6. Why would you say, "He's not as dumb as people might think"?

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People . . . we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!" -- Donald J. Trump

The highest levels of government have been infiltrated by an anti-democratic Deep State that can be defeated by refocusing our national security mission and relentlessly defending the truth.

A Friend:

I think this was the first Kenny Burrell I heard. Keyboards a little dated, but he is always classy:

"Up The Street, 'Round The Corner, Down The Block"

52. Yeah, right around the time I discovered cannabis and headphones . . .

If you've found the meaning of the truth in this old world you are a lucky man
If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man

Takers and fakers and talkers won't tell you
Teachers and preachers will just buy and sell you
When no one can tempt you, with heaven or hell, you'll be a lucky man
You'd be better by far to be just what you are
You can be what you want, if you are what you are
And that's a lucky man!

Along those lines . . .

Alan Price, "O Lucky Man":

". . . gay lover and having to produce a cover story for the situation . . ."

#114 | Posted by lfthndthrds

God, we know, we know. Every gawddamn thread. Talk to a therapist.

As they say in some parts of the South, "Git a-holta yawsef."

OR

"That boy ain't right."

Just saw this. Jack DeJohnette is a great jazz drummer (and pianist):

thevelvetvoyce
10/27/25

I love the way Jazz connects to everything. Jack DeJohnette's mother wrote the song "Stormy Monday" and sold it to T-Bone Walker.

Jack DeJohnette, with Dave Holland, Herbie Hancock, and (for me, the usually loathsome-to-listen-to) Pat Metheny.

T-Bone Walker, "Stormy Monday."

J. Edgar Hoover manufactured the entire lone-gunman scenario and used all kinds of methods to manipulate the pasts and presents of the patsies.

It's not conspiracy theory. It's heavily footnoted fact in all the documentation that's come out since Sirhan Sirhan was our government's last victim.

Trump doesn't understand that for an assassination to be significant, it always helps if the target is a sympathetic figure.

37. Four hands for you.

Oscar Peterson and Count Basie. "Slow Blues."

32. The band was splintering at that time. Next albums were first Starship and acoustic Hot Tuna.

Likely, they didn't perform much of Volunteers live, because it was the end of their incredible run as a band.

The Airplane's 71 album (Bark) was good, but not the same.

More drama.

I suspect there's some spillover here. Or reacharound. Whatever Republicans call it.

From the US Department of War: "How & Why DOD Works With Hollywood"

Lyrics apropos.

Jefferson Airplane rooftop concert, preceding the Beatles.

Thelonious Monk Quartet, "Monk's Dream."

Love Monk dancing.

Oh, hell:

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy, got no liberty
'Cause the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me

Don't want to get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here

The Kinks, "Twentieth Century Man":

11. Thanks for independent confirmation of what I'd remembered.

Worse ----- than this appears every day in your local news outlet, much closer to home, probably perpetrated by some Mayflower descendants.

Heard Ray Davies interviewed years ago, perhaps on Fresh Air.

The Kinks had just played in New York, and someone had dosed the brothers with LSD without them knowing it. They did not play a good show, and Davies spent the night wandering the streets.

He ended up in a Midtown Automat in the very early morning, thoroughly distraught, and ended up telling a guy next to him about how he'd been at the top and now how low he felt.

The guy empathized with him. He knew the feeling.

It was Joe Frazier.

8. The Kinks were far ahead of the Beatles in lyrical composition. And they were playing this music while the Beatles were doing "Love Me Do."

Give me Ray Davies on the condition of the working man over John Lennon. Any day.

Music at title.

Velvet Underground, "What Goes On," various live versions.

Get em a CB radio.

17. Nice ring.

It's a Yokel Judge in Tazewell, the most Primitive Part of the State.
Sure to be Appealed.
I Guess he might be Upheld by the Appeals Courts.
I don't see Why though.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer

It gets a lot more primitive than Tazewell, EP. But generally, yes.

Speaking of Tazewell, Robson asked me once if there was still a Waffle House there, which led me to believe he wasn't all Russian troll.

Where'd Robson go? Maybe he, unlike STD, finally figured it out and moved on in life.