Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Eleven days into 2016 and still recovering from the hustle and bustle of the preceding year end holidays I was looking for something to get me back to normal and give me a great belly splitting laugh. But that laugh needed to be a laugh caused by something that was funny because of the great truths it held. Today that great belly splitting laugh happened. June 28, 2015 Jeff Landry, an aide to Donald Trump, scratched the back of his right leg with his left shoe, stalling. You have to answer just right , or he goes apeshit . Jeff remembered grimly what a pleasant change he’d thought this job would be, but now he looked back on those six harrowing weeks working for Harvey Weinstein like a long-ago Hanukkah. The question Trump had put to him was “How do we close this?” Jeff played it safe: “I say go big.” Trump lit up. “I can do big,” he said. “This whole thing, which was my idea, incidentally, and a very good idea, really a very gr
No Woman No Cry
ReplyDeleteAnd of course these two greats: Jimmy Cliff
and Peter Tosh
I named my last cat after a Jamaican reggae singer,King Yellow Man.
Great Sunday night dance music!
I forgot to mention that I spent many a holiday in Barbados and had many great evenings dancing at the local clubs in Speightstown and Holetown with the local Bajans.
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to visit Barbados. Perhaps someday I'll get there.
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ReplyDeleteDo I detect a noxious gaseous vapor in the room. Damn, there sure is. Time to replenish the supply of wd repellent.
ReplyDeleteLes, you're funny. Even when you try to get away from politics with music, you pick an extremely political band! ;) I'm the same way.
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ReplyDelete......well, it ain't me....I washed my feet just the other week.
I vote for the Peter Tosh Shaw mentioned. Always broke me up.
...and, I'll throw in one a bit different...Wilco and Billy Bragg doing songs previously unrecorded by Woody Guthrie.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcmjRheVZmM
...and all songs go better with beer. Comes a time ya gotta dance.
Well now, we all know it ain't you okjimm.
DeleteYeah, Tosh is good but Marley has always been my favorite Reggae artist.
Checking out Wilco and Billy Bragg, and for sure songs go better with a beer (or 2, or 3 or...) when dancin is on the agenda!
Billy Bragg and Wilco (Mermaid Avenue 1) - now that's what I'M talkin' 'bout!! That, and have you ever checked out the first 2 Uncle Tupelo records (Jeff Tweedy from Wilco was one of the front men)? Those are most totally awesome as well.
DeleteRed Stripe! The Jamaican beer of choice by Bajans.
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ReplyDeleteEek a Mouse........Desmond Decker and the Aces....