He wants his tapes and pamphlets back.
Look around, it’s not just oil that is soaring. Almost every commodity is at a 200-year high. Wheat and rice prices have doubled and then kept on rising over the last two years. In some cases, demand is so high that we’re actually running out of stuff. Helium, the gas used in balloons and MRI machines is in short supply globally. And it is the second-most abundant element in the universe.
“Komuso wore a woven straw hat which covered their head completely looking like an overturned basket. The concept was that by wearing such a hat they removed their ego. What the hat also did was remove their identity from prying eyes. It’s no wonder that komuso was a popular disguise for spies and supposedly the deadly ninja.”
It’s supposed to be 99º/37º today and my wife is roasting a chicken at 8 AM in our non-AC house. Unrelated: it’s chilly here at work.
(See how I included Celsius there? That’s so our future Chinese overlords know I’m a team player.)
Chick Corea Elektric Band “Elektric City” (1986)
The Sandwich and I mused that, to land these high-quality dancers, they must have been playing different music during the filming of the video. Like, Bobby Brown or something.
Also: I am told that Chick Corea is a legitimate musician, who is actually paid to make whatever it is he is making in this video.
Last: I am also assured that Chick Corea is not a 50 year-old municipal bus driver named Estelle, despite overwhelming visual evidence to the contrary.
Super-duper last: I have been promised that the guitar soloist is not Screech.
FINALLY: I have received affidavits (signed by Harry Anderson, Jerry Seinfeld, et al.) that, before the turn of the century, people actually played the bass guitar with this sort of “popping” style.
IN CLOSING: Oaths have been sworn, in my presence, that some of the “licks” and “riffs” played herein are “tasty.”
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Unscrupulous diners will be tempted to sample every flavor, from the citrus bite of Mountain Dew to the oddly over-syruped Diet Sprite. One may need a sweet soda to counter the lightly marinated bite of the grilled-chicken sandwich — the same teriyaki-leaning glaze that everybody seems to be doing this year.
To be sustained, the experience calls for an organizing idea, a ruling fiction, making disorientation meaningful.
