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    The Annual Thanksgiving Give-Thanks-Here Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I'm thankful for the good people I have met through VC (and the bad), for my wife and sons, our old dog and our new cat. I'm grateful that for the first time in 8 years, I don't have to wake up every morning thinking I'm living in BizarroLand. I'm grateful that black children, ALL children, can look up to the highest office in the land and see that the sky is the limit. I'm grateful for hope, and how it spreads. I'm grateful for the fun and friendships I have made over the past year by connecting my art with poets, musicians, dancers and dreamers. I'm thankful that art and community are really coming to life here in our town, and I am ecstatic to be a part of it. I'm thankful that my Dad's Alzheimer's is going slow, and that he is still a joy and a card. I'm thankful that my uncle's stroke only kept him down for a few days, and that he is coming to town today, even though we'll have to carve our own goddam turkey! I'm thankful for another sunny day.

    Lack of inspiration

    in Solid State Technology

    Posted

    Go to poetry readings. Or coffeehouses where weirdos hang out. Eavesdrop. Play the bongos for an hour. Make up a chord no one's ever heard before. Google the absurd. Write about the thing that pisses you off the most in the world, then invert the feeling. Smell lots of things. Remember.

    Kinks re-union

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    A guy I know is making a movie about trying to get the Kinks to reunite.

     

    He talks to, and plays with, Sting, Robyn Hitchcock, and others.

     

    The trailer is here:

    Nice! If I had money, I would give it to him. Please keep us updated on his project.

    Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise 10

    in After The Show

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    Robert Scheider lives here. It was in the Round Barn (octoganal, actually) on a warm night (Jeff Mangum's birthday) at the Red Mile harness racing track, in the round, two eclectic looking drum sets butted up to each other in the middle of the barn, a large loop of instruments (banjos, saws, basses, amps, a seven-foot metranome) encircling them, people 12 deep surrounding them, a handful of us hanging over the railing right above them, changing out instruments, singers and players almost constantly, showed a few quirky movies here and there, the horns were warm and magnificent, some experimental forays that sounded like Frank Zappa becoming unhinged and beating the hell out of Jim Morrison, much heartfelt wailing and jamming. It was really something else. And it was free....

     

    Check It Out

    Ironicality

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    ABANDONED MINE IMPERILS HOME OF EX-LEGISLATOR

    By John Cheves

    jcheves@herald-leader.com

     

     

    An abandoned coal mine is causing an Eastern Kentucky hillside to slide slowly onto the home of former state Rep. Howard Cornett, R-Whitesburg, who championed coal companies in the legislature.

     

    The "continual flow" of water from the abandoned mine has saturated Cornett's yard and the foundation of his home, according to Steve Hohmann, director of the Division of Abandoned Mine Lands. Parts of the hill are sliding down, putting the house at risk.

     

    Long a defender of coal companies' interests, Cornett lost his seat after he unsuccessfully pushed a bill to allow more overweight trucks on state roads, angering his constituents who considered such trucks dangerous. In fiery speeches, Cornett said his opponents wanted to destroy the coal industry.

     

    "Howard Cornett wasn't sympathetic when we asked for protection from overweight coal trucks or when we asked for protection from hazardous coal-mining practices. Now the shoe is on the other foot," said Patty Amburgey of Letcher County, a former Cornett constituent who is active with the grassroots group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.

     

    The woman who replaced Cornett, Rep. Leslie Combs, D-Pikeville, said Monday that abandoned coal mine sites, including slurry ponds, pose environmental and safety hazards throughout Eastern Kentucky.

     

    "It's a real issue out here," she said.

     

    The mine threatening Cornett's home was owned by Cook and Sons Mining Inc. of Whitesburg, which

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