Cécile McLorin Salvant: “Wives and Lovers”

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Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “Wives and Lovers” from her album, For One To Love. More info at mackavenue.com

Visual Recording Artist - Storyboard P, the Basquiat of Street Dance
Shawn Griffith, Manager shizhustle@gmail.com (718) 666-1136

Band:
Vocals: Cecile McLorin Salvant - facebook.com
cecilemclorinsalvant.com
Piano: Aaron Diehl - facebook.com
Bass: Paul Sikivie - facebook.com
Drums: Lawrence Leathers - facebook.com

The ascendant careers of singer Cecile McLorin Salvant and Brooklyn flex dancer Storyboard P have followed strikingly similar paths. Both received classical training as budding performers, both produce work which simultaneously draws from the past while careening toward the future, and both have rocketed out of relative obscurity in recent years to the highest echelons of their respective fields.

The two paired up to create a music video for Salvant’s performance of Wives and Lovers from her album For One To Love. The video features alternating shots of Salvant and Storyboard P in striking red monochrome, with numerous tight shots of Storyboard P slipping in and out of frame. Salvant says, “Storyboard P’s concept of animations, rather than movement, is fascinating to me. I was mesmerized by his dancing the first time I saw him.”

According to Salvant, her choice to perform the song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David has raised the ire of many listeners. “I have been reading more and more negative comments about my choice to sing ‘Wives and Lovers’ … from men, who think that I shouldn’t be singing from a feminist standpoint at all,” she says, “and, much to my surprise, some women have also reached out, imploring that I not sing such a song. Others have told me that laughing at sexism was inappropriate. Things are too often taken at face value. I firmly believe that humor is one of the best and most important tools in making social or political commentary accessible,” she says. “Had I heard this song sung by a woman as a teenager, I would have felt empowered by the idea of mocking the 1960s ideal of a ‘perfect’ woman. It would have taken a bit of the daily stress from being a woman and made it a joke, made it something absurd, and thus powerless. This is my intention.”

The physical and conceptual depth and flexibility of both artists results in a work that illustrates the wonderful synergy between jazz and dance, aural and visual, beauty and humor. The song and video also affirm that music is an experience for the whole being, from patting foot to outstretched fingertip, and everything in between.

“Wives and Lovers”
(Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
Used by Permission of Sony/ATV Music LLC
All rights reserved

Director/Editor - Keegan Grandbois (keegan-grandbois.com)
DP - Ben Carey (bencareydp.com)
Cam Op/AC : DJ Carroll
Gaffer - John Batista
Key Grip - Jack McDonald
MU - Rie Tsuki
Stylist - Bianca Valle
Producer - Blair Waters (blairwaters.com)

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185 comments
1
EstebanTornado1963  Feb 6, 2022 • 12:52:45pm

Moron.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 12:55:08pm

Yikes. Well over 1,000 replies on Twitter to this thread.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 6, 2022 • 12:56:26pm

Proclivity to violence? (eta: McInnes says on his own show over and over “violence is good” and “we have to get violent.”)

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:04:28pm
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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:05:02pm

Opinion: Why many immigrants believe the ‘big lie’ — and will again
By Minh-Thu Pham

Minh-Thu Pham is a former refugee from Vietnam and co-founder of New American Voices, which mobilizes Asian American and immigrant voters.

This is a free link. wapo.st

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:07:17pm

I started Spring Cleaning today.

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sagehen  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:08:40pm

re: #5 retired cynic

Opinion: Why many immigrants believe the ‘big lie’ — and will again
By Minh-Thu Pham

This is a free link. wapo.st

John Oliver covered this.

It’s because Facebook and Instagram pay no attention to anything not in English. Let the monkeys fly free.

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Jay C  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:09:39pm

re: #1 EstebanTornado1963

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Ummm, SRSLY, Jake????

This shit has been online for years and only now are you complaining about it because it’s “the cool thing to do” right now, says so much more about what kind of person YOU are.

I’ve only been on LGF for ten years, yet in all that time, I have never seen (the REAL) Charles mention either Chuck Floorpooper, (or Joe Rogan, for that matter) with anything but - for the former, disdain/loathing*; for the latter, criticism for his bigotry-enabling. Well before it was “cool”. Maybe Jake should have a stroll throught the LGF archives….

* which opinion I imagine he would hold even if The Rage Furby were named “Bill Smith”

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:10:15pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I remember hearing this kind of crap as a kid. My dad had that “one black friend” from work who was incredibly tolerant of the dumb ass shit white guys say with little prompting. The stupid ghetto jokes and not knowing who someone’s daddy is and, just, gross. I was a kid when I heard that shit and it made me cringe then, now that I am much older, it’s nauseating and disgusting. And this was my parents and their friends. Oh, they never meant anything by it or to hurt anyone, it was all in good fun. Ack.

Lately, I’ve been struggling with my family basically throwing me away like garbage more than once for not being whatever enough. Upon lots of reflection I am glad they weren’t around my son that much in his life. God only knows what shit they would have filled his head with.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:10:17pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

And a beautiful photograph it is. And this is the place where she first heard the news of her father’s death. Treetops.
en.wikipedia.org

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:18:32pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Something I have always found odd about America is how we fought a huge war to be free of being ruled over by royalty and still remain crazy fascinated with members of the Royal Family. Every move or who wore what when and where, gossip, lots of reporting, etc. Today’s royal family are of course less powerful and more symbolic/traditional, but it’s just weird that Americans seem to have a huge interest in the goings on in Buckingham Palace.

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:21:01pm

re: #11 A Mom Anon

Radical right conservatives love having a high place in a well-defined hierarchy.

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prairiefire  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:24:25pm

re: #12 jaunte

That they beat their way to by grinding thru any human in their way.

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sagehen  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:26:56pm

re: #10 PhillyPretzel

And a beautiful photograph it is. And this is the place where she first heard the news of her father’s death. Treetops.
en.wikipedia.org

it has to be that high up, so giraffes can stick their heads in the window.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:29:25pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:35:05pm
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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:35:49pm
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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:36:58pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:37:25pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

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Don’t forget the conga line of white folks doing the “I’m not a racist, but…” chorus. Including such hits as “If it’s wrong for white people to say it, why is okay for black people?” and “It’s not offensive in context!”

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:38:38pm

Ugh. Jon Stewart has totally lost his shit. Defending Joe Rogan. WTF.

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Targetpractice  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:40:31pm

re: #11 A Mom Anon

Something I have always found odd about America is how we fought a huge war to be free of being ruled over by royalty and still remain crazy fascinated with members of the Royal Family. Every move or who wore what when and where, gossip, lots of reporting, etc. Today’s royal family are of course less powerful and more symbolic/traditional, but it’s just weird that Americans seem to have a huge interest in the goings on in Buckingham Palace.

For the same reason we care about the gobshites out Hollywood way: The Royals are effectively well-kept pets by the British public who’ve no other reason for existing than as aging celebrities. There’s something inherently alluring to Americans about British folks and doubly so if we look at the best of them and then at our worst, such as comparing the utterly powerless royal family to the unofficial aristocracy that we’re saddled with on this side of the pond.

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:48:18pm

I guess it’s hard to have standards when you’re bending over backwards to be “moderate.”

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:49:32pm
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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:50:08pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:50:33pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Ugh. Jon Stewart has totally lost his shit. Defending Joe Rogan. WTF.

It probably should be noted that Stewart’s not said anything more recent than 2 days ago on his podcast, which means that the only thing (at that time) that Rogan was being slammed for was CV-19 bullshit. I’m not finding his response to Rogan’s years of casual racism, but I imagine he’s gonna parse the hell out of it when it finally comes out.

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:56:35pm

Another (R) Crazytown candidate from Texas. Carla also wants to abolish the IRS and switch over to a regressive sales tax system.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 1:57:40pm

Shit. I know where this is, it is not far from the neighborhood where my son used to live.

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Targetpractice  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:01:02pm

Really, a lot of the celeb defenses of Rogan came before the video dropped on Friday, so most of the people who’ve spoken up for him did so when the worst he was accused of was propagating anti-vaxxer horseshit. Which is why the majority of those defenses read like they were all cut from the same cloth: “This is censorship, this is wrong, you should engage with him, there was that one guest who confronted him that didn’t immediately shut down, etc, etc.”

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Teukka  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:04:09pm

re: #27 The Pie Overlord!

Shit. I know where this is, it is not far from the neighborhood where my son used to live.

And there are [REDACTED] fanning those sorts of flames all across the globe :/

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:08:15pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:14:16pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:14:22pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:14:48pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

Eww.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:16:42pm

re: #26 jaunte

Another (R) Crazytown candidate from Texas. Carla also wants to abolish the IRS and switch over to a regressive sales tax system.

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Not the first time this has been proposed, though even the 19th century bigots did not seek to remove Chinese who were already here.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:16:49pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:19:22pm
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:31:18pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Ugh. Jon Stewart has totally lost his shit. Defending Joe Rogan. WTF.

It’s great what he’s done for first responders, but I wonder if their world view (I’m assuming fairly tough-guy conservative for the majority) has rubbed off on him. Who knows, but he’s had some shitty takes recently.

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Targetpractice  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:38:21pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

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You have to love the magical thinking going on here. According to his defenders, Rogan exercises no creative control over his show whatsoever. These random crazies just show up, spew their inanities for however they like, and the only thing he can do is randomly interject “disagreement.” He can’t kick them off his show, he can’t fact check them in any way, and he can’t just cut their mic to stop them from being heard. It’s like all the worst defenses for the “shock jocks” of the 90s/00s.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:39:11pm

re: #11 A Mom Anon

Something I have always found odd about America is how we fought a huge war to be free of being ruled over by royalty and still remain crazy fascinated with members of the Royal Family. Every move or who wore what when and where, gossip, lots of reporting, etc. Today’s royal family are of course less powerful and more symbolic/traditional, but it’s just weird that Americans seem to have a huge interest in the goings on in Buckingham Palace.

Stewart is British and most of his subjects are British. It would be amazing if royalty did not eventually find its way into his subject matter. This particular photo has nothing to do with tawdry tabloids or gossip.I know about this subject because it is impossible to really know the country or the British people without some knowledge of their relationship with royalty, and their collective persistance in retaining it. It’s well worth noting that ER is also Queen of Canada, and a psychological symbol for Canadian nationalists.
What is odd to me is the almost automatic inclusion of royalty among lowest common denominator pop-culture celebrity worship/exploitation. These people are not notably intelligent, beautiful or talented. If they are it is not why they are famous. Yet they get thrown in with the rest of the celebrity livestock, as though their individual personalities were somehow especially interesting.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 6, 2022 • 2:49:54pm

This is a really, really shitty article from Schmidt and Broadwater in the NYT. There is no context to the “context” with inapt comparisons to Benghazi, etc.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:01:17pm

On youtube Atun-Shei Films did a video or two about Crackpot Nazi Archaeology, how dangerous the ideas they tried to push actually were, and it’s connections to the “Only White people or Aliens could actually do that” crowd talking about ancient civilizations. This inevitably led him to… you guessed it: Joe Rogan, who enthusiastically pushed this crap. A-S even made a parody in one of the videos of Joe Rogan having an actual Nazi on his show talking about an Ancient Aryan Civilization, by simply cutting in the Nazi character talking in place of whoever the guest was and Joe Rogan nodding along with it and interjecting his pulled out of his ass two cents as well.

Anyone who thinks that JR is a “target” because of recent shit hasn’t been paying attention. He’s been high on my, and many other decent people’s shit-list for many years now.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:06:08pm
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sagehen  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:07:10pm

re: #19 Targetpractice

Don’t forget the conga line of white folks doing the “I’m not a racist, but…” chorus. Including such hits as “If it’s wrong for white people to say it, why is okay for black people?” and “It’s not offensive in context!”

A timeless TNC quote:

“It’s fine for me to call my wife honey. It’s not fine for you to call my wife honey.”

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:09:59pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:17:46pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:21:15pm

re: #40 Barefoot Grin

This is a really, really shitty article from Schmidt and Broadwater in the NYT. There is no context to the “context” with inapt comparisons to Benghazi, etc.

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I love how they hold up Benghazi as some sort of standard by which this investigation be judged, ignoring how open the GQP were about the whole thing being a massive psy-op to destroy Hillary Clinton politically.

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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:24:52pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:35:21pm

re: #47 retired cynic

You know the stoned round table conversations they used to have in That 70s Show? That’s what JRE was originally supposed to be. Making that kind of crap into a podcast.

The ramblings of stoners musing about shit which they have no clue and under the circumstance, no impulse control or filter, are fine in the privacy of a Wisconsin basement. It’s not fine when you blast them to the public over the internet and then expect no consequences as if it’s just you and 2-3 friends hitting a bong with no one listening.

At first it was stupid. After years, it’s intentional.

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nines09  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:36:50pm

Guitarists and bass players…

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:37:22pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I didn’t mean to detract from the loveliness of the photo, or the subject. I love all those old photos, you can learn a lot from them and be appreciative of those who took the photos. I sort of went off on my own little tangent. Humans are always going to be curious and want to know details about lives of public figures and even make up their own stuff about them. I do find the superficial obsessions some people have with them to be weird considering we were sort of founded on breaking away from having that kind of governance. It’s odd too that we have a whole multi million dollar industry just devoted to following public figures around and doing stories about where they buy things, who they eat lunch with, what they are wearing, hair and makeup, etc.

Humans are fucking weird.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:45:10pm

re: #49 nines09

Guitarists and bass players…

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:49:24pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:50:06pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

This thing is built to last.

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BigPapa  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:56:05pm

‘Can you program a remote to con’
‘No. Don’t ask again.’

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:57:08pm

1:53
“You take my license plate I’ll fuckin’ shoot you in the head.”

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William Lewis  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:57:43pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:58:26pm

Valentino Electronics. Gotta love it. You can see the tool marks on the aluminum (or is it steel?) case where the industrial grade toggle switch was bolted in.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:59:16pm

re: #55 jaunte

Then get his plate and run it through every dang computer system in the USA so everybody knows who this “person” is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 6, 2022 • 3:59:20pm

We’re binging on the new Reacher series.
Critics who are panning it because Alan Ritchson “lacks the charisma” of Tom Cruise are totally full of shit.
Ritchson is the actor the role was demanding.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:03:34pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

We’re binging on the new Reacher series.
Critics who are panning it because Alan Ritchson “lacks the charisma” of Tom Cruise are totally full of shit.
Ritchson is the actor the role was demanding.

I enjoyed the first two episodes and will watch the rest.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:03:56pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

That’s some good audiophile porn right there.

What a difference three quarters of a century makes.

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BigPapa  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:08:19pm

re: #55 jaunte

1:53
“You take my license plate I’ll fuckin’ shoot you in the head.”

That’s Legitimate Political Discourse now.

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Captain Magic  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:08:50pm

re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s some good audiophile porn right there.

What a difference three quarters of a century makes.

The audiophile pr0n on Audiogon is just batshit insane. Thousands of dollars on cables and high 5-digits on gear. SMDH.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:10:47pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It is a beautiful image. And one that people attempt to copy with much cheaper sets but alas, there is nothing quite like the real thing.

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BigPapa  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:11:51pm

I work with people who believe speaker cable is directional (so buy this directional cable).

I told him speakers are AC circuits: the signal goes both ways bro. He would not shut up for 20 minutes about copper crystals and demonstrations about how people were blown away.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:12:13pm

re: #63 Captain Magic

Many loudspeaker models and amplifier models are produced in very small quantities. So the prices reflect the reality that these are as much collector items as anything else, symbols of status.

As for cables… wait till you see the prices of “audiophile” USB cables.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:13:30pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:15:17pm

re: #65 BigPapa

A classic.

Crystals are orientable, on at least in one axis. This, yes, affects how energy can move through them.

However, the crystals in pulled wire are very very tiny. And they are mostly randomly arranged.

So the whole crystal thing is irrelevant.

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Captain Magic  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:18:15pm

re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As for cables… wait till you see the prices of “audiophile” USB cables.

Hey - I remember when Denon released their Audiophile Ethernet cable for a cool $500 - the Amazon reviews were hysterical.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:18:59pm

re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Many loudspeaker models and amplifier models are produced in very small quantities. So the prices reflect the reality that these are as much collector items as anything else, symbols of status.

As for cables… wait till you see the prices of “audiophile” USB cables.

A former friend of mine used to sing the praises of Monster cables constantly. I could never get him to realize they were mostly just overpriced crap.

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Captain Magic  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:21:27pm

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

I could never get him to realize they were mostly just overpriced crap.

You ought to see how much audiophile-grade power cables go for..and the absolute need for hospital-grade electrical outlets!

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Dizzy  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:23:03pm

re: #27 The Pie Overlord!

Shit. I know where this is, it is not far from the neighborhood where my son used to live.

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It’s no coincidence that the Jewish Community Centre is steps away.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:23:05pm

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

Monster cables? I can believe they are crap because Radio Shack was using them hard.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:26:26pm

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

A former friend of mine used to sing the praises of Monster cables constantly. I could never get him to realize they were mostly just overpriced crap.

Monster Cable as a brand is now seen as a thrifty alternative!

Speaker cables do make a difference, but the idea of diminishing returns kicks in real quickly. Mostly in the old days (see that Sinatra set above) consumers didn’t pick the right gauge and terminations. So along comes companies who make cables of high quality and voila, a difference is heard.

Where I find it amusing is when companies make claims for cables based on crazy attributions. Then said companies sell these cables for thousands of dollars.

re: #71 Captain Magic

Many people have power line problems. Buzzing is inevitable (indeed the small speakers I have connected to my computer can buzz, because the two sides are connected with unshielded cable.) I think it a good idea to spend $10 to get some quality Belden shielded power cords. I have a hard time thinking $5k for power cords will bring a return on the money for the listener.

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stpaulbear  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:34:37pm

re: #63 Captain Magic

The audiophile pr0n on Audiogon is just batshit insane. Thousands of dollars on cables and high 5-digits on gear. SMDH.

Same with MusicDirect. They mailed me their 300 page catalog of gear and audiophile records. It’s crammed full of unobtainium. I want to throw it away but it’s such a guilty pleasure and I actually own about $2000 worth of stuff in the catalog.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:36:26pm
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Captain Magic  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:45:18pm
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Captain Magic  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:46:20pm

re: #77 Captain Magic

I like how they thru Lassie in there…

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:48:15pm

re: #77 Captain Magic

Yes I know I am about to turn 60. I do not need any more reminders. :(

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stpaulbear  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:49:36pm

I found a link to the official Wordle archive this evening. Those early puzzles were much harder than the current ones.

I had all but the first letter for one of the early puzzles. I was reduced to plugging in open letters just to see if one of them came up as a real word (luckily fake words don’t count towards your total). The winning word that came up after about 10 tries wasn’t even in my 2004 Merriam-Webster dictionary. I knew that when I tried it.

Another one had 3 of the same letter in the winning word.

I haven’t lost yet, but every Wordle has gone to the sixth line.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:51:52pm

re: #49 nines09

Guitarists and bass players…

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stpaulbear  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:56:53pm

re: #80 stpaulbear

Here’s the link to the archive. It’s in the game creator’s name so I hope it wasn’t a part of the NYT sale and it retains its ad-free simplicity.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:57:38pm

Anderson Cooper just did a segment on 60 Minutes about the Indian “schools” and the murders and abuse that went on there for generations and how that created inter generational trauma.

Devastating. OMG.

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:59:04pm

re: #77 Captain Magic

I stopped at 10…good to see Lucy, Teddy, George, and a host of others all kitted up in black tie…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 6, 2022 • 4:59:20pm

re: #83 A Mom Anon

The schools in the U.S. or Canada?

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:03:49pm

Went to a friend’s house for Korean bbq lunch - pork belly, trumpet mushrooms, eggplant, other mixes and spices and shit - on a table top skillet with a host of other dishes one of the other couples brought. We brought a 5 1/4 lb pork butt to roast for them for their dinner (he’s got terminal shit so we bring them a couple days’ meals when we visit)…I made a dry rub of fresh rosemary from the garden, ground cumin, mild & smoked paprika, salt, sugar, pepper, garlic powder and threw it in their oven. Fuckin’ thing smelled so good everyone wanted to stay for dinner. Would make the same for us but I have a porchetta in the oven right now…about 10 minutes away from adding potatoes and cippolini onions to the fat it has rendered.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:03:50pm

re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg

I came in a bit late, but it looks like a little of both. The part I saw was talking about one of the schools in Canada, they mentioned Cree tribal members which I believe at one time were in both countries. I’m not sure if they put segments online after they air or not.

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Tahitinho  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:08:04pm

re: #77 Captain Magic

I got past 5 just in the front row… I grew up seeing those faces on TV.

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sagehen  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:08:44pm

re: #77 Captain Magic

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George Burns
Rob Reiner
Jean Stapleton
Mary Tyler Moore
Alfred Hitchcock
Ray Walston
Ed Asner
Lucille Ball
Bob Newhart

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:09:32pm

re: #84 darthstar

I stopped at 10…good to see Lucy, Teddy, George, and a host of others all kitted up in black tie…

Teddy…fuck me…I meant Telly Savalas. Fuckin’ loved that dude as Kojak in the day.

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sagehen  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:12:00pm

re: #88 Tahitinho

I got past 5 just in the front row… I grew up seeing those faces on TV.

And today’s 12 year olds grew up seeing those faces on YouTube.

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A Cranky One  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:13:49pm

re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve designed and built countless amplifiers and speakers.

None if them contained magic wires.

In the simplest case, the voice coil of most speaker drivers is a fine guage wire wrapped around a former. The idea that cables hundreds of times bigger than the wires in the voice coil is required for the short runs between the amp and speakers is ludicrous.

Yes, you need a wire guage sufficient to handle the amperage between the amp and speakers. But as long as the speaker cables can handle the amperage and have low impedance and conductance, you are golden.

If you look inside even high priced boutique speakers, you won’t find the woo woo cable equivalents.

I’m currently running B&W Nautilus as the mains in my surround sound setup.

But a set of speakers I designed and built can easily exceed their performance.

Raven R-1 true ribbon tweeters. One of the most accurate and lowest distortion tweeters ever made. Downside is they cost $750 apiece 20 years ago. So very pricey.

SEAS 6.5 inch magnesium woofers. Very low distortion drivers. But also pricey.

Cabinets are 1 inch MDF and carefully braced to avoid resonances.

Here are the drivers.

Bottom line:

These speakers will blow away almost all others. But not an inch of magic cables inside.

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Captain Magic  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:14:30pm

re: #89 sagehen

I spotted the Smothers Brothers, Captain Kangaroo, Sherman Helmsley, Dick Van Dyke, Jamie Farr, Eric Sevaride, Walter Cronkite.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:14:50pm

re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Mine was supposedly delivered to my front door Friday evening.
No sign of it yet

re: #160 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I would add that I got updates stating they would be delivered on Monday the 7th, then Friday the 4th. But no notification that the package had been delivered. Though that is what the USPS tracking data says.

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

USPS tracking lists the status as :

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re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I just reported it through the USPS online systems as “scanned delivered not received”
So, we’ll see

So, checked the mailbox this morning when walking the beasties
Definitely wasn’t there from the Friday delivery when I checked the mailbox @ around 1 AM Saturday, and certainly not “Delivered Front Door/Porch” Friday at 8:53 PM
Never the less, here

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Tahitinho  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:18:05pm

Tony Randall
Art Carney
Mike Wallace
Gomer… I mean, Jim Nabors

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:19:41pm

re: #86 darthstar

Yummy! I made a pork roast tonight slow cooked in French onion soup for about 5 hours. I can’t eat much of that with my GI issues, but the manly ones said it was delicious. I roasted some broccoli, sliced carrots and brussel sprouts in olive oil with some Italian seasonings and threw some baby potatoes in with the roast in the last hour of cooking. Was a pretty good lazy day dinner.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:19:55pm

RATIO OF THE DAY

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BigPapa  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:23:46pm

re: #97 The Pie Overlord!

She got caught by the NYT Pitchbot? LOL

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:24:12pm
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BigPapa  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:25:02pm

re: #98 BigPapa

Oh shit Comey actually said it a year ago. Now I remember.

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:25:40pm

re: #97 The Pie Overlord!

RATIO OF THE DAY

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James Comey can go fuck himself with a rake.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:32:46pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:34:42pm

re: #93 Captain Magic

I spotted the Smothers Brothers, Captain Kangaroo, Sherman Helmsley, Dick Van Dyke, Jamie Farr, Eric Sevaride, Walter Cronkite.

Eric Sevareid was another of the truly great journalists who opened the world to me when I was very young. Along with Howard K. Smith, Winston Burdette, and a number of other famous names, he was one of the “Murrow boys,” a group of young journalists hired by Edward R. Murrow to cover World War II. Walter Cronkite was not part of the group but worked with them and later joined Sevareid and Murrow at CBS.

As with Cronkite, Sevareid’s own adventures almost defy belief. His first big story was a big one indeed, the fall of Paris in 1940. In 1943, he parachuted from a crashing C-46 transport on the “Hump” airlift in Burma and was rescued from behind Japanese lines. In 1983, he portrayed his younger self in The Right Stuff and pulled it off pretty convincingly.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:35:20pm

re: #97 The Pie Overlord!

The next Twitter thread of hers is directed at someone seriously threatening suicide. @Troylynne1 is their handle.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:37:30pm

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

There is also this story from Sevareid’s pre-journalism days:

Sevareid was adventurous from a young age; several days after he graduated from Central High School in 1930 [age 18], he and his friend Walter Port embarked on an expedition sponsored by the Minneapolis Star, from Minneapolis to York Factory, on Hudson Bay. They canoed up the Minnesota River and its tributary, the Little Minnesota River, to Browns Valley, portaged to Lake Traverse, and descended the Bois des Sioux River to the Red River of the North, which led to Lake Winnipeg. They then went down the Nelson River, Gods River, and Hayes River to Hudson Bay, a trip of 2,250 miles (3,620 km). Sevareid’s book, Canoeing with the Cree (1935), was the result of this canoe trip and is still in print.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:39:59pm

Well Ottawa is finally getting serious about shutting the occupation down. They’ve set up check points and are confiscating fuel deliveries and yes, I hope they are stopping food shipments as well.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:41:10pm

The Smothers Brothers are also still with us. Tom is 85, Dick is 83.

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:41:35pm

this made me LOL…

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John Hughes  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:41:45pm

re: #11 A Mom Anon

Something I have always found odd about America is how we fought a huge war to be free of being ruled over by royalty …

See, there’s where you got it wrong.

You fought a war to be free of the possibility of the end of slavery, and restrictions on conquest of native lands.

That’s it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:42:58pm

re: #1 EstebanTornado1963

Moron.

lol

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:45:21pm

Oh yeah
My brother got fired Friday from his OTR trucking job (Swift Transportation) Friday for jackknifing on the ice rink that was I25 in New Mexico, instead of plowing into stopped traffic.
Company put him in a rental car yesterday, with all his belonging, for the trip back here from El Paso
So I should probably make good use of my couch while I have a chance. Likely won’t be able to use it again for some time
LOL

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:48:03pm

re: #106 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Well Ottawa is finally getting serious about shutting the occupation down. They’ve set up check points and are confiscating fuel deliveries and yes, I hope they are stopping food shipments as well.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:48:21pm

Michaela Shiffrin wiped out. That is so sad.

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:48:43pm

Okay…conversation today turned to Kauai because we really want to spend some time there with our friends while they(at least he) still can…so with that in mind this is the song that drives me.

Youtube Video

Fuck cancer.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:49:14pm

re: #109 John Hughes

Sigh. Ok.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:51:30pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

The Smothers Brothers are also still with us. Tom is 85, Dick is 83.

Really great interview with Marc Maron a couple of weeks ago.

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gocart mozart  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:59:25pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 5:59:40pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:03:13pm

re: #106 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Well Ottawa is finally getting serious about shutting the occupation down. They’ve set up check points and are confiscating fuel deliveries and yes, I hope they are stopping food shipments as well.

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Hmmm….Might be a boiling frog strategy, a series of small escalations, no one of which is enough to produce a major backlash. The authorities are in a position to do this, the plague rats are not in a position to respond intelligently.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:08:20pm
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Jay C  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:15:36pm

re: #112 DodgerFan1988

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Yes, this is certainly another case of “legitimate political discourse” - after all, if you don’t have the freedom to set someone’s building on fire because they yelled at you for disturbing them at 4:00am, what use is it, anyway???? //

I guess one positive thing is that these would-be arsonist jackwads were inept enough not to notice they were being caught on-camera….

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stpaulbear  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:17:03pm

re: #119 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Hmmm….Might be a boiling frog strategy, a series of small escalations, no one of which is enough to produce a major backlash. The authorities are in a position to do this, the plague rats are not in a position to respond intelligently.

The city should find reasons to start impounding their vehicles.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:17:54pm

re: #109 John Hughes

See, there’s where you got it wrong.

You fought a war to be free of the possibility of the end of slavery, and restrictions on conquest of native lands.

That’s it.

So prescient were they that they fought their “war to preserve slavery” 57 years before the Brits outlawed it. And 31 years before they moved against the slave trade. Brilliant of them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:19:02pm

re: #121 Jay C

That spot is just a few blocks from Parliament Hill and Ottawa City Hall. There are cameras all over the fucking place.

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:19:37pm

WWIII has been postponed for a few months. Shucks then the ground will be thawed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:21:04pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

We’re binging on the new Reacher series.
Critics who are panning it because Alan Ritchson “lacks the charisma” of Tom Cruise are totally full of shit.
Ritchson is the actor the role was demanding.

Just now, Ep. 4, I said “you’re an emotional dumpster fire” at the EXACT SAME MOMENT the woman said that on the phone to Reacher.

MrBWS is still over-reacting laughing that it happened.

He still can’t get over how I can so accurately foresee dialogue.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:22:06pm

re: #125 Dread Pirate Ron

And that’s a tenfold increase WITH goosing the numbers.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:22:09pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just now, Ep. 4, I said “you’re an emotional dumpster fire” at the EXACT SAME MOMENT the woman said that on the phone to Reacher.

MrBWS is still over-reacting laughing that it happened.

He still can’t get over how I can so accurately foresee dialogue.

Mrs. Fish and I have turned that into a drinking game. If we successfully call what a character is going to say, word-for-word, without using the subtitles, the other person has to take a shot.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:23:54pm

re: #125 Dread Pirate Ron

I have been wondering for a while whether concentrating all those troops would cause major outbreaks among them. Most wars before effective treatments for common diseases meant more losses to disease than to combat, and “reviews” of Russian vaccines are mixed at best.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:26:15pm
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ckkatz  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:28:29pm

re: #129 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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stpaulbear  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:31:57pm

re: #129 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I have been wondering for a while whether concentrating all those troops would cause major outbreaks among them. Most wars before effective treatments for common diseases meant more losses to disease than to combat, and “reviews” of Russian vaccines are mixed at best.

Replay of WW1?

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:32:50pm

re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Mexico, South America, Africa and Asia not included.

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:32:50pm

The skiers get more air time because their jumps have a half-life of 24,000 years.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:34:13pm
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ckkatz  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:37:13pm

re: #94 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Congrats! I assume that in Jacksonville you are not too concerned with them being freezing.

USPS just emailed me that mine should be coming Monday, rather than the previous Thursday delivery forecast, which revised the original Monday delivery forecast.

Reminded of the apocryphal OER for a new 2nd Lt: “His men would follow him anywhere. Mostly out of curiosity.”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:43:44pm

re: #112 DodgerFan1988

If it is can proven that this actually occurred. Given the current situation, I wouldn’t doubt that it did, but would like some evidence that it actually happen. It would also explain the Mayors sudden decision to call a state of emergency that they’re finally doing something about this

re: #119 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

That’s what I’m thinking as well. The we’re confiscating your fuel reserves and have set up check points to insure you don’t get replenishment’s. Same with food. You now have two choices, leave now or stay and be removed by force tactic. Some of those people brought their kids to this mess and are not going to put them in harms way and will leave. The hold outs can freeze or starve and then be removed. Their choice.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:45:27pm

re: #80 stpaulbear

Wordle comment

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darthstar  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:49:14pm

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Dangerman  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:52:21pm

Dan Pfeiffer: “It’s easy to gloss over what the Republicans do in a Trumpian fog of outrage. But we need to be crystal clear about the meaning of this resolution. One of America’s two political parties passed an official resolution declaring a violent insurrection that led to deaths, assaults on police officers, and calls for the murder of politicians to be ‘legitimate discourse.’”

“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”

It’s worse

House Republicans, conducting their own investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection, plan to accuse the Capitol security apparatus of “negligence at the highest levels,” Axios reports.

“By placing blame on the building’s top security officials, this shadow investigation gives the GOP an alternative frame for discussing the 2021 Capitol assault.”

Vox: The GOP’s January 6 lies have reached a fever pitch.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:53:44pm

re: #132 stpaulbear

Replay of WW1?

Well, I’m not expecting four years of trench warfare.

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 6:57:20pm

I think I found the source of the ‘Luciferace in Covid Vaccine’ rumor.

YouTube

it is used to test virion transfer of contents to cells.

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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:03:56pm

re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Not fair!

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A Cranky One  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:04:56pm

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lawhawk  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:14:39pm

GOP thinks it an accomplishment that they found 40 African Americans to run for office at the state and federal level.

40.

They’ve got all of 3 in Congress - Senate and House. The party is increasingly a white nationalist and misogynistic party where no one else is welcome, and the facts speak for themselves.

They aren’t resonating with persons of color because they see the GOP for who they truly are.

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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:17:40pm

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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:18:23pm

re: #146 retired cynic

ignore the intuitive psychic medium

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ckkatz  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:25:31pm

re: #147 retired cynic

ignore the intuitive psychic medium

Now you’ve gone and reminded me of the old joke about a diminutive psychic suspected of crimes. Which generated the police warning of a “Small Medium at Large”.

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:26:27pm

re: #146 retired cynic

That’s why we invented weed.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:27:42pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:37:15pm

Market futures down a third of a point on frustration with all the good news.

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:42:59pm
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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:47:04pm

re: #99 DodgerFan1988

Exhibit AAAAAAAA

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:51:00pm
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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:53:06pm

re: #154 jaunte

LOL! Love it! That helped my inner peace

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:55:07pm

re: #155 retired cynic

It’s a real eye-opener when you realize they think it’s worth bragging about less than one black candidate per state nationally.

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:56:12pm

Dr. Evil voice: “OVER FORTY!!!”

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:57:08pm

re: #142 Dread Pirate Ron

I think I found the source of the ‘Luciferace in Covid Vaccine’ rumor.

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Video

it is used to test virion transfer of contents to cells.

So not only do monoclonal antibodies (except for Sotrovimab) not work well enough for an EUA against Omicron, it’s that they *really* don’t work against Omicron. Like at all. It’s not even one of those “gives you a few percentage points better outcome” things.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:57:16pm

re: #153 The GOP is a terrorist organization

Exhibit AAAAAAAA

Those “same conversations” people have in real life on these types of shows is typically between 2 white people, or minorities and women playing a social calculus, that share a same sense of entitlement and a top down view of society.

Outside opinion is always presented in a fenced-in context of white male entitlement being the de facto human experience and the natural order of things. It is not. The USA is less than 5% of the world’s population.

White male entitlement is the very real real life expectation in the US however and a construct 35% of this country is desperate to hold onto.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 6, 2022 • 7:59:08pm

Trump really wanted the ‘24 games to happen in LA

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:01:10pm

re: #153 The GOP is a terrorist organization

Is Joe Rogan a small guy or does he have a Gorka-sized head?

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:01:40pm

Greenwald defends Rage Furby.

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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:03:36pm

re: #162 The GOP is a terrorist organization

What is Greenwald getting out of this? Is Attention enough? Or is money involved?

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:04:49pm

re: #161 jaunte

Is Joe Rogan a small guy or does he have a Gorka-sized head?

He’s supposedly 5’8”. That’s only 1 inch shorter than average height for adult males in the US. (For some reason I thought 5’11” or 6’ was the ‘average’, so I’m happy to realize I am actually 1 inch above average height.)

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:06:22pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:06:26pm

re: #164 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

He’s supposedly 5’8”. That’s only 1 inch shorter than average height for adult males in the US. (For some reason I thought 5’11” or 6’ was the ‘average’, so I’m happy to realize I am actually 1 inch above average height.)

I’m 5’8”, Canadian. We have a shorter growing season.

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:07:39pm

I was 6’ 4” fifty years ago, but some settling of contents has occurred.

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:10:54pm

I was going to type something but I’m stoned and forgot what it was.

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retired cynic  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:13:14pm

re: #168 Dread Pirate Ron

As my father would say, are you bragging or complaining?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:25:17pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:28:19pm

Now I remember, I was browsing the streaming sites to see what’s on TV and there are less than a dozen programs that I would watch in a week. I’m so glad I’m not paying $200 a month for Dish, any more.

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ckkatz  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:29:14pm

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jaunte  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:35:36pm
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ckkatz  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:36:15pm

And one more:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:39:36pm

re: #172 ckkatz

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:39:42pm

see post date…

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:39:43pm

re: #164 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

He’s supposedly 5’8”. That’s only 1 inch shorter than average height for adult males in the US. (For some reason I thought 5’11” or 6’ was the ‘average’, so I’m happy to realize I am actually 1 inch above average height.)

I thought 5’10” was average height for adult human males in the US. Glad to be wrong since I, too, can claim to be 1 inch above average height.

My younger brothers are 6’2” and 6’3” .

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:44:27pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:47:37pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:47:43pm
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Romantic Heretic  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:51:33pm

re: #129 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Yeah. Back then even without fighting armies usually lost 50% of their personnel.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:52:56pm
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A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2022 • 8:55:43pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

Sigh. I can’t. I don’t know how you deal with this messed up bullshit. I’m sorry you have to.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 7, 2022 • 5:59:12am

re: #77 Captain Magic

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I can name 5 in the front row alone

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2022 • 7:27:06am

re: #184 Eventual Carrion

I can name 5 in the front row alone

Lucille Ball right in the middle of the crowd


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