Glypto Recommends It

If you have access to Disney+, and are even remotely a fan of The Beatles, you gotta watch this 3 part series. My wife and I just finished the final part, culminating in just under 8 hours in total. We watched it Friday,  Saturday, and this evening. This will not be a detailed review, you can find plenty of those elsewhere on line.

 The only real downsides... and the worst of all, having to see and hear so much Yoko. I know she's part of the story, but I could do without her annoying constant presence, hanging all over John, and that screeching noise incorrectly referred to as "singing." There is also quite a bit of footage of Linda Eastman (McCartney), Maureen Starkey, and Pattie Harrison. Some of the studio meetings tended to drag on, too. But, oh the music! They played all kinds of music and non-Beatle songs while rehearsing or just jamming. There was also songs that seemingly came out of nowhere and became huge hits. Harrison's "I Me Mine," McCartney's "Get Back" and "Let It Be," and the Lennon/McCartney "I've Got A Feeling." You get to watch these songs go from being chords and riffs and a couple of sentences of lyrics, to the songs we know today. I was also glad to see so much about the "5th Beatle," Billy Preston. I was amazed at how much younger he was than the Fab Four. But man, could he play! He has a lot of keyboard work on the Let It Be album.  And it happened quite by accident.

The series culminates with the rooftop session at Apple Records. Not to spoil it, but it was way more than just "Get Back" and the snippets of movie footage we have all seen. There were lots of cameras rolling, from many angles, other rooftops, as well as down on the street where they interviewed many people in the crowds. One spoiler though... The cops came due to noise complaints. The interactions with the Bobbies was amusing as the production and office personnel stalled them as long as they could. The other thing was, this was January 1969 in London, and it was blustery. There was one point between songs Lennon was trying to warm his hands. I can only imagine how cold and raw it must have felt.

So yeah, I know. Virtue signalling COVID compliant shit-ass Disney. And Lennon was a total Commie. But... I get Disney+ for free courtesy of my daughter (I trade her access to some of my DISH channels). And Lennon was a fantastic musician that's been dead 41 years now, so he's being a good commie. 

And Just Like That, Cold Weather Riding Is Paused

This morning was my 07:00 appointment at Quest Diagnostics for the Chi-Com Flu antibody test my doctor reluctantly ordered for me at my request. THIS is what we woke up to this morning.

An inch of fresh snow everywhere

The view down my driveway from a toasty warm cab. You wanna take a bike down that? NOPE!

The lab is about 20 minutes away and I got right in and right out. The sign on the door said face diapers were required. I went in wearing an N95 that virtue signals to people that I don't care about them, I care about ME! I did not see a GFDZ (Gun-Free Death Zone) sign. The test starts with a Chi-Com Flu nasal swab test (my very first one). I complete that and she says, "All set, thank you." I remind her this is an antibody test, I thought there was a blood draw? Oops... nothing like not reading the lab request form. She takes my blood and I am out. Oh yeah, the M&P 45 Shield remained on my right hip concealed the entire time. Since a large grocery store was near the lab, I took back my returnable glass bottles since I knew no one would be hogging up the machines. Now I just need to get rid of the plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Stupid fucking bottle bill!*

Headed home up my road. Recent tires on the truck made for fine traction on untreated roads.

 

I was talking to the town DPW maintenance guy last week. He said not one of their trucks were ready to go for plowing or sanding. The monkeys that work there absolutely beat the shit out of the equipment faster than he can repair it, and parts are getting tough to get when they really break something. I hear grumblings from people around town that if they had the authority, they would fire every one of them motherfuckers and make them reapply for their jobs. The only one that would probably get rehired is the equipment maintenance guy.

 

*The Kommiecticut bottle bill has been around forever. State government will say it is to promote recycling... I CALL BULLSHIT! They make returning cans and bottles for your deposit purposely a pain in the ass, in the hopes YOU WILL NOT RECYCLE and the deposit money goes into state coffers. Just like not playing the lottery (a suckers tax), I refuse to give them one more penny than they can otherwise confiscate. The bottle bill is taxation on the lazy.

Who Doesn't Love Gina Carano?

I dug Gina Carano from the first "Dead Pool" movie where she played Francis' muscle Angel Dust. At the site of the scrapping of an aircraft carrier (Francis' hideout) she battles good guy X-Man Colossus, giving him quite the run for his money. Next thing I saw her in was The Mandalorian series on Disney+ as Cara Dune. They booted her off the series because they did not like some of her content on social media... boo hoo hoo little snowflake fucks. One of the things that pissed off the SJW crowd was when asked about her pronouns, she put "Boop/Bop/Beep" in her profile because she felt announcing pronouns were nonsense. Thanks to her inspiration, Boop/Bop/Beep is exactly what I use as well.

So how you like this, assholes?

 

She still has her Twitter account. For now.

Happy Thanksgiving To All

Yes, even to you heathen LIBTARDS that still believe the Pilgrims were thankful only to the Wampanoag Indians for bailing their asses out and saving them from starvation. WRONG! They were thankful to [GASP!] Almighty God for everything in their lives, and especially one Indian named Squanto. 

One of the best truthful explanations of the whole story of Thanksgiving was told annually by the great El Rushbo on his last live broadcast before Thanksgiving. As a faithful listener of his from January 1991 until his passing, I looked forward to that broadcast every year. A transcript from his last pre-Thanksgiving radio program on 11-24-2020 can be found here.

Below is the Thanksgiving Proclamation from our first President, George Washington.

 

President George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation from October 3, 1789

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey
his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and
whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to
the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by
acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by
affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and
happiness.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be
devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the
beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in
rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People
of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the
favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of
the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--
for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions
of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately
instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have
of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors
which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the
great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other
transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and
relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the
people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and
faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such
as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--

To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science
among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal
prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
 

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Oh Yeah Wikipedia?

This was a huge post. I moved all the Wikipedia content to a separate page on my blog.

Apparently, Big Tech wants kill this Wikipedia page. So I copied and pasted THE WHOLE THING to live here on my blog forever. They think scrubbing the details will put commie's record of killing people out of existence? I say "Nay nay."