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hey Suz!! How the hell is it going tonight??

nicely done nahant

what did you think of johnny carson’s singing?

Rat Pack

you call that singing??

where is that mural nahant? vegas?

somewhere rattling around in the cobwebs of my memory, is a quote about there only being one time carson sang in front of a camera.

Waltham Ma… rehearsal dinner for first wedding we went to!! All hand painted.. girls were game that night…

Suz, your photo of Bailey in the flowers is great. (when my boy gets that look, I run for cover :))

Can’t post at your blog, haven’t mastered my new browser yet.

how cool nahant

hey sunny – thanks. have ya tried doing it annon (which allows ya to type in your name in the box)?

Can I talk about me. I had a major crisis. I tried to upgrade my IMAC, memory and I clobbered the RAM. I think it works again. To relieve my stress I went to Borders,they have a Beatles special with all sorts of stuff. I got “Help” and “Rubber Soul” and a “metal collectible” of Abbey Road. That’s what hippies do when they get stress, from health care and Oil wars.

Borders stores and Borders.com are offering buyers of two remastered CDs what they’re calling “a collectible metal wall hanging” for $7.99. They’re also selling at 20% off list.

But I also was perturbed because of an e-mail. Anyone heard of Natalie Foster? They want us to video our health care tragic stories. I am so tired of talking about them. I had to send her a sternly worded reply. I want Single Payer. Those DeeCee villagers think we are just sheep to be rounded up. Plus what can you do in 30 seconds other than hack a Diebold Voting Machine. Thank you all for listening, I feel much better now.

From “Natalie Foster, BarackObama.com”
Sent Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:46 pm
To %&$#%#@@
Subject Health reform video challenge

This is your chance — you ingenious, insightful, funny people out there — to make a 30-second ad telling the story about why the status quo has got to go, or explaining how the Obama plan will ensure we get the secure, quality care we need without breaking the budget.

The top submissions will be voted on by the public and a panel of experts, with the winning ad aired on national television. This is your opportunity to add your voice and creativity to the debate, get some great exposure for your work, and make a huge difference.

I’m going to make one comment and head out. As a child, I lived in Las Vegas during the rat pack days. Remember hearing my parents seeing the whole gang. Parents had a “high Fi” and grew up listing to Frank, Dean and Sammy. Got stuck in the era as one of my favorites. Think will listen to Frank before going to sleep.

Nite All

hey frank – good to see ya again. the late late night threads are where ya can talk about anything ya want too.

my first concert was beatles at candlestick. gotta pic of that metal collectable? i sure wish i wudda saved my ticket stubb

frank makes a great lullaby katy – sleep well

frank – many of the commenters here are mac users — newtonusr is who i always turn to when mac stuff arises – hope he pops in tonight

hey, here is an interesting history for you….to put these guys in their place in gangsterdom.

L A NOIR by john buntin. isbn #: 9780307352071

Good God Man!

You have 8 daughters!?!?!!?

Bless your poor soul, you poor man.

*G*

Suz, killer score on THIS one!

That’s a keeper for a lifetime.

Big wow!!!!!

Never heard about it . . . .

Many points if you can name the singer on the right and the guitar player on the left. >:-)

hey larue – thanks. how’s sac tonight?

albert that link didn’t work

hey that guy — how ya doing (besides bragging) :)

HEH HEH HEH – I got this photo from the guy in black, in the back of the photo. This is another memory of a lifetime.

i give up that guy – i know who the guitar dood is but not the guy on the right

holy moly – that’s leeroy parnell in the background!!!

wild guess: delbert?

Great singing, greater drunk skits…

The Alaska bloggers brought Max Blumenthal up here for the weekend, during a break between Seattle and Portland in his book tour. Two good talks, a radio appearance, and a party last night. Now he’s on the plane headed for Portland.

Reminder Pups in the NorCal area 10-10 is when we are getting together for another meetup of the Bear Creek/Redwood meetup!!
Ya can email at nahnter @ da g mail thingy…
I will be making a brined smoked turkey… Also there will be others grills including a “Western BBQ” which takes 3 to 4 hours to get up to temperature for your grilling pleasure.. hope ya all can make it!

Never seen them before that I know of . . . . ya got me. *G*

hey et – how ya doing? loved those garden photos and the water sampling.

hiya suz

Been 100F two days now, coming down a bit tomorrow, and to low 80’s Tuesday!

Life’s a bit boring, but hey, it beats the alternative . . . *G*

Been woodshedding dobro, finally hitting the vids and TRYING to learn a few scales.

Brutal shit for me, I don’t LIKE the tedium . . . . lol

hey teddy – how ya doing? how’s sf tonight?

I can’t listen right now, migraine still hangin on. I told it to git gone and when that didn’t work, asked it to please leave. It told me to deal with it.
Or what? You’ll make me sit in The Naughty Chair? Jeezus. My migraine is a British Kathy Bates mean nanny.

Wish I had those daughters …/s They are the brides maids for my nephews wedding… But I do have 3 daughters… all married off with kids …

Which one? And who’s the git picker, all I got is Warren Haynes with short hair . . .

I’m pooped. A lot of effort went into getting Max up here, and now it’s on to the next project.

yikes larue — i’m supposed to have rain all this week starting tomorrow. probably rain each day is more like it – weather doods tend to hype everything.

oh jeez margot…. sending ya end the migraine thoughts through the innertubes

A really striking group of young women . . . all fahred up, too!! *G* LOVE the mural behind them. Awesome.

i’ll bet you are. you have been quite busy lately. makes me wonder if you ever sleep :)

It is the Abbey Road Cover, but it is made of steel I think and it is a tiny bit smaller than the album cover. I do not know if the have other “collectible” albums. Borders has Beatle coasters, fridge magnets, all sorts of stuff, but I am too poor at the moment to buy anything else. One thing I had not seen before was a movie called “Across the Universe”, not about the Beatles but about the 60’s. I am too tired to google it.

It is appropriate to recall at that time, there was a Music and Culture War between the Sinatra/Mafia versus the Guitar Group Hippies.

Suz, I’m goin with yer Delbert Mc as sanger on the right, took a few extra looks.

Wonder who the others are . . .

Da rat Pack!!

how cool – i still have my original vinyl of abbey road. it is among my much loved albums.

yes there was a culture war but in 65 it was not as pronounced as it was later in the 60’s.

i think that is lee roy parnell half hidden in the back on the right.

The “comment as” button isn’t working for me. I think the other two are ok (they’re sending me back to select on the comment as button).s

Lots of stuff being disabled for speed. I’ll figure it out. I’ve got options!

ok sunny – maybe it is a flash thing the comment button needs – like with the utubes

DING DING, we have a WINNAH!

what can you do in 30 seconds other than hack a Diebold Voting Machine

LOL

*former highly trained observer*

had to put some mental clues together about you and the blues cruises

nite Pups… send email if ya are going to make the meetup..

g’nite nahant

The early to mid 60’s were an incredible time, all the way up to the early 70’s.

In the early to mid 60’s, you had old school 50’s do wop, old school 50’s rock, old school crooners and hipsters like Rat Pack, all the countrybilly and rockabilly stuff coming out, Elvis, HUGE influences from STAX to Sun Records to Barry Gordy’s Motown, Phil Spector’s Amazing Wall Of Sound!, with the Great Folk Scare, Dylan, Surf Music, all the top 40 one hit wonders, the British Invasion, and the beginning of the electric fusion of folk/rock and hippie rock.

Incredibly heady times, and all reflected on shows on TV in black and white, and then, glorious living color.

But the AMOUNT and VARIETY of HUGELY popular music was a one in a lifetime, perhaps once in history, event.

I’d have to list some 50 songs to cover all one might hear back then on the radio. Each one of them, a different genre . . . . we who were there, were real, real lucky. Especially ’round The SF Bay Area . . *G*

But Philly, Boston, NY, and Atlanta were hotbeds, too . . .

Just thinking about what was on my transistor radio from ‘63-’69 alone boggles me.

The hit parade was loaded with ALL those genres, at times.

I got to see these guys, suz, when I was about 21. In Vegas, before vegas was so crowded you couldn’t walk around.

My boyfriend’s parents took us to really nice seats. Didn’t appreciate it at the time.

Last night I got to see the best concert of my life. BonTaj.

Ok, what one? Delbert? Leroy P is in back, not the dude up front.

and there were all the variety shows on teevee larue – that featured a buttload of artists. ed sullivan. the smothers brothers. every show exposed so many to so much.

hands on the screen…

now i’m doubly jealous loohoo. dang.

how’s socal tonight?

How Teddy really feels about the week to come.

Oh, Margot. So sorry about your headache. I have a friend who gets migraines, can’t imagine the pain. Cindy McCain has them too, and wants the gov to study them.

I think she should use some of her own money if she’s serious about it. It would show some good will on her part…

the pearl clutchers are gonna be puckered up over that one teddy

woooo…

Heh, yeh, how WUZ that one Loo? *G*

It’s finally cooling down here, thank heavens. My dog (ok my mom’s dog) killed one of my two chickens today, so sadness. The other chicken is so sad…

Now, these chickens are my daughters’, but I actually liked both of them. (Never thought I would) Eggs!

TW3, Shindig, Hullabaloo, Dick Clark’s Dance Party, they ALL had music variety if they weren’t pure comedy, and even pure comedy had a music segment . . . yep, insane, wasn’t it all . . *G*

oh noes loohoo — how sad. have you told your daughter yet?

Repeat, this is the coolest.

I always tell the young kids that we had top 40 radio, for the teenagers then, which they do not have now. Of course there are all sorts of internet radio stations. There is even Beatles-a-rama. with the Fab 4 featured.

But the Top 40 had lots of “diversity” which we do not have so much. There was Pet Clark, Seeds, Stones, Johnny Cash, Inglebert, Aretha, Martha and the Vandellas, Ray Stevens, of course Neil Diamond, Airplane, Doors, James Brown, Spanky and Our Gang, Association and lots of one hit wonders etc.

These days that much diversity would cause Republican-assholes to ask that there be investigations and someone must resign. I left out Nancy Sinatra. Her Daddy’s career was fading fast then.

Yes. She is really responsible. I didn’t sign up for these chickens. Sad, though, cuz she raised them in an incubator since they were eggs. (Who would think a 20 year old girl would spend money on eggs and an incubator?) !! Not me at that age!

that is wicked cool loohoo – thanks

Well, maybe that’s why she sang about boots made for walking.

Thanks you all;)
Loo Hoo, that sounds like a great concert, Taj and Bonnie. Lucky you!

wow – makes it even more sad. dang

we were surrounded by a vast array of musical choices available. yet it did not feel at all overwhelming – it was very freeing having such diversity to listen to (and so easily accessible).

LooHoo, that’s really sad. Are you going to get another so the survivor will have company?

I watched part of the YouTube (slow connection), it’s gorgeous.

sunny – it worked!

Just read it. I hate to feel as bad about it all as you do, but . . .

Given the Mouse Circus Ass Clown Circuit today, and all the parade offered, it’s bad news, and trigger bound.

The Big Dog is backin Trigger Snowe.

And all the general analysis of who’s sayin what, just seems depressing, overwhelming, and, well, fucking losing.

Out gunned, we were toyed with up to the the moment of climax, so to speak, in this reaming. Or so it appears.

Without a full public option, ready NOW, folded into Medicare, we’re pretty fucked it seems.

Like the land grab of mortgages, elim of jobs that were NOT part of the Bank/Finan Bailout, this HC Not So Reform will lock us in and out.

I concur with your posits that it’s over. And given the positioning of Af/Pak/Iraq, and our sitches there, it’s obvious that the corporate behemoths have utter and complete control of it all.

We don’t and didn’t stand a chance, no matter WHO we voted for, it would seem, huh.

At this point, short of HUGE and massive civil demonstrations by millions upon millions, it’s over.

I don’t think our votes matter anymore. They are a token process to pacify us and fake us out, in a mistaken belief we have SOMEthing to say about who by and how we are governed.

Maybe it’s just a meloncholic merlot mixin in my mind, but I’m reading all the bad signs that seem all of a sudden to be EVERYwhere, because the media IS controlled by the puppet masters.

I guess, net neutrality, and freedom, is next. Gone. Censored.

At the national level, it’s ugly. Maybe locally, things will be better, but without jobs, and incomes, it’s over.
Blight at the local level. We’re seeing it here in Sacto, hell, seen it since ‘04 or earlier, with the housing collapse.

As I grow older, with mine, it’s gonna be real difficult for us. At my 56, and her 63, thought we’d have 20 or more years together, safely, with work for us thru our mid to late 70’s. Now, not so sure . . . .

Seems all of us are falling into the vortex of less in our life faster n light disappears into a dark hole.

I haven’t decided whether to replace the chicken. It’s a mixed thingy. While the gals produce really good eggs, it costs far more to feed them (not to mention the work and what a mess they are) than to buy eggs.

Maybe my daughter will just get over it.

I now appreciate the meaning of “chicken shit”. Ain’t nothing worse! But…my dogs like to roll in it, so I have to hose them off…

Ever heard Nickle Creek’s ‘The Lighthouse’?

Tells the tale of the lighthouse and it’s master and his love.

They die, lighthouse lives. Make ya cry every time.

Heck of a vid, thanks, never seen it.

in hindsight

Hey guys and gals, we got a rockin’ tune from those fabulous Flirtations. “Nothing But a Heartache Everyday”. And ain’t that the truth!

yup! It was the proxy.

Yep to all you said . . . it was incredible, wasn’t it.
All gone. Cept for the memory.

the lighthouse

Damn, hella pick Frank . . . I remember that one!

oh that is sweet frank33 haven’t heard that in years

That’s gonna make some folks cry tonite, ya know . . . ;-)

tissues are always kept next to the brain bleach larue…. just in case

nite all. Early appt this am.

g’nite sunny

WTF, we’re all gonna be in service to the Diamond Joe’s of the world it seems.

Here’s some hope and light, maybe the kids can fix this shit. They sure can pick. The Tuttle’s.

Their dad, Jack Tuttle, is a long time Bay Area picker and music teacher.

He and his kids are special. And dear to all of us who love the music. Jack’s Page And Who They Are

That Diamond Joe, he’s a hard bastard to work for . . .

Looks like it’s just the chickens left Suz, I’ll say g’nite, too . . . best to yas and thanks for the post. *waves*

g’nite larue – glad ya enjoyed it

Thanks!

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