  May 11, 2024 • 7:51:07pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

I’m checking out ad-supported streamer Tubi to see how obnoxious the ads are, and so far it really isn’t bad compared to the mainstream TV network experience. Started watching “Dagon” (only available for rent elsewhere) and it went almost 30 minutes before the first ad. If it doesn’t get any worse than this, I could consider using the network more.

That is no guarantee that commercials won’t be forthcoming. I was watching Shogun on HULU and the first episode had 2 commercial breaks. By the time I was watching episode 10, they were coming fast and furious at intervals of 5-7 minutes with blocks that were 2 minutes long and that could not be skipped. I seriously considered saying “fuck it!” and quit watching several times.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 11, 2024 • 7:52:13pm

re: #73 Joe Bacon ✅

Let Trump go to Pink’s in Hollywood and do the Orson Welles thing—eat a dozen chili dogs, couple orders of fries, 3-4 Diet Cokes and 2 slices of coconut cake.

My buddy Jim worked weekends at Pinks and he couldn’t believe how Orson Welles inhaled all of that…

Hal Blaine used to say “Pink’s Hot Dogs killed more Jews than Hitler”

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TedStriker  May 11, 2024 • 7:52:46pm

re: #112 teleskiguy

Kurt Cobain said in some interview that he thought it a great honor that Weird Al spoofed his song.

Most artists love it when Weird Al spoofs them, because that’s a mark that they’ve really made it and because he makes it a point to always ask for permission to do it (even though he legally doesn’t have to, as it’s generally considered transformative and fair use as parody). Even the whole deal with Coolio and “Amish Paradise” was supposedly a massive cockup between their labels.

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Ace Rothstein  May 11, 2024 • 7:53:41pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

Cobain once remarked that he wished he could write music as good as REM.
“I don’t know how that band [R.E.M.] does what they do,” Cobain said in a 1994 Rolling Stone magazine interview. “God, they’re the greatest. They’ve dealt with their success like saints, and they keep delivering great music.”

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Hecuba's daughter  May 11, 2024 • 7:54:37pm

re: #27 DodgerFan1988

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But let’s talk about senile Biden.

He was joking - a vicious joke, but a joke. I knew people — none of whom are/were in politics who would make jokes like that.

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TedStriker  May 11, 2024 • 7:55:01pm

re: #117 BeenHereAwhile

No aurora visible last night in Nashville Warner Park area.

But we have cicadas.

You go to the Iroquois Steeplechase?

As far as the cicadas, my house is less than 15 years old and, even with a big fan on in my room this morning, I could hear them outside through the walls/windows…

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Vicious Babushka  May 11, 2024 • 7:57:56pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

A hundred degrees in South Florida today? Yuk!

Oh shit.

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Ace Rothstein  May 11, 2024 • 7:58:42pm

For the record, I’ve always thought that “Breed” was Nirvana’s best song.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 8:01:15pm

Another edition of Bands teleskiguy Has Partied With. These guys were in Denver. The drummer had a bachelor’s degree in music theory/drums. Some of the loudest shows I’ve ever been to.

Mastodon

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William Lewis  May 11, 2024 • 8:04:03pm

re: #121 Ace Rothstein

Cobain once remarked that he wished he could write music as good as REM.

Good reminder that no one is ever satisfied with their own art, even though he wrote some really great music of his own.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 8:08:37pm

re: #127 William Lewis

He was his own harshest critic. So much so that… well, you know.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 8:18:00pm

re: #125 Ace Rothstein

For the record, I’ve always thought that “Breed” was Nirvana’s best song.

I don’t care x5, care if it’s old
I don’t mind x4, mind, don’t have a mind
Get away x4 away, away from your home
I’m afraid x4, afraid, GHOOOOOOOST

Little kid shit. And the band got me hook line and sinker.

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William Lewis  May 11, 2024 • 8:19:07pm

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Ace Rothstein  May 11, 2024 • 8:26:15pm

re: #130 William Lewis

Color???

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BeenHereAwhile  May 11, 2024 • 8:27:09pm

re: #123 TedStriker

You go to the Iroquois Steeplechase?

Went several times, last time was 2010.

It’s quite a party.

Being invited to the Steeplechase was part of my re-introduction to Nashville after moving here for the 2nd time in 2006.

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sagehen  May 11, 2024 • 8:30:45pm

SNL cold open, I had it wrong. They went for the obvious — Mother’s Day.

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silverdolphin  May 11, 2024 • 8:37:22pm

re: #133 sagehen

SNL cold open, I had it wrong. They went for the obvious — Mother’s Day.

Some of the moms were a hoot.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 8:39:17pm

Sane Brother in law sends me a picture of the famous Pizza House back home asking after 22 years if I will go back home for a corner slice with extra cheese…or two…oh how he tempts me…

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BeenHereAwhile  May 11, 2024 • 8:40:16pm

re: #80 Dangerman

Yup
We were outside working in it all day

Brutal

High today at FT Lauderdale Airport @ 10 AM.

Brutal wet bulb index:

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 8:42:53pm

RIP, ROGER CORMAN…

variety.com

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

King of the B Movies…Rest In Peace, King!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 11, 2024 • 8:43:16pm

re: #125 Ace Rothstein

For the record, I’ve always thought that “Breed” was Nirvana’s best song.

I’ve always been partial to “Polly”. Especially the Unplugged version.

Youtube Video

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William Lewis  May 11, 2024 • 8:45:24pm

re: #131 Ace Rothstein

Color???

Liked it better today. I’m sure it’s just a passing fancy 😉

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BeenHereAwhile  May 11, 2024 • 8:49:18pm

re: #133 sagehen

SNL cold open, I had it wrong. They went for the obvious — Mother’s Day.

Yea.

I liked your idea better.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 8:57:49pm

re: #136 BeenHereAwhile

The Wet Bulb Temperature. This is gonna get the attention of humanity when it comes to global warming. When thousands are dying every day in cities along the equatorial coast we might start thinking about things.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 9:07:21pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

98. That’s a long life for an admitted sleaze. That’s a life.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 9:11:26pm

I just know a long life is not in the cards for me. Cancer. Heart disease. Alcoholism. All in the family history. Long lives are the greatest and worst gifts.

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William Lewis  May 11, 2024 • 9:11:54pm

re: #139 William Lewis

Liked it better today. I’m sure it’s just a passing fancy 😉

Also the boss in Memphis told me she liked it 😊

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 9:11:54pm

re: #120 TedStriker

Most artists love it when Weird Al spoofs them, because that’s a mark that they’ve really made it and because he makes it a point to always ask for permission to do it (even though he legally doesn’t have to, as it’s generally considered transformative and fair use as parody). Even the whole deal with Coolio and “Amish Paradise” was supposedly a massive cockup between their labels.

Cobain remarked during an interview that he knew that Nirvana had made it when Weird Al called to ask if it was cool to make a parody of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

As far as the business with Coolio, that supposedly (according to Weird Al) was all due to miscommunication between Al and Coolio’s manager. Apparently he’d contacted him to see if it was cool to do a parody of “Gangster’s Paradise,” and the manager didn’t even ask Coolio before giving the greenlight because of Al’s reputation. He and Coolio have since made amends and it’s all good, but Al has implied that that manager was gone shortly after.

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darthstar  May 11, 2024 • 9:16:51pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

RIP, ROGER CORMAN…

variety.com

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

King of the B Movies…Rest In Peace, King!

Jerry connection:

Mastodon

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darthstar  May 11, 2024 • 9:21:11pm

I added a Widespread Panic station to Pandora today which, it turns out, was a brilliant move on my part as I spent the better part of 5 hours in various traffic stalls and a normally 2 hour drive…

One surprise was a Big Head Todd live version of Bittersweet…a full 6:30 or so…and it didn’t suck…also lots of Jerry solo stuff in the rotation as well as some killer long versions of WP songs live as well as a 14 minute Happy Hour Hero by moe. which is always a treat.

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2024 • 9:21:21pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

re: #142 teleskiguy

Roger Corman might be the person that is most responsible for pretty much everything that has happened with Hollywood in the last 70 years. He basically invented the cinematic language of the modern genre film and pushed sci-fi and horror into the mainstream. Without him, there is no Star Wars and there are no comic book movies. The dude was an absolute legend.

He also basically had his own little school for up-and-coming directors before film school was a thing. They’d make a Corman movie, and it gets their name out there, making them better known. James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Ron Howard all owe a lot to Roger Corman: Actors, too - he launched Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper’s careers, among many others. That’s not even getting into how, for many years, he was almost single-handedly responsible for the distribution of basically every foreign film in the United States. He’s the reason Americans know who Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa are.

RIP.

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darthstar  May 11, 2024 • 9:24:35pm

Mastodon

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 11, 2024 • 9:47:35pm

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

One of my favorite movie-makers

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2024 • 9:49:08pm

re: #150 Lancelot Link Returns!

LOL, I remember that one.

Corman’s impact on American cinema is definitely outsized. He’ll be missed.

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teleskiguy  May 11, 2024 • 9:50:41pm

It’s weird that Steve Albini (too young) and Roger Corman (very old) died four days apart in 2024. They both embodied the fledgling free spirit in their mediums and took no shit from nobody.

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2024 • 9:54:52pm

On the subject of Roger Corman, it wasn’t just actors and directors whose careers were launched by working for him.

The late James Horner started his career composing film soundtracks with Corman’s 1979 flick The Lady in Red, followed by Humanoids from the Deep and Battle Beyond the Stars. That brought Horner to the attention of Hollywood. His breakthrough came with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and the rest is history.

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Dr Lizardo  May 11, 2024 • 9:57:23pm

My fave James Horner moment is this:

Star Trek III Search for Spock - Stealing the Enterprise 1080p

It turns the equivalent of backing your station wagon out of the garage into one of the most thrilling scenes in Star Trek history.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 11, 2024 • 9:59:17pm

re: #141 teleskiguy

The Wet Bulb Temperature. This is gonna get the attention of humanity when it comes to global warming. When thousands are dying every day in cities along the equatorial coast we might start thinking about things.

We’ll be lucky if people start thinking about things if they see dead people all along their own Main Streets. Because I’m not sure even that’s enough.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 11, 2024 • 10:10:36pm

re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Republicans are gonna get a rude awakening denying water and shade to workers in the South. Especially since this summer is projected to be the hottest AND most humid on record.

Just waiting for wildcat strikes to start in Florida and Texas and spread…

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TedStriker  May 11, 2024 • 10:28:06pm

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

Roger Corman might be the person that is most responsible for pretty much everything that has happened with Hollywood in the last 70 years. He basically invented the cinematic language of the modern genre film and pushed sci-fi and horror into the mainstream. Without him, there is no Star Wars and there are no comic book movies. The dude was an absolute legend.

He also basically had his own little school for up-and-coming directors before film school was a thing. They’d make a Corman movie, and it gets their name out there, making them better known. James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Ron Howard all owe a lot to Roger Corman: Actors, too - he launched Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper’s careers, among many others. That’s not even getting into how, for many years, he was almost single-handedly responsible for the distribution of basically every foreign film in the United States. He’s the reason Americans know who Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa are.

RIP.

Corman was “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”, but with half the ‘degrees’, before Kevin Bacon was even born; as you stated, for seventy years, Corman’s productions were Hollywood’s training ground, where many actors, directors, producers, and crew got their starts.

Everyone working in the movie biz in Hollywood has a Corman connection somewhere.

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 10:31:30pm

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

My fave James Horner moment is this:

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It turns the equivalent of backing your station wagon out of the garage into one of the most thrilling scenes in Star Trek history.

By contrast, Horner’s music makes this one of the most emotional scenes I’ve seen in film:

Deep Impact (1998) | Final Goodbye Scene

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TedStriker  May 11, 2024 • 10:36:08pm

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

My fave James Horner moment is this:

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It turns the equivalent of backing your station wagon out of the garage into one of the most thrilling scenes in Star Trek history.

re: #158 Targetpractice

By contrast, Horner’s music makes this one of the most emotional scenes I’ve seen in film:

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Horner’s score for The Wrath of Khan (some of which he reused for The Search of Spock) is one of his best for me, especially Khan’s theme; it really helped to sell Nick Meyer’s vision of “Horatio Hornblower in space”, with nods to the naval swashbucklers of Old Hollywood.

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William Lewis  May 11, 2024 • 10:42:17pm

re: #158 Targetpractice

By contrast, Horner’s music makes this one of the most emotional scenes I’ve seen in film:

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The only one of it’s kind that was worth the price of admission. Still holds up, too.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 11, 2024 • 11:09:44pm

Roger Corman’s scariest movie

The Intruder (1962) - Hate Speech aka. I Hate Your Guts

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Targetpractice  May 11, 2024 • 11:19:38pm

re: #160 William Lewis

The only one of it’s kind that was worth the price of admission. Still holds up, too.

It does. It’s one of those films you invested in the latest home theater set-up to enjoy.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 12, 2024 • 12:47:20am

re: #150 Lancelot Link Returns!

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD!!

As immortalized by Frank Zappa

Cheepnis (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood/1973)

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 12, 2024 • 12:55:02am

One of my all-time favorite films. Director: Roger Corman

X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963) Official Trailer

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 1:08:12am

re: #164 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

One of my all-time favorite films. Director: Roger Corman

Roger Corman’s funeral should come in on time, under budget and with enough footage to use in three additional funerals.

— Philip Michaels (@philipmichaels.bsky.social) 2024-05-12T03:20:33.938Z

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 1:53:12am

Another first Roger Corman brought us - the first major motion picture adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft. His 1963 film The Haunted Palace is (despite the title that references Poe) based on Lovecraft’s novella “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 12, 2024 • 2:30:51am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 12, 2024 • 3:57:19am

re: #168 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Should have had the beagle, but brain fart.
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Patricia Kayden  May 12, 2024 • 4:11:02am

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Randall Gross  May 12, 2024 • 4:13:53am

I don’t know about you, but Corman ruled my childhood with his B movies

Aww. #RIP Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.

apnews.com/article/b85b…

— @GottaLaff (@gottalaff.bsky.social) 2024-05-12T02:49:23.123Z

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William Lewis  May 12, 2024 • 4:14:16am

re: #170 Patricia Kayden

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Scary thing is I can believe that being real…

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Randall Gross  May 12, 2024 • 4:17:09am

re: #170 Patricia Kayden

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Of course once she gets past that panic attack he will have to explain how come he knows that term…

[pun intentional.]

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Patricia Kayden  May 12, 2024 • 4:28:29am

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Dangerman  May 12, 2024 • 4:45:31am

The perfect pizza topping

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jeffreyw  May 12, 2024 • 5:55:14am

Aurora? Maybe!

Good morning!

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 6:00:07am

Happy Mother’s Day to all who observe.

No Aurora here last night, but a stronger hit is expected today.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 12, 2024 • 6:03:26am

Tubi has a bunch of Roger Corman movies. Just search his name. :)

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Belafon  May 12, 2024 • 6:05:11am
A woman was found living in the rooftop sign of a Family Fare grocery store in Michigan and had been there for about a year, police said.

Police in Midland were notified about the woman living in the small space that hosts the supermarket’s sign on April 23 after contractors working on the roof found her there.

nbcnews.com

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 6:10:01am

re: #181 Belafon

Points for urban survival skills.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 12, 2024 • 6:10:07am

re: #81 teleskiguy

Yes, Sinatra’s been dead for 26 years. From 1980 to now is a longer period of time than when The Wizard Of Oz film came out (1939) and 1980.

I like to think about the proportionality of time vs. our perception of it, especially as I get old. For instance, my birthdate (June 21 1949) was closer in time to the Battle of Little Bighorn (72 years 361 days) than it is to the present day (74 years 315 days).

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Belafon  May 12, 2024 • 6:10:45am
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Eventual Carrion  May 12, 2024 • 6:36:31am

re: #169 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Three for me this morning.

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Belafon  May 12, 2024 • 6:38:09am

Saw on the news that a judge has blocked the credit card fee limits.

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 6:39:00am

re: #150 Lancelot Link Returns!

One of my favorite movie-makers

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Hecuba's daughter  May 12, 2024 • 6:39:53am

re: #187 Belafon

Saw on the news that a judge has blocked the credit card fee limits.

The infamous judge from Texas?

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Eventual Carrion  May 12, 2024 • 6:45:18am

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 12, 2024 • 6:45:59am

re: #187 Belafon

Northern Texas judge, of course. At the behest of credit card companies.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 12, 2024 • 6:46:49am

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the LGF family.

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No Malarkey!  May 12, 2024 • 6:48:08am

A fun Roger Corman story, but it’s on a Xitter thread, so I’m putting it in a box.

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 6:51:37am

We live 80 miles from the Gulf coast. Our house insurance just came in—almost double last year’s. They’re getting ready for a hyper hurricane season.

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A Cranky One  May 12, 2024 • 7:00:01am

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Randall Gross  May 12, 2024 • 7:03:26am

I am going to suggest those are not, in fact, “pro-Israel” protestors.

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) 2024-05-12T13:03:50.657Z

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Randall Gross  May 12, 2024 • 7:05:20am

re: #193 No Malarkey!

That’s a great way to do it if you just have to post a xitter thread.

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 7:06:18am

re: #196 Randall Gross

I was saying this two weeks ago. Same assholes who carry tiki torches and attack drag queen story hour.

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BeachDem  May 12, 2024 • 7:09:31am

re: #187 Belafon

Saw on the news that a judge has blocked the credit card fee limits.

Who needs fee limits?////

Recent appliance purchase—$3,846

If you make miminum payment of $39, will be paid off in NINETEEN years for a total of $16,156

Oh, and if you don’t pay by the due date, you might have a late fee of up to $41 and your APR wll be increased up to the penalty APR of 36.990%

(I paid it in total 10 days before the due date, just to be sure)

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silverdolphin  May 12, 2024 • 7:10:31am

re: #193 No Malarkey!

A fun Roger Corman story, but it’s on a Xitter thread, so I’m putting it in a box.

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I get a kick out of seeing him pop up as an actor in a movie. His little appearance as a Senator in The Godfather Part II always makes me smile.

Godfather II Senate Hearing

“Mr. Corleone, would you kindly identify for the committee…”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 7:14:19am

re: #187 Belafon

Saw on the news that a judge has blocked the credit card fee limits.

Gee, I wonder which Federalist Society asshole did that?

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 7:16:05am

oh my!

Prick Scott got blindsided on…FOX?!

‘Reagan did the same thing’: Fox News host corners Rick Scott on Biden’s Israel policy

Fox News host corners Rick Scott on Biden’s Israel policy

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 7:18:23am

re: #202 Joe Bacon ✅

oh my!

Prick Scott got blindsided on…FOX?!

‘Reagan did the same thing’: Fox News host corners Rick Scott on Biden’s Israel policy

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That wasn’t in the script!!!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 7:19:13am

CNN goes after J Dickhead Vance.

‘He had dinner with an anti-Semite’: CNN host grills JD Vance on bigoted Trump statements

JD Vance grilled on bigoted Trump remarks

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silverdolphin  May 12, 2024 • 7:20:57am

re: #200 silverdolphin

I get a kick out of seeing him pop up as an actor in a movie. His little appearance as a Senator in The Godfather Part II always makes me smile.

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“Mr. Corleone, would you kindly identify for the committee…”

And here he is from The Silence of the Lambs. Not bad at all.

Roger Corman — Silence of the Lambs

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 7:22:12am

Oh, boy….

Egypt says it will formally join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt said the move comes due to the escalating Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians.

“[It] comes in light of the worsening severity and scope of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the continued perpetration of systematic practices against the Palestinian people, including direct targeting of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure in the Strip, and pushing Palestinians to flee,” the ministry said.

Egypt said it is calling on Israel to comply with its obligations as the occupying power and to implement the provisional measures issued by the ICJ, which require ensuring access to humanitarian and relief aid in a manner that meets the needs of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

It also demands that Israeli forces not commit any violations against the Palestinian people.

In the statement, Egypt renewed its call to the UN Security Council and international parties to immediately take action to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and to stop military operations in Rafah, as well as to provide the necessary protection for Palestinian civilians.

aljazeera.com

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BeenHereAwhile  May 12, 2024 • 7:22:49am

re: #141 teleskiguy

The Wet Bulb Temperature. This is gonna get the attention of humanity when it comes to global warming. When thousands are dying every day in cities along the equatorial coast we might start thinking about things.

Sufficient rise in wet bulb temperature will render Central America uninhabitable.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 7:24:00am

Gee it’s not a good day for Senate Republicans on the Sunday Gasbag shows!

‘Crap!’ Lindsey Graham shouts down Kristen Welker as he calls to bomb Gaza like Hiroshima

Lindsey Graham shouts down Kristen Welker

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 7:25:31am

Susan Backlinie, who played Chrissie - the first victim in Jaws - has died at the age of 77.

hollywoodreporter.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 7:26:37am

A group of foreign policy experts recently ran a war game to simulate a potential second Trump presidency, and Business Insider reports that the result was a “collapse” in the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO).

Finley Grimble, a British foreign policy expert who designed and ran the game, said the results show how Trump could gradually wreck NATO without formally abandoning the alliance.

“What Donald Trump can do is just really hollow out what NATO does,” Grimble told Business Insider. “He doesn’t need to leave NATO to ruin it. He can ruin it from within.”

The game started with Trump abandoning Ukraine after failing to negotiate a settlement with Russia to end the war.

After this, Trump would massively reduce American participation in NATO and would remove U.S. troops out of Europe en masse.

From there, the game projected that “the Trump administration also institutes a new policy called ‘dormancy’” that “includes a variety of go-slow tactics, such as less US participation in NATO exercises” and also “a particularly damaging move… to bar the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) — the second-highest military position in NATO, and always a US officer — from acting without prior consultation with Washington.”

America’s slow-motion abandonment of NATO also causes other key players in the alliance to rethink their commitment.

“If I’m Italy, for example, I’m certainly guaranteeing the security of Estonia,” Grimble said. “But I’m not really expecting to have to play such a prominent and crucial role in this.”

In the end, Ukraine is forced to sign a peace treaty that installs a pro-Kremlin puppet government while also formally ceding the eastern half of the country to Russia.

The fear in Europe then becomes that Russian President Vladimir Putin could turn his eye to the Baltic states that are NATO members.

businessinsider.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 12, 2024 • 7:26:41am

re: #183 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I like to think about dinosaur time differences - tyrannasaurus and brontasaurus lived 84 million years apart.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  May 12, 2024 • 7:33:33am

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Dangerman  May 12, 2024 • 7:39:18am

re: #194 Decatur Deb

We live 80 miles from the Gulf coast. Our house insurance just came in—almost double last year’s. They’re getting ready for a hyper hurricane season.

They’d do it if there was zero hurricanes projected

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 7:44:24am

re: #208 Joe Bacon ✅

MSNBC should know better than to book him at all.

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Dangerman  May 12, 2024 • 7:46:08am

re: #209 Dr Lizardo

Susan Backlinie, who played Chrissie - the first victim in Jaws - has died at the age of 77.

hollywoodreporter.com

“Because of her, people never went swimming in the ocean again.”

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 12, 2024 • 7:47:35am

re: #215 Dangerman

“Because of her, people never went swimming in the ocean again.”

I was on vacation in California, spending my days swimming in the ocean, when I saw Jaws in the theater.

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Unabogie  May 12, 2024 • 7:51:34am

re: #209 Dr Lizardo

Susan Backlinie, who played Chrissie - the first victim in Jaws - has died at the age of 77.

hollywoodreporter.com

That’s terrible news, just when I thought it was safe to get back in the water!

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 7:52:21am

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 7:53:33am

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 7:57:55am

re: #216 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I was on vacation in California, spending my days swimming in the ocean, when I saw Jaws in the theater.

I went on the Universal Studios tour. For work, it was a day camp outing, I was supervising some youngsters. They had a Jaws exhibit going. The ‘shark’ was startling as it ‘leapt’ out of the water, but after that, if you kept looking at it, all fear was gone. It bordered on ridiculous. Visible mechanics, poorly painted. Good enough for a movie shot, but not up close and personal.

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No Malarkey!  May 12, 2024 • 8:00:26am

re: #220 wrenchwench

I went on the Universal Studios tour. For work, it was a day camp outing, I was supervising some youngsters. They had a Jaws exhibit going. The ‘shark’ was startling as it ‘leapt’ out of the water, but after that, if you kept looking at it, all fear was gone. It bordered on ridiculous. Visible mechanics, poorly painted. Good enough for a movie shot, but not up close and personal.

Spielberg famously had to use his Bruces sparingly because they broke down so much, which ended up making the movie better.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 12, 2024 • 8:01:09am

re: #168 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Should have had the beagle, but brain fart.
Wordle 1,058 3/6

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I took the long way around.

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 8:02:12am

re: #220 wrenchwench

re: #221 No Malarkey!

The first time we get a look at Bruce, it’s underwater. The lagoon scene.

Spielberg proved that old adage, “Less is more”.

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Unabogie  May 12, 2024 • 8:05:37am

re: #220 wrenchwench

I went on the Universal Studios tour. For work, it was a day camp outing, I was supervising some youngsters. They had a Jaws exhibit going. The ‘shark’ was startling as it ‘leapt’ out of the water, but after that, if you kept looking at it, all fear was gone. It bordered on ridiculous. Visible mechanics, poorly painted. Good enough for a movie shot, but not up close and personal.

See I saw it as a kid (grew up near there) and it was mind-blowing!

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 8:09:41am

re: #224 Unabogie

See I saw it as a kid (grew up near there) and it was mind-blowing!

Did you attend day camp in the summer? At a lake duck pond?

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 8:10:49am
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the coast of Chiapas in Mexico on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey said.

The quake was at a depth of 75 km (46.6 miles), the USGS said.

Mexico’s national civil protection agency reported on social media that it was monitoring the situation but that there were no initial reports of damage.

In Guatemala, where the quake could be felt in the capital of Guatemala City, the country’s disaster agency CONRED reported structural damage in the departments of Quetzaltenango and San Marcos, near the country’s border with Mexico, including a landslide that blocked part of a road.

There is no risk of an ensuing tsunami, according to the US Tsunami Warning System and Mexico’s navy.

jpost.com

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 12, 2024 • 8:11:17am
Doctor Who’s new season breaks one big tradition

Every new era of Doctor Who begins with a new Doctor. That’s always the most exciting part: As a nigh-immortal alien whose personality shifts with his looks after he regenerates into a new form, meeting a new Doctor is like meeting a best friend all over again. Then comes a few other things: A new companion, a facelift for his spaceship/time machine, the TARDIS, and, finally, a new costume. A signature look that comes to define that version of the Doctor — from a stalk of celery on the lapel of the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) to Eleven’s (Matt Smith) affection for bow ties.

Not so with the Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor. One of the most striking things about this new era of Doctor Who is that Fifteen does not have a signature look — in fact, he is constantly changing clothes, and having so much fun doing so. According to showrunner Russell T. Davies, this was part of the plan from the start.

polygon.com

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 12, 2024 • 8:19:53am

No idea why they’re called bear’s breeches.

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 8:21:42am

Happy Mother’s Day.

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Vicious Babushka  May 12, 2024 • 8:23:21am

re: #119 Lancelot Link Returns!

Hal Blaine used to say “Pink’s Hot Dogs killed more Jews than Hitler”

That’s not funny.

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 8:24:44am

We advance in one of Trump’s cases: NPR is now calling it a ‘falsifying business records’ trial. Last week it was a hush money trial.

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No Malarkey!  May 12, 2024 • 8:31:12am

Roger Corman’s ten essential films.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 12, 2024 • 8:31:29am

Par today.

Click to Reveal

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Group:3,4,4,4

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dat_said  May 12, 2024 • 8:32:06am

re: #183 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I like to think about the proportionality of time vs. our perception of it, especially as I get old. For instance, my birthdate (June 21 1949) was closer in time to the Battle of Little Bighorn (72 years 361 days) than it is to the present day (74 years 315 days).

My ancestors homesteaded in North Dakota less than 25 years after Custer left for his last stand. And I got to meet some of them.

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 8:34:58am

Mastodon

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 8:37:45am

re: #233 Hecuba’s daughter

Birdie on wordle
1:48 on the mini x-word
perfect connections - yellow, green, blue, purple
found both pangrams on the bee right off.

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A Cranky One  May 12, 2024 • 8:38:32am

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Unabogie  May 12, 2024 • 8:42:06am

re: #225 wrenchwench

Did you attend day camp in the summer? At a lake duck pond?

Are you asking if we met 40 years ago? If you lived in the Valley, it’s possible!

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 8:50:15am

re: #238 Unabogie

Are you asking if we met 40 years ago? If you lived in the Valley, it’s possible!

It would have been more than 40, and not the Valley. Joking, in a weak way.

There was a kid who looked like you, though!

/I have no idea what you look like.

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DodgerFan1988  May 12, 2024 • 8:50:16am
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Unabogie  May 12, 2024 • 8:55:02am

re: #239 wrenchwench

It would have been more than 40, and not the Valley. Joking, in a weak way.

There was a kid who looked like you, though!

/I have no idea what you look like.

Of course you do, we saw Jaws together 40 years ago! ; -)

I think we just click online because we both think about bikes too much :-)

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 12, 2024 • 8:58:38am

Arpaio is still with us at 91. How do so many of these assholes manage to live so long?

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Belafon  May 12, 2024 • 9:02:04am

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

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Arpaio is still with us at 91. How do so many of these assholes manage to live so long?

Being good is more stressful than being evil?

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  May 12, 2024 • 9:06:03am

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

Arpaio is still with us at 91. How do so many of these assholes manage to live so long?

I dunno, but a need for a ready supply of the blood of virgins might go some way to explaining the fixation on abstinence in sex education.

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Unabogie  May 12, 2024 • 9:06:33am

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

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Arpaio is still with us at 91. How do so many of these assholes manage to live so long?

In Trump’s defense, what do you get for the woman you spent the last month humiliating in court because you cheated on her repeatedly while she was having the kid you neglect?

Mother’s Day gifts can be challenging!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 9:10:10am

Howard Kurtz slimes Stormy on Fox.

Not posting the video clip that really ticked me off…

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 12, 2024 • 9:10:55am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Wait, don’t tell me.

More slut shaming?

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jeffreyw  May 12, 2024 • 9:11:33am

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darthstar  May 12, 2024 • 9:15:29am

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sagehen  May 12, 2024 • 9:16:40am

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

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Arpaio is still with us at 91. How do so many of these assholes manage to live so long?

Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young (Official Audio)

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 12, 2024 • 9:18:38am

re: #183 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I’m still relatively spry, but it floors me to realize that there was less time between the end of WWII and the day of my birth than there is from the day of my birth to today.

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 9:20:19am

re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I’m still relatively spry, but it floors me to realize that there was less time between the end of WWII and the day of my birth than there is from the day of my birth to today.

Heh. Three German U-boats were sunk the day I was born.

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Belafon  May 12, 2024 • 9:25:26am

re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I’m still relatively spry, but it floors me to realize that there was less time between the end of WWII and the day of my birth than there is from the day of my birth to today.

If you subtract my current age (total days) from my birth day, WW1 would be early in its final year. And I was born on the day the Apollo 12 landed on the Moon.

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Mattand  May 12, 2024 • 9:49:11am

re: #253 Belafon

If you subtract my current age (total days) from my birth day, WW1 would be early in its final year. And I was born on the day the Apollo 12 landed on the Moon.

If you subtract the years I’ve been alive from my age, I blink out of existence.

Please don’t do this now. Gotta run the vacuum in a bit.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 12, 2024 • 9:50:16am

re: #183 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Along those lines, the Roman emperors were fascinated with Egypt.

But Nero is closer to us than he was to the building of the Great Pyramids, by several centuries.

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Mattand  May 12, 2024 • 9:50:49am

re: #170 Patricia Kayden

And I think this tweet, above all else, defines the true meaning of Mother’s Day.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 12, 2024 • 9:51:49am

World’s First Rolls-Royce Police Car Unveiled
The Miami cops are at some pains to emphasize that the RR cop car is on loan from Braman Motors and Braman is footing the cost. This hasn’t kept swarms of low comprehension commenters from denouncing it as a waste of public money.
As something of a Rolls-Royce fan, er, enthusiast, I doubt that this is really the first RR in police service. Rolls-Royce armored cars and utility vehicles were used extensively in the First World War and some lasted into the Second. This included a lot of colonial service between the wars. It therefore seems very likely that some of them made their way into police service, if only on loan.

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sagehen  May 12, 2024 • 9:52:32am

re: #253 Belafon

If you subtract my current age (total days) from my birth day, WW1 would be early in its final year. And I was born on the day the Apollo 12 landed on the Moon.

if you do that for me, the year was 18-something-something.

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Jay C  May 12, 2024 • 9:52:58am

re: #253 Belafon

If you subtract my current age (total days) from my birth day, WW1 would be early in its final year. And I was born on the day the Apollo 12 landed on the Moon.

Whippersnapper…..

If you subtract MY current age from my birth year, you go back to a time when Rutherford B. Hayes was still POTUS.

(OK, off to contemplate my geezerhood……)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 12, 2024 • 9:55:17am

re: #259 Jay C

I always marvel at how long ago my grandfather was born.

We are currently farther from his birthday than he was from the 7 Years War.

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Randall Gross  May 12, 2024 • 9:56:26am

AI + Robot Dogs + Rifles… expecting to read about AI dog school shooting within ten years because you know that the redhats are all going to want their own AI robot dog assault rifles.
www.businessinsider.com/us-marines-s…

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-12T16:54:37.303Z

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jeffreyw  May 12, 2024 • 9:56:26am

Saint Nicholas refusing his mother’s milk because Saint Nicholas was a sandworm.

— Hillary Monahan (@hillarymonahan.bsky.social) 2024-05-12T15:50:03.740Z

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TedStriker  May 12, 2024 • 9:59:16am

I can’t math…

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 12, 2024 • 10:01:35am

Catching up:
On Mother’s Day: Happy day to mothers - I did the flowers, booze (Baileys Irish cream) and breakfast trifecta for the wife and mother of two adults. My mom passed in 2019 and I have happy remembrances of her today and every day. Grave site visit later

On sharks: I saw Jaws ride at universal studios in 1976-77 when I was in high school. When prosthetic shark lurched out of water this super cute girl named Joyce leaned over to take a photo and all I remember is how great she looked in those white shorts…Have not been back to Universal Studios theme park since —but did see some righteous concerts at Universal Amphitheater over the years

On sharks part 2: I was walking right on the Surfline at Oxnard shores and some chump said the beach is closed for a private event. I laughed in his face and said take it up with the California Coastal Commission and kept walking. The private event was a Dallas Cowboys team visit to the beach as the struck training camp. All these footballers were standing in the shore worrying about sharks on a riptide filled day and I kept thinking the cold water and strong currents would kill these guys a lot quicker if they dared venture in— and they didn’t even consider that risk.

Cloud scene from Spring: it’s May Gray here meaning it’s cloudy all the way to Castaic

2024: Clouds and Wires
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Mattand  May 12, 2024 • 10:04:08am

I saw the film version of A Bronx Tale in the mid-90s, when I was 30 or so. Much of the story takes place in the late 60’s when I would have been two to three years old. It’s a really well done period piece, with really great costuming and era-appropriate cars.

I’m watching and thinking “Yeah, that’s what the world looked like when I was a toddler.” And then, all of sudden, the concept of time and age came crashing down on me like a crate full of hourglasses that use lead instead of sand. I may as well have been watching one of those old B/W films from 1909 where the film speed is off and everyone looks like they’re moving in double time.

I suddenly became almost painfully aware of how long I’d actually been on this planet.

Penn of Penn & Teller once said that films are the closest thing we have to time machines and damn if he wasn’t right.

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Captain Ron  May 12, 2024 • 10:04:12am
Emerging cicadas mean more pee in the air. Scientist explains 2:29

Thank you CNN. Just what I wanted to know.

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mmmirele  May 12, 2024 • 10:11:48am

re: #71 Joe Bacon ✅

Well my goodness is this Pulpit Pimp coming clean?

Sort of…
*snip*

alternet.org

Two things:

1) Other Evangelicals don’t buy that Hinn has given up his grifting ways. Mike Winger did a four hour plus video last month, which was complete overkill, but just hammering over and over and OVER again that Hinn’s still shaking down people for money. Just to be clear, I think Mike thinks entirely too much of himself. And I’m not going to spend days watching his anti-women preachers / pro-complementarian garbage. That said, if you want to spend 10 minutes watching one Evangelical go after another, here ya go:

The Victims of Benny Hinn: 30 Years of Spiritual Deception.

I will note that I do like how Benny keeps trying to take down Mike’s work with YouTube copyright strikes and YouTube keeps telling Benny to put a sock in it. It’s rare that YT will do this.

2) Benny Hinn’s nephew Costi pastors a church near where I live. I’ve protested it. I may go back and protest it again because Costi allowed himself to be used as a stooge for the truly execrable John MacArthur (who got a protest from me on June 19, 2002, my birthday, MacArthur’s birthday and Juneteenth, which was appropriate, because JMac doesn’t think slavery is a big thing).

A few weeks back, MacArthur and Costi were on a panel and JMac (who is coming up on 84 years old) just absolutely WENT OFF on mental health issues. “There is no such thing as PTSD.” MacArthur also said that children who take drugs for mental health issues run the risk of becoming “drug addicts” or “criminals.” And Costi Hinn just sat there like a fucking lump on a fucking log.

Like I said, Costi’s church is near me, and I’ve debated whether to run out with a sign. The guy is a fucking chickenshit and as someone who has absolutely *benefited* from evil psych drugs, the fact that he couldn’t even bring himself to bite the hand that feeds him and protect people says volumes to me.

(If you want background, but this comes from an Evangelical perspective so it’s not as to the jugular as I’d like, but it makes good points: religionunplugged.com)

/end of Sunday morning rant

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 12, 2024 • 10:14:14am

re: #267 mmmirele

Oh I’m well aware of what that sick freak MacArthur said about mental health issues. Rich coming from such a paranoid freak as him.

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Nerdy Fish  May 12, 2024 • 10:15:02am

If you subtract my current age from my birth year, you find yourself in Normandy. Or more likely, on a US ship bound for Leyte, helping a certain general keep his promises.

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mmmirele  May 12, 2024 • 10:16:22am

re: #268 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh I’m well aware of what that sick freak MacArthur said about mental health issues. Rich coming from such a paranoid freak as him.

The *sickness* is that this has been going on since the 1970s, when MacArthur “counseled” Kenneth Nally, a UCLA student, and the guy committed suicide. JMac has never been held accountable.

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Dr Lizardo  May 12, 2024 • 10:20:34am

If you subtract my current age from my birth year, you’d find yourself in the second year of World War One.

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 10:25:38am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

If you subtract my current age from my birth year, you’d find yourself in the second year of World War One.

Late Civil War.

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 10:26:37am

Mastodon

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TedStriker  May 12, 2024 • 10:32:42am

re: #253 Belafon

If you subtract my current age (total days) from my birth day, WW1 would be early in its final year. And I was born on the day the Apollo 12 landed on the Moon.

re: #254 Mattand

If you subtract the years I’ve been alive from my age, I blink out of existence.

Please don’t do this now. Gotta run the vacuum in a bit.

re: #258 sagehen

if you do that for me, the year was 18-something-something.

re: #259 Jay C

Whippersnapper…..

If you subtract MY current age from my birth year, you go back to a time when Rutherford B. Hayes was still POTUS.

(OK, off to contemplate my geezerhood……)

For me, that’d put me in the year of PCP first being synthesized, Winnie-the-Pooh first being published, and the United States Numbered Highway System, including Route 66, being established.

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Vicious Babushka  May 12, 2024 • 10:32:42am

re: #267 mmmirele

Two things:

1) Other Evangelicals don’t buy that Hinn has given up his grifting ways. Mike Winger did a four hour plus video last month, which was complete overkill, but just hammering over and over and OVER again that Hinn’s still shaking down people for money. Just to be clear, I think Mike thinks entirely too much of himself. And I’m not going to spend days watching his anti-women preachers / pro-complementarian garbage. That said, if you want to spend 10 minutes watching one Evangelical go after another, here ya go:

[Embedded content]

)

/end of Sunday morning rant

I can’t tell the difference between Benny Hinn and Benny Hill other than one of them is a clown and the other is a comedian on TV.

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Belafon  May 12, 2024 • 10:37:03am

We’re watching the Food that Made America, and Nerds were the leftover from making Everlasting Gobstoppers, and now makes a quarter billion a year.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 12, 2024 • 10:41:58am

re: #258 sagehen

if you do that for me, the year was 18-something-something.

For me it’s 18-something-something, too: nine years before my maternal grandmother was born

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 10:44:48am

re: #277 Backwoods Sleuth

For me it’s 18-something-something, too: nine years before my maternal grandmother was born

I get 18-something-something, and on my birthday that year, Martin Niemoller was born.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 12, 2024 • 10:45:50am

If you subtract my current age from my birth year, you’ll end up mere weeks from the start of WWII.

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Nerdy Fish  May 12, 2024 • 10:48:17am

And yes, I am aware I am one of the younger ones here. It’s funny, I have this community where I’m on the young end of the spectrum, and I’m part of another online community where I’m the third oldest individual.

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Decatur Deb  May 12, 2024 • 11:02:24am

Peter Hains, the young lieutenant who fired the first Union cannon in the first major battle of the Civil war was still serving, as a Major General, within a few months of the end of WWI.
en.wikipedia.org

John Clem was accepted as a mascot/drummer boy when he was 9, officially enrolling in the Union Army at 11. He was promoted to Sergeant at 11, after shooting a Confederate Colonel. After the war, he failed the entrance exam for West Point, but US Grant made him a Lieutenant. He retired as a Major General in 1915.https://battlefields.org

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Greup  May 12, 2024 • 11:02:50am

re: #163 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
and also…. :)

Cheepnis (Live / Helsinki, Finland / 1974)

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wrenchwench  May 12, 2024 • 11:10:01am

re: #280 Nerdy Fish

And yes, I am aware I am one of the younger ones here. It’s funny, I have this community where I’m on the young end of the spectrum, and I’m part of another online community where I’m the third oldest individual.

Two-timer.

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CleverToad  May 12, 2024 • 11:27:45am

re: #277 Backwoods Sleuth

For me it’s 18-something-something, too: nine years before my maternal grandmother was born

Just signing in so I’ll jump on the bandwagon:
If I subtract my age from my birth year, I land on the year that my maternal grandfather was born
If hubby subtracts his age from his birth year, he lands close to where his teenaged paternal grandfather left his Irish home to go to sea (born in 1869)

Always fascinating to look at time in the perspective of human lifetimes. And yes, movies and TV are time capsules, and that becomes an increasing part of the entertainment value the further you get from when they were made.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 12, 2024 • 11:37:41am

My mathy thing. The year of the first Winter Olympics.

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CleverToad  May 12, 2024 • 11:39:36am

Happy Mother’s Day to the Lizards who celebrate!
My kid came down from his apartment on the other end of town to spend the weekend; my foster kid made a lovely steak and cheese tortellini concoction for dinner last night and made fancy fried eggs for breakfast, so I have been well-fed. It’s great having one of them who can cook!

Thinking of my mom and my grandmothers, thankful I had them as long as I did. They saw a lot in their respective times, and I got to hear a lot of stories.

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retired cynic  May 12, 2024 • 12:05:41pm

re: #284 CleverToad

I guess I will, too. If you subtract my age from my birthday, I wash up on this side of the Civil War by about 5 years.

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BeachDem  May 12, 2024 • 1:54:17pm

re: #272 Decatur Deb

Late Civil War.

Edison got his patent on the phonograph, Posse Comitatus Act signed into law, Yellow fever epidemic begins in New Orleans, Pope Manufacturing Company began producing the Columbia high-wheel bicycle, signalling the beginning of a bicycle craze in the U.S. Remington No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters, was introduced.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 12, 2024 • 3:02:53pm

re: #263 TedStriker

I can’t math…

Don’t want any association with that president.
(Year of birth minus age =)


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