Share someone who looks stylish wearing a winter coat :)

This morning's ear (and mind) worm. Just because. #JethroTull #ThickAsABrick #MusicSky youtu.be/ldXdnZtTWp8?...

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person. It wastes your energy and convinces your opponent you are just as stupid as they are. And maybe they are right. LOL.

An ad selling this generation's version of mail order brides states that "In Asian cultures, love is a beautiful blend of tradition and devotion". In what culture is LOVE NOT a blend of tradition and devotion? Come on. Do we need to reinforce the stupidity that separates everyone into us and them?

A Charles Brown Christmas classic, as covered and recorded here by The Hardrick Rivers Revue (featuring Hardrick on sax and vocals, me on bass, Waylon Salter on guitar, and Pop Hymes on drums - also was that you Bill Spears on organ?) radicaldruid.com/mp3s/06%20Me...

We have so demonized, segregated & "dumbed down" the working class to fight the "specter of Communism" - and the intellectual backlash against Viet Nam - that there really is no danger of the US proletariat uniting any time soon. And we're ALL proletariats. Ain't none of y'all in the ruling class.

As the earth cools, its prime axis slanted
away from the sun for its winter turn,
as the hearth fires are stoked and brightly burn,
the seeds of the coming year are planted.
This dark season teaches us of balance;
it is the time for the silver moon. #poetry #solstice #midwinter

A moment of hesitation always lasts longer than a moment of opportunity. Simple relativity: a minute with a friend is much shorter than a second on a hot stove.

As any professional project manager can tell you, you can plan for everything except what actually happens. Because the what is a tool. You’re changing the who. Not replacing them. Changing who they are. Things that don’t change, die. Things that change die too. That’s where the method helps. LOL.

If you like me grew up listening to the Bay City Rollers, you’ll understand how cool this is, on a different level altogether: youtube.com/watch?v=i77Q...

Let’s face the obvious: the only group capable of bringing down ANY nation’s government are its sex workers. Political party don’t matter. And if they turn state’s evidence, they destroy their profession. For better or worse.

Since what seems the beginning of time, I have been a great rock singer. Unfortunately, not continually or consistently, and definitely not at the right place or right time (80s hair metal in LA, anyone LOL). And sometimes not the right octave. The curse of the eternal baritone.

So when you’re on a roll, is it that you’ve got momentum or gravity working for you, you’ve come into some dough that makes you yeasty, or you’ve just made a trip to the bathroom? LOL.

You don’t believe what you’re hearing. But you keep making it heard (and giving it implicit credibility and substance) by reposting it. Nobody that’s paying attention needs to see it again. Nobody who believes it is listening anyway. You are the problem.

I blame the “liberals” who didn’t vote because they didn’t have a candidate who was liberal in their special way. Whereas the MAGAs just wanted an old, rich white guy with an OEM penis. That’s a much less fractured demographic, ain’t it?

I’ll give you a chance. Even porn bots and spam trolls need friends, right? But if you’ve got no posts, no bio, and no other Human Intelligence friends, and just pictures of your body, that chance is really slim. If you’re not who you are, who is? LOL.

Still standing after almost 61 years (in a week or so). And still probably to your left. Where the bass player should be. LOL.

You don’t have to keep saying, “oh, wow, yet another lie,” like you’re so surprised. Their lips are moving, right? They’re posting it on social media, right? You have be a special kind of idiot to still think you’re supposed to believe this shit. In fact, are you well enough to be on the street? LOL

Behind every King of the Stone Age is a Queen of the Renaissance Age just trying to evolve the whole works just a little, tiny, wee bit further. I say we let her do it. And try to get out of the way :)

If you think I’m talking about you, you’re probably right. Then again, who cares what I say? #musicsky #musicnerds

I really think Dave should let the Republican Party use this as their mid-term campaign slogan. In an alternate universe, of course, where Democrats win elections with an actual platform that more than one voting bloc agrees on. youtu.be/eYrWCnvt7ws?...

You may not play well with others but in my musical experience u always play BETTER with others. Because music is not really a solo sport. Even when u just play for yourself, it’s always a listening event as well as a performance. It works when the story you’re hearing is the one you’re telling.

Not everyone will understand this, but I REALLY need a Boswell. Since I can’t turn off my mind (and all attempts to do so simply make the thoughts more tenacious) at least it would nice for somebody to write them down for me. LOL. Then maybe I’d become readable - and infinitely more quotable.

Now I can’t remember where I read this, but it was probably 40 years ago: the true definition of serendipity is the act of falling into a pile of shit, and getting up smelling like a rose.

The entire universe is in fact a wish-fulfilling jewel. You only need to know precisely what you really want, and exactly who is asking.

If perchance you are waiting for, in a conflagration of high prophet religion & high profit Duke Nukem kinda supermarket of the spirit, for “God to sort ‘em out,” I want to remind you that there’s a LOT of waiting for that sort of thing to happen. We may not get to see it.

If you make sufficient contribution, you can choose your brand of execution. In the long run, it’s not a solution, but right here and now it’s not so bad. If you choose the preferred plan of action, letting those who wish it, satisfaction, you may find more driven to distraction by what you might…

Of course my earworms aren’t normal. This hit my brain just now like a hydra: I segued effortlessly and helplessly in my brain thru the different parts of this song, in seemingly random order #musicnerds #progrock #yes youtu.be/UwfVMAh-9Bw?...

Other oxymorons for today, besides Republican Healthcare: Alternative Top 40. By definition an "alternative" is a thing that exists independently of any charting. Creating a countdown of alt- music (most doesn't even sound "different" anymore), is a lot like unionizing Professional Anarchists. LOL.

If what you believe makes you act like a nicer, kinder, more compassionate, and loving person, more power to you. If not, or if you measure ultimate success by some other yardstick, maybe you ought to start asking different questions.

Donald Trump is not talking to convince you. He doesn't care whether you listen, believe, or understand. YOU are not who he is talking to. Never mind he has no idea what he's saying. Like Elvis said in 1968, "I don't know anything about music. You don't need that for the business I'm in."

The #mala connection. When it’s time to count #japa I’m ready for any energy that comes my way. #meditation

In one sense, as the Casbah rocks,
it merely sways on concrete blocks
that buried deep beneath the sand
give history its strength to stand;
and its foundations, built of steel
and solid rock, can barely feel
the tremors from such surface noise
cranked out by grown men and young boys #blueskypoets

I'm wary when anyone uses the terms America or "our" country in any kind of statement. This dangerous thinking assumes the USA is a collective of feral cats that you've somehow corralled into behaving somewhat rationally, in their best interest, or in accordance with some grand design. Yours. LOL.

You know what never surprises me? The innate ability of most humans (including me) to willingly & most convincingly do & say absolutely stupid things without much question or pause. What is "true" enlightenment? Realizing we're all complete idiots but knowing even that won't last too long.

One good thing about getting older: u realize the significant difference between what u THINK it's gonna take to get a thing done right & what it ACTUALLY will take. To please anyone supervising. Given that, u hope that others understand your staunch refusal to volunteer to do it in your spare time.

If nothing is a thing at all then nothing comes from something; that's logic if you presuppose that something there is that doesn't love the void: that a thing that is cannot become if there's no seed or spark or speck from which it comes to being. #PoetSky #BlueSkyPoets #Poetry #Emptiness

If you're gonna tell your or somebody's story, PLEASE don't leave out the silly & goofy parts. We are human to the extent that we express ourselves in the most direct (& often ridiculous) ways possible. And some of you obviously need to laugh more when you play. And play more, while you're at it.

Just saw #TimothyChalamet in #NoDirectionHome. Interesting 'cause I'm fascinated by the early Dylan period. But my wife made an observation: was Bob really like that, constantly looking disgusted & unamused, barely concealing a sleepy contempt for almost everyone else? Did he never smile? #BobDylan

The closest I get to AI in music is using a drum machine, a metronome, and a tuner. And that’s the closest it’s ever gonna get. No autotune ever. LOL.

There are so many little things that make up life's stretched years; and pausing now, to list them, I find my payments in arrears for moments that have come and gone, each adding to my store of seeming insignificance that whole, is so much more than pieces, parts and bits
#blueskypoets #poetry

It's nice to see folks from Louisiana having such a big impact on the doings out there in Washington DC. I just wish all the people we sent weren't such damned idiots. Insufferable idiots. ALMOST makes you miss David Vitter. And Bobby Jindal. And Ray Nagin. Almost.

I realize this seems a little snobbish, but I really like being able to say, if there is something that needs done or thinking that needs to happen, and I am unable to do it, that I know someone with whom I can have a fruitful conversation and can trust to contribute. And perhaps even get a coffee.

Official doom scroll interruption. Thank me later. #PinkFloyd #MusicSky youtu.be/nzRHsVfJj6U?...

Official doom scroll interruption. Thank me later.

There are those who imagine magical places like they are scenes from the happily ever after part of a fairy tale: in a strange twist, they believe the hereafter, the great beyond, and the future tense of once upon a time to be like the world initially encountered by the young Siddhartha Buddha.

So maybe you can’t decide to lick the boot (or other unmentionable) of some overlord, but you buy one of his cars to more softly demonstrate your loyalty. What does my dog call those cars? Oh yeah, the TestLick. It’s electric, you know :)

I’ve changed the name of my autobiography from Debutante at the Ball of Confusion: Confessions of an Optimistic Underachiever, to a much simpler and more elegant Observational Jazz and Other Assorted Musique Concrete.

Watching Korean game shows like The Devils Plan makes you worried that American game shows are for much dumber people. You never see two contestants having to play two simultaneous games of Go against each other.

Since I haven't listened to this since 1988, you'll forgive me for not remembering how absolutely brilliant and beautiful its music really is, especially since I listened to it this almost daily for a year. youtu.be/kDhpYo3OpGs?...