Month: February 2024

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Enough Already With The Age Thing!

Has everyone forgotten Succession of Powers? Okay, Joe is old, but if something happens to him has everyone forgotten Kamilla Harris is a much younger 59 years old would be waiting in the wings to finish out his term? How will she do under pressure? I don't think anyone knows for sure, but I'm still willing to bet she'd still be a hell of a lot better for this country than the batshit insane mango Mussolini!

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Don't Ever Tell Me…

(L-R) The Three Degrees: New Dimensions (1978), Simon Orchestra: Mr. Big Shot (1979), The Ritchie Family: African Queens (1977)

"Oh, you'll never find that on CD!"

Because I will take it as a challenge!

I actually got a reissued copy of New Dimensions about a month ago and was sorely disappointed when I set it to playing and instead of Giorgio's awesome and seamless transition from Giving Up, Giving In to Looking For Love, Giving Up, Giving In came to an abrupt stop and the second track on the CD was actually the third cut on the original album, Falling In Love Again. This was followed by an awkward start to the previously mixed original second track.

WTF? I mean seriously, WTF?

I went on Discogs and found that the original recording had been issued on CD, but Discogs itself prevented it (and from what I could see, a slew of other original disco gems from the 70s) from being sold through the service.

That led me to eBay, where I found it for sale from a highly-rated seller in Mexico. I also found dozens more (also brand new, sealed) that I hope to eventually add to my collection, Discogs be damned.

Unlike the reissued version, this CD has all the original songs in their original order with the absolutely seamless transition between the first two tracks. It also includes a bonus of the original 12-inch extended remix of The Runner.

For those of us of a certain age, Heaven was—and remains—a disco.

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Quote Of The Day

Republicans who are asking why they keep losing elections are like the guy who walks into the ER with a nail in his head, asking why he has a headache.

A party led by a rapist that believes it can fix its problem with women by attacking Taylor Swift, with weird little creeps like Mike Johnson as a public face in Congress, that has no serious policy, that has decided to abandon decades of support for freedom in Europe to back a genocidal dictator, a party that is 85% white in a 59% white country, a party that has decided higher education is a gateway drug to Socialism, that believes public health policy should be set by random freaks on the internet and not doctors, a party that is still fighting cultural wars of gender politics the rest of America ended a decade ago, a party that has replaced American optimism with anger and fear of the future….

Is there really any question why this party is losing?"

—Stuart Stevens

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Black Holes

Beautiful.