Wisdom (and sometimes the cereal guy)

9.11.23

What's high in the middle and round on the ends?

b1-66er: "Michigan dispensary not worried about legal pot in Ohio"

I think MI underestimates

The Power Of Parma

Major Math: Toledo, on the other hand

And if they do open one, it definitely needs to be called...

Oh High Oh

b1: YOU ARE ROLLIN' TODAY!

MM: Pun intended?

8.11.23

Rewording hives

The Accomplice: I might puke at the allergy shot situation

That's my day in a text-shell

b1-66er: That's not a polite thing to say...

You might projectile vomit at the allergy shot today.

TA: Oh. Stupid autocorrect

poke*

b1: Sometimes I love autocorrect.

TA: ("stupid autocorrect" was replaced by "stupid insurance" as my suggested word choice there)

b1: (but it's almost always at others' expensive.

I actually knew what you said.)

TA: I need to contact my Burbank fan and discuss the car, too!

4.11.23

The egg and K

b1-66er: ALB

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Special K: ALB, home of The Egg.

The Egg, exciting and old

The Egg, you'll do what you're told

The Egg, the Egg, no corners for you

The Egg, permission to land

The Egg, where should I stand?

The Egg, the Egg, no corners for you

Poured concrete flowing into organic shapes

Carpet, wood trim, and some velvet drapes

Combine to make one perfect place

From the outside I am thinking

I'm a number, not a man

From the outside I am thinking

What were they thinking?

The Egg, when will it hatch?

The Egg, please leave off the latch

The Egg, the Egg, no corners for you

No corners for you

31.10.23

Whatta tosser

b1-66er: Here's a guy with an arm...

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/jbCuQ28bfE

D4rw1n: I love all the appreciation of the obvious talent. The crowd goes wild, the skipper blows the horn, even the dog is going mad with joy

Happy Hallobig'un!

b1-67er: Easily the biggest pumpkin I've ever bought. Now if I can just get it out of the car.

b1-66er: How much was it, and what made you decide to go for it?

67: I like carving pumpkins. The bigger the better. $25 was too good to resist.

66: SUPER BARGAIN!

...

Just off stage left The Actore intones:

Whoa!!!! That size for $25?!!!!!!!!!!

Insane, good for him. Looks amazing.

...

67: For sure. The pumpkin lots around here are disappointingly uniform in basketball sized pumpkins. But not this place. They had maybe 50 pumpkins this size.

66: How'd you pick that one?

67: Upside-down it has some nose/cheek type structure I think I can work with.

66: Absolutely.

If you wanted to do

punkin passing a human through its digestive system

that could work too.

67: The rinds are thick on big pumpkins like this, so you can think about carving features into them too.

66: $50 Jack o lantern!

{$25 for the punkin.

$25 for a one-off chainsaw.}

67: They had a pumpkin that had a high relief carving of an eagle in it. Pretty cool looking.

66: Okay.

Don't compete in that contest.

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18.10.23

Herbie's herpes

b1-66er:

https://youtu.be/K3lgmnsTdcA?si=S5oDTNSJWd2yIuhJ

D4rw1n:

Like the commenter says, I feel measurably cooler listening to that Herbie Hancock Wah Wah Watson track. I tell you, I feel 3-4% cooler just looking at those outfits

This reminds me of an odd thing that happened in jazz music in the 70s. For many young people (and certainly for me), Herbie Hancock funk tunes were great, but they seemed simplistic compared to earlier forms like the bebop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. (And by the way a much younger Herbie Hancock played on a lot of bebop records too, which is important). So a lot of us thought we were making our way up the ladder of virtuous music from simplistic funk to much more complex bebop.

But what I didn't really grasp at the time was that Herbie Hancock was making his way in the opposite direction. I somewhat disdained funk and disco, because bebop was more complex and, I thought, therefore more authentic.

I now think Herbie Hancock and many others were seeking to return to the real roots of jazz, which were urgent originally dance forms

If I thought about Herbie Hancock's musical direction at the time, it would've been to think of him as a bit of a sellout. Thinking he was following a trend toward disco, to cash in.

I also think he was just trying to reconnect with a human audience. The bebop audience was shrinking into nothingness because it had gone so complex and inward-looking. Looking back at these tracks like the one you sent really brings it home. They were reconnecting with the joy and beauty of creating music that people could clap, and sing, and dance to

Burst

The Dear Hunter: Today. No clouds. No mist. No rain. No gloom. This has been a long time coming.

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