April 23, 2023

Circus jet crashed in the Amazon jungle. One cannibal says to the other

'Does this clown taste funny to you?'

April 23, 2023

Story of the Jack-O-Lantern from Natural History magazine in the 1980's.

(Version I read in a Natural History magazine Halloween issue in the '80s.(reciting by memory)



Jack was a Blacksmith. He wanted to be the best of the best of the best at his profession.

He made a deal with the Devil that made Jack the world's best Blacksmith.

One of St. Peter's angels was buzzing around the aether and saw the sign that Jack had now displayed:
"Master of all Masters of my trade".
The angel reported the oddness to St. Peter and Peter thought it looked like the work of the Devil.

Peter went to Jack and asked him to renounce the devil and Jack's new found skill.
Jack said, 'no thanks' and Peter went on his way but not before granting Jack three wishes.
"May you use these wishes wisely" and then Peter went on his way.


Jack died somehow, accident, heart attack or something, and the Devil came to collect Jack's soul.

"Not so fast" Jack said. Then Jack used one of his wishes to wish the Devil into his coin purse.
The Devil was stuck until Jack negotiated for many more decades of life.

Two more times Jack would die and Devil would comoe to collect Jack's soul, but Jack still had two more wishes.
Jack used the wishes to force the Devil into Jack's chair until Jack got more years, Jack died again, then Jack forced the Devil up Jack's pear tree until Jack, again, got more years.

Jack finally died his last death while eating a turnip. He was immediately beamed up to Heaven's Gates.
St Peter was there to greet him and told Jack "I granted you three wishes, you should have wished for eternal peace in heaven and I cannot let you in".


Jack then ended up at Hell's Gate where the Devil was there to meet the newbees.
Devil yelled "You harassed me on earth, I will not allow you to harrass me in my own domain"! and the Devil slammed the gates closed.

Jack was able to quickly gather one the brimstones with his half-eaten turnip to light his way through eternal purgatory.


I love this story.

April 4, 2023

Let's make it a National Holiday: April 9th, 1865, the end of the Civil War for Gen. Robert E. Lee

https://www.nps.gov/apco/learn/historyculture/the-surrender-meeting.htm

April 9th, 1865, was the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. For Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant and tens of thousands of Federal and Confederate troops fighting further south, the war stretched out for several more months. After Appomattox, however, only the most zealous and desperate could pretend the Union was not already victorious and the Confederacy was destined to end.

As the sun rose on April 9th in Appomattox, General Lee still clung to the belief his war was not over. 8,000 men from Maj. General John B. Gordon’s Second Corps, along with Lee’s nephew Fitzhugh Lee and what remained of the Confederate cavalry, were lined up for battle just west of the village of Appomattox Court House. Robert E. Lee hoped there was only a thin line of Union cavalry ahead of him that he could smash through, find supplies and rations, and then turn south to march to North Carolina to continue the fight. For a week Grant thwarted Lee’s plans to turn south. He actively blocked Lee’s movements and tried to surround his forces. As a result of these efforts, Grant’s forces had finally gotten ahead of Lee at Appomattox. Lee was in the middle of the fight, his headquarters was east of the village near the center of his army. Gordon’s Second Corps and the Cavalry were west of the village readying for a fight, and Longstreet’s command, the First Corps and Third Corps of the ANV, were in the east guarding the rear. Lee knew more Federal troops were approaching from the east and perhaps the south, and he hoped he could move his army before the Federal reinforcements arrived. Lee’s hopes were dashed by the arrival of thousands of Union infantry, including United States Colored Troops, who had marched most of the night to block the way. By 8:00a.m., Gordon’s men retreated toward the village, Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry was fleeing toward the west, and Lee knew his war was over.

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Stupid then, stupid now.

April 3, 2023

Bring A Little Lovin' - Los Bravos - ROCKIN' !!

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Three Spaniards and a German.

Hearing this in the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood movie reminded me of this song from long ago.

April 3, 2023

Limbomaniacs - "Shake It" - Heavy FUNK influence Music Video (1990)

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Drummer "Brain"'s first label signed band.


Limbomaniacs

Stinky Grooves – 1990

Praxis

Transmutation – 1992
Sacrifist – 1994
Metatron – 1994
Live in Poland – 1997
Transmutation Live – 1997
Warszawa – 1999
Tennessee 2004 – 2007
Profanation – 2008

Bullmark

Interstate 76 soundtrack – 1996

Giant Robot

Giant Robot – 1996

Godflesh

Songs of Love and Hate – 1996

Tom Waits

Bone Machine – 1992
Mule Variations – 1999
Real Gone – 2004
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards – 2006

Primus

Brown Album – 1997
Rhinoplasty – 1998
Antipop – 1999

Buckethead;

I Need 5 Minutes Alone (as Pieces) – 1997
Colma – 1998
Monsters and Robots – 1999
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell – 2004
Kevin's Noodle House – 2007
A Real Diamond in the Rough (tracks 2, 4, & 7) – 2009
Best Regards (with Melissa Reese) – 2010
Brain as Hamenoodle – 2010
Kind Regards (with Melissa Reese) – 2010

El Stew

No Hesitation – 1999

No Forcefield

Lee's Oriental Massage 415-626-1837 – 2000
God Is an Excuse – 2001

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

The Big Eyeball in the Sky – 2004

Serj Tankian

Elect the Dead – 2007
Imperfect Harmonies (track 10) – 2010

Guns N' Roses

Chinese Democracy – 2008
"Absurd" – 2021

Science Faxtion

Living on Another Frequency – 2008

Travis Dickerson

The Dragons of Eden (with Buckethead) – 2008
Iconography (with Buckethead) – 2009

April 3, 2023

Music Machine - 'Talk Talk'

The 'one-gloved band'.. Also funny how the singer towers over the others..


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April 3, 2023

Will Trump Get Gag Order In Manhattan DA Case? Here's What That Would Mean--And Why It Could Land Him

In Prison


Updated Apr 3, 2023, 09:00am EDT

Topline

Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned Tuesday after he was indicted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office—and the court could impose a gag order that would cut him off from publicly discussing the case and impose legal consequences if he does, as the ex-president has already lashed out over his indictment and reportedly plans to ramp up his attacks.

Key Facts

A gag order is an order imposed by a judge in a criminal or civil case that blocks a party (including attorneys or witnesses) from publicly talking about the case, though the exact terms of the order and what can and cannot be said vary.

If a gag order is violated, the party could be held in contempt of court, which in New York carries a punishment of a $1,000 fine and/or up to 30 days in prison.

Legal experts cited by Insider and Bloomberg said it’s possible and even “extremely likely” the court could impose a gag order on Trump, particularly given security concerns arising from his attacks on prosecutors or other figures in the case, though there are First Amendment issues given that he’s running for president that could make any broad restrictions on his speech legally problematic.

Any gag order would likely be “narrowly tailored” to only cover certain kinds of information about the case, Katie Townsend, deputy executive director and legal director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told Bloomberg.

It’s most likely a gag order would be put on Trump when he’s arraigned Tuesday as a condition for his release from custody, former federal prosecutor Duncan Levin told Insider, and the former president’s attorneys could also be barred from publicly discussing the case so as to not taint the jury pool ahead of a trial.

The order would be issued by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the case—an “absolutely no-nonsense judge,” according to Levin, whom Trump has already attacked on social media.




https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/04/03/will-trump-get-gag-order-in-manhattan-da-case-heres-what-that-would-mean-and-why-it-could-land-him-in-prison/?sh=3fd6b85412d9


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TFG is a sick, dangerous "man".

April 3, 2023

The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind LIVE, not lip-synced (1967)

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April 3, 2023

The Outsiders - Time Wont Let Me (1966)

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Can you believe this is the same singer in the soppy, soggy, sickly sweet sap of a song by Climax?

April 1, 2023

Manhattan Prosecutor CALLS OUT Republicans' Trump COMPLICITY in New Letter

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Q: Since it has been established that criminals should not profit from crimes, can the DA request, that all monies, donated since the indictment has been announced, be frozen, and not unused for any purpose, until after the case is concluded, and if he is convicted, all of the money must be returned?