CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#375  [archive]
10/28/2023
• With a flash of bluish-white light and orange sparks, a trio of foundry workers carved seven long gashes into Robert E Lee’s severed head • 15,000 scientists warn society could ‘collapse’ this century in dire climate report
    Perhaps I live in a bubble of pessimism, but — isn’t this well-known, and essentially a certainty?• Buffy Sainte-Marie is apparently not, as she’s always claimed, Cree or Canadian
    There’s a helpful discussion of this at MetaFilter.

• Will Michigan Governor sign legislation to reveal the corporate owners of shell corporations involved in financial crimes, wage theft and tenant abuses?
    One can hope, but… I’d be amazed.• NHL rescinds ban on Pride Tape after Coyotes’ Travis Dermott uses it vs. Ducks
    Once in a while, sanity prevails. The NHL’s still dead to me, though.• Finally someone said it — and it’s Trump
    Trump: “And
we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the
Evangelicals. You know, it’s amazing with that: the Evangelicals are
more excited by that than Jewish people.”

• Richard Roundtree and the critical dismissal of black action cinema • Complaints stop the ‘wrapped’ ads on Washington State Ferries • Millions of baby birds are dying from extreme heat • The history of the electric car is surprisingly enraging 

• What happens in Pinecraft stays in Pinecraft: Where the Amish vacation • What’s an orphan-crushing machine?• Taiwan’s “down-to-earth” Halloween parties • Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
    This is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by.

📢 AUDIO 🎤• CounterSpin
    Produced by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), I’ve been listening to this half-hour weekly newscast since at least the 1990s. It’s always valuable to me, and it’s never changed. Same format. Same opening music. Same host, Janine Jackson, who has a remarkable ability to say more than the text simply with her tone of voice.• Over the Edge
    This is a weekly three-hour “audio collage,” mixing music and sounds from wherever and also anywhere else.
    No music is allowed to play without being mixed with other nonsense, so it’s an anti-music show. I listen about once monthly, never closely, and fast-forward through most of it and laugh at the rest. It’s good in short bursts, especially when I’m in a bad mood.• Sleep Baseball
    I’ve
linked to Sleep Baseball before, but it demands a rerun. It’s fake
play-by-play for minor league baseball games never played, with
announcers and ads so boring it puts me to sleep by the second inning. (And that’s the intent.)

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫• A Kind of Magic — Queen • Golden Years — David Bowie • Outa-Space — Billy Preston • Surf Medley — Junior Brown • Your Wildest Dreams — The Moody Blues 

❔  MYSTERY LINKS  ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click 

👁  VIDEO  👁• Don Rickles sings “I’m a Nice Guy” • Sea lion can dance to a beat • Best ride to Ohio 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️• Corby Adams • 🖕 Vincent Asaro • Ben Birnberg • Rob Gardner • Bill Gates • Robert Irwin • Stephen Kandel
(he wrote “Mudd’s Women”• Richard Moll • Richard Roundtree • Dana Snow • Gregg Sutton • 🖕 Byron Wien
 

10/28/2023   Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.