Over the last few months, I’ve made a regular effort to post mashups of material from Sgt. P every so often. My intent was to eventually have the full album finished without interrupting my normal mix schedule. Now, with the addition of 7 new unreleased bootlegs, my plans have arrived at fruition. The tracks from “SGTP” maintain the original order, but with each featuring a mashup pairing to contrast the sources.
So, you get the Fab Four combined with artists like the Doors, R.E.M., the Stray Cats, Carly Rae Jepsen, & eleven more. All mixes are no rights reserved, being mashups for demonstration purposes only. I won’t make a cent on this release, unless some generous fan tips me some dough for my effort. So far, I’ve only ever recieved candy as a tip, but they were very tasty.
Here’s 2 preview links so you can determine if this is the correct fit for your ears. I’m quite aware that many people’s reactions to mashups is “Hey, Man! You wrecked my favorite song!”. lol
I hope you enjoy the experience of listening to “SGTP”, I sure had a blast working it up. Coming soon in the new year will be the latest album in my “Intense Psychedelia” series. Get ready now, as it’ll be a whopper of an assortment!
• Occasionally, poet Edwin Markham was a lucky man. For example, he once was digging for soaproot and found something apparently lost by a prospector long ago: a bag filled with pieces of gold. Another bit of luck was seeing an exhibition of a painting titled The Man with the Hoe by Jean Francois Millet. The painting inspired him to create a poem with the same title, he published the poem in the San Francisco Examiner, and suddenly Mr. Markham was a famous and respected poet.
• When she was a young woman, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the poem “Renascence,” which contained mature imagery of death and rebirth. Poets Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke read the poem, but until they met Ms. Millay in person, they refused to believe that “some sweet young thing of 20” had written the poem, writing her instead to say that its author must have been “a brawny male of 45.”
• In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Mending Wall,” a character says, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Poet and playwright T.S. Eliot once asked Mr. Frost what that sentence — a New England proverb — meant. Mr. Frost said that he was not surprised that Mr. Eliot asked that particular question: “Eliot’s characters never know boundaries, not even of each other’s beds.”
• During the reign of King Charles I, poet George Withers was condemned to death, but rival poet Sir John Denham appealed to the king to relent because if Mr. Withers should die, Sir John would then be the worst poet in England. The appeal was successful — Charles I relented.
• Alexander the Great was once asked whether he would prefer to be Homer, the author of the Iliad, or Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. He replied, “What do you think? Would you rather win first prize at the Olympic Games or be the man who announces the winners?”
Politics
• When Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York, his running mate was Jimmy Breslin. Their rallying cry was “Vote the rascals in!” Both writers were known for living rather than merely existing, and when they spoke to police students at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, they ran into a police officer who asked Mr. Mailer, “If you and Breslin go ape on the same evening, who will run the city?” Mr. Mailer, of course, was an original (as was Mr. Breslin). Mr. Mailer had a column in the Village Voice for a while, but he quit after four months because a mistake in copy-editing had changed his nuance into nuisance. Obviously, Mr. Mailer’s beliefs, whether in literature or politics, were strong. After deciding to vote for Bobby Kennedy, whom he thought had a prep-school arrogance but was capable of greatness, Mr. Mailer wrote, “To vote for a man who is neuter is to vote for the plague. I would rather vote for a man on the assumption he is a hero and have him turn into a monster than vote for a man who can never be a hero.”
• Stephen Elliot, editor of Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica, writes and speaks often about his sexual experiences. For example, he wrote a sexual memoir that he titled My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. Of course, another of his interests is political, and he wrote a book titled Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process. Occasionally, politics can interfere with the pursuit of sex. For example, he met a woman online, then he met her in person. Unfortunately, she told him that she had voted for George W. Bush in 2004. Mr. Elliott says, “I was like, great, I just wasted two hours. I mean, OK, in 2000, I’ll give you a pass. Nobody knew. But in ’04?”
In Spain and Portugal it's called 'Gaita', in Italy it's 'Zampogna', and the Germans say 'Dudelsack'. What is the name of this musical instrument in English?
Gaita is a generic term for "bagpipe" in Castilian (Spanish), Portuguese, Basque, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, Catalan and Aragonese, for distinct bagpipes used across the northern regions of Spain and Portugal and in the Balearic Islands. In the south of Spain and Portugal, the term is applied to a number of other woodwind instruments. Just like the term "Northumbrian smallpipes" or "Great Highland bagpipes", each region attributes its toponym to the respective gaita name. Most of them have a conical chanter with a partial second octave, obtained by overblowing. Folk groups playing these instruments have become popular in recent years, and pipe bands have been formed in some traditions.
Zampogna (also called ciaramella, ciaramedda, or surdullina depending on style and or region): A generic name for an Italian bagpipe, with different scale arrangements for doubled chanters (for different regions of Italy), and from zero to three drones (the drones usually sound a fifth, in relation to the chanter keynote, though in some cases a drone plays the tonic).
Dudelsack: German bagpipe with two drones and one chanter. Also called Schäferpfeife (shepherd pipe) or Sackpfeife. The drones are sometimes fit into one stock and do not lie on the player's shoulder but are tied to the front of the bag.
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My bagpipe story:
Thanks to my Mediterranean heritage, I'm lactose intolerant, so when I was a baby the doctor recommended trying goat milk.
My mom had raised goats as a kid, and swore to never do it again, so she and dear old dad started asking around if someone would raise a goat for my milk - they'd pay for the goat and it's upkeep.
Uncle Frankie finally volunteered, but on one condition.
Uncle Frankie was a kinda scary guy with a kinda military background - the Italian army and the French Foreign Legion - at family reunions he'd get a snootful then start singing dirty songs in a variety of languages.
The moms cringed, the dads laughed, and we kids stood in awe.
Anyway, Uncle Frankie's one condition was that after I was weaned he could roast the goat and use her skin for the bagpipes he picked up in the French Foreign Legion.
I got my goat's milk and Uncle Frankie got his bagpipes back in working order, not that his neighbors were gonna complain.
Randall was first, and correct, with:
Bagpipes
Mark. said:
Bagpipes.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
It is a junior varsity bagpipe.
Alan J answered:
Bagpipes.
Dave replied:
Bagpipes. So Google tells me.
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zorch responded:
Bagpipes.
Jacqueline wrote:
Common in Northern Spain and Portugal---bagpipes.
David of Moon Valley replied:
just from the names listed...
…i’m a-guessin’ the bagpipes……and if i’m not correct…oh well…i gotta go pour me a hot cuppa coffee….Happy Wednesday to you all...
John I from Hawai`i says,
Bagpipe
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
Bagpipes. The Scottish bagpipes always reminded me of a bag of yowling cats. The Irish bagpipes are much more melodic and mellow. And that’s all I know ‘bout that.
Billy in Cypress said:
Bagpipes
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is bagpipe.
Daniel in The City answered:
Bagpipes
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Bagpipe
mj replied:
A cuddly instrument
The bagpipe. Which, oddly enough, I actually enjoy, when played well.
DJ Useo said:
I asked 3 friends in those 3 countries, & they all confirmed it was the bagpipe. You chose one of the few instruments I never played.
btw- I sent the correct answer yesterday, but got a mail error. No biggie.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
I looked it up earlier and I'm not sure what I found, but I'm pretty sure it was bagpipes. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
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What's passing as the Stillers-Ravens game is re-re-re-re-scheduled for 3:40pm (et) | 12:40pm (pt) on NBC.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'The Amazing Race', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SEAL Team'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Kate Winslet and Michael Eric Dyson.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Riz Ahmed and Bad Bunny.
NBC opens the night with the FRESH'88th Annual Christmas In Rockefeller Center', followed by the FRESH'Christmas Spectacular Starring The Radio City Rockettes At Home Holiday Special'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jamie Dornan, Joe Manganiello, and Phoebe Bridgers.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/12/20) are Dan Aykroyd, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Carter McLean.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/1/20) is Terry Crews.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'American Housewife', then a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'For Life'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are George Clooney, Amanda Seyfried, and Tones and I.
The CW offers a FRESH'Devils', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Court Cam', then another FRESH'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Rescue Cam', then another FRESH'Rescue Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Polar Express', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE HOUSE OF QUARK
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - EQUILIBRIUM
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - SECOND SKIN
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE ABANDONED
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CIVIL DEFENSE
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - MERIDIAN
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE OUTCAST
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - CAUSE AND EFFECT
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE FIRST DUTY
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - COST OF LIVING
[4:00PM] BRAVEHEART
[8:00PM] HITMAN
[10:00PM] HITMAN
[12:00AM] JUDGE DREDD
[2:00AM] IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
[4:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEX AND VIOLENCE
[5:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - UNTITLED (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of SLC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Hangover', followed by the movie 'Baywatch', then the movie 'Baywatch', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Wee Wee Monsieur
[6:15am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[8:15am] Run All Night
[10:45am] Reindeer Games
[1:15pm] Taken 2
[3:15pm] My Cousin Vinny
[5:45pm] The Wolf Of Wall Street
[9:45pm] Caddyshack
[12:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - Don't Call Me Lady
[12:30am] Caddyshack
[2:45am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[4:45am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - Don't Call Me Lady
[5:15am] The Three Stooges - Back To The Woods
[5:30am] The Three Stooges - All Gummed Up (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] yours, mine & ours
[11:30am] sleepless in seattle
[2:00pm - 11:00pm] criminal minds
[12:00am] the a word - Episode 5
[1:21am] criminal minds
[2:21am] criminal minds
[3:21am] perry mason
[4:20am] perry mason
[5:20am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'Hancock', then the movie 'Space Jam'.
Monday's Late Show was all Stephen Colbert's interview last week with former President Barack Obama, and Obama took his share of needling.
Many Americans missed Obama during President Trump's tenure, Colbert included, he said. "Did you miss you? Did you ever look at something going on in the news and go, 'You know what this situation needs? A little Barack Obama.'" Obama laughed and said he'd only want another turn as president if he could call the shots from his basement. "I found the work fascinating," he said. "But I do not miss having to wear a tie every day." Colbert also poked at Obama's cadence, telling him that if you listen to his audiobook recording at double speed, "you can't tell that it's actually going faster," because it's "normal human talking speed." In another interview, Obama swatted back, telling Colbert, "If that was an imitation of me, that was terrible."
Colbert threw in some questions he believed Obama had never been asked, including: "How does Dolly Parton not have a Presidential Medal of Freedom?" "That's a mistake — I'm shocked," Obama replied. "That was a screw-up. I'm surprised. I think I assumed that she had already got one, and that was incorrect. She deserves one. I'll call Biden."
They also discussed more serious topics, like how Obama and his family stayed relatively grounded in Washington and amid their "outsized fame," and the downsides of president-elect Joe Biden facing a Senate led by "sand in the gears" Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Grim Reaper). "Look, I experienced divided government and I will tell you that gridlock and dysfunction is a recipe for not only not solving big problems but also growing cynicism among the electorate that further polarizes folks," he said. "I think that Joe's presidency will help lower the temperature" and he'll "have some success in building back social trust," but "we're going to have a larger challenge in figuring out what to do about this splintered media landscape" and its assault on shared facts.
The SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and its trustees have been sued in federal court by Ed Asner and nine other senior participants over the upcoming cuts in benefits and eligibility for the plan.
Asner, a six-time Emmy winner, is the lead plaintiff in the class action complaint, which was filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The suit alleges two counts of breach of fiduciary duty, one count of engaging in a prohibited transaction and one count of failing to disclose information material to plan participants.
The suit said the 91-year-old Asner, a former SAG president and current member of the SAG-AFTRA national board, will lose his coverage, even though he had more than $25,950 in yearly covered earnings with residuals and sessional earnings because he will not reach the new qualifying threshold by sessional earnings that goes into effect in 2021.
Opponents have estimated that the changes eliminated coverage for about 11,750 of 32,000 participants, including 8,200 senior performers. Participant-only quarterly cost will be $375, increased from $300; participant plus one dependent will cost $531, increased from $348 per quarter; and participant plus two or more dependents will be $747, increased from $375 per quarter.
The changes to the plan also came as many of SAG-AFTRA’s 160,000 members were unable to generate earnings since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in mid-March and caused virtually all productions to halt. The health plan is administered by a board comprised of equal numbers of trustees for the union and for the employers.
President Donald Trump (R-Loser) discussed preemptive pardons for his three eldest children, his son-in-law, and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with advisors, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Trump has expressed concerns to others that the Justice Department, under the incoming Biden administration, could target three of his children — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump — and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who serves as a senior advisor at the White House, The Times reported.
While constitutionally, presidents enjoy broad pardoning power, no president has tried to grant pardons for federal crimes not yet committed. It is legal for a president to pardon family members — in 2001, former President Bill Clinton pardoned his brother for a 1985 cocaine possession and drug-trafficking conviction.
It remains unclear what potential crimes the president could be preemptively pardoning, but the power of the presidential pardon does not extend to state or local crimes.
Last week, the president pardoned his former national security advisor Michael Flynn (R-QAnon), who pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in December 2017 as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Earlier this year, Trump also commuted the sentence of former advisor Roger Stone (R-Rat-Fucker) in July.
New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert — though it’s no longer the only place where a strange structure has been discovered.
A Colorado photographer told KSTU-TV that he saw four men come to the remote Utah site Friday night and push over the hollow, stainless steel object.
“Right after it had fallen over and made a loud thud, one of them said, ‘This is why you don’t leave trash in the desert,’” Ross Bernards told the Salt Lake City TV station.
The group broke down the structure into pieces, loaded it into a wheelbarrow and left.
“As they were loading it up and walking away, they just said, ‘Leave no trace,’” he said.
A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday.
The telescope’s 900-ton receiver platform and the Gregorian dome — a structure as tall as a four-story building that houses secondary reflectors — fell onto the northern portion of the vast reflector dish more than 400 feet below.
The U.S. National Science Foundation had earlier announced that the Arecibo Observatory would be closed. An auxiliary cable snapped in August, causing a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it. Then a main cable broke in early November.
The collapse at 7:56 a.m. on Tuesday wasn’t a surprise because many of the wires in the thick cables holding the structure snapped over the weekend, Ángel Vázquez, the telescope’s director of operations, told The Associated Press.
President Donald Trump (R-Grifter)'s campaign has raised at least $150 million after Election Day after sending out hundreds of emails asking for support as part of Trump's hopeless mission to contest President-elect Joe Biden's win, according to Monday reports from The Washington Post and The New York Times.
In reality, only a small fraction of small-dollar donations is being used for Trump's legal challenges, with the vast majority instead being put into an account the president can use to fund his post-White House political career.
The Post and Times reports differ slightly on the total raised by the Trump campaign since Election Day. The Post said that more than $150 million was raised in that time, citing multiple sources, while a source who spoke with The Times put that number at $170 million.
Either total would be a significant amount for the campaign. For comparison, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, one of Trump's main political action committees, raised $125 million in all of the second quarter of 2020 and raised $81 million during September, its best fundraising month, according to The Post.
At a time when most losing campaigns start winding down, Trump's campaign took the unusual step and increased its calls for donations, The Post and The Times reported.
As a polar explorer lay frostbitten and starving in a frozen Greenland cave, he smeared a black spot onto the bottom of his last journal entry. More than a century later, that dark smudge has revealed grim new details of the dying man's final hours.
His name was Jørgen Brønlund; he was a Greenland-born Inuit and was part of a three-man team on the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, conducted from 1906 to 1908 and led by Danish ethnologist Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen. Brønlund died in November 1907 and was the last of the team to perish — and the only one whose body was ever recovered.
He recorded his final thoughts in a diary, and the last page included a heavy black smudge. Researchers recently conducted extensive analysis of the spot, finding that it contained burnt rubber, oils and feces. These traces hint at Brønlund's desperate and unsuccessful attempts to light a life-saving petroleum burner before he succumbed to cold and hunger, scientists wrote in a new study.
Brønlund died during the team's return to base camp from Greenland's northern coast, as they were traveling over inland ice. Mylius-Erichsen and Niels Peter Høeg Hagen, the expedition's cartographer, had already died of exposure and exhaustion by the time Brønlund made it to a sheltering cave near the depot, he wrote in his journal.
Under Brønlund's signature on that last diary page was "an adhered black spot," according to the new study. The mysterious mark was so intriguing that it prompted an unnamed researcher to surreptitiously remove it for analysis in 1993 without prior permission, said lead study author Kaare Lund Rasmussen, a professor in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark.
An 8-mile-long "canvas" filled with ice age drawings of mastodons, giant sloths and other extinct beasts has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.
The gorgeous art, drawn with ochre — a red pigment frequently used as paint in the ancient world — spans nearly 8 miles (13 kilometers) of rock on the hills above three rock shelters in the Colombian Amazon, a new study finds.
"These really are incredible images, produced by the earliest people to live in western Amazonia," study co-researcher Mark Robinson, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter, who analyzed the rock art alongside Colombian scientists, said in a statement.
The thousands of ice age paintings include both handprints, geometric designs and a wide array of animals, from the "small" — such as deer, tapirs, alligators, bats, monkeys, turtles, serpents and porcupines — to the "large," including camelids, horses and three-toed hoofed mammals with trunks. Other figures depict humans, hunting scenes and images of people interacting with plants, trees and savannah creatures. And, although there is also ice age animal rock art in Central Brazil, the new findings are more detailed and shed light on what these now-extinct species looked like, the researchers said.
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