Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Andy Cimino
18 hrs ·
Classic rock and wine, meh...now if it were garage punk and whiskey...
This new record club will send you a bottle of wine with your vinyl
This new record club will send you a bottle of wine with your vinyl - The Vinyl Factory - the Home of Vinyl
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David A Tell
David A Tell Vine-yl. Anybody here a Brian Eno-phile? Don't know his music, personally, though I hear it has notes of cinnamon, fresh-mowed grass and petroleum distillates. https://www.discogs.com/artist/634-Brian-Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Eno is an electronic musician and producer. Also known for his multifaceted interests outside of music,…
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Susan McNabb shared Chi Yum Yum's video.
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David A Tell Looks like the Wu-ff Fang Clan.
 
 
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Roy William Scranton
August 31 at 6:29am ·
“According to the model projections, we’re getting ready for the part where it starts to explode."
Melting Arctic permafrost releasing ancient carbon, study confirms
Study releases first measurements of greenhouse gases locked away in ice under lakes for thousands of years
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Benjamin Busch
Benjamin Busch Ancient carbon is much better than modern carbon.
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David A Tell It's in the form COld2
 
 
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August 31 at 7:17pm ·
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Surprise! :D

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David A Tell That cat is in what's called a Venetian bind.
 
 
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David A Tell
August 30 at 4:59pm ·
Quizony
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Turns out, I'm properly French by birth. No surprise, I'm rude and disdainful; consider food both a deep joy and of ultimate seriousness; drink mostly red wine; being a waiter or sommelier is a respected, lifetime profession there; American women sometimes love me but don't really "get" me; I believe in free health care; support a 35-hour workweek, taking all of August off and having mistresses being a civil right.
Which Country Should You Have Been Born In?
Sometimes the country you were born in doesn't feel like the right fit. What country SHOULD you have been born in? Take this quiz to find out!
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David A Tell Oh, AND I know how to pronounce "Moulin Rouge," and it's not Moo-LON. AND I know anything ending in "oise" (like Francoise, Framboise, Nicoise) you PRONOUNCE the "s," so get it right, broadcast people! AND you pronounce the "r" in armoire, BUT you have to rattle it in the back of your throat. (Minute 2:33 of this old Steve Martin bit:) https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw
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David A Tell
August 30 at 5:10pm ·
I guess when the groom asked the bride to marry him, it was "a modest proposal."

David A Tell
David A Tell Is that baby recipe gluteal-free? Hope not, it's the tenderest part!
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David A Tell Rump roast of 12-year-old girl best garnished with the muffin-tops.
 
 
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Mercy For Animals
August 30 at 12:55pm ·
OMG!! What sorcery is this?!!
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David A Tell Vegan, shmegan. Let them eat fake?
 
 
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David A Tell Ah, the pure joy of being alive--and young and horny.
 
 
 
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Andy Cimino
August 29 at 11:24pm ·
Former Congressman Weiner? Never met the man...
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 David A Tell My dad's first name. Mayo. Mayo B. Tell.
 
 
 
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Past few days ... Melania plagiarizing, etc.

David A Tell
17 hrs ·
Watching Bernie. Proud to also be a graying, angry old Jew. In a year or two, Alan Arkin will be old enough to play him in a biopic.
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David A Tell
Yesterday at 10:40am ·
OK, not only is it (my "I'm a curmudgeonly has-been spewing bile" letter to the editor) in the current print issue of Mountain XPress, pages 8-9, but here it is online now, too.
Letter writer: Having fun with the media
"Alliterative and proud, Carolina Public Press says it's 'In-Depth, Investigative and Independent.'"
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David A Tell
David A Tell Got some good comments on my letter, liked this one best:

boatrocker
22 hours ago

I think Mr. Tell has nailed it- don’t take much Asheville local new seriously. News in general for that matter, though that does beg the question of where an informed citizen gets his objective facts from.

If the angry right-wing retiree Citizen Times/Walt Kowalski crowd claims the Mtn X 1), does not publish hard news and 2) is some sort of Karl Marx like publication as has often been said, then how is local news controlled by the left?

In a recent comment on the Commentosphere here, an editor said in so many words (paraphrasing), ‘no, we are a community based mag that leaves repeated local news stories to other publications’. More than fair enough. Therefore, how are they warping the minds of our children by doing, uh, lefty stuff?
What is lefty stuff?

Hah- no, forget I said that. Lefty stuff is anything other than polishing your guns. If by scandal you mean McCrory, yes, bring on the scandal articles. I haven’t had this much fun reading local news since Bobby Medford, that poor misunderstood and tortured soul.

I do miss the actual multi page insert in the Mtn X when the Disclaimer lampooned just about everything before being whittled down to a single page.
Now when I want satire, I just mush a piece of Silly Putty on either Mtn X or ACT photographs and stretch them out such that they look funny.

I look forward to future newsiness from Mr. Tell.
 
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David A Tell
July 24 at 9:00am ·
NPR host just said, "Leave a number where we can reach you at."
THAT is an example of a preposition wrongly appearing at the end of a sentence--NOT because it is a preposition in that position, but because it is gratuitous. The sentence is correct, and more concise, saying "Leave a number where we can reach you" OR "Leave a number we can reach you at."
She could also have said, correctly (but more stiltedly--in the manner people use to avoid putting a preposition at the end of a sentence, thinking it's verboten), "Leave a number at which we can reach you."
Then, a (correct) variant of that could be, "Leave a number which (more correctly, "that") we can reach you at."
That's correct, while the first example isn't, because "where" includes the notion of place, whereas "which" does not--so "which (that) ... at" is not redundant. E.g., as also "Where are you at?" and "Where are you?" are incorrect/correct, for the same reason.
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David A Tell shared The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's video.
July 20 at 7:33pm ·
(The "model-mugging" is classic.)
Apologists for, deniers of the plagiarism--classic. Literally. They're relying on the "100 monkeys typing for 100 million years, one will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare" argument. Melania just hit that "random string of words and letters same as Michelle's" moment. Somewhere in political speechwriter heaven, a monkey is very proud.
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David A Tell shared Los Angeles Times's video.
July 20 at 7:27pm ·
Too bad this didn't happen till later in the campaign. Then, the ridicule might have taken down Trump-Pence, like how Tina Fey's and Amy Poehler's lampoonings of Sarah Palin sank the McCain campaign in '08.
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Los Angeles Times added a new video: Melania v. Michelle.
July 19 at 12:24am ·
Melania Trump spoke at the RNC Monday night. People quickly pointed out that parts of her speech appear to have been borrowed from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech at the DNC. http://lat.ms/2a7CdtE
 
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert added a new video: Melania Trump Did Not Plagiarize Her RNC Speech.
July 20 at 12:47am ·
Tonight, in a Late Show exclusive, Melania Trump set the record straight.
WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/29TG80p
 
 
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David A Tell
July 20 at 9:38am ·
Fantasy of Thursday night
Trump, at the podium: "Well. Heh heh. Tremendous, tremendous, honor. ...
"Bing-bong! Bong! I'm telling you I predicted it, but I almost can't believe it! Tremendous ... I wouldn't call it a hoax, I wouldn't. Goof, maybe. Just a big goof. The biggest-ever goof, right?
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Andy Cimino
Andy Cimino As likely as anything else.
 
 
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