This post was inspired in part by the passing of Ric Ocasek, of the Cars. I absolutlely loved their first album, and it is still my favorite despite being introduced to the band via the album Hello Again, my other favorite. While there are good songs on Shake it Up, Candy-O, etc., none of them gelled for me. What really stuck out for me for the Cars was the not just the way they used rhythm, but the way in which they managed to sound simultaneously spare and yet full. There is one other ban…
I'd mentioned before that, despite my respect for the achievements of Thor Hyerdahl and his expedition on the Kon-Tiki, that the quote they chose to showcase in the Kon-Tiki museum [https://thelastredoubt.com/impressions-of-europe-oslo/], especially as presented, was vapid and stupid beyond belief. Boundaries exist. For that matter, despite the overwhelming leftism of the profession, you'll still find a lot of psychologists and counselors telling their patients that they need to establish bo…
Have a good weekend, guys.…
Courtesy of a Mewe post by Larry Correia [https://mewe.com/profile/56c8ccd65b424a0c79c1d4b3] - looks like, in addition to being one of the few SF writers who can write "literary" in the same general neighborhood as Gene Wolfe and unlike many literary wannabes, tell a story, Dan Simmons has some balls. Of course, vile 770 took him to task for it [http://archive.is/tNELI]. What did he write? Yeah, he said rude things about a child being used as a human shield to hector and shame adults. Recall -…
Adam over at Pushing Rubber Downhill [https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/] had noted in a recent podcast how much more fit and hotter the girls in Europe are than the states. People in general, actually. Generally speaking, he's correct. Here, in the states, it depends on the city. Some have reasonably attractive women, some don't have attractive people at all no matter how photogenic they may otherwise be (Seattle comes to mind). The problem is that the girls in the city are usually infested wit…