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Basically a way to turn your body into a permanent bumper sticker collection. Keep It Classy, Yo.

First we overlook evil Then we permit evil Then we legalize evil Then we promote evil Then we celebrate evil Then we persecute those who still call it evil.

I'm getting hung up on tattoos, piercings and colored hair. I don't get how all this has become so popular. People are mutilating their bodies. In the name of self expression? I think it is the work of demons. Like these people live their lives with no confinement or boundary. Anything goes. Wherever the wind (popular culture) takes them. It started with tramp stamps. Pro athletes and rappers started getting inked up and now it is more rare to see people without tattoo than people with tattoo. What's with all the facial tacklebox jewelry with piercings everywhere? Noses, lips, eye brows…. Like facial fishing lures. I think it's ugly. It bothers me. I'm being judgemental. I'm showing conscious bias. That's not allowed. Accept everyone. Accept their authentic self. It's like I'm living with a bunch of spoiled kids who never experienced the word no. Ever. In their entire lives. Why does society insist on indulging this behavior? Whe...

My dad actually liked that stuff. I think it's disgusting. After reading what it's made of, I know it's disgusting.  I’d rather eat Hotdogs made out of pig hooves and anuses. 

It's interesting that used gas car prices are going up while used electric car prices are going down. Maybe that's because electric cars don't make good used cars because battery capacity diminishes over time and no one wants to put a new battery in them. Essentially making them junk cars. How hard is it to make an electric car?  A motor, a battery and a rheostat. If the manufacturers started with basic car functions instead of adding all this self driving technology they would be cheaper. And more people would have bought them instead Of the virtue signaling egg head early adopters.   One data point everyone leaves out of the electric used car market is how many of those were replaced by gas cars or another electric one?  There’s probably an obvious answer to that question. 

I hate living in Joe Biden's America. Why? Illegal immigration A two tiered justice system Student loan forgiveness EV mandates and incentives His DEI hires are incompetent His vice president specializes in word salad His foreign policy decisions He's old He's a liar His son isn't held to account His hostility towards tradition forms of energy His advocacy for a green economy High inflation his policies have created The fact that he's too stupid to see the connection between his policies and inflation The media shields him He's an incompetent gaffe prone moron He panders for votes

Caitlyn Clark is billed as the savior for women's basketball. She's tall. She has privilege because she's white. She was the number one draft pick. All the femmenazis were angry because her first round draft pick salary is exponentially less than her male counter parts. Never mind the fact that the audience for women's basketball is exponentially less than that of men's basketball. It seems the news is quick to point out the fever loses games despite having a star player. First off, one player doesn't make a winning team. And highlighting her teams loss isn't going to draw spectators or interest into the game or league. If I were running the league, I'd rig the competition and have the Fever win as many games as possible and pay the other team to lose. There would be a mix of close wins, a few blowouts and maybe one or two close losses for the season. Why? People want to see a winner. Winning teams and close matches develop the sport. ...

When I bought my Lexus the dealer told me an 80 year old woman who lived on founders circle drive in Sarasota traded it in on a new genesis. Sure. Ok. Today, I found a drivers license under the seat. It belonged to an 80 year old woman who lived on founders circle drive in Sarasota. I guess that explains the cars condition.

I find tattoos to be offensive on most people. I am also critical of people with tattoos. They obviously have poor judgement to multilate their bodies with ink injected under their skin. I think people who decide to participate in tattoo are stupid. I don't understand how this became mainstream. In my youth, people with tattoo were considered dirty and bad. Now it's socially acceptable and perhaps encouraged to get a tattoo. Why?

Is paved with the best intentions. My sister's husband has been in and out of hospitals, rehab facilities, intensive care units and in and out of home like a yoyo. My sister told me they have well over a million dollars in medical bills that have come their way. They've renovated their house and had a go fund me account set up to help their situation. The driver that caused the accident had no insurance and no assets to sue for. My sister and her family are left with the bill. One thing they need to do is work with an attorney to protect their assets and get her husband on Medicaid and disability. I prescreened an attorney and found someone that could help their situation. She had an initial call and was given some work to do to get the ball rolling. My sister dragged her feet on making an appointment. She got an appointment for last Tuesday and cancelled it. Rescheduled her t for tomorrow. She hadn't done any of the work tasks. I don't know wha...

I decided to go to the band concert playing music I loved in a church. The facility was too small for the ensemble. The concert was loud. The upper woodwinds were overpowered by the rest of the ensemble. The music was a stretch for the ensemble and some parts were rough. Others were great. The concert features lord of the rings by johan demeij. The soprano sax player was fantastic. But band was too big for the venue. They're playing the same concert tomorrow at the local university's recital hall. It will send better it a properly sized hall. I can't attend tomorrow due to prior commitment so I squeezed this concert into my schedule.

Today is a day of first world problems. Go see a band I love perform a bunch of Sousa music I'm familiar with plus three other ensembles in a magnificent venue…. Or go see a band I'm familiar with play music I love in a church.

I still can't believe we put up with these shenanigans. Freedom robbersz.  I just read Covid cases are increasing in 12 states. Let’s shut this bitch down again for the election. They tell me to get another shot or wear a mask - I will not Comply this time. 

Joe and Donald agreed to debate in June. I wonder why Joe seems so confident to poke the bear with taunting Donald to debate him. I smell a rat. If you've watched Joe speak off the cuff, he's a train wreck. He blames his speech impediment. That's just an excuse. Every time the press has an opportunity to ask him a question that's not scripted his staff abruptly ends the presser and whisks him away or shoos out the press. Nowadays they don't even let him walk unescorted between the White House and marine 1. He's surrounded by staffers so his decrepit gait isn't on display. If Joe's staff is pointing to his state of the union address as reason to be confident, he read a speech of a teleprompter. And his odd outbursts didn't demonstrate command of situation. I perceived him as dementia ridden with weird and uncontrollable outbursts. When he clinched fists he looked like a pathetic old man having a tantrum. Sure you can amp him up on adderall or...

Is having kids without being married the same as starting a family? Is it an accident? Or something else?

It's a metal and a salt. It's used in all sorts of products. Batteries, medications, lubricants and whatever else. I take a small amount of lithium. When at the dr she asked how often do i take it. A few times a week. Why? I use it when I start getting amped up, irritable, intolerant or when my wife notices a subtle sharpness in my vocal cadence. I told my doctor I don't want to take it anymore. Why not? All the crazy people used to take it and because of that it has a stigma attached to it. She goes on to tell me it is an essential medication and no other drug in the world can do what it does. It's extremely effective and you're taking a significantly small dose compared to how it was being administered in the 60s-80s. Ok then. I guess I'll continue taking it. Grrrr. She then went on to tell me about a company in mineral wells Texas that bottles their water and sells it under the label of 'Crazy Water' because they have a high concentrat...

Perhaps it's getting hot because we're cutting down all the trees and building concrete jungles.

I took my dad to the Apple Store because his iPad got damaged from a drop. Wanted to see what the options were for repair (there aren't any), replacement or upgrade. Here's what I noticed. The employees in the store were either gender neutral androgynous or queer. The Genius Bar representative was a woman working towards becoming a man. Her sleeves were all inked up with tattoos. She had a piercing in her nose and a buzz cut. Why? There was a male employee acting gender neutral leaning feminine with tattoos. The person who helped with the purchase as another lesbian looking woman with tattoos all over her arms, a buzz cut and green glasses frames. Most of the employees were wearing skinny hipster white pants instead of normal pants. There was a group of 3 men trying to buy a phone. All of them wearing trendy clothes with prominate designer logos splashed on their shirts and backs of their leather jackets. Why are they wearing leather jackets when it's 85 degrees ou...

Right around my generation, skilled trades became a frowned upon path in and after high school. It was expected one go to college and earn a degree to get a real job. For whatever reason making and fixing things became frowned upon. I think I would have been happier throughout my life having been a mechanic or technician of some sort. I very much enjoy understanding how things work, being able to diagnose problems and change parts out. I used to work on my own car. I remember I had a Honda prelude and the ball joints were shot. I took the entire front suspension apart in my driveway, took the control arms to a mechanic to have the ball joins pressed out and in and brought everything back home and couldn't figure out how to put the car back together. I put all the parts in the trunk and was prepared to have the car towed to the shop the next day to have a professional complete the job. The next day, I woke up and went out to the driveway, opened the trunk and put the ent...

I'm listening to the Grainger CD Dallas Winds did with Jerry Junkin.  Robert Reynolds remarked they 'do not play a bland version of any of these pieces. They highlight the dramatic gestures and dramatic colors,: in short, doing "all those things you expect a professional group to do, in addition they play with the enthusiasm of amateurs, and Grainger would have loved that."  Some professional music ensembles play to perfection but their performances are terribly boring.  Perfection with out passion is an unfortunate tragedy.  That's what I love about Dallas Winds - they play with passion and perfection.  I'll never forget the first concert I attended - it was amazing.  The intensity and energy they played with was radiant and sizzling.  It's as if you could see the smoke coming off their instruments at the conclusion of each piece.  They are a wind band treasure.   I was thinking about the DWS John Williams concert I saw back in February. ...

Society is unhinged.  I don't even know how to organize my thoughts on what's going on in the world anymore.  What I do think is there is way to much concentrated wealth and people using their wealth to affect global shifts in thinking.  Something isn't right.  Lots of things aren't right.   Extremes are the rage.  There's no moderation.  There's no restraint.  I am reminded of a blog entry I wrote back in 2023... I stand by what I wrote 100%

A new recording is soon to be available. Reading the concert review below motivates me to add one more to the collection https://soundtracks-in-concert.com/deutsche-grammophon-125-years-special-gala-concert/

Since May 4 was Star Wars day I was listening to the scores from some of the Star Wars movies - episodes 1-9.  Phantom Menace very well be one of the best in the Saga.  Why?  It was the reboot of the franchise after a long hiatus.  The first on since Return of the Jedi.   Ive said it before - When John Williams does a sequel, the music is often "plussed" compared to the prequel.  Much more developed, more elaborate.  Like John Williams rewards being signed on for the sequel.  I think it's true for everything except Home Alone.  Home Alone 1 was better than Home Alone 2 - at least in my opinion. Back to Phantom Menace - Here is where John Williams integrated a choir into the saga and did a splendid job.  With Phantom Menace, he pulls from all the themes from Star Wars - Return of the Jedi and is able to use them in foreshadowing the happenings in the saga.  It is really done well.   It really is next level Star Wars scoring.

The Washington post doesn’t exactly have journalist integrity but rather a propaganda machine.  They wrote an article about reincarnation .  I wonder if there is such a thing or just children with extraordinary imaginations and an innate gift of being able to remember stories they conjure up. I wonder why they don’t try a polygraph machine. 

I often say I should have been a mechanic or a carpenter.  Probably mechanic.  Our front door lock mechanism has been acting up.  It has a typical entry from the front where you push down with your thumb to turn the cylinder to open the door.  The back of the door door knob fell off because it had gotten loose and stripped out the holes.  Turns it out it was much more than that - I had to figure out how to get the entire front pull door handle off to fix it because the latch mechanism fell apart.  I learned this after replacing the door knob and it was still not working properly.  I figured out how to get the pull door handle off and it hit the ground and fell apart into like a dozen different pieces.  I had never seen the mechanism together....  with some trial and error I figured out how it works and was able to time the mechanism and put it back together.  I rebuilt it!!  All the plates, gears, levers, pins, springs and gears. ...

Today is Star Wars appreciation day, which to me is really John Williams appreciation day. May the fourth be with you. Please celebrate responsibly.

So here's an unusual album. John Williams as a performer. Not a composer. It's a two cd set. The first with the John T Williams Quartet and the second with the John Williams Septet as well as the John Williams orchestra. Listening to the first album you realize John Williams, like me, is from a different area. I also realize John Williams was a virtuoso performer with a magic touch on the piano. A real ensemble musicIan. What's magical about this album? I get to know a different side of my favorite artist and it's just as wonderful as his contemporary orchestral work. A real treat to experience and pleased to have this album as part of my collect. Absolutely wonderful.

I've been eating Raisin Bran for years. One thing that continually amazes me is the fact that the raisins don't settled to the bottom of the bag during shipping. They're always evenly mixed; making for a consistent bowl of cereal in the morning. I don't know how they do it? Could it be the size of the bran flakes or something? Pretty amazing if you ask me.

Every single thing that old fart does is infuriating. More college loan forgiveness. More regulations. I don't know how anyone in this country can think he is doing a good job. Unless you're an illegal alien, a pot smoker, someone carrying student loan debt, enviroterrorist or some "under represented" minority, my guess is you hate the man. It is not the tax payers problem you got ripped off or your education didn't get you the job you wanted. It's not the tax payers job to feed, clothe or provide shelter for illegal aliens. The government shouldn't be regulating in home appliances, propulsion methods for cars or anything else. This man's agenda is offensive.