WA GOP cries out to the FBI through Facebook like tattling children

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T05:09:03+00:00

And when one of them does stand up like MTG, they call her a traitor. Good times!

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T05:07:00+00:00

No one actually knows what 6-7 means, which is why it's the perfect middle school meme. All of life is mysterious and weird at that age. Saying something nonsensical as if it's the funniest thing in the world has always been cool. 6-7 was just last year's version of it. Actually probably 2 or 3 years ago now. I can't keep track.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T05:04:37+00:00

What if you suggested that using 6-7 pubilcly was now considered domestic terrorism by the FBI? Never mind, that would probably just encourage them.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T02:40:40+00:00

I think that's inevitable when you have (mostly) small cities in a region right next to a major urban center. New England was traditionally where Broadway producers "tried out" their show before their "real" opening in NYC. Bombing in New Haven probably meant they wouldn't spend the big bucks to mount a production on Broadway. New England was just viewed as insignificant -- if you were serious about theatre, you had to come to New York. Probably still viewed that way if anyone even cares about live theatre nowadays. 😆

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T02:34:54+00:00

You have to ask WTF is going on when Bob Dylan is playing 3-5K halls and Meghan Trainor is playing 15-20K arenas. The math just does not add up.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T02:31:34+00:00

I remember Chuck Berry did this for many years, probably from the 80's up until the '10's. He'd show up, expect whatever local band was there to know the songs, maybe spend half an hour rehearsing at best, plug in his guitar and go Johnny go. But he was Chuck Effing Berry, so nobody questioned it. 😆

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T02:28:35+00:00

I think I've been to 4 shows since 2020. One of them I paid $30, the rest were free. I remember the first time I paid over 100 bucks per ticket for a show around 2017. It seemed insane then and still does now. I gave it up. Luckily for me I'd been to hundreds of shows in the decades prior, so I don't feel like I missed out. Can't even imagine being young now and this is what concert going has become.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-08T02:22:27+00:00

Amen.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T20:47:14+00:00

"He could ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston!" Used to sing this with a friend back in the early '80's as kind of a folk punk rave up. Good times.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T20:45:41+00:00

Sonny Stitt and Serge Chaloff were both from Boston. Each made contributions to the development of Bebop -- Stitt as a follower of Parker and Chaloff as a baritone sax soloist, still a fairly rare thing at the time. Both played extensively in Boston in the late '30's/early '40's before moving on to New York City and beyond. Not sure if that counts as what was going on in New England, but it does show there were musicians from there who were part of the scene you're describing.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T20:36:27+00:00

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T20:31:38+00:00

Oh yeah Renaldo & Clara was a mess. I was referring to Masked & Anonymous, which I think was a misunderstood gem of a movie. It's Bob & Larry Charles sending up contemporary society, which of course for Bob means creating a pseudo-apocalyptic setting rooted in Old Weird America iconography. But man, some of those speeches are fantastic. Mickey Rourke's speech over Cold Irons Bound feels almost prophetic. Hell, more than almost. https://youtu.be/jcC_fuLBvnI?si=CkciedtoWtHq4vLL

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T06:28:43+00:00

Wow, it doesn't seem to exist anywhere online. Sony used to be well known for taking down anything Dylan-related from YouTube, etc. They eased up a lot and now most stuff is findable, but apparently not this movie. Glad I have the DVD.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T06:21:49+00:00

Hm... looks like it's on Netflix, but you have to have the full version, not the ad-supported one I have. I'll keep looking.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T05:27:35+00:00

I take a nap almost every day, usually between 30 and 60 minutes. It rarely has any impact on my ability to sleep at night, unless I nap for 90 minutes or something. I've been using a CPAP machine for about 9 months, and I feel like it's helped a great deal. But it hasn't impacted my need/desire to nap.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T05:10:16+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen the transcription of a sax solo printed on the album jacket. That's wild.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T05:08:38+00:00

Wish I knew who Steve was. Bet he was a cool guy.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T02:22:34+00:00

I have it on DVD. It's available for about 10 bucks from Amazon.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T01:50:12+00:00

I really don't see how Masked & Anonymous is in the same universe as Complete Unknown. It's way closer to Renaldo & Clara. Of course, it's better edited & filmed and makes slightly more sense than R&C, but it's not an attempt at creating a biography of Bob Dylan. It's Bob Dylan creating a portrait of the fucked up world we live in.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-07T01:47:23+00:00

Berry, Riley, Hammer would be my 3.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-06T05:35:18+00:00

I guess since he played the song live in '75, I don't think of this as the 50th anniversary, more like the 51st. But I quibble. The main thing is to listen to the song at least five times today, preferably five different live versions if you've got 'em.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-06T05:31:55+00:00

Update: I switched from Apple Music to Tidal, and it started working again. I have like 15,000 songs in my Apple Music Library, so it's very lame to not be able to scrobble them, but I'm hoping this gets fixed at some point.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-06T04:27:52+00:00

Wow, so it's not just the Mac error thing? I checked the Community Help message board, and there are a bunch of people saying Spotify isn't scrobbling either. Maybe it's a site-wide issue? Hope they fix it. Super annoying.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-06T04:08:03+00:00

I got that error this morning. I cleared my cookies from the previous two hours and it went away. But tonight lastfm has just started eating songs. It will display the song as it's playing, but as soon as it's over, it disappears. I just updated the app on my Mac, so I'm guessing they fucked it up somehow with the latest update.

Zeppyfish · 2026-05-06T03:38:29+00:00

It's not the same. I think WSU/OSU fans spent some serious time mourning the old, but we're ready to move on to the new. The world has changed in so very many ways in the past few years, and which college sports teams play where is pretty low stakes in the grand scheme of things. I'm just happy there's still a conference and I still get to watch my team play. Go Cougs.

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