A rough lesson for many is the lesson of the paradox, that life is not black or white, yes or no although it's an effective coping mechanism to believe so. Sometimes a thing can be both very bad luck and a beautiful blessing at the same time. Only song I know that explains:
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MMT Cont. Choosing a Cher song is always a necessary challenge. But now, bootlegs are in play as you can easily convert them to other formats. And what makes this version better than the canonical Cher version? Well, horns for one thing.
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Suggested book club book that didn't get the votes. But so far very good.
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Ok, I'm back in!
Neal Gabler talking about American "trash" culture as it evolved after the election of Andrew Jackson and Jacksonism (but also inadvertently Trumpism).
MMT Cont:
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What mix tape would be complete without a hip reference to Tom Jones?
"I know you do."
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From another platform where someone said, "there's no existential dread--check all the boxes!" Someone else said "take notes!" 😂 Nothing better than skool humor mixed with gallows humor. 🤤
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MMT Cont:
"Come on"
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I remember first reading this book in my Yonkers apartment around the time Cher's "Believe" was topping the Billboard chart. I can see by my marginalia I agreed with everything Gabler said. Re-reading those margin notes again I am now disagreeing with everything.
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MMT Cont.
When my grandfather lived with us every time I left the house he would say, "Where are you going in those dungarees!"
Such a fun, sweet song.
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So many great lessons in this one:
"that lesson about breathing"
"Balancing tiger with rhythm of tortoise"
"You don't have to know where your feet will be falling"
"And if you get everything right, then there's nothing else left"
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"This is so you’ll know the sound"
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Leaning over the balcony. Classic. Love this.
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(I was having a similar thoughts while conversing with 12 women I didn't know very well at my Reel Roots dinner last week.)
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"If we want to understand ourselves, if we want to understand the civilization in which we belong, we have to understand celebrities, because the modern world of freedom and loneliness has produced them as the primary communal experience."
- Stephen Marche
We weren't the city's rich kids. But my high school was architecturally interesting & we had a beautiful theater. I still remember those acoustic wood panels. My brothers both 'lettered' in sports. I literally lettered in theater.
But I still couldn't tell you where the stage door was.
Last day of fame art.
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Today's fame art continued.
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Today's fame art.
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Fame tables.
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Comedians. Full stop.
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Pertinent to A.I. battles (see Morgan Freeman)
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Deep thoughts on fame continued
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Deep fame thoughts
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Trump 2.0:
-Bombed Iran (twice), Venezuela, and Yemen
-Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate a ceasefire and kill civilians
-Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions
-Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities
The "Peace President."
Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
