Did you know that Beethoven was completely deaf by the time the 9th was written and performed? Instead of clapping at the end, his audience waved their handkerchiefs!
You're welcome! David, there's a lot of misleading information out there about Beethoven, who was hardly the scowling, antisocial person most people think he was. His deafness first appeared and started worsening at about age 30, leading him to avoid people - not because he disliked social situations, but because he was so embarrassed by his growing handicap.
Actually, I'm enjoying the creative generation of euphemisms for the passing of DJT to some other realm. I've started collecting them. Just added both of these. Jerr's has a nice inflection in that pause, and yours is an elegant reprisal of an old one that is delightfully vague. (I just realized that my opening sentence actually includes two euphemisms!)
Once when George Szell was conducting it, in (I think) Prospect Park, there was rain in the forecast. He told the audience that since they had come for the last movement, he'd start with that. He did, then started from the beginning, did the whole symphony -- and the rain held off.
I love listening to symphonic music outdoors. Sadly, have not had that opportunity for some time. Perhaps that will change when the event we are hoping for finally happens. Sitting happily in the dark listening in peace and relief. I don't care if it is snowing that day.
I will be flying to Reno and having a great time with coworkers I haven’t seen in person in a year. Three of us have June birthdays which is enough to overshadow metamucilini’s day
Thanks a million for the ever-present and constant dose of sanity. I dedicated the first section of my book to you. You can see it on Amazon, it's called Sunday Pages, A Book of Dreams Lost and Found. https://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Pages-Book-Dreams-Found/dp/B0GZBSM3C9 Select the "see inside" feature any you can read it.
I was also it's not too late to immerse yourself in GOP defeat and become educated about how they operate. It's a simple code "winning and power means EVERYTHING cheat, lie, steal, and harm whomever necessary to get ahead" Nixon as abysmal a human as he was still had a gram of decency left in that he actually admitted to what he had done and left. That will not happen in this administration because there's too many people that don't pay any attention to what is going on AND news is no longer news it's more like social media. During the Nixon era the US still actually had real news, multiple agencies that provided the SAME news. There was no Pravda propoganda channel (Faux News) it couldn't have survived in that era.
I remember that episode well. It was 1974 and I was 39 years old. Republican leaders in Congress told Nixon that it was highly likely that if he didn't resign, not only would he be impeached by the House but also convicted by the Senate. If so, this would have been the only time in American History when a President was not only impeached by the House but actually would have been convicted by at least a 2/3 vote of the Senate. As one can see, the Republican Party in those days were quite different from the Republicans that run our country now.
I was 8 lol. But my parents openly discussed politics and news at home. So was probably exposed to a lot of information that formed my points. Absolutely agree the GOP of today lost their way long ago. But I'm more of the opinion that America lost her way from that point going forward... when we allowed Corporations to set policy and rule. I'm old but not very old but I sure have cultureshock. They are THE SAME Republicans that dictated Bush v Gore and I was old enough to remember that precisely. They have financially engaged in voter suppression for decades, the just redraw districts when that doesn't work they pull some challenge to valid legal votes or get technology involved...hanging chads etc etc.I do not recognize this America at all we lost our way decades ago.
Well yes for starters but what exposed Nixon was print news the Washington Post ...that independence doesn't really exist anymore. Next to nobody orders newspaper delivery and most ignore news entirely or god forbid get it on Utube might as well be Facebook or tik tok. And what they do see is a large percentage of BS but they believe it just like the Fox News folks etc.
I think I'll watch Nixon's Checkers speech. I always choke up when he gets to the part where Pat has to wear a respectable Republican cloth coat. I guess it was either a fur coat for Pat or Kibbles for Checkers. Anyway, at least Pat has a modicum of fashion sense. I seriously doubt she ever wore a hat resembling the Hamburglar's.
At the time, Dwight Eisenhower was running for President, with Nixon on his ticket to become Vice President. Eisenhower announced that unless Nixon could show himself "as clean as a hound's tooth", he would be dismissed as his Vice Presidential candidate. After Nixon's speech, "IKE", who was one of my most favorite presidents, kept "Tricky Dick" on his ticket - in my opinion the worst mistake that "IKE" made in his life.
Happy Friday Andy, Thank you for timing your wit and mischievous humor to land in my inbox at the same time as my restorative gin& tonic! 😉I could follow your lead and watch All the President’s Men and get an eyeful of Robert Redford but I think I’m going to watch Fred Astaire dancing up a storm in Top Hat ! 😂💕
I am going to load up a DVD that I ordered a week ago and watch a production, originally done on one of those wonderful TV programs that no longer exist, of the very famous Clifford Odets play Awake and Sing which centers on a group of people living together and struggling during the Depression. It just feels like a fitting time to watch it.
I plan to spend it napping so I can stay awake for the Hurricanes' BIG WIN. I will dream of a bunker-related outcome to some of the serious issues facing all of us.
It's Flag Day, too. It's not about Trump, though he has been trying to make it seem that way. A lot of folks all over the country are ignoring him and celebrating Flag day in traditional ways. Putting out a flag. Going on a picnic. Having a BBQ. Going to a concert. I'm putting out my flag upside down. It'll go right side up when there's a reason for it. I think Sunday will be a good day to just be with family.
I admit I have not studied The Bible, so I must thank Lee Lenard, who explained this in the Meidas Touch comments:
Biden is a very devout Catholic and sincere in his religious belief and participation. So if there is a severe storm, especially with massive lightning, it is Because Biden called the Pope and had him get in touch with God to disrupt trumps party.
Tornado would be a better choice because it is more focused. Dorecho winds go in a straight line and take everything in their path out. Don't want that.
My friends & family were surprised when I sent out a text asking everyone to pray for a very special event… specifically to pray for the Gods to send their most powerful storms (all day and night) to DC! They understood my sudden interest in religion and have all agreed to join the effort.
I’ll be joining a bunch of Democratic friends here in Central Florida for a watch party of the Rise Up and Sing Out concert. We’ll have desserts too! (I’m sure nothing orange … we’re keeping this free of any resemblance to The Tangerine Turd )
I was hoping to have a colonoscopy but my gastroenterologist will be respecting the American flag instead, unlike the flag hugger, or flugger. I wonder if he ever held the flag with his mom; if so, would he be known as a mother flugger?
I’ll be at the “No Kings” rally at the State Capitol in Hartford part of the time, then watching World Cup games on TV (too expensive to go in person).
I just read Andy’s comment about Nixon and wanted to brag for a second: I was standing in Lafayette Park right outside the White House for Nixon’s resignation speech, standing with a group of around 40 people behind one of the network reporters. My mother even saw me live on TV.
Just before the speech began, I noticed someone on the second floor of the White House parting the drapes to look outside and see if anyone was in the park (yes there was a crowd). I couldn’t see the person’s face, I’ve always wondered if it was Nixon himself, or Kissinger, or maybe the long-suffering Pat Nixon.
Four days later, I flew to Cameroon to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer for 2 1/2 years and missed the entire Ford presidency.
Happy Friday, everyone! I plan to spend Sunday rewatching Nixon’s resignation speech on YouTube. That never gets old.
I like that idea, and I’ll be playing CSNY’s song “Carry On” which is what they played at their live concert when the news broke!
Nice!
I would join you doing that but I’ll be going to hear Beethoven’ 9th Symphony on Sunday afternoon.
Anna
Did you know that Beethoven was completely deaf by the time the 9th was written and performed? Instead of clapping at the end, his audience waved their handkerchiefs!
What a contrast - Beethoven was physically deaf and a genius, while Trump is psychically tone-deaf and not a genius at all, stable or otherwise.
touche!!!!!
Did not know about the handkerchiefs. Thanks.
You're welcome! David, there's a lot of misleading information out there about Beethoven, who was hardly the scowling, antisocial person most people think he was. His deafness first appeared and started worsening at about age 30, leading him to avoid people - not because he disliked social situations, but because he was so embarrassed by his growing handicap.
Thank you for posting.
I can think of someone I’d like to see waving a handkerchief…
Let our handkerchiefs be green to go with the crocodile tears when Trump leaves
in whatever way possible....
I did. Amazinf!
Hearing that piece "live" with a full orchestra is very moving! It reaches right into you!
Enjoy!
I think that glorious symphony will be played worldwide when, sooner or later, Donny is no longer….in office.
Go ahead and say it, no longer for this world!
Actually, I'm enjoying the creative generation of euphemisms for the passing of DJT to some other realm. I've started collecting them. Just added both of these. Jerr's has a nice inflection in that pause, and yours is an elegant reprisal of an old one that is delightfully vague. (I just realized that my opening sentence actually includes two euphemisms!)
Back to Mars where his hair color goes with the planet's.
--and for Vance, a new composition, "Blonde On The Sofa" with live
cushion springs among the orchestra instruments!
Heard the NY Symphony Orch play it in Central Park decades ago, will never forget the opening notes rising out of the darkness.
Once when George Szell was conducting it, in (I think) Prospect Park, there was rain in the forecast. He told the audience that since they had come for the last movement, he'd start with that. He did, then started from the beginning, did the whole symphony -- and the rain held off.
Heard it in NYC many times including central park. Now in Canada.
One of my faves
I love listening to symphonic music outdoors. Sadly, have not had that opportunity for some time. Perhaps that will change when the event we are hoping for finally happens. Sitting happily in the dark listening in peace and relief. I don't care if it is snowing that day.
A great Ode to Joy and human friendship!
I will be attending that event at the Overture Center in Madison. Is that where you will be?
Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Toronto Canada
No, Alpharetta, Georgia.
My all-time favorite composition is his 5th - the 9th is a close second, followed by some Pink Floyd and Dylan (gotta mix it up a bit)
Ties with 9th as #1
I believe that he was deaf or almost deaf when he composed symphony #7 which is also one of my favorites along with #9.
I just pulled that up - WOW! Good one!!
I will be flying to Reno and having a great time with coworkers I haven’t seen in person in a year. Three of us have June birthdays which is enough to overshadow metamucilini’s day
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Hello Andy,
Thanks a million for the ever-present and constant dose of sanity. I dedicated the first section of my book to you. You can see it on Amazon, it's called Sunday Pages, A Book of Dreams Lost and Found. https://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Pages-Book-Dreams-Found/dp/B0GZBSM3C9 Select the "see inside" feature any you can read it.
Many thanks,
Let's agree to outlive the bastards.
All the best,
Joe
Too funny! Wish I’d thought of that, but I was still a child when Nixon resigned……
I was also it's not too late to immerse yourself in GOP defeat and become educated about how they operate. It's a simple code "winning and power means EVERYTHING cheat, lie, steal, and harm whomever necessary to get ahead" Nixon as abysmal a human as he was still had a gram of decency left in that he actually admitted to what he had done and left. That will not happen in this administration because there's too many people that don't pay any attention to what is going on AND news is no longer news it's more like social media. During the Nixon era the US still actually had real news, multiple agencies that provided the SAME news. There was no Pravda propoganda channel (Faux News) it couldn't have survived in that era.
I remember that episode well. It was 1974 and I was 39 years old. Republican leaders in Congress told Nixon that it was highly likely that if he didn't resign, not only would he be impeached by the House but also convicted by the Senate. If so, this would have been the only time in American History when a President was not only impeached by the House but actually would have been convicted by at least a 2/3 vote of the Senate. As one can see, the Republican Party in those days were quite different from the Republicans that run our country now.
I was 8 lol. But my parents openly discussed politics and news at home. So was probably exposed to a lot of information that formed my points. Absolutely agree the GOP of today lost their way long ago. But I'm more of the opinion that America lost her way from that point going forward... when we allowed Corporations to set policy and rule. I'm old but not very old but I sure have cultureshock. They are THE SAME Republicans that dictated Bush v Gore and I was old enough to remember that precisely. They have financially engaged in voter suppression for decades, the just redraw districts when that doesn't work they pull some challenge to valid legal votes or get technology involved...hanging chads etc etc.I do not recognize this America at all we lost our way decades ago.
*Formed my opinions...AI is the new "helper" that changes words you wrote to words IT prefers lol
Like CBS
Well yes for starters but what exposed Nixon was print news the Washington Post ...that independence doesn't really exist anymore. Next to nobody orders newspaper delivery and most ignore news entirely or god forbid get it on Utube might as well be Facebook or tik tok. And what they do see is a large percentage of BS but they believe it just like the Fox News folks etc.
I think I'll watch Nixon's Checkers speech. I always choke up when he gets to the part where Pat has to wear a respectable Republican cloth coat. I guess it was either a fur coat for Pat or Kibbles for Checkers. Anyway, at least Pat has a modicum of fashion sense. I seriously doubt she ever wore a hat resembling the Hamburglar's.
At the time, Dwight Eisenhower was running for President, with Nixon on his ticket to become Vice President. Eisenhower announced that unless Nixon could show himself "as clean as a hound's tooth", he would be dismissed as his Vice Presidential candidate. After Nixon's speech, "IKE", who was one of my most favorite presidents, kept "Tricky Dick" on his ticket - in my opinion the worst mistake that "IKE" made in his life.
I like Ike!
That's on YouTube's Greatest Hits list. A classic. Enjoy!
I'm going to celebrate the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center, a small victory, but a symbolic one, a brief sense of relief for me
- Karen Cooper
And he’s furious!
Happy Friday Andy, Thank you for timing your wit and mischievous humor to land in my inbox at the same time as my restorative gin& tonic! 😉I could follow your lead and watch All the President’s Men and get an eyeful of Robert Redford but I think I’m going to watch Fred Astaire dancing up a storm in Top Hat ! 😂💕
Watch both! All the Presidents Men is wonderful and reminds what we can do.
I'm planning on cleaning the litter box.
Fitting!
To bad we can't tilt the national White House litter box right into the Potomac!
I am going to load up a DVD that I ordered a week ago and watch a production, originally done on one of those wonderful TV programs that no longer exist, of the very famous Clifford Odets play Awake and Sing which centers on a group of people living together and struggling during the Depression. It just feels like a fitting time to watch it.
I plan to spend it napping so I can stay awake for the Hurricanes' BIG WIN. I will dream of a bunker-related outcome to some of the serious issues facing all of us.
True, True! True. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. The last thing I'll be doing is watching any celebration of that idiot's birthday!
Would love to see Trump wave good-bye! On second thought, would love to see him
just go!
Going to a no kings protest
I’d rather clean the men’s room at Penn Station than celebrate that shithead.
You and Andy Kim are most admirable and patriotic.
can woman "write their name in the snow?" the way men can?
seems like an awfully large marking...that must have taken weeks....
It's Flag Day, too. It's not about Trump, though he has been trying to make it seem that way. A lot of folks all over the country are ignoring him and celebrating Flag day in traditional ways. Putting out a flag. Going on a picnic. Having a BBQ. Going to a concert. I'm putting out my flag upside down. It'll go right side up when there's a reason for it. I think Sunday will be a good day to just be with family.
As a non-believer, I plan to spend the day praying for a killer evening storm in DC. If it happens, I might just be converted.
(And if it does happen, waiting for Trump to explain how it was Biden's fault).
I admit I have not studied The Bible, so I must thank Lee Lenard, who explained this in the Meidas Touch comments:
Biden is a very devout Catholic and sincere in his religious belief and participation. So if there is a severe storm, especially with massive lightning, it is Because Biden called the Pope and had him get in touch with God to disrupt trumps party.
Praying for a derecho to hit the White House lawn -- and only the White House lawn.
Thank you for teaching me this new word for which I will now wish with all of my heart!!!
That would be epic!
Tornado would be a better choice because it is more focused. Dorecho winds go in a straight line and take everything in their path out. Don't want that.
Amazing what you can learn reading Borowitz comments.
My friends & family were surprised when I sent out a text asking everyone to pray for a very special event… specifically to pray for the Gods to send their most powerful storms (all day and night) to DC! They understood my sudden interest in religion and have all agreed to join the effort.
But it's much too late for 40 days and 40 nights to work this time.
I 2nd that! I will be at our farm, digging in the dirt, checking on the gardens and just enjoying the outdoors in rural America!
But won’t Trump be dead?
If he's dead, he would definitely blame it on Biden.
And with a monster lightning strike hitting the claw!!
I'll be volunteering at a Pride Festival at the Voter Registration Booth. Great way to Avoid MAGA!
Thank you, Sue!
Sunday I will celebrate the new peace deal with Iran and all of the pigs flying through our skies
And lower fuel costs, food costs, housing costs, and prescription costs. All in one fell swoop.
I think that's actually supposed to be "one swell p**p"
Most likely!
😂
😜😂
🤣🤣
Making voodoo dolls of the Russian Asshat, I mean Asset.
Darn it! I hoped you meant asshat !!
You had it right both times!
Watching the Rise Up and Sing concert on YouTube. Looking forward to seeing Bette Midler sing ALL YOU FASCISTS GONNA LOSE!!!
I’ll be joining a bunch of Democratic friends here in Central Florida for a watch party of the Rise Up and Sing Out concert. We’ll have desserts too! (I’m sure nothing orange … we’re keeping this free of any resemblance to The Tangerine Turd )
Democrats in central Florida?
Me too, with a bunch of Indivisible comrades.
I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder.
I will be trying to remember how to spell "dumB". So difficult to know and remember.
😂
Hmmm. Looks like it might be an Inside job…
As theories go, that be best.
😂😂. It seems maybe she DOES care😂😂!
Taking out the other garbage
Praying for a lightning storm.
I’m praying with you Roger!!!
So am I!
Natasha strikes again!
Well, best of luck, since she failed to kill Moose & Squirrel. 🫎🐿
All 42 of us who liked this are aging ourselves 🤣
I was hoping to have a colonoscopy but my gastroenterologist will be respecting the American flag instead, unlike the flag hugger, or flugger. I wonder if he ever held the flag with his mom; if so, would he be known as a mother flugger?
Yes. It will be Flag Day. I wonder if tRumpelshitskin knows what that is.
Of course, the day was declared when he born. Like, we gotta flag this guy. He’ll be a menace to society someday.
You went and spelled "menace" wrong. It should properly be spelled "mean ass".
Now I'm disappointed that I didn't schedule a colonoscopy for that day. I can't think of a better way to spend that day.
🤣🤣
We have organized a watch party for 50 friends to enjoy the Rise Up Sing Out concert that Jane Fonda has put together in NYC.
I’ll be rereading The Gettysburg Address and The Declaration of Independence! Certainly will find better things to do than watching garbage!
I’ll be at the “No Kings” rally at the State Capitol in Hartford part of the time, then watching World Cup games on TV (too expensive to go in person).
I just read Andy’s comment about Nixon and wanted to brag for a second: I was standing in Lafayette Park right outside the White House for Nixon’s resignation speech, standing with a group of around 40 people behind one of the network reporters. My mother even saw me live on TV.
Just before the speech began, I noticed someone on the second floor of the White House parting the drapes to look outside and see if anyone was in the park (yes there was a crowd). I couldn’t see the person’s face, I’ve always wondered if it was Nixon himself, or Kissinger, or maybe the long-suffering Pat Nixon.
Four days later, I flew to Cameroon to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer for 2 1/2 years and missed the entire Ford presidency.
That is absolutely awesome!!