Just Sayin'

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

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I would be interested in seeing a current poll of folks who say they're voting. The one in the graphic above is nearly a year and a half out of date.

VOTE BLUE!

A Big Part Of The Soundtrack Of My Life In San Francisco

After lunching with some friends who live on the far west side of the valley (i.e. Sun City) yesterday, on our way home we decided to check out a couple Goodwill stores since I'd heard they're good places to pick up CDs for cheap.  Because you know, "dead people shit" and Sun City is commonly referred to as "God's Waiting Room." Twenty years ago I wouldn't have expected to find anything that interested me, but now that I'm squarely in Sun City's targeted demographic I figured I might find something of interest. No harm in looking…

I was surprised to see that all CDs were marked at 99 cents—regardless if it was a single disc or a box set. To be honest, the pickings were kind of slim (a lot of religious and country stuff) but there were a few hidden gems, among them these KKSF Samplers for AIDS Relief.

KKSF adopted the "New Age" format 1986 quite unexpectedly, shortly after we (we being my ex and I) arrived in San Francisco.  Prior to that I remember it being a generic rock/pop station and the go-to source of music for the architectural office I was working in at the time. One morning we turned it on and heard the likes of Suzanni Chiani and Andreas Vollenweider playing. My coworkers' reaction was "WTF is this shit?" Having gotten into "this shit" a few years prior, I just quietly smiled and enjoyed it while it lasted before they changed it to some other innocuous Top 40 station. Meanwhile I went home that day set my tuner to 103.7 and kept it there until I left SF for the last time in 2002.

Over the years it became more smooth jazz and less new age, but I didn't mind.  When I had the radio on (and even currently when I'm streaming Spotify in the other room) it's just background music anyway unless something catches my attention and I investigate further.

KKSF was immensely involved in the community and in 1989 they released The KKSF Sampler for AIDS Relief, with 100% of the proceeds going to the SF AIDS Foundation.

I'd owned that initial disc since 1989 (I actually won it one evening by calling into the station – remember doing that?), but like so many others, it too was lost after the fire. I found a copy online a few months ago for a few bucks and added it back to my collection. To be honest, the first time I put it on after all these yeaers I was immediately transported back to my little apartment on 14th Street.

What I did not realize, however, is that KKSF released a total of 17 Samplers, the last one coming out in 2006, four years after I'd left The City.

I spotted Two, Seven, and Nine at Goodwill yesterday, and considering they were only 99 cents apiece, it was a no-brainer to bring them home. Listening to them makes me realize how much that music (very little of which I actually purchased) and had not heard in years wormed its way into my subconscious. I hear these tunes now and I immediately think San Francisco in the 90s.

Nostalgia, it's a hell of a drug.

 

Released 26 Years Ago Today

Grace Jones: The Compass Point Sessions (1998)

I remember my mom got me this as a gift on my 41st birthday. Sadly, it was one of the "pry it from my cold dead hands" discs that I kept through multiple purges, but was ultimately lost along with all the rest of them after the fire. I haven't replaced it yet, but it's on my list.

A Rare Sight

Spotted this beauty downtown yesterday. So few Coupes were manufactured it's always a delight to see one in the wild—and a JCW build to boot!

Saturday Jokes

A lady picked up several items at a discount store. When she finally got to the checkout she learned that one of the items had no price tag or bar code.
The checkout girl got on the public address system which boomed out across the store for everyone to hear. "Price check for Tampax super size."
But it got worse. Someone at the rear of the store apparently misunderstood the word 'Tampax' for 'thumbtacks' and replied in a businesslike tone, his voice booming over the same public address system. "Do you want the kind that you push in with your thumb or the kind that you belt in with a hammer?"

Marjorie Taylor Greene warns that windmills will drive up the cost of wind.

I just want to know why my clothes only get stuck on the door handles when I'm in a bad mood.

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.

Evangenitals: Fundamentalist Christians who are constantly interested in what's in someone else's pants.

I'm a modern man. I don't have a problem buying tampons.
But apparently, they are not a proper birthday present.

Trying to think of a tree pun but I'm stumped.

I meant to behave but there were so many other options.

If a bag is not resealable, then it contains one serving.

If Democrats really wanted to troll tRUMP, they would pass a law preventing felons from flying on Air Force One.

Have you ever cleaned your room so good, you walk out just to walk back in to see your good work?
(Nope)

I may be old but I got to see the world before it went to shit.

If you're waiting for the folks in the cult to come to their senses, then you don't understand a cult.

Your phone won't auto correct when you have caps lock on because it assumes you're angry and doesn't want to get involved.

To put the candidates in perspective, think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and says, "Can I interest you in the chicken? Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?"
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

Bacon is our God.
Because bacon is real.
United Church of Bacon.org

I'm trying to print a .gif file, but whenever I print it out, the picture doesn't move. Am I doing something wrong?

A COUPLE went to breakfast at a restaurant where the "seniors' special" was two Eggs, Bacon, Hash Browns, and Toast for $2.99.
"Sounds good," the wife said…"but I don't want the eggs.."
"Then, I'll have to charge you $3.49 because you're ordering a la carte,"…the waiter warned her.
"You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?"…the wife asked incredulously.
"YES!"… stated the waiter.
"I'll take the special then,"…the wife said…
"Great…how do you want your eggs?"…the waiter asked.
"Raw and in the shell,"…the wife replied.
She took the two eggs home and baked a cake.
DON'T MESS WITH SENIORS!

Cat guy talking to cat girl: Care to explain why the hairball you coughed up doesn't match your coat… or MINE?!

I just found out that dog catchers are paid by the pound.

People who love Chick-fil-A say they could eat there 24/6.

When you have bad handwriting, notes to yourself are just fun little mysteries you get to solve later. (Too true)

I'm just sitting here wondering how I never noticed there's a turd in Saturday.

I'm very sad to announce that my Origami business has folded.

If somebody is being snarky to you, just say, "Excuse me, you have something stuck in your teeth." They'll be looking for the nearest mirror in a heartbeat.

This fella stopped me in the street this morning and asked me why I was carrying a 9 foot book?
I said: "It's a long story".

Premise: You have 5 minutes before you die. What are you going to do?
Me: Send a text to a friend saying if they don't send that text to 10 other people immediately, I'll die in 5 minutes.

Worker shortage? I called my job from jail to tell them I couldn't make it to work today.
They freakin bailed me out and made me come to work.

Q: What's the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?
A: Efficient workers get punished with more work.

Remember if you work hard enough at your job, you get to do other people's work too.

A pilot landed a plane with a rather bumpy landing. As part of his job, he was required to stand by the terminal door and say goodbye to the passengers as they exited the airplane.
He was afraid that someone might say something about his rather less than perfect landing, but everyone left without saying a word except for one passenger, an elderly lady, she slowly approached the pilot after most passengers had exited the plane and asked, "Did we land? Or were we shot down?"

Of all the poop in the world, who decided that bat shit was the craziest?

Diarrhea Awareness Week starts Monday.
Runs through Friday.

Maybe print is dying, but at least when you finish reading a book, there isn't a string of obnoxious comments waiting for you on the last page.

A real man will never stand there and watch his woman pay for anything.
He'll go and wait in the car.

I came in early today and switched as many M and N keys on keyboards as I could.
Some might say I'm a monster but others will say nomster.

I could never join a cult.
I hate meetings.

I can't watch a movie where a dog dies.
But I can watch a serial killer movie where 27 people are murdered.

There were two huge black birds stuck together.
They were velcrows.

Once you hit a certain age, you become permanently unimpressed by a lot of stuff.

Wife: (annoyed) "You care more about the dog than you do me."
Me: (considers it) "Not true. I'd say it's about equal."
Wife: (agitated) "I'm serious."
Me: (happy to explain) "It's just that the dog never wants to talk."
Wife: (furious) "If you want silence, I'll give you silence!"
Me: (doubtful) "And the dog never gets my hopes up."

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."

You know when you buy a bag of salad and it starts getting brown and has gross water in it?
Doughnuts never do that.

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FUCK The Supreme Court

But of course you can't get within a hundred yards of the court without having to pass through a metal detector…because…REASONS!

Funny how that Second Amendment is bent into a pretzel sometimes, isn't it?

Never Again

…or wonder how the Germans in the 1930s let a madman take over.

We have history; we have no excuse to repeat their mistakes. VOTE BLUE!