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This is what I looked at last week. The grafiti enabled meters of L5P and EAV are timeless · until a couple of days ago I hadn’t heard of Greg Palast in years, the man who claims to have been pursuing me with questions for two months. He has never phoned, written, emailed or made any other contact with me, which is curiously reminiscent of the behavior of the US Senate committee. Having now forced myself to look at his pernicious writing, it seems like the deranged ramblings you might expect to find pushed out from under the door of a locked ward. He claims to be a journalist. He clearly doesn’t get much work. · Crawl back under your rock, Mr Palast! · The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the featured photograph in July 1941. “Putting samples of wheat into sack of central sampling office. Walla Walla, Washington.” · There is a video on youtube, claiming that the 2024 election was stolen, using Jim Crow voter suppression. I was not convinced. … The pictures today have more truth. “Putting samples of wheat into sack of central sampling office. Walla Walla, Washington.” · “these things are so horrifying they’re almost hard to say he’s saying that there’s so many dead bodies in Gaza that cannot especially in Northern Gaza that are not even buried that literally the dogs are obese” · “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” · Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night August 1, 1977 … The yt transcript rendered lobotomy as “the bottom of me” · Somebody dumped a futon on the path, across from Ashford Park Elementary. I dragged it to the curb. … First phone call to Dekalb County: The english challenged man, after being asked to speak up 25 times, gave me a phone number to call. I called the number. After ringing twelve times, someone picked up, and said they were for City of Atlanta, not Brookhaven. … Second phone call to Dekalb County: The lady said they don’t handle this, I should call “Keep Dekalb Beautiful”, and gave me a number. KDF does not provide this service, but gave me a number with the City of Brookhaven. The lady I talked to there said that Dekalb county picks up the trash in Brookhaven. … Third phone call to Dekalb County: I ask for bulk pickup, and give them the nearest address to the path. The lady said it might take ten business days. … Later, I sent an email to Dekalb Sanitation … Greetings, Please visit Dekalb Sanitation and select roll cart request for replacement, damaged repairs, upgrades, returns etc. · “law banning U.S. · mean fortunate President · solution” is what you see of the featured reduction on bluesky/facebook/X. To see the rest of the story, you will have to see the commentary. Unless you are on X, in which you case you see it now, and have to go in the comments for the link · the spell check for ordo amortis is odor amortizes · It is not everyday that a meme quote turns out to be legitimate. Today is that day. @angrywaterman.bsky.social posted a drawing of Benjamin Franklin, with “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” When you type the phrase … you cannot copy text off an image … and feed this to google, you learn that Mr. Franklin wrote a letter to his sister Jane Mecom, on November 1, 1773. BF was in London on some business or another, and making people angry with his words. The revolution was coming, and BF was encouraging resistance to the empire. · “Peggy Caserta whose candid revelations about her romantic relationship with rock star Janis Joplin were revealed in a groundbreaking if often sordid 1973 tell-all book that she later disavowed as ghostwritten exploitation, died Thursday, November 21, 2024, of natural causes at her cabin on the Tillamook River on the Oregon Coast. She was 84. … Her first memoir, written she later said for the sole purpose of funding the ferocious heroin habit that would dog her for decades, has over the years been both reviled as a tawdry invasion of privacy and revered as an LGBTQ souvenir from an era and milieu that offered few.” · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Charles R. Rees took the featured photograph in 1862. ‘Captain James H.M. Neblett of Neblett’s-Coleman’s Virginia Heavy Artillery Battery” · This is a repost from 2017. John B. Cooke passed away September 3, 2017. … · I don’t know which was worse. Hearing Peggy Caserta had died, or learning that “Going down with Janis” was ghost-written trash, fueling a heroin habit. The picture: ‘Captain James H.M. Neblett of Neblett’s-Coleman’s Virginia Heavy Artillery Battery.” · October 21, 1965 “Allstate Insurance Company office party” LBSCB01-050f · gsu · there was a poem in MAD magazine. “Tigers Tigers fighting bright/In the ballparks of the night /Your pitchings fair, your fields adroit/So why no pennant for Detroit.” I was surprised forty years later to read “The Tyger” by William Blake. · The photographs are from The Library of Congress The featured photograph was taken by Charles R. Rees between 1861 and 1865. “Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Craig’s Rifles, or 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment” · selah
Handist And Offensive
This is a repost from 2015. … As saturday morning turned into afternoon, I was looking for text. Twitter had an entertaining entry. @DangerMindsBlog “Hunter S. Thompson’s typical daily intake of drink ‘n’ drugs.” The comments were charming. “It’s funny how everyone is obsessed with the truth of this absurd itinerary. This article made me smile and love HST more than ever. It’s what he stood for or symbolized that I respond to. We need more crazy fucking lunatics in this world and fewer anal-retentive fact-checking pussies.”
Maybe that is not a good idea for a post. There is always something in the archive. There were two stories in 2009 about word lists. Ten words was based on a story at YOU ARE REMARKABLE, where the last post was published November 21, 2014. “here are 10 of the most beautiful words in the human language. try sprinkling them throughout your next conversation & admire the way they feel rolling off your lips. watch how the listener’s eyes light up.”
The 10 words are: 01. adroit: dexterous, agile 02. adumbrate: to very gently suggest 03. aestivate: to summer, to spend the summer 04. ailurophile: a cat-lover 05. beatific: befitting an angel or saint 06. beleaguer: to exhaust with attacks 07. blandiloquent: beautiful & flattering 08. caliginous: dark & misty 09. champagne: an effervescent wine 10. chatoyant: like a cat’s eye.
Adroit is also the first word on the list. When I was young enough to think it was funny, I read MAD magazine. There was a poem: Tigers Tigers fighting bright/In the ballparks of the night /Your pitchings fair, your fields adroit/So why no pennant for Detroit. (I felt really stupid when I read “The Tyger” by William Blake. Maybe Allen Ginsberg read MAD magazine.)
A commenter at the original post begs to differ: “I take issue with the top word on your list. Adroit comes from the French word for “right”, as in “right handed”. It is the direct antonym of gauche, both in English and in its native French where it means “left”, as in “left handed”. As a non-right-hander I find both of these words to be handist and offensive.”
The second rerun today is 12 Funny Words. It is based on a post at alpha dictionary, which is still producing. The post was sponsored by Chinese Lady #1 Most Trusted Dating Service in China.
As you may have noticed, the first list was not the ten most beautiful words in english. It was merely the first ten, in alphabetical order. The fact that 01 rhymes with Detroit tells you more than you need to know. The second list….the 100 funniest words…. is also an a-z affair. The reality is that the last word is yahoo, and no z words made the cut. I decided to edit the list for the convenience of the reader. It occurred to him that perhaps this said more about me than about the list…what words did I choose, and why? Here is the list:
09 bloviate To speak pompously or brag. 23 crapulence Discomfort from eating or drinking too much. 24 crudivore An eater of raw food. 31 fatuous Unconsciously foolish. 32 fenestration Putting in windows. 39 fuddy-duddy An old-fashioned, mild-mannered person. 57 klutz An awkward, stupid person. 59 la-di-da A saying indicating that something is pretentious. 61 logorrhea Loquaciousness, talkativeness. 73 osculate To kiss. 83 rhinorrhea A runny nose. 92 troglodyte Someone or something that lives in a cave. … The pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, GSU Library. The featured image was taken October 21, 1965. “Allstate Insurance Company office party”
On The Road With Janis Joplin
This is a repost from 2017. John Cooke passed away September 3, 2017. … John Byrne Cooke, the son of public television star Alistair Cooke, had gotten a liberal arts degree from Harvard. He stumbled into a job filming the Monterrey Pop Festival. Like the rest of America, he was impressed by Janis Joplin. Soon, Mr. Cooke got a job as the road manager for Big Brother and the Holding Company. One result is a book, On the Road with Janis Joplin.
The management of Big Brother did not want the band filmed at Monterrey. After their saturday afternoon show, the film makers realized that Miss Joplin was important to the film. A second show was arranged for sunday night. This show was filmed. When you see Cass Elliot saying oh wow, that was saturday afternoon. The film crew filmed the crowd during that show.
Mr. Cooke arrived in San Francisco as the summer of love was playing out. Many old timers on the scene were already getting out. At first it was an uneasy fit with the band … the eastern bluegrass player, and the hippies. There was one meeting, where Mr. Cooke thought he was going to be fired. Things were patched up, and the show went on.
There were a lot of people who knew each other. Mr. Cooke had been trying to romance a California girl. It turns out she was a friend of someone, possibly Linda Gravenites, the roommate, and close friend, of Miss Joplin.
Peggy Caserta was another connection. Supposedly Miss Caserta had a lesbian thing going with Miss Joplin. Whatever did, or did not, happen, Miss Caserta wrote an awesomely trashly book, Going Down With Janis. The opening line: “I was stark naked, stoned out of my mind on heroin, and between my legs giving me head was Janis Joplin.”
“Peggy Caserta whose candid revelations about her romantic relationship with rock star Janis Joplin were revealed in a groundbreaking if often sordid 1973 tell-all book that she later disavowed as ghostwritten exploitation, died Thursday, November 21, 2024, of natural causes at her cabin on the Tillamook River on the Oregon Coast. She was 84. … Her first memoir, written she later said for the sole purpose of funding the ferocious heroin habit that would dog her for decades, has over the years been both reviled as a tawdry invasion of privacy and revered as an LGBTQ souvenir from an era and milieu that offered few.”
The year spent with Big Brother was 1968. Miss Joplin was staying in an apartment on Noe Street. Robert Kennedy made a campaign appearance on nearby Castro Street, with Miss Joplin in the crowd. When Mr. Kennedy was killed, after winning the California primary, the band was in Los Angeles. Mr. Cooke sought solace with Judy Collins that night.
Around this time, some people convinced Miss Joplin that she should leave Big Brother. There was three weeks between the last Big Brother show, and the first show as a solo artist. The Kozmic Blues band never really worked. Miss Joplin felt she was a failure. Miss Joplin started to use heroin frequently. Except for a European tour, 1969 was a bad year.
In 1970, Miss Joplin quit using heroin, and started to play with Fult Tilt Boogie. Things wer going well. The band was in Los Angeles recording an album. One night, Miss Joplin got some extra strong heroin. Mr. Cooke found the body.
This book report leaves a great deal of the story out. Miss Joplin broke a whiskey bottle over Jim Morrison’s head, and got into a fist fight with Jerry Lee Lewis. There were three appearances on the Dick Cavett show, 1969, 06-25-70, and 08-03-70. At 1:12 in this video, Miss Joplin observes “you’re a real swinger I can tell by your shoes man.” (Here is a screen shot from 1969, with heroin, next to another from clean 1970.)
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Charles R. Rees took the featured photograph in 1862. ‘Captain James H.M. Neblett of Neblett’s-Coleman’s Virginia Heavy Artillery Battery.”
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