I don’t think 90% of the modern drummers would even dream to get out of the house with a  set as simple as the ones they were playing in the video.

I am in awe of Krupa. In that video, he is paying years of addiction and simply not taking care of himself, but he could still beat those heads with style and perfection. He would die just seven years after this show.

And Buddy Rich? Nothing there to say, you just saw it. Plus he notched drum duels with two masters of the drums: Gene Krupa and Animal from The Muppets. Few people can say that.

Hat Tip to Kevin C.

You may have seen this video already of an open-minded FSU student interacting with College Republicans:

It turns out that her name is Shelby Shoup and she is listed as an intern for the Andrew Gillum for Florida Governor Campaign. What I was not prepared for was that she was actually arrested and booked for battery by the Leon County Sheriff’s department.

As usual a fundraiser is underway for Ms. Swinging Starbucks and it was hilarious why you should give your money for her cause:

I really do not mind setting themselves up for killing, I just resent the idea that they are demanding me be their companions in such suicidal endeavor.

I rather give indigestion to the assholes she supports.

Having an exchange in Facebook about Jews being attacked in the Big Apple, I posted that it was time for the NYC Jews to head south where they could be not only safe but able to defend themselves. One of the participants did not like the idea saying instead that the Jewish population of New York excises political power and they should stay instead.  When I replied that the only political value the average Jew has in NYC is as a corpse so Democrats can be seen as sensitive, shit went downhill.

I will spare you of the exchange (it was bad on both sides and my opponent took umbrage when I called him “Baby Arafat”  for wanting more Jews to be killed unnecessarily) but I closed my side of the issue with a historical remark to support my view about moving out of NYC
 

 Even Moses said, “Fuck this shit, let’s get out of Egypt and find a better place.”

That did not help end the convo in a good manner. Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.

My hate affair with Apple began with their Apple IIe series back in the late 70s when I saw my first one in the only Caracas’ store, went inside to ask for info and I was ignored with disdain by the owner. I’d probably looked like I could not afford it (and back then, very few people could specially a 17-year-old high schooler) but I went on not to be a fan of the company. Back then, the Apple stickers were a great deal and I was seen as crazy when a I would reject them.

When IBM enters the Personal Computer market, Apple responds with the McIntosh. I was already in College and I was just looking at computers without having a true interest in one since I was using the college’s mainframe to do stuff for free (mostly writing papers in its word processing software and play Star Trek.) What struck me as interesting was that Apple’s box could not be upgraded or repaired by anybody other than Apple because of their proprietary stuff,  while IBM’s PC not only could be repaired by the electronic equivalent of a shade-tree mechanic, but they went the way of the VHS and started to sell the licenses to anybody in the planet. The PC took over 95% of the personal computer market and has not relinquished ever since.

I was reading J. Kb.’s post where he mentions “Apple Warranty” and I was reminded a series of videos I bumped by accident in YouTube about an non-aligned Apple repair guy.My animus boycott for Apple was renewed for another 40 years after seeing them.

This is the first one I saw. he has several more. One of them mentions that he charged some basic repair for some simple thing  about $75 which contrasts with the boatload pf cash that Apple demands.

Even if you are not electronics-savy, you will enjoy the workmanship and the explanations. Get you coffee and have at it.

And fuck Apple.

Still under the weather.

And I want this:

You guys know I love to quote from the movie Absence of Malice and specifically this part which is the end of the film.

And the Brady Campaign is accurate but far from the truth they owe to the public. Kids dying of heart attack? If they have a congenital condition, of course there is a chance they will die, but that is going to be an almost statistically low number compared with the adults that have been chomping MacDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken with gallons of coffee as chasers for decades as they build a glorious case of arteriosclerosis. And as much as I have observed, I have not seen kids in pre-school or elementary puffing a two-pack a day count of cigarettes like adults do or working removing the debris around the Fukijama nuclear facility or carrying buckets of dioxin to a chemical recycling facility.

And if you try the link provided in the tweet, instead of taking you to the “study” it goes straight to (drum roll) a donations page.

Allow me to do something similar in the hope I can open you hearts and wallets and you make a donation to this blog.

“New studies report that you have a greater chance of dying from a gun-related incident than from a Space Station accident. Please give me money.”

Via Slow Facts.

During the past 22 months, not one person caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group, Mark Molinari, commanding officer of the police department’s Hate Crimes Task Force, told me.

Is It Safe to Be Jewish in New York?

Elder of Ziyon brings it into focus:

22 months is how long Donald Trump has been in office.

And how many politicians from NYC have sent mailer and funding request using the recent Pittsburg shooting and accusing Trump and the GOP of hate while their city is being overrun by Jew Haters?

But as long as the New York Jewish community think it is OK to be willing victims, there is nothing we can do to keep them safe.