Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
"For the United States, our total government gross debt-to-GDP ratio is 125.8%, according to IMF's tracker. In other words, our total debt is some 125% of what the nation produces in a year. We owe more than we can make in a year.
Just eight nations in the world
have a higher debt-to-GDP figure than the U.S.
Japan leads with 204 percent
Singapore (172 percent)
Sudan (169 percent)
Bahrain (152 percent)
Italy (138 percent)
Greece (137 percent)
Senegal (132 percent)
Maldives (129 percent)"
"If Japan can survive with higher government debt,
shouldn't that make us feel better?
"Not really. Japan's debt structure is notably different. Its debt is overwhelmingly held by its own domestic banks. Thus, there is less risk of outside investors panicking and selling the debt in a fiscal crisis. Here is a short story from Fortune that covers this as well as Japan's higher household savings rate, which also helps it manage its debt."
"After hitting the $40 trillion milestone, U.S. debt is now on track to reach $50 trillion in a few short years. It is already causing major issues in the bond market. The interest payments on the nation's debt are already larger than what we spend on national defense or Medicare."
We went from 30 trillion to 40 trillion in debt
in 4 and a half years by comparioson
it took us 200 years to go I trillion in debt.
This notion ingrained in peoples minds
that everything just continues along the status quo
"The news, reported by the Treasury Department in its daily financial update, comes just five months after the debt surpassed $39 trillion. The government continues to pile up debt at a rapid clip, as spending outstrips revenue by more than $2 trillion a year.
(So it grew a trillion in just five months...
sweet....good times ahead.)
"Our current fiscal trajectory is plainly unsustainable, and that's the best-case scenario," said Margaret Spellings, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. "Even in the rosiest scenarios, we're speeding toward a cliff and refusing to turn the wheel."
"The government is spending more than a trillion dollars a year just to pay interest on the mounting debt. Interest is now the government's second-biggest expense, trailing only Social Security."
"Interest costs in the first 10 months of this fiscal year were 15% higher than they were in the same period a year ago. That reflects not only the growing debt but also the higher interest rates that investors are now demanding in order to keep lending the government money."
(That will only continue to get worse.)
"Bond markets are reacting
The yield on 30-year Treasurys reached a 19-year high this week. That raises borrowing costs for everyone else, since mortgage rates and other interest rates often follow long-term Treasurys."
Back to US Secretary of the Treasury
Scott Bessent's remarks at his press conference:
"When asked twice if his sanctions would target China or oft-mentioned Chinese banks accused of facilitating transactions for Iran, he had no direct answer, saying that the sanction recipients "know who they are."
"Secondary sanctions are a very powerful tool.… The reason we are able to use secondary sanctions is because we do not take their use lightly," he concluded. "So we believe that a warning shot and a level set of expectations is appropriate, and if people do not want to meet our expectations, then we expect, and they should expect, that they will leave the dollar system."
"Carter C Price and Kathryn Edwards authored a RAND Corporation working paper in 2020, estimating that between 1975 and 2018, tax cuts and social welfare austerity had led to a nearly $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the top 10 percent in wealth."
(And I don't care what Wikipedia says about how it was worded or what the real intent was, I was 16, I had already been reading op-ed pages for 7 years or so. I was there, it was quite clear what the intent was:
"She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veterans' benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she's collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income alone is over $150,000.
— Ronald Reagan, Jan 1976, Asheville N.C Campaign Trail Speech
"Carter C Price and Kathryn Edwards authored a RAND Corporation working paper in 2020, estimating that between 1975 and 2018, tax cuts and social welfare austerity had led to a nearly $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the top 10 percent in wealth.Worse still, this transference had accelerated in the 2010s to an average of $2.5 trillion annually – all before the COVID-19 pandemic."
Think maybe they focused your eyes on the Welfare Queen for a reason?
"Hey, worry about those poor lazy people of a different color over there stealing your hard earned tax dollars, don't worry about what were doing."
(Such are the subtleties of Satan.)
All of the welfare queens combined through out all of history cheating the system, wouldn't add up to a nickle, compared to what was stolen from the bottom 90% of Americans between 1975 and 2018.
And now?
"According to a report from Moody’s Analytics in February, the richest 10 percent of Americans (households with an annual income of at least $250,000) drove half of all US consumer spending (about $10 trillion) between September 2023 and September 2024.
IN EVERY AGE of human history and in every phase of daily life demons have played a tremendous and very important role.
In no realm
is their activity more significant
than in the sphere
of human government.
("All governments are illegal" RNM)
In this area possibly more than in any other field of their operation their activity has frequently not been clearly discerned or even partially understood. Their invisible nature, their close and inseparable identity with their visible human agents, and the supernatural character of their operations have combined to clothe them and their wicked machinations and evil enterprises in ominous mystery. Innumerable multitudes without the light of divine revelation, and other multitudes possessing the Bible, but uninitiated into the truths of the "mystery of lawlessness" (II Thess. 2:7), cannot get beyond "flesh and blood" (Eph.6:12). They can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governors, and presidents are, to them, the real and only characters in the great drama of life as it affects the political realm. They have no idea at all of the unseen realm of evil personalities, energizing and motivating their human agents. "The principalities ... the powers ... the world rulers of this present darkness," and "the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12, R.S.V.) are, so far as they are concerned, mere theological nonentities with which they do not reckon. However, in the realm of human government the unseen personalities of the evil supernatural sphere are just as real and active as their visible human agents, and any deeper interpretation of human history, tracing in it a divine purpose and goal, must take into account the invisible yet very real realm of spirit. Thus interpreted, human history is seen to be not merely an account of human activities and events independent of spiritual forces, but a continuous interaction of spiritual and human personalities, in which demons play a prominent part.
Although demonic activity is prominent in this and preceding ages, and will be augmented as the age draws to a close,..."
"the consumer habits of the wealthiest 10 percent
have an outsized influence
compared with the bottom 300 million"
Revelation 6:6
6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
" I'll put it to you this way, it's my belief that Putin probably only participated in the G8 so that he could figure out ways to avoid it sanctions some 20+ years later. He has outwitted and confounded four sitting US presidents ("W", Obama, Trump and Biden, 2 Dems 2 rep BTW).
"For researchers at the BIS, it’s the sheer scale of the swaps that’s worrying.They estimate that banks headquartered outside the US carry $39 trillion of this debt -- more than double their on-balance sheet obligations and ten times their capital. Accounting conventions only require derivatives to be booked on a net basis, so the full extent of the cash involved isn’t recorded on a balance sheet."
Almost like somebody mighta figured that out a few years back huh?
I mean 65 trillion doesn't exactly just show up overnight right?
Do ya think?
How could that have possibly have happened, "unintentionally"?
I know, I know, no possible way it could be the guy that made his country pretty much immune to sanctions? Planned for a war of attrition the West didn't see coming? Developed weapons the west didn't have? Sold off $ and bought gold and made his economy a lot more self-reliant than most. Undermined our elections, turned our freedoms against us, just on and on and on...
It couldn't possible have been him could it?
I'm just reminded of an old gangster movie, Goodfella. Guy owns a restaurant/nightclub, gangster hangout, one gangster dont ever pay (Joe Pesci) and he assaults' the owner one night when he asked him to. Owner goes to the gangsters boss (Don, whatever) and says hey, we gotta do something about this, I cant go on like thi.? He ends up making the Don his partner in his establishment. Opps...now no gangsters pay lol, Don has access to owners lines of credit...maxes all of them out buying truckloads of liquor and food and then selling it at 50% of normal cost, who cares right? It's all free. It's all 100% profit, and when they finally come cause you cant pay your bills? You torch the place, you light a match and collect the insurance...
"They estimate that banks headquartered outside the US carry $39 trillion of this debt -- more than double their on-balance sheet obligations and ten times their capital. Accounting conventions only require derivatives to be booked on a net basis..."
"Accounting conventions"
Translation:
Well screw you any time we want once were good and ready.
That scene in that old gangster movie is the same exact storyline to me as:
QE led us to now, and now somebody somewhere sometime in the not to distant future...gonna light a match and torch this place, this isn't a crisis or a collapse this is the end of an economic system and its happening right in front of your eyes.
Do you not see?
" be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ "
Isaiah 6:9
"...banks headquartered outside the US carry $39 trillion of this debt -- more than double their on-balance sheet obligations and ten times their capital."
I mean they are even telling you whats going to happen ahead of time. They knew at least a lil bit ago...
I mean what exactly is the difference except there wont be any insurance collection in our particular situation?
"The Congressional Budget Office's January 2020 projections predicted the U.S. reaching the milestone after fiscal year 2030. But the debt grew faster than expected as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. economy
and the Trump and Biden administrations
borrowed heavily to stabilize the national economy."
All because the rich must always steal from the poor.
Donald Earl Collins
Professorial Lecturer at American University in Washington, DC
(Good piece BTW)
Every Kingdom falls.
Only one stands forever.
And it is not of this earth.
And?
Revelation 6:6
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
(The poor get starvation wages,
the rich continue to get richer,
indulging in more exotic luxuries.)
"The best days of the American economy are long in the past, and better days for the US are unlikely in the foreseeable future.
The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” – where a sizable majority of people in the US could become or aspire to become middle-class, affluent or even extremely wealthy – is mostly dead in the second quarter of the 21st."
"According to a report from Moody’s Analytics in February, the richest 10 percent of Americans (households with an annual income of at least $250,000) drove half of all US consumer spending (about $10 trillion) between September 2023 and September 2024."
(To say that isn't sustainable?
Is a huge understatement.
All debt based economies eventually fail.)
"The fact that 12.7 million households could collectively outspend much of the rest of the nation is truly jaw-dropping.It points to the end of an economy that has depended primarily on the needs-based and discretionary spending of ordinary working Americans since the end of World War II."
"The biggest surprise of all on the end of the American dream, though, is that for tens of millions of Americans, this is not a surprise. The dismantling of the American dream and the consumer capitalism that
because we and other advanced economies tried an experiment 0% interest rates, it didn't fix anything it just let Billionaires borrow $ for nothing and put it in the stock market and then make back their loan, pay it off and then do it all over again.
It set the stage for interest rates being higher to combat the inflation of the $ supply during Covid (Second Woe) and landed us right where we are today.
Both of these events (Housing crisis and Covid) were Global in nature and the book of Revelation does not say what theyare or when they happened, and if you know me? You know my position on the "chronology" of the book of Revelation. (Most of it anyway) Gods time (as in a vision or in a series of visions) is cylindrical (past present and future all at the same time.) not linear.
"The gradual austerityleaders imposed on social welfare and education programmes combined with multiple rounds of tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations, killed social mobility, especially for Americans living in poverty."
(And they brain-washed you into thinking they were doing you a favor by doing it. I just could not believe the amount of people I knew personally, who were voting against their own self-interest, without even realizing they were doing so.
If you are 45 now?
I was almost voting age when you were two.
You didn't witness what my generation did before you were born, therefore, you were lacking the adequate reference points on the road to where we are now.
See point above about not knowing you were the frog in the boiling water without even knowing it.
Side note:
There is a reason I was born when I was. So that I could witness all of this and be here today to help explain it to you.)
"The transition from manufacturing to service industry jobs, along with automation, regional shifting, downsizing, and the offshoring of millions of other jobs,
the saddling of millions of Americans
with healthcare
and higher education debt…
(That was 100% by design BTW.
For,
"There is no freedom
without economic freedom."
Otherwise?
We are all just economic slaves.)
"All of these changes and more have turned the American middle class into a class of strugglers and not strivers.And the worst thing is, this is exactly what the wealthiest of Americans have wanted for decades."
(100% spot on.)
"By the measure of most experts, the economic power of ordinary Americans peaked sometime between 1970 and 1974.
(In 74 I was 10.
If you are 45?
You weren't born for another 6 years or so. My entire adult life, I watched the purchasing power of the middle class of this country erode.)
"More than six out of 10 Americans could claim middle-class status,and Black, Latinx, and other Americans of colour had begun to climb into the US middle class in larger numbers."
(My dad and five out of my six uncles worked in a union shop.
Some 60% of the working age population in Louisville in the 70's worked at GE, International Harvester, or Ford in union shops.
How dare us peons think we should have decent wages, good health benefits, rights to collectively bargain, two cars in the garage, $ in the bank set aside for a rainy day, and be able to put kids through college affordably, and take a couple of vacations a year.
WHICH IS THE WAY IT WAS.
My entire neighborhood(s).
Every household.
How dare us think
we should have that kind of life
seems to have been the thinking of the elites.
Translation?
IT DIDNT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.)
"The story goes that the OPEC oil crisis, brought on by the US supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War of 1973,
(I remember the gas lines.
I remember 29 cent a gallon gas right before that as well.
I remember me and my dad laughing
the first time we ever saw a Honda
dad had a Ford LTD at that time.
We start bombing Iran?
you will see this again:
Promise.
"along with the deindustrialisation of the American Midwest,
(How dare these people think they should have decent lives!)
ground down the US economy from 1973-74 onward. The combination of higher unemployment and higher inflation, known as stagflation, ended a three-decade run of endless US economic dominance and prosperity. But this story makes it seem as if a set of unfortunate circumstances ended the Pax Americana.
In truth,
the major corporations,
the wealthiest of Americans
and the federal government
began shifting resources away from ending poverty and sustaining the American working and middle classes during the 1970s."
"Neoconservatives saw Johnson’s vision of ending poverty and shifting more public tax dollars to truly lift all Americans into prosperity as communist and dangerous. By the time of President Ronald Reagan’s conservative revolution in the 1980s, both the remnants of the Great Society and War on Poverty programmes and even the social welfare system Franklin D Roosevelt built through the New Deal in the 1930s faced attacks and austerity."
"Although Reagan claimed in his diary in 1982 that “the press is dying to paint me as now trying to undo the New Deal. I remind them I voted for F.D.R. 4 times. I’m trying to undo the ‘Great Society’,” he ultimately showed disdain for all social welfare and social mobility policies."
(His presidency was the start of the
"style over substance"
variety that is now par for the course on both sides of the aisle.
Four of my classmates my senior year in High school had to drop out of school and enroll in college to keep their social security benefits from having a deceased parent, they literally had to do it overnight to keep them. The high school guidance councilors worked with U of L to make it happen for them. Show up to school one day your senior year, and four of your friends just aren't there anymore. Nice.
Also? These evil fucks wanted to count ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch programs, to keep from funding them at adequate levels, all the while reducing capitol gains taxes on the wealthy and declaring tips as taxable income and not gifts.
"In the Reagan administration’s attempt to slash $1.5 billion from children’s nutrition funding, school lunch program requirements were worded (whether deliberately or not) so as to conceivably allow for designating ketchup as a vegetable, allowing the USDA to eliminate one of the two vegetables required to meet minimum food and nutrition standards, and thus shrink costs. It also offered a group of protein substitutes – yogurt, nuts and sunflower seeds – and suggested that tofu, a soybean cake, be substituted for a hamburger to save money.")
So Fuck your
"Regan Revolution"
and its aftermath
(US today.)
Think its a coincidence that poster was here when we moved in?
Or all the periodicals about the JFK assassination
from that time period?
WE KNOW BETTER.
Dinosaur FDR democrat,
just like my mom and dad
and all my family was.
That make a lil more sense to you now?
And these days?
Completely apolitical
as we know
whats coming
and thinking an election,
a political party,
or a man
is going to fix the mess our world is in?
COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL
at this point.
CHRIST ALONE
is all that can fix this,
destruction being the biggest part of new birth and all.
Regan's platform he ran on BTW:
1) Cut Taxes
2) Increase military spending
3) Balance the budget.
Im 15.
Im like:
"Dad this doesn't make any sense,
it just doesn't add up,
how is it supposed to work?"
"It wont."
And it didn't.
It made people feel good though.
(See above about style over substance)
Dad also used to say:
"Trickle down economics isn't a theory,
its an excuse
to give your $ to the rich."
And it had never been employed anywhere else in the world by anybody else ever, and they went ahead and did it anyway.
I aint even got started on the moral majority and its ties to Reagan.
Dad, again, a Baptist deacon at that time mind you.
"The moral majority is neither."
And he was right,
cutting the school lunch programs?
for poor students?
While cutting taxes for the wealthy?
Not exactly Moral.
And that is exactly
what American evangelicals
married themselves to.
"Get out of her my people!"
Revelation 18:4)
"Particularly from 1981 on, through corporate lobbyists and the merging of various ideological perspectives from both the Republican and Democratic parties, the new lower tax system for the wealthy and for corporations took shape.'
"The nation’s richest individuals once paidas much as 91 percent of their earnings for every dollar over $200,000 in the 1950s, and a 70 percent income tax rate in the 1970s. The Reagan-era tax cuts brought the highest tax rates down to between 50 percent and 28 percent during the 1980s. Although there were some small increases in the highest income tax rates under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, by then, investments in social welfare programmes had not kept up with inflation for nearly 20 years, and with welfare reform, they would never fully recover."
(The tax base was shifted from the wealthy and corporations, to the middle class, and the church in America was right there with em cheering them on,
as was a brain-washed populace
that didn't understand what was being done.)
"As of the Trump tax cuts during his first term in office, corporate taxes are at an all-time low of 21 percent.These policies have led to a massive shift in wealth from middle-class, working-class, working-poor and impoverished Americans, towards the rich and massive corporations."
(I said that above
before I read that paragraph
because I lived it
and I watched it happen,
so I know its true.
If you were born in 1980?
Its just how things were to you.
You didnt see the pinnacle
of middle class purchasing power
the decade previous.
Your point of reference
is skewed to your experience,
not what immediately preceded it.)
"Carter C Price and Kathryn Edwards authored a RAND Corporation working paper in 2020, estimating that between 1975 and 2018, tax cuts and social welfare austerity had led to a nearly $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the top 10 percent in wealth.Worse still, this transference had accelerated in the 2010s to an average of $2.5 trillion annually – all before the COVID-19 pandemic."
(It is the largest transfer of wealth in human history and there wasn't even a shot fired to do it and again a brain -washed populace (see cuts in education) cheered it on thinking they were getting a good deal.)
"In the meantime, things have been bleak for ordinary Americans in other areas of the economy. The federal minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 since 2009 (the minimum wage also went through an eight-year period of stagnation in the 1980s).
(When there is no dignity in working?
Then why even bother?
I never, not once
in any of my careers
(lol and there have been a few)
got paid equal to the value
I was providing my employer.
After a while?
You just say:
"Fuck it, I'll just get by some how
and just go ridin,
Who needs this shit?
I'm just gonna keep getting further
and further behind anyway.
So whats the point?"
:-).
"People say I'm crazy
Doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game"
People say I'm lazy
Dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice
Designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time boy, you're no longer on the ball?"
I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
Ah, people asking questions
Lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem
Only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time
I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
)
" Monopolisation and downsizing have continued to cost most Americans living-wage jobs, as half of all working Americans make less than $50,000 a year, and a quarter of all workers make less than $25,000."
(They have turned you into slaves to your debt.
No thx, I'd just as soon just go ride.
"Now, when I was just a little boy
Standin' to my daddy's knee
My papa said, "Son, don't let the man get you
And do what he done to me"
'Cause he'll get you
'Cause he'll get you now, now"
).
“If you filter the statistic to include unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today – hardly something to celebrate,” Eugene Ludwig, the former US comptroller of the currency, wrote in Politico earlier this year. So much for the best economy the US has seen in decades, at least that was the claim of former President Joe Biden."
and I just said no thx. The point is, that has been the case than for a good while now.
Plus?
Know what the difference is
between not having $5 you need
and not having $5000 you need?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Either way?
you still don't have what you need.
Take the dignity out of work and then complain that people don't wanna bother getting further and further behind seems to be the American way.
I am better off now
(and yes I had some fortunate circumstances come my way, but I knew they were comin :-). Power of the spirit.)
But I am better off today, having worked odd jobs here and there for a while, than I would have been if I had kept playing the game John Lennon sings about that others did.
When somebody can not work much?
And get farther ahead that those busting their ass working 2, or 3 jobs?
The shitstem (RNM) is beyond repair at that point.
"The US, then, is back to its pre-Great Depression economy. Except that in 2025, it’s an economy in which the consumer habits of the wealthiest 10 percent have an outsized influence compared with the bottom 300 million Americans. One cannot truly have consumer capitalism if most consumers cannot make enough money to afford to rent or buy a home, take a vacation, or even pay for food and basic healthcare. But this was the end goal of wealthy Americans pretty much all along, with help from both political parties.Any remaining American dream is but a mere fantasy these days. All because all the on-ramps to general middle-class prosperity have been carpet-bombed."
TRANSLATION:
It's over
you can forget about it.
And people are gonna fight a war
and die?
To defend this?
And then come home
and be homeless
and not have any healthcare?
You have got to be out of your mind.
If you were born in 1980 or after?
Your reality
is my aberration.
It simply did not
have to be this away.
There is only one everlasting Kingdom
Psalm 145:13
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
"Never trust a cheeseburger you can't take the bun off of."
"Never trust a rock-n-roll band that can't play at least five Chuck Berry songs."
"Satisfying more desperate housewives than the spin cycle."
"she's not drunk, she's just mean!"
"swampadelic!!!"
"We self medicate the depression that is a direct result of the obsessive compulsiveness"
"what's crackalackin?"
"Your curse is my blessing"
Quotes from the 09 WC Handy Blues Fest
"We're an army and we're growing"
"Thats award winnin strutin' right there"
"That's shakin' it like the pros do"
"It's just Jimi passin' by"
"I walked in the door and saw hubert and my old lady doing the funky chicken right down in the middle of the floor"
"I spent $500 to save you $300, thats almost half off"
"I hate loud music, blues music and Heat"
"I don't know, that might be Jimi and Stevie"
"I don't buy enough shit to try and talk people down to start with"
"as long as you don't have that 38 it's all cool!"
People Of The WC Handy Blues fest
Ol' Dancin' Couple
Freaky Lookin' Dude
Mother and Daughter
Purple Hat Lady
Old Soldier
Got Grey Hair Now Duse
Subnet.com People
T- Shirt Guy
Quotes from "Porch Night Out"
"...are there any ding dongs left?..."
"...are those the Cheetos?...
"...can a brother get a lil ananimity?..."
"What was I supposed to be writing?..."
"YEAH!!......I'm sorry what?..."
"...there aint no dope on Bowling Green..."
"...somebodys got to drive my fat ass to Philpot..."
"...snapper shit..."
"...18 to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy..."
"...higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride..."
"...Whiskey Dicked..."
Quotes from Bowling Green Trip
Andrew, "Look a trailer with Christmas lights on it". "Thats not a trailer, thats a school bus!, and it doesn't have Christmas lights on it", Dave
Andrew, "Is the computer on?". "No you have to turn it on for it to be on", NA
"Well, it is getting toward wintertime", NA on Big breasted women.
"She wont get horny, she'll just get pissed off", BC
"Now do you want to smoke paper or do you want to smoke...", NA
"I'm squinting, everything s blurry..."Andrew
"I might just gateway across the spectrum", Dave
Overheard in Hancocok County
Criminal Girl, "oh shit, that wasn't the ash can!, that was my purse!!, Preacher Man, "If you go messing around with a skunk, you ought naught be surprised when you end up a little smelly.""If your clean, you aint eating it right", guy eating barbq.Country Boy, "I think those jerks on first shift were trying to poison us."Country Boys' Date, "Well, you didn't have to eat it now did you?"Country Boy, "But it was pizza". Big Guy to Clerk: "look at me, does it look like I want cheese sauce?"Overheard from phone: "Why the hell are you watching that?" Reply "Because it's on." Country Boy, "She got fired for doing some guy in the parking lot. Typical Tell City Chick..." Country Boy, "It done dried!"
Overheard at Work
"Has anybody seen the hemostats?"
"How are you?" "I'm doing well. It's early."
"I aint in any hurry."
"I am the queen of 8:15"
"I don't care if she takes over a Russian satalite with it..."
"I don't know anything, I'm just a suit"
"I plan on being reasonably functional for most of the day"
"I tried to reformat it, but it takes a frigin' act of congress or somethin'..."
"I'm like a brownie at a weight watchers meeting, I'm gone..."
"I'm not their boss, and I'm not their moma..."
"It would help to have your mouse over the link, yes..."
"It's a vortex of evil down there"
"It's not that I'm not listening to you, it's that I am having trouble comprehending you"
"Just click it with your mouth."
"Man, it's fried", "Like chicken..."
"The only thing I'm handy with is a doughnut"
"Why don't you go troubleshoot a Network Printer or something?"
"You are starting to scare me with your new found caffinefreeness..."
"You might not want to mess with me, I have a bladder infection"
Great Music Quotes
"If they wanted to name rock-n-roll something else, they could have called it Chuck Berry", John Lennon."Tune low and play hard", Stevie Ray Vaughn "What do I want a pick for, I got five of them on my hand." Gatemouth Brown "The Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government -- a public service." Jerry Garcia "Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over." Elvis Presley "Free your mind and your ass will follow." George Clinton
Great Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Tab Benoit, SRV, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen, Pete Anderson, Steve Cropper, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, James Burton, Ron Wood, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Prince, The Edge, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Slash, Joe Walsh, Joe Lewis Walker, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Kim Thayil, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait, "Gatemouth" Brown, Johnny Winter, Tinsley Ellis, Lightnin Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Castro, Hubert Sumlin, Tom Morello, Elmore James, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Mike Campbell, Steve Via...
Great Keyboardists
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard,
Johnie Johnson,
Booker T. Jones,
Ray charles,
Billy Preston,
Fats Domino,
Roy Bittan,
Pinetop Perkins,
Bernie Worrell,
Benmont Tench,
Sly Stone
Great Bass Players
Duck Dunn, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman, Jack Bruce, Robbie Shakespear,
Bootsy Collins, Tony Levine, Willie Dixon, Les Claypool, Noel Redding, Flea, Adam Clayton
2 Turtles, (1 released, I think it was a she and she was preggers) 4 Frogs (1 of them a Tree Frog, 1 of them about as big as thr tip of my index finger), 2 salamanders, countless worms and lightning bugs, 1 big ugly lookin' thing with wings on it...
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