Saturday 30 November 2024 13:26:28 PM CDT
Tuesday 26 November 2024 18:26:24 PM CST
Candice Night is that small group of those blessed with angelic voices. Annie Haslam, Karen Carpenter, and one or two others in the present age.
They usually seem to have personalities that match their voices and Candice is one of the most charming performers ever. Their live sets are
in small venues and the small numbers of fans that are able to get tickets are true fans of Candice and Ritchie. I am insanely jealous of Ritchie
not just because the is the awesomest guitarist who ever lived but is married to one of the most beautiful and charming women on earth. It's just
not fair - at least me play guitar reasonably well. Ritchie of course launched the careers of the great Ronnie James Dio and Joe Lynn Turner after
his tenure in Deep Purple. And that's another thing - he owns the most famous guitar riff. Ritchie kids around a lot in interviews and you never
know if he's pulling your leg unless he lets on. I heard him say once that the SOTW riff was based on the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Backwards. It's plausible I reckon.
Anyway those look to be the only live sets officially available. I've got a few vids of live shows that are decent. The title track on PTWGC is
said to have been written by Henry VIII. Actually that seems to be factual - the rumor that Henry wrote Greensleeves is not factual.
And you were thinking all Henry did was have people's head chopped off. Check'em out if you want to hear real talented musicians and singers.
And prepare to have your... nevermind.
Not going to Jonestown this week unless it's an emergency. Thursday's a holiday and sure ain't goin' Friday. Then it gonna be pretty crazy for
another month.
Jonestown police
say they gonna work extra hard, I say they'll need to. Much people as there is coming over from Memphis look for
a lot of theft and stuff around where people shop. Got a feeling
this
may have been an out-of-towner. If it was a local there would be someone who knows.
Wednesday 27 November 2024 10:46:12 PM CST
Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand isn't my favorite of his works - that would be Men of Iron. Both were written for about the
same audience - whatever 'young people' is. I believe it used to be called juvenile - teenagers I suppose, I was probably almost a something-teen
when I read them. Men of Iron had the better climactic fight and sadly it didn't fare well as a movie but most books don't. The book-slap [1]
really should be a thing.
Still not much to talk about NEA-wise. Somebody over in Philips County (Helena-West Helena area) is in jail
connected with a fatal shooting
this day but that's about all they got. It's so slow that the
Weiner city budget
is about done. Weiner is a little wide spot on 49, got up over 700 peoples for a while but now down below. I drive back to Jonestown that way occasionally,
leaving Hickory Ridge it's pretty straight through rice fields you go through the smaller wide spot of Fisher where there ain't but a couple hundred people and
they there's Waldenburg and they you hit Weiner. Before long you're in Jonestown. Anyway it looks like Weiner is gonna get that squared away. And maybe
get their sewage pond fixed
The Wynne PD caught a guy from a
mini-storage theft
a while back. They caught one and he's in the Cross County jail - the other fled to Memphis and now has been arrested and returned to Cross County.
Sure wish they would just stay in Memphis but as some say maybe there ain't much left to steal over there. Tennessee has been having Venezuelan
gangs but the
Memphis police
they don't see any. Memphis may be too scary for even those guys, or more likely the locals don't know.
KAIT pulled
this one
off the AP feed. The state-run media still doesn't get it. Aside from the fact that the Biden bribery affair was not fabricated
(that fact being the reason the guy had to be discredited) it hardly matters - the regime lost. This poor sod may indeed be convicted but it's possible
the Trump DOJ may drop the case. It's hard to say if all the victims of the departing regime can be be adequately compensated for their suffering - or
actually it isn't hard to say.
Some of them
are dead.
Thursday 28 November 2024 11:16:39 PM CST
Didn't expect much with it being a holiday so no news. Not that nothing happened but it'll have to wait until tomorrow to get reported. The Wynne paper
urged people to
drive their motorcars safely
during the weekend. Personally I would urge people do do so safely every day but that's just me. The Arkansas State Police helpfully
offered some advice
on how to do it. We still got tommorrow and I ain't going Jonestown to see how crowded it is. Actually the last time I ventured into the commercial regions
on Black Friday was probably twenty years ago. Traffic makes it a little annoying if I do have to get out but everything looks good for now.
Friday 29 November 2024 12:46:12 PM CST
About the only news anybody puts up today is about Black Friday shopping. Got a couple of Amazon packages arriving today and tomorow probably and that's all
the shopping I'll be doing. Memphis news about the same - it'll probably be next week before we see how many of them got arrested over here. KAIT had
a bit
about Memphis police.
Idunno if they ever changed the requirement for Memphis cops to have to live in the city or whether it would make any difference. If I lived outside of
Memphis I sure wouldn't want to work there. Other day one of the Memphis TV stations had
this.
If Memphis is near the bottom of the list - below
Jackson Mississippi
is pretty bad but it's at least above Detroit. Didn't see Flint on the list.
One of the other Arkansas TV stations had a bit about
one of our
state representatives. Not sure how KAIT missed it. Actually that sort of thing doesn't seem to be the kind of problem here in Arkansas it is in other places but nipping it in the bud is a
good idea.
Saturday 30 November 2024 10:16:42 PM CST
Dunno if
Vox
invented that or not but he has a way or reminding you not to
overthink things. Only problem is these days so many people playing games and
some of them aren't as as smart as they think they are
that they can complicate things for normal people. Hence my uneasiness leading up the 5 November last. I was expecting the Dark Ages to begin again because
the disinformation had been so effective for so long.
Hoping the slow news is because there isn't much bad stuff to report. Couple of shootings in Little Rock with one deader. LR doesn't have it as bad as
Memphis but the rot is nowhere near as serious yet. I was there more on business than I was in Memphis back in the day and when I get down there once in a
while now it's not near as bad. I don't even drive through Memphis - I drive around it even if it's a hunerd miles of two-lane. People get shot on the
interstates too regular to suit me.
Anyhow the biggest thing so far as someone driving through a Taco Bell attached to one of the gas stations in Brookland. I'll give the
Brookland news dude
a link on that - KAIT has it too. Don't believe I ever been in there, not that I patronize Taco Bell much these days. Times I've stopped in Brookland I'm
usually going in the wrong direction for it to be a right turn. Anyhow
KAIT reported
that a motorist got pedal confusion. They called it an "older woman" - what happened to political correctness? No word on whether it was one of
those Audis -
I would imagine there aren't a lot of those on the road these days. Audi blamed the drivers and I dunno how all the legal stuff worked out. Since
there were 700 incidents and six fatalities it's worse than Pinto fuel tanks. They had two or three and those was Pintos getting' rammed in the rear
by big vehicles going fast. Not that Pintos weren't on the flimsy side - I owned a few. Wish I still had that 1980 wagon - they'd finally made it into
a pretty decent car. Be that as it may I ain't driving anything newer than my 09 Rangers when you got the computers deciding to do stuff can get you killed.
[1] Someone or other suggested than when a book is being adapted to a movie script there should be someone to slap the writer(s) with the book
whenever a suggestion to depart from the book is made.
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Blackmore's Night - A Knight in York
Blackmore's Night - Paris Moon
Blackmore's Night - Past Times With Good Company
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"One of those fancy clocks banks used to have - this one showed the time and date.
McVeigh is sitting at a traffic light twelve or thirteen miles away at the time
the truck was being parked at the federal building."
"Photoshopped?"
"Think," Roger said with a grin. "When did you get your first digital camera?"
"Beats me," I replied. "You gonna tell me someone has analog pics of this?"
"Old private eye with a thirty-five Nikon."
"What was a PI doing following McVeigh around? Nevermind, I don't want to know any more.
Before the Storm (2021)
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Jawbreaker
56 minutes ago
EX-BI informant accused of lying about the
Bidens is indicted on federal tax charges
I suspect they're just trying to get him on something but it’s too late. The incoming
adminstration certainly won't pursue these fabricated crimes and any with trials
scheduled or in progress will be abandoned.
And all the pressure that's been building up, For all the years it bore the load, The
cracks appear, the frame starts to distort, It's ready to explode.
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Rosetta Stoned
44 minutes ago
Everything was planned on a 'win' that would put another dimmocrat in the White
House. Look for the charges to be dropped by the new DOU.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~
George Santayana
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Terminus Est
31 minutes ago
It's amusing but these people are pretty pathetic. They indicted Steve Bannon in NY
(Fat Alvin and Litisha) on another bogus charge hoping to put him away. That's all
down the tubes now.
Too clever is dumb. ~ Ogden Nash
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Jessica Atreides Marshall
20 minutes ago
We'll probably see Steve back in the White House. I hope so, and that this time
Trump keeps him and actually listens. The NY cases are going nowhere, like the ones
against Trump.
We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives.
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DePloraBelle
4 minutes ago
I hope it's individual pardons for the J6 and others. He can do a blanket pardon later
but each one deserves to be vindicated by name.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
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Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot. Harry Callahan in Magnum Force (1973)
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Before you ask someone 'what were you thinking?' consider that one of the legitimate possibilities is 'literally nothing' -- Vox Day
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