I’m as tickled as when I first heard Iggy. Maybe it’s the Frank Miller/Lone Wolf and Cub vibe with the hat, but I’m hooked.
Ewan Dobson: Where Are You
You really need to listen all the way through, there are surprising delights towards the end of each of these. Level 5 in particular.
Ewan Dobson: Level 5
Fingerstyle guitarists so often neglect melodic phrasing; Dobson’s stuff’s chock-full of one melodic hook after another.
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New to the family: a brand-new Kahr PM9, and new-to-me Glock 26 next to my S&W 940.
The Kahr is one sweet little item. Glock has been beaten to market with the single-stack Glock 9: the Kahr is it.
Oh, if you can find the book, it’s the best Chess book for smart kids you can give them. A real treat for adults too.
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This country has been infected. It’s been infected with the same nonsense that seem to be pirulating everywhere else. So, here is what I’m going to do. I’m going to get myself a nice comfy chair. I’m going to buy some cigars and drag some lassie back here. I’m going to watch all of you motherfuckers run the lemmings off of this cliff … and it will be the funniest shit ever
We are Ralph and it be getting to Lord of the Flies shit. I am going to tear my way through wine lassie and song like the last days of Rome and I am going to speak honestly, bluntly from now on.
Yah, read the whole thing.
As mentioned previously, I’m missing Boomershoot this year. Why was left vague.
Well, it’s because I work in an industry that’s heavily regulated by both the Feds and the various States, and it just so happens that a whole bunch of State regulators decided to do their audits of my employer in the same month. One set of regulators are flying in from a wintry State to our sunny clime, and they’re actually going to be onsite for a week. If past performance is any guide, they’ll call in sick a couple of days to enjoy the sun. Fuckers.
Of course, as the regulated entity, their travel, etc., is all on our dime. Last week was hell, and the next two will be worse.
“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!” Actually, no, we expected this all right, we just don’t have time to entertain these people while running our business, goddammit.
I’ve accepted that the art of surviving the new socialism involves cozying up to the overlords, but damn, it’s sure a pain in the ass at times.
Here’s some Ewan Dobson. Crank the bass.
And Larry Mitchell’s Political Rain. So sweeeet.
Aw, hell, here’s another awesome Dobson tune. Autumn Red.
They’ve damn near got it all the way there
As you can tell, I’ve run out of my supply of progressive material and switched to the heartbeat of progressivism, feminism.
I’ll work this weekend to come up with more stuff.
Brilliant.
From Ben Domenech’s Transom today, to which you should be subscribing:
…in [Mexican history] there was the government and the individual, with no civil society in between. This creates and fuels a patronage society, with the attendant social ills of corruption, cartels, crime, and more…. As Tocqueville wrote of those citizens who have the attitudes of colonists: “They submit, it is true, to the whims of a clerk, but no sooner is force removed than they are glad to defy the law with the spirit of a defeated enemy. Thus one finds them ever wavering between servitude and license.†It’s possible that what we see in Mexico is the American future… as our own civil society is pushed from the public square and supplanted by the power and force of government….
The full item is below. Read the whole thing, it’s short and very thought-provoking.
There is now a smartphone app that will let you enter your zip code into it and then it will list how much federal money is spent in the zip you currently occupy.
The app hyper-localizes United States government checkbook spending plus farm subsidies and 2.5 million federal employees to your zip code, or any zip code across the country. You can’t complain about our politicians if you don’t take the time to see the massive money flows into your backyard and zip code. The most frequent response, “I’m in the wrong business.â€
The app is the brainchild of www.OpenTheBooks.com non-profit founder Adam Andrzejewski. Free download in The App Store or Google Play Store.
CAUTION: Do not use this app in the vicinity of the District of Columbia as it will likely cause your phone to attempt to overclock and then spontaneously combust.
I’ve seen some pretty creative hidden spaces in cars, but a glove box that can hold a shotgun with 2 – 35 round 12-gauge magazines, that is pretty incredible!
You whiteys are so privileged you cannot even experience the murder of a family member or friend.
