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i was just looking at my craigslist ads and renewing them (ton of stuff since i sold the lair)
i had an ad for some pennsylvania house furniture i had stored there from back when i sold the big house
as i was reading the description i found out a possible reason i hadn't gotten calls on that
"truly gorgeous penises please take a look" plain as day for over a month!
maybe i'm glad i didn't get a call...

 

I guess it doesn't get into the SF area then?

 

You sold the lair? I guess I missed the news. Is it a happy thing or a sad thing?

 

talk to me after the 1031 transfer but the hardest part is done
harder than anything ive done in my life

 

The US has responded to the Houthi missile attacks on US Naval warships.
Iran has said that they are sending their warships to the area, so how does this negotiated treaty look these days...our allies and partners, or still wahabbists only too willing to kill an American sailor ?
Military experts have said that the Iran- backed Houthi rebels could not be doing this without the help of Iran.

 

BO, Lurch and Pillory have certainly insured an unstable middle east for the forseeable future
Not a fan of Bush and his iraq war but leaving a gaping hole, funding iran and destabilizing libya and syria almost seems intentionally damaging to the interest of the free world
never should have come to lobbing bombs at yemen but hey if you want to totally fuck up the world might as well go all in

 

like they do rightly now

Our provocations appear shortsightedly focused on selling and replenishing highly profitable munitions to both sides

Gubberment Military Industrial must be fed you see

for the good of the country
our economy couldn't exist without it
they all murmer in congressional halls


hell we'll even partner with Putin for awhile in Syria if it makes a buck getting arms sold



Oh and wrong thread guys. Some mod or pushy admin might want us to move this convo to the fetid thread

 

You know Bob Dylan has for years gotten props as being America's poet laureate and now he's been given a damned Nobel prize in Literature for crying out loud.

Tell me that George Carlin didn't make at least as many insights and observations into the human condition, and presented them with humor more than bitterness

and to his credit he never sang (that I know of).. at least not as badly as Dylan

 

Loved Carlin, can't count how many times I saw him over the years.
But to say he wasn't bitter about things is just plain wrong. His bitterness is what made him brilliant..made him Carlin.
And songs and lyrics that changed America forever and defined a whole generation are just a bit more deserving, imo, as much as Carlin did also.
I'm OK with this...a long time coming for a guy all the best groups knew was a powerful creative and artistic force, and led the way for the revolution of the mind and spirit. Dylan's voice is what it is, as much as Tom Waites or Janis Joplin's is/was.
Positively 4 th street, man.

 

Yeah I'm not really that opposed overall, I've liked Dylan and seen him twice but Carlin always felt like chicken soup for the soul to me saying the truths that no one wanted to hear

 

Hit the nail on the head, Irish.
I saw him at the beginning, the middle and the end...and he just wasn't as funny anymore. Hated pretty much everything, especially religion.
It happens to comedians, great and not so great...Kinison was pretty unfunny near the end, consumed with the coke and the two sisters.
And before my time, Lenny Bruce would just rant on about his legal problems and his court appearances.
Rich was funny until he stopped doing it all, and so was Rodney as I remember.

 

Agree completely. His bitterness was a turnoff.

Saw Dylan about five yrs. ago and walked out early, which I have never done in my life. I don't need the songs to sound like the album, but I'd like to be able to recognize them somewhat. That and his singing was unintelligible, which has been the case for years. Seemed to me his performance was a giant FU to his fans. What made it easier to walk out were the two thoroughly professional shows that preceded him, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson.

 

I think, imo, it is better to remember these iconic guys when they were purer, less bastardized and jaundiced versions of themselves and what and who they eventually became. Time, besides healing old wounds, as they say, has a way of inflicting just as many new ones...
In fact, listening to McCartney recently once, I have no desire to ever see him live, as I would prefer to remember him when his voice was so beautiful.
I know Dylan vocally and other ways is shot now, but there was a time when he was a veritable god of musical brilliance, as Carlin was with comedy, and
For me, I' ll go with that in my mind's eye and memory bank.
You can't go home again.

 

I'm reading a ton of books these days. Rediscovered Elmore Leonard's westerns... the man could write a fuckin novel, let me tell ya.