David Bowie’s son posted this on Twitter a short time ago.
Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all. pic.twitter.com/Kh2fq3tf9m
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 11, 2016
The New York Times now has a report.
Fuck, man. David Bowie died. He was ill for a year and a half. What a loss for rock ‘n’ roll. This song hooked me. https://t.co/Dn4YqxhXqr
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) January 11, 2016
Man. There are not enough expletives in the world to express how I feel right now :(
Give Saint Peter and the Head Honcho a nice gig, David
o7
As I just said downstairs, talk about going out on a high note, as it were.
Getting old sucks.
I grew up loving Bowie’s music. Then, I loving him even more when he married one of the baddest women on any planet. I loved Iman and David
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) January 11, 2016
Planet earth is blue and there’s nothing we can do. RIP #DavidBowie pic.twitter.com/JOulvj1wzy
— Kat Meringue (@Izianikapani) January 11, 2016
I’m just stunned by this news. Bowie just released one of the best records of his career.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2016
I just posted a link to the Rolling Stone Article about him the other day, then the albumn was released …
re: #9 Charles Johnson
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Damn, talk about keeping it close to the vest; I didn’t hear anything about him being sick up to this point and this is the day and age of TMZ.
Blackstar has just become Bowie’s swan song.
Fuck, man, just fuck.
I had the pleasure of seeing David Bowie perform live once, on The Serious Moonlight Tour.
A very good, very fun show.
David Bowie was a transcendent artist who had one of the widest audiences in all art. He boldly forged his own path to glory. #RIPDavidBowie
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) January 11, 2016
re: #5 teleskiguy
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Well, Iman was one of the many good parts about Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country…and she played a villain, a shapeshifting one at that.
David Bowie had hella good taste; condolences to her, his son, and their families.
Two years before, few attending this event knew who David Bowie was. He had been singing and playing rock & roll since 1962, and making quaint and eccentric albums since 1967, to little attention. His progress had proved so fitful that he wondered if he wanted to continue with it. He saw himself, he said, as an actor; he wanted to use his face and body, his voice and songs to play roles, outlandish ones. Then, in 1971, he realized he could combine it all — music and theater — into one character: Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly being who came to Earth to save it, but instead found rock & roll; who sang about change and pain, and played the music better than anybody; whose vanity soared out of range, and who had the charisma to fuck anybody he desired, woman or man; and whose aspirations delivered him to ruin, his best purposes unfinished. That character had made David Bowie famous, and it formed an audience and community around his singularity.
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re: #17 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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I read that the other night after it was posted here…damn good read.
David Bowie was one of the first artists to scare me—to hint at a bigger universe than I imagined. How do you ever thank someone for that?
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 11, 2016
re: #18 TedStriker
I read that the other night after it was posted here…damn good read.
yes, very talented journalist.
Everything Bowie did integrated fashion, visual art, gender play, space, language, daring. He was a limitless artist.
— wikipedia brown (@eveewing) January 11, 2016
re: #20 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
yes, very talented journalist.
And a hell of a life story for Bowie; that’s what made it good.
David Bowie was truly incomparable. He inspired artists, and many tried to emulate him, but he was one in a million. He was that one unique thing nothing compares to. Sucks, and the world is going to miss him.
Chicago Tribune must have had a full length obit prepared.
good pic of him
The world just got less interesting and a little more dull.
David Bowie died of cancer at age 69.
What. A. Fucking. Bummer.
Too many memories…
How do you select 1 lyric from a life of total genius? Impossible to read any of these phrases w/out singing #Bowie pic.twitter.com/NYRptmSi5z
— Paul Kirby (@paul1kirby) January 11, 2016
Super Sad. We played Bowie when we walked down the aisle last week.
— Mike Burkett (@FatMike_of_NOFX) January 11, 2016
re: #28 TedStriker
I posted this back at Christmas, but I think this still seems appropriate, especially when talking about his son (Duncan, whose tweet Charles posted above):
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I think this is my favorite.
Not suggesting anything, but the Klingon Warrier traditional practise upon a death might help you vent.
Let out a visceral scream, warning the other side: Damn Good musician on the way.
Meanwhile, the delusional behavior of @nero’s cult is reaching amazing levels. pic.twitter.com/NQCrxnNbSW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2016
Oy.
It super blows that David Bowie is gone. At least he is hanging out with my dad right now. Just hope Lou Reed isn’t being a dick about it.
— Ahmet Zappa (@AhmetZappa) January 11, 2016
Yep.
Bowie’s last album released last week. Lead single “Lazarus” Opening line “Look up here, I’m in heaven” Now that’s going out in style
— Mark Ferguson (@Markfergusonuk) January 11, 2016
re: #35 ausador
Yep.
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With the risk of getting pun-ished severely: Ending the career on a high note
*ducks into nuclear bunker*
re: #37 Teukka
With the risk of getting pun-ished severely: Ending the career on a high note
*ducks into nuclear bunker*
I’ve said it three times in the past two threads…it fits.
I spent a lot of Friday and Saturday nights driving around listening to Pin Ups.
RIP Bowie.
When I’m seeing Fat Mike from punk band NOFX to Brittany Packnett of the Black Lives Matter movement to various comic book artists in my Twitter feed to basically every musician worth their salt that’s awake right now lamenting the passing of David Bowie, something’s happened.
So sad. So so sad.
If you’re ever sad, just remember the world is 4.543 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.
— Dean Podestá (@JeSuisDean) January 10, 2016
All these David Bowie songs are swirling through my head.
I wasn’t around when Elvis died. Methinks this may be worse.
re: #43 teleskiguy
All these David Bowie songs are swirling through my head.
I wasn’t around when Elvis died. Methinks this may be worse.
It is bizarre.
Kids today won’t know what it is like to anticipate his next album —never understanding that the next album is always something entirely new.
Now I know what it must have been like to be around when Elvis Presley died. David Bowie is an enormous loss. Bowie was bigger than Elvis.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) January 11, 2016
Nobody beats these odds.
If I live long enough I will be around for the death of Paul and Ringo, Steve Martin, Ted Nugent, Don Rickles, and several pro skiers.
Ugh. That’s some fucking gallows “humor” from me, folks. I’m bummed out.
See you in Valhalla Black Star. pic.twitter.com/JLylyWKZrB
— QOTSA (@qotsa) January 11, 2016
re: #46 teleskiguy
Nobody beats these odds.
If I live long enough I will be around for the death of Paul and Ringo, Steve Martin, Ted Nugent, Don Rickles, and several pro skiers.
Ugh. That’s some fucking gallows “humor” from me folks. I’m bummed out.
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re: #48 TedStriker
As Paul Newman said in Hud, no one gets out of life alive.
Yep. It’s a terminal condition.
DEVASTATED…💔 A LEGEND IS GONE✨🌟✨
— Cher (@cher) January 11, 2016
What is it that Julian is trying to say here, any thoughts? All I see is him using this to somehow make it about him. Egotistical rapist douchebag…
Of the three people on this Rolling Stone cover, two are dead. https://t.co/yf0iGKNteH pic.twitter.com/O1Awnr6W5Y
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 11, 2016
re: #52 ausador
What is it that Julian is trying to say here, any thoughts? All I see is him using this to somehow make it about him. Egotistical rapist douchebag…
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Goddamn, Assange and his bunch are egotistical jackasses, the lot of them.
Fuck them all with a baseball bat studded with rusty nails.
re: #52 ausador
What is it that Julian is trying to say here, any thoughts? All I see is him using this to somehow make it about him. Egotistical rapist douchebag…
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I see four things. David Bowie, Julian Assange, Van Halen, and Rolling Stone.
I think he’s saying that Bowie and Rolling Stone are dead, he could be saying that Van Halen is dead. Who fucking knows.
And you are right, Assange is blatantly injecting himself into the story. UpChuck does that too.
re: #52 ausador
Oh shit, just noticed Michael Hastings’ name in the picture.
Julian Assange is a creepy evil bastard. Blecch!!!
re: #54 teleskiguy
The writer who did the article about Julian for Rolling Stone died too, I assume that is who else he meant.
re: #57 ausador
Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings, Van Halen, David Bowie. They’re all dead. In a way.
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I rarely do sign-offs here. So here’s one. This is teleskiguy signing off. Until next time, ta ta.
Ahh, I feel slightly better now…
@wikileaks So drop dead and make it a clean sweep you egotistical waste of skin!
— why ask (@ausador) January 11, 2016
Nope. Not having it. I choose to believe that Bowie was really called back to his home planet. I’ll be happier that way.
re: #52 ausador
Of the three people on this Rolling Stone cover, two are dead.
And the other one’s an asshole.
Constant reinvention in art…
David Bowie’s endlessly surprising career in one spectacular GIF https://t.co/HdfE13kZ1I pic.twitter.com/CTSOvwc0jL
— Mashable (@mashable) January 11, 2016
Im Devastated! This great Artist changed my life! First concert i ever saw in Detroit! R.IP. ❤️ #rebelheart pic.twitter.com/hGfxI967Bw
— Madonna (@Madonna) January 11, 2016
Here are some amazing animal photos from 2015.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Funny thing is that aside from charisma (which he does indeed have), he’s an empty suit. He wants to represent himself as some sort of a hard-hitting journalist writing about things nobody else will write about, but all he does is regurgitate the information other people had gathered (like his Nyberg piece) or write painfully unoriginal and predictable “humor” pieces (like his take on the Empire, almost plagiarized from Weekly Standard, or his stock MRA bleatings about feminists and SJWs).
Some musical genres should not be mixed:
With that out of the way, we can turn the time machine back to 1937, mere 10 years before David Bowie was born:
Damn. Just woke to the news a great artist has passed.
My TV kicked on and I heard them playing Space Oddity and I thought there must be some talk about his new album coming out or something. Then the reporter closed with “dead at 69, David Bowie.”
What??? But he just did an album and there was talk about him all weekend because it was his birthday too.
But he never really will die will he? He leaves too much good stuff for everyone to enjoy…he will live on a long long time. Damn.
re: #67 Nyet
The GG thread over at one of the tech forums I mentioned before was recently revived (it seems to have died off since Thanksgiving) with blather about Milo losing his mind, I mean check mark on Twitter. Other than the three recent posts in about this in the thread, there are no responses from his flying monkey gallery. I almost felt like going in an mocking the lack of responses but then I figured that would be a response and Milo just isn’t worth it. I’ll wait to see if the flying monkeys swing by to see if I want comment. I (and others at the tech forum) like to smack the GGers around like a kid without a blindfold would beat a pinata. Many of the others who like to club the pinatas are gamers too and sick and tired of the little boys whining about the girls being mean to them.
But only when we’re bored. It can wait if there’s important things to do, like look for lint in my belly button.
Trump is going all in on Cruz birtherism, effectively torpedoing any plausible chance of either man nominating the other as their running mate.
“[Cruz] was born in Canada,” Trump said at the Surf Ballroom here, his second of two stops today in Iowa. “Whether we like it, don’t like it, he lived there, he was there, he was born in Canada, I guess his parents voted in Canada, a lot of things, I mean a lot of things happened here. So if you’re born in Canada, it’s immediately a little bit of a problem.”
Cruz was born in Calgary and spent the first four years of his life in Canada — but he was born to an American citizen mother, who conferred American citizenship at birth. Although the Constitution does not define the term “natural born citizen,” the general legal view is that he is eligible to run and that if someone holds citizenship at birth, as Cruz did, then they are a natural born citizen.Despite this, Trump has increasingly raised questions about Cruz’s eligibility to be president over the past week, though Saturday’s sharp rhetoric on it stood out, as Trump baldly stated that Cruz is not a natural born citizen:
“You can’t have a person who’s running for office, even though Ted is very glib and he goes out and says ‘Well, I’m a natural born citizen,’ but the point is you’re not,” Trump said. “You gotta get a declaratory judgment. You have to have the courts come up with a ruling. Or you have a candidate who just cannot run. Because the other side will immediately bring suit and you’ve got that cloud on your head, and you can’t have that cloud on your head.”
Cruz will never go to court asking for a declaratory judgement, not now, not if he wins the Primary and not if Trump wins and asks him to in order to be on the ticket. It would be a tacit admission of weakness, and proof that he allowed himself to be bullied by Trump. The process would also take too long to provide the kind of absolute strict legal certainty Trump demands, since declaratory judgments are subject to appeal.
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
Trump is going all in on Cruz birtherism, effectively torpedoing any plausible chance of either man nominating the other as their running mate.
Cruz will never go to court asking for a declaratory judgement, not now, not if he wins the Primary and not if Trump wins and asks him to in order to be on the ticket. It would be a tacit admission of weakness, and proof that he allowed himself to be bullied by Trump. The process would also take too long to provide the kind of absolute strict legal certainty Trump demands, since declaratory judgments are subject to appeal.
He knows that no major media outlet will call him out on his bullshit, so he can continue to spew it with impunity.
David Bowie as Tilda Swinton. Tilda Swinton as David Bowie. pic.twitter.com/EhQUXio5y8
— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) January 11, 2016
It super blows that David Bowie is gone. At least he is hanging out with my dad right now. Just hope Lou Reed isn’t being a dick about it.
— Ahmet Zappa (@AhmetZappa) January 11, 2016
Sad to hear that David Bowie has passed away. A true legend.
RIP and thanks for the music.
Too sad for words #RIPDavidBowie @BrixtonBlog pic.twitter.com/bdMANVKiq5
— Poeticat (@Poeticat) January 11, 2016
From the German Foreign Office:
Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among #Heroes. Thank you for helping to bring down the #wall. https://t.co/soaOUWiyVl #RIPDavidBowie
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) January 11, 2016
Trump knows very well that Dems won’t lie about Cruz, he’s projecting his own weak bullshit.
I should probably mention why GG and assholes like Milo are on my radar. Our daughter was raised around computers (her first real computer was a i386DX-33 I gave her in 1991 at the age of four) and as soon as I let her she became an avid pc gamer. I bought her a Playstation for Xmas when they came out but she rarely played it, preferring pc gaming. All versions of Quake, Wolfenstein, Doom, Serious Sam and too many others to count. We LAN gamed all of the time, with her brother joining in after he came along and grew up a bit. I beat them up good and they both are excellent FPS gamers. We like to hit the Valve TF2 servers when there are events and we rank at the top of the teams almost every time we play. Otherwise we pretty much stick to our (and other favorite) community servers. She’s had a Steam account almost since they opened them up (same here), has a game library of about 400 games and boy does she ever like to play them. In addition, she has been building her own computers since the P4 socket 478 days and has a self-rolled Xeon rig with craploads of storage that the gamer boys would drool all over. I taught her well. :)
The problem she found, and I quickly learned, was that she was treated like crap just about everywhere she went once they found out she was a girl. As a father I spent more than a little time wiping her tears when she was crapped on by some asshole(s) in a game. She was good at the game but she was a girl! I had to teach her the realities of dealing with guys who are assholes, how they can be insecure when a girl outscores them at gaming and how they all seem to be boys (or men) who never grew up or learned better. I toughened her up by letting her use me as a sounding board for the insults and I would feed her back what kind of response would piss the little jerk off. She thrived on it and learned how to deal with the little buggers all on her own. She doesn’t hide her gender but if someone wants to find it out they have to do some real digging. Our daughter keeps a low profile to stay off of the morons radar since she has her own YouTube & Twitch channels and wants to keep them focused on gaming. She has an excellent computer audio system (for example her mic is a Shure SM-58) and learned long ago to use voice software to alter her voice to sound male when she needs to. She has also used it to great effect infiltrating a few MRA groups just for the fun of it…lol! One of her hobbies is finding the stupid crap they say and reporting it to the various girl gamer groups she is affiliated with. She sends me links to crap all of the time and I do have to say that the GG bilgewater is some amazingly crazy bullshit. What’s hilarious is when the “guys” talk about chicks and ask her opinion (as a ‘guy’) of some chick. Her response? “I’m not interested in girls/women.” so they think she (he’s) gay. She doesn’t troll them, preferring to find and report odd stuff. She only clubs them when they appear on our servers or cross her path online. One result of this is that we have quite the impressive ban list…lol!
So that’s one of the main reasons why Milo Yeahimadumbass and his ilk have earned my scorn. Real men don’t treat women like these assholes do.
re: #79 Odie Hugh Manatee
Parenting: You’re doing it right.
My wife just told me the news. What shit news to wake up to.
‘Lazarus’ reads like a goodbye now. That’s how you make an exit.
A special #MewseumMonday paws out to David Bowie. Legend of music and culture. A true Major Tom Cat. #RIPDavidBowie pic.twitter.com/9fCXyYm3tA
— Curatorial Cats (@CuratorialCats) January 11, 2016
re: #81 makeitstop
My wife just told me the news. What shit news to wake up to.
‘Lazarus’ reads like a goodbye now. That’s how you make an exit.
I think that’s what Bowie intended.
We were so thrilled to have him back we failed to notice he was saying goodbye
— Graeme Thomson (@GraemeAThomson) January 11, 2016
Ideal election scenario: Trump goes 3rd party.
Meanwhile I see that Cruzers and Trumpers are at each others’ throats at FR.
re: #86 Nyet
Ideal election scenario: Trump goes 3rd party.
Meanwhile I see that Cruzers and Trumpers are at each others’ throats at FR.
They cannot refrain from squabbling with anyone they disagree with.
re: #81 makeitstop
My wife just told me the news. What shit news to wake up to.
‘Lazarus’ reads like a goodbye now. That’s how you make an exit.
Blackstar has the same quality of summation as Cash’s final work. It’s actually….pretty devastating in a beautiful way.
Lazarus is a bookend with “Space Oddity.” The outcome’s determined, all there is to come to terms with those that remain, and be at peace.
I’m very sad he died. I don’t….bond…with music much, but Bowie managed to communicate something about being odd, feeling different, that I connected with. But I’m very proud of how he went out, as an artist and a man.
If Cruz wins the primaries, chances are good Trump will use the birther card to run independently.
re: #89 Nyet
If Cruz wins the primaries, chances are good Trump will use the birther card to run independently.
You’re just trying to make me feel good.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They cannot refrain from squabbling with anyone they disagree with.
It’s been a treat for the last couple days. Robinson might have to issue a papal bull.
The world is a little bit less beautiful a place this morning. Godspeed David, you and your art will be sorely missed.
re: #91 Decatur Deb
It’s been a treat for the last couple days. Robinson might have to make a papal bull.
Time for another Freeperville Purge-O-Rama!!
re: #94 Nyet
Is he a Trump guy?
Hasn’t declared. The site seems to run strongly Trump after a love affair with Carson. Cruz types have been strong, but playing defense.
Hillary and Bernie are polling pretty close
Consider two polls conducted by the Wall Street Journal, NBC and Marist College in Iowa and New Hampshire that were released Sunday. In Iowa, Clinton has 48 percent, Sanders has 45 percent, and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley has 5 percent. In New Hampshire, it’s Sanders in the lead with 50 percent, with 46 percent for Clinton and 1 percent for O’Malley.
Trump just needs to have another rally for Bernie to put him over.
The sun is almost up, so I have to suit up and go open the garden growhouse. Even starting from our 31 degree low, all the veggies will cook in a half hour of sunlight. BBL
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
Trump is going all in on Cruz birtherism, effectively torpedoing any plausible chance of either man nominating the other as their running mate.
Cruz will never go to court asking for a declaratory judgement, not now, not if he wins the Primary and not if Trump wins and asks him to in order to be on the ticket. It would be a tacit admission of weakness, and proof that he allowed himself to be bullied by Trump. The process would also take too long to provide the kind of absolute strict legal certainty Trump demands, since declaratory judgments are subject to appeal.
Just as I predicted. And its so goddamned delightful to see L’il Rafael getting his ass kicked over this. Makes me want to toss a cup of popcorn in the popper for breakfast!
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Hasn’t declared. The site seems to run strongly Trump after a love affair with Carson. Cruz types have been strong, but playing defense.
Upding. Color commentary so we don’t have to read freeper drool.
When Republicans tweet their respects for David Bowie it’s a good time to remind them he was a man of fluid sexuality who had a muslim wife.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 11, 2016
re: #97 Decatur Deb
The sun is almost up, so I have to suit up and go open the garden growhouse. Even starting from our 31 degree low, all the veggies will cook in a half hour of sunlight. BBL
Back in now, having tea. (A few years in this climate, and 31 degrees seems harsh.) The simple PVC and polyethylene growhouse kept the veggie-level temps 10 degrees above ambient all night.
I am more outraged that Lady whatshername ruined AHS. I guess she won an award.
The Hollywood Foreign Press, guttersnipes that they are, nominated Lady Gaga as Best Actress in a limited series or TV movie with real actresses obviously because they wanted her star power at the ceremony. Ridiculous and unworthy as the nomination was (for her vogueing on “American Horror Story: Hotel”), we understand the craven planet where this organization lives. But then they went ahead and GAVE her the prize. Now, Lady Gaga, who outrageously compared this moment to Cher winning an Oscar for “Moonstruck,” thinks she can act. This single moment INVALIDATED the entire evening. As Ricky Gervais wisely pointed out at the outset, the prize, given out by “nice, confused, old journalists,” means very little. Now it means nothing. NOTHING.
I’m still finding it hard to take in. It’s hard to over-estimate how influential David Bowie was to UK music in the 70s. All the punk generation loved him and Roxy Music, the New Romantic movement started off in a club that started as a “Bowie Night”. Pretty much every major UK pop act from the late 70s to early 80s (including a great deal of the “Second UK Invasion”) was from this generation that was influenced by Bowie in the 70s- not just the music, but the styles, and the idea of application of artistic content in pop music. (Early 70s Roxy Music were also good at this as well.)
As for me, although his music was all over the radio in the 70s (eg “Space Oddity”, “Golden Years”, “The Jean Genie”, even the full-length version of “Heroes” from time to time.) the time I actually saw him on TV was at the age of eight, when Top of the Pops played the video for “Boys Keep Swinging”.
They were certainly about that one in school the next day. The next single was “Ashes to Ashes”, and was his first UK number 1 since “Space Oddity”.
re: #102 Kent Dorfman
I am more outraged that Lady whatshername ruined AHS. I guess she won an award.
Really, they gave Lady Gaga a Golden Globe? ROFL
After looking at the winners and nominees, I don’t think there’s a single movie or television series I’ve seen on the list. And how the frak did the The Martian get nominated as a “comedy or musical”?
David Bowie took me out on his boat. I asked if we’d be doing something different tomorrow. He said we could be, he rows just for one day.
— John (@sarcasticapple) January 24, 2011
Martin Shkreli’s $45 million E-Trade account was used to secure his $5 million bond
David Bowie was the God I always wanted to be.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 11, 2016
I had the greatest Bowie bootlegs that I bought at the swap meet at the drive in theater in Orange, California when I was in high school. After I moved to Portland, OR, I gave them to a friend who loved Bowie more than I did. I think I remember who I gave them to.
Bowie would have made a mark whenever he happened upon this earth. I’m lucky his visit overlapped with mine.
re: #97 Decatur Deb
The sun is almost up, so I have to suit up and go open the garden growhouse. Even starting from our 31 degree low, all the veggies will cook in a half hour of sunlight. BBL
Sounds like a scene from “The Martian.”
re: #111 wrenchwench
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I had the greatest Bowie bootlegs that I bought at the swap meet at the drive in theater in Orange, California when I was in high school. After I moved to Portland, OR, I gave them to a friend who loved Bowie more than I did. I think I remember who I gave them to.
Bowie would have made a mark whenever he happened upon this earth. I’m lucky his visit overlapped with mine.
No way. I used to live in Orange, CA. Grew up there. Now live in Brooklyn. Where did you go to HS? I went to El Modena.
re: #113 I Would Prefer Not To
No way. I used to live in Orange, CA. Grew up there. Now live in Brooklyn. Where did you go to HS? I went to El Modena.
I went to Troy in Fullerton. North on State College Blvd. a bit.
Greets and saluts from the sunny and bright NYC metro area, which is quite the contrast to the gloomy and sad news that David Bowie passed away from cancer at 69, just days after releasing a new album.
Fuck cancer.
Bowie’s career was all over the place in range and style, doing everything from working with Bing Crosby on Little Drummer Boy to collaborating with Trent Reznor on I’m Afraid of Americans.
He worked with everyone. And in every style.
His sonic style was unparalleled, and he was fortunate enough to be able to do whatever he wanted musically and succeed. He left a lasting impression on the art and the industry. There was a theatricality to his music that many others came to emulate.
RIP.
David Bowie talks about performing Heroes at the Berlin Wall pic.twitter.com/1JYTKy8tkX
— Elena Cresci (@elenacresci) January 11, 2016
Bowie outlived the wall. Good.
I was so excited for his new album that I didn’t notice he was saying goodbye. :(
A true original. He made it cool to be weird. Goodnight and travel well, David Bowie.
re: #105 Alephnaught
I’m still finding it hard to take in. It’s hard to over-estimate how influential David Bowie was to UK music in the 70s. All the punk generation loved him and Roxy Music, the New Romantic movement started off in a club that started as a “Bowie Night”. Pretty much every major UK pop act from the late 70s to early 80s (including a great deal of the “Second UK Invasion”) was from this generation that was influenced by Bowie in the 70s- not just the music, but the styles, and the idea of application of artistic content in pop music. (Early 70s Roxy Music were also good at this as well.)
As for me, although his music was all over the radio in the 70s (eg “Space Oddity”, “Golden Years”, “The Jean Genie”, even the full-length version of “Heroes” from time to time.) the time I actually saw him on TV was at the age of eight, when Top of the Pops played the video for “Boys Keep Swinging”.
They were certainly about that one in school the next day. The next single was “Ashes to Ashes”, and was his first UK number 1 since “Space Oddity”.
‘Boys Keep Swinging.’ A product of the Bowie/Eno partnership which employed Eno’s ‘Oblique Strategies.’
That song was recorded with all the members of the studio band switching off onto different instruments in order to attain a true ‘garage rock’ feel.
The B-side of the ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ video was ‘Fantastic Voyage,’ which employed the same chord changes as the A-side. RCA refused to release the single in the US to to the veiled homoeroticism of the lyrics.
I guess today I get to use up all my knowledge of odd Bowie facts.
re: #117 Lidane
I was so excited for his new album that I didn’t notice he was saying goodbye. :(
A true original. He made it cool to be weird. Goodnight and travel well, David Bowie.
I find myself going back to the ‘Lazarus’ video this morning, and looking at it quite differently now.
I watched it on Friday night and found it unsettling, like there was a subtext to the video and lyrics that I wasn’t getting. It was there, but the last thing I would have thought was that Bowie was announcing his imminent death, and saying that he was pretty okay with it.
The scene that kills me is that of Bowie sitting at his desk, furiously writing. Like he was working against time itself to get things done while he still could.
How poignant an end. How perfect an end. Birthday. New album. Now rest.
How Bowie.
re: #114 wrenchwench
I went to Troy in Fullerton. North on State College Blvd. a bit.
I be a graduate of Cal State Fullerton. Class of 83. That’s 1983 NOT 1883. I am old. I remember when Orange was mostly Orange Groves (1964).
We can’t dance, we don’t talk much, we just ball and play
But then we move like tigers on Vaseline
Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
You’re the blessed, we’re the Spiders From Mars
Strange, wonderful, scary, insane, calculating, exciting, different, and unique. RIP Ziggy.
Off to register voters at the local community college. Right task, wrong state, but WTH.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They cannot refrain from squabbling with anyone they disagree with.
Sounds like an orange colored website I visit.
re: #120 I Would Prefer Not To
I be a graduate of Cal State Fullerton. Class of 83. That’s 1983 NOT 1883. I am old. I remember when Orange was mostly Orange Groves (1964).
I got to Fullerton in 1963 (not under my own power, I was 5). Before the orange groves became housing developments, they were oil fields. That’s where I caught tadpoles and saw a hummingbird’s nest with eggs in it. Now it’s a golf course in that spot.
Troy was across the street from CSUF. Later on, so was the crappy law school my mom went to.
re: #120 I Would Prefer Not To
When I went back to LaSalle for nursing school I still had my original ID# issued in 1982. People at the offices keppt insisting I was giving them the wrong number. The IDs also had your DOB on them, but nobody could say why, that’s just the way they were done.
re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
When I went back to LaSalle for nursing school I still had my original ID# issued in 1982. People at the offices keppt insisting I was giving them the wrong number. The IDs also had your DOB on them, but nobody could say why, that’s just the way they were done.
Really backward places used one’s Social Security number as their ID number until somebody made them quit.
re: #105 Alephnaught
I’m still finding it hard to take in. It’s hard to over-estimate how influential David Bowie was to UK music in the 70s. All the punk generation loved him and Roxy Music, the New Romantic movement started off in a club that started as a “Bowie Night”. Pretty much every major UK pop act from the late 70s to early 80s (including a great deal of the “Second UK Invasion”) was from this generation that was influenced by Bowie in the 70s- not just the music, but the styles, and the idea of application of artistic content in pop music. (Early 70s Roxy Music were also good at this as well.)
As for me, although his music was all over the radio in the 70s (eg “Space Oddity”, “Golden Years”, “The Jean Genie”, even the full-length version of “Heroes” from time to time.) the time I actually saw him on TV was at the age of eight, when Top of the Pops played the video for “Boys Keep Swinging”.
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They were certainly about that one in school the next day. The next single was “Ashes to Ashes”, and was his first UK number 1 since “Space Oddity”.
Thanks for the mention of Roxy Music. Just played For Your Pleasure after our Friday night jam session.
I was telling my buddy how the first day I was going to my new art college dorm/apartment room I heard this strange beat and low growl of saxophone coming from another apartment just below and next to mine. As soon as I dropped my stuff down I ran downstairs and knocked on the door and the dudes asked me handing me a fat one and asking my name. But before all that I asked “who is this you are playing” and the answer was Roxy Music. Been a fan since.
Of course, one of the huge albums at that same time (Sept. ‘72) was Ziggy Stardust.
With new found music friends and around all artists into new things I know my life was going to be changing too. No more Catholic School boy going through life trying to not upset anyone.
David Bowie had the most ridiculously good looking mugshot ever, among other things https://t.co/1KqA3uSrsT pic.twitter.com/rkVRZj7QLH
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 11, 2016
What else to say about David Bowie? How about his 3 minute long role as Pontius Pilate in “The Last Temptation of Christ”? In such a short time, he creates this cold-blooded monster who seems to view torturing a dissident to death as just another task in administering Roman Judea. No different than collecting taxes. He never even raises his voice.
FWIW, if there is a historical basis to the Jesus story, I imagine this is a more accurate portrayal of Pilate than the Gospels would have it. No way was he a weak leader who would cave in to the pressure of the mob. Crucifying Jesus was all his decision.
re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
When I went back to LaSalle for nursing school I still had my original ID# issued in 1982. People at the offices keppt insisting I was giving them the wrong number. The IDs also had your DOB on them, but nobody could say why, that’s just the way they were done.
I remember when KY used our SSN as part of our driver’s license number. Then someone caught on that it was making identity theft way too easy.
re: #126 wrenchwench
Really backward places used one’s Social Security number as their ID number until somebody made them quit.
Oh, like Kentucky. :P
Davids death is hitting me as hard as Stevie Ray’s death.
There are very few artists whose death would bother me, I don’t know them personally & they’re just people, not much different than anyone else in the world. Every once in a while, however, I run across an artist whose art & life touches me profoundly. David & Stevie Ray were two of them. Strangely enough, David’s music introduced me to Stevie Ray.
I have a tear or two trying to squeeze by my eyelids.
My son tells me 57000 other people have also died this morning. I like to imagine them all in a room whispering, “that’s David Bowie”.
— simon stephens (@StephensSimon) January 11, 2016
So so sad to hear this. He was a hell of a musician and a favorite in my family.
My romantic vision of Bowie is of he and Iggy making great music in West Berlin. Amazing how many artist he influenced and helped.
re: #129 Ian G.
Interestingly some smaller churches consider Pilate to be a saint.
The Romans were smart enough not to impose their religions on the people they ruled. They granted local communities some autonomy in this regard. The way I see it, Pilate felt if these people want to crucify this guy, let them do it so I don’t have to be the heavy.
re: #137 Nyet
Interestingly some smaller churches consider Pilate to be a saint.
He helped fulfill the prophecy didn’t he? He should get a medal.
re: #136 Barefoot Grin
My romantic vision of Bowie is of he and Iggy making great music in West Berlin. Amazing how many artist he influenced and helped.
I’d recommend Tony Visconti’s book ‘Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy.’ Visconti was Bowie’s long-time producer and he’s got some great background on those Berlin sessions.
re: #140 makeitstop
I’d recommend Tony Visconti’s book ‘Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy.’ Visconti was Bowie’s long-time producer and he’s got some great background on those Berlin sessions.
Thanks. I’ll definitely pick that up!
There’s a starman waiting in the sky. He’d like to come & meet us but he thinks he’d blow our minds. RIP David Bowie pic.twitter.com/oJ0tdXinYR
— SmithsonianLibraries (@SILibraries) January 11, 2016
Vatican plays extraordinary tribute to #DavidBowie, in his own words: pic.twitter.com/rcoCJI5qLA
— Legatum Institute (@LegatumInst) January 11, 2016
Beginning of a week, the post-holiday week (well, unless you are Chinese, or Eastern Orthodox, …) and that means new polls.
RCP includes the latest IBD poll, showing Trump still with a 15 point lead over Cruz.
Now, why RCP includes anything from Investor’s Business Daily is beyond me. IBD is just a smidgen this side of WND as far as I am concerned. But RCP picks what it wants to keep the horse race interesting.
Here’s the IBD story:
Hillary Clinton’s Lead Over Sanders Nearly Vanishes
Yeah, maybe that’s why RCP chose to spotlight this poll.
Listening to some replays of Trump on the shows yesterday and I am still amazed that the jerk is doing as well as he is doing. Chucky Todd asked him about his Hillary “threat” to attack her if she again attacks him about labeling him a sexist. Both he and Chuck Todd thought it strange Hillary and Bill dropped it all so quickly.
I really do think Hillary did that all on purpose, even the dropping it quickly part. She knows (we all do) that all you have to do is mention Trump and he will respond. And it is also a good bet that he will never drop it and he will go and on which in this case means women getting sick of Trump.
But then, there are reports that Trump is polling very well among White Women. Really? I wonder where that thinking comes from.
Watching Trump run a campaign for office is like watching a guy unload a full blown tractor from the state highway maintenance department, with the two huge rotary blades, to cut the grass in the backyard of a home that is 35’ x 20’. Everything gets cut, the privacy fence gets knocked over and the gas meter gets dislodged setting up the chances of an explosion. But hey…the grass is cut!
re: #145 freetoken
Beginning of a week, the post-holiday week (well, unless you are Chinese, or Eastern Orthodox, …) and that means new polls.
Emm. Most Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25.
re: #139 b_sharp
He helped fulfill the prophecy didn’t he? He should get a medal.
So did Judas, but look what happened to the poor guy, he died twice, once through asphyxiation, once through bursting.
re: #149 Nyet
Well, let’s just assume there are some who are still on the old calendar.
re: #151 freetoken
Well, let’s just assume there are some who are still on the old calendar.
Some is the key word.
re: #150 Nyet
So did Judas, but look what happened to the poor guy, he died twice, once through asphyxiation, once through bursting.
Hanging and then bursting is better than the reverse.
I know Greek Catholics just celebrated Christmas. I have cousins on my mom’s side that still observe their religious traditions and my one cousin even had a Christmas greeting in old Church Slavonic.
re: #154 b_sharp
Hanging and then bursting is better than the reverse.
Dunno. You get resurrected after the hanging and then have to die an even worse death.
re: #156 Nyet
Dunno. You get resurrected after the hanging and then have to die an even worse death.
Well, perhaps he was only mostly dead after the hanging.
re: #155 HappyWarrior
Greek Orthodox however celebrate on Dec. 25
re: #157 b_sharp
Well, perhaps he was only mostly dead after the hanging.
One can be mostly dead no more than one can be a little bit pregnant ;)
re: #158 Nyet
Greek Orthodox however celebrate on Dec. 25
Right, I think this is all very confusing to many people. I know it was for me when my grandmother told me her family was Greek Catholic growing up. Her priest was a widower for example. It confused a lot of people in the American RCC who were mostly Irish/German in background and had no idea about a sect of Catholicism that was in union with Rome that allowed priests to marry.
re: #160 Nyet
One can be mostly dead no more than one can be a little bit pregnant ;)
It was a Princess Bride reference.
re: #160 Nyet
One can be mostly dead no more than one can be a little bit pregnant ;)
Reminds me of this line from The West Wing:
Claypool: How pregnant is your ex-wife?
Toby Ziegler: As I understand pregnancy, it’s a binary state. You either are or you aren’t.
So, the next big Fox sports event is not on FSN but on Fox Business, this Thursday, a so called “debate”.
Still no list of who the candidates on stage are going to be, that I’ve seen.
Suspect that for entertainment purposes that Fox would like a smaller crowd on stage, to give more time for Trump sparring.
Tough couple days for this guy pic.twitter.com/PohdPkbl6M
— D_H (@Pseudoacacia) January 11, 2016
and the stars look very different today @harrisj pic.twitter.com/dKCmjRTHWT
— darth™ (@darth) January 11, 2016
re: #138 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Perhaps, but it’s my understanding that crucifixion was reserved specifically for insurrection against the Roman Empire. Had Jesus been convicted of violating Jewish law, he probably would have been stoned in the street per Exodus/Leviticus/Deuteronomy.
Mrs. FBW has been a David Bowie fan as long as I’ve known here, which is now >40 years.
Like me, she grew up an outsider in a small town where everyone else was related to one another - daughter of a divorcee in the late 60s/early 70s. Smart and a voracious reader in a town full of anti-intellectualism. A nonbeliever in a town full of Calvinists.
And there was David Bowie, unique, strange, and completely unapologetic. He made it okay to be different.
So I go to check out the Fox news website to see what I can find on the debate, and what greets my eyes, screaming at me???
Fox News Jan 11 2016From Roddy Doyle’s FB page:
-See David Bowie died.
-See now - that makes no fuckin’ sense. Wha’ you just said.
-I know wha’ yeh mean. How can Bowie be dead? He was never alive, like the rest of us.
-Tha’ makes no fuckin’ sense either. But it’s bang on.
-I remember once, I was havin’ me breakfast. An’ I saw me da starin’ at me. So, I said, ‘Wha’?’ An’ he says, ‘Are yeh goin’ to work lookin’ like tha’?’ I still servin’ me time and, like, I was wearin’ me work clothes. An’ me overalls were in me bag. So I didn’t know what he was on abou’. ‘Get up an’ look at yourself in the fuckin’ mirror,’ he says. I was still wearin’ me Aladdin Sane paint. Across me face, like.
-You were ou’ the night before.
-Not really. Only down the road. Sittin’ on the wall beside the chipper, with the lads. Sneerin’ at the fuckin’ world. But that was what it was like. Bowie was our God.
-He has a new record ou’. Last week, just. Know how I know?
-How?
-Me granddaughter. She showed me his video. ‘Blackstar’. Unbelievable. Brillant. Scary.
-Business as usual.
-Exactly.
-It’s so fuckin’ sad.
-Yeah.
re: #138 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
The Romans were smart enough not to impose their religions on the people they ruled. They granted local communities some autonomy in this regard. The way I see it, Pilate felt if these people want to crucify this guy, let them do it so I don’t have to be the heavy.
In the only ‘Jesus’ movie I’ve ever seen, Jesus Christ, Superstar, that’s very much the impression the person that sang that part gave.
You get the feeling that he also thought he was making a big mistake but was too much a Roman functionary to risk breaking the rules.
Point is this - it is a mantra at Trump rallies for Trump to convict Hillary of various crimes. It’s part of the schtick.
Because Trump knows the audience to which he is playing.
re: #150 Nyet
So did Judas, but look what happened to the poor guy, he died twice, once through asphyxiation, once through bursting.
Now thinking of the George R. R. Martin story, The Way of The Cross and The Dragon. That was about an offshoot of one of the seven Interstellar Catholic Churches who made Judas a saint.
Good story. Better than Sandkings in my opinion.
Lemmy passed away a few weeks ago. Bowie passed yesterday. Since “deaths happen in threes”, who will be the third musician to go?
re: #164 freetoken
So, the next big Fox sports event is not on FSN but on Fox Business, this Thursday, a so called “debate”.
Still no list of who the candidates on stage are going to be, that I’ve seen.
When is the next debate?
ETA: Sorry, just noted it was January 14.
re: #179 Dr. Matt
Lemmy passed away a few weeks ago. Bowie passed yesterday. Since “deaths happen in threes”, who will be the third musician to go?
Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, please, Justin Bieber…
In any case, the Republicans are likely to enter the convention without any of the candidates having locked up the nomination. It’s impossible to know how that would end, but it’s hard to imagine it ending well. If party elites try to force an establishment candidate down the throats of the base, they’ll stay home in November. And if Trump or Cruz prevail, against the wishes of the establishment, the GOP is still in big trouble.
I don’t believe that. There is quite real, and strong, dislike for the Clintons among the Republican “base” and I believe that will drive them to vote for any Republican on the current top 6 or 7 places in the polls.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, please, Justin Bieber…
Well, it’s been good musicians, so we’re probably more likely to lose Tom Verlaine or something.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, please, Justin Bieber…
I don’t think you fully understand what that would do to social media and cable news.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, please, Justin Bieber…
I was hoping for Mike Huckabee. (Part of God’s plan). Or perhaps Ted Nugent. I know, not much of a musician,
re: #185 withak
I don’t think you fully understand what that would do to social media and cable news.
you mean even worse than if he remained alive?
re: #43 teleskiguy
All these David Bowie songs are swirling through my head.
I wasn’t around when Elvis died. Methinks this may be worse.
I’m still having a hard time processing this news. Elvis might have been the King of Rock, but Bowie was like the King of Art to me.
Stating the obvious:
More than anything else, I have always believed that the conservative birther movement was all about hating the fact that a black man was president.
Some of us came to that conclusion back, oh, around 2009.
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
you mean even worse than if he remained alive?
He’ll eventually fade into obscurity. If he dies while he’s still young and popular… I think we’ll still be picking up pieces of Twitter in 2018.
re: #179 Dr. Matt
Lemmy passed away a few weeks ago. Bowie passed yesterday. Since “deaths happen in threes”, who will be the third musician to go?
Natalie Cole just passed away on NYE.
Politics is big business for the local television stations:
Rubio to dominate Iowa televisions during sprint to caucus day
Marco Rubio is poised to dominate Iowa’s television airwaves with about 7,000 ads scheduled to run from Jan. 1 until caucus day — an effort that accounts for more than one-third of all political ads slated to air during that time.
The purchases on Rubio’s behalf make up more than half of the $9.4 million in total spending for ads that are scheduled to air across the state during the final month of the caucus campaign.
[…]
The deep pockets of the GOP really want Rubio to win.
re: #147 Lidane
She asked me to stay
and I stole her room
She asked for my love
and I gave her a dangerous mind
The second half of that verse is my absolute favorite Bowie lyric - simply because it’s clever and brutal and twisted and funny all at the same time.
Now she’s stupid in the streets
And she can’t socialize
Well, I love that little girl
And I’ll love her till the day she dies
re: #172 freetoken
So I go to check out the Fox news website to see what I can find on the debate, and what greets my eyes, screaming at me???
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EXCLUSIVE: The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News.
*deadpan* Imagine my surprise.
descendre: #194 Targetpractice
So I go to check out the Fox news website to see what I can find on the debate, and what greets my eyes, screaming at me???
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EXCLUSIVE: The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News.
*deadpan* Imagine my surprise.
There’s enough conditionals in that statement to nearly render it useless.
re: #195 Belafon
descend
So I go to check out the Fox news website to see what I can find on the debate, and what greets my eyes, screaming at me???
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EXCLUSIVE: The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News.
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com
There’s enough conditionals in that statement to nearly render it useless.
re: #196 I Would Prefer Not To
While we see the conditionals as terms that weaken the allegation beyond consideration, wingnuts see them as terms of hope.
Like Jim Carrey in ‘Dumb and Dumber.’
If all those ads were run on broadcast stations - and certainly they won’t be, as locality-targeted cable station advertising is possible - for the sake of this example:
Let’s say there are 39 or so Iowa TV stations.
31 days in January, 24 hours per day = 744 broadcast hours (but I wonder if some of those rural stations don’t broadcast 24 hours.)
744x39= 29,016 broadcast hours in Iowa for the whole month.
Divide by 7000 means that a Rubio advert is no farther than 4 hours away from any Iowan watching any Iowa TV channel, for the entire month of January.
Any Iowan could not escape Marco Rubio if they tried.
Because many people will live in areas covered by many stations, such as around Des Moines, where there are 9 (but one is educational so probably doesn’t run ads), that means every 4 hours or so a viewer might catch 9 or so Rubio ads if they flip channels.
Of course the ads won’t be spread out evenly during the day. Most of them will be targeted to the high viewing hours.
I suspect that someone living in the Des Moines area who only watches broadcast TV during prime time could see a Rubio ad during every commercial break from now until caucus day.
re: #192 freetoken
There’s something like 134,000 active GOPers in Iowa. So that works out to about one ad for every 20 GOPers in state.
And it’s not going to make a lick of difference. Cruz and Trump are neck and neck in the polls, and Rubio’s a distant third. Add to that the supposed ground game of
Paul, who says he’s got 1,000 precinct captains (60% of Iowa’s 1,681 precincts in the caucus driven state). That’s ground game, which is where the real election is won/lost.
The only winners in all this are the ad agencies and consultants to these candidates. Everyone else loses with these nutters running amok.
Life is fucking unfair. Great men like Bowie depart from this planet while shitstains like Trump are allowed free reign to spew bullshit to the masses.
Fuck this life, RIP Starman, ‘Let’s Dance!’ in his honor
re: #198 freetoken
Take out 11 PBS stations that can’t run ads and you’re down to 28 stations.
But then add in a half-dozen Omaha stations that aren’t included on that Wikipedia list. They carry plenty of ads aimed at the Iowa side of that TV market. I’m sure there are Iowa ads running on the Sioux Falls, S.D. stations, too, to reach the NW corner of Iowa.
And assume that everybody runs 24 hours these days. It’s easy to do with computerized automation.
re: #199 b_sharp
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That video is so fraught with symbolism. I can’t help but watch it again and again.
re: #205 makeitstop
And that’s why I can’t watch it again. Too raw. It’s like being plugged into a naked nerve for me.
re: #205 makeitstop
That video is so fraught with symbolism. I can’t help but watch it again and again.
Indeed.
re: #196 I Would Prefer Not To
The rest of the article is just chumming the waters. No actual facts, no actual evidence, just the “sources” insisting that there’s more than enough evidence there to charge her and if their superiors don’t then it’s all political.
And another “source” in the State Department who insists that you’re automatically assigned an email address the moment you join the department, which means the only way she didn’t have one is if she deliberately avoided it. No shit, Sherlock.
re: #207 lawhawk
And that’s why I can’t watch it again. Too raw. It’s like being plugged into a naked nerve for me.
I watched it 3 times in a row.
Catharsis
I hope.
re: #79 Odie Hugh Manatee
GamerGate is nothing but insecure male assholes being insecure male assholes. This is time immemorial.
When I was a kid (16+) I was really good at pool. I considered going pro but back then it wasn’t a career choice - and definitely not a career choice for girls. But I was unbeatable when I played. I never played for money, I wasn’t a shark. I would play for free games (winner keeps the table and the next challenger pays for the game) but that’s it. So I never took any money from anyone.
One night I was out at a bar/restaurant and doing what I did back then, kicking ass. I had a guy who was seriously wanting to beat me up because I beat him. In pool. Running his mouth about kicking my ass…because I beat him. In a game of pool.
Me, being the big mouth that I have always been, told him to fuck off and get over a girl beating him. Luckily, I had the support of all the people in the place (since this was my Go To eatery and I was there all the time) so this schmoe wound up tucking tail and moseying his ass out of there. That said, it could have turned out differently.
That some guy would be that upset about me beating him - in pool - was something I had never encountered before. It was disconcerting to say the least. It was the first time I encountered anything like that.
It saddens me that so many girls are still treated like that for doing nothing more than something they enjoy. I am sorry your daughter had to encounter that.
Been sick in bed here, so just got the Bowie news in the last hour.
Like a lot of people around the world, I just had a very Bowie weekend, Not only listening to his remarkable new album, but revisiting his remarkable oeuvre…just posted one of his legendary (!) TV appearances here Saturday night.
Lots of ink and pixels have already been spilled…this will become a torrent in the next day or two. All I can add is that no human being in earth ever influenced me more than David Bowie, including my own parents.
re: #211 WhatEVs
GamerGate is nothing but insecure male assholes being insecure male assholes. This is time immemorial.
Part of the social value of sports and games was that it taught people how to socialize and interact in a spirit of friendly competition.
But online gaming has nothing to do with that at all, it is individual and anonymous.
re: #200 lawhawk
Well, that’s the thing that critics of Trump are pointing out - his support in Iowa may be really shallow.
It’s one thing to turn out a crowd to come to a free bit of entertainment (the Trump soft shoe bit.)
But last night is was -35F wind chill in parts of the state.
Let’s say come caucus night that the roads are blowing with snow, windchill is -40F. Will the Trump supporters venture out to go stand in a huddle in some cold room, comforted only by the eating of some 1970’s-era-food-fad such as Jello cake with Cool Whip topping, to try and get a delegate elected to go a county gathering a some weeks in the future, the outcome of which is itself fluid?
David Bowie opened the Concert for NYC after 9/11 w/an unexpected cover of Paul Simon’s ‘America’ & it’s beautiful. https://t.co/MxldEqHaCU
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 11, 2016
re: #203 ipsos
Sure, they run 24/7-but what station is going to cancel lucrative infomercials at 2 am for ads that nobody will see or care about? So take 6 hours every day off of the number by mutual agreement. They can get better rates for the infomercials that they can run practically forever, unlike political ads that will be useless once the caucuses are over.
And too much is as bad as too little. People start tuning out this stuff after a certain amount of saturation, and if it continues, become actively hostile. Not a place where a campaign that hopes to be competitive in the fall wants to go.
Have I ever written that NationalJournal makes my ass tired?
Someone trying to sound very intelligent wrote the following:
Did Cruz Make a Mistake by Playing Nice with Trump?
And while it seems highly unlikely that the U.S. Supreme Court or any federal court, for that matter, would undo the results of a national election, it’s still unclear what effect the mere possibility of Democrats using his Canadian birth to block a Cruz presidency might have on the primary race.
Politifact acting like it was possible that Trump wasn’t lying:
re: #179 Dr. Matt
Lemmy passed away a few weeks ago. Bowie passed yesterday. Since “deaths happen in threes”, who will be the third musician to go?
My money would be on Pat Boone, but he’s been brain dead for years…
re: #207 lawhawk
And that’s why I can’t watch it again. Too raw. It’s like being plugged into a naked nerve for me.
Watching it for the first time was extremely unsettling. There was something being not said, and now we know what that something was.
Art and artist, unified. He was a man who dealt in large concepts, and ‘Blackstar’ was the largest of all - coming to terms with one’s imminent demise. In retrospect, even the title takes on a larger significance - perhaps Bowie’s nickname for his illness?
re: #220 Great White Snark
They threw two parties and almost nobody showed up.
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It’s just us indy’s I guess.
What a poll needs to ask is do you go vote and which party are you inclined to vote for.
re: #220 Great White Snark
They threw two parties and almost nobody showed up.
It’s just us indy’s I guess.
I would wager heavily that a significant % of today’s independents are people who are embarrassed they voted for George W. Bush twice.
re: #214 freetoken
But that’s the same thing that could be said of Cruz or Rubio. Paul’s declaration about having 60% of the precincts covered goes to ground game and GOTV.
The caucus will be make/break for a bunch of candidates, and we’ll see just how deep Trump’s support is. If he’s 1st or 2d in IA, going in to NH, you can say that it’s potentially strong (once is a fluke). If Trump repeats with another strong performance, it’s no longer a fluke, and the establishment is truly screwed.
If Cruz or Rubio come out ahead in IA and stay ahead of Trump, then Trump’s the fluke and his support was wide but shallow - they decided they wanted someone more “electable” even though none of the GOPers are truly electable when you put their positions under any level of scrutiny and put it to polling of moderates who’d swing the election.
When my Nana was in her later years, my Dad would take care of her in the days and my one cousin who was going to school took care of her during the nights. Apparently this song really resonated with my Nana. She really enjoyed it. So thanks, Mr. Bowie, you played a role in making my Nana’s last days a little more enjoyable. And thanks for your music which my family I can happily say has four generations of people enjoying.
re: #224 bratwurst
I would wager heavily that a significant % of today’s independents are people who are embarrassed they voted for George W. Bush twice.
I know this guy (don’t we all) who tries to appear “balanced”. Goes on and on about how both parties are lame… But every political post of his is pure right wing.
re: #226 lawhawk
Cruz has the Vander Plaats machine behind him. Dedicated, the fundamentalists are.
re: #198 freetoken
If all those ads were run on broadcast stations - and certainly they won’t be, as locality-targeted cable station advertising is possible - for the sake of this example:
Let’s say there are 39 or so Iowa TV stations.
31 days in January, 24 hours per day = 744 broadcast hours (but I wonder if some of those rural stations don’t broadcast 24 hours.)
744x39= 29,016 broadcast hours in Iowa for the whole month.
Divide by 7000 means that a Rubio advert is no farther than 4 hours away from any Iowan watching any Iowa TV channel, for the entire month of January.
Any Iowan could not escape Marco Rubio if they tried.
Because many people will live in areas covered by many stations, such as around Des Moines, where there are 9 (but one is educational so probably doesn’t run ads), that means every 4 hours or so a viewer might catch 9 or so Rubio ads if they flip channels.
Of course the ads won’t be spread out evenly during the day. Most of them will be targeted to the high viewing hours.
I suspect that someone living in the Des Moines area who only watches broadcast TV during prime time could see a Rubio ad during every commercial break from now until caucus day.
One has to wonder at what point all this turns into JUST. STOP! where people are so tired of seeing a face they won’t vote for that face just because they simply will not go away.
That’s pretty much how I felt watching Canadian ads during their last election. And it was less than 90 days in total.
re: #228 GlutenFreeJesus
I know this guy (don’t we all) who tries to appear “balanced”. Goes on and on about how both parties are lame… But every political post of his is pure right wing.
The Tea Party would have us believe that they are non-partisan. On the other hand, they have done a much better job of wrecking the GOP than they have of demolishing the Democrats
re: #220 Great White Snark
They threw two parties and almost nobody showed up.
It’s just us indy’s I guess.
Gotta wonder about the Dems falling from 36 to 29 since 2008. 7 years of economic improvement and no big negative foreign policy events.
Is it demographics? US population is aging, people get more conservative as they get older. But then you would expect the GOP to be growing and they aren’t. Maybe that’s a sign about how awful the GOP has become.
re: #221 makeitstop
I think there’s some parallels to Johnny Cash’s release of Hurt (a NIN reimagining) a few months before his death too. Very powerful stuff, and you know that there’s a whole lot of underlying baggage that we can only begin to guess at.
It’s almost as though they both knew what was coming, and they were trying to come to terms.
re: #230 WhatEVs
One has to wonder at what point all this turns into JUST. STOP! where people are so tired of seeing a face they won’t vote for that face just because they simply will not go away.
I was in Iowa 4 years ago during the previous campaign season.
I couldn’t watch commercial TV. Every commercial break was all political ads. It was maddening.
re: #232 KingKenrod
Gotta wonder about the Dems falling from 36 to 29 since 2008. 7 years of economic improvement and no big negative foreign policy events.
Is it demographics? US population is aging, people get more conservative as they get older. But then you would expect the GOP to be growing and they aren’t. Maybe that’s a sign about how awful the GOP has become.
I think it’s constantly being on the defensive about Obamacare and economic policies, even though the long term trends show that the Democrats were right on both.
I wonder if Netflix or Amazon Prime see a peak in Iowa viewing in January, of people desperate to get away from adverts?
re: #232 KingKenrod
Gotta wonder about the Dems falling from 36 to 29 since 2008. 7 years of economic improvement and no big negative foreign policy events.
Is it demographics? US population is aging, people get more conservative as they get older. But then you would expect the GOP to be growing and they aren’t. Maybe that’s a sign about how awful the GOP has become.
I think people call themselves independents because they want to appear above partisan labels.
re: #233 lawhawk
I think there’s some parallels to Johnny Cash’s release of Hurt (a NIN reimagining) a few months before his death too. Very powerful stuff, and you know that there’s a whole lot of underlying baggage that we can only begin to guess at.
It’s almost as though they both knew what was coming, and they were trying to come to terms.
I was never a Cash fan until I saw that video. I look at his music differently now, I’m not as likely to just ignore it because it’s “Country’.
re: #236 lawhawk
I think it’s constantly being on the defensive about Obamacare and economic policies, even though the long term trends show that the Democrats were right on both.
Yes.
re: #232 KingKenrod
I wonder if it is just that political parties don’t seem very relevant any more.
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Part of the social value of sports and games was that it taught people how to socialize and interact in a spirit of friendly competition.
But online gaming has nothing to do with that at all, it is individual and anonymous.
I don’t think there is a difference between online and the real world when it comes to girls. Look at how a female (I believe it was a) football kicker was treated when they wanted to put her in a football game. It didn’t matter that she kicked ass in her position. That’s GG in real life.
I get what you’re saying, but I think online is just online…where everyone is individual, anonymous and often the asshole they wouldn’t be in polite society F2F.
re: #241 freetoken
I wonder if it is just that political parties don’t seem very relevant any more.
It could also be the constant magical balance fairy BS that the media snarks at every opportunity, even though there are clear and distinct differences between the parties.
re: #239 b_sharp
I was never a Cash fan until I saw that video. I look at his music differently now, I’m not as likely to just ignore it because it’s “Country’.
Cash honestly is who is responsible for me giving Country another look. I’ve come to love old school country and Americana. I still don’t like Pop Country but Cash was great and that Hurt video is so haunting. I think June had recently passed when eh made it.
re: #241 freetoken
I wonder if it is just that political parties don’t seem very relevant any more.
Which would show a misunderstanding of the American form of government.
It could be an indication of detachment from the process.
re: #243 lawhawk
Keep in mind that religious denominations are seeing long term declines too. Even those with internal population growth (from children). Islam has seen growth but that is immigration.
Modern America is not only more secular but very, very “consumerist” and that applies to politics and religion.
re: #233 lawhawk
I think there’s some parallels to Johnny Cash’s release of Hurt (a NIN reimagining) a few months before his death too. Very powerful stuff, and you know that there’s a whole lot of underlying baggage that we can only begin to guess at.
It’s almost as though they both knew what was coming, and they were trying to come to terms.
Visconti, his producer, said that he personally knew of Bowie’s illness for a year while they worked on the album. I can only imagine what those sessions were like - they had worked together for most of their adult lives (Bowie had gone away from Visconti for a while, but eventually came back and stayed). I’d imagine that there was a strong sense of putting things in final order.
But God, the weight of what they were doing must have been unbearable at times.
Grand jury chooses not to indict the officer accused in Jonathan Sanders’ death. BACKSTORY: https://t.co/JQNod4cKix pic.twitter.com/SSEmxF4yTZ
— Therese Apel (@TRex21) January 11, 2016
Sigh…
Here’s another Bowie memory- seeing the video for “Ashes to Ashes” for the first time, being suitably impressed, and then thinking “Hang on! Didn’t he do that exploding kitchen scene when he was on the ‘Kenny Everett Video Show’ at New Year?” The song’s already pretty meta in itself, referring to Major Tom from “Space Oddity”, but this was the first time I’d seen a pop artist go meta in a visual sense like that.
So here’s the performance from the ‘Kenny Everett Video Show’ I was talking about. As you can see, not only the exploding kitchen but the padded cell re-appear in the “Ashes to Ashes” video less than a year later.
And the song? “Space Oddity”.
re: #235 freetoken
I was in Iowa 4 years ago during the previous campaign season.
I couldn’t watch commercial TV. Every commercial break was all political ads. It was maddening.
Because I am so close to Detroit I get the pleasure of all the MI ads. Maddening is right, especially when I can look at most of those ads and go…they’re LYING.
There was a time when you couldn’t actively lie. Now, pfffft, anything goes.
re: #242 WhatEVs
I don’t think there is a difference between online and the real world when it comes to girls. Look at how a female (I believe it was a) football kicker was treated when they wanted to put her in a football game. It didn’t matter that she kicked ass in her position. That’s GG in real life.
I get what you’re saying, but I think online is just online…where everyone is individual, anonymous and often the asshole they wouldn’t be in polite society F2F.
I think a lot of guys really resent women for doing “men’s things.” I think they see it as a threat to their masculinity. I sadly see it with veterans who are threatened by women being able to serve in combat. I feel like saying that it’s better to have a woman who is trained for this rather than someone like me who would crack under pressure.
re: #238 HappyWarrior
I think people call themselves independents because they want to appear above partisan labels.
As sad as this is to say, I think there are very, very few partisans*. They may say they are but I don’t think there are many who are not left or right.
* EDIT: Non-partisans.
re: #252 WhatEVs
As sad as this is to say, I think there are very, very few partisans. They may say they are but I don’t think there are many who are not left or right.
Right. Honestly, in some ways I feel more partisan than ever (have vowed never to vote Republican ever) but less so (I no longer do work for the Democratic Party like I did in college.).
re: #245 Belafon
Which would show a misunderstanding of the American form of government.
It could be an indication of detachment from the process.
It could be the extreme polarization we are seeing. We have 2 parties that are diametrically opposed on almost every issue of consequence and both parties seem to have these purity tests. If you aren’t nearly lock step with the party you are a DINO or RINO.
847 have called for the arrest of the Malheur militants. https://t.co/IUjCK9LHbS
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 11, 2016
re: #255 WhatEVs
11,219 people have called for the Hammonds to be released from prison.
Minimum sentencing laws are only for drug dealers!
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re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Minimum sentencing laws are only for drug dealers!
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Laws are for people we don’t like!
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re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Minimum sentencing laws are only for drug dealers!
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That pretty well sums it up.
Good Morning all. It’s sunny but cold up here colder than I expected given the news.
His day as our hero is past and now, now it’s time for his rest. We carry on despite the absence of our friends.
I’ve got the three Berlin albums (Low, Heroes & Lodger) lined up, up to “Always crashing the same car” now and just getting into that grove. These were his best era for me, not that his other material wasn’t glorious, it’s just that these caught me at the right time in my life and then, later came Phillip Glass and his symphonic treatments of Low and Heroes.
So, here’s Phillip Glass’ Symphony #4 “Heroes”:
I wonder if Hillary regrets leaving her Senate seat? I would have if I were her.
Clinton has gone from all but ignoring Sanders to fiercely engaging him in recent days, a reflection of public and private polling that points to a race that is uncomfortably competitive for the Democratic front-runner. She openly questions his electability and argues that he is out of step with the party on guns and other issues.
“The Dumdest People on the Internet” continues to please on Facebook.
re: #260 Kent Dorfman
I wonder if Hillary regrets leaving her Senate seat? I would have if I were her.
Oh, no, there’s a competition between two people and they’re calling each other out. How unbearable. What’s next, people will get to choose?
(I’m pretty sure my mockery is lousy. I’m a slightly more Clinton than Sanders supporter, but this idea that the two of them criticizing each other is anything other than how you run for office shows just how silly people who think it’s suddenly a threat are.)
re: #261 Dave In Austin
“The Dumdest People on the Internet” continues to please on Facebook.
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In addition to his grammar error, I’ll only take those comment seriously if it starts out as “I’d rather have my wife and children killed by guns than listen to another Obama anti-gun speech.”
This time last year people right of center were “concerned” Hillary had no competition.
Now that she has competition in two small demographically atypical states, they are also “concerned”.
Go figure.
Aw…don’t you just feel her pain?
Tonya Couch, mom of infamous ‘affluenza’ teen, complains about Texas jail conditions https://t.co/ysUFlpq5pf pic.twitter.com/ELlslgQxTO
— People magazine (@people) January 11, 2016
re: #263 Belafon
Oh, no, there’s a competition between two people and they’re calling each other out. How unbearable. What’s next, people will get to choose?
(I’m pretty sure my mockery is lousy. I’m a slightly more Clinton than Sanders supporter, but this idea that the two of them criticizing each other is anything other than how you run for office shows just how silly people who think it’s suddenly a threat are.)
I couldn’t be more in agreement with Belafon. The discourse in the D side is incredibly adult by comparison. It’s actually a breathe of fresh air IMO.
pretty strong stuff in trayvon martin’s mom’s endorsement of clinton https://t.co/aX7RRmHUuV pic.twitter.com/LByLk61LCv
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 11, 2016
As a former Senator and SOS, Hillary Clinton is one of the most experienced presidential candidates in decades on domestic and foreign policies.
re: #232 KingKenrod
Gotta wonder about the Dems falling from 36 to 29 since 2008. 7 years of economic improvement and no big negative foreign policy events.
Disappointed liberals. Obama’s been a pragmatic incrementalist, pretty centrist, and actual liberals were hoping for sweeping change. And a pony.
re: #272 sagehen
Disappointed liberals. Obama’s been a pregmatic incrementalist, pretty centrist, and actual liberals were hoping for sweeping change. And a pony.
And most people have a tendency of looking up and going “Not what I wanted” without understanding why things are the way they are. It’s this tendency that Republicans are very good at exploiting.
I strongly suspect this is the Renewable Fuels Association and the Farm Bureau we’re hearing:
Iowa governor Branstad knocks Cruz on Canadian birth
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) said Monday that the birthplace of Sen. Ted Cruz is “fair game,” adding to a growing chorus questioning whether the Texas Republican’s Canadian birth could affect his ability to secure the GOP presidential nomination.
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re: #266 Dr. Matt
SMH
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That’s just plain stupid…. Go figure Fox Newz.
FYI, I work for one of the largest gaming service providers in the world. They changed the “Matrix” or odds last Oct. You will see more jackpots like this in the future. This was planned and not a fluke.
re: #247 makeitstop
Visconti, his producer, said that he personally knew of Bowie’s illness for a year while they worked on the album. I can only imagine what those sessions were like - they had worked together for most of their adult lives (Bowie had gone away from Visconti for a while, but eventually came back and stayed). I’d imagine that there was a strong sense of putting things in final order.
But God, the weight of what they were doing must have been unbearable at times.
And thankfully they did it. This could be the statement a lot of boomers will look to for their own passing. It lays the map of the way to go out creating the entire time. Just more to thank David Bowie for giving us.
re: #278 Not a Sparkly Vampire
You get the powerball number?
re: #278 Not a Sparkly Vampire
I won $4!
And a whole lot more of low end winners.. Did you buy more tickets with the $4 winner?
re: #279 Jenner7
You get the powerball number?
Yes.
Funny, I never win anything.
I only bought one ticket at $2.
Woot.
xD
re: #248 Jenner7
Cops 247, Unarmed Black Men 0
re: #281 Dave In Austin
And a whole lot more of low end winners.. Did you buy more tickets with the $4 winner?
Nope.
Gonna stop while I’m ahead with my winnings.
/amused
re: #283 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Only reason I know is because my cousin got it too. Hehe.
re: #285 Not a Sparkly Vampire
But you see how that works…..
I would have better luck winning money by walking along the interstate near the toll booths.
or by picking up already scratched off tickets to see if I am a winner.
Just finished the audio version of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Why does it take so long to do what makes sense in this country. From Alexander Hamilton to the conspiracy theories around Jeckyll Island and calls for the Fed to be abolished today—it’s insane.
Central Banking is here to stay —not having it is inviting Greed.
I’m the critical facility engineer here. And They won’t even let me into the data center….
DAVID BOWIE AND FREDDIE MERCURY LIVE IN CONCERT TONIGHT!!
Gates open at 7PM, Heaven.
re: #230 WhatEVs
One has to wonder at what point all this turns into JUST. STOP! where people are so tired of seeing a face they won’t vote for that face just because they simply will not go away.
That’s pretty much how I felt watching Canadian ads during their last election. And it was less than 90 days in total.
Also, if this is the spot Rubio’s going to run ad nauseum, it’s a gigantic nothingburger. (He’s running it a lot here in SC, and every time I see it, I just go, “Say what?” It really offers nothing but little Marco bitching and moaning.
re: #292 Dave In Austin
They will soon, they are just hiding the valuables.
re: #266 Dr. Matt
Do we have confirmation on whether that ACTUALLY happened? I mean, given the source its totally believable…
Trump will make use of this:
Many Germans’ Views on Foreigners Change After Cologne Sex Attacks
More than one-third of Germans said their view of foreigners had worsened following a New Year’s Eve spate of at least 200 alleged sex assaults carried out mostly by North African men in Cologne, according to a new survey.
The poll by the Forsa Institute highlighted a sudden negative shift in how Germans perceive people from abroad after their country last year emerged as an optimistic champion of migrants and refugees.
[…]
Authorities say groups of men roamed New Year’s Eve crowds in the city of Cologne and groped women.
[…]
Peculiar to this is the “groups of men” which sounds very much like loose gangs. Note too the accused are not Syrian refugees, though that will not matter to those who want to bash accepting Syrian refugees.
re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg
DAVID BOWIE AND FREDDIE MERCURY LIVE IN CONCERT TONIGHT!!
Gates open at 7PM, Heaven.
With Lemmy on bass, Bonham on drums, and Hendrix on the axe.
re: #297 freetoken
Why when I read that I think of some man throwing aftershave onto unsuspecting women?
re: #272 sagehen
I think the pony part was very important.
re: #277 ObserverArt
And thankfully they did it. This could be the statement a lot of boomers will look to for their own passing. It lays the map of the way to go out creating the entire time. Just more to thank David Bowie for giving us.
Absolutely. Among the million jumbled thoughts I had at just past 6AM when my wife told me Bowie had died was ‘Man, I’ve got a ton of unfinished material lying around.’
I’ve had that thought pretty often, but today there’s a bit more urgency to it.
Rush says Bengals/Steelers fracas Saturday night instigated by “cultural reasons.” I’d love his take on Claude Lemeiux. And Ten-cent Beer Night. And Detroit Red Wings fans. And Disco Demolition Night. And English football hooligans. And…
re: #294 BeachDem
Also, if this is the spot Rubio’s going to run ad nauseum, it’s a gigantic nothingburger. (He’s running it a lot here in SC, and every time I see it, I just go, “Say what?” It really offers nothing but little Marco bitching and moaning.
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Ahhh, the head-shaking-no video where Marco unconsciously agrees that he isn’t the man for the job. Bad body language.
re: #294 BeachDem
Also, if this is the spot Rubio’s going to run ad nauseum, it’s a gigantic nothingburger. (He’s running it a lot here in SC, and every time I see it, I just go, “Say what?” It really offers nothing but little Marco bitching and moaning.
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Nothingburger, indeed.
Out of curiosity, has any Republican put forth any actual ideas? Any real solutions? Anything other than a complaint about something?
re: #299 Kent Dorfman
There were 2 reported rapes, so there were some serious crimes.
But I guess my point is that a real incident will be twisted to fit a different narrative, fit for the demagoguery of modern politics.
re: #266 Dr. Matt
I don’t know why you are shaking your head, that is factually accurate.
re: #266 Dr. Matt
Seriously. The math education in this country makes me cry.
Moron, morons everywhereThe woman who made this meme is still saying something along the lines of ‘well, the math is wrong, but…’ Idiots.
re: #307 Le Lapin Tueur
Someone in my FB feed posted that unironically. I corrected the math in a comment, and didn’t get any response.
Later, she posted a “Minions” meme that suggested FB should introduce three new buttons: “Dislike,” “Don’t Care,” and “You’re an Idiot.”
Some people should just not be allowed on the Internet.
re: #307 Le Lapin Tueur
Yeah, as Bob Uecker would say, that figure is just a … bit outside.
re: #307 Le Lapin Tueur
Seriously. The math education in this country makes me cry.
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The woman who made this meme is still saying something along the lines of ‘well, the math is wrong, but…’ Idiots.
ROCKET SURGERY
Don’t try the beef and please don’t tip the waitress.
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re: #297 freetoken
Trump will make use of this:
Many Germans’ Views on Foreigners Change After Cologne Sex Attacks
Peculiar to this is the “groups of men” which sounds very much like loose gangs. Note too the accused are not Syrian refugees, though that will not matter to those who want to bash accepting Syrian refugees.
He has mentioned it already.
People in general were tolerant and even welcoming towards refugees, just pissed off at the government for failing to anticipate or warn them of the magnitude of the refugee crisis.
And a lot of people are pissed of at how the government and the press handled this matter.
re: #301 makeitstop
Absolutely. Among the million jumbled thoughts I had at just past 6AM when my wife told me Bowie had died was ‘Man, I’ve got a ton of unfinished material lying around.’
I’ve had that thought pretty often, but today there’s a bit more urgency to it.
Me too. I’ve got another 12 songs written and pretty much arranged. Just need to get to recording. It was so much easier though when the bass and lead player were still playing with us and we could play a tune all together so I could lay down a drum track. Now my buddy and I try to play the song without a beat and then I hopefully can put the drums to it. Not easy.
re: #307 Le Lapin Tueur
Seriously. The math education in this country makes me cry.
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The woman who made this meme is still saying something along the lines of ‘well, the math is wrong, but…’ Idiots.
How much is a Big Mac down there?
My 6-degrees-of-separation from Mr. Bowie: when Adrian Belew lived in Urbana, Il I was living in Champaign. He had a semi-regular game of volleyball in a local park with other musician/music-scene friends. I was a friend of some of the participants and thus actually played on the same team with Adrian once or twice.
Of course, he played wicked guitar on several Bowie tracks.
I’d like to thank Mr. Bowie for being a musical and artistic genius and also for knocking Ammon Bundy and his rubes out of the headlines.
Ignore me - not really sure how I managed to post :o
re: #301 makeitstop
I don’t have a “lot” of material laying around, (one real song and the start of a second’s main riff) but it amazes me that I even have that in 10 months of playing guitar. Time to keep playing…
re: #259 William Lewis
I’ve got the three Berlin albums (Low, Heroes & Lodger) lined up, up to “Always crashing the same car” now and just getting into that grove. These were his best era for me, not that his other material wasn’t glorious, it’s just that these caught me at the right time in my life and then, later came Phillip Glass and his symphonic treatments of Low and Heroes.
So, here’s Phillip Glass’ Symphony #4 “Heroes”:
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The Aphex Twin did a remix that put together both Bowie and Glass’s version:
Welp…Trump just locked up the pro-traumatic brain injury vote.
Got to admit: he knows his supporters.
Donald Trump thinks the NFL is doing too much to protect players from brain damage: https://t.co/bUO3aPtHWj pic.twitter.com/Z3xB174CAB
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) January 11, 2016
re: #220 Great White Snark
They threw two parties and almost nobody showed up.
It’s just us indy’s I guess.
Have always been and will always be unaffiliated to any political party. I can’t seem to agree with anyone.
This one is truly devastating.
Rest in peace, David Bowie
re: #322 bratwurst
Anyone else pick up the subtle racism of what he is saying here?
re: #322 bratwurst
The more @realDonaldTrump talks, the more it sounds like he’d be right at home with gladiatorial combat.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 11, 2016
re: #307 Le Lapin Tueur
Seriously. The math education in this country makes me cry.
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The woman who made this meme is still saying something along the lines of ‘well, the math is wrong, but…’ Idiots.
Everyone wins $4!!!
re: #322 bratwurst
Welp…Trump just locked up the pro-traumatic brain injury vote.
Got to admit: he knows his supporters.
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Well, I hate to say it, but in my case:
latte-drinking: not usually
Volvo-driving: check
sushi-eating: check
New York Times-reading: check
Heard about it in the car on my way to work.
I simply could not believe it was true.
I believe this is from Caitlin Moran’s ‘10 Things Every Girl Should Know’. No. 9 will always be true. #RIPDavidBowie pic.twitter.com/pfp0WSnoFa
— Danielle Binks (@danielle_binks) January 11, 2016
It’s been nice knowing all of you, I’m about to die of laughter: Art Laffer says the Republican presidential candidate will win forty-seven states in November.
thehill.com
re: #331 Kid A
It’s been nice knowing all of you, I’m about to die of laughter: Art Laffer says the Republican presidential candidate will win forty-seven states in November.
re: #331 Kid A
It’s been nice knowing all of you, I’m about to die of laughter: Art Laffer says the Republican presidential candidate will win forty-seven states in November.
Damn.
I don’t think even Kristol would go that far…
CNN graphics department has a bad case of the Mondays…on the other hand, improves Wolf’s show. @CommentaryCNN pic.twitter.com/CIU6VAkhRL
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) January 11, 2016
In other music news: this seems to have slipped under the radar. A new Radiohead album may be on the verge of release.
Looks like the @realbencarson campaign is imploding as candidate Carson continues on in blissful ignorance @thehill
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 11, 2016
re: #320 William Lewis
I don’t have a “lot” of material laying around, (one real song and the start of a second’s main riff) but it amazes me that I even have that in 10 months of playing guitar. Time to keep playing…
William. I’m bummed that you never said anything, good or bad, about the tunes I put up from our basement project. I thought for sure if anyone would have something to say about them, it would have been you.
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re: #316 Barefoot Grin
My 6-degrees-of-separation from Mr. Bowie: when Adrian Belew lived in Urbana, Il I was living in Champaign. He had a semi-regular game of volleyball in a local park with other musician/music-scene friends. I was a friend of some of the participants and thus actually played on the same team with Adrian once or twice.
Of course, he played wicked guitar on several Bowie tracks.
I related this story of my brush with Bowie, which was actually without Bowie, on Facebook this morning.
December 2, 1972. I was in Center City Phildelphia, on my way to the offices of Happy Times Magazine, where I worked doing album and concert reviews. The night before I had gone to the Tower Theater in Upper Darby and seen David Bowie and his new band, the Spiders from Mars. A new kind of rock star heralding a new era, that of Glam. There had been hints that Glam was coming, but Bowie became the figurehead and took it to an entirely new level. The show was unlike anything I’d seen to that point.
I’d spent the train ride in writing notes on the show, and was mentally piecing together a review while walking down Walnut Street. Just past City Hall I got to the intersection and was nearly run over by three guys coming around the corner. When I broke out of my thoughts and looked up, I recognized who they were.
The Spiders from Mars. Ronson. Bolder. Woodmansey.
Ronson spoke: ‘I wonder if you can help us. We left the hotel for a walk, and now we can’t find our way back.’ A true ‘Spinal Tap’ moment, years before Rob Reiner had the idea.
They were staying at the Bellvue Stratford, less than two blocks away and an extremely posh hotel for a rock band to be staying. I walked them back, mentioning long the way that I’d seen the show the night before and was quite impressed. Ronno was extremely gracious in his thanks for getting them back.
I did have a question for him - where was David? Mick said that David was confined to his hotel room by their manager at the time, Tony DeFries of MainMan (who would end up taking David for millions in a couple of years). I remember thinking it was kind of sad - here was Bowie, probably the hottest rock star of the time - being made to stay in his room like a kid who wouldn’t eat his vegetables.
So my big Bowie moment was sans Bowie. But I still giggle a little, thinking of those three skinny Brit kids feeling so lost while being literally two blocks away from their hotel.
re: #261 Dave In Austin
“The Dumdest People on the Internet” continues to please on Facebook.
I’d rather listen to another Obama anti-gun speech than bury a child killed by gun violence. Guess we are different in that respect.
re: #338 lawhawk
Fiddling around while his Empire burns is something I can totally see Carson doing.
re: #339 ObserverArt
William. I’m bummed that you never said anything, good or bad, about the tunes I put up from our basement project. I thought for sure if anyone would have something to say about them, it would have been you.
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I must have missed them - I am very sorry - do you still have a link?
re: #339 ObserverArt
William. I’m bummed that you never said anything, good or bad, about the tunes I put up from our basement project. I thought for sure if anyone would have something to say about them, it would have been you.
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The pipes need tightening but the concrete is sweating & the joists are twisting.
re: #337 Alephnaught
In other music news: this seems to have slipped under the radar. A new Radiohead album may be on the verge of release.
It’s about time. I’ve worn all my other ones out waiting.
re: #340 makeitstop
I related this story of my brush with Bowie, which was actually without Bowie, on Facebook this morning.
I love it. Thanks for sharing that. What an awesome band. Mick Ronson was great!
re: #343 William Lewis
I must have missed them - I am very sorry - do you still have a link?
Sure do!
Here is the link to the 5 tunes I have up on Soundcloud.
Here is one that I haven’t put up yet. If you play this there is a link at the end to go to the others too.
re: #346 Barefoot Grin
I love it. Thanks for sharing that. What an awesome band. Mick Ronson was great!
He was the perfect foil for Bowie at the time. Bowie went on to use a lot of great guitarists (Belew, Reeves Gabrels, almost SRV, Carlos Alomar), but Ronno was the prototype Glam guitaist.
Flight Of The Conchords- Bowie Song https://t.co/4aVMm0GUv9
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 11, 2016
re: #322 bratwurst
Welp…Trump just locked up the pro-traumatic brain injury vote.
Got to admit: he knows his supporters.
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You know, it’s not bad enough that Trump says such incredibly idiotic things, but does he have to say each of them over and over again. If he could say each stupid thing just once, we’d only have to hear him half the amount of time!
“It’s a Sunday, who the hell wants to watch these crummy games? I just want to watch the end. By the way—okay, let me go there for a second. Let me end that story. So we gave them Iraq, we’re stupid. We’re stupid. I’ll change things. Believe me, I’ll change things. And again, we’re going to be so respected. I don’t want to use the word ‘feared.’ What I just said about a game—so I’m watching a game yesterday. What used to be considered a great tackle, a violent head-on [tackle], a violent—if that was done by Dick Butkus, they’d say he’s the greatest player. If that were done by Lawrence Taylor—it was done by Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus and Ray Nitschke, right? Ray Nitschke—you used to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right?
“Now they tackle. ‘Oh, head-on-head collision, 15 yards.’ The whole game is all screwed up. You say, ‘Wow, what a tackle.’ Bing. Flag. Football has become soft. Football has become soft. Now, I’ll be criticized for that. They’ll say, ‘Oh, isn’t that terrible.’ But football has become soft like our country has become soft. [Applause] It’s true. It’s true. The outcome of games has been changed by what used to be phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. Now these are rough guys, these are rough guys. These guys—what they’re doing is incredible, but I looked at it and I watched yesterday in particular. So many flags, right? So many flags. And I could imagine a guy like Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus, who was really rough, and some of these guys sitting there watching. ‘Wow, what a beautiful tackle.’ ‘Fifteen yards! That’s—the game is over.’ You can’t kick a field goal any more.”… It’s become weak and you know what? It’s going to affect the NFL. I don’t even watch it as much anymore. It’s going to affect the NFL. I don’t watch it. The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home. ‘Oh, there’s my husband.’ [Laughter] It’s true. ‘He just broke up —he just gave a 15-yard penalty on one of the most beautiful tackles made this year.’ Right?”
Has anyone heard anything from Earl Slick? He played a lot of guitar with Bowie, I image he is pretty crushed by the news. I always like Earl. I had two of his Earl Slick band LPs and saw him in that lineup at the Agora here in Columbus back in the mid 70s.
re: #336 bratwurst
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Nice to see the screen blocked so I don’t see The Bearded Leslie’s lips move…
re: #351 BeachDem
Holy shit, I just realized that Trump talks just like Grampa Simpson.
We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
re: #352 ObserverArt
Has anyone heard anything from Earl Slick? He played a lot of guitar with Bowie, I image he is pretty crushed by the news. I always like Earl. I had two of his Earl Slick band LPs and saw him in that lineup at the Agora here in Columbus back in the mid 70s.
Not a word.
Here’s the short, but to the point, statement from Twisted Sister:
John Lennon has famously said the “Without Elvis there is no Beatles.”
Without David Bowie there is no Twisted Sister!
Wait. I just checked Facebook:
First and foremost , to Iman , Duncan and Lexi my heart goes out to you .
To the man that had given me so much over the last 40 years i am beyond words at the moment .
good bye David .
sleep tight my friend .Slicky
re: #357 makeitstop
Wait. I just checked Facebook:
Thanks for that. I figured he had to have something to say. In many ways Earl was a part of the whole Bowie career.
No shock, but the wingnuts on Twitter really think Laffer is correct.
Something to brighten the day, from the “Please Let This Be True” file.
ETA: dammit
re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg
Anyone else pick up the subtle racism of what he is saying here?
No. I was overwhelmed by the flag-wavingly overt stupidity.
To say that #DavidBowie’s death was unexpected is an understatement. This appeared in today’s’ NY Times. pic.twitter.com/WDREKyEPIZ
— Pitt Griffin (@pittgriffin) January 11, 2016
OT - Plumber: 3 hours under my kitchen sink, new faucet, new p-trap & PVC drain pipes, and new valves & lines for both hot & cold water.
Ouch. I don’t have to pay for it, but still….ouch.
That is all.
re: #363 CuriousLurker
OT - Plumber: 3 hours under my kitchen sink, new faucet, new p-trap & PVC drain pipes, and new valves & lines for both hot & cold water.
Ouch. I don’t have to pay for it, but still….ouch.
That is all.
$749, BTW.
O_O
re: #364 CuriousLurker
A bargain at half the price!
re: #347 ObserverArt
Sure do!
Here is the link to the 5 tunes I have up on Soundcloud.
Here is one that I haven’t put up yet. If you play this there is a link at the end to go to the others too.
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Nice use of the false ending to go back to use the intro as an outro. Telecaster? It’s got that bright bridge pickup jangle.
re: #359 Kid A
When the thing you are most known for is laughably wrong…
God Finalizes Supergroup Lineup https://t.co/1kSb2IVw5N
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 11, 2016
re: #366 William Lewis
Nice use of the false ending to go back to use the intro as an outro. Telecaster? It’s got that bright bridge pickup jangle.
Yep. It’s actually a Tradition tele knock off with DiMarzio pickups.
Remembering David Bowie, in this cartoon by @BentSchwartz: https://t.co/1t3dA6EDoT pic.twitter.com/p8B3tTeavj
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 11, 2016
re: #367 Jebediah, RBG
When the thing you are most known for is laughably wrong…
Too many people still think it’s true, though.
Nice Bowie piece from the Telegraph:
Tony Visconti, the producer who worked with Bowie to complete his final album, has released a statement saying it was deliberately created and timed as a “parting gift” for his fans.
In a statement on his Facebook page, he said: “He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way.
“His death was no different from his life - a work of Art.
“He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift.
“I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn’t, however, prepared for it.
“He was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. He will always be with us.“For now, it is appropriate to cry.”
re: #372 William Lewis
Nice Bowie piece from the Telegraph:
Visconti must be gutted. They did so much great work together.
Who are you? Asked the little prince? I fell to earth once, replied the man, but I am back now. pic.twitter.com/ArmI0wdRnk
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 11, 2016
re: #347 ObserverArt
Listened to them all once now. They’ll stand up to some additional listens :) I do think I like “I have no shame” the most initially. I may have to give a copy to my radio DJ ex-wife and see if I can get it some airtime. Thanks for sharing these.
re: #371 Belafon
Yup. Imagine how much better off we would be if a significant portion of the population was willing to make just a slight increase in the rigor of their thinking!
Sybrina Fulton endorses Hillary Clinton, CNN commenters spew racism.
“She’s supporting Hilary because Trump will yank her welfare check and make her get a job.”
“You support Hillary Clinton because you’re black and a woman, which makes you inherently democrat. That, and they give away all the freebies.”
“This mother is solely responsible for the death of her kid. Too many blacks fail as parents, or are totally absent in the upbringing of their kids. There is nothing that Obama or Clinton can do to stop blacks from killing blacks, or blacks going to prison at a higher rate than any other group, until black parents start acting like parents. Even Jesse Jackson’s kid is in prison. Blacks have no one to blame but themselves for their problems. Blacks are not the only group which has been the subject of discrimination, yet blacks use it as a crutch. Anyone who thinks another law will stop 50 or so blacks from shooting other blacks in Chicago each weekend is clueless. Those persons should not have a right to vote.”
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