To get you “started” on tonight’s journey …
I guess it’s no surprise that someone with a deep affection for the relatively obscure movie “That Thing You Do,” not to mention a nom de blogue of “stands for decibels,” would have a deep appreciation for music, particularly music of a particular era. From what little we know of him from his postings, he is also a fan of Rachel Maddow and Eric Blair, and one of the calmer voices on an often cacophonous blog.
He is also tonight’s guest host. Ladies and gentlemen, sfd:
“I’d been thinking about some pretext to recommend a tune by a band whose song “Start!” is one that’s somewhat familiar to American ears, and while it may not be my absolute favorite ever-ever by the Jam, I gave it another listen last night and heard some elements I hadn’t previously considered.
For starters, it’s not necessarily specific to the “start” of any particular kind of relationship–it might be about connecting with a potential lover, or a friend, of maybe just a fan. (Given that I was as big a fan as one could be when they recorded it, I wanted to believe that last one.) Musically, when you consider bandleader Paul Weller’s unabashed love for mid-60s rock, it’s kind of a one-song homage to all three composers of the Revolver lp–the opening riff is lifted from George’s “Taxman,” the solo could’ve been part of John’s “Tomorrow Never Knows,” and the bit of horns is a nod to Paul’s “Got to Get You into My Life.”
I could regale you with personal connections to this band, but suffice to say this tune appeared on an album that was released whilst I was sharing a house with a bandmate, wherein we rehearsed in the basement, and we covered more of the Jam’s tunes than we should. I loved their sound, dug the look, and I envied the massive following they had in Britain while being dumbfounded as to why they couldn’t get more of an audience here in the states. (as to that last bit: now it’s obvious. 1) they were just too English for most Americans to digest, and 2) the Jam likely didn’t give enough of a crap to adjust their sound, and tone down their accents, to make themselves more marketable here.)
If you’re not familiar with their catalog, they did six albums–all have some classic nuggets within, but you can’t go wrong with the 3rd, 4th, or the 5th album (Sound Affects), from which “Start” is a part.
And back, for just a bit, to the sentiments expressed? I think it’s true of what we try to do at your blog, with one another. We don’t always really understand each other, we get p–ed off and fight over the silliest of reasons, but it’s different sides, talking to each other, sort of. And at least it’s a start.”
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Mr_B
July 7th, 2012
7:27 pm
Obscure one from ‘68. I loved this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMHNyNg6Ybw
Mr_B
July 7th, 2012
7:30 pm
josef: Too damn much time off, and it’s down to the taxpayer’s 2.73 cents now.
Almost got the wood-burning oven finished. I’ll put the first fire in it tomorrow.
Thulsa Doom
July 7th, 2012
7:30 pm
” I never had a pizza until I was 18 and in college.”
Damn. I never thought about it but I don’t think my folks ever bought us any pizza take out until out teens. Otherwise it was always a home cooked meal either for reasons of cost or nutrition or really both. Now I’m really out.
josef
July 7th, 2012
7:31 pm
Seems Ole Scout and Del are being strangely silent on their usual f*gs in the military, chest beating and testosterone poisoned screeds…reckon it might be because there a real soldier present…p’rolly…
Anyway SOCG…thank you for your service on behalf of the denizens here on the Imam’s cyber front porch…are you knew here abouts, the tag is a new one for me and I’m always here…
Brosephus™
July 7th, 2012
7:31 pm
Oscar
And I’m guessing that you’re not cogent enough to read where I said that post had gotten hung up in my pc too. Geez, some of y’all need to breathe oxygen.
josef
July 7th, 2012
7:35 pm
MR B
Shavua tov, u’mevorach! Thanks for that Electric Prunes one…I had never heard their version…quite intriguing…
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
7:35 pm
Shavua tov, indeed.
paulo, what gentle (gentile? LOL!) souls you and Mr_B are!
jonix, tell me about it. In Nebraska, I lived in nothing but trailers! At least the second one, was a double wide! The first, a 14 X 60 burned down in the middle of the night. Mom broke her back escaping out of the window and we lost Butch, the terrier mongrel. Tough times.
The good news. Life goes on and we get stronger…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ore6K3ESTLc
josef
July 7th, 2012
7:39 pm
BROSEPHUS
@ 7:31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuq7RYQ8Wa0
Mr_B
July 7th, 2012
7:40 pm
July 6th was the 42 anniversary of the 2nd Atlanta International Pop Festival. Anybody else there and can still remember it?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
7:43 pm
josef @ 6:58
Did you read last week where Army D.I.’s are no longer supposed to “yell” at the recruits ?
You know, there’s “no crying in baseball” and “no yelling in combat”.
getalife
July 7th, 2012
7:44 pm
“Drivers, start you dadgum engines” cracked me up..
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
July 7th, 2012
7:45 pm
“Geez, some of y’all need to breathe oxygen.”
Tbs in particular. Unplugging is good.
Speaking of which, I’m out.
josef
July 7th, 2012
7:46 pm
ZamVet
Sh*t! Why’dya have to go and tell me THAT! I guess I’m gonna hafta lay off you on that one…spoil sport! And thanks for the cut…so I guess they dropped the charges?
Oscar
July 7th, 2012
7:46 pm
Brosephus™
July 7th, 2012
7:31 pm
-
Personal insult. Penalty flag.
Oscar
July 7th, 2012
7:48 pm
getalife
July 7th, 2012
7:44 pm
_________
Not me. I thought it was a sacrilege. Don’t fool with tradition.
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
7:49 pm
just had dinner. 1 Breast
1 wing crispy southern
fried chicken, mashed
potatoes with butter,
english peas, romaine
salad with cucumbers,
green pepper, tomatoes
and italian dressing. ice
water to drink. do not
understand expanding
waist. Oscar may be right
60 disease.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
7:49 pm
Seems Ole Scout and Del are being strangely silent on their usual f*gs in the military, chest beating and testosterone poisoned screeds…
I guess it’s because they are “hard” and we are “soft”. (LOL again at me.)
reckon it might be because there a real soldier present…p’rolly…
You know what? I doubt it? And in the name of brutal honesty, real soldier sounds a whole lot like true hero to me.
Words.
Not at all a PJ fan, but I did like that Just Breathe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCCmBwRjGw
josef
July 7th, 2012
7:50 pm
SCOUT
I guess I’m speaking to you again. BTW did you read Son of Confederate Gentlmen’s earlier posts tonight on gays in the military? Reckon I oughta tell him about that pink flamingo tattoo you got?
Mr B
I didn’t get to go…I sure wanted to…
Brosephus™
July 7th, 2012
7:50 pm
josef
Brosephus™
July 7th, 2012
7:54 pm
Personal insult. Penalty flag.
It’s only an insult if you think it applies to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrojrDCI02k
Brosephus™
July 7th, 2012
7:55 pm
Not at all a PJ fan
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
7:55 pm
Army D.I.’s are no longer supposed to “yell” at the recruits ?
What???????????????????
Man, am I glad I’m “old”!!!
In the 1972 USAF they would throw you into lockers and basically kick your ass if you gave them any lip…
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
7:55 pm
my wife would cook a lot
better before my boys left
home so i asked why she
changed. she said well
they’re my blood kin. you’re
just some a**hole i met on
vacation.
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
7:59 pm
JamVet
in 1964 they would cut off
any button not buttoned.
such a pain to sew back on.
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:01 pm
ZaVet
” And in the name of brutal honesty, real soldier sounds a whole lot like true hero to me.”
Even if he is a son of Confederate Gentlemen…
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
8:06 pm
Sorry, Bro, you know I love ya, but you know who I am and the truth (for me) be told there is only one Breathe. And you played it!
I was always too smart (read too much of a p*ssy!) to give the higher ups much lip, but I still got in plenty of trouble. Because I did not have the best attitude, shall we say? One time in Biloxi, I remember getting thrown around like a rag doll between several NCO’s in a circle.
All I really ever got was a lot of extra duty. I spent more than a few hours buffing hallway floors.
But ultimately I played them a LOT more than they played me. And had one righteous time.
Dumbass lifers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqXLY-6n4zA&feature=related
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:07 pm
FROG
@ 7:55
Oooooh! Truth hurts don’t it…
I was saying to Unmentionable the other day I wanted one of the dishes he makes and said “you used to make that all the time for me.” He said, “yeah, and you used to be good looking, too..any more questions?”
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
8:08 pm
josef
relationship undercurrents..
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:10 pm
ZamVet
“I remember getting thrown around like a rag doll between several NCO’s in a circle.”
Yeah, me, too…at the Fire and Rain, right?
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
8:16 pm
and you used to be good looking, too
Well at least you weren’t born ugly!
Youth and beauty. Hollywood and Madison Avenue. We are a funny lot, ain’t we?
Think about it, it took Pink Floyd seven albums to get DSotM right.
There’s a lesson there somewhere…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbKAh3zJmH8
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:19 pm
There is one great strength training exercise that works to reduce weight, for virtually any homo sapien:
Table Push-Aways.
SonofConfederateGentlemen
July 7th, 2012
8:20 pm
You know what they say about scouts right? First in, last out. Always seemed to have a certain tone to me.
getalife
July 7th, 2012
8:23 pm
They like fat frogs down here.
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:24 pm
ZamVet
I know DSofM is supposed to be their ne plus ultra, and I do like it a lot and is near the top of my list of all time great albums, but I’m still partial to Momentary Lapse of Reason…and the best from that and one of my top ten cuts of all time..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNiSKSeJPC4
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:26 pm
SOCG
@ 8:20
Ooooh…
Scout? Any comment?
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
8:26 pm
getalife
they like anything down
there. just add pepper.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
8:28 pm
Enter your comments here
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
8:29 pm
oops — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdD6L4cKKU8&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLA4184925A3766BD8
getalife
July 7th, 2012
8:29 pm
frog,
Too much good food.
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:29 pm
for me, it’s Piper At The Gates of Dawn, and it’s downhill from there.
(jk, mostly… although it is a bit weird that hardly anyone mentions that lp in these discussions.)
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:30 pm
getalife
Fat frogs? I’m tellin’ ya, Mec, ya better leave them Boudreaux gals alone!
ZamVet
Nyanh, wasn’t born that way…took a life of good livin to get where I am today…
getalife
July 7th, 2012
8:33 pm
josef,
They jump on anything
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
8:36 pm
My dear josef, a killer cut.
And do not think that I did not love, to some great degree, Meddle and Ummagumma and The Wall, Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell, among others, but Dark Side of the Moon was the musical switch that flipped me. I was 18. Some how. Some way. I’m not, to this day, sure how, but I do know that it did. I remember the very moment.
And this was the song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:40 pm
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57468106-503544/boehner-i-cant-make-you-love-mitt-romney/
I appreciate the honesty from the Speaker, but I don’t imagine Mitt does.
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:42 pm
getalife…you best be careful or you’ll find yourself…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFD2XPqVCy8
ain’t no time for lengthy speeches…
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
8:42 pm
getalife
last trucking trip i stopped
at Slidell 76 and walked
down the street to a small
restaurant. ordered shrimp
cooked in olive oil. i expected fried. they brought
a round pan filled with
garlic flavored olive oil
with shrimp standing on
end tail up around the
edge and a loaf of sliced
french bread. don’t
know if i ate correctly
but i ate a shrimp followed
by a chunk of bread dipped
in the oil. wiped the pan
clean. least spicy dish i
ever ate in louisiana. just
6 bucks.
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:44 pm
ZamVet
@ 8:36
It was drug related…
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
8:46 pm
…but suggested that at the end of the day, Republicans would be voting against President Obama rather than for Romney.
stands, not to be melodramatic, but that is tragic, is it not?
But this is apparently what our jaded selves have been reduced to.
The evil of the two lessers… ~Ralph Nader
Musically, they captured the themes of madness, violence, and death in that album. Though at the time, I was only marginally aware of that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8iUI_ayuo
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:49 pm
Sorry, Republican lady — and Republicans in general — but if a weepy romantic like Boehner isn’t even going to bother trying to convince you that Mitt might just be the man of your dreams, then it’s obviously time to admit that you settled and get on with it. Sure, you can make like Rupert Murdoch and get all publicly pouty, but what’s the point? Your fate is sealed, forever intertwined with that of a humor-challenged robot whose religion probably weirds you out. On the plus side, he is very rich, and he’s got a great head of hair.
nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/john-boehner-cannot-make-people-love-mitt-romney.html
josef
July 7th, 2012
8:52 pm
FROG
A lot of folks think that Louisiana Creole and Cajun are all one and the same or that Creole is just Black…each one has it’s own cuisine. Native black Creole tends toward the hot and spicey, but not as firey as Cajun. Caribbean Creole is not nearly so hot and much more subtle. White Creole is very European French and much more subtle, sometimes downright bland. But all agree on one thing…first you make a roux!
getalife
July 7th, 2012
8:53 pm
“The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.” orange dude.
They don’t need no stinkin plan just get
Obama.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
8:54 pm
jonix, I think you are right! You do know how to cut through the BS, doncha ya!
I was just beginning the grand experiment. It was very short and very intense! I kinda feel sorry for those who never experienced psychedelics. It sure beat being the average gutter snipe and drunk! Man, I live decades in a few years!
What has happened to me recently…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-CbghTBYg0
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
8:57 pm
josef
seems to me cajun has
more indian influence
than creole but i usually
think in terms of red or
black pepper. maybe the
shrimp in olive oil was
white creole.
SonofConfederateGentlemen
July 7th, 2012
8:58 pm
Out of here for the night. I gotta get some vino and some spaghetti going and get to bed.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
9:02 pm
first you make a roux!
Damn straight!
I may not know much, at least I know (and have done) that much!
I’ve been around the world but I’ve only ever seen one…
http://gulfinfo.com/bayoulabatre/
Peace out, Son of…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGuVa-4BVE&feature=related
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
9:07 pm
josef @ 7:50
The law is the law.
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
9:09 pm
JamVet
I used to drive down to
bayou labatre and buy
coolers of whole shrimp
and bring them back on
ice and sell them on the
street corner. did well
until the grocers began
to sell in stores. no fresh
shrimp in chattanooga
until i brought them in.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
9:11 pm
JamVet:
They gave up bayonet training a few years back also.
You know what “A.R.M.Y.” stand for don’t you ?
Army: “http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=772586″
Marine Corps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfOwmWnzuJI
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
9:12 pm
barking frog:
Are you from Chattanooga ??? !!!
josef
July 7th, 2012
9:13 pm
SCOUT
I see you waited until SCOG left before you chimed back in…chicken sh*t!
Mr_B
July 7th, 2012
9:14 pm
” But all agree on one thing…first you make a roux!”
Followed up by a blinkin’ wombat.
josef
July 7th, 2012
9:15 pm
ZamVet
Was there, saw it, did it and bought the t-shirt!
FROG
Bayou la Battre…yow-suh!
getalife
July 7th, 2012
9:16 pm
Make crawfish etouffee fill in Bama mini pie shells and bake at 350 for 10 minutes.
Crawfish pie me oh my oh!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
9:17 pm
Repetition is repetition.
And tautology is saying the same thing just using different words.
josef
July 7th, 2012
9:17 pm
SCOUT
Oops… make that Son of Confederate Gentlemen…
Obviously the G&T is working…
MR B
Mr_B
July 7th, 2012
9:17 pm
” I kinda feel sorry for those who never experienced psychedelics.’
I quit dope when I started to anticipate coming down.
But it did give me a much better appreciation of alcohol.
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
9:17 pm
0311
just outside in marion co
until the air force. then
North Ga. outside Dalton.
josef
July 7th, 2012
9:19 pm
getalife
I can make an etouffee to make you slap yo Mama down…and have taken your advice on the pie shells and using the left over for filling to make a crawfish pie…you are so right!
getalife
July 7th, 2012
9:21 pm
josef,
My favorite.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
9:21 pm
I used to drive down to
bayou labatre and buy
coolers of whole shrimp
and bring them back
Me too! But only for me and my wife’s personal consumption. You are obviously the entrepreneur that I never was! But man, that seafood was awesome, huh?!
We used to to go down to Mobile regularly and I’d always order the fried seafood platter at the local joints. Heaven!
Scout, you know I have ALWAYS defer to you jarheads! (Said with the most loving respect!)
You know what though, bro? “Drop and give me twenty” doesn’t scare me. Never did. I can still give you thirty! Truth!
Sweet song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDMxWgPQcg
Mr_B
July 7th, 2012
9:21 pm
Out for the evening. Shalom, all.
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
9:21 pm
The crimes against humanity, the dismantling of the US Constitution and the lawlessness both domestic and international that define 21st century amerika are the results of September 11, 2001.
Washington’s account of 9/11 is the wildest conspiracy theory known to mankind. The absurdity of Washington’s account is as follows: A few Saudi Arabians without any government’s backing or that of any intelligence service outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI but all 16 US intelligence agencies, even the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, together with the intelligence agencies of all of Washington’s NATO allies and Israel’s Mossad, which has infiltrated every radical Muslim group.
These humble Saudis of no known distinction or powers also simultaneously outwitted the National Security Council, NORAD, the Pentagon, Air Traffic Control, and caused Airport Security to fail four times in one hour on the same morning.
In other words, every part of America’s defenses failed at the same moment.
Think about that for a minute. If such a thing had actually happened, the President, Vice President, Congress, and media would have been demanding to know how such universal failure of every aspect of the national security state was possible. An investigation would have started immediately, not over a year later as a result of pressure from 9/11 families who could not be bought off with monetary payments. Such complete and total failure of every aspect of US security would mean that americans were not safe one single minute during the 40-year stand-off with the Soviet Union. At any moment the Soviets could have utterly destroyed the US and we would never have known what hit us.
In a real investigation, the 9/11 evidence would not have been illegally destroyed, and the investigation would have been conducted by experts, not by government agencies assigned a cover-up and by political hacks. The NIST report is abject nonsense. It explains nothing. It is a fabricated computer simulation of a non-event. The co-chairmen and legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission later wrote books in which they stated that information was withheld from the commission, the military lied to the commission, and the commission “was set up to fail.” Yet, these astounding admissions by the leaders of the 9/11 Commission had no impact on Congress, the presstitute media, or the public. All heads were in the sand. Please, whatever you do, don’t make us emotional weaklings face the facts.
Kerr-plunk! But wait! There’s more! Cover your eyes, put you fingers in your ears.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
9:24 pm
I can make an etouffee to make you slap yo Mama down…
My mama is over 200 miles away.
Does that recipe have as one of the ingredients, Extenze?
josef
July 7th, 2012
9:26 pm
K’chak
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
9:29 pm
More than one hundred firefighters, police, first responders, and building maintenance personnel report hearing and experiencing scores of explosions in the twin towers, including powerful explosions in the sub-basements prior to the collapse of the towers.
Distinguished scientists, authors of many peer-reviewed scientific papers, report finding unreacted nano-thermite in the dust from the towers, tested it for its explosive and high-heat producing ability, and reported the unequivocal results.
Seventeen hundred architects and engineers have testified in a petition to Congress that the three World Trade Center buildings were not brought down by fire and airplanes and have demanded a real scientific investigation of the cause of the buildings’ destruction.
Yet, we are left with the paradox that scientific opinion based on careful examination of the remaining evidence has been designated by the ignorant and unwashed as a “conspiracy theory,” while Washington’s absurd conspiracy theory stands as the truth of the event.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth headed by high-rise architect Richard Gage has driven the final nail in the coffin of Washington’s concocted conspiracy theory with its new film: “9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out,” and they do speak out.
Scores of top level demolition experts and experts on the design, engineering, and construction of high rise steel structures provide the scientific, architectural, and engineering reasons that the three World Trade Center buildings came down only with the assistance of explosives that were placed and timed to remove the powerful structural support and permit the sudden collapse of the buildings. As the buildings were engineered and constructed according to known and tested principles that absolutely prevent rapid collapse, fire and structural damage that two of the three skyscrapers suffered from airliners could not possibly have caused the sudden disintegration of the three buildings.
Just another conspiracy theory.
getalife
July 7th, 2012
9:33 pm
Kam,
Just add this ingredient
http://www.slapyamama.com/.
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
9:38 pm
America’s descent into a gestapo police state could be arrested, perhaps, if Americans were not so ignorant of science or were capable of even realizing that what they see with their own eyes when they watch videos of the twin towers’ destruction is buildings blowing up, not buildings falling down from structural damage. Building 7’s destruction is the total and complete picture of controlled demolition.
At the end of the powerful film, psychologists explain why the majority of a population lacks the mental and emotional strength to confront highly disturbing facts. A government that so thoroughly spies on its population as Washington does obviously knows its population’s profile and sees nothing but weakness and fear that can be manipulated.
What fact is more disturbing than the likely fact that 9/11 was a false flag event designed to provide the neoconservatives with their “new Pearl Harbor” in order to launch Washington’s Wars of Hegemony in the Middle East, and from there to Iran and to the nuclear powers: Russia and China, which are being encircled, as Iran has been, with US military bases?
Washington’s “wars of liberation” are wars of world hegemony and wars of massive profits for the military/security complex. The combination of power and money that are the motives for Washington’s concocted wars are hidden motives, wrapped in the flag, patriotic sentiments, and fear of dark-skinned demonized Muslims.
It never ceases to amaze me just how completely gullible Americans really are.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
9:38 pm
getalife
Have you had the chance to eat at Coop’s Place on Decatur St in NO yet?
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
9:40 pm
Soothsayer,
Apparently you were the “catalys”t for Bruno leaving.
For both of you, I am sorry for that. I like botha you guys. And like Forrest Gump, that is all that I am going to say about that that.
get, I wish I was in Vega, partying.
Early metal/punk/grunge…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0×6chChxzV0
josef
July 7th, 2012
9:42 pm
getalife, ZamVet
That wasn’t born ugly and slap yo Mama? Whoo, you so ugly when you was born the doctor slapped yo Mama…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
9:45 pm
Early metal/punk/grunge?
I just called it kick ass rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZSy8swyuY
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
9:53 pm
…often cacophonous blog
stands, you gotta dig that fine intro!
Kam, LOL! Really,i n some ways the most badass of all those three man bands!
Rundgren produced We’re an American Band but the truth be told, I was hooked before that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0×6chChxzV0
getalife
July 7th, 2012
10:00 pm
Kam,
I might have and the menu looks familiar.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
10:05 pm
getalife
Been to NO only twice (1996 and 2004), and Coop’s was the first place I ate, both times.
Went to Commodore’s for brunch and was sorely disappointed.
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
10:05 pm
“Apparently you were the “catalys”t for Bruno leaving.”
Jam-man, the entire day’s posts are still available for your review. Make your own decision.
In fact, here’s the entire day’s comments when he was banned. Make your own decision.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
10:18 pm
josef at 9:13:
Haven’t even been following much this evening.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
10:20 pm
barking frog:
Missionary Ridge Elementary
Brainerd Jr. High
Rossville High (Class of ‘65) We Bulldogs whipped those Dalton Catamounts back then but good !
josef
July 7th, 2012
10:21 pm
D*mn! Bruno’s getting more attention in abstentia than he ever did when present. Maybe I oughta commit blog hari kari, too!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 7th, 2012
10:26 pm
Maybe I oughta commit blog hari kari, too!
Go ahead and do it, josef. I got your back—just not in the way Unmentionable’s got it.
josef
July 7th, 2012
10:26 pm
SCOUT
You should’ve. We had a real soldier on this p.m. with an interesting one on gays in the military…but, not for me with you for now. I think he’s new hereabouts, but hopefully he’ll come back and you and Del can take up the issue with him…but, I do note that you’ve not been led into the trashy trashing even when being prodded to of late and that’s progress. Glad to see it…it’s got me speaking to you again.
K’chak
Rule of thumb on most NOLA restaurants…if it’s prominent in the guidebooks, it’s for the tourists and generally not high on the list for those who know the city…can be a real disappointment…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
10:31 pm
josef
Emeril Lagasse was executive chef there, but I went long after he left and it wasn’t a order from a waiter/waitress kind of meal.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
10:31 pm
This place is a trip, Lotsa personalities, lotsa trips.
I grew up in Kansas, but I grew up in Alabama…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80y0ZfmhKQY (I was there…)
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
10:32 pm
Jam, josef, et al: as a general rule, as I have observed it here on Bookman’s blog, you have to really push it to get banned.
If there is one central characteristic that will get you banned it is this: the thought or belief that you are more important than, or can dictate to, the manager of the blog. It’s really that simple.
If you are the type of person with an outsized ego and cannot accept authority, then the likelihood is that, eventually, you are going to be banned.
If you can recognize that you are a participant, and not the ruler, here on this blog you will live long and prosper. If not, you’re gone.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
10:34 pm
Redneck: left a nice song for you @ 3:33. I know it’s to your liking.
josef
July 7th, 2012
10:41 pm
K’chak
It’s probably just me, but Emeril doesn’t really impress me that much either. He’s too flashy. I’m more a Paul Prudhomme fan…as for the “name” places, Court of Two Sisters has a certain nostalgic charm, but for my money, it’s Tujague’s…
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
10:56 pm
Soothsayer, I agree.
And as noted before, understand well that I am not invested in “sides” or “right and wrong”. I think I read (for the most part) what happened, and am at peace. That I don’t like it, is merely a consequence.
This is another of those songs, that forever connects me to a special place (North Platte) and a special friend (Mike) and time. And fishing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM
Soothsayer
July 7th, 2012
11:02 pm
Jam: I would love to go to Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas. I would love to go somewhere without this oppressive humidity we have here.
From what I have seen on TV, I would love to live out there. I know you must miss it terribly.
getalife
July 7th, 2012
11:12 pm
I don’t do tiny fancy portions.
Entrees that look like appetizers does nothing for me.
G Mare
July 7th, 2012
11:13 pm
Humidity, I have found, is relative. My family & I from here gathered for my Mom’s 90th in Walnut Creek, CA. We were delighted with the dry air. My cousins from the Barstow area said, “Wow, it is so humid here!”
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:13 pm
Sooth, I’m a country boy. Born to be a rock and roller. And the song that really captures it for me, is one I heard driving back to Nebraska from Estes Park a few years back. (And hell,out there, all you can get is country stations!) And like Natalie, I’m enbarrassed..
Room to make the big mistakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dom7VlltBUc