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Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday May 15, 2020.
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Scale
Local versus Centralized ... this is the dynamic at every level ... State v. Fed ... City v. State ... Neighborhood v. City ... Block v. Neighborhood ... Home v. Block ...
And so on, down to the individual person in relation to their environment, and then down to the component atoms, and so on.
Thinking in the other direction: Earth v. Solar System ... but that may be taking things too too far, and I'm a once-too-far man.
- Comment @ Facebook
Making common cause with Republicans
We progressive liberals desperately need to make common cause with Republicans Appalled By Trump.
Crack the evil spell holding the Republicans in thrall, and the Good Ship Trump will promptly sink.
- Comment @ Facebook
Urban Prepper's Lonely Carts Cub Land
I look for two lonely stranded carts at the far edges of the parking lot, and bring them together, so they can mate.
Urban Prepper's Lonely Carts Cub Land.
- [ Comment] @ Facebook
Song of the Day for Howard Kranz
Eleventh in a series of songs for Howard and me to cover, or be inspired by, or something.
Free Man in Paris
"Free Man in Paris" by Joni Mitchell
The way I see it, he said You just can't win it Everybody's in it for their own gain You can't please 'em all There's always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good business There's a lot of people asking for my time They're trying to get ahead They're trying to be a good friend of mine I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive There was nobody calling me up for favors And no one's future to decide You know I'd go back there tomorrow But for the work I've taken on Stoking the star-maker machinery Behind the popular song I deal in dreamers And telephone screamers Lately I wonder what I do it for If l had my way I'd just walk out those doors And wander Down the Champs Elysees Going cafe to cabaret Thinking how I'll feel when I find That very good friend of mine I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive Nobody was calling me up for favors No one's future to decide You know I'd go back there tomorrow But for the work I've taken on Stoking the star maker machinery Behind the popular song
- Free Man in Paris (live) @ YouTube
- Free Man in Paris @ Wikipedia
Play that fiddle like a meat hook
"I tell you, he plays that fiddle like a meat hook."
Overheard in my imagination while listening to classical music on Minnesota Public Radio. Nothing sounded like meat hooks, but something the announcer prompted me to imagine a punk violinist making crazy jabbing sounds, Paganini and then some, a real ouch-maker in the ears ... "he plays that violin like a meat hook, son."
- Meat hook @ Wikipedia
- Niccolò Paganini
Someone Saved the Net Tonight
Putin Bear
You almost had your Bots in me
- [ Comment] @ Boing Boing
Trusting Biden
I started soaking a half-pound of dry Baby Limas not an hour ago.
Baby Limas: the veal of Lima beans.
De gustibus non disputandum est, baby.
As to Biden: can he be trusted?
This is a world where people who know too much about Trump are taken to state-of-the-art suicide-prevention detention centers where they are apparently staged as suicides under pretense of multiple video camera failure.
Is it excessively suspicious to assume that Biden – and everyone else – is vulnerable to the Wolves?
- Comment @ Boing Boing