We clench among you…

Iamblech pentameter

Isn’t the core of jazz improvisation and breaking the “rules” of music? If that’s what they’re doing, why would we disqualify it as jazz? A lot of folks had this opinion of Miles Davis doing jazz fusion in the 70s on Bitches Brew and Live/Evil with his squeaky, borderline abusive trumpeting, or of Herbie Hancock doing weird space synth stuff on Sextant and funk fusion on Headhunters. I don’t see how what you’re saying isn’t just gatekeeping that’s not really in the spirit of jazz.

Awful take. Last weekend I saw Mike Dillon with Phunkadelick playing with Brian Haas on the Rhodes organ. They played a wild punk-jazz show that is one of the best shows I’ve ever attended. There was a mosh pit at a jazz concert where a primary instrument was a vibraphone.

In recent years, I’ve greatly enjoyed things like AKU!'s album Blind Fury (drum/trumpet/baritone sax trio) and Ambrose Akinmusire’s Origami Harvest. A lot of modern jazz is blending in electronic influences, like Sungazer. Maybe you don’t like these things, but I can’t imagine calling jazz dead.

Or even the corollary, that the Abrahamic religions grant authority to men, so men who feel as though they command no authority flock to the religions to achieve it.

You’re right, of course, which is dismal, but I guess it will at least be on the record that we knew? That we saw it coming?

Sounds illegal. They’re not supposed to endorse candidates while not having to pay taxes. IRS should end this church.

Why does the tribunally selected autocrat of a foreign nation intent on raping children get to tell me anything about democracy or evil?

Modern self flagellation.

This is a literary device called a “bookend narrative.” If you want more stories like that, there’s your search term.

Wheel! Of! Fish!

I have hope that they will not learn from these mistakes and will therefore keep making them. I hope that hope is not misguided.

Ugh, when your warts have warts…

Yeah, the elections get operated at the state level, but don’t you still need an employed VP to count/register them?

Really, the media finally realized millennials don’t care if we killed Applebee’s or whatever, and they’ve moved on to the next thing to scare boomers with. “They hate us because we buy bags of paper napkins” becomes “They hate us because we can use old style keyboards.” Generations are not a monolith. You can compare them, but it’s stupid to pass judgment in that way.

women are so obviously not sure about the situation but they are not done with my partner

There’s one I see around town often enough. I was parked at a red light next to it the other day and it was remarkable how shitty the panels look up close. They’re not really flat and planar. They’re sort of wobbly like corrugated tin.

Haha, yes, apple fritters are the best, but the place by me makes them so big I only have to order the one.

Greed, corruption, and nepotism are effects of power structures, not socialism. That’s why we have them under our economic system as well as socialist/communist states in the past.

Krull