Aint No Right

I remember last election, I was joking that Eric Cartman would make a good President.

And now this time around, we actually do have a cartoon running.

I've always said Idiocracy was set way too far in the future.

I am fed up with this summer bullshit. Heat and humidity (the latter frequently hovering at or around 100%) are making it very difficult to get anything done. I'm ready for a crisp fall and mild winter. We've had the most pleasant weather I can ever remember for a summer here. The normal 90's with ...

"Farrell: There's a cat that I wrote a lot of songs about, and I'm not going to say his name, because I don't want him to ever know — but I have had struggles with this cat for most of my adult life. "Obvious" was written about him. This guy is always criticizing me; there's always something wrong ...

I'm pretty sure the printing press and the development of vast sea trade (rather than the silk road) networks and commerce made it possible for a lot of people to know a lot about a lot of new places in the 17th century. I guess I should admit that I keep bringing up the 17th century (and especiall...

But more a matter of a few sailors, merchants, and heads of state were in far from real time contact, and trade. And most of the major civilizations had some contact and trade well before that. But that's a huge difference from ordinary people being able chat, play games, work together on art and mu...

As for ethnic and cultural boundaries, television, air travel, and the internet, are already working hard to knock those down. They probably said this about radio and newspapers before World War II... And they were right. But like genetics it's not a single human lifetime sort of change. It's accel...

I don't think melanin levels are as simple as equatorial proximity. Inuits and Eskimos have a pretty dark complexion, and they had thousands of years in a less equatorial climate than even Nordic peoples, much less people from the rest of Europe. As for ethnic and cultural boundaries, television, ai...

That's a really weird way of thinking about how evolution works. Generally, evolution doesn't operate just through breeding out differences -- this isn't obviously beneficial, nor is the existence of variation within a species in the few alleles to which race has any bearing obviously evolutionaril...

This is a problematic view for a bunch of reasons. One big reason: there's a pretty strong objection to this from black folk who see this as nothing more than a way of "lightening" black people, and an attack on black culture, which has had to deal with European beauty standards and so on... And yo...

Sounds like one of us. I've always liked his stand up, and he's been pretty good in acting gigs too. I wonder just how many comedians, actors, writers, have the same sort of feelings. Jane's might not have moved the amount of product as Nirvana, but I think they probably impacted more future artists...

The inertia retained from slavery is like trying to stop continental drift. And look at how that goes. Even with the mass of Asia against it, the Indian subcontinent is still pushing up the Himalayas with its inertia. I used to think this might be worked out by the time Gen Xers were becoming great ...

Another beautiful creature slaughtered. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/12/04/2B4A1A8200000578-3194557-Geoff_Brooks_posted_two_images_of_the_apex_predator_to_Facebook_-a-2_1439348428945.jpg http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3194557/Facebook-pictures-emerge-terrifying-SIX-METRE-shark-ha...

I cried a bit. That was hard. Letterman was bad enough, but now Stewart in the same year? Too much at once. Letterman was the big deal for me. I was watching from the first night. A 10 year old insomniac, with not only something to watch after Carson, but what seemed like the coolest show ever afte...

But unfortunately people get old man. When was the last time Mick Jagger wrote something even remotely satisfying. Or is the problem with Perry, the Guitarist? If anyone thinks that Perry wasn't the driving influence behind the 1.0 Jane's rise to success then you're just stupid. Goodnite. Neil Youn...

Six7Six7 wrote:I don't believe it for a second. Nothing he has done since indicates he can write music.

Have to agree.

"There's a fine line, between fishing and standing by the lake like an idiot." - Steven Wright

It tells nothing about what this really is. What it's made from. Is it off a master? If so which one a DAT or the analog master for the vinyl? If it's made off of a DAT there is likely nothing whatsoever to be gained at most it would have been 48KHz 24bit, but was likely 44.1KHz 16. Upscaling that t...

Didn't happen like that. He just went "Steve, can you, like... hit the rim of the snare in this part?" = "i wrote everything, give me my money." Actually it was more like guys do a breakdown part here so I can ad lib talk over it for a while. That's about all the direction they would need, and it's...

Perry came up with a lot of songs and ideas. Whether it's hummed or strung on a guitar who cares. It's still an idea. Even Perkins said Perry came up the breakdown to Pigs in Zen. Perry had a ton of ideas back in the day. This is true, I was just there when someone who was in a rather notable band ...

Wasn't "Hard Charger" Relapse Janes + Pete still being called Porno for Pyros?

I can believe that Perry told Watt that. I too would be more likely to believe it if I heard it from Martyn. You can't really believe anyone that knows for sure, all of the people that are, aren't really free to go openly on the record without spraying shit upon everyone remotely involved. I did see...

Pretty sure official signage, like road signs is under Ferderal design guidelines. There are places where (especially) small stores and businesses will have predominately Spanish signage. I really see it as a bit of a real issue that an unusual amount of young Hispanics seem to have an unreasonable ...

I still haven't managed sleep. Thanks for the kind words. Maybe there was some undercurrent brewing that I didn't sense on a conscious level, that had me seeking out the people I had known online at 1% & Xiola years ago. Many, whom I met in the real world at shows. Because both of my closest friends...

Romeo wrote:Wow, so sorry!

Here's a distraction

I've seen that before. But thanks for some distraction. Have to go deal with the big reality slap here in about an hour.

He'd had 2 heart attacks a about ten or more years back. He still smoked a lot, and drank beer all day. So while it's hardly unbelievable, there was nothing to indicate it was imminent. Not good to dwell on it tonight, could use distraction. I'll have all the reality I can handle and then some tomor...