Comments on: Open thread 9/29/22 https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 01 Oct 2022 04:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645631 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 04:00:36 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645631 Linda Fox:

Twyla Tharp’s book, “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life,” which discusses how she learned to create as a choreographer, is magnificent.

She gets into dance as group collaboration.

Fun Fact: Her mother named her Twyla to give her something to live up to.

]]> By: Linda Fox https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645524 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:36:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645524 I’m surprised that Fran is surprised. I remember hanging around the ballet studio before and after class, and I watched my teacher creating the performance pieces, and that’s just how she did it.
So, I was aware that it was an organic form of creation.

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645483 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:03:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645483 Fran L. remembers learning about ballet in ’82 — I was learning about punk rock in ’79. Learning to like it, and New Wave, a lot (Ramones, Dead Kennedys, the Clash …).

It’s not quite punk, but Machine Gun Kelly’s music was described as “fierce”, and it has far more energy than most stuff. Plus interesting visuals.
Here’s a good concept album in a 48 min video, available for pausing after every few (teeny bopper?) hit songs, for a few more, with story. Different (for me). Cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07VKXydCUw

Going out for Karaoke tonight; maybe sing some Clash, or Kinks, Stones, or Animals, but not yet MGK (younger than my older kids, attractive to those even younger).

For Neo, here’s a good Don Surber news Highlights which includes two quick vids,
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/09/highlights-of-news_0393707142.html#more

Good vid of PM Georgia Meloni’s speech [subs]
https://twitter.com/i/status/1574251105940377607

And Rita Hayworth + Fred Astaire dancing … to Led Zepplin!
https://youtu.be/YbuFLUJ89Kw

later Don links to election fraud conviction in PA:
https://conservativebrief.com/30-months-66890/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=258

Don lightly covers many highlights Neo misses/ doesn’t have time for real depth.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645443 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 04:03:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645443 I enjoyed Fran Lebowitz in her younger, un-writer’s-blocked days. I have no idea how she pays the bills in NYC.

I was bummed by the documentary Scorcese made of Lebowitz titled “Public Speaking” (2010), which showed Lebowitz in complete slavish thrall to Toni Morrison. While Morrison appeared to me an obvious intellectual huckster.

Still, I find Lebowitz, in this clip, interesting and appealing. Maybe not at a deep level, but at least entertaining and I take my entertainment where I can find it these days.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645437 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 03:05:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645437 @ TommyJay > “inlaws who were just in Ft. Myers setting up their retirement situation there. I think they made it back to their home in CA before the storm”

I don’t want to make light of the situation, and am very sad about the damage and deaths from Hurricane Ian, but the note about your relatives moving from California to Florida made me think of this from yesterday.

https://babylonbee.com/news/authorities-warn-that-hurricane-could-cause-florida-to-have-almost-as-many-water-and-power-shortages-as-california

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645399 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:57:51 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645399 https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/27/reefer-madness-the-new-york-law-on-legalized-marijuana-is-a-triumph-of-politics-over-logic/comment-page-1/#comments

Every time you think Democratic pols have hit bottom and cannot sink any lower, they prove you wrong. You can’t make it better, you laugh at it.

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645382 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:44:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645382 FWIW,

A text message may get through when a call won’t.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645373 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:19:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645373 Looks like Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen may be transitory…
“Larry Summers Pre-Empts Coming Crash, Says Market Feels Like 2007”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/larry-summers-pre-empts-coming-crash-says-market-feels-2007

(OTOH, if she’s “transitory” she may well be Treasury Secretary for a long, long time…)

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645323 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:49:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645323 I heard about my friend’s family. Mother okay, brother owns, or owned, a house on Pine Island, north of Sanibel. All roads cut off, so there’s no information on the house. But he’s alive, thanks to his having evacuated.

]]> By: physicsguy https://thenewneo.com/2022/09/29/open-thread-9-29-22/#comment-2645313 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:00:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=120761#comment-2645313 Kate, Doing fine here in Yulee. Amelia Island and the area around the St Marys river have been ordered to evacuate. So far about 2″ of rain over 24 hrs which is really minimal. Winds right now about 30 gusting 50; some flickering of the lights, but we are well prepared for any outage. Living throughout numerous winter Nor’easters in CT is good preparation. At least here if the power goes out, there’s no chance of freezing like in CT with power out for days to a week in the winter!

One reason we chose the Jax area is that the historical records show very few major impacts from tropical systems.

My wife has a good friend in Port Charlotte and she decided to stay as her daughter came to her who has(had) a beach house. She’s been trying to reach her but no luck so far. Sheriff there was saying hundreds of fatalities. I think this will tally worse than Katrina.

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