goodsmartbear.bsky.social
Just a well-read guy who finds all the humblebragging on this platform silly. This may be better than that other platform, but it's miles from real life...
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Sounds like a cowardly cop out. I've never seen you live or really heard anything other than your band name. A friend asked if I wanted to go, but I'm not giving my money to a state run propaganda outfit. I guess, in the end, it's about the $$$.
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Nothing remotely funny about this situation.
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So does Rhys Darby.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0j...
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Time Out of Mind and Rough and Rowdy Ways are arguably from the same period--even, potentially, bookends.
I know 23 years apart is a long time, but it's all part of the long career resurgence started in 1997.
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These look like fake names. Two mentioned this morning in mainstream outlets aren't even on this list.
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Probably doing focus groups or asking for permission to take a stance on something or arguing over how badly they want to fuck themselves while protecting a special interest group.
These last 2 wks are the complete repudiation of Obama's way of conducting business.
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So you buy into that bullshit, too?
That's too bad.
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It's not American politics, it's the absolute pathetic weakness of Democrats. I'm disgusted at how Presidents Obama and Biden pandered and begged and got next to nothing significant and lasting done. Republicans have always advanced their agendas.
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Do you know how tariffs work? Ppl who do estimated tonight that the Trump tarrifs will cost the avg family $2600 per year. Schumer is trying to figure out how to tell people that Trump has scammed them (again), and he figures he'll try this way b/c whenever Trump does it, his cult mass-ejaculates.
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Hilarious. People who think they are Dylan experts decide it's his last show and rush to buy tickets, and then it turns out it is not. Sounds about right.
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Bit of a tight assed take, no?
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Yes, and...
Why do my fellow progressives seem to only have empathy for special interest groups? Harris lost the election because working class people did not believe she or the Democrats really wanted to help them.
Read Matthew Karp's fantastic commentary in this month's Harpers.
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I thought the Guthrie Center was much, much better. In the Dylan museum it was basically memorablia. In the Guthrie Museum, they contextualized his music within the time, as well as the subsequent impact on music. I saw a Black kid there giving a talk about the relationship between Guthrie and rap.
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I do find it interesting. I've never been able to get all the way through a Lynch project, & I once watched a 13-hr Rivette film over two evenings.
I'm not disputing that he's a creative genius, but at some point you have to give the audience some footholds or you're just masturbating.
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Slow Horses is excellent.
Diplomat is just fun to watch. It's also obvious, manipulative, and often pandering.
I liked it, but it's another streaming service algorithmic paint by numbers.
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Mississippi, Outtake Version 1.
Easily.
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Some ppl say it wasn't even Dylan who said "play it fucking loud."
Dylan "authorities" are often just writing about themselves. It's like that Eddie Marsan sketch where Dave points at the cover of Freewheelin and says "That is you, isn't it?" and Marsan says as older Dylan, "Yes, & it's you, too."
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I really hope this is accurate.
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Woolsey Fire (2018): Starting in southeast Ventura County and spreading into Los Angeles County, including Malibu, this fire burned 96,949 acres and destroyed 1,643 structures. It led to three fatalities and the evacuation of nearly 300,000 people.
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Station Fire (2009): This was the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County's modern history, burning over 160,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest. The fire resulted in two firefighter fatalities and destroyed numerous structures, leading to significant environmental and economic impacts.
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Sayre Fire (2008): Also known as the Sylmar Fire, it burned 11,262 acres and consumed over 600 structures, most of them private residences. The fire was driven by a combination of factors, including the Santa Ana winds, dry brush, low humidity, and high temperatures.
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Old Topanga/North Malibu Fire (1993): One of the largest fires in Malibu's history, it burned more than 16,516 acres from November 2 to 11. The fire destroyed 739 homes and led to three fatalities, prompting the City of Malibu to adopt some of the strictest fire codes in the country.
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Kinneloa Fire (1993): Burning through the San Gabriel Mountains and foothill communities like Altadena and Kinneloa Mesa, this fire destroyed 196 structures, including 121 homes. It caused multiple injuries and one direct fatality, highlighting the dangers of wildfires in residential areas.
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Wright Fire (1970): Igniting in Malibu Canyon, this fire consumed over 30,000 acres and destroyed 403 structures. Tragically, it resulted in ten fatalities, making it one of the deadliest wildfires in Los Angeles County's history.
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Bel Air Fire (1961): This devastating blaze destroyed 484 homes and burned more than 6,000 acres. The Santa Ana winds played a significant role in spreading the fire, leading to substantial property loss and prompting changes in building codes, such as restrictions on wood shingle roofs.
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So, you want us not to notice that privileged people have been decimating an already fragile & volatile landscape for half a century thru overdeveloping and the demand for all the infrastructure that goes w/that overdevelopment?
If it wasn't this, it would have been the big earthquake that's due.
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Is it? Really?
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My God, you've become shrill.
There's no scenario where anyone thinks it's smart to let one of the regions that drives the American economy go to waste.
The problem is bigger than MAGA. It's climate change, of course, but also decades of hubris in overdeveloping a region known to be volatile.
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I was going to drop a big speech about how the problem is that audiences today are stupid and suck, and then I saw four of the top ten grossing films of 1974 were Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Airport 1975, and the Grizzly Adams movie.
So, I'm just going to go with: No, they don't matter at all.
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That's an antisemitic screed, just in case anyone, like me, doesn't know who this idiot is and opened the PDF thinking it was something interesting.
Shabbat Shalom and f*&k terrorists!
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It's heartbreaking.
And, you know, this is what happens when you over develop and poorly develop a region that has always been known to be volatile.
There are many people on all sides to blame for the environment's response to human indifference and vanity.
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I know everybody thinks their experience is unique, but I lived through Hurricane Sandy in NYC. $70B worth of damage, and we had to fight for real federal help.
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Yes, and...
Any responsibility for ppl overdeveloping & poorly developing a region always known to be volatile?
Environmentally devastating mansions & neighborhoods, concrete roads everywhere, wetlands & other natural areas decimated, a river no one cares about b/c brown ppl live near it...
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How to say "I'm an old white guy" without saying "I'm an old white guy": noted.
Peter Yarrow should never be mentioned in the same breath as Bob Dylan. As the Alan Lomax character said in the movie, they were a confection.
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Good point.
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Yes. But the show on HBO is an under-appreciated masterpiece.
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Sadly, only maybe five of those artists are truly great. It's a shame what popular music has become.
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Unless they're Israeli, of course.
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Reminder that Peter Yarrow sexually assaulted a 14 year old girl when he was nearly 30 and went to jail for it, and there is reason to believe that wasn't the only incident.
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Well, it's his public life, too, as he went to jail for it.
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I wonder how Barbara Winter feels...
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As a Dylan fan and a marketing person, I think it's pretty brilliant. I mean, Dylan appropriated the melodies of beloved traditional folk songs for some of his early classics. Was that sacrilegious?
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Fair. Your post was very vague and poorly written, so it was difficult to interpret what you meant by "the far right." I'm sorry if you waited all day for my response--whatever you had written really was of no interest to me at all.
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This is an example of why VP Harris lost. Every single Trump supporter is not "reality-based"? My neighbor down the block who is a successful businessman, volunteer, and has a loved gay daughter? My brother in law who is an in-demand optometrist in LA? One of my clients who is an outstanding lawyer?
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There are 77M Trump supporters--many, if not most, who are not MAGA.
Are you suggesting we abandon the cause of trying to inform millions of our neighbors? Are you advocating for two separate groups of Americans that rely on different experts?
We'll see how that philosophy works the next 4 yrs...
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I liked Anora, but found it mostly to be a director playing with actors as set pieces. There was no real depth or backstory. Also, I don't think it's ever good when I'm not sure if I should be laughing a lot or not.
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Elvis Costello's bass player? She was a little bit more than that...