(You cynic)
;-)
I'm only a cynic because I've been in major band situations where this kind of stuff is discussed. Audience behaviour is quite predictable, and this kind of stuff is not done in exploitation imo, but as part of putting on a more exciting show for the fans - like pyro.
And I am in total admiration for a guy who can put that much energy into a 3 hour show and look like he's enjoying it, at pensionable age. I'd be hard pressed to carry a plectrum for 100 yards.
BTW The best sources of information about a band are the roadies. They know everything. You can't be me, I'm taken
Er, isn't he?
Just like Tony Soprano. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
All I know about Bruce is if I hear "Born in the USA" one more time I'm going to hurl.
AFAIK.
(& I don't know much about Pop Music)
It's a mis-understood song, the main lyrics expose the jingoistic seeming chorus as being sarcastic (ironic ?), but sadly all people hear is the apparent triumphalism. So it gets a good response in the US and probably can get a mixed one elsewhere. keep to the Fen Causeway
It is time for me to plan my holidays! Ad astra per aspera
And then there's the headache of dealing with a million people trying to get home on the Metro. L'Enfant Plaza, where I'd be getting on in the District, is pretty busy during off-peak hours, mobbed during peak hours, and Hell on Earth when any kind of event is going on. It took half an hour to get a train -- and when I got one, I was pinned into about six inches of space by a bazillion freaks in Friar Tuck outfits -- when the idiot Pope put on his little show at the stadium last year, and the fireworks are probably more popular than the Pope.
So I'm thinking teevee is the way to go. Normally I go up to Iwo Jima, which has a really great view, with my aunt and uncle, but they're not around this year. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
to commemorate the US Marine Corp during World War II.
My ultimate goal is the American Beer Festival being held at the White Horse in Parsons Green aka Sloaney Pony. Those who were at the London meet a couple of years back will be familiar having been dragged there by yours truly.
They have Stone Ales on draught !!! Mugga Booga bluggle. keep to the Fen Causeway
Even the Dogfish. C'mon, the 75-minute? The 90-minute is the only one worth the powder to blow to Hell. They do make a wicked-good brown/IPA mix, but apparently it isn't being served. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
'Sides it's only a warm up for the Great British Beer Fest where US beers will be consumed in abundance. keep to the Fen Causeway
I am now officially on holiday - except for my duties as Social Secretary, station shuttle service, barman, and brunchmaker, to my daughters You can't be me, I'm taken
However, please note, I am not saying that the US make lousy beers that are strong. Their beers are good, but imo, they are stronger than they need to be to encourage me to drink a lot of them.
I suspect that this is because, until recently, I am fairly sure they were prohibited from saying what the strength of the beer was and so, given that they don't have beer duty (ie a tax related directly to strength) so there was nothing to be gained by making a flavoursome beer that was weak. keep to the Fen Causeway
I almost never go there unless i'm right on top of it cos the prices can be steep, there's a fab Timmie Taylors pub just over the bridge in Putney where I much prefer to go. keep to the Fen Causeway
Click on <indicators> to load data, Then explore. (via O'Reilly Radar) You can't be me, I'm taken
Peter Mandelson, as Trade Secretary, presented Tony Blair today with the Fenner Brockway medal for his contribution to British-Indian relations. What a complex of thoughts could be, but probably aren't, passing through their minds. Peter, sacked twice by his friend, now rehabilitated by their common enemy, is the most powerful man in the country (currently some kind of regency), and he is bestowing an honour on the former most powerful man in the country.
I missed his win over Ivo the giant the other day - nice that skill and elegance triumphed over such brute force - quite a David and Goliath match. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
Who Are The Short Sellers?Inquiring minds are asking, who is doing the bulk of short selling?It's a good question, too. And I have an answer: The market makers like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch.Yes, the whiners complaining about short selling are doing the bulk of it! For every buyer there is a seller, and when markets are screaming higher, the market makers are frequently shorting as a pure function of what they do. Moreover, when people buy PUTs, the market makers selling those options short stock as a hedge.Not only are the market makers shorting, but these actions are where the bulk of naked shorting comes from.By the way, the SEC initiated a huge short squeeze once before by restricting shorts on financials. Guess what happened when the short squeeze ended and Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and the other market makers were the ones left holding the shorts? The market plunged is what.
wha? ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
Top Ten Signs You Are Living in a Banana Republic. Why only ten? While there are certainly countless other signs that our country is a banana republic worthy of comparison to other ignominious, run-down, despotic regimes where the plutocracy plunders the treasury for its own interest, the American audience has an attention span of less than 30 seconds, is addicted to Ritalin and Adderall, and therefore has a penchant for lazy summaries and cliff notes. Have we lost you yet? Without further adieu: 10. Zimbabwe-the archetypal banana republic and the home of the $100 Billion omelet-praises recent US FED action. So the FED-which likely 90% or more of Americans have no idea of what it really is, its role, who controls it, or how it is accountable to taxpayers-prints over $1.2 trillion (with a T), and Zimbabwe declares, "Banks, including those in the USA and the UK, are now not just talking of, but also actually implementing flexible and pragmatic central bank support programmes where these are deemed necessary in their national interests. That is precisely the path that we began over 4 years ago in pursuit of our own national interest and we have not wavered on that critical path despite the untold misunderstanding, vilification and demonization we have endured from across the political divide." Not the kind of endorsement we desire to restore confidence in our financial system.
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can't make it up... ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has told friends more about the reasons for his resignation earlier this week. "He told me he wanted to shock EU politicians," one of Sanader's friends told the Croatian Times. The source, who wants to remain anonymous, added: "He wanted to send a message to the European Union that it had not been doing a very good job in Croatia's EU accession negotiations.
"He told me he wanted to shock EU politicians," one of Sanader's friends told the Croatian Times.
The source, who wants to remain anonymous, added: "He wanted to send a message to the European Union that it had not been doing a very good job in Croatia's EU accession negotiations.
(wink) Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
With this announcement that I am not seeking re-election... I've determined it's best to transfer the authority of governor to Lieutenant Governor Parnell; and I am willing to do so, so that this administration - with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future - can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success. My choice is to take a stand and effect change - not hit our heads against the wall and watch valuable state time and money, millions of your dollars, go down the drain in this new environment. Rather, we know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time, on another scale, and actually make a difference for our priorities - and so we will, for Alaskans and for Americans.
My choice is to take a stand and effect change - not hit our heads against the wall and watch valuable state time and money, millions of your dollars, go down the drain in this new environment. Rather, we know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time, on another scale, and actually make a difference for our priorities - and so we will, for Alaskans and for Americans.
Friday. Especially given that tomorrow is the 4th of July.
Nope, something doesn't smell right. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Fox anchor ? RW radio ? What's she up to ? keep to the Fen Causeway
Somebody did something really bad. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
You know how the Palins are.... Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Three in three weeks. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
If anything, the Extremely Big G is a scarier prospect than Palin.
Palin was a loon, but not overly gifted with imagination or political instinct.
Gingrich is like the thinking person's Cheney. He's almost exactly as sociopathic, he understands politics and strategy, he has a plan, and he's working very hard to build his media base.
Can't see him winning the nomination. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
</batshit insane conspiracy madness> Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Radio Iowa reports someone is using automated phone calls to test the popularity of possible Republican 2012 presidential candidates: Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Bobby Jindal, and Jeb Bush.
...(puts tinfoil hat on)...
Unless somebody's got something on him, and he's next. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
She apparently "quoted" General MacArthur in the speech ("Were not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction"). Small problem: MacArthur never said that.
One reporter says the rumor is Alaska is that the IRS has something big on the Palins.
A progressive radio host from Alaska on MSNBC just now says she may be under a criminal investigation. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Bye, Sarah. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Republican elites really don't like messy primary battles. They prefer to rally around an anointed one early, especially someone who isn't nutty. My guess is there is a concerted effort to grease the skids for Romney by taking down potential rivals.
If Huckabee wakes up with a horse's head in his bed next week, then we'll know something really is up. And the world will live as one
What an inspired video. First she sounds like a methed-up semantic disaster in a steam powered cliche factory.
Then she mentions lame ducks - and soon after, real ducks swim into view, bobbing scenically around her head. (Or are they angry turkey spirits?)
Then the camera pans around at the end, and we experience the true extent of her devoted following, as seen on America's Greatest Home Videos.
Superb.
This is fucking hilarious. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Noted Alaskan blogger and radio host Shannyn Moore just said on MSNBC that unconfirmed reports indicate Palin is under a criminal probe. Here's the clip -- runs 3:17.
And make sure she's never without fowl behind her. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Amurka is clinically insane. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Bible Spice steps down to pack for the 2012 GOP Clown Car Caravan.
RT @justaservice In honor of Sarah Palin resigning,I propose every city in the nation celebrate by shooting off fireworks tomorrow @HunterDK
I handed mine to the guy at passport control, who gave me a look that said "what am I supposed to do with this?". I assumed that they would be collected at customs, but nobody stopped me when I went through the green line (no fever to declare?). So now I have a filled-in copy of the form at home - I doubt this will be particularly effective against the flu.
Duty Free IF You Buy One Course. Duty Payable IF You Don't Buy. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
It was a silly form. When asked where in Spain I was staying I wrote "We're just passing through on our way to Portugal" - I was tempted to add "so don't worry about my cough" but was already worried about catching the connection to Lisboa.
We handed them to an Iberia crew member when we got off the plane, who looked like she was just going to drop them on some desk somewhere. Seemed a mostly pointless exercise. And the world will live as one
I have no desire to recapitulate the exigensis of James Joyce, with his epic press conference conferenced press enter, riverrun. in fact, in Alaska, due to some phenomena not related to so-called higher temperatures, glaciersrun.
Thus i take leave of the leave-taking, leaving only the question, why take? My mindleaves no answer never, not why or why not. Some will see the background loons as ducks, but they duck loonity, to their own feathered nests.
No i won't!
I take no quarter, as i have often statored, though amenable undercertain sequestrian circumstanciannules to accept an amitigatable two fifths. She shouldn't either.
Missus morpheus has chosen another path, which i will follow to morpidity, maundling along the way of the white geese, loonsome. In Alaska, we take no quarter, though amenable to two-fifths.
Concurrently with my handlers, who in effect are handling me and my hands, at least one of them, i have decided to delete this post, to their detriment, because the riverrun needs to flow, concurrently with the ebbs. As Joyce said, i am the fookin eggman, koo koo ka choo.
This should have no bearing on my resignation, resigned as i am to hunting bears, which is my inalienabledeordinate right, as you all know.
While you are watching, i will now click post before my handlers get their hands on my hands. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
the world needs more Trigs! (did i get that right?) "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"Sometimes even the preznit of the united states must sometime have to stand naked."
Followed by the Boss. i love deutschland. false, i'm resigned to deutschland. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
