“Please Don’t Stand So Close To Me” w/ @OfficialSting, @theroots, and instruments from home. pic.twitter.com/UYkUrRLdRA
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) April 10, 2020
For the first time in history our team has lost every game. We are winning, and will win, the war on victory! https://t.co/ZkuVfuzj7l
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) April 12, 2020
24% of Americans said they don’t expect to feel comfortable going back to a shopping mall for at least six months
https://t.co/bcpvheFsfh— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 13, 2020
The key is going to be Democrats making a massive effort to get people to request ballots early so the system doesn’t get overwhelmed, as it did in Wisconsin. https://t.co/9Pqd3B5ksO
— Brian Rosenwald (@brianros1) April 13, 2020
Michelle Obama says in statement that expanding access to vote-by-mail, online voter registration, and early voting are long overdue “critical steps for this moment.” https://t.co/Q45upvdqLN
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 14, 2020
A voter initiative led by Michelle Obama announced support Monday for making it easier for people to register to vote and cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.
When We All Vote, a nonpartisan voting initiative, says Americans should have greater access to voting by mail, early in-person voting and online voter registration…
When We All Vote’s announcement also comes amid vociferous opposition by President Donald Trump to mail-in voting.
The former first lady, a co-chair of the organization, said expanding access to vote-by-mail, online voter registration and early voting are long overdue “critical steps for this moment.”
“Americans should never have to choose between making their voices heard and keeping themselves and their families safe,” she said in a statement. “There is nothing partisan about striving to live up to the promise of our country: making the democracy we all cherish more accessible, and protecting our neighbors, friends and loved ones as they participate in this cornerstone of American life.” …
The organization will encourage Americans to lobby for access to these options before Election Day, Nov. 3.
Currently, five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah — conduct all elections entirely by mail, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. At least 21 other states have laws that allow certain smaller elections, such as school board contests, to be conducted by mail.
Forty states, including the five with all-mail elections, and the District of Columbia offer in-person early voting, according to the state legislatures’ association. Delaware has enacted early voting, but it will not be in place until 2022. Nine states do not offer in-person voting before Election Day…
Baud
Au contraire, mon
fréresoeur. It’s the most partisan thing in the world.JPL
Good Morning!!
Baud
@JPL: Good morning.
ThresherK
My cat barely can be bothered to chew her kibble, and throws it up too often. She eats it all, all at once, like a dog does.
We got a “puzzle bowl” for her, and she largely has to fwip the food out of the bowl onto the floor. It has slowed down her eating and really reduced her right-after vomiting.
However, I have the feeling teaching a cat to do this is like giving her a lock-picking kit. Now we’re wondering what else she’ll learn to open.
WereBear
@ThresherK: LOL! Activating her brain instead of her belly is usually a good thing.
I celebrate an intellectual challenge.
When Cunning Peaks
NotMax
For those who have finished trimming finger and toenails, belting out 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall in pig Latin, counting the strands in the wall to wall carpeting and are temporarily left casting about for anything to fill a spare minute, rundown from late last night on the shopping situation on Maui.
:)
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
WereBear
I am catching up on the pResidential meltdown last night via Twitter.
Those cult members keep having to bench press more and more Suspension of Disbelief.
NotMax
@WereBear
Derp Throat.
;)
NotMax
12 hours of movies about amnesiacs on TCM today, most eminently forgettable.
Central Planning
Does anyone else find those songs that Jimmy Fallon and the Roots do with non-traditional instruments (like the kids instruments ones on YouTube) fascinating? I can’t get enough of them.
Maybe it’s because they look like they are having a ton of fun doing them. Or the way music can be made with just about anything. Anyway, they always bring a smile to my face.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
Good Morning , Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
JAFD
Good morning, everyone
Mayhaps Dr. Rofer or Dr. Silverman hath mentioned this already…
https://futureforce.navylive.dodlive.mil/2020/03/exploring-the-power-of-cute/
Stay healthy and happy, and don’t take any wooden nickles
sanjeevs
@Central Planning: The Roots are the best thing about that show: So talented!
Gvg
@ThresherK: my cat had similar issues and lost weight enough that the vet noticed. I switched her food to sensitive stomach varieties. She likes the dry Purina that I can get in the grocery store and it really helped, however I wanted her to have some wet food too to gain weight and over concerns an all dry diet causes kidney issues.
She disliked all the special sensitive canned foods. There are quite a few at petsmart. So I allow her her fancy feast gravy foods, but I only feed her about a teaspoon at a time multiple times a day. Inadvertently I have trained her to beg vocally. She has learned to remind me to give her the food and a formerly quiet cat is now kind of a loud mouth. The vet was pleased though and her weight is back to normal.
Before the change to working at home, it required a rethinking of when to feed. Twice in morning twice at night, for instance, when I get up, then before I leave for work, when I get home and after dinner.
WereBear
@NotMax: I see what you did there :)
Amnesia seems to have fallen from fashion compared to the first half of the century. Indeed, in my childhood, every TV show had an amnesia episode, including Lassie!
rikyrah
AxelFoley
@Baud: I see what you did there.
AxelFoley
@Baud: I see what you did there.
NotMax
RPG players take note. Long list of games currently available either free or or on a pay whatever you deem suitable basis during this time.
rikyrah
This entire thread???
debbie
@Central Planning:
I’m a bigger fan of the Roots than of Fallon, but those songs are great!
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Shouldn’t that be ma soeur? Because I jus’ gotta pedant …
debbie
@rikyrah:
Between the Seven Scamurai and Bob Barr’s explanation of Trump’s sole right to reopen the country, this will be quite the day!
I may even tune into Glenn Beck for his “take” on yesterday’s press conference.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Great thread!
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Mother sister? I’m no hillbilly.
WereBear
@Gvg: In our house, we are dealing with a Treat Crisis, since everyone’s favorite brand, a grain-free in different flavors, has vanished from local shelves and online.
I found two substitutes which don’t please all of the cats all of the time, but it does make everyone happy :)
Geminid
@debbie: Beck just got canned on local radio in central Virginia. Replaced with brash up-and-comer Brian Kilmeade.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I see your blech and raise you an ugh.
scav
@debbie: I’d imagine there’s suddenly a burgeoning industry involving Tread On Me! merchandise. See? Success!
Leto
@WereBear: Apparently I’m not in the loop (which I see as a very good thing), but what was the meltdown about now?
ThresherK
@Gvg: Glad to hear you figured your cat’s diet out. My Jazz has no problem keeping on weight. It’s merely an inconvenience to clean up, especially if it’s on the carpet, and then she gets hungry early. The vet says she’s nearly chonky, and doesn’t need to gain a pound. Given that over our years together we’ve lost two cats to cancer that’s a relief.
Begging? Our other cat (my wife’s) is the one who is the “lead scout” and will just stare at us for an hour before feeding time, and yowl and lead us to the bukkit whenever we twitch a finger. My cat has learned she will not miss a mealtime with him around and lets him do the work.
Immanentize
@NotMax: Thanks for the list — sent it to the Immp, although I suspect he already knows it.
NotMax
@WereBear
Have seen any number of recipes for homemade dog biscuits. Quick search turned up this for cats:
15 Purrfect Homemade Cat Treats to Spoil Your Kitty.
Baud
Readership capture.
Warning: NYT:
ThresherK
@NotMax: They’re just playing the same movie 6x. Don’t be fooled.
Immanentize
@Leto: I was hoping to see you or Avalune at some point. Howdy! Do you still have some plan to attend the North Bennet School at some point?
WereBear
@Leto: CNN put accurate chryons up as Trump ranted and raved at last night’s briefing:
Greatest thing since Keith Olbermann put up sarcastic chryons over Palin’s speech while in the back, turkeys were being slaughtered for Thanksgiving.
Also, Mike Pence declared Trump has “absolute power” and this is… inaccurate.
NotMax
@ThresherK
Heh. Adroitly played.
Mousebumples
@satby: wholly unrelated, but so long as you’re in the thread (or, well, I’m not late to the thread), is your etsy shop still going? I see the CLOSED as of December 31 notice … But I thought I read somewhere that you still had some soap to sell? Looking to replenish my soap stock as we’re running low in our house. If you’re done with the etsy work, I’m sure I can find another seller, but I wanted to check with a jackal first. ?
WereBear
@NotMax: Thanks, but it’s easier to open a can of tuna :) The beauty of treats is how I can put them in the puzzle box and they fish them out. Without the messiness of actual fish.
Also, while I have mastered grilling, my cooking skills are erratic. Though I am perfecting a modified cheesecake which can be made with a regular pie pan and without that waterbath fussing. So I just might try a new challenge!
Lacuna Synechdoche
Catherine Rampell via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Then we’re still not taking corona-virus seriously enough, since it will probably be one-three years before it will be safe for people to gather again in large congregations – by which time, something else to make us all feel endangered will occur.
Just call me Mr. Happy Camper.
Jeffro
@Baud: I’m very excited at the prospect of Harris, Abrams, or any of the excellent potential veeps out there. Can we vote next week, America?
WereBear
@Lacuna Synechdoche: I already haven’t been to a mall in years. Highly prefer online.
This could be their death knell, though. We’re talking tons of overhead and unneeded energy use; it seems so 20th Century now.
Jeffro
Btw per the Rampell tweet…only 24% say they will still mostly stay home?
What, did wingnuts uniformly respond “can’t wait to get back out there around tons of people again!” in order to own the libs?
Lacuna Synechdoche
Well, at least something good has come out of this lockdown – a new porn / rom com plot:
Oh, no! Lust In The Time Of Corona Virus!
satby
@Mousebumples: hi, yes, still open. I changed it to be tentatively closing at the end of this year, next December 31, but I may just take that off again until the fall because it’s confusing. And I have tons of soap since I took it all home from my Farmers market booth, including some great ones I don’t list online (because they turn over so fast at the market). You can email me at sbarrt at hotmail dot com to get a list of unlisted on Etsy ones. Also, if you use PayPal, you can pay me directly through the same email and get the market prices, which are lower because no Etsy fees to cover. The endless fees are the reason I was going to shut the online shop. <<– Anyone else can email directly too ?
Baud
@Lacuna Synechdoche:
How big is their house that they could get away with having an affair with all those people stuck at home with them?
OzarkHillbilly
@Mr. Happy Camper.: OK.
satby
@Baud: “Dear Playmate Advisor, I never thought this would happen to me….”
NotMax
@WereBear
Whole new mix of niche shops.
Toilet Rolls R Us
TP Tree
Wipe World
Chock Full O’ Butts
:)
Lacuna Synechdoche
@Baud:
I have no idea. It’s from a letter to a columnist at The Guardian, and that’s all the info they gave.
Baud
@satby:
The clear answer in that situation is a foursome.
Lacuna Synechdoche
@OzarkHillbilly: Hah!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
You’re good with the cyber.
WereBear
@NotMax: LOL. That last one, as a NYer, cracked me up.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mr. Happy Camper: I never pass up an open door
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Every now and again even a blind squirrel finds a nut.
WereBear
@NotMax: LOL. That last one, as a NYer, cracked me up.
@Lacuna Synechdoche: Well, since you can’t deliver pizza the same way, another scenario was inevitable.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: I read the thread, OMG.
satby
@Baud: wasn’t that always the answer?
Soprano2
@NotMax: I would think you could get eggs from a couple of the millions of chickens I saw running free everywhere I went on Maui. LOL There are probably more chickens there than actual residents. I didn’t believe my stepson when he said they were everywhere; I was wrong!
Gin & Tonic
So with a week-plus of brush fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone having been largely put out by rain, now that it’s near-freezing in Kyiv (about 90 miles away) the big question on people’s minds is: that stuff falling from the sky right now, is that snowflakes or radioactive ash?
hueyplong
CNN captioner and CBS persistent questioner make me optimistic about the future.
Gin & Tonic
@satby: That was Penthouse Forum.
Or so I’ve heard.
NotMax
@Soprano2
Yeah, they’re ubiquitous. Friends and I have a theory in progress that there are groups of them who forage and live only on individual median dividers on the roads and will develop into distinct species a la Galapgaos Islands.
Geminid
Among the good work the Virginia General Assembly did this session was legislation allowing no excuse absentee voting. Not as comprehensive as vote by mail, but a step in the right direction. This year we have two critical Congressional races in the 7th and 2nd districts, where first term reps Abigail Spanberger and Elaine Luria are defending formerly republican seats. And my 5th district is a good pick up opportunity for the Democrats. Re Stacey Abrams: she is a very impressive and exciting campaigner, and I understand the desire to see her on the national stage. But she has very important unfinished business in Georgia, and personally I hope to see her take cheatin’ Brian Kemp’s blow-dried scalp in 2022. The people of Georgia really need a good governor, and she’d be a great one. Then, “Abrams for President” in 2028.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: On paper, at first glance, it can appear Abrams lacks the experience to back up a 78-year-old president. But after reading more about her career and listening to her discuss all kinds of issues in multiple interviews, I have come to believe Abrams would be an inspired VP pick.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: seconded! It’s excellent the whole way through.
raven
@Geminid: I agree, we need her here.
SFAW
@ThresherK:
Midway through #2: “Hmm, this looks familiar.”
Midway through #3: “Hmm, this looks familiar.”
Midway through #4: “Hmm, this looks familiar.”
Midway through #5: “Hmm, this looks familiar.”
Midway through #6: *sound of snoring
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: Jesus, that is scary. I hope your son has a rain/Ash hat to wear.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: Clyburn is not as bullish on Abrams as you are. So, unlikely.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
The possessive adjective needs a feminine ending to match the feminine noun. So it’s ma soeur, not mon soeur.
Sigh. I sound like the language teacher I could probably have been.
NotMax
@Soprano2
FYI, Paia is a virtual ghost town nowadays.
Jeffro
@Geminid: I like that sequence of events for Abrams!
If I had to guess, I would say Harris is the odds-on favorite, followed by Whitmer.
Aleta
Photos: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8212305/amp/Pensioner-64-given-flight-fighter-jet-retirement-present-flung-2500ft.html?__twitter_impression=true
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WereBear:
I avoid the briefings because I already had one heart attack, but I’m almost sorry I missed yesterday’s. It looks like it was a doozy. And I conclude the CNN chyron writer has taken to day drinking.
Actually, I conclude that propaganda video finally drove the press corps over the edge.
Immanentize
Kinda OT, but I just heard that Trump’s Council to Re-open America Pronto (CRAP) will be having their first meeting at a resort at Wannsee.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor</a<
I understand the director's cut will include the edited out chants of "Sieg heil."
//
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: It’s not like the White House campus has any large meeting rooms. //
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: Another consideration: if Trump’s support winnows down to the hardcore base — a possibility given the bungled C19 response and cratered economy — Georgia could be in play, and both its US senate seats are up this year. It has been years since a nominee made a VP pick on regional strategy, but this might be the year to do it, depending on how things shake out.
Robert Sneddon
@SFAW: In the second series of the Suzumiya Haruhi anime series the producers repeated the plot and story of a single time-loop episode eight times, the so-called “Endless Eight” mindfuck that infuriated many and boggled the minds of the survivors. Epic!
Betty Cracker
@Aleta: Hahaha! Poor thing!
raven
@NotMax: Is that Poi Dog Pondering?
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
“The meeting rooms of a certain nearby hotel were determined to be the most suitable. Luckily, they had a lot of cancellations so we could slide right in.”
//
Gin & Tonic
@Robert Sneddon: Every time is see “mindfuck” I’m reminded that there is(was?) a programming language called Brainfuck.
It isn’t very practical.
prufrock
@Lacuna Synechdoche: The advise to “stop fantasizing about him” seems awfully close to telling someone to not think about pink elephants.
NotMax
@raven
The installation of that traffic light not all that long ago was a BFD. I’d lay down real folding money the guy crossing the street is headed to Mana Foods for his mung bean fix.
;)
Amir Khalid
I have just found out that Carole King turns off comments on all her YouTube videos. This is bothering me because I have for some reason become curious to know the name of the cat on the Tapestry album cover.
Leto
@Immanentize: Hey! Sorry, was side tracked after I posted this. I do still plan to attend an open house, but for the foreseeable future it’s on hold until the all clear is given. North Bennett has closed for however long this lasts. When it’s safe to re-emerge from our caves, I’ll get a new date and let you know :)
@WereBear: I hate Nazi analogies but Hitler in the bunker is so spot on for this…
Leto
@Amir Khalid: Google is your friend! :P
Stuff Nobody Cares About
satby
@Gin & Tonic: oh, you’re right! Obviously I never read either, I wasn’t in their target audience. But I remember the jokes about them.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Looks more like hurricane prep than pandemic prep, what with all the plywood.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@ThresherK: My daughter had to get a timer bowl for her cat because she would do the same thing(eat the whole bowl in a minute flat) and she was getting pudgie. She HATES waiting and she tells everyone about it. She got into the cabinet and tried to chew through the cat food bag…
Baud
@hueyplong:
And Wisconsin.
Amir Khalid
@Leto:
Telemachus! A wonderful name. Thanks.
Immanentize
@raven:
Sometimes I forget your Athens music life. I loved Poi Dog Pondering. Saw them three times in Austin.
Immanentize
@Leto: Good. It’s such an amazing school for fine craft work. Keep me posted.
Immanentize
@Leto: Good. It’s such an amazing school for fine craft work. Keep me posted.
NotMax
@satby
Used to be a drug/general store here (soda fountain straight out of Andy Hardy movies, could have been moved intact to the Smithsonian) which kept the “gentleman’s magazines” in a rack behind the cashier. Visible but one needed to ask at the counter for a title to purchase them.
No Playboy. No Penthouse. Selection displayed consisted entirely of dozens of the strangest and most bizarre of such media. Left-Handed Leather Lesbians. Biker Chick Amputees. Jills with Jugs. Co-ed Capers.
I exaggerate, but not by very much.
Place was one of the stores burned to the ground when one wing of the original strip mall on the island caught fire and went up in a spectacular inferno.
Leto
@Immanentize: I definitely will. I receive email updates from them, I spoke with the head of admissions about rescheduling back in early March when it looked like this was all going sideways, and it’s still the place I have my heart set on. Even if I just wind up producing items for around the house, and friends/family, I think the experience of the place/journey/teachers will be more than worth the wait.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Yup, ’tis spooky.
Mousebumples
@satby: email sent. And I forgot to say, I can do PayPal. ?
Sloane Ranger
Just had the Water Company outside. Apparently several weeks of toilet paper substitutes led to a blockage of the sewers they’ve had to pump out.
On a different note, the number of people here in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire who don’t seem to either know or care what 6 feet looks like is amazing. Went for my 1 period of exercise this morning and had to manoeuvre around mums with pushchairs walking side by side along the pavement chatting and totally ignoring other pedestrians, people sitting on their garden walls ensuring that people have to step out into the road to keep 6 feet distance from them and, I’m sorry, fellow Jackals, but dog owners walking their furry friends and acting like they own the pavement.
Everyone I met acted like it was up to everyone else to get out of their way.
Immanentize
@Sloane Ranger: Another fatburger?
WaterGirl
Forever FLOTUS is also Mom-in-Chief. I Michele promoting this might move some people. Too optimistic?
Martin
@WereBear: it’s astonishing that the press still attend, and that it’s still being broadcast.
WaterGirl
@ThresherK: My boy kitty used to puke fairly often, especially after breakfast. I raised his food bowl about4 inches, and now he pukes almost never.
OzarkHillbilly
Too good to not pass along: Woman’s attraction to chandeliers not a sexual orientation, Ipso says
A woman in a long-term relationship with a 92-year-old German chandelier has been told that her attraction to historic light fittings is not considered to be a protected sexual orientation.
Press regulator Ipso made the ruling after Amanda Liberty, a woman from Leeds in her mid thirties, complained about an article in the Sun mocking her public declaration of love for Lumiere, her name for an intricate lamp she bought on eBay.
She argued that the newspaper’s article breached the regulator’s code of conduct which requires publishers to avoid prejudicial or pejorative references to an individual’s sexuality.
Liberty identifies as an ‘objectum sexual’ – an individual who is attracted to objects. She objected to being included in an end-of-year article by Sun columnist Jane Moore, which nominated her for a “Dagenham Award (Two Stops Past Barking)” prize, simply because of her sexual attraction to Lumiere.
She also raised concerns about the accuracy of the newspaper’s reporting after the article referred to her being married to the chandelier. She pointed out she was in a relationship with the chandelier but not yet married to it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Fatburger? Yum.
Sloane Ranger
@Immanentize: More like a kitchen towel papier mache ball.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
It’s a, um, light-hearted fetish.
;)
Aleta
@Immanentize:
Council to Re-Open Amity Beach by artist Rob Sheridan @rob_sheridan
Also, some good posters (free to download): #ArtIsResistance from Rob Sheridan, but from a safe distance @rob_sheridan
OzarkHillbilly
@WaterGirl: Nice tip, I’ll have to give that a try. Thanx.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Her last fetish wasn’t so light but it sure did carry a torch for her.
Immanentize
@Sloane Ranger: Are you in Edinburg? I can’t recall…. If so I have a Q for my neighbor’s daughter who wants to attend college there.
Immanentize
@Aleta: NICE. And thanks for the poster links.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Those well hung luminiers all have the same problem re: commitment — so on again, off again.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: the Johnny Isaacson Senate seat, currently held by the illustrious Kelly Loeffler, is very much in play. With Doug Collins (Idiot-GA) waging a nasty red on red fight with Loeffler, and a strong candidate in Raphael Warnock, the Democrats have a very good shot at the seat. Warnock is senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta; Abrams persuaded Warnock to run, and she will do fine working full time for him and the other Democratic candidate. She is an excellent organizer. Note: the Isaacson seat will be contested in a “jungle primary” in November, with a runoff in January.
Robert Sneddon
@Immanentize: I’m in Edinburgh, if that’s any help?
Sloane Ranger
@Immanentize: Sorry no. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Completely wrong end of the country. I think Robert Sneddon is in Scotland and might be able to help
And…he got in before my reply.
Immanentize
@Robert Sneddon: Sorry for the misspeellling. How is the health situation there? My neighbor and friend’s daughter was accepted at Edinburgh and it is her first choice — but my friend is thinking he will put the kabash on it because Covid plus uncertain health care? I told him it is one of the premier medical schools in the world, etc. Any weigh in you can offer would be nice.
Immanentize
@Sloane Ranger: Thank you!
Betty Cracker
@Geminid: I heard a clip of Warnock on one of the Sunday shows — Joy Reid’s, I think? He’s impressive. Abrams’ organizational skills are first rate. She listens to experts, weighs information and builds consensus, and she has that track record as a public servant and an activist.
Seems like we had a first-rate organizer with a CV that was deemed light by a lot of experienced pols who nonetheless turned out to be a pretty damn good president? Also, Abrams is a solid progressive who understands that progress has to be intersectional. I hope Biden is seriously considering her.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: I think so, too. She is my first choice for Joe.
Sadly, he has not called me yet for my opinion. Even though I am staying home every day, in case he calls. :-)
laura
@Amir Khalid: So about that Carole King – Roadie Brothers ADORE her! In a backstage after show situation at Madison Square Garden a crowd stood around waiting to get dressing room access to Axl. Carole King and trump + wife #2 amongst them. Brother the younger reported on who wanted in and told trump to F off, grabbed Carole King by the hand and pulled her in. Much happiness and piano and singing ensued.
Roadie Brother the elder assembled a back up band as a surprise for her boyfriend’s birthday party. He did side work with her for years. She had a guitarist Rudy Valentine who died of cancer. Spouse and I saw his last set – a backyard concert with many session musicians. Rudy played a Gretsch – the most beautiful sounding guitar in my mind. He had found it in a pawn shop in the Pacific North West.
Of all the many artists they have had an opportunity to work with Carole King is both among their dearest favorites. A lovely person.
Geminid
@Immanentize: when I saw Clyburn downplaying Stacy Abrams as a VP candidate, I thought, he lives next door and knows how much good she can do for Georgia as governor.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: If you think of it, let me know whether that works for you or not.
The Lodger
@NotMax: 92 years old and still easy to turn on.
Kent
You know. It is a VERY good thing to see that every 2020 swing state has no-excuse vote by mail. I had not seen that laid out as such before. Makes me feel a little bit more optimistic.
But 2020 isn’t JUST about the presidency. It is about control of dozens of state legislatures for 2022 redistricting. It is about the Senate and retaining the House which requires winning elections in many red states. So what happens in states like Texas very much affect the future of the country even if it may not affect the race for the white house.