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Open thread 5/2/22

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The Bee Gees not only have had tons of hits, but they’ve had many many songs that either were unreleased or never promoted that I think are excellent, many of which could have been hits. Here’s just one of them (which happens to be from 1993) with some catchy hooks:

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Open thread 5/2/22 — 39 Comments

  1. Wow! I hear this song for the first time. Thanks a lot, dear Neo! Happy day 🙂

  2. Sounds like something from a ’90s movie soundtrack. A piece that would be used for a montage scene, or while a character is physically moving from one location to another; by foot, car/taxi, plane…

    You’d hear 20 – 45 seconds of it in the movie and not really notice it, then buy the soundtrack for the song you liked in the opening and/or closing credits and hear this entire song in the middle of the album and try to recall where it was used in the movie. As you listened to the album more this song would grow on you and you’d decide it was a decent little song in its own right.

  3. In re COVID, global case counts and death counts continue to decline. The seven day moving average of deaths is currently at 2,241. That is 72% below the mean of the last 26 months and 54% below the nadir of the period running from 3 April 2020 to 24 March 2022. Case counts still increasing in the U.S., possibly leveling off at around 56,500 per day; case counts have leveled off in Canada and are declining in the UK, France, &c. The death count in the U.S. continues to decline. As of Friday 29 April it was at 298 deaths per day, about 77% below the mean of the last four years. It was lower during the period running from 28 June to 14 July 2021, but not at any other time since the end of March 2020.

  4. Excellent. Neo you really should write a book about the Bee Gees, because the world needs more Bee Gees now more than ever.

    What do you say? I’d buy a few copies.

    Anybody else?

  5. I was busy over the weekend and unable to comment. Two things:

    1. I was moved when neo mentioned her ex-husband had escorted her to and from her eye surgery in California. I had an image of the two of them getting on the plane for the trip home; all those decades of life they have shared and now, in deference to those years, and the family they formed, supporting one another in the next chapter of life. Touching.

    2. I really appreciated the personal story of ballet and summer camp, along with the photo. 16. My goodness. Such a time. Bill Cosby used to do a brief bit about 17, looking back on himself at that age when he was in his 50s or 60s. We live in a time when photos have become incredibly cheap, and cheapened. Like most all of you here, I only have a few photos of my teen years, and almost all center on an event; a school dance, a football game, a track meet. When I see that photo of neo in her dance costume I can imagine all the hopes, dreams, fears, excitement, nervousness… of that time in life. Such a great story and image. Thanks for sharing!

  6. Gerard,

    Far be it from me to dissuade anyone from writing. My advice is, if it’s in you and pushing to get out, put it on the page!

    But regarding sales, I just quickly searched Amazon. There are more than 20, legitimate books on the Bee Gees, including authorized and unauthorized biographies, a trio of Welsh authors who wrote a nearly 200 page book of the Bee Gees in the ’60s AND another book solely devoted to the Bee Gees in the ’70s… Beyond those 20 plus histories there are coloring books, photo diaries, diary diaries, musical anthologies that dissect their compositions… And there must be 100 or more books about rock, the ’60s and ’70s, movie soundtracks… that have sections on the Brothers Gibb.

  8. I was also struck by Neo’s ex going the extra mile. My extended family has had only one divorce, 1 out of 5, but it was a very nasty one.

  9. In all their hits (and even most of their non hits) their voices come in within the first 5 seconds. This song has a long (for them) instrumental lead in. Very nice.

  10. Additional evidence we have attained peak wokedom, and begun the inverse slide…

    Amazon PANICS! Deletes >20k LOTR Fan’s comments —
    Rings of Power RATIOED with 1.8 Million DISLIKES?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpeKMl_44c

    For those of you not aware, Amazon is making a prequel series to The Hobbit/LotR, set in the early times when the rings were new.

    The teaser trailer alone — not a full trailer, mind you — shows a number of things problematic with regards to the canon: A black, beardless female dwarf, a black elf, and an armored, fighting Galadriel.

    Q1: Why would any Dwarf be black-skinned? They’re underground, they have zero need for melanin.

    Q2: Why would you depict the Dwarven females without beards. This is an openly stated fact by Tolkien himself.

    Q3: Why would any tale set in northern Europe (face it, that’s where it is, again, according to Tolkien himself) have any black people in it?

    P.S., you’re all capital-R Racists for not being absolutely offended by anyone even thinking of asking these questions.

  11. “Things are going so well for Russia.”

    Well, they’re terribly angry—and with good reason: the Brits are stealing their fish to make fish ‘n chips.
    To the Russian mindset, this is perfectly scandalous—an attack upon its culture and its history—and even would justify nuclear war, in self-defense, of course…. Russia has been warning the UK about fish ‘n chips for decades. The Brits have totally ignored them, continuing spitefully to make fish ‘n chips. Such lack of empathy is extremely short sighted. Couldn’t the Brits at least learn how to smoke, pickle or salt it? Wasting good fish on fish ‘n chips is clearly a provocation; and if you disagree, you clearly have no empathy for the Russian worldview, POV, history, aesthetic, sense of taste. For shame.
    In fact, the subject has so enraged the Russians that Lavrov in a moment of hysteria has thrown caution to the winds and decided to spread spiteful, malicious and—as it happens—spurious rumors about Russia’s former, wily WWII ally’s supposed Jewish ancestry. What a calumny! Is that any way to treat a former ally?
    No, it appears that Russia is on the cusp of “losing it”…
    We have got to find them a way to climb down from that tree they’re currently on. Maybe “Biden” should tell BJ to teach his people to prepare fish the way Russians prefer it…
    – – – – – – – – – – –
    And in other news, “Biden” just keeps getting wackier and wackier….
    “Now Psaki Is Claiming That TRUMP Started Biden’s Thought Police Board”—
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/04/30/heres-your-disinformation-now-psaki-is-claiming-that-trump-started-bidens-thought-police-board-n1594156

  14. President Biden missed the dinner part of the White House Correspondents Party to celebrate themselves. Eating is a place where dementia shows up—people forget chewing, bolus formation, swallowing. Liquids become more difficult to swallow…everybody is on thin liquids, like water. Then nectar, honey, and finally pudding consistency. When was the last time any but his inner circle saw him eat?

  16. There are, according to the internets, around 36,000 food processing facilities in the U. S. of A., so we don’t need to worry about less than 2 dozen. However, not all facilities are the same. Dollars-to-donuts bet is the numbers follow an exponential curve. A bar graph, where each bar represents 5% of the facilities, by size, will decline exponentially. The 5% largest with have a very large percentage of total production, and each bar will have less, declining precipitously. We know there are very few large beef or chicken facilities because during the dreaded Wuhan outbreak, illness at just a few facilities made an impact on the national supply chain. Perhaps more research need be done.

  17. “But regarding sales, I just quickly searched Amazon. There are more than 20, legitimate books on the Bee Gees, including authorized and unauthorized biographies, a trio of Welsh authors who wrote a nearly 200 page book of the Bee Gees in the ’60s AND another book solely devoted to the Bee Gees in the ’70s… Beyond those 20 plus histories there are coloring books, photo diaries, diary diaries, musical anthologies that dissect their compositions… And there must be 100 or more books about rock, the ’60s and ’70s, movie soundtracks… that have sections on the Brothers Gibb.”

    New books are different. The question is not how many titles OVER THE DECADES have been spun, but what is the most recent, who wrote it, why and does it step on the Neo book.

    All you’ve shown is a steady good market for all things bee gees. Trust the fan base to find new books and promote them.

    It happens that way in book world. Trust me on this.

  18. I couldnt encapsulate it

    Today, May 1, 2022, marks the 50th Anniversary of an earthquake event that none of us should ever forget. We urge you to celebrate this event and the Month of May– when so many powerful aftershocks were felt with us. Seems like yesterday that on this day and, during that Month in 1972, we saw the following occur”

    Federal District Court Judge William B. Bryant issued his landmark opinion setting aside the 1969 United Mine Workers election and opening the opportunity for members of the UMWA to participate in, most likely, the first truly democratic and honest UMWA election in the 20th Century. Many other events occurred after May 1st of that year:

    — a day later a Tennessee Local Union President, Silous Huddleston, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to murder Jock Yablonski.

    — 2 days later Albert Pass and Bill Prater were arrested on murder warrants for the Yablonski murders.

    — immediately thereafter, Miners Project Lawyers Chip and Clarice Feldman met in Charleston with Local UMW leaders to lay the groundwork for an MFD Convention in Wheeling, WV helpfully arranged by Davitt.

    –one week later, on May 8th, Joe Rauh, along with Dan Edelman and Lew Sargentich, prepared and submitted a draft of the most wide-ranging election re-run order in the history of the LMRDA.

    — 10 days after Brayant ruled, Federal Judge McCune in Pittsburgh issued the first ever ruling about the illegality of the trusteeships that prevented miners from electing their District officers.

    –not to be outdone, Federal Judge Waddy in DC,, who sat on a DOL case challenging trusteeships for 6 years, finally ruled all seven of them illegal under Title III of LMRDA and ordered the first elections in those districts since the 1920’s and 30’s. A tide was building.

  23. Boudin should have been executed. Her insane depraved malignant offspring Chesa who is now DA in San Francisco thinks his parents were martyrs but they were murderers.

    Fun fact: Boudin and her husband David Gilbert perpetrated the Brinks’ robbery when Chesa was barely a year old. In other words neither of them could be bothered to stay home and take care of their infant son, committing a terrorist act was more important to them. What did they tell the babysitter, “We’ll be back about 11 after we off some pigs”?

  27. Yea! I finally got a couple negative C-19 test results after two weeks!! I had a mild case – only a few temp spikes (to 99.8, which is high for me), congestion, low appetite, fatigue, and coughing (which persists). I kept my doc informed via email and will visit soon to have a check-up. I hope the coughing stops, but I’ve heard that it will linger for several months. Is there anything else I should expect in the long run??

    I never had the vax due to health reasons (ok’d by my doc), so I was a tad nervous about the progression of the disease. Everyone else who came down with it at the same time seemed to recover sooner. BTW, we all thought it was sinus & spring colds due to the high pollen counts

    I’ll get tested in 3-4 weeks to check on antibodies. When I was looking at a lab site for info on the test, I noticed that the gov’t has stopped paying for C19 tests for uninsured people…

    “The HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program (UIP) stopped accepting claims for testing and treatment at 11:59 p.m. on March 22, 2022, and claims for vaccine administration at 11:59 p.m. on April 5, 2022 due to a lack of sufficient funds.”

    https://www.hrsa.gov/coviduninsuredclaim/submission-deadline?elqTrackId=a43fadcac2744fbe8a7b8e1b0f919b5a&elqaid=93&elqat=2

    I don’t remember reading about this decision in the MSM. You would think there would be more noise since it relates to uninsured people.

    And, since it is May, I can go get 8 more rapid tests at no charge, courtesy of Medicare. Who knows how long that will last? At least the Abbott Lab tests are made in USA (reagent and test card) with the swab made in Thailand. The USPS delivered ones were all China made.

    “Medicare now covers up to 8 over-the-counter COVID-19 tests each calendar month, at no cost to you. This coverage continues until the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) will cover these tests if you have Part B.”

    https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-diagnostic-tests

  28. Having just nominated an obscenely truth-challenged “Disinformation” Czar, it appears that “Biden” will soon have to add an equally talented “Night Soil” Czar to ensure that American farmers will be able to put enough food on American tables….

    “Samantha Power Admits Biden Admin Using Russia-Ukraine War to Push Green Energy”—
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/samantha-power-admits-biden-admin-using-russia-ukraine-crisis-to-push/

    And any day now, Jen Psaki will crow how the upcoming, brilliantly-conceived, “Biden”-induced food shortages will enable the country to—FINALLY—turn the corner on out-of-control obesity….

    Time to print more “I did that” stickers…

  29. Liz,

    Glad to hear you are feeling better!
    Regarding long term effects, COVID seems to have a lot of random symptoms and effects that can vary from sufferer. It definitely took me some time to get my energy back, perhaps about a month after recovering, and it seems likely I suffered hair loss in association with my infection. The energy and hair came back though!

    I never had much of a cough, but some folks I know who did suffer that symptom had a lingering cough for months, but that too eventually went away.

    Hang in there!

  34. For those who might be interested in the Russia-Ukraine history, this Steve McIntyre thread on Twitter is interesting. It includes an explanation of why Carter Page was targeted in the Russia Hoax.

    I cannot make much sense of it, other than he appears to have bought into the Unz combox hooey about the whole sequence of events in 2012-14.

  36. Why because hes been tracking the collapse of the privat bank which is ar the center of the corrupted ukrainian state that midwifed russia gate

  37. Rufus – thanks for the info. I noticed a rather sudden increase in energy in the last few days. I’m hoping that the low appetite continues for a while since I need to lose a few pounds!

    I’m continuing the D-Zn-C-quercetin routine. My doctor suggested switching from Aleve (knee pain) to aspirin (to avoid clots). And, I drank a lot of fluids (water & Gatorade).

  38. Hooray, Liz! Months of coughing, eh? Well, mine has certainly not disappeared and it’s been 2 weeks out now from first symptoms. Friends have told me I seem to have lost a fair amount of weight; it was probably a benefit to do so in my case. (That reminds me, I wanted to get a scale.) I wonder what hiking would be like in a month or so.

    Liz, did your routine have any big changes lately that could have helped your energy perk up?

  39. I’m hoping that the low appetite continues for a while since I need to lose a few pounds!

    Liz:

    I say, Go with it!

    Last August I believe I caught Covid. (I had already had a regular cold six weeks before and they had just opened the state up before closing it down again). I didn’t have much of an appetite, so I ate little, then decided to start dieting.

    It’s nine months later and I’ve lost 58#. I’m down to 148.4#. I can wear 32×30 regular-fit Levis like I wore in college. I’m only a few pounds from my college weight of 145#, though I’m more muscular now.

    I turned 70 in February. I really didn’t think I could make such big positive changes in my body. It’s a near-miracle IMO. I’m on the Slow Carb Diet, for anyone interested.

    https://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/a32149673/what-is-slow-carb-diet/

    I don’t do much exercise either. Mostly just 5-6 minutes of kettlebell swings twice a week. I’m up to a 60# bell now and I can see muscles I’ve never seen before.

    I can’t quite believe it, but I’m enjoying it.

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