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Song of the Day: "Panama Red" (1973) The New Riders of the Purple Sage
Great song, and great cartoonin'! Panama Red's been stuck in my head for hours. Thanks CHB and MB
…and a special thank you to Peter Rowan.😎
Thanks, Michael and CHB! I haven't heard that song in, probably forty years. I guess I'll go hunt down a NRPS album.
I would have gone with something like Genesis' The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, but this is better.
There were a number of mostly British rock acts in the late 1960s and 1970s, like early Genesis, that got into classical music oriented songs (Em/Lake/Palm, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Yes, etc.). My favorite is Renaissance, with lead singer Annie Haslam and her 5 octave, operatic soprano, voice. I have Ren music on both CD and vinyl. Now trying to find a good one that isn’t 13 or more minutes long. Anyone else can feel free to weigh in.
Funny you should mention Renaissance. Day of the Dreamer popped into my head for the first time in decades one day last week. Spent an hour or more listening to it over and over. What a band. I saw them in Cleveland, OH in 1978 or thereabouts, and that remains an all-time top 10 favorite show. Jon Camp was a beast as well, almost Chris Squire-like on that Rickenbacker bass.
If memory serves, Carpet of the Sun is 4 minutes or so.
"Carpet" is a good one. I was playing Volume II of their greatest hits in the car during this past week. Carpet is on Volume 1, which I played the week before. I was thinking also maybe "Jekyll and Hyde."
Now looking at tunes from the band that puts the "Western" into the term "Country and Western" music.
Today (Saturday) is National Kitten Day
WARNING: this is really discomforting content:
Ex-Trump campaign aide pleads guilty in disturbing child pornography case
Eww, ick! But The Yam hires the best people.
Anyone examining situations and concluding there is "the cause of a problem" doesn't understand the situations. In my sense of the world, few things can be simply defined as "a problem," distinct from other descriptions and evaluations.
Lauren Boebert created her own sockpuppet to like her tweets, defend her nonsense, and follow AOC
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/10/2039195/-Lauren-Boebert-created-her-own-sockpuppet-to-like-her-tweets-defend-her-nonsense-and-follow-AOC
"It’s always nice to have someone who agrees with you on every point. Someone who will take up your battles for you. And maybe someone who will like or retweet those really weird statements that were maybe just a bit to embarrassing to put your name beside. For Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, that person is Freedom Fighter aka @freedom53597835 aka Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert."
It’s no coincidence that even the brainless know enough not to rely on Moderatus . . .
Boebert really DID need that high-school aged young man who was an intern in her office until the Jan 6 events, which triggered his Mom to pull him out of the position and back to Colorado.
And maybe, just maybe, the extent of Boebert's social media "inventions" had something to do with the resignation of an actually qualified person from his short-term position as Director of Communication for the new Representative.
Amusing to speculate along with Mark Sumner and consider the extent of Boebert's multiple personalies on social media.
As we were speculating the other day about her increasing use of “God” references, someone suggested preaching might be her real calling.
Lo..Calamity Jane Boebert, U.S. congresswoman will be delivering a “non-political” message at Faith Heights Church on Sunday, July 25th. @ 10AM. Non-political. Yeah…right.
Why do we get more than our fair share of these?
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/07/10/maven-hotel-four-arrested-all-star-game-denver/
I've read stuff suggesting this might've been a guns-for-drugs deal or something like that. At first I was reading stuff suggesting it could've been a plot of a Vegas-type mass shooting. More info to come, I'm sure: https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/07/11/maven-denver-police-identify-4-arrested-hotel-rooms-weapons-drugs-richard-platt-gabriel-ricardo-rodriguez-kanoelehua-serikawa/
Today (Sunday) is World Population Day
We had an amazing evening last night at the launch of the Prairie Futures project in Joes (pop. 83). I’m pretty sure we tripled the population with an afternoon of presentations on new crops, a narrative history of the Ogallala Aquifer by University of Oklahoma associate professor of anthropology Lucas Bessire, a locally-sourced dinner made from some of the crops being showcased, and an evening under the stars listening to music from three Colorado bands – complete with locally-brewed beer from the Tumbleweed Brewery in Yuma.
My faith is largely restored that we can still build bridges that span our (utterly unnecessary, manufactured) rural-urban divide despite the valiant efforts of so many to perpetuate the myth.
Good work, Michael.
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