Blocking traffic is not a peaceful act. It is an exercise of force. It is wrong. This is why they made steamrollers..
Any idiot who tries to pretend that such mob behavior is peaceful is afraid to observe reality and step away from the Great Pretense for a minute. Use force, then do your best to escalate any response into a bloody battle.
Are people just hypnotized? Are they idiots? They will tell you they are "fighting for justice" by standing in the road impeding traffic, possibly preventing someone from getting medical help, inconveniencing others. Some may be needing to be somewhere on time, like the airport. Some may have bladder issues.
It makes no difference what people are doing, you have no right to interfere with their daily lives because you are all hyped up over total lies. And I don't care what has you agitated, you do not get extra rights over others as payment for your victimhood. That is nonsense. But that is what we do; we reward victimhood.
It is the grown up version of the booboo patrol---those adults who seem afraid to give positive guidance or reinforcement to children, but they always treat the kid great and make a huge deal out of any little booboo. "Oh, you poor thing!!! Come here. Did that mean ground skin your knee?" Victim in training.
No justification for screwing up the daily routine of others. By what right do they think their activities of mob action carry more worth than whatever the strangers on the highway are up to?
Check yo privilege and you'll find you ain't got no stopping traffic on a highway bridge privilege. Stupid, or just psycho?
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Greedy for Anger
I want to get this thought done quickly before I head off to a birthday music jam/ open mic kind of party. Some very good players will be there.
Anyway, as a result of some comments on facebook, of course, I have come to the realization that some people seek out excuses to justify anger and, in a way, bigotry. And the case in mind is actually a koolaid guzzling angry leftwing guy. But this applies both ways.
It becomes not so much a matter of true principle as a matter of emotional fulfillment. Some kind of fix for whatever is released in your brain when you can convince yourself the enemy is there, and needs stopping. Needs ridicule and hate in any case.
People tend to crave justifiable anger. Rarely is sport anger a very constructive pursuit. But you look around, you see it in the illogical, regardless of alleged political beliefs. The thuggish thought patterns are the same. It is bizarre.
You've heard people wind themselves up given just the slightest trigger. Both sides. And it is pretty much based on fiction; all the emotional stories. The events are real but just about nothing else being discussed is based on truth.
I have to go. Depression and anger, as well as other emotions cause various bio chemical reactions in the brain and body. People can get addicted to one or another of those triggers.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Beyond Orwellian Lies
I have not read all about it. Some about it is more like it.
There is not anything I ought to say. We can watch as stories change and theories that could only have been conceived under the influence of LSD multiply like mentally challenged rabbits.
I worked all day. I left one tv on to one of my least favorite propaganda outfits--maybe msnbc. I was rarely in that room but every time I was they were rehashing and live covering and interviewing and trying to force conclusions that are anything except what most people would conclude, given the pieces leading up to this point.
All day long various people talked to on-the-scene correspondents; all attempting to further themselves in some way.
This is real death and they are trying that self serving garbage. "They" are the people who should shut up, but won't.
There is not anything I ought to say. We can watch as stories change and theories that could only have been conceived under the influence of LSD multiply like mentally challenged rabbits.
I worked all day. I left one tv on to one of my least favorite propaganda outfits--maybe msnbc. I was rarely in that room but every time I was they were rehashing and live covering and interviewing and trying to force conclusions that are anything except what most people would conclude, given the pieces leading up to this point.
All day long various people talked to on-the-scene correspondents; all attempting to further themselves in some way.
This is real death and they are trying that self serving garbage. "They" are the people who should shut up, but won't.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
It Could Have Changed History
If this had been the leading promotional image for Ron Paul in 2008, perhaps history would have taken a different turn, and for presidential candidates we would not be confronted with a possibly homicidal maniac, and a man who continually shoots himself in the foot, apparently just to prove he can do so and still keep walking. It is frustrating.
White Privilege!!!!!!
Editorial note: some comments I just can't publish for the same reason I cringe when Trump says something with which I might partially agree, but in such a way as to sabotage the point altogether. No offense intended, but I do not care to treat race as a virtue or a character flaw. Others can do the mass herd thing. I see that as the problem---people act like all of a race are supposed to march to the same drum. I can't go with that, no matter how large a portion of a group are conformist morons. Not that I don't inwardly go ballistic when they do things like compare statistics by race to prove victimhood where it doesn't exist. They hate to bring out true violent crime stats based on race. And that is fine, just don't pretend people who are not motivated by race are somehow responsible for all this fictitious oppression
These guys remind me of people I used to know and hang with at different points in my life in NC. According to pandering white politicians, and professional racists like Sharpton, Black people can't think for themselves, especially if they are 2nd amendment types who understand the value of individual choice. They even know that ethnicity is not race, and neither ethnicity nor race is a virtue or a vice. This is the kind of North Carolina I felt at home in.
Bet no one calls them "uncle Tom" or whatever to their faces.
(I need to read the book. I think Tom was actually a player for freedom in the underground railroad. Got to read it. I admit my ignorance)
Don't strike me as prideless doormats. Quite the contrary. Just proves Hillary and that crowd wrong; it is not required that you be a victim and an idiot to be "of color". I get part of the reasoning. Really. But it assumes a sort of special privilege for an elite few who decide how things work and how resources are used. And by whom. It is impossible to get that point through the koolaid addled mind. They will regurgitate all mnor of trivia which is related, but not germane, to the case at hand. So it is like a tangent festival that never ends. I cannot do it.
I think a lot of that humor is regional. It seems so familiar and natural. I miss that, now that I see it. They remind me of a couple of people I worked with at different times in Greensboro. Both of whom are responsible for putting me on to Lee Oskar. The first guy, Aronia, said I reminded him of Lee. Of course it was just because I played harmonica. He drove the golf cart and I played harp as we did our rounds at the nice FBO at Greensboro airport. Then a few years later another guy, Richard, I think, loaned me an album. It is probably their fault that I still play. Bastards.
And here's another slice of the Piedmont, NC area where I lived. I played music with the guitar player on left's father, and maybe some relatives of the others. Plus a lot of stranger times with aunts and such were had. I still prefer their version of this tune to any I've heard. The kid on the left is wildly, world-class skilled, but equally self destructive, apparently. I understand that and feel bad that he is not at the top of the world in music; he could have been, I think.
These guys remind me of people I used to know and hang with at different points in my life in NC. According to pandering white politicians, and professional racists like Sharpton, Black people can't think for themselves, especially if they are 2nd amendment types who understand the value of individual choice. They even know that ethnicity is not race, and neither ethnicity nor race is a virtue or a vice. This is the kind of North Carolina I felt at home in.
Bet no one calls them "uncle Tom" or whatever to their faces.
(I need to read the book. I think Tom was actually a player for freedom in the underground railroad. Got to read it. I admit my ignorance)
Don't strike me as prideless doormats. Quite the contrary. Just proves Hillary and that crowd wrong; it is not required that you be a victim and an idiot to be "of color". I get part of the reasoning. Really. But it assumes a sort of special privilege for an elite few who decide how things work and how resources are used. And by whom. It is impossible to get that point through the koolaid addled mind. They will regurgitate all mnor of trivia which is related, but not germane, to the case at hand. So it is like a tangent festival that never ends. I cannot do it.
I think a lot of that humor is regional. It seems so familiar and natural. I miss that, now that I see it. They remind me of a couple of people I worked with at different times in Greensboro. Both of whom are responsible for putting me on to Lee Oskar. The first guy, Aronia, said I reminded him of Lee. Of course it was just because I played harmonica. He drove the golf cart and I played harp as we did our rounds at the nice FBO at Greensboro airport. Then a few years later another guy, Richard, I think, loaned me an album. It is probably their fault that I still play. Bastards.
And here's another slice of the Piedmont, NC area where I lived. I played music with the guitar player on left's father, and maybe some relatives of the others. Plus a lot of stranger times with aunts and such were had. I still prefer their version of this tune to any I've heard. The kid on the left is wildly, world-class skilled, but equally self destructive, apparently. I understand that and feel bad that he is not at the top of the world in music; he could have been, I think.
Monday, July 4, 2016
All Performers Are Crazy
Probably by definition. Non crazy people aren't really into performing; dancing, singing, playing music, etc. I don't think they are. If I had a lifetime of confident sanity under my belt, I doubt I would play what we loosely call music.
Today looked like it would be swell, but ended up what I consider a depressing bust. I sucked, the viola sucked. Maybe the bass was OK. Communication from the front person was again a little lacking. But I was off anyway. One thing off throws everything off. I just have to not play when someone is too out of tune or off key. Viola sometimes is off and I just go tacit or try to throw some helpful note so she'll go toward the right pitch. Doesn't work.
Her husband somehow throws her off every time he is there. Especially when he does this video thihng at her side of the stage. And then she mugs for him, and no one is paying attention to making a killer background with blend and counterpoint and all that. It becomes as if no one else is there.
No idea why either one of them think that little routine is appropriate. I guess I will discuss it. Or not. I almost think if people don't have sense by now, forget it. Although I really have changed my viewpoint in ways, and hence my behavior to some degree. Got to allow others that same latitude. Maybe.
Anyway, sound guy seemed great until it came to how I do harmonica and he just couldn't accept that I may know what I am doing. It is just that almost no one uses the same approach.
I even have it so I use my mic, go through an equalizer stomp box, and one that controls reverb, then into the DI box to the board. All they have to do is unplug their mic and plug in my line out from the boxes. I do this because it was the only way I had control to keep it from coming back like broken glass. For this music, direct through the PA really is best. If you can get it your way.
People who do sound hate anything new, anyone who does their part differently than what they usually see. Even if it is not complicated or demanding. They will sabotage you, I swear---either spite, or ignorance, or both.
So toaday they guy wants to act like I'm crazy. Great. Nothing I could do. To just shut him up I offered to just sideline my stuff and use the vocal mic sitting there. OH no. He didn't sucker for that. Or maybe he did. His ego wouldn't let it look like he just wasn't up to the other way.
It still took him forever to quit messing it up. Harmonica is one of the hardest things as far as the amplified sound. Guitar players doing sound are your enemies if you play harp. Well, OK, guitar players are often everyone's enemies, but that is another matter.
It was a hard time. The band thinks I played well, and that worries me. I kept trying to feel a connect with the others, kept telling myself to have fun. Didn't work. Part me, and part everyone. Ultimately I see the kinky husband as the catalyst to disaster. If I am mugging for someone while playing, there is little chance I am properly tuning in the other players so I mesh like I should. The other thing is that I think her husband gets jealous of her playing with us. He is the type to criticize and she'll play insecure. I think she is made of titanium so I don't get how wimps can totally jar he footing and make her screw up just by looking at her.
Oh well. It is probably my failing that I don't get it. I am not the one with a marriage of great duration. Or anything of great duration of significance.
Today looked like it would be swell, but ended up what I consider a depressing bust. I sucked, the viola sucked. Maybe the bass was OK. Communication from the front person was again a little lacking. But I was off anyway. One thing off throws everything off. I just have to not play when someone is too out of tune or off key. Viola sometimes is off and I just go tacit or try to throw some helpful note so she'll go toward the right pitch. Doesn't work.
Her husband somehow throws her off every time he is there. Especially when he does this video thihng at her side of the stage. And then she mugs for him, and no one is paying attention to making a killer background with blend and counterpoint and all that. It becomes as if no one else is there.
No idea why either one of them think that little routine is appropriate. I guess I will discuss it. Or not. I almost think if people don't have sense by now, forget it. Although I really have changed my viewpoint in ways, and hence my behavior to some degree. Got to allow others that same latitude. Maybe.
Anyway, sound guy seemed great until it came to how I do harmonica and he just couldn't accept that I may know what I am doing. It is just that almost no one uses the same approach.
I even have it so I use my mic, go through an equalizer stomp box, and one that controls reverb, then into the DI box to the board. All they have to do is unplug their mic and plug in my line out from the boxes. I do this because it was the only way I had control to keep it from coming back like broken glass. For this music, direct through the PA really is best. If you can get it your way.
People who do sound hate anything new, anyone who does their part differently than what they usually see. Even if it is not complicated or demanding. They will sabotage you, I swear---either spite, or ignorance, or both.
So toaday they guy wants to act like I'm crazy. Great. Nothing I could do. To just shut him up I offered to just sideline my stuff and use the vocal mic sitting there. OH no. He didn't sucker for that. Or maybe he did. His ego wouldn't let it look like he just wasn't up to the other way.
It still took him forever to quit messing it up. Harmonica is one of the hardest things as far as the amplified sound. Guitar players doing sound are your enemies if you play harp. Well, OK, guitar players are often everyone's enemies, but that is another matter.
It was a hard time. The band thinks I played well, and that worries me. I kept trying to feel a connect with the others, kept telling myself to have fun. Didn't work. Part me, and part everyone. Ultimately I see the kinky husband as the catalyst to disaster. If I am mugging for someone while playing, there is little chance I am properly tuning in the other players so I mesh like I should. The other thing is that I think her husband gets jealous of her playing with us. He is the type to criticize and she'll play insecure. I think she is made of titanium so I don't get how wimps can totally jar he footing and make her screw up just by looking at her.
Oh well. It is probably my failing that I don't get it. I am not the one with a marriage of great duration. Or anything of great duration of significance.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
The Many Faces of Pretend Everything
What a season this is. Now I get what "season of the witch" must be. We got season of the witch bitch, crossover gaynation, all up in your business champion politicians, and you actually think I am more afraid of their lunatic than I am yours? Not likely.
I'm the guy who is OK with people owning rocket launchers, fighter jets, and any vehicle the SWAT team might possess. When it becomes a thing, where people manage to sick the SWAT team on innocent friends or enemies, causing doors to be broken in, and people cuffed on the floor until they figure out that no one has done anything to warrant a military-style assault on private citizens, then I wonder if the country is hopeless. Not that I see any better alternatives.
Why people have decided it is chic to deny all that is unique and good about the U.S., while bashing it based on standards which seem to never be applied to the rest of the world. More convenient history and histrionics.
I find what is going on, politically, to be incredibly embarrassing and sad. Really, only embarrassing in that when I listen to these people speak, I cringe. I do. I also see through the very slick deceptions and diversions. Always at the top of the democratic tool chest is the ridicule gambit. Make fun of the opponent. Imply always that only a psychopath would vote for your opponent. That is because your candidate is psycho.
That is the thinking. I'm just really surprised how easily everyone has slipped into an adolescent style popularity war. Seriously. Of course each side pretends otherwise, and may believe otherwise. I think it is because they are so married to their team and candidate, that facts take a back seat. Reality sometimes has to be ignored, apparently.
I can't take hearing the voice of any presidential candidate. Seriously, I don't want to listen to Donald or Hillary. I have no idea what is the real deal with Trump. And I do believe Hillary may lean a little toward the psycho side of the playground. I think she's more psychopath than is Trump. Trump is less easy to read, I think. I've heard all the various opinions, but they don't ring quite 100% true. Maybe close, but not there.
Gary Johnson is the last candidate I heard who did not trigger my vomit reflex. Libertarian. I don't even care what anyone has to say about any of it right now. I'd be making a play for the decade widow in another state, but I see a facebook tendency to post koolaid memes. She's friends with part of my nephew's extended family.
I love them all, but where they took the odd turn I do not know. But I'll bet the vast majority of my family is in the camp I gleefully label, "Neo-Bolsheviks".
Any more, I am not so clear on the whereabouts of certain lines and limits. It seems like you are paying a lot of my insurance, but the reality is that I could probably save money if I did the whole thing out of pocket. My premiums amount to more than I am spending in medical services. Insurance is coming out way ahead. I was hoping that he youth, "our youth" as so many are fond of saying, would bear the cost of my old age and lack of resources.
We must consider what kind of world we are leaving for our children. I would best be able to consider this important issue if "our children" would provide me with a nice pension and a fine house on the ocean or in Silverton or Montrose. Teaching future generations generosity and compassion is best done by allowing them the thrill of supporting us, providing us with all we need to have a blast forever, and treating any sacrifices they may make as the least they could do for the cause.
I'll get to the real point in another post.
I'm the guy who is OK with people owning rocket launchers, fighter jets, and any vehicle the SWAT team might possess. When it becomes a thing, where people manage to sick the SWAT team on innocent friends or enemies, causing doors to be broken in, and people cuffed on the floor until they figure out that no one has done anything to warrant a military-style assault on private citizens, then I wonder if the country is hopeless. Not that I see any better alternatives.
This photo was directly stolen from Doug Lawson of FB, and JS back in the old days. I hope he doesn't get mad. Of course I would take it down if asked. I can not think of a better photo for the times, but that is my sense of humor. or not. He's the glue holding Canada together. Doing a heck of job, too.
Why people have decided it is chic to deny all that is unique and good about the U.S., while bashing it based on standards which seem to never be applied to the rest of the world. More convenient history and histrionics.
I find what is going on, politically, to be incredibly embarrassing and sad. Really, only embarrassing in that when I listen to these people speak, I cringe. I do. I also see through the very slick deceptions and diversions. Always at the top of the democratic tool chest is the ridicule gambit. Make fun of the opponent. Imply always that only a psychopath would vote for your opponent. That is because your candidate is psycho.
That is the thinking. I'm just really surprised how easily everyone has slipped into an adolescent style popularity war. Seriously. Of course each side pretends otherwise, and may believe otherwise. I think it is because they are so married to their team and candidate, that facts take a back seat. Reality sometimes has to be ignored, apparently.
I can't take hearing the voice of any presidential candidate. Seriously, I don't want to listen to Donald or Hillary. I have no idea what is the real deal with Trump. And I do believe Hillary may lean a little toward the psycho side of the playground. I think she's more psychopath than is Trump. Trump is less easy to read, I think. I've heard all the various opinions, but they don't ring quite 100% true. Maybe close, but not there.
Gary Johnson is the last candidate I heard who did not trigger my vomit reflex. Libertarian. I don't even care what anyone has to say about any of it right now. I'd be making a play for the decade widow in another state, but I see a facebook tendency to post koolaid memes. She's friends with part of my nephew's extended family.
I love them all, but where they took the odd turn I do not know. But I'll bet the vast majority of my family is in the camp I gleefully label, "Neo-Bolsheviks".
Any more, I am not so clear on the whereabouts of certain lines and limits. It seems like you are paying a lot of my insurance, but the reality is that I could probably save money if I did the whole thing out of pocket. My premiums amount to more than I am spending in medical services. Insurance is coming out way ahead. I was hoping that he youth, "our youth" as so many are fond of saying, would bear the cost of my old age and lack of resources.
We must consider what kind of world we are leaving for our children. I would best be able to consider this important issue if "our children" would provide me with a nice pension and a fine house on the ocean or in Silverton or Montrose. Teaching future generations generosity and compassion is best done by allowing them the thrill of supporting us, providing us with all we need to have a blast forever, and treating any sacrifices they may make as the least they could do for the cause.
I'll get to the real point in another post.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Show Biz; the multilevel marketing of The Comedy Store
It is really very clever. Originally I was opposed. They want you to sell tickets. What? No. My days of selling donuts door to door in high school for nefarious purposes are over. I am sorry it got brought up.
Anyway, they have a big comedy show in LaJolla--which is, admittedly, an upscale neighborhood.
They sucker semi-popular acoustic groups or singer song writers to fill the first hour. Usually they have three of them. Also it has to be original because BMI and ASCAP have been shaking down small and medium sized venues for prohibitive fees. So, all of a sudden, original music is requested, even if they still don't pay worth a damn.
I made it known from the start that it is not to be difficult or anything else, but don't count on me for ticket sales. So we met with the headline comedian, and producer or the event. If that guy is not on cocaine or other stimulant, then he needs tranquilizing badly.
And how can a guy who won Last Comic Standing, is on some TV shows and has been on the Tonight show (I think) , have no sense of humor? I swear, we sat in starbuck's; Karen, Sande, and I. And this guy was drawing upside down graphs so they would be right side up to us. He has abbreviations for everything. It is nuts. seriously nuts.
Sande thinks it is a prestigious venue, and Karen was almost begging, continually assuring him tickets would get sold, we are always on time, and don't fight; every time some hypothetical or past band issue from the comedian's experience came up, Karen started a sales pitch on the guy. Why I do not know.
I heard there will be an online link so people can do that. I will just direct people where to go and what to say. If they do it, fine, and if they don't---they will. It really will be worth the price. It's San Diego and $10 is not much, except to me and my no 'count friends. But we are supposed to be getting a piece of the take. I did the arithmetic. Multiplication and division are still considered arithmetic, aren't they?
The place holds maybe 225. That's another thing, he will overbook, just like an airline. This is seriously nuts. But I am just the bystander. I know a couple of people who played there. So, all the however many comedians will sell tickets too. Our band is supposed to sell maybe 34 between all four. Karen says she can sell fifty. Have at it.
I do things because the others seem to get charged up about it. They are not too interested in my take. This place has seen many big time comedians and such in their early days. Some of the comics will be good, I'm sure I have seen a few around.
The guy running it just does comedy about ethnicity. Hey I am not white. hahaha. hey look I am ethnicity x. hahaha
He won that contest and he is actually doing OK. Pandering and race pay off.
Actually I respect his passion regarding his system for do these shows. It reminds me of the passion I had when I was in the cotton dust control business. Or the business of creating machines that would do it well. I was hyper focussed. That can be unhealthy, and it can distort certain decisions. In my case that was not good.
We play it on August 7th. Right after playing the Gyspyfest in the desert on the 6th. That's the clothing optional place. Sure are a lot of bands. They said they picked it for it's beauty not the nudist aspect. So everyone is fine wearing clothes. Hahahaha. I am laughing. The bands have to wear clothes or else they hold you to stripper standards. I am, pretty sure about that.
No need for us to sell tickets to the Gypsyfest. I forget what it pays. Something but nothing major.
The way I see the Comedy Store is that you are forcing seven or ten friends and relatives come see you play, in exchange for the opportunity to play. In my view, it is paying a place to let me play. And allowing them to criticize me for not selling enough tickets to my amway friends.
That is why I would not commit. I do not know if I will sell any. Or try to. I either don't want people thinking I am taking advantage, or my friends are musicians themselves and have thin bank accounts.
They do sell out their shows, but he will not bring a comic back, no matter how good, if he did not personally sell what is deemed the adequate number of seats. I'm the harp player. Along for the ride, if it doesn't get too damn hokey.
There is an ilk of small business operator who has a thinly veiled disdain for those who do not share his/her passion for whatever it is the business does. They also tend to think everyone else is much less intelligent than themselves. Others deserve ridicule even though the owner is ever the victim of his "ungrateful" employees. Even in the comedy game. But it has to be obvious that most who make it in show business, and comedy especially, tend to almost be bullies. Pushy at the very least.
Anyway, they have a big comedy show in LaJolla--which is, admittedly, an upscale neighborhood.
They sucker semi-popular acoustic groups or singer song writers to fill the first hour. Usually they have three of them. Also it has to be original because BMI and ASCAP have been shaking down small and medium sized venues for prohibitive fees. So, all of a sudden, original music is requested, even if they still don't pay worth a damn.
I made it known from the start that it is not to be difficult or anything else, but don't count on me for ticket sales. So we met with the headline comedian, and producer or the event. If that guy is not on cocaine or other stimulant, then he needs tranquilizing badly.
And how can a guy who won Last Comic Standing, is on some TV shows and has been on the Tonight show (I think) , have no sense of humor? I swear, we sat in starbuck's; Karen, Sande, and I. And this guy was drawing upside down graphs so they would be right side up to us. He has abbreviations for everything. It is nuts. seriously nuts.
Sande thinks it is a prestigious venue, and Karen was almost begging, continually assuring him tickets would get sold, we are always on time, and don't fight; every time some hypothetical or past band issue from the comedian's experience came up, Karen started a sales pitch on the guy. Why I do not know.
I heard there will be an online link so people can do that. I will just direct people where to go and what to say. If they do it, fine, and if they don't---they will. It really will be worth the price. It's San Diego and $10 is not much, except to me and my no 'count friends. But we are supposed to be getting a piece of the take. I did the arithmetic. Multiplication and division are still considered arithmetic, aren't they?
The place holds maybe 225. That's another thing, he will overbook, just like an airline. This is seriously nuts. But I am just the bystander. I know a couple of people who played there. So, all the however many comedians will sell tickets too. Our band is supposed to sell maybe 34 between all four. Karen says she can sell fifty. Have at it.
I do things because the others seem to get charged up about it. They are not too interested in my take. This place has seen many big time comedians and such in their early days. Some of the comics will be good, I'm sure I have seen a few around.
The guy running it just does comedy about ethnicity. Hey I am not white. hahaha. hey look I am ethnicity x. hahaha
He won that contest and he is actually doing OK. Pandering and race pay off.
Actually I respect his passion regarding his system for do these shows. It reminds me of the passion I had when I was in the cotton dust control business. Or the business of creating machines that would do it well. I was hyper focussed. That can be unhealthy, and it can distort certain decisions. In my case that was not good.
We play it on August 7th. Right after playing the Gyspyfest in the desert on the 6th. That's the clothing optional place. Sure are a lot of bands. They said they picked it for it's beauty not the nudist aspect. So everyone is fine wearing clothes. Hahahaha. I am laughing. The bands have to wear clothes or else they hold you to stripper standards. I am, pretty sure about that.
No need for us to sell tickets to the Gypsyfest. I forget what it pays. Something but nothing major.
The way I see the Comedy Store is that you are forcing seven or ten friends and relatives come see you play, in exchange for the opportunity to play. In my view, it is paying a place to let me play. And allowing them to criticize me for not selling enough tickets to my amway friends.
That is why I would not commit. I do not know if I will sell any. Or try to. I either don't want people thinking I am taking advantage, or my friends are musicians themselves and have thin bank accounts.
They do sell out their shows, but he will not bring a comic back, no matter how good, if he did not personally sell what is deemed the adequate number of seats. I'm the harp player. Along for the ride, if it doesn't get too damn hokey.
There is an ilk of small business operator who has a thinly veiled disdain for those who do not share his/her passion for whatever it is the business does. They also tend to think everyone else is much less intelligent than themselves. Others deserve ridicule even though the owner is ever the victim of his "ungrateful" employees. Even in the comedy game. But it has to be obvious that most who make it in show business, and comedy especially, tend to almost be bullies. Pushy at the very least.
Friday, June 17, 2016
They Are Still Pretending It Is About Gay
I'm just catching on. Apparently I avoided more than I realized regarding news updates and such. I just caught a snippet here and there; partial radio news sentences.
It is about gay, but not muslim, and not anything else. Just gay. What a typical democrat pander play. This way they needn't look into the FBI dropping the ball or any number of other things relevant to this. By making it an assault on gayness and they are the victims, dammitt, the demagogues can solidify yet another group based not on philosophy but how they have sex.
And, of course, once again we find a large number of people in the group who cannot possibly resist being a bona fide victim. It is something people sucker for. Particularly those who subscribe to ethnicity politics, and like race to be in the middle of every thought and action.
So, conflicted gay muslim wants to be the allah guy. Gay won't work. Allah will do stuff like burn your eyes out, so tread lightly. I think he was kind of hoping for prison, He could fulfill his fantasies while pretending it isn't his fault. He can't help it. He's a victim.
I cannot believe they just barreled ahead, despite the facts. Gay guy shoots up gay bar is about as significant as straight guy shoots up bar of predominately heterosexual people. Now, gay guy wants favor with ISIS and Mo, pbuh, so he shoots up the den of iniquity, hoping Mo, pbuh, and Allah, wtfbuh, won't notice him lusting after all of the unrepentant infidels.
Seriously, this new progressive lockstep push to pretend and lie their way into everyone thinking this was all about gay, etc., is blatant manipulation. If you can convince a group that they are victims and under threat, they will more readily unite behind someone posing as the champion of their cause.
Isolate a group in some way, convince them they are victims and being targeted by society. Good thing big bro is there. Big Bro. That's a name you can trust. A name people seem to trust more than themselves or their neighbors. Group insanity.
It is classic manipulation. And then you have every cockroach with a microphone weighing in.
Progressives pretend like crazy. First it was an automatic weapon, and now it is an attack by all of us on lbgt community? Am I supposed to say LBGTQ? Honestly I despise the whole "black community' "white community" "LB blablabla community" I do not care. They can milk this in an effort to get the lbgt etc people to vote in a block and according to their wishes
It is about gay, but not muslim, and not anything else. Just gay. What a typical democrat pander play. This way they needn't look into the FBI dropping the ball or any number of other things relevant to this. By making it an assault on gayness and they are the victims, dammitt, the demagogues can solidify yet another group based not on philosophy but how they have sex.
And, of course, once again we find a large number of people in the group who cannot possibly resist being a bona fide victim. It is something people sucker for. Particularly those who subscribe to ethnicity politics, and like race to be in the middle of every thought and action.
So, conflicted gay muslim wants to be the allah guy. Gay won't work. Allah will do stuff like burn your eyes out, so tread lightly. I think he was kind of hoping for prison, He could fulfill his fantasies while pretending it isn't his fault. He can't help it. He's a victim.
I cannot believe they just barreled ahead, despite the facts. Gay guy shoots up gay bar is about as significant as straight guy shoots up bar of predominately heterosexual people. Now, gay guy wants favor with ISIS and Mo, pbuh, so he shoots up the den of iniquity, hoping Mo, pbuh, and Allah, wtfbuh, won't notice him lusting after all of the unrepentant infidels.
Seriously, this new progressive lockstep push to pretend and lie their way into everyone thinking this was all about gay, etc., is blatant manipulation. If you can convince a group that they are victims and under threat, they will more readily unite behind someone posing as the champion of their cause.
Isolate a group in some way, convince them they are victims and being targeted by society. Good thing big bro is there. Big Bro. That's a name you can trust. A name people seem to trust more than themselves or their neighbors. Group insanity.
It is classic manipulation. And then you have every cockroach with a microphone weighing in.
Progressives pretend like crazy. First it was an automatic weapon, and now it is an attack by all of us on lbgt community? Am I supposed to say LBGTQ? Honestly I despise the whole "black community' "white community" "LB blablabla community" I do not care. They can milk this in an effort to get the lbgt etc people to vote in a block and according to their wishes
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Maybe He Did It For Attention
What reason could anyone, even a self-styled holy man, have for saying a slaughter is a good thing and God is smiling down on the bloody mess. That is creepy. And it is out of California. Usually this would be a Florida thing. A competition may be brewing; like Miss America except for madness. Our state lunatic is more bizarre than yours.
What kind of a church is that? I think he did it because there may be enough real lunatics come out of the woodwork to add some cash to the coffers. The publicity will attract a certain type of biblical lunatic, certain other gangs and unpleasant groups. All it takes is a small percentage of the people who see the madness on the news or wherever and whatever media to seek out his holy enterprise.
Clearly, people will risk the wrath of mass quantities of their countrybeings, anything to be noticed. Looks like it pays off to some degree, as long as you don't mind a bit of backlash in certain circles and maybe everywhere you go in public.
What kind of a church is that? I think he did it because there may be enough real lunatics come out of the woodwork to add some cash to the coffers. The publicity will attract a certain type of biblical lunatic, certain other gangs and unpleasant groups. All it takes is a small percentage of the people who see the madness on the news or wherever and whatever media to seek out his holy enterprise.
Clearly, people will risk the wrath of mass quantities of their countrybeings, anything to be noticed. Looks like it pays off to some degree, as long as you don't mind a bit of backlash in certain circles and maybe everywhere you go in public.
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