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mopinko's Journalhere's a blast from my past- piano jazz w marian mcpartland.
a friend just posted this link, and man, did it bring back memories.
for the 20+ years that i was a full time mom, it was npr all day. the only music i heard was what my local station, wbez, played. they used to play a whoooole lot of jazz. after 7 every night, on the weekends. live from the jazz fest. later it got to be more roots. havent listened in quite a while.
adored this woman and her show.
Mary Lou Williams was the guest on the the very first Piano Jazz session ever, recorded in 1978 with Williams and bassist Ronnie Boykins. Host Marian McPartland is initially nervous interviewing her longtime friend and idol, and the cagey Williams still stands as a tough nut to crack. But once the giddiness subsides, McPartland exhibits signs of the masterful interviewer she would become, weaving in-depth discussion of the pianist's craft with a respectful sketch of Williams' personal history.
Williams died in 1981, but her spirit lives on with Piano Jazz. She and McPartland were both great fans of Duke Ellington — his tunes are still favorites on the program — so it's no surprise that Williams performs her take on "Caravan." A prolific composer, she also performs her own tunes, and at McPartland's request, she improvises an intense composition without batting an eye. Williams even warms up enough to sing a chorus of "Rosa Mae." Even more than 30 years later, it's a marvel to hear a seasoned musician like McPartland improvise the successful formula for Piano Jazz during the the program's first session.
https://www.npr.org/2010/05/06/126537497/mary-lou-williams-on-piano-jazz?fbclid=IwAR087luL3aGgZh7YUsVwUpZvdTNZZcQffvgvDn7e2D_3iFB-AfpZStB08DQ
here's why i think he's not in cuffs yet-
i think doj is trying to get him to plead. nobody wants to see a swat team on the golf course. ok, everyone here wants to see that. but i dont think anyone wants to clean up the mess afterward.
i think the best thing for the country is for him to take a plea, get house arrest for life, or in a locked mental ward or a memory ward or whatever.
as long as his name enters the lexicon as a synonym for benedict arnold, the rosenbergs, aldrich ames. and thank ja he was stopped short of truly becoming america's hitler or jim jones, i'm good. i expect a lot of other ppl would be, esp in dc.
nobody needs a 3 ring circus here.
eta- i have no illusion this will work. he'll go kicking and screaming.
eta2- just watching a clip of john brennan on joy reid. she asked- what would happen to me?
in his ans he brings up that others will be charged here. perhaps that is what they are waiting for. they want to round up the whole gang at once. we're focus on mango mussilini, but garland wants the whole gang.
hey tweeters, can i get an rt?
i shared this link in a couple forums after i got it up on yt.
but i thought it was appropriate to grub for rt's here.
https://twitter.com/mopinkodu/status/1563671564842852354?s=20&t=MCpnkhn0rIsfIAqZ3zpIzg
i have a question about annuities.
so, i'm about to put the cutest house in my zipcode on the market, and looking at making some changes in my money. it's time to shift from growth to income. i mostly live on rents.
i have my fp looking at things for me now.
but i have a friend who worries about me who has been bugging me about annuities. now, he doesnt rly know my net worth, that just that i have rentals that are a drag atm.
but i'm thinking it would be smart for me to have a couple for my disabled kids.
1 is on ssi, certified. her dad is helping her now, and can easily afford it. but who knows? if he ever gets in a spot where he cant help enough, i would like to know i can step up.
we're on the outs, and at no future point do i see her asking me for help. but if we patched things up, which i think we will, even if her dad is helping her, a little extra would be welcome. she cant have kids, and she has a honey she cant marry w/o fucking up her bennies. but i think she would like to have a kid.
i also have 2 other successful kids, 1 healthy as a horse, but an amateur athlete, the other is successful despite the family curse of autoimmune disease.
the other has both physical and mental issues but refuses to have anything to do w docs, so cannot get bennies. his dad and i have been supporting him off and on since shortly after i kicked him out of my house. he just moved back in. i had hopes he was in a better place, but alas he only thinks he is. he'll be fine when i go. if he's still here, he gets the house, as well as responsibility for the pets. there'll either be income from the sale of the rest or from rents. likely sale.
so, it's not a matter of basic money, but what if money. but in both cases, a little money in their direct control would be a boost to both of them. and a cushion for the other 2 doesnt hurt.
so, here's the question- how soon can you draw on an annuity, and can you define your own trigger for dispersal? is disability of the beneficiary a thing, or is it just me? dead or disabled? or a certain age?
tia
reminder-
the mighty british empire was derailed by the madness of george III.
we can learn from that, or flush this lofty experiment down the royal shitter.
up to us now.
we're never gonna wrap out arms around brain disease.
i've tried to have this convo before- we need to understand how brains work if this is gonna stay a democracy.
but here, whenever the convo comes up it is clear that saying brain issue=no consequences for your actions.
i know this is about a man that is pure evil. some brains arent redeemable.
but knowing that for so many when you say- i have a mental illness (a term i despise.) what they hear is- i should be immune from consequences.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217088594#post9
kill your lawn.
my 1st yt.
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kill your lawn. save the human.
he's demented. deep in the throes of dementia.
we've debated here many times just what is in side the defeated former presidents head. i contend it's swiss cheese. it's a rat warren.
this pack rat stuff is classic. if he's a poor man, he sleeping in a greasy lazy boy surrounded by stack of paper and dead cats.
i've said before his only defense is diminished capacity. he has all the evidence he needs. the medical files at reed will show that his brain was not working when he came down the escalator. hopefully someday dr. ronnie feelgood gets sent to the brig for his performance at the white house podium. his run to reed when they thought he was having a stroke. there's a cat scan or an mri in his file that shows more void then gray matter. and then there's the covid thing. if any of his neurons were still talking to each other at that point, they have stopped. it's a slam dunk.
mark my words. when the indictment comes down expect the spawn to have him declared incompetent. any wagers?
i just want to clarify- i'm only talking about the paper hoarding here, and mostly post covid.
firmly believe, tho he was always a monster, a psychopath, and a hoarder like so many rich ppl are. after the hospital, his brain got much worse and thats' why people around him talked about 24a after jan 6.
they should have declared it while he was in the hosp, and i dont know why they didnt.
found this bit of audio about jt earle.
i shared this on my fb page, and in a fb group of women who have lost a child to suicide. i am, thankfully, not a member of that sisterhood of pain. but i have issues w my kids.
my comments-
my da was an alkie. it took me most of my life to understand and forgive him. to even remember how he was when i was small, and i was his sunshine.
i didnt know that much about jt. i knew he had lived in my hood, and fallen off the wagon here.
i heard the song he wrote- rogers park- and thought him as 1 of the whiney new players that i cant stand.
after he died, i met him through his dad's tribute album. then i dove into his whole catalogue, and yes, i will sing these songs, prolly as long as i have a voice.
his songs about parents and children are arrows to my heart. when i listen to his dad's album, i usually skip the last song- last words, written by his dad.
but if i ever patch shit up w my kids, i'll be able to listen to it again.
this is what happen when kids are treated like less than human.
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