One of the secrets to life, so to speak – is thinking outside the
box, or at least thinking outside the other person’s box. Believe you me, in chess, I came up with the “Shock
and Awe” strategy long before George Bush came up with it. If you learn nothing else from Sol Allinsky’s
book- - ok two things. First what you do
should not be illegal. It should be
within the law. This will fluster your
opponent. The other thing is for it to
be “within your own sphere of comfort- - and at the same time- - outside your
political opponents sphere of comfort.
When you think about it, the Tea Party had this strategy down to a
tee. It was at least 2011 and maybe
2010 that I said “We democrats have to put fear in the Republicans by engaging
in strategy they haven’t thought of”.
But now others would say “Big battles are not won in the flesh but only
by the power of the Spirit” so let’s talk about the supernatural. So am I myself qualified to say “I have
been to the mountain and I’ve seen what’s on the other side”. If I am I owe it to those I consider my
friends to tell about it. Obviously if I’m
not qualified- I should shut my mouth.
Two of Sylvia Brown’s sayings have come to mind today. One was her “prediction” that we could
continue to get more and unusual reports of weather and other natural
happenings such as near miss asteroids and giant earthquakes. Check.
But the other thing she said was that “the veil between the living and
the dead is now getting thinner (like the Ozone layer) and pretty soon it will
be commonplace for people to be talking to the dead. I have discovered three great truths
today. Number one. The biggest jerk-off caller on a talk show
radio program has more courage and sheer guts- - then the most honorable talk
show host. Number two. The worst song on Let Zeppelin III (you have
a nice variety) is Better than the Best song on Led Zeppelin’s “In Through the
Out Door”, their last album. Number
three. You are I or anybody you share
this with- - were he to be transported back in time to when Jesus lived- - any
One of us would know way more than Jesus knew as he walked the earth. It’s kind of on the same principle of you
have more computational power in your lap top computer than the computers that
directed the Apollo XI trip to the moon.
But there is one caviat. If you are on that hiking expedition and
phoning back home on your cell phone, just don’t get too cocky. There is an old adage of “Let not he who puts
on the armor, brag like he who takes it off”.
(Selah) In other words, don’t get
too comfortable hanging out at the bar at the base of the mountain, shooting
pool, and being with friends, toking on a number and digging on the sounds of
the Juke Box.
Tonny Ramone, the last surviving member of the Ramones died
today. The Ramones formed in 1974 and
all “decided to take the last name Ramone”.
The other three members of the band died early in the 2000’s. Tommy Ramone was 65, which makes him,
strangel, older than I am. Their debut
album came out in 1976 and Tommy took the job as dummer at the last minute when
they were desperate. He left the band in
1978 but continued to produce for the band.
Cosmically all four- - are united again now. Of course they would also be a cosmic first
for the “Agagenians”, which is a star in Leo but not a part of the Romulan
Empire, though Black Bart was acquainted with the race. But in other identification - - - as far as
the Druanians are concerned you can add two more artists- - - David Peale and
the lower East Side, and also Roxy Music and Brian Ferry. I didn’t know that. But in our reckoning “Roxy Music’ goes down
as pre punk. Oh yes, that song they're playing now on TV "You Spin Me Right Round" - - that's Rhondonian.
LeBran James is reunited with his “beloved” Cleveland once more and
the fans are welcoming him back. James
apparently had ‘6” in the Miami Heat but 23 when he played for Cleveland. James now says “I always intended to return
to northeast Ohio some time, and I never considered going to LA if I did leave
Miami.
You can’t win with the tea party, of
course. If you do go somewhere they say
it’s a cheap photo op, and if you fail to go there, they say you’re not doing
your job. They want you to “Lead” just
as long as you do exactly everything they tell you to do. How silly it is that after voting to repeal
Obama Care 52 times that John Boehner is now filing a law suit because the
provisions of the bill aren’t being enforced.
I didn’t even want to wrangle with Paul about what a gigantic farce this
Hobby Lobby thing is. The very idea
that the average voter would listen to a news agency that’s right only eighteen
percent of the time, if something George Orwell might never have imagined. It’s an Alice in Wonderland world today. It seems to me though an increasing retreat
into a fantasy world- - as though they would be more successful voting the 52nd
time than voting for it the first time.
You have to wonder just how much longer the voters will put up with this
total nonsense.
I was thinking how for so
many groups the quality of the next album after the year 1973 just
collapsed. The biggest example is
Chicago where in Chicago VII they introduced this strange new sound kind of
like “Mu-sak” they liked so well, that every album they’ve done after that
sounds like “Mu-sak” and virtually nothing like their classic brassy
sound. ELP would never do another album
to come close in quality to “Brain Salad Surgery” and “First Impressions” was
out December 31st 1973. Ron
Rhodes says there is a major drop in the quality of Elton John albums from
“Yellow Brick Road” to Carabu. There was
a dramatic drop off in quality from “Passion Play” to “War Child”. Procol Herem would never again do an album
that came close to their April 1973 album.
There was a major lyrical degredation in John Lennon, for “Walls and
Bridges” and the music isn’t as good either.
This list is really impressive like from “Quadrafinia” to “By the
Numbers. It was the last album Alice
Cooper would put out with his original band with Mike Bruce. Some
groups like the Almon Brothers just dropped off the RADAR entirely. Eric Claptin’s “461 Ocean Blvd” was the most
wasted album he’d ever put out. The one
artist to delay his quality drop off a few months was “David Bowie” and Diamond
Dogs came out in May of 1974- - - and then there was a dramatic drop off in
quality for “Young Americans” in 1975.
Of course things weren’t the same after Grandma died Dec 10th
1973. That fall of 1973 session at
Cypress would be my last session there for a long time- - . So it’s not that big of a surprise that I
picked late November 1973 as the retro “Rapture” date for my first book, “For
What it’s Worth” written late 1978.
Five years later that period still stood out.
Chris Matthews is trying to bore us with his “All border refugees
all the time” approach. The thing I saw
today were the same videos I saw yesterday. You can’t pick and choose them like you used
to be able to do- - to skip over stuff you might not like, and you can’t
advance the video once you’re in it. The
thing just snaps back. And I never did
see that thing where Matthews attacks Hillary Clinton. OK we get it- - just once John Boehner
should step up and face this border crisis like an American, but you know he’s
never going to do it. One excuse I’m
getting more than sick of is this notion that “Everybody is afraid of the tea
party contingent and being primaried from the right”. News flash.
Primary season is over- - and the
tea party lost- - so you can’t use that set of excuses any more. One new poll has congress’ popularity down
to seven percent. That is a dramatic new
low. How can ANY of these people sit
there with a straight face and say “Not only are all of these Republican seats
safe, but we’re going to elect more”.
What is it they are putting in the Kool-Aid? The
way they describe the US Senate is that there are twelve races where the
Democrats are weak, and they’ll all go republican.
That purple
cigarette lighter just jammed, and they are useless after that. Doesn’t it seem to you that the good things
in life are always temporary, but the bad things come to stay? You’re always getting older. That isn’t temporary; that’s permanent. If you were to graph the quality of family
relations over the past fifty years I suspect it would be a 45 degree straight
line downward from the upper left to the lower right. I’m still looking for the tax renters rebate
restoration. That isn’t happening. The staff manages to lose things, but isn’t
it funny how they never “find’ them after they “lose” them? I’m looking for this continuous six year
period of what you’d have to call Moral Darkness in the political media- - ever
since we first heard and saw Sarah Palin, because that’s when it all
started. People listen to Sarah Palin
when she says to impeach the president as though she were some kind of elder
statesman.
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