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Sunday 16 March 2025 12:35:54 PM CST

Wednesday 12 March 2025 10:39:02 PM CST

I shoulda shrunk the file size on that image. Got a script that processes camera images but forgot to use it. Maybe fix it later. Anyhow that's the vinyl from '76 or so. Used to be a couple of record stores in Memphis called "Pop Tunes" and "Poplar Tunes". Poplar was on Poplar - that one of the major streets runs through Memphis, Summer Avenue too. Them was the days, goin to movies in the afternoon when most people at work, Overton Square, even Beale Street was safe to be on. Anyhow the Poplar Tunes shops had samples of the latest records and record players and you could put on a record and listen to it through headphones. Bought quite a few records there. Got 2112 that way - put on the headphones and dropped the needle and knew right away I was gonna buy it.

I didn't know about Rush (or the other Rush) then and probably a lot more people knew about them after 2112. Later I got the first three albums and they were decent but it seems this was the one that got them noticed. 2112 is sort of half a concept album - side 1 is all about the same thing but side 2 is just several unrelated songs. Man-o-War's Triumph of Steel is like that - bought the CD in a shop in Fargo about 1989 or so along with a leather jacket from Wilson's that I tried to give away a few times because it so heavy but it's back again as decor in my new house. Maybe they had special stuff for that region - it gets seriously cold up there.

It's the first with Neal Peart and maybe that's what put them in the big time. He wrote most of their stuff and you can get an idea of his philosophical bent and it would become more evident with later work. Some people don't get the star thing, associating it with the devil symbol but there you are - there always some people then and now use any opportunity to associate rock and roll with the Devil and badness in general. Anyhow the 2112 Overture is a cool piece and they played it a good bit in their live shows, usually continuing with The Temples of Syrinx but I don't know if they ever did the whole thing - I seem to have a recording around here like that but I got about forty live sets and don't have most of them annotated with track listings. The live performances are better as is usually the case and Alex's style developed over time so the sound is different. They all sound good turned up to 11.

Parkin and Earle upgrading their parks and recreation some. Lowes give the money so no taxpayers payin' for it. The Parkin mayor said they working on a housing assessment plan. Since both places need less housing every year... nevermind.

Couple of protests about immigration reform and DOGE. The one in Misery was put on by the union but there wasn't very many people. Unions usually put on a pretty good show. One in Memphis was about Tennessee action on illegals.

Community activist Jose Salazar is organizing Monday night's rally at Su Casa Family Ministries on North Graham Street starting at 5 p.m. Last month, he told us many students were staying home from class over fears of deportation. "It's really overwhelming seeing all the people scared here. Hearing stories. Hearing kids crying," said Salazar.

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As one of those paying the bills I find it a little difficult to care. The indigenous welfare class is costing enough already - if you don't like it go home. Or you could to to a blue state and hang out there until it gets cleaned up.

What, Chris?

No, not just Native Americans. We're all indigs. Except the illegals. Gotta love the Jonestown paper. That "breaking news" happened about ten or eleven days ago. Apparently someone is there putting in new stuff but it seems a pretty careless way to run a newspaper. No new editorials or cartoons to make fun of today.

Thursday 13 March 2025 10:52:12 PM CST

I had a crush on Julie Hagerty for a long time after Airplane! Probably the flight attendant uniform helped. Easily one of the funniest movies ever. The Naked Gun flicks were pretty good but not really sure if they beat the Hot Shots films. A few years earlier the Zucker brothers perpetrated Kentucky Fried Movie which is pretty hilarious.

Jonesbororightnow - which is usually Jonesboro a few days ago - has two basketball articles (ASU men and wimmen teams) something about chaplains at the Jonesboro PD, and a serious malefactor that's probably gonna be gone for a while and an amateur at Lowes. I probably would have been suspicious about ten seconds into the deal but I guess some people don't pay attention. Lowes seems to get hit quite a bit and don't ever hear about Home Despot. Wonder if they run a tighter ship over there.

Guy from Paragould went to Jonesboro to get in trouble. People come all the way from Memphis to steal stuff and get locked up so I guess Paragould people don't have to travel as far. Jonestown got a much bigger and better Walmart than Paragould. Two of'em in fact I believe the little one is bigger than the one in Paragould.

In other news - the Firefox default page of obnoxious but occasionally amusing links to fluff and propaganda - sometimes seems they manage to be funny without actually trying. Or noticing.

I've known a few fed employees, got a relative working for the DEA now so she probably safe since they actually do stuff. Ran into a guy my age a while back and he got some kinda government job and had retired so he got the pension and platinum medical insurance locked in. Most of the ones I've known were pretty smug and indoctrinated Democrats and I didn't argue with them because it's like trying to teach a pig to sing.

If they're counting on egg prices to harm President Trump they're more desperate than I figured. Now that the government won't be massacring millions of chickens to make eggs scarce there'll be plenty of eggs. I do believe that hurting the economy is about the only tool they have just now.

The fact is that there doesn't seem to be much of an alternative to Starlink if the government needs the product that's where they get it. Like space stuff.

Friday 14 March 2025 11:32:34 PM CST

Just missed being Friday the 13th. First two or three was decent but like most franchises it soon got boring and silly. I didn't watch the one where Jason goes into space. In fact I probably didn't bother watching the last three or four unless you call having the TV on while I'm doing something else and occasionally looking to see if anything happening. Looks like the only one we get this year is in June.

Book of the week is the third of the Aztec sequels. Believe I commented on this earlier and they're lengthy so it takes a while. Not a re-read - I read Aztec when it was published back in the day but didn't bother with the sequels for a while because sequels are as sequels do. These are pretty good though.

Had the second fatal accident for the local wind farm. Happened a couple of miles from where I live and I'm standing out on the front deck and see an ambulance go by and turn down the road going to one of the windmills followed by several company trucks. Figured it for an accident involving the construction and it seems a guy fell off a crane. Probably the cranes they use to put the blades on and go up 200 feet or so. This guy just fell 25 feet according to the news.

Parkin voting on their sales tax again. Way I read it they want a 100% increase. With the declining population I suspect not much is being sold there and if the law to stop people buying Twinkies and soda and such with ther SNAP cards there may be even less being sold.

Should I add a daily double feature?

Dunno what I think about buying lottery tickets. The people sell'em say you can't win if you don't play but you also can't lose if you don't play. Figure somebody got plenty of disposable income and you wanna blow off a few bucks now and then why not. I drop in on a favorite gas station a time or three a week and schmooze with a gal there and get a six-pack of them little donuts and a Peak extra sweet tea if they got it and a vanilla Coke if they ain't. There's five bucks or so right there - dunno what lottery tickets cost - a buck or two? If I's a young feller and had plenty of money I'd probably do it just because - twenty thirty years I might hit the big one. And be too old to spend much of it 'fore I die. Doin' crimes on the other hand not so smart. She didn't pass GO or collect $200 - just went directly to jail. Just checked and she still there - couldn't make 75K bail. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time....

Saturday 15 March 2025 09:12:03 PM CST

This over in Misery. Time was minor kids getting married wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Knew a couple of girls married an adult - guy in his 20s - when one was 14 and one was 16 and both turned out OK and still married if they're living - this happened when I was a pre-teen. Sadly it isn't a good idea to let that happen because people have changed. A lot them anyway and there's more low-quality people as a percentage of the population. Waiting until you're 18 isn't gonna kill you and you got more time to see whether not it's a good idea.

This will probably upset the usual suspects - the ones that don't like people having guns.

I wondering if the bank don't need to be looking internally - maybe for a seriously incompetent employee or procedures generally or an inside job. These don't look smart enough to do much more than operate the ATM buttons. No pic of the apparent mastermind so can't say but if he had an inside help maybe he'll give it up. Don't see him in the jail so maybe he bonded out. 35K bail don't seem like much for a 200K theft.

National news KAIT had a Dissociated Press piece of MDS. Outright lie or just ignorance or confusion? Headline sez "Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud" and then in the article "Elon Musk pushed debunked theories about Social Security on Monday..." and then after remarks about the millions of dead people on the rolls "the leader of the agency has rejected claims about widespread payments to dead people." Yeah, right. The IRS boss is more reliable than a guy who has all the data? I suspect the the exposure alone may bring down the leftovers of the previous regime even if few or none of the perpetrators ever have to pay up.

Jonestown paper has the usual even if one of them does admit the dims are in bad shape. I hope they don't figure out an effective solution any time soon.

Sunday 16 March 2025 09:12:03 PM CST

Hadn't heard much from Hoxie lately but seen this. Still mayor and city council stuff - hafta check if it the same mayor as it was a while back. It' in here somewhere... take a look later I reckon.

Got the new Jonestown school super hired. I wouldn't have bet on it - each candidate checked one box - and not just because I don't give a fig for what happens in the government schools. Like figs and figured to have some fig trees someday. Planned hazelnut trees to but never got one of them round tuits. May be planting a small orchard on that new place - plenty of room and if I sell it it'll increase the value. If I keep it and I planted some fig and hazelnut trees I'l finally have some. Anyhow the school super thang is career climbing:

The goal of most teachers is to go from teacher to some kind of an administrator. Usually vice-principal is the first and there are several even in small schools You may or may not have a shot at principal where you are but an opening at another school may become available. Then it's on to assistant superintendent somewhere and you look for a superintendent job. That's usually permanent and your career is pretty much set.

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Usually that's the way it works but not always. One small town school district near where I live hired a fellow that was assistant super in an Indianapolis school. They ended up buying out the last year and a half of his three year contract and he still sued them and they paid off the big fancy house he bought as soon as he moved here. He was a box-checker and when they replaced him with a principal had been there for many years got big mad because... anyway they got over it. I asked Google how many Jonesboro had and.... lesee what else is on for today.

Synopsis: NPR uses a pic of the private religious school shot up by a medicated tranny but doesn't mention psychomeds or trannies and it's all because Internet. The New Republic believes capitalism is racist unless it's properly managed. Axios gets that the Plandemic may have done more harm than good to the globalist agenda. Since it contributed to the return of President Trump it may be they don't yet have any idea of how much. These are all commie rags but that's about all there is on there but that's another story for another time.

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Still dark. Light around 0700 this time of year. Sleep some more. He didn't know what time it was when he arrived. A young woman and man about his age had driven him for several hours into darkness. Out of the car and into the house, still half asleep. Someone had helped him to this room. His boots were off and his shirt unbuttoned, his belt loosened and jeans unbuttoned and unzipped. The rendezvous in the park at 0300. Near the time a response to an alarm from his monitor would be slowest. When the doorbell rang he opened the door and went out, following the dark-clothed pair to a waiting car. Right or wrong in trusting them he was a couple of weeks from the start of a trial that would put him in prison for years, a guaranteed outcome no matter what the facts. He'd seen it, that cop in Minneapolis, the ones in Houston. If this failed there was always the Beretta and the Glock - he had acquired the guns long ago and kept them close - they wouldn't be taking him to prison. To the morgue maybe, for sure, but there would be several cops going with him. Several of his former colleagues, guys who had his back and he had theirs until he was chosen as a sacrifice. Then they either kept their mouths shut or opened them to say what the state wanted them to say - either way they were no longer his comrades. They were his enemies. MacArthur's Freehold (2021)

The people he knew only as Jessica and Darrell had set it up during the preceding weeks - he was skeptical but they seemed to be the real deal, wild as it seemed. There was only one other car - an old Ford Crown Vic. He'd driven a few as they were popular police cars. He ran across the square and got into the car. There were two people in the front seat - as the driver started the engine and drove away the one in the front seat turned to him... something in his hand. Shears... "Quick," the man said. "Cut the ankle monitor off and hand it to me. James took the shears and cut through the band of the monitor and handed it to the man. They were on a street, moving fast. He leaned back in the seat. The man turned back. We switch cars in a couple of miles. This stays in the car and goes towards Texas. That's where they'll track it to." OK, fine with me. Where am I going? I'm Roger, the man said. "Not that we're likely to meet again but that's the way this business is. Jerry is driving us. In about thirty, forty minutes we'll be northeast of Little Rock. We're gonna stop in a ricefield and let you out. An aircraft will land about that time and welll wait to see you on board. Got all that?" Jessica and Darrell had briefed him so all seemed right. "Got it, he replied. MacArthur's Freehold (2021)

MAGA Hurtz 1 hour ago It seems that nothing is left but the hard-core haters. Not applauding is fine - I wouldn't applaud obama or biden or a tranny ‘hero’ but I wouldn't disrupt the proceedings and give them more ammunition. "I should know better, but where's the fun in that?!" Reply +12 (+ [-) Penultimate Warrior 1 hour ago Loved it when they evicted that dude. I wonder if that was spontaenous or planned. I can see either one - the guy's a idiot. Burn the bridge behind you, leave no retreat. There's only one way home. Reply 7G) Terminus Est 53 minutes ago They jumped all over the guy calling ovomit a liar - he is - and MTG and Boebert heckled biden but they're Republicans so.... Too clever is dumb. ~ Ogden Nash Reply +3 (4+ ]-) Prime Chuck Norris 42 minutes ago Pillosi tearing up the speech was priceless - the only thing better was watching her misery this time. When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you. Reply BG KaliforniaDreamin 33 minutes ago Drunk? I suspect a lot of them needed alcohol or medication to get through it. Life is a lemon and I want my money back. ~ Meat Loaf Reply HG Jessica Atreides Marshall 21 minutes ago I don't believe any dims have an IQ above body temperature. Carville, Axelrod and the Clinton and Obama crowd are reasonably intelligent (but so were the big guys at Nuremberg) but it seems that the seventh-grade special ed types have taken over. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply HG

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Harry - he didn't like being called Harold - was a loan officer at Twin Falls National. He had married the daughter of a filthy rich and connected guy and for a while any time Harry wanted money father-in-law gave it to him. At the bank his job was mostly schmoozing with the rich customers - prominent businessmen and big farmers and locals with big inherited money that didn't have to work. No car loans or home loans (this was the 1970s and small-town banks were still the go-to for regular folks) or somebody wanting to open a flower shop or used car business. Harry wanted to make it as a big shot on his own even if it was with wife's daddy's money. He opened a Radio Shack - a gold mine in those days - and a couple of years later it was broke and he sold it. It did fine under new managers until the parent company died years later. Then he opened a high-dollar liquor store that lasted about as long. Never one to actually get his hands dirty he hired people that stole him blind and his blowing money on women and booze didn't improve matters. Next he tried insurance. How do you go broke doing that? Well, If he'd been halfway smart he wouldn't have done what another guy in the same business in the same town had done a couple of years earlier. He sold policies to some local businesses. Generally when they paid the premiums they didn't mail a check somewhere, they went to the office and wrote a check. Big checks, thousands of dollars. This fellow got in a pinch and he put one or more of those checks in his personal account and didn't pay the insurance company. The customer's business burned, a good-sized retail establishment, over a million loss even in those days. Owner files a claim and insurance company says their policy lapsed some time ago. Other fellow did some prison time but Harry's father-in-law paid for everything and he was able to avoid that fate but first Harry had to agree to a divorce and get out of town. Word was that it substantially diminished the old man's financial status. Harry went to work for a politician down in St. Louis or some where and I never heard from him again or knew anyone who did.