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8 minutes ago, boes said:

Hahahaha!!

And you've also just described how a U.S. midwesterner and a Californian talk about the heat.  Californians mostly do not know from snow unless it involves skis and cocktails in hot tubs afterwards.  And if you're a former midwesterner in California, you might SAY you miss the snow but oh, I don't I don't I don't....

Oh, who could miss snow?

I can see your point about people who don't have to live with it. Whenever I see those shots of actors at Sundance wearing the cute little booties and amusing winter jackets, I find it risible.

Snow is the enemy. I do not play in, or with it. We the North, my ass.

Part of the thing with Toronto and Winnipeg is how much Winnipegers [sp?] loathe Toronto. Several times, coming back east with a planeload of folks from the prairies, they've boo'd when the pilot announced that we were landing in TO.

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3 hours ago, pearlite said:

caraway rye bread.

Urk! I can not have caraway seeds. If I bite into one, it's like I get an electric shock. However, I do like rye and pumpernickel bread, as long as they have no seeds.

As for humidity, well, I live in South Florida, so I know heat and humidity. Plus I also have to carry around a sweater because places keep the AC super cold. It's funny how most people will open their windows and turn the car AC way up after it's been sitting closed up in the sun, but I love to get in and just sit in the heat.

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Bunny update: My poor, sad runt bunny who lives in my front yard has a girl/boy friend. On the one hand I'm happy because poor bun seemed so lonely. On the other hand I'm guessing we're going to have a whole new family of rabbits living in our yard. I'm not too upset because this year they left my glads alone.

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19 hours ago, Snaporaz said:

I guess I have to sit at a table all by myself, a table where they aren't serving bagels.  Bagels are what I imagine pencil erasers taste like.  

7 hours ago, pearlite said:

What, you didn't chew pencil erasers out of boredom in public school? Then start on making tooth-patterns on the pencils themselves?

Actually, I never know what all the fuss is with bagels--they've just always been around, some better than others. Not a specialty food at all. What I really have trouble finding that was a constant when I was growing up is good caraway rye bread.

There's a discussion in Getting To Genoa You about NYC water being superior, thus the bagels are, too.

My water district is on a Toilet to Tap water reuse system, and is processed to be "soft." Many food services in the district, that rely on water for their processing, test for mineral content and add to enhance the flavor of their products.

I grew up with fresh bread baked daily by my mother for her family and the ranch crew; she makes an excellent bagel with artesian well water -- Go figure. Maybe it's the love.

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Toronto's legendary humidity in summer is a Western Canadian joke. Bananna is somewhere on the prairies, I think. But this is true to a crazy extent, especially with people from Winnipeg, which has that extreme prairie weather winter and summer. And the first things anyone from Winnipeg will say by the way of heat comparison to TO (in summer) is, "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." I winter they say of ultra-arctic Winnipeg (block heaters in cars), "Yes, but it's a dry cold."

6 hours ago, boes said:

Hahahaha!!

And you've also just described how a U.S. midwesterner and a Californian talk about the heat.  Californians mostly do not know from snow unless it involves skis and cocktails in hot tubs afterwards.  And if you're a former midwesterner in California, you might SAY you miss the snow but oh, I don't I don't I don't....

"But it's a dry cold" … <snerk> That's what the native Minnesotans told me at the Pond Hockey Tournament in a -4F wind chill on a frozen lake -- Must be a universal assessment wherever you go.

I grew up with winter snow in Owens Valley, not enormous amounts, but once in a while we'd get hit with a blizzard.

The best part about SoCal are the transplants from places that have a regular winter for several months out of the year. They move from Mason City/Chicago/Pittsburg/NYC, and the first cold snap in SoCal, out come the parkas, ski hats and moon boots from 1994, reeking of mothballs. They huddle in their apartments with inefficient, dusty electric heaters they've turned on for the first time, and wonder why their California Dream has turned so cold and damp.

Do I miss snow and cold? I can hop in my car and find a snowbank in 90+ minutes. They're still skiing in board shorts and tank tops on Mammoth Mountain, and it might continue until August. That's the California Dream. 

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Johnny Clegg, anti-apartheid musician in South Africa, dies

Johnny Clegg, a South African musician who performed in defiance of racial barriers imposed under the country’s apartheid system decades ago and celebrated its new democracy under Nelson Mandela, died Tuesday. He was 66 and had pancreatic cancer.

The Grammy-nominated and British-born singer sometimes called the “White Zulu” died peacefully at home in Johannesburg with his family there, according to Clegg’s manager, Roddy Quin.

“He fought it to the last second,” Quin told the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

Clegg’s multi-racial bands during South Africa’s white minority rule attracted an international following. He crafted hits inspired by Zulu and township harmonies, as well as folk music and other influences.

South Africa’s government said in a statement that “his music had the ability to unite people across the races .... Clegg has made an indelible mark in the music industry and the hearts of the people.”

One of his best-known songs was “Asimbonanga,” which means “We’ve never seen him” in Zulu. It refers to South Africans during apartheid when images of the then-imprisoned Mandela were banned. Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and became South Africa’s first black president in all-race elections four years later.

Political opposition leader Mmusi Maimane said Clegg “wrote our SA story when our country was at its worst and at its best.”

The Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir said it was “devastated” by Clegg’s death and called him a “music icon and a true South African.” Fellow musicians posted similar tributes on social media.

Clegg learned about Zulu music and dancing as a teenager when he hung out with a Zulu cleaner and street musician called Charlie Mzila. He later explored his idea of “crossover” music with the multi-racial bands Juluka and Savuka at a time of bitter conflict in South Africa over the country’s white minority rule.

Clegg recorded songs he was arrested for and “never gave in to the pressure of the apartheid rules,” his manager said.

The apartheid-era censorship also restricted where he could perform, yet Clegg “impacted millions of people around the world,” Quin said. “He played a major role in South Africa getting people to learn about other people’s cultures and bringing people together.”

The musician performed as late as 2017, high-kicking and stomping during a tour called “The Final Journey” while his cancer was in remission.

At a concert in Johannesburg that year, Clegg said that “all of these entries into traditional culture gave me a way of understanding myself, helping me to shape a kind of African identity for myself, and freed me up to examine another way of looking at the world.”

In December, Clegg told South African news channel eNCA the “toughest part of my journey will be the next two years” and called himself an “outlier” in an interview that mused about mortality.

The performer was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and the grueling treatment included two six-month sessions of chemotherapy and an operation.

“I don’t have a duodenum and half my stomach. I don’t have a bile duct. I don’t have a gall bladder and half my pancreas. It’s all been reconfigured,” he told reporters in 2017.

In that interview, Clegg recalled how he performed “Asimbonanga” while on tour in Germany in 1997 and experienced a “huge shock” when Mandela, beaming and dancing, unexpectedly came out on stage behind him.

“It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world. And at peace with myself,” Mandela said to the audience. He asked Clegg to resume his performance and urged the audience to get up and dance.

At the end of the song, Mandela and Clegg, holding hands, walked off stage.

“That was the pinnacle moment for me,” Clegg recalled. “It was just a complete and amazing gift from the universe.”

-- CARA ANNA and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

Johnny Clegg’s War on Apartheid 

A life very well lived. 

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  • One giant leap for mankind: 50 years on -- The United States is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the day when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the surface of the moon. The historic event on July 20, 1969 was witnessed live by television audiences around the world and catapulted the U.S. to the forefront of space exploration.

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On 7/19/2019 at 1:46 PM, peacheslatour said:

Bunny update: My poor, sad runt bunny who lives in my front yard has a girl/boy friend. On the one hand I'm happy because poor bun seemed so lonely. On the other hand I'm guessing we're going to have a whole new family of rabbits living in our yard. I'm not too upset because this year they left my glads alone.

Pics please.

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15 minutes ago, AngelKitty said:

@jewel21, I see you are a Sam fan. I admit to being a Dean girl since I fell in love with the actor on Dark Angel.

I actually started out a Jensen fan. I fell in love with him on Dark Angel as well. I actually used to be a member of NunswithPens, which was a Jensen Ackles fanfiction board back in the day. I even wrote DA fanfic, lol. I knew Jared from Gilmore Girls. I was definitely more of a Dean girl at first but ended up really liking Sam as well (until he drank Ruby's blood.) I would define myself as Bi-Bro rather than having a favorite. I just really liked that Sam poster when I saw it and ordered it, lol. 

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4 minutes ago, jewel21 said:

I just really liked that Sam poster when I saw it and ordered it, lol.

It is a good one. 🤤 Did you go on TWoP? I think Supernatural was the first show I ever posted on. Until then, I had only lurked but Supernatural had just started so I could keep up ... until I couldn't.

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I lurked on TWoP. I was way too intimidated to every post there, lol. I would read the Supernatural boards and get so riled up by all the fan fighting, heh. I also hung out on Gumboot Mafia which was my forum, primary purpose was fanfiction and original writing, but we had TV discussion, too. Ah, those were the days, lol. 

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  • Central American Migrants Are 'Voting With Their Feet' Despite U.S. Threats -- … government recently announced more than $560 million in aid cuts to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador—the Northern Triangle—in a bid to pressure them to slow the flow of migrants to the U.S. But the plan faces a grim economic reality: aid isn’t nearly as vital as the billions of dollars in remittances sent home by migrants in the U.S.

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3 hours ago, jewel21 said:

Someone had a shower this morning and is super happy.

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Who's a buddy? It's Steve!

He looks in very good shape, Jewel. It must be a relief that he's settled in, and not panicking that you're leaving him.

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Hey, Jewel, do you read the Masterchef US board?

I didn't until the other day, and it's funny as hell and spot on. Whoever [Anerobic?] does their recaps is brilliant!

And it's hard to satirize a show with a septic-tank technician claiming to be a chef, plus Gordon Ramsay and his Repetition.

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@Cupid Stunt, Steve is definitely looking better than when he was a baby and sickly and underweight. We've come a long way. He started screaming again the past couple of days though, lol. I'm wondering if it's the heat? My room is super warm, even with the fan running. 

@pearlite, I do read the MasterChef US thread and it is funny.

ETA: I met and held my nephew for the first time today. He's really cute and so tiny. I don't normally like babies/kids, but he's like kitten and puppy cute. From me, that's the highest of praises, lol. 

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Yay, congrats Auntie jewel!  

Cupid.....love all the great links.  Being of a curious mind I get lost in there, damn you.  Keep 'em comin'....

Just have to share this one.  I am a vertically challenged person and the very top shelves of my kitchen cabinets are tippy-toes territory for me.  I keep my spices over the stove for easy reach (so to speak).  Well, I was reaching for the kosher salt on the top shelf when suddenly I was engulfed in a spice avalanche.   The shelf gave way.  Been there 20 yrs, no problem.  I couldn't get the damn thing to re-seat so when hubby looked at it he noticed the clips that hold it were in upside down!  Checked all the others as I don't want my dishes to come crashing down and they were OK.   Thankfully nothing broke.  Had quite the mess but I was half laughing--half cussing as I cleaned up.  Wish I had it on tape.... 

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so today, dawnica and logan met with their cousins jasmyn and alison (in japan it is arison).  we met up with them in coombs at the public market and goats on the roof.  we were trying to figure out what the cousin link was.  my daughter teri and their dad are cousins.  so, teri and jas and alison would be 2nd cousins and that would make logan, dawnica and the girls 2 nd cousins once removed.  

alison is 13 and she is going into the 10th grade in japan.  dawnica is 15 and going into 10th grade in sept.  my sil says that they start school earlier in japan than here.  unfortunately i got heat stroke or too much sun or something and teri had to bring me home... don't go out with your hats people.

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Just now, valleycliffe said:

so today, dawnica and logan met with their cousins jasmyn and alison (in japan it is arison).  we met up with them in coombs at the public market and goats on the roof.  their grandma's and i  were trying to figure out what the cousin link was.  my daughter teri and their dads are cousins (betsy's sons).  so, teri and jas and alison would be 2nd cousins and that would make logan, dawnica and the girls 2 nd cousins once removed.  at least that is what we thought they were.

alison is 13 and she is going into the 10th grade in japan.  dawnica is 15 and going into 10th grade in sept.  my sil says that they start school earlier in japan than here.  unfortunately i got heat stroke or too much sun or something and teri had to bring me home... don't go out with your hats people.

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On 7/18/2019 at 4:35 AM, pearlite said:

And, while I'm at it, I'll move my response to the bagel issues to this thread. To say, to start with, bagels are by definition boiled before baking. Good bagels, that is, whether Montreal style or New York style. Otherwise, that round thing is a supermarket bun. Enjoyable maybe but not a bagel. TO has a crazy number of chi chi bagel joints serving all kinds of variations, but most people are still too dumb to drive up to the suburban Jewish neighbourhoods for actually good bagels. Or maybe some bialys.

Jewel can tell you about Montreal bagels, St Viateur-style. They're a bit sweet, boiled in sugar water, smaller in circumference, and baked in wood-fired ovens. Very little salt in the dough, and tougher to chew. They're a love/hate thing.

My old neighborhood had a lot of Jewish delis with amazing bagels and homemade cream cheese (and chocolate babka and rugelach 🤤). I miss good bagels. We have exactly one place here that makes NY style bagels and they are 25 minutes away and usually sold out before I even think of waking up in the morning. Montreal bagels are freaking delicious! They're smaller so you need to eat three at a time.

I've tried to make bagels twice. The dough is simple and you leave it to ferment in the fridge for two days. The taste is great but they never rise properly. I've replaced my yeast and besides that, I don't know how nor do I have to patience to figure out what is wrong with the recipe.

@Cupid Stunt I love Mekons! I've seen them a couple of times and they are so fun. You can tell  how much they love what they are doing. There's a great documentary about them on one of the streaming channels. Jon Langford is also a great painter!

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7 hours ago, jewel21 said:

ETA: I met and held my nephew for the first time today. He's really cute and so tiny. I don't normally like babies/kids, but he's like kitten and puppy cute. From me, that's the highest of praises, lol. 

Thank Goddess Kali that she made babies puppy/kitten cute, because after that first full diaper or six weeks of colic, humanity would have died out eons ago.

Congratulations, Auntie Jewel!

4 hours ago, OhioSongbird said:

Cupid.....love all the great links.  Being of a curious mind I get lost in there, damn you.  Keep 'em comin'....

You got it. I'm just a well-shod, Left Coast pot-stirrer.

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Just have to share this one.  I am a vertically challenged person and the very top shelves of my kitchen cabinets are tippy-toes territory for me.  I keep my spices over the stove for easy reach (so to speak).  Well, I was reaching for the kosher salt on the top shelf when suddenly I was engulfed in a spice avalanche.   The shelf gave way.  Been there 20 yrs, no problem.  I couldn't get the damn thing to re-seat so when hubby looked at it he noticed the clips that hold it were in upside down!  Checked all the others as I don't want my dishes to come crashing down and they were OK.   Thankfully nothing broke.  Had quite the mess but I was half laughing--half cussing as I cleaned up.  Wish I had it on tape.... 

Hilarious … Though, I don't think fame and fortune on America's Home Videos is in the cards for you, Ohio.

2 hours ago, jpagan05 said:

My old neighborhood had a lot of Jewish delis with amazing bagels and homemade cream cheese (and chocolate babka and rugelach 🤤). I miss good bagels. We have exactly one place here that makes NY style bagels and they are 25 minutes away and usually sold out before I even think of waking up in the morning. Montreal bagels are freaking delicious! They're smaller so you need to eat three at a time.

I'll take that challenge.

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I've tried to make bagels twice. The dough is simple and you leave it to ferment in the fridge for two days. The taste is great but they never rise properly. I've replaced my yeast and besides that, I don't know how nor do I have to patience to figure out what is wrong with the recipe.

I've had the best results with the King Arthur Flour recipe, and it's a mirror image of my mother's recipe. I use the non-diastatic malt powder as the sweet catalyst.

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@Cupid Stunt I love Mekons! I've seen them a couple of times and they are so fun. You can tell  how much they love what they are doing. There's a great documentary about them on one of the streaming channels. Jon Langford is also a great painter!

Yes! I bounce between The Mekons and The Clash as my favorite punk bands. 

The documentary Revenge Of The Mekons is on Netflix. There is a YouTube version that has to be signed in for age declaration.

This video is from the Q&A of Jon Langford after a showing of the documentary:

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On ‎7‎/‎19‎/‎2019 at 7:46 AM, pearlite said:

Toronto's legendary humidity in summer is a Western Canadian joke. Bananna is somewhere on the prairies, I think. But this is true to a crazy extent, especially with people from Winnipeg, which has that extreme prairie weather winter and summer. And the first things anyone from Winnipeg will say by way of heat comparison to TO [in summer] is, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." In winter they say of ultra-arctic Winnipeg [block heaters in cars], "Yes, but it's a dry cold."

Family from southwestern Ontario arrived today, happy to be away from the heat and humidity.  Within 8 hours of arrival they were talking about how dry it is and started applying the lip balm. ❄️

I am in Calgary.  We don't have Winnipeg weather though, and we happily don't have their house-sized flies and ravenous mosquitoes!

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@Cupid Stunt, I read the story about the mural in San Fransisco and I was outraged at first, but then they explained it was in a mostly black school and seemed to intimate the students didn't want to see it every day and I can't blame them. What a shame it can't be moved to a mostly white school.

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1 hour ago, AngelKitty said:

@Cupid Stunt, I read the story about the mural in San Fransisco and I was outraged at first, but then they explained it was in a mostly black school and seemed to intimate the students didn't want to see it every day and I can't blame them. What a shame it can't be moved to a mostly white school.

This has been a on-going issue for many years, and the final decision to paint over the Victor Arnautoff Depression-era murals has created a greater hubbub in the local arts community and it's spreading nationally.

It's unfortunate that the school can't use the mural's bias as a teaching opportunity, and have an artist alter some of the most offensive imagery to reflect a more modern read of history, though several of the murals are historically accurate.

I don't know. My suggestions are just as lame as painting over the murals.

This nation has difficulty looking directly at history, or acknowledging the strain of racism that poisons everything from our beginnings. Racism cannot be painted over and called done. What the San Francisco Board of Education is attempting to do will never be enough until a brutal national conversation is had … And that conversation seems to be rearing up its head in a very ugly manner.

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15 hours ago, Cupid Stunt said:

Yes! I bounce between The Mekons and The Clash as my favorite punk bands. 

The documentary Revenge Of The Mekons is on Netflix. There is a YouTube version that has to be signed in for age declaration.

This video is from the Q&A of Jon Langford after a showing of the documentary:

Revenge of the Mekons, that's it. It was a fun documentary.

Today is Spoonerism Day!

"William Archibald Spooner was born on today's date in 1844. He studied at Oxford University and went on to lecture there for 60 years, focusing on philosophy, divinity, and history. He also was an Anglican priest. An albino man of small stature with bad eyesight, he was sometimes absent-minded, but also had a strong intellect. Because of his intellect, his speech often did not keep up with his thought process. That, along with his bad eyesight, contributed to him often saying phrases that were different than the ones he intended. With these slips of the tongue, which became known as "spoonerisms," the initial consonant sounds in some words are reversed. One of his most famous was "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride," which he apparently said while performing a wedding ceremony for a couple. Spoonerisms are often said by accident, just as they were done by Spooner, but nowadays they are often said on purpose as well, for their humorous effect. No matter why they are said, we celebrate them today.

Spoonerism Day is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on July 22nd."-from checkiday.com

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Art Neville of Neville Brothers, the Meters Dead at 81

New Orleans stalwart pianist, singer left an indelible impression on funk, soul and jazz music during his 60-plus year career.

Art Neville, a giant of New Orleans music who helped co-found the Neville Brothers and the funk outfit the Meters, has died, Nola.com reports. He was 81.

Neville’s longtime manager, Kent Sorrell, confirmed the musician’s death, saying, “It was peaceful. He passed away at home with his adoring wife Lorraine by his side. He toured the world how many times, but he always came home to Valence Street.”

A pianist and singer, Neville’s career spanned more than 60 years and left an indelible impression on funk, soul and jazz music. He helped set the bar for New Orleans funk with the Meters, who released eight albums between 1969 and 1977 and served as the backing band for artists like Dr. John, Robert Palmer and Allen Toussaint. He then joined forces with his brothers Charles, Aaron and Cyril to form the Neville Brothers, a highly influential and respected soul outfit.

Perhaps no song better summed up Neville’s influence than “Mardi Gras Mambo,” a track he recorded with the Hawketts when he was just 16-years-old. The song remains a staple of New Orleans’ famous Fat Tuesday celebrations, ringing out across the city every February and March.

Neville was born December 17th, 1937 and, as he and his brothers recalled in a 1987 profile in Rolling Stone, they grew up in a house with no record player, but one that frequently welcomed friends and neighbors, who came over with food and a guitar or a harmonica. Neville was a student of doo-wop groups like the Drifters and the Orioles, while he also idolized New Orleans piano legends like Fats Domino and Professor Longhair (with whom he’d later record).

Following his first taste of success with the Hawketts, Neville joined the Navy for a six-year stint, that included two years on active duty. When he returned to New Orleans in the early Sixties, he recorded several songs as a solo artist, though it was his brother Aaron who became the first in the Neville family to break out on the national stage with his 1966 smash “Tell It Like It Is.” Art Neville, meanwhile, gigged relentlessly around New Orleans with his own group, Art Neville and the Neville Sounds, whom Toussaint eventually tapped as the Sansu Records house band.

In 1968, the Neville Sounds renamed themselves the Meters and the following year they released their self-titled debut, which would feature one of the band’s signature songs, “Cissy Strut.” The Meters worked tirelessly over the next eight years, hitting a career peak with their 1974 album, Rejuvenation, which featured another classic track, “Hey Pocky Way,” and appeared at number 138 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List. The Meters would also back Paul McCartney, open for the Rolling Stones and play on hits like Dr. John’s “Right Place, Wrong Time” and Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade,” but group never notched a proper hit of their own.

As the Meters began to splinter in the late Seventies, Neville began performing again with his family (a contractual issue had actually prevented them recording together until about 1975). In 1976, the Nevilles worked on The Wild Tchoupitoulas, the self-titled album by a group of Mardi Gras Indians fronted by the Nevilles’ uncle, George “Big Chief Jolly” Landry. The experience inspired Art and his siblings to form their own group, which released their eponymous debut in 1978.

Like the Meters, the Neville Brothers were critical darlings, hometown heroes (they regularly closed out the main stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival) and consummate musician’s musicians, but they too were dogged by a lack of commercial success.

“Everybody in the industry digs us,” Neville told Rolling Stone in 1987. “Every other band, bands I love, bands I look up to, they looking at us the same way. Huey Lewis — those cats was onstage watching us every night. The Stones was watching us.” But, he added, “I wanna go to the bank. For once in my life, I’d like to be able to do something for my family.”

While the Neville Brothers never did score that elusive hit, their late Eighties output marked an artistic peak: 1987’s Uptown featured guest appearances from Keith Richards, Jerry Garcia and Carlos Santana, while their acclaimed 1989 album, Yellow Moon, earned the group their first Grammy, Best Pop Instrumental Performance for “Healing Chant.”

Following Yellow Moon, the Neville Brothers would release five more albums, winning one more Grammy, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for their 1999 album Valence Street (Art also earned a Best Rock Instrumental Performance trophy for his contributions to a version of “SRV Shuffle” on 1996’s A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan). The Neville Brothers’ last LP, Walkin’ in the Shadow of Life, was released in 2004.

Neville would continue to tour and perform in the ensuing years, even as his health began to deteriorate. He regularly reunited with the Meters during the Nineties and into the 2000s, while he would also take the stage several more times with the Neville Brothers. He even occasionally performed with the next generation of Neville musicians, getting on stage with his nephew, Ivan Neville, of the New Orleans funk and jam outfit, Dumpstaphunk.

In a 2013 interview with The Times-Picayune, Neville described his life-long devotion to music, saying, “You can bring me there in the ambulance, roll me onto the stage, give me a microphone, and a mirror where I can see the people… Man, look. I’ve been doing this all my life. I enjoy it. Even the bad parts of it, the parts I didn’t like… I found out that’s the way things go sometimes. You’ve got to go along with them.”

-- Jon Blistein

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  • R. Kelly crisis manager resigns after controversial comments -- … in the interview, Gayle King asked Johnson whether he'd leave his own 20-something-year-old daughter with Kelly, with Johnson surprising the host by answering no. "Absolutely not," he said. "I wouldn’t leave my daughter with anybody that’s accused of pedophilia. Period."

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  • Red Summer -- Hundreds of African Americans died in a little known spate of white mob violence a century ago. A look back at the Red Summer attacks and the communities where they occurred.

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so this morning i had to make an appointment with my former dentist.  former because last time i saw him he gave me a full clearance which means all my teeth were pulled out for dentures.

this morning i was brushing my gums and happened to look in the mirror.  i saw a spec of white protruding from my lower gum....i felt it and it was bone.  it happened before while i was seeing my denturist for a relining.  i had been complaining of my lower jaw being very sore if i ate anything hard..he discovered bone protruding and kept saying interesting...he removed the "chip" and all was good.  now i am worried cause it happened again.  the reason i am worried is that i take risdronate for my osteoporosis and a long time ago i read about bone deteriorating from it...although i don't know why it would still be allowed to be sold if it was dangerous.

anyway, the receptionist had an appt. available for tomorrow but i declined cause it's my birthday and i'll be darned if i'll spend it at the dentist.  so i go next wednesday.

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Talk about unlovable, check out The Hitcher sometime.  Too bad, always like him.  Played a great villain. 

Speaking of movies, hubby and I just watched The Imitation Game about Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine.  Best movie we've seen in a long time.  Must see.  Benedict Cumberbatch is magnificent.  Plus a great supporting cast.  Fans of Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey will recognize a few faces.

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4 hours ago, valleycliffe said:

so this morning i had to make an appointment with my former dentist.  former because last time i saw him he gave me a full clearance which means all my teeth were pulled out for dentures.

this morning i was brushing my gums and happened to look in the mirror.  i saw a spec of white protruding from my lower gum....i felt it and it was bone.  it happened before while i was seeing my denturist for a relining.  i had been complaining of my lower jaw being very sore if i ate anything hard..he discovered bone protruding and kept saying interesting...he removed the "chip" and all was good.  now i am worried cause it happened again.  the reason i am worried is that i take risdronate for my osteoporosis and a long time ago i read about bone deteriorating from it...although i don't know why it would still be allowed to be sold if it was dangerous.

anyway, the receptionist had an appt. available for tomorrow but i declined cause it's my birthday and i'll be darned if i'll spend it at the dentist.  so i go next wednesday.

Yikes! I have tori. (Google if you dare. It's weird and creepy looking) I have had it protrude through the roof of my mouth and it's terrifying. It's super painful getting x-rays at the dentist because there is no comfortable spot for that plastic covered film. My dentist and hygienist are both so sweet and sensitive to my anxiety but I still hate going. Happy birthday! Glad you are not spending it at the dentist.🎂🎉

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Nico Stai, singer/songwriter 

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1 minute ago, Petunia13 said:

I got a new job! It’s serving at a high end steakhouse and no commute. 

Congratulations!!!!!  It sounds wonderful and most important, YOU sound happy!  I'm so glad for you.  When do you start?

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They are super flex on start and even shifts (other than Friday and Saturday night) I know serving seems a step down but I actually run the bar and do barista at my current work and waited tables in college. I just think it’s better to have something closer. I have some other interviews lined up, all close by. 

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24 minutes ago, Petunia13 said:

I got a new job! It’s serving at a high end steakhouse and no commute. 

Excellent news! Hey, you can make really decent money waiting tables, especially at the high end places. With your sparkling personality you should be rolling in dough in no time flat. Congrats! 

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23 hours ago, OhioSongbird said:

Talk about unlovable, check out The Hitcher sometime.  Too bad, always like him.  Played a great villain. 

Speaking of movies, hubby and I just watched The Imitation Game about Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine.  Best movie we've seen in a long time.  Must see.  Benedict Cumberbatch is magnificent.  Plus a great supporting cast.  Fans of Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey will recognize a few faces.

I’ve seen Matthew Good in a few things, and haven’t liked him in any of them 😄

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On 7/24/2019 at 11:07 AM, AngelKitty said:

Aww, I just saw that Rutger Hauer died at 75. I have been in love with him since Ladyhawk. (Blade Runner was earlier but he wasn't as lovable in that one.)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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34 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

I googled Matthew Good and he's a musician.  Who else are you talking about?

This guy.  Matthew Goode 

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If I remember correctly, he was in both the Imitation Game and played Mary's fiancee in Downton abbey.

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