“I can hear those champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow — like it’s Christmas every fucking day": US Politics, February 2024

the grange hall in town here is world-renowned (for real) for its contra dancing. seems like a much healthier use of a large building. it gets kinda smelly and sweaty in there. also: they used to have hardcore shows there in the early 80s. flipper played there! and siege! also a much better use of a large public building. similar smells and dancing as well.

probly should be here?

do you have like an approved list

nope. slightly more at link but only slightly. didn't know which thread was "best," just picked that one.

btw scott, i joined a grange three months ago to volunteer. ha, elev. 8350', i can ride my bike 3000' of vert to get to it, then serve the community. it's a bit elderly, but i feel happy and useful there!

scott aren't you from ct? i grew up in fairfield cty, ppl there just worshipped money i don't recommend that either.

I got busy yesterday and couldn't respond to people who responded to my q, but thank you

― rob, Thursday, February 8, 2024 5:58 AM bookmarkflaglink

You're welcome. Though I was wondering why you asked it.

my family is from guilford/sachems head but i grew up in brookfield which i wouldn't recommend much. right on route 7. when we moved there there were still cows crossing route 7. now its just one of those hellish endless things. but where my house was was nice. very new england. i lived next to the catholic grade school/church and across the street was the big congregational church. next to my house was the historical society. behind my house was the volunteer fire station. the siren went off a lot. and i worked across the street at the village store where you could read your newspaper next to the potbelly stove. very rustic! i never go back there. no reason to. very catholic town. lots of Italian and Irish catholic families with a million kids. lots of good pizza and scowling redheads in my town.

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i was gonna read the CT parts of thurston moore's book because i know he had a similar existence down the road in bethel. getting wasted in the woods and getting into petty trouble. it could be very boring. you had to do something to make it less so. no netflix!

yup i get it, thx. i only remember that because like 20 yrs ago you mentioned wxci, is it? in the early-mid 80s that station was important fodder for me.

that station saved my life! i simply cannot ever give them enough credit. so much love. they turned me on to half the music i worship.

The conversation may have moved on from this but Unitarian Universalists are the libbiest churchiest churchlibs there are.

I hate to generalize but every single one of those mfs wears a chunky sweater and round glasses and donates to public radio and eats fake meat. They all have wooden canoes and play the oboe.

i said radical priests ymp

I sing at a UU church and this checks out

We was all on the cover of Newsweek

i learned sex ed at a unitarian church in the 70s. west redding, ct. great barbecues. they were nice folks. my parents mostly went for the talk and coffee.

How do you get a family of Unitarians to leave the neighborhood?

Burn a question mark on their lawn

I learned it in 1963 between the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.

They all have wooden canoes and play the oboe.
hm. are they tactical oboes? when i say _radical_...

my family was going to the unitarian church here in greenfield since before the civil war. my dad went once when he moved in with us and did not like it one bit. no people left. and the ones that are left were not very friendly to him. he's like 10th generation UU! oh well. i enjoyed going to Star Island in the summer for a good old fashioned UU think tank hoedown when i was a kid.

Scott, I can relate. Fourth generation here. I took UU sex ed at the church T.S. Eliot went to (founded by his grandfather). That church had a surprising collection of dildos.

that station saved my life! i simply cannot ever give them enough credit. so much love. they turned me on to half the music i worship.

I live in Fairfield County, after 30 years in NYC…while it is not exactly unlike the state of affairs in which "people are obsessed with $$$," it is a big, welcome contrast to NY, like, the outdoors aspect is fantastic; although I do miss Park Slope/Ditmas Park/Kensington.

One thing that is very good about Fairfield County is that the record buying game is nowhere near as competitive as NYC; you can find stuff here easily and not particularly expensively. I bet Scott S and possibly B. Amato went to Disc and Dat, but I am wondering if Scott was aware of Gerosa Records? there is also a place in Bridgeport called the Archive, which while it is focused on exploitation cinema DVDS, also has records: I found a copy of Patto "Roll Em, Smoke Em, Put Out another line" a record I have never seen anywhere.

From Page 6 of the special counsel report - a favorable legal conclusion for the presiden, but a tough one set to be seized upon by political rivals: The special counsel concluded he’d be perceived as “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” pic.twitter.com/vUBrSQsxLO

— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) February 8, 2024

Seems like a misreading by O'Keefe (who's a hack). The special counsel said Biden would present himself as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." Which would be the smart play. It worked very, very well for Reagan, whose brain was Swiss cheese by the time he left office.

Definitely went to Disc and Dat, and Gerosa ever since it opened in the late eighties. Glad to hear that both are still around. Trash American Style was too scary for me as a teen (though I’d been there). I felt better among the proggers at Gerosa.

xp hey, at least I avoided a Musk-bot blue checkmark account

It worked very, very well for Reagan, whose brain was Swiss cheese by the time he left office

I didn't even realize until looking up just now that Biden assumed office at an older age than Reagan was when he left office

Old and busted: "defining deviancy down"

The new hotness: "defining dementia down."

Biden's obviously the candidate, but who would the dems field now if he had to drop out? Would it be Harris?

IF he resigns or dies, Harris becomes president, then the party would have to nominate her this summer.

There's a kook in the building next to me that has a KENNEDY 24 sticker on his Escalade... he's nearly always drunk and I've seen him driving erratically

it's probably RFK

There's a kook in the building next to me that has a KENNEDY 24 sticker on his Escalade

Kirsty MacColl song.

I would like it to be Harris for reasons of my own, but perhaps the universe will conspire to elevate somebody like Buttigieg or Newsom.

We almost came perilously close to a woman president in the recent past, but every force in the universe seemed to align to prevent it.

(Nota bene: not specifically defending HRC or Harris or Warren or even Haley - none of whom are perfect - just noting that we've proven ourselves capable of nominating and electing extremely imperfect dudes over and over again.)

name one

Whatever else, Trump isn't perfect.

Kirsty MacColl song.

doffs cap

DudePerfect ‘24

Whatever else, Trump isn't perfect.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 8, 2024 4:53 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful.

--Bob Ross

DudePerfect is just WordPerfect marketed to Jordan Peterson fans

"but I am wondering if Scott was aware of Gerosa Records?"

well of course its in my hometown! i was buying records from brian at the record broker in danbury when i was really young and i bought punk records from him when he used to sell at the elephant's trunk (i went to the very first elephant's trunk flea market...) (i got my first copy of fresh fruit for rotting vegetables from him in the early 80s...) and then at his own store. the best time to shop at his store was in the mid-90s when he was all in on CDs but still had tons of great records and he was selling them so cheap because nobody wanted them anymore. i got so much good stuff. that was when i was living in new milford with my brother during the whole grunge/bunnybrain/matador years.

"Trash American Style was too scary for me as a teen"

aww, it wasn't scary. unless maybe if ray capo was there and tried to teach you about krishna. $5 jandek records all day long at trash. you couldn't beat it. their original location was in brookfield too across from the post office. and of course trash was the breeding ground for bunnybrains. they had cool shows there too. i saw ted milton at trash! and my dad is dead. i will probably see malcolm at the northampton record show in march.
everyone should come to that record show! its gonna be fun. you can watch me bugging byron coley all day. i haven't done a show in years. maria just did one in new haven. we are slowly getting back on that smelly horse.

on the one hand, seems kind of bad
on the other, history has shown that the machinery of the state keeps chugging along (mostly) even with a complete non-entity up top so meh

this is insane pic.twitter.com/g9EYtK3reG

— royal acai enema naturopath (@lib_crusher) February 8, 2024

aka the Edith Wilson Clause

Best case scenario is still Weekend at Bernie’s-ing him across the line and then he keels over on 1/21/25

that sounds authoritative, but who or what's being cited?

Special counsel's observation. I don't doubt it, actually.

It's almost like all of those us who think he's too damn old to run for president are right.

it's getting a bit late to pull someone else off the bench. too bad kamala proved to be such a lackluster campaigner in 2020. a wide open primary season for the nomination would have sorted out the sheep from the goats. ofc, i'm still going with anyone but trump.

Would unironically support a party coup that set up Clinton Trump Part Deux. She still seems to be sharp as a tack and it would make for the funniest possible race.

Hey, you know who turns 35 this December?

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BUK_8738-e1691715895373.jpg

xp That would be . . . interesting. Not sure how funny it would be.