3alarmer 

...Pete is a Swiftie ? Me too.

Trakhak

This thread lacks sufficient digressions.

Who remembers "Tom Swifties"?

"I've been trying to remember the name of a band that was popular about 20 years ago that fused alternative rock, progressive rock, space rock, hard rock, art rock, electronic rock, progressive metal, indie rock, and pop," Tom said musingly.

Maelochs

Saw the "Farewell to Kings" tour .... Taylor Swift was Not in attendance.

Not saying that that was why it was a great experience .... who knows.

At the time I was an active musician and my ear was pretty well trained .... and there was way too much to listen to. Those three guys played a cubic ton of music. (See how I used scientific terms, there? Just a nod to the aliens .... why can't we all just get along, right?)

3alarmer 

....I saw Steve Martin play the Cellar Door in Georgetown, back in the '70's when he was still playing small clubs. He led the entire (small) audience out of the club, and we followed him around the block. At the time I was still pretty funny...but it's doubtful you'd have found me so. We can't all just get along, for the same reason we can't have nice things. Eventually you'll figure that out.

Maelochs

We can't get along because of you? I see a solution.

calamarichris

It's such a refreshing break from the civil society we're compelled to live in, to engage people on the internet.

Edit: Steve Martin's 70s bits (especially Blue Spot) haven't aged that well either.

veganbikes

I don't think that they were alive then so it would have been hard to see that tour having not been born. Not defending them (or mentioning names) just pointing out they couldn't physically be there as they weren't alive.

The fact that everyone has to talk about them is just getting old just like talking about former reality T.V. stars who got into politics it is just such a bore. It is like those people who post on the tweeters "I just ate a sandwich" "I took a shower" "I did laundry" as if the same boring mundane B.S. is interesting. Not saying you are instigating or anything just pointing out the generality these days.

Rush however is quite awesome and I wish somehow we could bring back Neal and Ged's voice and let them continue playing forever and ever. Or start a new band called Rush the Police with Alex, Ged, and Stewart and maybe bring Andy in as a backup guitar in the studio as his live prowess isn't quite as good especially these days. Would love to have Sting involved but there seems to be drama from him.

GamblerGORD53

What do you and cyccommute know if you haven't used drum brakes?? LOL I've never seen a grim brake that would stay centered, never mind stop in a while.
Here yah go, proof of DeFAILeurs >>> LOL At 14:13 in the video. Plus he trashed his pedals and crank AND a hotel worker bent the HANGER in other videos. Grand poobah of clumsy this guy.

calamarichris

Oh man. It just so happens that I have an Opafiets from the 1980s Netherlands that has drum brakes and the Three-Speed Sturmey-Archer gears!
No lie. It's a Locomotief Populaire, and the drum brakes SUCK. Granted they're 30+ years old and heavy as lead and noisy as banshees. But they're still cool af IMO.
It's like pedaling a freight train, The bike weighs easily over 50 pounds, but I still love it dearly.
It's wobbly, it's cantankerous, and it's heavy as all get out (I used to suspect the frame tubes weren't hollow tubes, but solid steel rods), but it still reminds me of when I was a young virgin in the Army, pedaling around Brunssum, Heerlen and laughing my @$$ off at the leather-jacketed punk rockers rebelling on their grandpa bikes.

3alarmer 

3alarmer 

...now you're thinking clearly. I'm the reason you can't have nice things.

calamarichris

This was the B-side to his King Tut 45, (which also was as funny as a kick in the crotch.) Sucksucksucksuck....

calamarichris

Trollishly, kinda, actually. Are you this awful to people in 3D, or just on the internet? Can't we extend Civil Society into cyberspace?

smd4

Seems he’s responding appropriately to continued personal attacks.

calamarichris

My mistake. I didn't read the thread history thoroughly enough. Please continue counter-attacking until your cyberspace victory is won. My bad and no offense intended.

3alarmer 

...how exactly did you get involved in this exchange ? I forget now. Anyway, Maelochs and I go way back. He's been telling me how intellectually dishonest I am for years here. As near as I can tell, he only stopped because I made it clear I was going to report all such instances going forward. Because righteous moral indignation is one of Maelochs "nice things".

Am I clear on the idea that you're now blaming me for the lack of civility in cyberspace ? Is that what you're saying here ?

Ummmm....OK.

...I was doing fine, until you started in on poor ol' Steve Martin, who is not even here to defend himself. For a reference point, there are plenty of things from the 70's that haven't aged well.

calamarichris

My mistake. I drunkenly and unknowingly stumbled into this no-man's-land. Please resume your cyberspace combat and consider me Switzerland. I think you're both great, and have great ideas. It pains me to see both your thoughts and efforts squandered against each other when you have so much in common.
I still stand by my statement that Steve Martin's material hasn't aged well though. Even The Jerk isn't that funny anymore, (but Bernadette Peters was strikingly gorgeous in it.)

3alarmer 

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​​​​calamarichris , now I remember. You seemed to first take notice of me when I made reference to that gang of crows, mobbing a hawk down near the river, on my walk yesterday. IIRC, you referenced yourself as a sparrow, and wondered if I was supposed to be the hawk. No, that was never in my mind in making that observation. Only the fact that the crows were making a lot of noise, showing off for each other by flying at the hawk to score points, and that they seemed to be triggered by a sense of defending the neighborhood, rather than any threat posed currently by the hawk.

The hawk was just trying to move on to someplace quiet, probably so he could kill and eat supper.

Lots of noise, no real point to it, defending the neighborhood. No. I'm not the hawk. That's all I got for you.

calamarichris

In that case, I apologize. I've seen crows (smart little corvidae that they are) gang up on red tail hawks in my region. I see a murder in my sky every evening in fact. Where they go? I dunno, just somewhere north of my condo.
Where the red-tails go? I know about as much.
I wish you and Maelochs peace. And you and me too. Can you dig it?
I'm sorry if I said something offensive, and that I don't appreciate Steve Martin as much as you do.

smd4

The man plays a mean banjo.

calamarichris

smd4

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calamarichris

Chuck M 

So I couldn't respond to emails from my boss with right on? I thought he would dig that and think it was far out.

smd4

So saying that Steve Martin is a banjo virtuoso isn’t “funny” to you?

Okay then.