I was surfing the Youtube machine for some stray tunes to accompany a global e-mail purge when I came across this bit of both very cool performance and what my son calls Old People’s Music in a true old-folks setting:
I greatly enjoy James Taylor, and Mavis Staples is the bees’ knees, and I’ll do nostalgia w. the best of them, but the true moment of ecstasy in this video comes with the sudden glimpse of Dr. Emilio Lizardo at about 3:10. Colin Powell swaying to the tune ain’t bad either.
Talk about whatever unholy intersection of disparate realities has informed your day.
ruviana
So this youtube makes me feel old…
Ben Franklin
Hard to choose, but I’d say Hourglass is Taylor’s best.
Tom Levenson
@ruviana: Me too. Meeeee toooooo.
(Moved on to JT doing Mexico — one of my all time favorites.)
Yutsano
@Tom Levenson: :: prepares for flames ::
I’ve never been enamoured with JT’s voice. He is a helluva songwriter though.
:: ducks ::
lawguy
That creeps me the F out. To many suits and politicians.
Anoniminous
The unholy intersection of disparate realities that informed my day was (First Reality Alert!) reading how some people think Google Glass* is a piffle because what we really need is a direct wire computer to brain interface and then (Second Reality Alert!) that Glass has already been hacked and rooted*.
* and if you don’t know what that is, be grateful
Poopyman
Moved on to Sweet Baby James, clickable at the end.
Long days ago, all of those songs.
BGinCHI
Fixed to give Tom some street cred.
Omnes Omnibus
@lawguy: Yeah, what exactly do you expect at the Kennedy Center Honors?
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: I bet he can access it though.
ETA: For research, of course.
hildebrand
*sigh* Good lord, academics make the worst administrators at the department level.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Creative Anatomy, Nonfiction.
pokeyblow
Colin Powell certainly deserves lots of fun nights out on the town, after the solid he did us all during the Iraq War run-up.
Bill Arnold
@Anoniminous:
Futurized it. (I know it’s a (somewhat obscure) sci-fi trope, but still, if one is a worrier, one should worry big.)
Schlemizel
Yeah, I’m old enough to remember when Paul was “the cute one” Thats long past isn’t it?
Too many wrinkled old people attempting to rock out & that includes the shrieking sharpei that pops up on stage after the tune starts.
stratplayer
JT is a criminally underrated guitarist.
David Koch
best-most-awesome Kennedy Center tune was Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart performing “Stairway to Heaven”
Rob Lll
In other news, it looks like J Jonah Jameson was right all along: http://ktla.com/2013/04/29/costumed-hollywood-street-character-suspected-of-robbery/#axzz2RtMonS9q
dedc79
Rubin v. Cruz – may they knock each other out.
Omnes Omnibus
@Schlemizel: Dude, are you seriously ripping on Mavis?
Mary G
OK, remember how we watched all the Tea Partiers in their Medicare scooters screaming about keeping government out of their Medicare?
I have had rheumatoid arthritis since 1979 and was told in 1983 that it was so severe and all that I would just have to buy the wheelchair I was renting during a flareup as I would never walk again. Didn’t listen to that and instead got a better doctor who kept me walking for years and years.
But all good things must come to an end and after a series of falls and realizing I was circumscribing my life too much, I decided to give in. I went to a store who told me that due to excess fraud, Medicare was really cracking down and would no longer cover scooters at all and were being such pills about wheelchairs that they no longer handled the claims; they recommended the Scooter Store as knowing how to get Medicare to cough up. I went ahead and bought a cheap used scooter, which has been great for running errands, but they don’t really work in a small house with small bathrooms. Power chairs are more expensive; I got one off Craigslist for a couple of hundred dollars, but the size is all wrong for me and the battery won’t hold a charge.
So I called the Scooter Store. Everything was going fine until evidently some ex-employee published a book about how they had a database of doctors who would write an RX for a chair for any old body. The FBI raided their offices and they laid off all their employees. End of my claim.
All the ads with old people in their wheelchairs and Hoverounds that used to be so ubiquitous on TV have disappeared and everywhere I look on the web suggests I just buy one myself. Sure, I have $4,000 lying around.
Frustrated. I wonder if my Representative, Darrel Issa, would help me?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mary G: Have you contacted a disability rights organization in your area? Someone there may be able to help you shepherd through a claim.
JWL
Hereabouts in Sonoma, Ca., a guy who once worked for the local Safeway stole a woman’s purse in the same store (but only after first warning her: “I’m going to take your purse”). He was tackled outside the store, dropped the purse, and is now being pursued. The video of the theft indicates he was wearing the same Oakland A’s cap that he’s seen sporting on his Facebook page.
Just another poor, pathetically stupid, schmuck.
Maude
@Mary G:
Contact Medicare.
Also, your doctor should be able to help.
mai naem
@Mary G: First you need to get a new Rx. Then have the doc’s office recommend who they work with because they’ll know he’s writing you a legit RX and with the right diagnoses and medical history there is no reason you shouldn’t be able to get one. A new RX should start a new claim and the other one should be dead. The company you go with should be able to look up whether the scooter store got paid for it or not. I think if you call medicare they should be able to tell you. Also you should be getting EOBs anyway so you should know pretty quick whether the Scooter Store’s claim went through already. BTW, some cities have places that people donate used medical equipment and you can rent the equipment at a super reasonable amount – $5.00-$10.00/mo.
PeorgieTirebiter
a man that would just as soon kill ya’ as go fishin’.
Omnes Omnibus
@PeorgieTirebiter:
Perfect Tommy: Emilio Lizardo. Wasn’t he on TV once?
Buckaroo Banzai: You’re thinking of Mr. Wizard.
Reno: Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dummkopf.
Perfect Tommy: So was Mr. Wizard.
raven
Well I love my baby
and she’s bound to love me some
Hands down, no argument.
SatanicPanic
@BGinCHI: sociology
? Martin
So, here’s an interesting test of where we are. Will Jason Broussard still be employed next week?
Omnes Omnibus
@SatanicPanic: I may not know a lot about art, but I know what I like!
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@? Martin: who is Jason Broussard? And why should I care?
Cassidy
Hehehehe…oldz and oldz music. lol
NotMax
What, no trolls?
(breathes deeply)
Ah, fresh air.
Violet
@? Martin: Employed by Fox, sure.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@? Martin: Who is Jason Broussard?
Also, is it just me or is FYWP borking for everyone?
Cassidy
Hehehehe…oldz and oldz music. lol
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@? Martin: Who is Jason Broussard?
Also, is it just me or is FYWP borking for everyone?
Omnes Omnibus
Are the squirrels on a slowdown?
lojasmo
Open thread? Got tickets for Portland, Or. Metup in June?
STEVEJOBS_BOBHOPE_JOHNNY CASH
WHERE AM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
gravie
Loved seeing noted iconoclast and choreographic genius Bill T. Jones singing along. And Schlemizel, wrinkled old people still have souls and the right to groove too, you know. You’ll be one someday, if you’re lucky.
raven
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): He’s an NBA player for the Washington Wizards and he came out today.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
Why won’t FYWP let me comment?
raven
Sara Smile / Ooo Baby Baby – Daryl Hall and Smokey Robinson
scav
@? Martin: ” . . . because I don’t think the bible would characterize them as a Christian.” So the Bible now works like the Sorting Hat?
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@raven: No, Jason Collins is the gay player. I’m asking about Jason Broussard.
Apologies for the double/triple posts.
? Martin
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): ESPN sportswriter. That statement was in reference to Jason Collins.
The test is whether a sportswriter/sportscaster judging a player for his sexual orientation will rise to the same sort of standard that has gotten countless sportswriters/sportscasters fired for the same judgement regarding a player’s race.
I’m sure if he is fired, we’ll get endless histrionics over religious persecution. I’m skeptical that it is yet a firing offense, but it should be as this is part of the reason why so few athletes have ever publicly come out before. Certainly nobody in the MLB/NFL/NBA.
Amir Khalid
@gravie:
If’n I’m not mistaken, Schlemizel is already an old people.
raven
@? Martin: He’s a free agent in July.
? Martin
@Violet: Fox Sports is an entirely different animal and one that bears little resemblance to Fox News. Consider too that Glee is a Fox produced show.
raven
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): I did a poor job of reading your post, my bad.
ranchandsyrup
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): I think it is Chris Broussard. He has a history of “EWWWWWW TEH GAY BUTTSECKS”. ESPN looks more like Fox News each and every day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Chris Broussard, not Jason.
? Martin
@scav:
Every courtroom in America seems to think so.
Omnes Omnibus
@? Martin: No need to use a Bible. One can swear or affirm in any way one wants – within reason.
Ben Franklin
@? Martin:
Missed you on the previous thread. We were talking about your fav subject; The Boat.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@Omnes Omnibus: I was going off Martin’s posting. I don’t know Chris Broussard, either. And FWIW, what the fuck does it matter what his religion believes about Collins’ sexuality when it obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with his on-court performance. Broussard should be fired, but, as mentioned above, that would only elevate his status in the persecuted talibangelical community.
Pathetic is what he is.
And don’t even get me started on his poor exegesis of the bible.
wonkie
Also those suits holding up lighters creeps me out. I remember smoking pot to this song back when listening to rock was, at least for some people, a politica statement. I wish the mainstreaming of songs like this meant that more counter culture ideas were on the ascendency, but, instead, we are in a new Robber Baron age, probably at the end, just before voting restrictions, gerrymandering and corporate citizenship turns us into the pretense of a representative democracy.
PsiFighter37
A very solid party tune if you’re young enough to be into that kind of thing. #ageist
Back home after a great weekend in Montreal. Drinking a Bronx Pale Ale and getting fat eating delicious cookies and other goodies from north of the border. Also brought back a case of St. Ambroise IPA, which our bike tour guide said was the shit. I’m excited to try that later this week.
Also too, who wants to meet up in L.A. on May 10th? I’m going to bug DougJ to post something official in a few days.
raven
@Ben Franklin: Before I pie you just let me say what a fucking drag you are. Pie pie.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS):
This is actually the bit that counts.
I had never heard of either Collins or Broussard before today.
Ben Franklin
@raven:
Pie away. DIGAS?
Omnes Omnibus
@PsiFighter37:
When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not!
Gwangung
@raven: Well, some people are really needy.
I think I need some peach pie tonight.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Collins and his twin played on a really good Stanford team. They are very bright and interesting people.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Basketball just isn’t a sport I follow. I wish Collins well; even though society is becoming more sensible, it took some courage for him to come out. Broussard appears to be an ass; I would say he could kiss mine, but he might misinterpret the remark.
raven
@Gwangung: Here’s what comes to mind:
No, I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief, perhaps I’d rob them
And now I know you’re dissatisfied with your position and your place
Don’t you understand, it’s not my problem
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is to see you
SiubhanDuinne
This is an Open Thread, right? And there is a sub theme of being Old, right?
Good.
Just learned today that I need cataract surgery. Not a total surprise, and it could certainly be a lot worse, but I’m apprehensive. Somebody want to hold my hand for a minute, say “There, there,” and help me feel a little more okay about this? Has anyone here, or someone close to them, gone through the procedure?
(It won’t happen until July anyhow — I’m traveling too much between now and the end of June to be reliable for all the follow-up visits. So I have a couple of months to work myself up into full-blow panic.)
PsiFighter37
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s a good one.
I will say that the new Star Wars movies have me worried, mainly because there’s a lot of good EU stuff out there already, and the next movie is going off an original script – which I think means they are going to absolutely blow up a ton of the EU shit once it’s published.
I feel like the purist fans would’ve been happy if Han always shot first (which HE DID) and if the first trilogy was the only one made (which I’m not; yes, Lucas sucked ass at directing the prequels, but I’m glad they were made nonetheless).
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Full-BLOWN.
greennotGreen
@SiubhanDuinne: When I was going through chemo, I often found this blog community to be a source of comfort. Whether it will be a source of useful info is another matter.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@SiubhanDuinne: I had a colleague have cataract surgery last year. Outpatient, and he was back to work the next week (happened on a Friday). Best wishes.
SiubhanDuinne
@greennotGreen:
Already, reading your post, I feel churlish. Thank you for putting this in perspective for me.
jeffreyw
@SiubhanDuinne: Mrs J had both eyes done a couple of years ago. Piece of cake. She went with upgraded lenses but I’m unsure what the details were. She needs reading glasses but can see fine otherwise.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS):
Thanks, that is EXACTLY what I wanted :-)
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: My grandmother had the surgery a few years ago. She had almost perfect distance vision following the surgery; she had been nearly blind before it. She had no problems and no regrets about doing it.
greennotGreen
Re: unholy intersection of disparate realities
Didn’t inform my day, but it stuck with me. Just a few years ago when the local Home Depot was briefly open 24 hours a day, I was there pretty late at night and the store was playing “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. And I swear I wasn’t tripping!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I posted a similar plaint on Facebook and the responses I’ve had are universally encouraging. I’m almost looking forward to this! Thanks for your input, my birthday twin.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
While any surgery carries some risk (duh!) the risks with professionally done modern cataract procedures are quite small. Ask your eye clinic (or whatever provider you are using) if they provide contacts of patients who have had the same procedure done there (or perhaps they have a ‘review’ section on their website).
If you’re going for an outpatient laser procedure, can be in, have it done, and back home within an afternoon.
Also too, if you are still skittish about it, can opt to have just one eye done to see how it suits you.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I do have to say that it freaked me out a bit. She had glasses since before I was born, so it always seemed weird to see her without them. I adjusted eventually.
Mandalay
Sanford and Colbert Busch just finished their debate. Maybe I am biased but I thought she used Sanford as a floor mop.
scav
Second-hand detail eye stuff. When my aunt had it (went entirely well), they wanted her to have / strongly suggested she have some other work done at the same time which did slow recovery time down. Also because she wore glasses before, there was a period while her eyes were readjusting and she couldn’t get new prescriptions yet. Still, end result, fine.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mandalay:
Is the video available anywhere, do you know?
Hill Dweller
Is Colbert-Busch a wingnut? Is it a clever ruse? She’s been saying some crazy shit.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
That’s a great idea, to check with former patients.
I am having only the left eye done. For some reason, it has “ripened” at a much faster rate than the right eye. I expect to continue to wear glasses, but as I’ve never been without them since age 6 (I am now almost 71) this will not be a major adjustment for either me or Omnes.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@Hill Dweller: She’s from South Carolina. It’s pretty much required to say crazy shit to get elected (with a few notable exceptions).
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Christ, that is a relief.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
:-)
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw: That’s great. I am vastly encouraged.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinneC-SPAN has a video up, here.
Mandalay
@SiubhanDuinne: Try CSPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/312400-1
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
@Mandalay:
Ta ever so.
? Martin
@Omnes Omnibus: I know, but the Bible was a tradition for quite a long time. We still swear in countless officials using one. Still a sorting hat.
? Martin
@Ben Franklin: You find the video you said showed muzzle flashes yet?
David Koch
Colbert-Busch crushed Gov Bunga-Bunga in her closing statement
Mandalay
@Hill Dweller:
She comes across as worthy, pleasant, dull, sensible, and highly competent. Certainly less wingnutty than Sanford, but that bar is set pretty high.
Sanford blathered about taxes, unions, Pelosi and the Congress of 1994. Living in the past is one thing, but he is campaigning in the past. It’s like he’s trying to win the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012.
Ben Franklin
@? Martin:
That’s your story and you’re stickin’ to it, eh?
The bald-faced ignorance you promote makes you a credit to your peers.
Still think all the holes came from inside the boat? That boat will float as well as your pov.
Svensker
@SiubhanDuinne:
Know a couple peeps who had it done. All no problems, except having to be careful about bright lights ever afterwards.
burnspbesq
I got yer James Taylor YouTube clip to die for right here.
From the BBC’s Transatlantic Sessions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDhfqy4S6hI
burnspbesq
@? Martin:
There was more than ample cause for ESPN to fire Jason Broussard long before today. This just makes it easy.
burnspbesq
@David Koch:
Wait, what? Berlusconi is running for Governatore della Sud Carolina?
NotMax
@burnspbesq
Hiking the Apennine Trail?
SiubhanDuinne
@Svensker:
Hmmm. So much for my post-retirement Broadway-Vegas career.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Wear sunglasses.
YellowJournalism
@greennotGreen: Had a Muzak version of it play on my dentist office years ago. I was about to go under while they pulled wisdom teeth. If his hand hasn’t been in my mouth applying some thing to keep me from biting down during aurgery, I would have asked if that was a joke. Too woozy to remember to ask afterward.
danielx
Tebow cut by Jets.
Screams of evangelical anguish heard throughout the land. But y’know, there has to be an NFL team that can use a guy whose forward passing style looks like a moose trying to fuck a refrigerator.
wonkie
@SiubhanDuinne: I had catarract surgery. It was out patient with a pleasant medication that put me in a good mood. Other than going to bed earlier than usual, I had no bad effects. Really, it was no big deal. I’d rather have another surgery like that than get another root canal. Or a filing, for that matter.
So don’t get too stressed about it!
Yutsano
This thread is close to dedded, but I can’t hold it in any longer. My interview for New Mexico is Wednesday morning. I’m a bit nervous but I’ve also been getting awesome advice. This will be exactly where I want my IRS career to go, so I’m focusing on all my positives and the honest questions. I might need to be talked down from the ceiling however.
David Koch
@? Martin:
what a fucking joke.
he’s a sports reporter and he’s offended by pre-marital sex? athletes from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Joe Namath to Magic Johnson to Derek Jeter have a girl in every town.
lojasmo
@raven:
I wish iOS had a pie filter.
lojasmo
@SiubhanDuinne:
Cataract surgery is easy and painless.