Knuckledragger

Someone said "the magic prize" in conversation yesterday and it brought back a flood of memories of listening to college radio in the 80s.

I was gonna post this in Slow Forum at some point. :/

RIP jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon. http://www.soultracks.com/story-alphonse-mouzon-dies His drumming was sampled by ...everybody.

Scientist who discovered dark matter, Vera Rubin, passes away at the age of 88.

The following post was supposed to be much bigger, and posted yesterday. Inexplicably, imgur refused to accept any more uploads halfway through it. Today, imgur is STILL not working. I think it's the "I'm not a robot CAPTCHA failing." I spent half a fricken hour monkey with my adblock, and two other browsers. Got exactly nowhere. Here's as far as I got. "My friend tried to give her reindeer cute bowties...and accidentally created monsters." Spoiler: http://i.imgur.com/WdeZ3Gr.jpg Akureyri, Iceland.

Maybe it's not the western 2016, but the Chinese year of the monkey, which ends Jan 28th. Or maybe the Chinaman's not the issue here, dude. Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American, please.

Holy shit. 2016 is not done yet, and it's determined to remove everything fabulous.

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Paunchy German dude absolutely KILLS IT with some live DNB.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dr-rachel-owen-former-partner-of-thom-yorke-dead-at-age-48-w456895 RIP Dr. Rachel Owen, partner of Thom Yorke for over two decades.

2016 ain't over yet. She certainly lived quite a life. I remember an ad that ran on Nick At Nite, in the early 90s. It was a promo for Green Acres. It had a line in it that went something like "Remember, Green Acres stars *Eva* Gabor, not Zsa Zsa. Eva will not harm you." I thought it was pretty funny at the time.

I posted this as an FB status, but it's relevant here as well. I had an hour's conversation with my ma. She'd talked to her friend Alan. Alan is quite a guy. He went to college with my uncle. Alan has been a huge success in life. He runs a company that does (something I don't understand) and has made a small fortune doing so. All this while keeping his business in the US and employing actual Americans. He's owned at least two yachts in the time that my mother has lived on the Vineyard (5 or so years.) On a couple occasions he's sailed in to visit her. His wife took her life this week. She hung herself. Suicide by hanging is particularly brutal on those one leaves behind. Someone has to find the body and cut it down. I explained to me mum that I'm familiar with this concept because it's covered pretty thoroughly in a folk song that I had on a Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem record from about age 4. I still have said record, as well as a clean digitized copy (it has never been released on CD) some saint uploaded to what.cd. There's a moral here somewhere. Listening to folk songs (Irish or otherwise) prepares one for the harsh realities of life.

What is this I don't even.

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This happened a while ago, but I forgot to mention it. 2016 claimed my friend's cat Mauro. He had many, many toes and a penchant for eating and napping ...and eating. He was a really chill companion.

I'm pretty sure that isn't the original music video.

Chicago, 1969. Surfing in Norway. Up above Multnomah Falls, Oregon. Death Valley. Rawson Lake, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Mountain man, France. Þórsmörk, Iceland. Ireland. 5 minutes of the Milky Way, with my new tracking mount. Taken from light polluted Southern California. The Marble Cathedral in General Carrera Lake, Chile. Treeless hellscape. Foggy morning in the woods. White River Falls, Oregon. Sri Lanka. 2016. Lake 22, Washington State. Peace Bridge over the Bow River - Calgary, AB.

I haven't the foggiest where that NoNoNo came from, but when I saw it in the post (remember, I can't preview posts due to the fantastic forum software) I though it was hilarious and left it in. You want http://jdownloader.org/ or http://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-downloader/

Bavaria, Eichstätt, Germany. St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park. White sands of New Mexico, taken by Jaxson Pohlman. Black Sands Beach, Vik, Iceland. The gate to hell, obviously. Grand Tetons. Hvitserkur in North Iceland, July 2015. Mess of traffic in Allston, MasNoNoNoNoNoNosetts. Japanese Forest. Oregon taken with an iPhone 6. Sächsische Schweiz, Germany Vietnam, Ha Giang Province, near the Chinese border. Dublin, Ireland. Valley floor, Yosemite CA. Cannon Beach, Oregon. Peyto Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

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Bunch of goddamn aliens.

John Glenn was the first presidential candidate I liked. RIP.