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Just, Fuck It

Update: perhaps i was too hasty

Lucky will be the generation that gets to smugly congratulate itself for being free of the blinkered evil of "conservatism".

Last fall, someone I didn't know msg'd me on Facebook.  He wanted to ask about band I was in in the early 90s. Said he had a copy of a 45 we put out and was wondering if we had recorded anything else. I said indeed we did, and gave him a link. Then he said he was from a record label and was interested in putting out a new release of all of our stuff, remastered, repackaged, stamped onto 12" vinyl. Paid for by the label.

"The fuck!?" I exclaimed. Surely this is a scam? But, I asked around and it turns out that the guy was legit. He is a friend of a friend and he is re-releasing records from bands who were active in the early 90s in the city where I went to college.

So, I contacted the other guys from the band, and we all agreed to do it. How very exciting to learn that someone liked our 20 year old songs enough to spend their own money to put them on vinyl!

There was quarter-serious talk of a reunion. But with which bass player? They're both on the recordings. Awkward!

Then the holidays came and interrupted progress. OK. That's expected. But then the new year came there was no word. So we inquired and the label told us they didn't have any money to do our record. Maybe next year.

And that's the last we've heard from them.

Almost a star, again.

The Charlotte Observer:

In a matter of minutes, the state House on Thursday morning overrode the governor’s veto of the same-sex marriage bill that allows magistrates to decline to perform marriages.

The Senate overrode the bill earlier this month, and now it is law. As a result, magistrates and employees of registers of deeds can opt out of performing marriage duties if they cite a religious objection. County offices in North Carolina must have established hours for performing weddings, as well.

I assume it's illegal to discriminate against people based on their personal religious views when hiring them to be magistrates. How can it be legal for magistrates to then use their personal religious views to discriminate while performing their jobs?

You were hired without regard to religion because the expectation is that your religion is irrelevant to the job and that you have to serve the whole community, not just your own!

Pat Robertson tells a grieving mother to assume a positive mental attitude about her young child's death:

As far as God’s concerned, He knows the end from the beginning and He sees a little baby and that little baby could grow up to be Adolf Hitler, he could grow up to be Joseph Stalin, he could grow up to be some serial killer, or he could grow up to die of a hideous disease. God sees all of that, and for that life to be terminated while he’s a baby, he’s going to be with God forever in Heaven so it isn’t a bad thing.

Thanks for calling!

The Crying Of Lot 49 would be a much shorter book if the world in which Oedipa lived had had access to Wikipedia.

Looks up "W.A.S.T.E.".

Clicks link to "Tristero".

"Oh, OK, cool."

The End.

Last week I came up with a groovy little chord progression, built around tight clusters of notes on the top three strings of my guitar. Very unsettled, jazzy, and fun to play. But it needed just a little something. Something was missing. I needed a little hook or a sting or something to make it pop. And I spent all weekend trying to find just the right little tweak. I tried adding a bass line, a second guitar. Some snappy percussion. And then I found it! I needed this one little five note lick at the end. DeeDeeDee Dee Deeeee.

And then a vocal line popped into my head! Holy crap. And then words!

And then... a voice.

It was Bono's voice.

I'd accidentally figured out a Muzak version of the closing bit from the Red Rocks version of 11 O'Clock Tick Tock.

Shortly after leaving the island, they are lifted up by a whirlwind and after seven days deposited on the Moon. There they find themselves embroiled in a full-scale war between the king of the Moon and the king of the Sun over colonization of the Morning Star, involving armies including such exotica as stalk-and-mushroom men, acorn-dogs ("dog-faced men fighting on winged acorns"), and cloud-centaurs. Unusually, the Sun, Moon, stars and planets are portrayed as locales, each with its unique geographic details and inhabitants. The war is finally won by the Sun's armies clouding the Moon over. Details of the Moon follow; there are no women, and children grow inside the calf of men.

After returning to Earth, the adventurers become trapped in a giant whale; inside the 200-mile-long animal, there live many groups of people whom they rout in war. They also reach a sea of milk, an island of cheese and the isle of the blessed.

That's a summary of part of True Stories, a tale written by Lucian, in the second century.