i could very easily listen to Richard Shindell all evening long ... as I mellow out ... if you can share music, you can share anything!

pass the carrots, please.

Heh... carrots. That hair!

Oops.

and then there's the song my toddler keeps demanding i play...

That's what I'm talking about! The boy's got taste.

Here's another take on that song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9osbpEHvQVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgMGk9JPVA

This should be a theme song ...

https://youtu.be/V9AbeALNVkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svjm7qj5hLk

That hair. Heh. :)

But, if I'm in a Gowan state of mind, there must be a strange animal roaming about ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6fUA4_hHII

https://youtu.be/hdcTmpvDO0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_rYzxGNjK0

https://youtu.be/19DigHsZJx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgQ4KjSahg

Hey, guess who took the stage before Styx when I saw them those forty odd years ago?

Here's a big honkin' clue ...

Don't even need a big honking clue... I would wager without hesitation that it was PRiSM.

And, that would be the best version!

Here's a big honkin' clue ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgZcUcIfPw

Okey dokey, then ... here's a fun one from Mick and David ...

Not bad. Two old men trying to do Martha & the Vandellas! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDT88KFANjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__coJMIqSno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2x293iVaXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBi61pgDUP8&list=RDRlTIXed_DP8&index=7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HasaQvHCv4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyQnIUq5xzQ

Well, if you're gonna share THAT song, I expected a much better video coming from you ... don't beat around the bush, in other words. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRVqrOp-Uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am4PB9sNdU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEZQY2ZlGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUxPcxK6tvI

It's still so hard to believe ...

Enjoy some of the original score from BlackPanther ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6txUB4JPw8

Another lovely moment from the Oscars before we get to the phenomenal Black Panther score ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgASaCn8XXs

Well, this is bound to be a "stunningly sad" CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party as we honour the life and work of Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther, who died this week after a difficult battle with cancer.

Here is the moment that Black Panther won the Oscar for Best Original Score ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvIYkV8EK3U

That was very kind, thank-you ... :) And, I'll try better next time.

Don't Touch Me There

https://youtu.be/Ex05XUddWMk

Cheers. And hoping Biden plays his hand better than Clinton.

Quote of the day ...

"We must love each other or we must die."

And lest anyone think that has no political relevance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDypP1KfOU

[Beavis and Butthead voice]: "Heh heh heh... he said pie... heh heh."

And kittens!

You're welcome...

Let's hear more about pie and weed. :)

I believe I owe you an apology for misreading, misinterpreting and just making a fool of myself, in general, as I am so wont to do around here.

Cheers?

Do you have a basis for your belief beyond a general faith in Biden and the arc of the moral universe?

Not really. Been following Biden pretty closely for the better part of thirty years, so ...

I guess we're all a little more cynical, but I remember my strong belief that Clinton's team had an unbeatable 'ground game' that would secure the industrial Midwest for her in the 2016 election. Because how could she not? so I thought.

I had no such unfounded faith in Clinton or her team. She has always rubbed me the wrong way. And, I believe she has no one but herself and her campaign-sabotaging husband to blame for her loss to Trump, of all people.

Or, more correctly, so I believed, because no reporters had done anything but repeat the campaign's hot-air assurances of competence and planning.

That was also an ill-founded belief as political reportage has been devolving steadily downwards for a very long time.

Please don't mistake my comment here for cynicism. It is based on long experience and world-weary realism. :)

Which is why I so look forward to Sunday nights around here. Heh.

Do you have a basis for your belief beyond a general faith in Biden and the arc of the moral universe?

I guess we're all a little more cynical, but I remember my strong belief that Clinton's team had an unbeatable 'ground game' that would secure the industrial Midwest for her in the 2016 election. Because how could she not? so I thought.

Or, more correctly, so I believed, because no reporters had done anything but repeat the campaign's hot-air assurances of competence and planning.

Yes, good point. There's no doubt that political reporting in our times is, in so many ways, simply cultural criticism of media.

But instead of the conventions and the president's latest cry of "squirrel!" and 0.5% slips and jumps in the polls, isn't there more important news gathering to be done?

Has anyone been reporting on just what Biden's team is doing right now about a possible victory and transition? There are a number of challenges:

1) The whole stinker about a disputed election and the president's expected refusal to accept a loss, whether squeaker or blow-out. How is Biden's team preparing right now for Court challenges, constitutional arguments both state-level and federal, and ultimately the battle for control of public opinion and federal law enforcement. But assume they finally get him out,

2) Who will staff the administration, from the cabinet on down? How are the incoming appointees preparing right now for the likelihood that Trump's troops in the bureaus and offices of DC will, to the best of their abilities, refuse to cooperate in a peaceful and public-spirited way, because of (1) above and just general assholery?

3) What legislation and administrative actions are in preparation right now, assuming a victory in the Senate, (a) to move the country forward on matters that Trump did nothing on or moved backwards on: climate change, systemic economic inequality, international cooperation, regulation of big business, etc. and (b) to investigate and if necessary prosecute the host of shady deals, corruption, self-serving, and administrative law-breaking that seems to have been the mission statement of the entire Trump administration from the president down to the meanest "acting" supervisor of the bureau of administration of procedure?

Bearing in mind that all of (3), like all of (2), will be obstructed in the most vicious, persistent, and mean-spirited way by the remnants of the Trump base and media enablers and corporate sponsors, following on (1).

"We must love each other or we must die."

wow, someone should really crop that clip and post it by itself.

JL

He was making some point or another about all the scary Black people rioting in the suburbs or something (my notes don't fully indicate), towards the end of his marathon speech, when he said people would be moving into "Waldorf compounds." Um... the Waldorf-Astoria is building mini-mansions now? Or maybe they're communes for people who only eat a particular kind of salad? Who knew? I think Trump was trying for "walled-off compounds," but to my ears, he distinctly missed that mark.

Oh, I caught that myself... too funny! And who just built a nice new wall all around the White House? Bunker Boy Don.

These con artists crack me up. Did you catch the part in Ivanka's speech where she said: "My father isn't deterred..." Except the way Ivanka speaks/reads, it sounds like she says: My father isn't a turd...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5F3GNco7DM&feature=youtu.be&t=525

I completely lost it, spewed my rum and Coke everywhere and took several minutes to stop laughing. :)

From an article I'm reading right now, on Trump's misstep by demonizing USPS:

Our mail system has a 91 percent approval rating, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in April. In these fractious times, nothing has a 91 percent approval rating. Trump might as well have attacked kittens or pie.

[Beavis and Butthead voice]: "Heh heh heh... he said pie... heh heh."

You're welcome...

:-)

-CW

... there will be music from the Black Panther, in loving memory of Chadwick Boseman and some new STYX and some fun Mick Jagger!

Have no fear, as Dean Wormer recommended, it was a double-secret double.

Trump (especially when pondering his remarks on what an important part Ft. McHenry played in the American Revolution) often reminds me of Bluto's immortal words:

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Heh.

-CW

For those who weren't lucky enough to have turned on the radio in San Francisco on Fridays for the past 30-35 years or so, here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsv4Lb7EQs

:-)

"I knew you were going to say that!"

Heh.

-CW

Maybe that should be "schadengasm"? I'd have to check the spelling...

Heh.

-CW

Missed that. I'm ready for SNL to start up again...

I thought about adding a line in the above article, something along the lines of: "And then Rudy Giuliani gave a weather report from Mordor, or something..." but thought the LOTR references were already enough.

Heh.

MtnCaddy [4] -

"Sauron will invade the Shire soon, under a Biden administration!"

Heh.

JFC [7] -

Yeah, but just think of all the bulldozer jobs Biden would create!

goode trickle [9] -

I've seen stars, happy faces, and even a US flag, but never seen 3D dice or playing cards, must admit.

Hey, what the HECK did happen to KFOG? I mean, seriously! I loved them for like 25 years, and a few years back drove up to SF and instead of "10 at 10," and The Toys ("I Smoke Two Joints") kicking off every weekend at 5:00 PM every Friday, I got some sort of aural trash coming out of my radio.

Is nothing sacred? I mean, really...

LizM [12] -

I believe that should read: "...deserve a good stiff drink..."

That's what I got, at any rate, after it was all over. That, and a shower.

:-)

John M from Ct. [13] -

Here's my stock answer: "I watch them so you don't have to."

Seriously, though, what was I supposed to do, ignore them? The novelty of the format was enough to draw me in, personally.

nypoet22 [16] -

I had a friend at college who used to interrupt with a very loud: "BZZZZT!!! Thanks for playing..." which, to me, was the aural equivalent of the FF "X-box" (nice word coinage, there, by the way...). He got us all saying it, and I still use it to this day, in fact.

:-)

OK, that's all I'm doing tonight, but I promise to try to dig through all the last two weeks worth of comments in the next few days -- I've been so exhausted by the marathon that I haven't had the energy, sorry.

-CW

Nice of you come join me here on the Dark Side.

Trump’s speech brought in 19.85 million total viewers, the ratings firm announced Friday, compared with 21.8 million for Biden.

A sweep! Four nights of beating the GOP in the one category Trump actually cares about: ratings.

As Colbert said on his show last night, "the Germans have a word for what I'm experiencing right now: shaden-gasm."

Heh.

-CW

Heh.

And I'm tired of reading about them.

Again, thanks for the effort, you're a pundit's pundit for putting in the time. But what is the point of minutely-detailed coverage of the party conventions, when (1) this year, they're not even live events, so that there is no intra-party schmoozing going on behind the scenes, no smoke-filled rooms that change history, and no consequent opportunity for astute journalists to cover real stories about the changing future of the party, etc., etc.; and (2) no one is watching them expect party loyalists who are not going to change their minds about their respective nominees?

You deserve a medal ... or, something.

:-)

goode trickle wrote:

Is it too soon to remember the famous press conference where trump said :

Just asking for a friend

Well I, um, asked a friend and s/he said, "It's too early. November is two plus months away."

"if you're running for president you shouldn't be allowed to use teleprompters."

Just asking for a friend.

Have to disagree on the "sky trash" (as friend in the biz calls less than stellar fireworks) from last night.

You must have missed the KFOG Skyconcert ( before they were sued and had to change to Kaboom) where we did the golden gate bridge and 3 dimensional dice as well as playing cards.

Any yahoo can do fountains, ellipse, ellipse, jubilee, fountain, trump, fountains, jubiliee, trump, ect. ect.

In all fairness Biden's were not any better, so...

Don't be silly, JFC. Those who reeeally need to maintain social distancing from lesser peoples will just decamp to another of their homes. Sleepy Joe can't ruin every suburb on Day 1.

Nope, Frodo ain't safe back in the Shire, cuz anarchist/BLM/antifa folk are invading a suburb near you! Aaaand...a suburb near Frodo for that matter

Coronavirus? What coronavirus?

He's a geezer. He needs to wear his glasses, but that would make him look weak (unlike thee world's worst comb-over and 100 pounds of fast food blubber).

In all fairness, Fat Donny also said "I take responsibility always for everything".

He forgot to look before leaping both times.