tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87526112644650832042024-03-18T14:42:20.896-04:00Crazy Eddie's Motie NewsA blog about societal, cultural, and civilizational collapse, and how to stave it off or survive it. Named after the legendary character "Crazy Eddie" in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye." Expect news and views about culture, politics, economics, technology, and science fiction.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comBlogger5796125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-53348417593924408102024-03-18T08:46:00.000-04:002024-03-18T08:46:41.683-04:00Vox asks 'Is the US running out of Social Security?'Today's post is a follow-up of sorts to <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/pbs-terra-asks-what-happens-when.html">PBS Terra asks 'What Happens When Demographics Change Forever?'</A> Watch as Vox asks and attempts to answer <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Bfxxhdn6g">Is the US running out of Social Security?</A><br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j1Bfxxhdn6g?si=RsN0xKJWCU1RoJdT" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97% of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit surprising that people in the US know so little about how it works. To be fair, most of the news around this program over the past decade has been about how it’s doomed in one way or another. Millennials and younger may see the money being taxed from their paychecks and believe they’ll probably never see it again, but is the program really destined to fail? And what do we stand to lose if it does? Check out the video above to get the most basic facts about Social Security in the United States and what to expect in the coming years.</BLOCKQUOTE>The answer to the question is "not until 2033 at current rates" and even then, "not really." Eighty percent of current benefits would not be a good outcome, but it's definitely not nothing. As for the solutions that would maintain current levels of benefits, the one I'm most familiar with is increasing the cap on income being taxed. I'm O.K. with that, but that's because I don't quite earn enough to have the payroll tax not deducted from my final paycheck of the year. Even if I did, I might want that money after I retire, which I plan on doing in December 2026. As for taxing investment income, that's something I hadn't considered, but I'd like even more if it could happen. Good luck making that happen with the current House of Representatives, although it wouldn't be them doing it anyway. I expect nothing will happen until 2029 at the earliest.<br />
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Since this video deals with the intersection among demographics, economy, and government, it's something I'd be tempted to show my students as part of the unit on <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/population">population</A> I'm teaching right now. It even features an animated age structure. Unfortunately, it has an ad in the middle of it. I'm not showing that to my students!<br />
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That's it for today's evergreen non-holiday post. Stay tuned for the next installment of marching music for primaries and caucuses on the <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/1987-cadets-appalachian-spring-for-drum.html">Vernal Equinox</A>.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-16895549391475419922024-03-17T13:09:00.000-04:002024-03-17T13:09:28.427-04:00The luck of the Irish was with Cillian Murphy at the Oscars for St. Patrick's Day<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-music-and-drink-for-st.html">Happy</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/pbs-digitals-storied-tells-tale-of.html">St.</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/tipsy-bartender-drink-recipes-for-st.html">Patrick's</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-history-of-irish-in-america-for-st.html">Day</a>! I telegraphed the subject of today's post at the end of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/pbs-terra-asks-what-happens-when.html">yesterday's entry</a>.<blockquote>Stay tuned for the Sunday <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</a> feature on <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-history-of-irish-in-america-for-st.html">St. Patrick's Day</a>. The luck of the Irish for Cillian Murphy at the Oscars, anyone?</blockquote>Without any further ado, I present <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUg-dZMrEjA">Cillian Murphy Wins Best Actor for 'Oppenheimer' | 96th Oscars (2024)</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUg-dZMrEjA?si=9b2DJ9v1U_1tb1y3" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Cillian Murphy wins the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in 'Oppenheimer'.</blockquote>That's quite the all-star line-up of presenters! Also, Murphy is right to be a very proud Irishman. Thanks to him for dedicating his Oscar to all the peacemakers. The world needs it!<br />
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I continue the celebration with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJdFH02RnFQ">Cillian Murphy | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Oscars 2024 Press Room Speech</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJdFH02RnFQ?si=876K-fD8qjkStEXZ" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Best Actor in a Leading Role 'Oppenheimer' winner Cillian Murphy speaking to acclaimed press moments after Oscar win.</blockquote>Not only is Murphy a proud Irishman, the Irish are proud of him, as evidenced by the first and last questions from Irish media. This includes Irish-American me. Congratulations to Murphy, Christopher Nolan, Robert Downey, Jr., and all the behind-the-scenes winners of Oscars for <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/oppenheimer-leads-thriller-films-at.html">Oppenheimer</a></i>!<br />
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Follow over the jump for three Irish-American Oscar winners in two categories.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>I resume with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YL1W4LfVmo">"What Was I Made For?" Wins Best Original Song from 'Barbie' by Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6YL1W4LfVmo?si=DG1xjkzkG3rQedMM" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell win Best Original Song for "What Was I Made For?" from 'Barbie' at the 96th Oscars (2024).</blockquote>That was as fun in a different way as the Grammy acceptance speech I embedded in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/grammys-other-awards-and-oscar.html">Grammys, other awards, and Oscar nominations for 'Barbie' on Barbie Day</a>. It's also a good preview of the leads in <i>Wicked</i> as the presenters.<br />
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The siblings continued in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPYm7FVVVhE">Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell | Best Original Song | Oscars 2024 Press Room Speech</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YPYm7FVVVhE?si=AdK8OaejuIgznmXo" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Best Original Song "What Was I Made For?" (from 'Barbie') winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell speaking to acclaimed press moments after Oscar win.</blockquote>In addition to Murphy being the first Irish-born man to win Best Actor, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-youngest-person-win-two-oscars-what-was-i-made-for-1234985212/">Eilish is the youngest person to win two Oscars</a>. Congratulations!<br />
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The last Irish-American Oscar winner I'm honoring today is Dave Mullins in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tbM4G5kctA">'War Is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko' Wins Best Animated Short | 96th Oscars (2024)</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4tbM4G5kctA?si=SdXLxxBrnuPk6geB" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Dave Mullins and Brad Booker win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for 'WAR IS OVER! INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF JOHN & YOKO'</blockquote>Check out the stars of Furiosa, a <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/01/mad-max-fury-road-wins-nine-critics.html">Mad Max: Fury Road</a> prequel, presenting. Between these two and the stars of <i>Wicked</i>, the Motion Picture Academy and ABC are not missing any opportunity to promote their upcoming releases — except for Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, stars of <i>Deadpool & Wolverine</i>. Maybe the Academy and Disney didn't think the movie needed them as presenters. *Shrug*<br />
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Enough about the stars presenting the awards. Back to the winners themselves in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxFB2uhywI">Best Animated Short Film | 'War is Over!' Dave Mullins & Brad Booker | Oscars 2024 Press Room Speech</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dAxFB2uhywI?si=87_2KXFbzBppAJsx" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Best Animated Short Film 'War is Over!' Winners Dave Mullins & Brad Booker speaking to acclaimed press moments after Oscar win.</blockquote>That was a good question about the other nominees and an even better answer. Also, a belated happy Mothers Day to my readers in the United Kingdom!<br />
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Now to do for the Gold Derby predictions I included in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/grammys-other-awards-and-oscar.html">Grammys, other awards, and Oscar nominations for 'Barbie' on Barbie Day</a> that I did last year in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-earns.html">'Everything Everywhere All at Once' earns seven Academy Awards at a history-making ceremony</a>, see how they fared.<br />
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Best Picture: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Director: Christopher Nolan for <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone for <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i> (8), Emma Stone for <i>Poor Things</i> (3), or Sandra Huller for <i>Anatomy of a Fall</i> (1). The second choice, Emma Stone, won. Half credit.<br />
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy for <i>Oppenheimer</i> (10) or Paul Giamatti for <i>The Holdovers</i> (2). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph for <i>The Holdovers</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey, Jr. for <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction (9) or <i>Oppenheimer</i> (3). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall (10) or <i>The Holdovers</i> (2). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Cinematography <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Costume Design: <i>Poor Things</i> (8) or <i>Barbie</i> (4). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Film Editing: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Maestro (7) or <i>Poor Things</i> (5). The second choice won. Half credit.<br />
Best Production Design: <i>Poor Things</i> (9) or <i>Barbie</i> (3). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Score: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Song: <i>Barbie</i> for "What Was I Made For?" (11) or "I'm Just Ken" (1). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Sound: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (11) or <i>Zone of Interest</i> (1). Surprise! The second choice won. Half credit.<br />
Best Visual Effects: <i>Godzilla Minus One</i> (7), <i>The Creator</i> (4), or <i>Napoleon</i> (1). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Animated Feature: <i>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</i> (7) or <i>The Boy and the Heron</i> (5). The second choice won. Half credit.<br />
Best Documentary Feature: <i>20 Days in Mariupol</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best International Film: <i>Zone of Interest</i> (12). Yes.<br />
Best Animated Short: <i>WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko</i> (10), <i>Letter to a Pig</i> (1), or <i>Ninety-Five Senses</i> (1). The first choice won, so yes.<br />
Best Documentary Short: <i>The ABCs of Book Banning</i> (8) or <i>The Last Repair Shop</i> (4). The second choice won. Half credit.<br />
Best Live Action Short: <i>Red, White and Blue</i> (8) or <i>The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</i> (4). The second choice won. Half credit.<br />
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Score 20 out of 23 or 87%. Better than last year, but that's because I was grading my predictions based on Gold Derby's, not Gold Derby's directly, and I gave half credit for the second choice winning. Still, it's enough to convince me to keep using the site's editors and experts.<br />
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I'm being a good environmentalist by recycling my closing from the Barbie Day post.<blockquote>Looks like <i>Barbie</i> is guaranteed to win only one Oscar for Best Song, while it has outside chances of winning Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Sigh. That's sad, and enough to make me close by sharing the...Oscar winner and a song that always makes me cry...</blockquote>Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-ZSuTnWbI">"What Was I Made For?" Performed by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell | 96th Oscars Performance</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xz-ZSuTnWbI?si=ZrW503pImL1YV1p6" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>"What Was I Made For?" from Barbie<br />
Performed by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell<br />
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell</blockquote>It made me cry this time, too. What about my readers — did you cry, too?<br />
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To cheer me up, I'm going to watch "I'm Just Ken" and post the "Barbenheimer" meme.<br />
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See you all tomorrow for an evergreen non-holiday post followed by the next installment of marching music for primaries and caucuses on the <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/1987-cadets-appalachian-spring-for-drum.html">Vernal Equinox</a>. Stay tuned!<br />
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Previous posts about the 2024 Oscars
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol-and-abcs-of-book.html">'20 Days in Mariupol' and 'The ABCs of Book Banning' leading documentary nominees according to Gold Derby</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/grammys-other-awards-and-oscar.html">Grammys, other awards, and Oscar nominations for 'Barbie' on Barbie Day</a></li></ul>Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-37174188817419446722024-03-16T12:20:00.000-04:002024-03-16T12:20:33.443-04:00PBS Terra asks 'What Happens When Demographics Change Forever?'My blog passed its page view goals for the month this morning, so I will intersperse evergreen content among all my planned <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/holidays">holiday</a> and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/retrospective">retrospective</a> posts through Easter. Today's topic comes from PBS Terra, which asks <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_mOHelAH44">What Happens When Demographics Change Forever?</a><br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_mOHelAH44?si=uX98jrb1DbG_QFP4" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Are we on the brink of population collapse? Some economists and tech billionaires (like Elon Musk) think so. After all, birth rates are declining, and some argue an aging population could strain social services and hurt the economy. (On the other hand, some say, slower population growth could be more sustainable for our environment.) Whichever argument you sympathize with, here's a key thing to understand about this trend: Demographers predicted it. In fact, they've been expecting for years. Their advice? Don’t freak out. Here’s what changing demographics might mean for our planet and the future.</blockquote>Like <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/nova-warns-of-next-pompeii-for-ides-of.html">NOVA warns of 'The Next Pompeii' for the Ides of March</a>, this video covers <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/stories%20I%20tell%20my%20students">a story I tell my students</a>, this time one about <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/population">population</a>. In fact, I just added this video to the PowerPoint for that lecture and plan on showing it to my environmental science class on Tuesday. They'll see it right before the first video in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/vox-and-cnbc-explain-why-chinas.html">Vox and CNBC explain 'Why China's population is shrinking' and 'What [it] Means For The Global Economy'</a>. I hope they don't find it too repetitive.<br />
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Speaking of being repetitive, I'm being a good environmentalist by recycling two points from <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/01/cnbc-asks-is-us-running-out-of-people.html">CNBC asks 'Is The U.S. Running Out Of People?'</a><blockquote>Second, increased population is bad for the environment, as expressed by the variable P in <a href="http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2011/08/lisa-hymas-of-grist-expounds-on-a-in.html">I=P*A*T</a> "where I is impact, P is population, A is affluence, and T is technology." Impact increases as both population and affluence increases; both drive up demand for resources and create more waste and pollution. Therefore, keeping population down will help the environment. By keeping human population below the carrying capacity for our species, it helps people as well.<br />
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Third, increasing educational and economic opportunities for women is the number one way to decrease birth rates and keep them down, although increasing economic security might put a floor under the declining birth rates. Women's education and a stronger economy will also increase affluence, which will increase impact if more efficient technologies don't counteract both affluence and population.</blockquote>The video makes both of these points, which I hope my students absorb.<br />
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I close by repeating what <a href="http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/06/falling-us-birth-and-fertility-rates.html">I worried about six years ago</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-update-on-record-low-us-birth-rate.html">and</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/09/cbs-news-on-downsizing-of-higher.html">have</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/11/destination-maternitymotherhood.html">repeated</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/07/us-birth-rates-continue-to-fall-while.html">several</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/01/cnbc-asks-is-us-running-out-of-people.html">times</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/07/us-birth-and-fertility-rates-and-life.html">since</a>.<blockquote>I have been in favor of zero population growth for as long as I can remember. However, I'm not sure the U.S. economy is set up for a stable or slowly declining population, a point I made in <a href="http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-hipcrime-vocab-why-slowing.html">the Hipcrime Vocab: Why Slowing Population Growth is a Problem</a>. We are going to have to figure how to do so. Otherwise, I might live long enough to experience the wisdom of the saying "Be careful what you wish for; you might get it."
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Stay tuned for the Sunday <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</a> feature on <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-history-of-irish-in-america-for-st.html">St. Patrick's Day</a>. The luck of the Irish for Cillian Murphy at the Oscars, anyone?
Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-48485973606642046002024-03-15T13:11:00.001-04:002024-03-15T13:11:42.224-04:00NOVA warns of 'The Next Pompeii' for the Ides of March<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2017/03/beware-ides-of-trump.html">Beware</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-fall-of-rome-for-ides-of-march.html">the</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/03/two-songs-about-pompeii-and-volcano.html">Ides</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/03/youth-climate-strike-on-ides-of-march.html">of</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/italian-military-providing-inspiration.html">March</a>! After three years of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-drum-corps-ides-of-march-for-election.html">Roman-themed</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-pines-of-rome-for-drum-corps-ides.html">drum</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/courtney-coulston-reacts-to-phantom.html">corps</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/2016-cadets-awakening-for-drum-corps.html">shows</a>, I'm returning to the theme of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2014/03/death-and-destruction-in-roman-world.html">death and destruction in the Roman world</a> and other <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2014/03/returning-without-russia-and-other.html">dire warnings</a> with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOz6FpA4WeI">The Next Pompeii</a> from NOVA on PBS.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wOz6FpA4WeI?si=wDM7gOFuFUG1UAbI" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>In the shadow of Vesuvius and Pompeii, a lesser-known volcano puts the city of Naples at risk. (Aired February 20, 2019)<br />
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In the shadow of Italy’s Vesuvius, a lesser-known volcano rumbles: Campi Flegrei. An eruption could endanger the millions of residents of the city of Naples. Scientists gain new insights into what happened in nearby Pompeii, and dig into the unique geology of Campi Flegrei. How will they know if the ever-shifting ground is reaching a breaking point? And can an innovative eruption warning system prevent Naples becoming the next Pompeii?</blockquote>This episode contains several <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/stories%20I%20tell%20my%20students">stories I tell my students</a>, although I learned new things about nearly every one of them to update my lessons. The first one I describe to my geology students is the principle volcanologist Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo states, that processes that happened in the past are likely to repeat in the future, so understanding the past is essential for preparation. This is a key takeaway from uniformitarianism, the concept that everything we see in nature is the result of everyday processes occurring over sufficient time, which is boiled down to "the present is the key to the past." It also means that the past is the key to the future.*<br />
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The second story I show is of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macellum_of_Pozzuoli">Macellum of Pozzuoli</a>, the Roman marketplace with the three columns containing holes from boring clams showing that they had been submerged and then lifted out of the sea. These appear in the frontispiece of <i>Principles of Geology</i> by Charles Lyell, the first geology textbook, as examples of processes acting over sufficient time lowering and then raising the ground the pillars stood on. I had never seen photographs of them, but I recognized them instantly from the illustration.<br />
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Both of the above appear in the second lecture of my geology course. The rest appear three lectures later, when I discuss volcanoes, beginning with my describing calderas. I use Mount St. Helens, Crater Lake, and Yellowstone as examples, but Campi Flegrei works just as well for explaining the mechanism of caldera formation. I also describe pyroclastic flows and Plinian eruptions, employing Mount Pinatubo and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pel%C3%A9e#">Mount Pelée</a> as examples. In fact, I recognized some of the clips of vehicles fleeing pyroclastic flows as videos of Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1992. I also recognized the cause of the earliest deaths in Pompeii from Mount Pinatubo, as the roofs collapsed at U.S. military bases nearby from the weight of the ash. At least there, the Navy and Air Force had evacuated everyone.<br />
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Finally, using seismic waves to map the interior of the planet is a topic I include in my lecture about earthquakes. Using the sound of crashing waves to do so is something I may have encountered before, but it didn't stick. I'm sure it stuck this time, meaning I learned something new. It's always a good day when I learn something new, especially when I can share it with my students. Speaking of which, I will recommend this video to them. I hope they, along with my readers, find it as fascinating as I did.<br />
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I close with Garbage's cover of Siouxie and the Banshees song about the eruption of Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii I embedded in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/03/two-songs-about-pompeii-and-volcano.html">Two songs about Pompeii and a volcano drink for the Ides of March</a> six years ago, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgAujpyDyTM">Cities in Dust</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vgAujpyDyTM?si=ls902fWcjoqMsD0W" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The official video for Garbage's cover of “Cities in Dust” by Siouxsie and the Banshees, off their ‘Witness To Your Love’ EP.</blockquote>One of the comments reads "Garbage covering Siouxsie and the Banshees is essentially a life-long dream come true." I agree. As soon as I heard this, I penciled it in for today's post.<br />
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Stay tuned for a non-holiday entry tomorrow, followed by <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-history-of-irish-in-america-for-st.html">St. Patrick's Day</a> on Sunday, the <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/1987-cadets-appalachian-spring-for-drum.html">Vernal Equinox</a> on Tuesday, <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/happy-international-day-of-nowruz-1402.html">Happy International Day of Nowruz and the 13th birthday of Crazy Eddie's Motie News</a> on Thursday, <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/john-oliver-on-water-for-world-water-day.html">World Water Day</a> on Friday, and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/happy-purim-and-early-happy-holi.html">Purim followed by Holi</a> on Saturday and Monday. Busy, busy, busy!<br />
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*This reminds me of "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past" from <i>1984</i>. Now I wonder if George Orwell had taken a science course that mentioned uniformitarianism and that later inspired him. File that under things that make me go "hmm."Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-46291797946425150712024-03-14T08:57:00.001-04:002024-03-14T08:57:41.840-04:0030 digits of Pi from DCI for Pi Day<center><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/15/53/2e/15532eb7caf0dee69a5ab9655b157163.jpg" width="500" /></center><br />
<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/03/three-pie-songs-and-pie-drink-for-pi.html">Happy</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/03/neil-degrasse-tyson-celebrates-pi-day.html">Pi</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/math-pie-and-hygiene-on-pi-day.html">Day</a>, <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/scishow-on-pi-and-its-okay-to-be-smart.html">International Day</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/pi-day-and-international-day-of.html">of Mathematics</a>, and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-infinite-life-of-pi-for-pi-day.html">Science Education Day</a>! Today is the tenth anniversary of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-drum-corps-pi-day.html">A drum corps Pi Day</a>, so I'm celebrating today with Drum Corps International (DCI) wishing its fans <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymSED8tuYXo"> Happy Pi Day!</a><br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ymSED8tuYXo?si=UWq6iieaZNLzXkKs" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>March 14 is Pi Day! Learn the first 30 digits of Pi with DCI through the years.</blockquote>Once I saw this video, I knew I would use it for today.<br />
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For my readers who want something more conventional to celebrate the day, I'm sharing National Day Calendar's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk5MI5ZvS5Y">National Pi Day | March 14th</a>.<br />
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March 14th is National Pi Day!</center><br />
That's it for today's geeky celebration. I'm sharing a warning for tomorrow: <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2017/03/beware-ides-of-trump.html">Beware</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-fall-of-rome-for-ides-of-march.html">the</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/03/two-songs-about-pompeii-and-volcano.html">Ides</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/03/youth-climate-strike-on-ides-of-march.html">of</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/italian-military-providing-inspiration.html">March</a>!Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-43643604872577534232024-03-13T10:18:00.004-04:002024-03-14T06:06:01.947-04:00'Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey' biggest Razzies 'winner' followed by 'Expend4bles'<center><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-golden-raspberry-awards-winners.jpg" width="500" /></center><br />
It's time to acknowledge last year's worst films, so watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr1O-1OuWEQ">44th Annual Razzie Awards Hosted by The Mean Gays</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pr1O-1OuWEQ?si=YrKzUxj6Db5_nLXp" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The Mean Gays Take Over The 44th Razzies®<br />
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For this year’s version of Tinseltown’s Most Notorious Trophy Derby, the 44th Annual Razzies® Awards co-founders dared something new.<br />
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Under the production banner of Evan Mirzai and House of M, viral comedic personalities The Mean Gays (Aaron Goldenberg & Jake Jonez) act as hosts, writers and producers of this year's 44th Razzie digital ceremony entitled THE MEAN GAYS TAKE OVER THE 44th RAZZIES®.</blockquote>While <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/exorcist-believer-and-expend4bles-tie.html"><i>Exorcist: Believer</i> and <i>Expend4bles</i> tied for most Razzie nominations</a> with seven each, neither was the big "winner." That dishonor went to <i>Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey</i>, which took <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_Golden_Raspberry_Awards">five Golden Raspberries</a> home for Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screen Combo, Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, and Worst Screenplay. <i>Expend4bles</i> walked off the virtual platform with two Razzies, Worst Supporting Actor for Sylvester Stallone and Worst Supporting Actress for Megan Fox. Fox earned a second statuette for Worst Actress in <i>Johnny & Clyde</i>. I predicted as much in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/colbert-meyers-and-daily-show-take.html">Colbert, Meyers, and 'The Daily Show' take closer looks at Supreme Court hearing immunity appeal</a>.<blockquote>Mocking Seth doing his job by promoting <i>Shazam! Fury of the Gods</i> reminded me that <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/exorcist-believer-and-expend4bles-tie.html">the film earned four Razzie nominations</a>, although two of those are for Helen Mirren in Worst Actress and Lucy Liu in Worst Supporting Actress. Hey, those two are the only reasons I want to watch the film! At least I don't think either will win — Megan Fox could easily win both categories — but Gold Derby hasn't opened up odds for this year's Razzies — yet.</blockquote>And Fox won both actress categories. No surprise there, no thanks to Gold Derby, which never did post odds for this year's Razzies.<br />
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While I mocked the Golden Raspberries for their bad math skills for missing that <i>Exorcist: Believer</i> and <i>Expend4bles</i> tied for most Razzie nominations, instead reporting that <i>Expend4bles</i> had the most nominations by itself, they did feature the worse film, as <i>Exorcist: Believer</i> took home no Razzies. I'll give them that much, even if it was by mistake.<br />
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Finally, Jon Voight "won" Worst Actor for <i>Mercy</i> — I enjoyed the snide aside that MAGA doesn't mean "Make Acting Great Again" — and Fran Drescher won Razzie Redeemer "for her brilliant shepherding of the actors' guild through a prolonged 2023 strike with a successful conclusion." Congratulations!<br />
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I'm already looking ahead to next year's nominees, as I wrote in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/snl-mocks-biden-is-old-in-inside.html">'SNL' mocks 'Biden is old' in 'Inside Politics' cold open</a>.<blockquote>I'm a little worried for Sweeney for reasons that I mentioned in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/snl-tackles-e-jean-carroll-judgment.html">'SNL' tackles E. Jean Carroll judgment, DeSantis endorsement, Nikki Haley, and more</a> — "here's to hoping <i>Madame Web</i> doesn't earn at least one <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/exorcist-believer-and-expend4bles-tie.html">Razzie Award nomination</a> next year and Johnson doesn't earn one as well for her role." I'm afraid <i>Madame Web</i> will earn multiple Razzie nominations and might even win some of them. I just hope Sweeney escapes being nominated.</blockquote>The only thing that might save <i>Madame Web</i> is that <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23330554/"><i>Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2</i></a> is coming out this year. I'm sure that will be worse, not bad enough to prevent nominations for Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney, but bad enough to win, although the original earned no acting nominations.<br />
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Enough of today's <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</a> update. Stay tuned for a string of holidays, <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-infinite-life-of-pi-for-pi-day.html">Pi Day, International Day of Mathematics, and Science Education Day</a> tomorrow, <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/2016-cadets-awakening-for-drum-corps.html">the Ides of March</a> on Friday, and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-history-of-irish-in-america-for-st.html">St. Patrick's Day and Irish American Heritage Month</a> on Sunday. Busy, busy, busy!
Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-1530350249042800092024-03-12T09:18:00.003-04:002024-03-13T14:46:06.148-04:00Marching music for primaries in Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington plus Democrats AbroadI closed <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/four-years-of-covid-19-pandemic.html">Four years of the COVID-19 pandemic</a> by telling my readers "Stay tuned for this year's edition of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-music-for-michigan-washington.html">Marching music for the Washington, Mississippi, Democrats Abroad</a>, and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/06/marching-music-for-georgia-and-west.html">Georgia</a> primaries." I'm going in alphabetical order by state, which happens to be by poll closing time east to west, followed by a non-North American drum corps and Rose Parade band to represent Democrats Abroad. I kick off the music to watch and listen while waiting for results with with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZF4Jqx1O7Y">Spirit of Atlanta | #DCI2021 | "Bottle Tree"</a> from Drum Corps International (DCI).<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IZF4Jqx1O7Y?si=madZpwjMnBXc8RBA" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Spirit of Atlanta of Atlanta, Georgia, performs a segment from the corps' #DCI2021 production, "Bottle Tree," during the DCI Celebration events hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>DCI hasn't uploaded any more recent shows, so I'm following up with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0evUwqwwU">Spirit of Atlanta – "Up Down and All Around" | DCI Finals 2023</a> from Pageantry Innovations, which at least isn't a bootleg of the FloMarching video, so it will stay up.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lL0evUwqwwU?si=NEMczbb6DdHY_uQM" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Enjoy Spirit of Atlanta's 2023 production, “Up Down and All Around” from the perspective of their synthesizer performer & audio engineer.</blockquote>Much like Vic Firth Marching, a drum stick maker whose videos I've embedded as part of this series, Pageantry Innovations is an instrument and equipment maker, in this case the carts for the synthesizers and soundboard. That makes this advertising, but I'm O.K. with that.<br />
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Georgia also has an all-age corps, Atlanta CV. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiheIR3z6Ig">Atlanta CV Drum & Bugle Corps 2018 Show Clip By Box5TV</a>, an official clip from Drum Corps Associates.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aiheIR3z6Ig?si=MXo3AJJQNdokplA4" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Provided by Box5TV, enjoy this show clip of the 2018 AtlantaCV from DCA World Championships!</blockquote>Follow over the jump for the rest of the drum corps and marching bands representing Georgia, Mississippi, Washington, and Democrats Abroad.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>Two bands from Georgia made the finals of <a href="https://www.metallicamarchingband.com/">Metallica's marching band contest</a>. I begin with the medium high school finalist from the Peach State, Kell High School from Kennesaw, GA. Here they are, playing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjU2JzDBpRs">Heavy Metals</a>.<br />
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This show is from 2022, so they played it a year before the contest. Prescient!<br />
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Now Georgia's large high school finalist, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIOERfN1hjA">Lambert High School from Suwanee</a>.<br />
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I'm sure this is the show, but I'm not sure this is the official submission. Still, great performance!<br />
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Moving west to Mississippi, I'm sharing the band that converted me into a fan of HBCU bands, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq9lqE3aDUc">Jackson State University | ESPN Band of the Year National Competition | Usher Tribute</a> from JSU Bands.<br />
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<a href="https://hbcusports.com/2023/12/16/nc-at-won-division-i-espn-band-of-the-year-but-was-jackson-state-snubbed/">JSU came in second to North Carolina A&T</a>, which I featured in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/some-of-my-favorite-bands-at-2024-rose.html">Some of my favorite bands at the 2024 Rose Parade for New Year's Day</a>. As a former marching band judge, I can see why.<br />
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Now for the most recent Rose Parade band from the Magnolia State, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzYA7EWwPvk">West West Harrison High School Marching Band - 2020 Pasadena Bandfest</a> from Music213.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DzYA7EWwPvk?si=o1KhOKPY3vcioMfd" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Gulfport, Mississippi<br />
The Pride of South Mississippi, West Harrison High School Marching Band performing their field show at the 40th Annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Bandfest on Monday, December 30, 2019.</blockquote>That's the second show that began with "Ecstasy of Gold," although this is a western show, not a Metallica show. This includes "Paint It Black," which sounds like it was inspired by the version in <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/Westworld">Westworld</a></i>.<br />
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Now to move to the Pacific Time Zone and the two corps and a band from Washington state, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHE4Z4LZug">Columbians | #DCI2023 | Face Everything And Rise</a>, which DCI uploaded overnight. Just in time!<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EUHE4Z4LZug?si=KFFWbkTQjov00oP4" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Tri-Cities, Washington's Columbians perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2023 production, "Face Everything And Rise," during the 2023 DCI World Championships hosted August 10-12 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Tri-Cities, WA | 24th Place | 74.600</blockquote>Not bad for a corps that hadn't appeared at DCI Championships before!<br />
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Now the other corps from the Evergreen State, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAc27eZHqA">Seattle Cascades | #DCI2023 | Revival | Revival (Interlude) - Eminem</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xFAc27eZHqA?si=YTpUQOrzTYwfRmMe" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Seattle, Washington's Seattle Cascades perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2023 production, "Revival," during the 2023 DCI World Championships hosted August 10-12 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. 25th Place | 73.925</blockquote>I don't usually call Eminem's songs "pretty," but this one is.<br />
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Now for a band that entered in the Metallica contest, but didn't make the finals, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJcqryakw88">Husky Marching Band | Washington vs. Texas - Allstate Sugar Bowl | Husky Band Rocks Metallica</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hJcqryakw88?si=xEXQWkKzPxuDi_V3" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The Husky Band rocks the Superdome and the Sugar Bowl with music by Metallica! <br />
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Led onto the field by Drum Majors Minseo Kim, Bridger Bourke, and Ahmed Bello. Directed by Dr. Brad McDavid, Director of Operation Mary Chrambanis, Associate Director Corey Jahlas, Graduate Assistants Roger Wu Fu and David Stewart, Drumline Instructor Craig Winter, and Field Assistants Don Sabo and Don Curtis.</blockquote>They didn't make the finals for the Metallica contest, while Texas did, but their football team beat Texas to play Michigan for the national championship. Priorities.<br />
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I conclude by continuing to travel west, where I'm sharing two units from Japan to represent Democrats Abroad, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeEE7ESuJi4">Toho Marching Band - 2024 Pasadena Rose Parade</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yeEE7ESuJi4?si=MRLb7hNPPjJD6CQG" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Toho High School Marching Band performing at the 135th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 1, 2024. This is their second Rose Parade appearance, having last appeared in 2016.</blockquote>Now that's a turn!<br />
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That was the final band. Now the final drum corps for today, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zLm9ZlOTyo">2022 DCJ The28th ALL JAPAN CHAMPIONSHIPS THE YOKOHAMA SCOUTS</a>.<br /><br />
<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zLm9ZlOTyo?si=wwGHRMCgxLS1oOLr" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Division. 1<br />
1st 94.250<br />
THE YOKOHAMA SCOUTS<br />
Show Title : THE COURAGE TO DREAM<br />
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High Percussion<br />
High Visual<br />
High Color Guard<br />
Best Drum Major</blockquote>And that's a wrap!<br />
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I plan on continuing this series next Tuesday with drum corps and bands from Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio for those states' presidential primaries. Stay tuned!<br />
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Previous marching music for 2024 primaries and caucuses posts.
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/colts-hawkeyes-cyclones-and-rose-parade.html">Colts, Hawkeyes, Cyclones, and Rose Parade bands, marching music for the 2024 Iowa Caucuses</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-spartans-for-drum-corps-new.html">The Spartans for a drum corps New Hampshire Primary</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-south-carolina.html">Marching music for the 2024 South Carolina Primary — Carolina Crown, South Carolina, Clemson, and South Carolina State</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-nevada-primary.html">Marching music for the 2024 Nevada Primary from University of Nevada, Reno, and UNLV</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-michigan-primary.html">Marching music for the Michigan Primary — Legends, U of M, MSU, Rockford, and DeWitt</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-one-of-marching-music-for-super.html">Part one of marching music for Super Tuesday on Marching Music Day</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/marching-music-for-super-tuesday-part.html">Marching music for Super Tuesday, part two</a></li></ul>Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-5214029513395983242024-03-11T09:21:00.000-04:002024-03-11T09:21:23.924-04:00Four years of the COVID-19 pandemicToday is the fourth anniversary of the WHO declaring COVID-19 a global <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/pandemics">pandemic</A>. ABC 7 News - WJLA in Washington, D.C., observed the occasion with <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6QXPqxTsN8">7News marks 4 years since COVID-19 pandemic declaration with survivor's harrowing tales</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z6QXPqxTsN8?si=50KxTy-NsyVNpXmD" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>By March 11, 2020, there were more than 118,000 cases and 4,291 worldwide deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
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Four years later, 7News is reflecting on how the pandemic impacted local communities.</BLOCKQUOTE>That's a graphic and terrifying retrospective of how fast the disease spread, how much it disrupted everyday life, and how that felt to everyone affected. I had half-forgotten all of that, but realized how important it was to be reminded. The last time I felt like that was watching the opening of season 2 of <I>The Morning Show</I>, when my reaction was "You poor people. You have no idea what you're in for."<br />
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That's the past. Fox 5 New York described the effects of the pandemic on the present when it asked <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sARA3p2RKGU">COVID-19: 4 years later: Where are we now?</A><br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sARA3p2RKGU?si=Vo0wWHD5I_lVqLvo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>NYC's health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan shares the progress we have made since COVID hit our nation four years ago.</BLOCKQUOTE>That's good news and bad news. The good news is that we are better able to protect ourselves against COVID-19. The bad news is that people have become more vaccine-skeptical, not only about <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/02/vox-explains-how-american-conservatives.html">the COVID-19 vaccines</A>, but about the MMR vaccine as well. That's led to a measles outbreak. WDIV talks about all of the above in <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MRVjiYthQQ">4 years of COVID: Michigan's top doctor on COVID today, measles & more</A>.<br />
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I live in Metro Detroit, so of course I'd include a local report when I can find a good one, even if it was about bad news.<br />
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Vaccine skepticism is not the only bad effect of the reaction to the pandemic. MSNBC uploaded <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xb6u3ZmxY">‘COVID stole our optimism’: Reminding Americans how bad things were four years ago</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i5xb6u3ZmxY?si=_yuxJ1N06yMXG2kF" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Polls show a big difference between what Americans think of President Biden’s economy compared to what we had under Donald Trump. Now the GOP is reminding everyone what life was like four years ago - when the COVID pandemic transformed our country. Molly Jong-Fast, Maya Wiley, Christine Romans, and Mary Harris discuss with Stephanie Ruhle on this week’s Nightcap.</BLOCKQUOTE>Are you better off now than you were four years ago? No? Really? Feelings are not facts!<br />
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Today is also the 13th anniversary of the <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/invasive-species-riding-plastic-debris.html">Fukushima triple disaster</A>, but I've had enough of tragedy. Stay tuned for this year's edition of <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-music-for-michigan-washington.html">Marching music for the Washington, Mississippi, Democrats Abroad</A>, and <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/06/marching-music-for-georgia-and-west.html">Georgia</A> primaries.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-70640576177906456082024-03-10T12:47:00.000-04:002024-03-10T12:47:11.221-04:00'SNL' satirizes the State of the Union and responseIt's Sunday, so it's time for a highlights post of last night's <I><A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</A></I>! I begin, like the show, with <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfLpuLdF8Q">State of the Union Cold Open</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cCfLpuLdF8Q?si=rtUvytalIXduJ-kK" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>CNN covers President Biden’s (Mikey Day) State of the Union address and Republican Senator Katie Britt's (Scarlett Johansson) response.</BLOCKQUOTE>I knew this would be the cold open, but I had no idea that Scarlett Johansson would play Senator Katie Britt. Surprise! I guess it pays to be married to one of the hosts of <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMbJfuj7Ln8">Weekend Update, which is up next with more State of the Union coverage</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RMbJfuj7Ln8?si=wTE17mjb-savpDUk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Marjorie Taylor Greene heckling Biden during his State of the Union address, Democrats criticizing Biden for calling migrants "illegals" and Republican Senator Katie Britt's video response.</BLOCKQUOTE>Looks like Colin got the better jokes last night.<br />
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Weekend Update had no <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</A> news and no interviews, which meant that it ignored tonight's Oscars, an easy target. Never fear, SNL had an entire sketch sending up the awards, <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQjlhaoxfk">Moulin Rouge</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TNQjlhaoxfk?si=4Cd946dEAUq8qgY5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>PBS host Ken Burnt (Mikey Day) takes a look back at the 2001 film Moulin Rouge starring Nicole Kidman (Ariana Grande) and Ewan McGregor (Bowen Yang).</BLOCKQUOTE>Go Glinda and Pfannee from Wicked! Yes, <A HREF="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262426/">Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang are in the movie together</A>. Sometimes it pays to read the comments.<br />
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I could end here, as that sketch justified this post as the Sunday entertainment feature, but my wife asked me to include the following video about the State of the Union from <I>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</I>: <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKVgVLFeV68">Nickelodeon’s State Of The Union Simulcast</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XKVgVLFeV68?si=ioAeeCjUG1GPDiye" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Addressin’ the nation and Congress is he!</BLOCKQUOTE>Joseph Biden! That's a great parody, but it might actually be a good idea to get kids interested in politics. Spongebob Squarepants has taught them when <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/10/its-leif-erikson-day-with-spongebob.html">Leif Erikson Day</A> is. Hinga Dinga Durgen!<br />
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That's it for today's recap. Enjoy tonight's <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol-and-abcs-of-book.html">Academy</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/grammys-other-awards-and-oscar.html">Awards</A>, for tomorrow is a double anniversary of tragedy, the <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/pandemics">pandemic</A> arriving in Michigan and the <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/invasive-species-riding-plastic-debris.html">Fukushima triple disaster</A>. Stay tuned.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-87798959432603205512024-03-09T16:18:00.000-05:002024-03-09T16:18:21.027-05:00Grammys, other awards, and Oscar nominations for 'Barbie' on Barbie Day<div><center><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/57/e2/e3/57e2e3b384989e11bf639391a03837c0.jpg" width="500" /></center><br />
Happy <a href="https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-barbie-day-march-9">National Barbie Day</a>! "On March 9th, National Barbie Day celebrates an iconic toy that premiered on this day in 1959. Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York." Happy 65th birthday, Barbie!<br />
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As <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/wion-celebrates-international-womens-day.html">I wrote yesterday</a> I plan on celebrating by examining <i>Barbie</i>'s Oscar nominations and awards show wins, including at <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/11/barbie-leads-nominations-in-music-for.html">the Grammys</a>. Follow over the jump.<br />
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As the image above shows, <i>Barbie</i> won three Grammys, Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media for <i>Barbie The Album</i> and Song Of The Year and Best Song Written For Visual Media for Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" The big surprise is Song Of The Year, as none of the Gold Derby editors had picked it to win in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/taylor-swift-is-times-2023-person-of.html">December</a>.<blockquote><a href="https://www.goldderby.com/awardshows/editor-predictions/grammy-nominations-2024-predictions/song/sort/recent/">Six editors have also selected Swift to win Song of the Year</a>. Four picked Cyrus for "Flowers" and one has SZA's "Kill Bill" as her choice. That editor is Joyce Eng, which means I have to take the possibility seriously.</blockquote>Their latest predictions show that three changed their top choice to "What Was I Made For?" Six stayed on Swift, while one each switched to Jon Batiste's "Butterfly" and Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire." Congratulations to the three editors who made the correct choice, to say nothing of Billie Eilish and Mark Ronson! Speaking of whom, watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QgGzPobrLo">BILLIE EILISH Wins Song Of The Year For "WHAT WAS I MADE FOR?" | 2024 GRAMMYs Acceptance Speech</a> from the Recording Academy.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8QgGzPobrLo?si=dj47_DxsABnK-fPB" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Watch BILLIE EILISH's acceptance speech as they accept the GRAMMY for Song Of The Year for "WHAT WAS I MADE FOR?" at the 2024 GRAMMYs.</blockquote>I hope her Oscar acceptance speech is this fun.<br />
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Also watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNr2ZNbAl9I">Barbie The Album Wins Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media | 2024 GRAMMYs Acceptance Speech</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kNr2ZNbAl9I?si=TPXKrjanrCIk9QLP" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Watch George Drakoulias and Brandon Davis' acceptance speech as they accept the GRAMMY for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media for Barbie The Album at the 2024 GRAMMYs.</blockquote>Once again, congratulations! Now to move on to the movie awards, beginning with the Golden Globes.<br />
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<i>Barbie</i> won the two categories where <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/gold-derby-predicts-good-night-for.html">there was no significant dispute among Gold Derby editors and experts</a>, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Song, Motion Picture. Again, congratulations to Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and the rest of the movie's producers and to Billie Eilish and her brother Fineas. Watch both of their acceptance speeches, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJR9LopZUpw">Barbie" Wins Cinematic and Box Office Achievement I 81st Annual Golden Globes</a>.<br />
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Well said, Margot and Greta!<br />
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Next, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8jf51VzD0">“What Was I Made For” - Barbie Wins Best Song – Motion Picture I 81st Annual Golden Globes</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3M8jf51VzD0?si=L6S0t3vKuZM6MAKj" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>"What Was I Made For" by Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell wins the Best Original Song - Motion Picture award for "Barbie" at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards.</blockquote>That's more what I expect from Billie at the Oscars tomorrow night, a bit more restrained than she was at the Grammys, but still a fun speech.<br />
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Barbie had its best awards performance at the Critics' Choice Awards, winning the seven awards listed in the graphic above. I found three acceptance speeches at the Critics Choice YouTube channel and I begin with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgCaSNDYnDc">Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig Barbie Acceptance Speech at The 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgCaSNDYnDc?si=VSENKMp2m1r1cDpq" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig give a surprise Barbie acceptance speech at The 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards</blockquote>The speech may have been a surprise, but most of the awards were not. Seven of the editors selected Barbie to win <a href="https://www.goldderby.com/awardshows/editor-predictions/critics-choice-film-awards-2024-predictions/comedy-film/sort/recent/">Best Comedy Film</a>, while six of the eleven <a href="https://www.goldderby.com/awardshows/editor-predictions/critics-choice-film-awards-2024-predictions/costume-design/sort/recent/">Best Costume Design</a> and <a href="https://www.goldderby.com/awardshows/editor-predictions/critics-choice-film-awards-2024-predictions/production-design/sort/recent/">Best Production Design</a>. All of the editors expected that one of the three nominees from Barbie would win Best Song, but they still got a big surprise because they unanimously chose "What Was I Made For?" Instead, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbY5aV_CJmk">"I'm Just Ken" wins Best Song at the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards</a>. Surprise!<br />
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Feel the Kenergy!<br />
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An award that was known in advance was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkMdRsEX2xU">America Ferrera receives the SeeHer Award at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards</a>.<br />
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Congratulations, America!<br />
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I mentioned that <i>Barbie</i> won the Hollywood Creative Association (HCA) Award for <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/07/vietnam-bans-barbie-most-anticipated.html">most anticipated film of the year</a>. Since then, the HCA renamed its awards the Astra Awards, and <i>Barbie</i> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/awards/?ref_=tt_awd">won eight of them</a>, Best Picture, Best Actress for Margot Robbie, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, and Best Original Screenplay for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach at the main ceremony and Best Publicity Campaign, Best Production Design, Best Original Song for "I'm Just Ken," and Best Casting at the Creative Arts ceremony. Congratulations! I'm sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVzF5joPss">Greta Gerwig | Best Picture | Astra Film Awards Acceptance Speech</a> to celebrate these wins at the newly renamed awards.<br />
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Great speech thanking all of the creative people involved in the making of the film! Too bad she's unlikely to give one like it at the Oscars.<br />
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Watching this reminds me that <i>Barbie</i> also won three <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/barbie-vs-indiana-jones-and-dial-of.html">Saturn Awards</a>, but I'm going to have to make my own image for that, so I'm saving it for the first <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/retrospective">retrospective</a> post of the thirteenth year of this blog the last week of this month.<br />
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BAFTA completely shut <i>Barbie</i> out, but the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_People%27s_Choice_Awards">People's Choice Awards</a> gave the movie and one of its songs six awards the same night, The Movie of the Year, The Comedy Movie of the Year, The Male Movie Star of the Year for Ryan Gosling, The Female Movie Star of the Year for Margot Robbie, The Movie Performance of the Year for America Ferrera, and The Collaboration Song of the Year for "Barbie World" – Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice with Aqua. Robbie, Gerwig, and Gosling were all in London losing, but Ferrera and Ice Spice were at the People's Choice Awards to accept. Watch their acceptance speeches starting with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXm6DDr8BfA">America Ferrera Wins the People's Movie Performance | People's Choice Awards 2024 | NBC</a> with Billie Eilish presenting on NBC.<br />
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Notice Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj playing in the background as Ferrera ascends the stage. Theirs was the only song from <i>Barbie</i> to win a People's Choice Award, although it wasn't the only one nominated. "Dance The Night" by Dua Lipa earned a nomination for The Song of the Year, which she lost to <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/snl-tries-to-turn-week-of-unfunny-news.html">Olivia Rodrigo</a>'s "Vampire." "What Was I Made For?" Not even nominated. As I wrote in November, "I know which one is more likely to win the People's Choice Award!" Don't feel sorry for Eilish, though. In addition to presenting, she won The TV Performance of the Year for <i>Swarm</i>. Congratulations!<br />
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Enough of the past. Now for the future, namely tomorrow night's Oscar ceremony, with the <a href="https://www.goldderby.com/odds/editor-odds/oscars-winners-2024-predictions/">Gold Derby editors' predictions</a>.<br />
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Best Picture: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12).<br />
Best Director: Christopher Nolan for <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12).<br />
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone for <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i> (8), Emma Stone for <i>Poor Things</i> (3), or Sandra Huller for <i>Anatomy of a Fall</i> (1).<br />
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (10) or Paul Giamatti for <i>The Holdovers</i> (2).<br />
Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph for <i>The Holdovers</i> (12).<br />
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey, Jr. for <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12).<br />
Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction (9) or <i>Oppenheimer</i> (3).<br />
Best Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall (10) or <i>The Holdovers</i> (2).<br />
Best Cinematography <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12).<br />
Best Costume Design: <i>Poor Things</i> (8) or <i>Barbie</i> (4).<br />
Best Film Editing: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12).<br />
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Maestro (7) or <i>Poor Things</i> (5).<br />
Best Production Design: <i>Poor Things</i> (9) or <i>Barbie</i> (3).<br />
Best Score: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (12).<br />
Best Song: Barbie for "What Was I Made For?" (11) or "I'm Just Ken" (1).<br />
Best Sound: <i>Oppenheimer</i> (11) or <i>Zone of Interest</i> (1).<br />
Best Visual Effects: <i>Godzilla Minus One</i> (7), <i>The Creator</i> (4), or <i>Napoleon</i> (1).<br />
Best Animated Feature: <i>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</i> (7) or <i>The Boy and the Heron</i> (5).<br />
Best Documentary Feature: <i>20 Days in Mariupol</i> (12).<br />
Best International Film: <i>Zone of Interest</i> (12).<br />
Best Animated Short: <i>WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko</i> (10), <i>Letter to a Pig</i> (1), or <i>Ninety-Five Senses</i> (1).<br />
Best Documentary Short: <i>The ABCs of Book Banning</i> (8) or <i>The Last Repair Shop</i> (4).<br />
Best Live Action Short: <i>Red, White and Blue</i> (8) or <i>The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</i> (4).<br />
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Looks like Barbie is guaranteed to win only one Oscar for Best Song, while it has outside chances of winning Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Sigh. That's sad, and enough to make me close by sharing the likely Oscar winner and a song that always makes me cry, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8o75s-4fFY">Watch BILLIE EILISH AND FINNEAS Perform "WHAT WAS I MADE FOR?” at the 2024 GRAMMYs</a>.<br />
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I'll return with the Oscar winners next week after a highlights post of tonight's <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</a></i>. Stay tuned.<br />
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Previous posts about the Grammy Awards
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/11/barbie-leads-nominations-in-music-for.html">'Barbie' leads nominations in music for visual media at the Grammy Awards</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/taylor-swift-is-times-2023-person-of.html">Taylor Swift is Time's 2023 Person of the Year</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/snl-tries-to-turn-week-of-unfunny-news.html">'SNL' tries to turn a week of unfunny news into comedy and gets saved by Adam Driver and Olivia Rodrigo</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/trevor-noah-wanda-sykes-and-chris-rock.html">Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, and Chris Rock, comedians nominated at the Golden Globes, Grammys, and Emmys</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/michelle-obama-vs-bernie-sanders-at.html">Michelle Obama vs. Bernie Sanders at the Grammy Awards</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-south-carolina.html">Marching music for the 2024 South Carolina Primary — Carolina Crown, South Carolina, Clemson, and South Carolina State</a></li></ul>
Previous posts about the Golden Globes
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/trevor-noah-wanda-sykes-and-chris-rock.html">Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, and Chris Rock, comedians nominated at the Golden Globes, Grammys, and Emmys</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/taylor-swift-is-most-searched-for-new.html">Taylor Swift is most searched for New Year's Eve and second Norther 2023</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/golden-globes-critics-choice-and-emmy.html">Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and Emmy screenplay and writing nominees for National Screenwriters Day</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/gold-derby-predicts-good-night-for.html">Gold Derby predicts a good night for 'Barbie,' 'Oppenheimer,' 'Succession,' 'The Bear,' and 'Beef' at the Golden Globes</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/celebrating-diversity-in-acting-winners.html">Celebrating diversity in acting winners at the Golden Globes for MLK Day weekend</a></li></ul><p>
Previous posts about the Oscars</p><p><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol-and-abcs-of-book.html">'20 Days in Mariupol' and 'The ABCs of Book Banning' leading documentary nominees according to Gold Derby</a>
</p>Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-16565029131281634632024-03-08T15:11:00.000-05:002024-03-08T15:11:03.802-05:00WION celebrates International Women's Day<center><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/38/d0/d0/38d0d0fa64268f82399bd9a1bdfa039a.jpg" width="500" /></center><br />
<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-united-nations-politico-apple-and.html">Happy</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/nasa-and-60-minutes-on-women-in-nasa.html">International</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/national-day-calendar-and-nasa-on.html">Women's</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-and-nikki-haley-two.html">Day</a>! India's WION (World Is One News) uploaded a series of videos for today, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1tsjWh2nzA">International women's day 2024: Inventions by women that the world can't live without</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l1tsjWh2nzA?si=IEbQzzLB159m8ctj" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Women have always been skilled and inventive; they have just faced numerous obstacles in getting recognition and credit for their creations. Here is our tribute to some women who were not afraid to stand up for the respect and credit they rightfully deserved.</blockquote>I knew that Hedy Lamarr invented the technology that made cell phones possible, but I didn't know that it also made Wi-Fi and Bluetooth possible as well. I did not know about the rest, although that photo of Margaret Wilcox looks much too recent for an inventor active in the 1890s. Still, it's the one that I find when I search for her name. There may be an attribution issue in the history of her portrait, but I'm not going to look for it today. Just the same, I learned a lot just from this video, and it's always a good day when I learn something new.<br />
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Follow over the jump for the rest of WION's videos for International Women's Day, which do double duty for <a href="https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/march/national-womens-history-month-march">Women's History Month</a>.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>WION's next video for today is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3VAsJ3Twcc">Women's Day 2024: Tribute to female directors and their trailblazing work</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i3VAsJ3Twcc?si=E2c5hIeqYXlODCSv" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>This women's day here are some female directors you need to keep an eye out for, Patty Jenkins who is most popularly known as the filmmaker who directed 'Wonder Woman,' Ava Duvernay who made history with 2018 film 'A Wrinkle in Time,' and much more!</blockquote>Beginning the segment by mentioning Greta Gerwig reminds me that tomorrow is <a href="https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-barbie-day-march-9">National Barbie Day</a>, so I plan on celebrating by examining <i>Barbie</i>'s Oscar nominations and awards show wins, including at <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/11/barbie-leads-nominations-in-music-for.html">the Grammies</a>. Stay tuned.<br />
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In the meantime, watch the rest of WION's videos, which resumed with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA0YyBu3ihM">International Women's Day 2024: Women and their language of leisure</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vA0YyBu3ihM?si=RKHB3MKJBXhJzwAh" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Have you ever wondered what women do when they are not performing a role?<br />
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How do they enjoy their free time? Most importantly, do women have as much free time as men do, to sit back and relax? These are some of the questions Surabhi Yadav is trying to explore through her Instagram page called – Project Basanti: Women at Leisure. The social media page is a repository of pictures and videos that exhibit and celebrate the fleetingly unguarded moments of women’s leisure. Women taking time out to lean back and do what they want to do – is the true test of equality and success. Watch our special Women’s Day story and let us know in the comments below - what leisure means to you and what you enjoy doing when you truly are at leisure.</blockquote>I didn't know what to expect from this video, but I can say I was pleasantly surprised at how thought-provoking I found it. What do my readers think of it?<br />
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I conclude with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tplyz9qDpPM">Women's Day 2024: Honouring trailblazing women architects | Eulie Chaudhary's enduring legacy</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tplyz9qDpPM?si=n1o7VxbJ9kNliiw4" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>International Women's Day Special: WION tells you about women who have proven to be pillars in India's architectural prowess these brilliant architects who are Visionaries in building India's future.<br />
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WION's Nikita Singh brings you this special segment on Women's day 2024. Watch to know more!</blockquote>I haven't written about human architecture since <a href="http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/04/cnbc-explains-problems-of-suburbia-and.html">CNBC explains the problems of suburbia and their possible solutions</a> nearly two full years ago. No surprise, I mentioned <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/james%20howard%20kunstler">James Howard Kunstler</a> in that entry. He has an "<a href="https://kunstler.com/featured-eyesore-of-the-month/">Eyesore of the Month</a>" feature on <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/clusterfuck%20nation">his blog</a> about ugly and/or unsustainable buildings. I stopped reading that when I stopped reading his blog entries in November 2019, so I'm not surprised that I have linked him and architecture here and ceased writing about both about the same time. It's about time I found a new reason to discuss the subject beyond him and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/07/wired-on-dead-malls-tale-of-retail.html">dead malls</a>. Thank you, WION!<br />
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That's it for today's celebration. As I wrote above, stay tuned for the Oscar coverage I promised at the end of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol-and-abcs-of-book.html">'20 Days in Mariupol' and 'The ABCs of Book Banning' leading documentary nominees according to Gold Derby</a> for Barbie Day!Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-14767784516132732962024-03-07T08:46:00.000-05:002024-03-07T08:46:07.710-05:00Boeing gets the John Oliver treatment on 'Last Week Tonight'It's Thursday, so it's time for me to embed <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc">Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)</A>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8oCilY4szc?si=R89W7r4_N6JVmr96" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>John Oliver discusses how Boeing went from being a company known for quality craftsmanship to one synonymous with crashes, mishaps, and “quality escape.” Whatever that means.</BLOCKQUOTE>I'd read about how the McDonnell Douglas management took over Boeing years ago, changing Boeing's corporate culture, but if I had read about them sending The Economist cover with the copulating camels to the original Boeing executives, I'd forgotten about it. Given what's happened since, I agree with John Oliver and his writers that the wrong camel came out on top. The previous Boeing executives weren't the only ones screwed when that happened!<br />
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Among the casualties was the 787 Dreamliner. I wondered what happened to the plane and now I know! Another was the 737 Max, which was the subject of an Emmy-nominated documentary I covered in <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/08/emmy-nominated-documentary-escape-from.html">Emmy-nominated documentary 'Escape from Kabul' for the fall of Kabul two years later</A>, <I>Flight / Risk</I>.<BLOCKQUOTE>The 737 Max turned out to be less wonderful than when <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/08/boeing-737-max-student-sustainability.html">I shared a video promoting it in 2016</A>. Even at the time, I called the video, which has since been made private, "Corporate salesmanship and greenwashing." That turned out to be not even the half of it.</BLOCKQUOTE>That was before the door plug fell off the plane, which the monologue I embedded in <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/colbert-and-meyers-return-from-break-to.html">Colbert and Meyers return from break to take closer looks at politicians saying stupid things about history and science</A> mentioned as "Stephen describes a scary situation on a recent Boeing 737 flight." Now my snarky comment from eight years ago isn't even a third of it or maybe even a quarter! The wrong camels know corporate infighting and stock valuations, but they didn't learn from the company that acquired them how to build a quality aircraft.<br />
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That's it for today's exercise in corporate accountability disguised as comedy. Stay tuned for <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-united-nations-politico-apple-and.html">International</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/nasa-and-60-minutes-on-women-in-nasa.html">Women's</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/national-day-calendar-and-nasa-on.html">Day</A>.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-75293901852189830082024-03-06T09:28:00.000-05:002024-03-06T09:28:12.177-05:00Nikki Haley drops out after Super TuesdayThe big news from <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-one-of-marching-music-for-super.html">Super</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/marching-music-for-super-tuesday-part.html">Tuesday</a> is <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/Darling%20Nikki">Nikki Haley</a> dropping out. CNN has the story in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VExWe3tHfk">Nikki Haley will exit GOP presidential race, clearing path for Donald Trump</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9VExWe3tHfk?si=mIJM4_uS47nG7ist" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will announce that she is exiting the Republican presidential race, according to sources familiar with her plans, clearing the path for former President Donald Trump.</blockquote>I'm slightly surprised that she dropped out now, as she finally won two primaries, in D.C. on Sunday and Vermont last night. On the other hand, I can't say I'm actually disappointed, as <a href="https://twitter.com/pinkusensei/status/1749997844591747482">I had tweeted in late January</a> that she might drop out after losing South Carolina and would be lucky to last until Super Tuesday. Despite her primary victories, her luck and, more importantly, her money ran out.<br />
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With that, I'm recycling my reaction from <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/snl-opens-with-trump-victory-party.html">'SNL' opens with a Trump victory party after the South Carolina Republican Primary</a>, itself an upcycled response.<blockquote>I'm recycling my comment from <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/george-santos-sues-jimmy-kimmel-and.html">George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel and Trump sells sneakers</a> for the other hand.<blockquote><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/Darling%20Nikki">Nikki Haley</a> is staying in for the same reasons <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/stephen-colbert-returns-after-his.html">Liz Cheney is opposing Trump</a>: "As <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/07/colberts-live-monologue-plus-chris.html">I wrote in July 2022</a>, 'In Liz Cheney's case, she'd like her pre-2015 Republican Party back. I doubt she'll get it any time soon, so she'll settle for damaging TFG instead. I wish her luck.' She's certainly doing her best." Too bad her best won't be good enough to win the nomination.</blockquote>But it might be enough to damage Trump. I hope she's happy with that. I know I am.</blockquote>I think Haley will most likely end up endorsing <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Penguin">Donald Trump</a>, but it will be late and lukewarm when it occurs. A less likely scenario is that she ends up on the No Labels ticket, should they actually decide to run a candidate in the general election. If that happens, I wouldn't be surprised if <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/Kyrsten%20Sinema">Kyrsten Sinema</a> joins her on that ticket, now that she's announced her retirement from the Senate. I might get to that news later.<br />
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That brings me to <i>Morning Joe</i> on MSNBC looking ahead in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC2kKKxlz6I">Mika: With Haley set to drop out, the general election essentially starts today</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wC2kKKxlz6I?si=X116ivB04fa5snvt" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The Morning Joe panel discusses Trump's latest inflammatory rhetoric and news that Nikki Haley is set to suspend her presidential campaign.</blockquote>I agree, although I still plan on continuing my marching music for primaries and caucuses series. Those will go on, even if the presidential nominating contests are essentially over.<br />
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I might add a report on Haley's remarks later today. Until then, I'm concluding by retiring the graph I made for Haley in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-and-nikki-haley-two.html">Marianne Williamson and Nikki Haley, two women running for President on International Women's Day</a>.<br />
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<center><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ac/a0/27/aca027f0fcfbbb3c0e58660b84b073c2.jpg" width="500" /></center><blockquote>Now for <a href="https://www.ontheissues.org/nikki_haley.htm">Nikki Haley at On The Issues</a>. She has an economic score of 88 and a social score of 25. On The Issues describes her as a Libertarian-Leaning Conservative. This makes her less conservative socially than either TFG or DeSantis, but to the right of both economically. <a href="https://www.ontheissues.org/donald_trump.htm">TFG</a> has an economic score of 83 and a social score of 20, while <a href="https://www.ontheissues.org/Ron_DeSantis.htm">DeSantis</a> has an economic score of 85 and a social Score of 13. On The Issues considers both of them to be Hard-Core Conservatives.</blockquote>I'm also retiring, for now, the drink I suggested for her in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/02/fivethirtyeight-asks-who-is-nikki-haley.html">FiveThirtyEight asks 'Who is Nikki Haley?'</a><blockquote>I'm being a good environmentalist by recycling the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb-yqZRmP38">South Carolina Swizzle Cocktail - The Proper Pour with Charlotte Voisey - Small Screen</a>, which I used for <a href="http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2015/10/drinks-for-republican-candidates-graham.html">Lindsey</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2015/12/farewell-lindsey-graham.html">Graham</a>.</blockquote><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xb-yqZRmP38" title="South Carolina Swizzle Cocktail - The Proper Pour with Charlotte Voisey - Small Screen" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote><blockquote>Inspired by the delicious produce of South Carolina and Georgia, Charlotte created the South Carolina Swizzle Cocktail to celebrate one of her favorite regions of the United States. Served in a julep style, this refreshing libation is perfect as a summer sipper.<br />
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Remember, great cocktails start with measuring responsibly.<br />
Recipe:<br />
1 1/2 parts Hendrick's Gin - Watch The Unusual Times: http://bit.ly/hendricks_reservebar<br />
1/2 part Bitter Truth Apricot Liqueur<br />
3/4 part fresh lime juice<br />
3/4 part simple syrup<br />
1/4 part Yellow Chartreuse<br />
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Instructions:<br />
Shake ingredients with ice.<br />
Strain over crushed ice into hurricane or tall glass.<br />
Garnish with a mint sprig.</blockquote></blockquote>Pour one out for Haley's campaign and possibly even for her future in the Republican Party.
Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-5451732201444030602024-03-05T09:06:00.001-05:002024-03-05T09:06:50.709-05:00Marching music for Super Tuesday, part twoA happy <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday.html">a marching music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday-2020.html">Super Tuesday</a>! As I promised my readers <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-one-of-marching-music-for-super.html">in yesterday's part one</a>, "Stay tuned for part two tomorrow, when I feature the competitive drum corps and select marching bands from Super Tuesday states west of the Mississippi River." Unlike 2020, when I ended with California, I begin with California starting with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVp98spqUpI">Blue Devils | #DCI2022 | Tempus Blue</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KVp98spqUpI?si=h0fIiTMqHbq_7SK9" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Concord, CA | 1st Place | 98.750<br />
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Concord, California's Blue Devils perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "Tempus Blue," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>I always wanted a DCI corps to play "Tank!" I got my wish.<br />
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Next, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ir8n1Z5iI8">Santa Clara Vanguard | #dci2022 | Finding Nirvana</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ir8n1Z5iI8?si=thx3gMtfJFUhwE48" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Santa Clara, CA | 5th Place | 95.000<br />
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Santa Clara, California's Santa Clara Vanguard perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "Finding Nirvana," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>SCV didn't field a corps last year, but should return this year.<br />
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Continuing with the third DCI finalist from California, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdC9QmavhI">Mandarins | #dci2022 | The Otherside</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_PdC9QmavhI?si=rmjUo__LBvtURj3l" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Sacramento, CA | 10th Place | 90.013<br />
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Sacramento, California's Mandarins perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "The Otherside," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>Yes, this is the same corps I featured in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-year-of-dragon-from-cadets-and.html">'The Year of the Dragon' from The Cadets and Sacramento Mandarins for a drum corps Lunar New Year</a>.<br />
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I'm starting to repeat myself with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVyg4ZfyjQg">Vanguard Cadets | #dci2022 | Somewhere New</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UVyg4ZfyjQg?si=JHU4OxghvTgwlrrG" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Santa Clara, CA | 18th Place | 81.050<br />
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Santa Clara, California's Vanguard Cadets perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "Somewhere New," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>SCV Cadets didn't tour last year, either, just like their parent corps. I don't know if they'll be on the field this year yet.<br />
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Heading to Southern California, it's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CPEy3mSNhk">Pacific Crest | #dci2022 | Welcome to the Void</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8CPEy3mSNhk?si=J_0c_C8r0vezvhR9" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Diamond Bar & City of Industry, CA | 19th Place | 80.250<br />
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Diamond Bar and City of Industry, California's Pacific Crest perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "Welcome to the Void," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>Pacific Crest had a much better 2023, placing 12th at San Antonio and 14th in Indianapolis.<br />
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Returning to the Bay Area, it's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sW18_Z6x3Y">Blue Devils B | #dci2022 | I Am</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-sW18_Z6x3Y?si=08rtXbXtIjZkL_c8" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Concord, CA | 22nd Place | 78.375<br />
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Concord, California's Blue Devils B perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "I Am," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>Now back to Southern California for Guard Girl's reaction video, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DHSn_cp6m4">DCI Open Class : Gold 2022 - The Gift | REACTION | #IllBeTheJudge</a>.<br />
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That's just California's competitive drum corps. Follow over the jump for California marching bands that earned finalist status in Metallica's marching band contest and drum corps, Rose Parade bands, and more drum corps and Metallica contestants from Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Minnesota.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>Now for the bands in Super Tuesday states that are finalists in <a href="https://www.metallicamarchingband.com/">Metallica's marching band contest</a>, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDswMkfH0M">METALLICA | Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band (multicam)</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XvDswMkfH0M?si=HBa7o2g9jiBacTTT" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>In pursuit of the $75,000 grand prize in the For Whom The Bell Tolls Metallica Marching Band Competition, the Bulldog Marching Band turns it up to 11 with the music of Metallica! Featuring: Master of Puppets, Nothing Else Matters, and Enter Sandman.<br />
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Performed at halftime in Valley Children's Stadium - Fresno, CA
on November 4, 2023.<br />
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Home football vs. Boise State: Bulldogs win 37-30 putting them at 7-1 on the season, 4-1 in Mountain West Conference play.<br />
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Video by Michael Wootten, Halle North, and Bryan Soyinthisan</blockquote>The Bulldogs were also a Rose Parade band, so here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xccqI94E764">Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band - 2023 Pasadena Rose Parade</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xccqI94E764?si=A4EMORNl8qLcT6av" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Fresno, California<br />
Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band performing their musical selections at the 134th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 2, 2023.</blockquote>Not quite <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-norfolk-state-university-spartan.html">The Norfolk State University Spartan Legion at the Rose Parade for MLK Day</a>, but close enough.<br />
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Now for California's high school finalist, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4_FGCen4ZM">Valhalla Vanguard, "The Passed Over"</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-4_FGCen4ZM?si=PI8hWPTAljTedxBr" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Video submission for the Metallica Marching Band Competition</blockquote>I don't celebrate Passover on this blog, but if I did, I'd use this video!<br />
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It's time to travel to Utah for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9ER1TDL-Y">The Battalion | #dci2022 | eXpand</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UK9ER1TDL-Y?si=GWHDbKwh5sHbSnwg" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Salt Lake City, UT | 27th Place | 73.176<br />
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Salt Lake City, Utah's The Battalion perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "eXpand," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>Congratulations on finally getting to the DCI Championships!<br />
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Next, Colorado's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfKY5LrTpM">Blue Knights | #DCI2021 | "Always"</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HSfKY5LrTpM?si=JGkt8iD1ZOHmgnsb" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Denver, Colorado's Blue Knights performs a segment from the corps' #DCI2021 production, "Always," during the DCI Celebration events hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>I couldn't find a 2022 video. The corps did make finals in 2023.<br />
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On to Oklahoma with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIZHVIeqxI">Oologah-Talala High School 2023 Marching Show "Metal"</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WWIZHVIeqxI?si=ieCeYJNIrKAOVesr" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The Stallion Battalion Marching Band from Oologah-Talala High School in Oologah, Oklahoma perform their 2023-2024 Marching Band Show entitled "Metal."</blockquote>I wrote that I would save <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj0aW0GXGJ8">Jenks High School Trojan Pride - 2024 Pasadena Rose Parade</a> for today in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/some-of-my-favorite-bands-at-2024-rose.html">Some of my favorite bands at the 2024 Rose Parade for New Year's Day</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uj0aW0GXGJ8?si=fN5ZpX73r36sBLD3" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Jenks, Oklahoma,<br />
Jenks High School Trojan Pride Marching Band performing at the 135th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 1, 2024.</blockquote>Arkansas's entry in today's festivities is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7SjWYQJxY">Boll Weevil Marching Band Metallica Halftime Show</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jl7SjWYQJxY?si=M7Y_R77kVaAHuXDs" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>University of Arkansas at Monticello<br />
Band Day<br />
November 4, 2023<br />
Monticello, Arkansas</blockquote>Texas is almost as big as California and so is the number of units in today's post, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2Vabe3NMA">Crossmen | #dci2022 | A Möbius Trip</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gr2Vabe3NMA?si=AGR_vsITqMCgrfC-" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>San Antonio, TX | 13th Place | 86.925<br />
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San Antonio, Texas' Crossmen perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "A Möbius Trip" during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>Very punny title.<br />
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The next Texas corps is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNijK-sSTm4">Genesis | #dci2022 | Dorothy</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TNijK-sSTm4?si=D032glXQsFODT1zk" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Austin, TX | 21st Place | 78.813<br />
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Austin, Texas' Genesis perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "Dorothy," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>We never were in Kansas. That's in two weeks.<br />
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Next, a feature: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u5uSwoTics">Arsenal brings SoundSport action to the Alamodome</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5u5uSwoTics?si=8xhjjWmWLAwBsNiS" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Arsenal, the DCI SoundSport team from El Paso, Texas, wrapped up its 2023 summer season on July 22, during the DCI Southwestern Championship at the Alamodome.</blockquote>That concludes the Lone Star State's drum corps. Now on to its bands, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5kE617_WTM">Metallica Halftime - Wyoming vs. Texas - 9/16/2023 - The University of Texas Longhorn Band in 4K</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A5kE617_WTM?si=t0UtEyLKJH0ija8f" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The University of Texas Longhorn Band performs songs from Metallica for the halftime show of the University of Wyoming vs. the University of Texas football game on 9/16/2023.</blockquote>I should go on to Texas A&M, but I'm sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgcWD9SVelc">WTAMU Metal 2023</a> instead.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PgcWD9SVelc?si=yVVBeFvcb1QcVgPw" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The Sound of West Texas is under the direction of Dr. BJ Brooks and Dr. Guglielmo Manfredi. Formed in 1981 the heavy metal band, Metallica, quickly became known for their signature fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship. The WT Marching band's program includes The Unforgiven, Hit the Lights, Seek and Destroy, Lux AEterna, Wherever I May Roam, Fade to Black, Enter Sandman, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Creeping Death, and Master of Puppets. Directed by drum majors Tobin Brooks, Aaron Hinds, and Dylan Martin and assisted by conductors Spencer Owens, Jack Montgomery, and Seth Meason the Sound of West Texas invites to you to enjoy our 2023 WT marching band production of METAL.</blockquote>Texas has some spectacular junior colleges, like Navarro College, featured in <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/10/cheer-wins-3-emmy-awards-and-1-tca.html">Cheer</a></i>. Another is Blinn College, which entered <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tnkvDHqZ4">Metallica Marching Band</a> into the contest.<br />
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The co-winner of the medium high school division in the contest was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmf2sjiV8gk">Boerne High School Band - For Whom the Band Tolls Entry</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gmf2sjiV8gk?si=--2MHzmqzaYlfHuQ" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Enjoy The Boerne High School Mighty Greyhound Band and Color Guards' performance of their entry for the Metallica Marching Band Competition.<br />
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Featuring the Metallica songs,<br />
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For Whom the Bell Tolls<br />
Enter Sandman<br />
Fade to Black<br />
Seek and Destroy<br />
Master of Puppets</blockquote>Congratulations!<br />
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Moving to the large high school division, Stephen F. Austin H.S.'s entry is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVugwOBpQ04">BALLERina: Enter Sandman</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IVugwOBpQ04?si=tUnLdDkmchl94MES" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Submitted for the Metallica Marching Band Competition</blockquote>This is an excerpt of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHCquH1sK9g&t=0s">a longer show</a>. Click on the link to watch.<br />
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The other large high school finalist from Texas is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MtPyVw_P8">Lorena HS Performs Metallica</a>.<br />
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Metallica Contest Submission</center><br />
I couldn't find a video on YouTube of Edinburg H.S. performing their Metallica show, so off to Minnesota for the final drum corps of the night, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBsu1V1nNI">God I wish this was The Govenaires at DCA Finals 2022</a>.
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pBBsu1V1nNI?si=47_TVlV0km-9lVQt" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Boy do I wish this was the Govies preforming their show "Back on the bus," A show about Drum Corps being back after the pandemic...</blockquote>I can relate to the opening singer. It's great to be back on the road again!<br />
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That was a long post. I hope waiting for tonight's results doesn't take this long!<br />
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Previous marching music for 2024 primaries and caucuses posts.
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/colts-hawkeyes-cyclones-and-rose-parade.html">Colts, Hawkeyes, Cyclones, and Rose Parade bands, marching music for the 2024 Iowa Caucuses</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-spartans-for-drum-corps-new.html">The Spartans for a drum corps New Hampshire Primary</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-south-carolina.html">Marching music for the 2024 South Carolina Primary — Carolina Crown, South Carolina, Clemson, and South Carolina State</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-nevada-primary.html">Marching music for the 2024 Nevada Primary from University of Nevada, Reno, and UNLV</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-michigan-primary.html">Marching music for the Michigan Primary — Legends, U of M, MSU, Rockford, and DeWitt</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-one-of-marching-music-for-super.html">Part one of marching music for Super Tuesday on Marching Music Day</a></li></ul>
Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-75573778590112878562024-03-04T10:24:00.000-05:002024-03-04T10:24:32.761-05:00Part one of marching music for Super Tuesday on Marching Music Day<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-ucla-marching-band-at-1969-oscars.html">Happy</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-bands-of-2020-rose-parade-for.html">Marching</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/drum-corps-playing-mars-from-planets.html">Music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/which-year-did-madison-scouts-perform.html">Day</a>! <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2017/03/march-forth-with-santa-clara-vanguard.html">March</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-forth-with-pacific-crest-at-2019.html">Forth</a>! As <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-michigan-primary.html">I promised</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/snl-mocks-biden-is-old-in-inside.html">twice</a>, I'm celebrating with <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday.html">a marching music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday-2020.html">Super Tuesday</a> featuring the corps and bands from Super Tuesday states east of the Mississippi River.<br />
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I begin with the same corps I opened the past two Super Tuesday posts with, the Boston Crusaders. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hei_yi48MGs">Boston Crusaders | #dci2022 | Paradise Lost</a> from Drum Corps International (DCI).<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hei_yi48MGs?si=iiUkAX87d4D3jCAc" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Boston, MA | 2nd Place (tie) | 97.325<br />
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Boston, Massachusetts' Boston Crusaders perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "Paradise Lost," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>Don't bite that apple!<br />
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Vic Firth Marching uploaded the entire show as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsvEDWPnRA">Boston Crusaders 2022 | DCI Finals Week Rehearsal | Full Production</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fHsvEDWPnRA?si=3ZO_dYdxVN4Zc_jq" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>We're going BEYOND the lot to bring you a "pieced together' full production run of the 2022 Boston Crusaders show entitled "Paradise Lost.' Recorded over the course of a 3 hour rehearsal on Thursday, August 11th, this video APPROXIMATES a full production run-through (as best we could, given all the variables)! We hope you enjoy the video!</blockquote>It's Vic Firth, which makes drum sticks, so of course the video focuses on the percussion.<br />
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FloMarching uploaded a clip from last year's show, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y7DKPuIVdY">Boston Crusaders 2023 'White Whale' Prelims Percussion Feature - 2023 DCI World Championships</a>.<br />
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<br />That was certainly the most nautical and fun part of the show. Once again, Vic Firth Marching has the complete program in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-Rgg1pID0">Boston Crusaders 2023 | DCI Finals Week Rehearsal | Full Production</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g6-Rgg1pID0?si=c9MFHAWLp1jXKsvv" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>We're going BEYOND the lot to bring you a full (edited together) production run of the 2023 Boston Crusaders show entitled "White Whale.' Recorded in rehearsal on Thursday, August 10th. We hope you enjoy the video!</blockquote>I was so looking forward to typing "the whale lives" until I realized that the guard wasn't at this rehearsal. Darn. The show gained so much from their part of the performance.<br />
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Returning to DCI, I'm sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8IurQxpsA"> Boston Crusaders | #DCI2021 | "Zoom" </a>, the corps' <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/pandemics">pandemic</a> program.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2m8IurQxpsA?si=sqVnVGH-7Uthkl03" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Boston Massachusetts' Boston Crusaders performs a segment from the corps' #DCI2021 production, "Zoom," during the DCI Celebration events hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>That was so much fun that, at the risk of overkill, I'm sharing Vic Firth Marching's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvhvTtk-R0">Boston Crusaders 2021 Full Production | BEYOND THE LOT</a>. Yes, I am a Boston Crusaders fan.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TBvhvTtk-R0?si=cWTgVqQenfaM2cxz" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Vic Firth takes you BEYOND the lot with the BOSTON CRUSADERS as they perform their 2021 production "Zoom" during the DCI Celebration week in Indianapolis, IN!</blockquote>That was a lot more entertaining than I expected from a show named after <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/07/company-man-explains-zooms-success.html">a video conferencing app</a>!<br />
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Since I wrote that this is a marching music Super Tuesday and not a drum corps Super Tuesday, I'm embedding <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7SxZYJUoOo">UMASS Minuteman Marching Band - 2018 Pasadena Rose Parade</a> from Music213.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B7SxZYJUoOo?si=At9VZv9YD91LkgCs" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Amherst, Massachusetts
The University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Minuteman Marching Band performing at the 129th Annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 1, 2018</blockquote>In case they look familiar, the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Minuteman Marching Band were one of the bands featured in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/01/two-drum-corps-and-some-of-my-favorite.html">Two drum corps and some of my favorite bands marching in the New Year for 2018</a>.<br />
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Time to move on from Massachusetts. Follow over the jump for drum corps and marching bands from the rest of the Super Tuesday states east of the Mississippi.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>Traveling down the eastern seaboard, the next DCI competitive corps is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoanPwkGLbE">Sonus Brass Theater - 2017 DCI SoundSport - Indianapolis, IN</a> from Woodbridge, Virginia.<br />
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This is a group I should have featured four years ago, but I missed them. Darn.<br />
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I've been featuring bands that competed in Metallica's For Whom The Band Tolls in this series, so here is the small high school champion, <a href="https://www.metallicamarchingband.com/">Parade to Black - Oakton High School Marching Band</a> from Oakton, Virginia.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UQpF_QbTLG0?si=Gcq9Mt8DHNxaT3qq" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Oakton High School Marching Band submission to "For Whom the Band Tolls" Metallica Competit[i]on[.]</blockquote>I think the wigs alone won them their class in the contest.<br />
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North Carolina is an important state, but no longer has a competitive drum corps. It did, so I'm sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufceaM8F52E">Carolina Gold 2013 Mission Accepted</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ufceaM8F52E?si=aDOdt6qwn-x0N-ig" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Carolina Gold Drum and Bugle Corps performing their program at the Drum Corps Associates World Championship Finals in Annapolis, MD at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
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Musical selections include Original Music<br />
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Gold got 10th place at DCA Open Class Finals with a score of 84.030</blockquote>They are not listed as a <a href="https://dcacorps.org/corps">DCA corps</a> or as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Drum_Corps_International_member_corps">DCI All-Age corps</a>, so they're probably gone, but I hope some corps takes their place in North Carolina.<br />
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Moving inland, I'm sharing two units from Tennessee, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APv_N5Cd9jk">Music City Drum Corps 2022 Semi-Finals reaction</a> from March Or Die TV.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/APv_N5Cd9jk?si=ZyBZSXlA9TU7MQoM" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>This was a really cool show. Colors were on point and the corps did a great job. I loved the concept and I really enjoyed the staging and the performance level of all of the members. I think they are poised to move up in the next year or 2 and can't wait to see what they do!</blockquote>I always enjoy Justin the Stress Master's take on drum corps.<br />
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Next, from Kingsport, Tennessee, the large high school winner and high school fan favorite in the Metallica marching band contest, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvmuto2Q0Xw">Dobyns-Bennett High School Marching Band Presents "The Music of Metallica"</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nvmuto2Q0Xw?si=fqP0NqwZ1tfKW9G1" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Submission for the Metallica Marching Band Competition</blockquote>The Dobyns-Bennett High School Marching Band knew exactly who the audience would be for this show — Metallica fans — and wrote the program according. It worked. Congratulations on the double title!<br />
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Continuing down to the Gulf Coast, six units from Alabama made the cut for today, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2mHwwesIz8">22nd Southwind 2023</a>.<br />
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Sadly, Southwind will not be returning this summer. Sigh.<br />
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Next, the Division I college winner and college fan favorite in the Metallica marching band contest, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36yFOtgxGlk">Metallica Halftime Show [OFFICIAL] | AUMB 2023</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/36yFOtgxGlk?si=vxM_PyEuxvfH1HLr" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The 2023 AUMB's Metallica Halftime show, performed at the Auburn vs Ole Miss football game on October 21, 2023 in Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL.<br />
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Our show opens with For Whom the Bell Tolls, one of Metallica’s greatest hits and the official title of their marching band video competition. <br />
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Our initial sound effects and the swinging-bell animation drill that follows are our attempt to recreate the opening of Metallica’s 2022 concert in São Paulo, Brazil. The show continues with their 1992 tour anthem, Wherever I May Roam. The middle segment of our show pays homage to Metallica’s legendary guitar skills with the title track from their 1986 album, Master of Puppets. Our show continues with one of Metallica’s most popular power ballads, Nothing Else Matters. And, of course, no Metallica tribute is complete without Enter Sandman. <br />
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The lighting system used by our band was built by Auburn band students with assistance from our College of Engineering. Many thanks to Ben Brisendine (Auburn band alumnus) for his work designing and updating our system and for his creative programming of the lighting component of our show.<br />
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We hope you enjoy the Auburn University Marching Band’s performance of Metallica!</blockquote>That was an amazing assembly of lighting, technology, music, and showmanship! Well done!<br />
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I can't mention Auburn without including its archrival. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvbQsXZ3rp4">The University of Alabama Million Dollar Band - 2024 Pasadena Rose Parade</a> from Luis of Music213.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GvbQsXZ3rp4?si=wp9VT6z3aYuU6OdD" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
The University of Alabama Million Dollar Band performing at the 135th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 1, 2024.</blockquote>I had no idea until I watched the Rose Parade that the Bama Band also played Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk." I think Luis went to USC, whose marching band played on the original track and continues to play "Tusk." I wonder how he feels about this version. Maybe I should ask him.<br />
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Now for two finalists in the Metallica marching band contest from Alabama, beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTI2KGVFlnQ">Nothing Else Matters (Whole Show)</a> by Pell City High School's Marching Band of Gold, a medium high school finalist.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lTI2KGVFlnQ?si=JRsqYSvkU_TCbY5q" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Pell City High School's Marching Band of Gold presents: Nothing Else Matters</blockquote>The band wrote that for marching band fans more than Metallica fans, but I'm a marching band fan, so I appreciated it.<br /><br />
Now small high school finalist Cleveland High School Golden Force Marching Band performing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFbaUYu_kA">Metalocalypse | 2023 Metallica Marching Band Competition | For Whom The Band Tolls!</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tPFbaUYu_kA?si=8NH1qtuZeIgHQQ0K" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><blockquote>Cleveland High School Golden Force Marching Band's submission for the 2023 Metallica Marching Band Competition - For Whom The Band Tolls!</blockquote>They were certainly enthusiastic!<br />
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I conclude today's post with an HBCU band, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfmWXblo67Y">Alabama State University Marching Band - 2019 Pasadena Rose Parade</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nfmWXblo67Y?si=26U92z1qWmO8zqSO" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Montgomery, Alabama
The Alabama State University Mighty Marching Hornets performing at the 130th Annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Tuesday, January 1, 2019.</blockquote>With that, I'm done for today. Stay tuned for part two tomorrow, when I feature the competitive drum corps and select marching bands from Super Tuesday states west of the Mississippi River.<br />
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Previous marching music for 2024 primaries and caucuses posts.
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/colts-hawkeyes-cyclones-and-rose-parade.html">Colts, Hawkeyes, Cyclones, and Rose Parade bands, marching music for the 2024 Iowa Caucuses</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-spartans-for-drum-corps-new.html">The Spartans for a drum corps New Hampshire Primary</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-south-carolina.html">Marching music for the 2024 South Carolina Primary — Carolina Crown, South Carolina, Clemson, and South Carolina State</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-nevada-primary.html">Marching music for the 2024 Nevada Primary from University of Nevada, Reno, and UNLV</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-michigan-primary.html">Marching music for the Michigan Primary — Legends, U of M, MSU, Rockford, and DeWitt</a></li></ul>
Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-50590114451408855042024-03-03T10:54:00.000-05:002024-03-03T10:54:35.475-05:00'SNL' mocks 'Biden is old' in 'Inside Politics' cold openHappy Sunday! It's time for a highlights post of last night's <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</a></i>. I begin with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNCwUzIPtU">Inside Politics Cold Open</a>, where the cast makes fun of the "Biden is old" meme and the over-the-top efforts to combat it.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lpNCwUzIPtU?si=v_U5fJKUo-4FQJPp" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Dana Bash (Heidi Gardner) interviews Governor Gavin Newsom, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and Draymond Green (Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Marcello Hernández, Devon Walker) to address concerns about President Biden's age.</blockquote>The biggest criticism of this skit I read in the comments was that Michael Longfellow didn't even try to imitate Gavin Newsom's distinctive gravelly voice and flair for the dramatic. I agree. Try harder next time. On the other hand, he and the other writers did capture Biden's actual accomplishments and the defenses Biden's surrogates use. As for "we all know the stakes," watch the first story in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2TUYKfIrOk">Weekend Update: Trump and Biden Visit Southern Border, McConnell to Step Down</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X2TUYKfIrOk?si=QBScgj-1rxXT32r2" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news like Mitch McConnell announcing he's stepping down from Senate leadership at the end of the year.</blockquote>"Swarmed by criminals and rapists" and "Trump, who looks good behind bars, by the way" — LOL, tell us how you really feel. Just the same, the bit does illustrate the stakes quite well. I'll take a slightly older Joe Biden over a slightly younger defendant who <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/updates-on-three-trump-trials.html">owes about half a billion dollars in fines and judgments and is facing 91 criminal charges</a>.<br />
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Speaking of telling the audience how the writers really feel, I'll be relieved not to hear jokes about Mitch McConnell's cruelty after <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/colbert-says-good-bye-to-mitch.html">he steps down as Senate Minority Leader</a> after the election, but until then, I'll laugh at them along with everyone else. Those jokes continued in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJufUoTB5TY">Weekend Update: Flaco the Owl Dies, KFC Launches Fried Chicken Pizza</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uJufUoTB5TY?si=tTLrRW_R3K1uuJ8l" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Staten Island hosting a LGBTQ-friendly St. Patrick’s Day parade.</blockquote>That's sad news about Flaco the Owl, who survived a year free (I don't know if I'd call Manhattan "in the wild"). The next segment features happier animal news, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UlWbT3owys">Charlotte the Stingray on Her Pregnancy</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9UlWbT3owys?si=Kzs6wFplC1RQi4gJ" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Charlotte the Stingray (Ego Nwodim) stops by Weekend Update to discuss her mysterious pregnancy.</blockquote>I have written that I'm a <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/paleontology">paleontologist</a> many times over the past 13 years, but I haven't mentioned that my Ph.D. dissertation was on self-fertilization in snails since <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-final-sex-post-for-month.html">2013</a>, slightly more than eleven years ago to the day. <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2014/09/nemesis-essay-and-song.html">I also studied parthenogenesis</a> in snails and clams, so my mind went there as an explanation. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/stingrays-virgin-pregnancy-may-delightfully-unusual-scientific-explana-rcna140759">I'm not alone in thinking this</a>. The alternative is that Charlotte stored sperm from a mating before she was captured. That's another way she could be pregnant in isolation. We'll find out once her pups are born.<br />
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Follow over the jump for two clips featuring last night's host that tie into the themes of the previous two clips.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>Continuing the animal theme, Sydney Sweeney stars in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4AZCk3aqZ0">Air Bud</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N4AZCk3aqZ0?si=r1jmTF5lHDXuBUvg" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>A cheerleader (Sydney Sweeney) meets the new star basketball player.</blockquote>Ha, ha, and woof!<br />
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Michael Che called Charlotte the Stingray's pregnancy "immaculate" and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4fh7eBK4qE">Sweeney drops the word, surprisingly appropriately, in her monologue</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E4fh7eBK4qE?si=PgApxd7Q5yJ8vpe0" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>First-time host Sydney Sweeney talks about her life outside of acting and addresses internet rumors.</blockquote>Good thing Sweeney talked a lot about show business, as it justified today's post as the first Sunday <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</a> feature of March. Whew! On the other hand, I'm a little worried for Sweeney for reasons that I mentioned in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/snl-tackles-e-jean-carroll-judgment.html">'SNL' tackles E. Jean Carroll judgment, DeSantis endorsement, Nikki Haley, and more</a> — "here's to hoping <i>Madame Web</i> doesn't earn at least one <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/exorcist-believer-and-expend4bles-tie.html">Razzie Award nomination</a> next year and Johnson doesn't earn one as well for her role." I'm afraid <i>Madame Web</i> will earn multiple Razzie nominations and might even win some of them. I just hope Sweeney escapes being nominated.<br />
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That's it for today's post. Remember, it's also <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/scishow-explains-that-animals-have-nepo.html">World Wildlife Day</a>, and stay tuned for <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday.html">a marching music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday-2020.html">Super Tuesday</a> on <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-bands-of-2020-rose-parade-for.html">Marching</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/drum-corps-playing-mars-from-planets.html">Music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/which-year-did-madison-scouts-perform.html">Day</a>, when I feature the corps and bands from Super Tuesday states east of the Mississippi. I'll get to the states west of the Mississippi on Super Tuesday proper.
Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-60757498047158534142024-03-02T17:16:00.000-05:002024-03-02T17:16:21.672-05:00SciShow explains that 'Animals Have Nepo Babies Too' for World Wildlife DayAn early happy <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/observe-world-wildlife-day-2021-by.html">World</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-wildlife-of-chernobyl-exclusion.html">Wildlife</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-elephant-whisperers-and-haulout-two.html">Day</A>! I'm celebrating by sharing SciShow explaining that <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mFWowZVWE8">Animals Have Nepo Babies Too</A>.<br/>
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4mFWowZVWE8?si=XufgEEIKZGYP-PKi" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Trust funds aren't just for humans. Animals pass on generational wealth too, meaning even the animal kingdom isn't free of nepo babies.<br/>
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Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)</BLOCKQUOTE>It was already a good day because I learned something new for <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/colbert-says-good-bye-to-mitch.html">Colbert says good-bye to Mitch McConnell as Senate Minority Leader</A>, but I learned lots more from this video. I hope my readers did, too.<br/>
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Stay tuned for a highlights post of tonight's <I><A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</A></I>.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-73620541352614548242024-03-02T11:56:00.000-05:002024-03-02T11:56:40.378-05:00Colbert says good-bye to Mitch McConnell as Senate Minority LeaderYesterday's news that <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/03/colbert-meyers-and-daily-show-take.html">the Supreme Court decided to hear Trump's immunity appeal</A> was not good news. That was almost balanced out by the good news the same day of <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/07/mitch-mcconnell-calling-puerto-rico.html">Mitch</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/04/colbert-and-fallon-on-mcconnell-and.html">McConnell</A> announcing he was stepping down as Senate Minority Leader in November. Watch <I>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</I>'s cold open, <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-hKU0i9u0">Mitch McConnell Steps Down</A>.<br/>
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cu-hKU0i9u0?si=I_pNV2AGDnB-it46" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>The Late Show shares exclusive footage of Senator Mitch McConnell stepping down as the Senate's Republican leader.</BLOCKQUOTE>Poor turtle, and I don't mean McConnell. I hope his shell protected him down the stairs.<br/>
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Now for the monologue, <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VFLXW0wUBA">McConnell Walks Away | Trump’s Creepy Putin Infatuation | House GOP’s Russian Spy Scandal</A>.<br/>
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5VFLXW0wUBA?si=PjZVtMsE98thmexN" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Stephen puts aside politics to acknowledge Mitch McConnell’s big announcement, the former PM of Australia confirmed that Trump is obsessed with Vladimir Putin, and the star witness in the House GOP’s impeachment case against President Biden took bogus intelligence from Russian spies and was arrested for lying to the FBI.</BLOCKQUOTE>I guess Stephen decided that if he couldn't say anything nice about McConnell, he shouldn't say anything at all, even if it meant getting poked with a broomstick for a punchline and transition.<br/>
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Speaking of transitions, file the rest of the described part of the monologue under <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/07/trump-and-putin-bad-bromance.html">Trump and Putin's</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/10/keith-olbermann-on-trumps-bad-bromance.html">bad bromance</A>. That's now become a relationship between the GOP and Russia. Watch <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlegnXpMTg">Chris Hayes: The GOP Would Like Putin’s Help Again In The 2024 Election</A>, the second half of the interview I shared yesterday.*<br/>
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BtlegnXpMTg?si=31wdWt6XhNYJw5OT" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>The host of “All In with Chris Hayes” offers a reminder of how Russia helped Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016 and warns that the former president’s GOP allies remain cozy with Russia as the 2024 election nears.</BLOCKQUOTE>Chris Hayes is right about why we're almost certain to get a rematch between Biden and Trump as far as he goes. I'm adding what I wrote in <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/trump-brags-about-his-cognitive.html">'Trump' brags about his cognitive abilities as 'SNL' returns after winning 2 Emmy Awards</A>.<BLOCKQUOTE>The likely rematch between Biden and Trump reminds me of <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/02/jon-stewart-examines-problem-with-fox.html">what I first wrote last February</A>.<BLOCKQUOTE>A fellow guest at a party I attended in the summer of 2016 asked me how we got TFG and Hillary Clinton as nominees. I told him that the parties got the nominees they deserved. The Republicans got TFG because the party was too weak and the Democrats got Hillary Clinton because the party was too strong. He laughed ruefully and asked if the American people deserved the nominees. I told him that was another matter entirely.</BLOCKQUOTE>I elaborated on that <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/stephen-colbert-returns-after-his.html">last month</A>, writing "That's still true and is why we're almost certainly going to get a rematch between TFG and Joe Biden next year" — now this year.</BLOCKQUOTE>As for the reversal of the Republican Party's position on Russia, I'm also going back to 2016, when I wrote in a comment on a friend's Facebook timeline that the Democrats will be the anti-Russian party for the next decade based on <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert.html">Russian assistance to Trump's campaign</A>. I revisited that a few years later when I expressed surprise that the GOP would become the pro-Russian party at least partly in response. That's only become more so since.<br/>
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Enough current events. Stay tuned for <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/observe-world-wildlife-day-2021-by.html">World</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-wildlife-of-chernobyl-exclusion.html">Wildlife</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-elephant-whisperers-and-haulout-two.html">Day</A> followed by a highlights post of tonight's <I><A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</A></I>.<br/>
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*The part of the monologue not mentioned in the description is about <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-michigan-primary.html">the Michigan Primary</A>. I knew about all of it except <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-and-nikki-haley-two.html">Marianne</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/01/wave-good-bye-to-williamson-as-she.html">Williamson</A> unsuspending her campaign. I guess that counts as learning something new, making today a good day.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-67150297404884532032024-03-01T14:22:00.001-05:002024-03-01T14:22:50.963-05:00Colbert, Meyers, and 'The Daily Show' take closer looks at Supreme Court hearing immunity appealIt's a new month, so I'm returning to the daily and weekly news cycle for topical posts. I begin with Stephen Colbert's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyihXzaflgw">Stephen Declares SCOTUS Unconstitutional | Biden Is Fit For Duty | Don Jr. Courts The Amish Vote</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YyihXzaflgw?si=WXzOhgofsXNc4bHK" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>The Supreme Court is damaging its legacy and moral authority by delaying justice in Trump’s insurrection trial, President Biden passed his annual physical, and Donald Trump Jr. believes Amish voters could put his father back in office.</blockquote>I've been expressing concerns over the legitimacy of the Supreme Court since at least <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/09/noah-colbert-and-meyers-mourn-ruth.html">the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the rush to fill her seat with Amy Coney Barrett</a>, which I repeated in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/10/john-oliver-examines-supreme-court.html">John Oliver examines the Supreme Court after 'Last Week Tonight' wins four Emmy Awards</a> and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/06/cnbc-examines-how-supreme-court-may.html">CNBC examines 'How The Supreme Court May Threaten Democracy'</a>. This could be another way the Surpreme Court threatens democracy, through "justice delayed is justice denied."<br />
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The case appeared on Stephen's show the night before in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06UidnrCso">Chris Hayes On Breaking Supreme Court Decision To Hear Trump's Immunity Case</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n06UidnrCso?si=z_1K3heMIApnrXwN" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Emmy Award-winner Chris Hayes breaks down today’s bombshell announcement that the Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump’s immunity case - seven weeks from now.</blockquote>After hearing Chris Hayes with his hair on fire, I can see why Stephen came out with his hair on fire in his next monologue.<br />
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That was the day before yesterday. Last night's show opened by asking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJyZwGZeGc">SCOTUS Decision Got You Down?</a><br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PGJyZwGZeGc?si=uqH8BWHT1UCPU_wY" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote>Is this legal?</blockquote></div>To the question in the title, yes. As the parody ad says to the question in the description, probably not.<br />
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Follow over the jump for last night's takes on the topic from <i>Late Night with Seth Meyers</i> and <i>The Daily Show</i>.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>Stephen mentioned <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Penguin">Donald Trump</a>'s inability to pay his <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/updates-on-three-trump-trials.html">civil fraud judgment</a> without selling assets, but Seth Meyers made it the first item of business in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFOVbyA3uVQ">Trump Can't Afford to Pay $454 Million Fine; SCOTUS Will Hear Trump Immunity Case: A Closer Look</a>. Seth made up for it by being more thorough and devoting the video's description to the subject.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFOVbyA3uVQ?si=35K7hkbRaa6P_Ptt" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Seth takes a closer look at the MAGA Supreme Court swooping in to rescue Trump from criminal prosecution for his January 6 coup attempt by announcing they would hear oral arguments over his ridiculous made-up claim to absolute immunity.</blockquote>I enjoyed Seth including the clip of John Oliver's appearance on the show, although John took over the interview. Mocking Seth doing his job by promoting <i>Shazam! Fury of the Gods</i> reminded me that <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/exorcist-believer-and-expend4bles-tie.html">the film earned four Razzie nominations</a>, although two of those are for Helen Mirren in Worst Actress and Lucy Liu in Worst Supporting Actress. Hey, those two are the only reasons I want to watch the film! At least I don't think either will win — Megan Fox could easily win both categories — but Gold Derby hasn't opened up odds for this year's Razzies — yet.<br />
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Returning to the topic, Seth and his writers made the right choice by mentioning <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/john-oliver-examines-clarence-thomas.html">John Oliver examining Clarence Thomas and making him an offer on 'Last Week Tonight'</a>. It made for a good segue.<br />
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The Daily Show put the Supreme Court case first in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZh_bEdTPU">Trump's SCOTUS Immunity Play & GOP Walks Back IVF Stance</a> but saved it for last, as the description shows.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzZh_bEdTPU?si=y0CFbmxUBaibdWBD" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Michael Kosta dives into the uncertainty of IVF following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling and a proposed FDA plan to label “healthy foods.” Plus, Desi Lydic joins to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to delay ruling on Trump’s immunity –– which is totally not politically motivated or anything.</blockquote>Kosta's right; that's not how to pronounce "chimera." As for the rest of her objections, Senator Hyde-Smith is welcome to introduce her own bill or amendment on a bill already before the Senate to protect IVF.* I bet she doesn't.<br />
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As much as I'm interested in food, I should have known about the FDA's attempt to label healthy food. It's always a good day when I learn something new.<br />
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As for the Supreme Court case, it deserved a good <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/08/desi-lydic-emmy-nominated-performer.html">Foxplaining by</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/04/desi-lydic-foxsplains-trumps-indictment.html">Desi Lydic</a>. I should post one of those again.<br />
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*I mentioned IVF or at least frozen embryos in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/snl-opens-with-trump-victory-party.html">'SNL' opens with a Trump victory party after the South Carolina Republican Primary</a>. That episode of <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</a></i> included an interview with a cast member playing one of those embryos. Maybe I'll include it in a post tomorrow or Sunday. It's that or more from the late-night talk-show hosts on Mitch McConnell retiring. Stay tuned to see which, if either, I pick.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-895471075369724192024-02-29T00:00:00.011-05:002024-02-29T00:00:00.148-05:00Neil deGrasse Tyson explains leap years on StarTalk, twiceHappy <A HREF="https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-leap-day-february-29">Leap</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/02/happy-leap-year-day.html">Year</A> <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/02/bbc-news-explains-why-we-need-leap-years.html">Day</A>! Once again, I'm sharing the science and history of the day with <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkhrL8NMycU">Neil deGrasse Explains Why We Have Leap Days</A> on StarTalk.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WkhrL8NMycU?si=rbRYA1URLh_d3_PH" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>What’s going on with Leap Year? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explain why we sometimes have that extra day in February.<br />
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Learn about the rotation and orbit of the Earth and how our orbit isn’t exactly 365 days. What is the difference between the Gregorian and Julian Calendar? We take a trip back to 1582 to find out why The Pope took out 10 days of October. Plus, find out why 2000 was such a special leap year.</BLOCKQUOTE>Neil and Chuck laughing about a new year observance that changes its hour and sometimes even day every year reminds me that celebrations of <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/happy-international-day-of-nowruz-1402.html">Nowruz</A> follow the <A HREF="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/1987-cadets-appalachian-spring-for-drum.html">Vernal Equinox</A> around the clock and occasionally the calendar instead of being fixed on March 21, which is why I celebrate on <A HREF="https://nationaldaycalendar.com/international-day-of-nowruz-march-21/">International Day of Nowruz</A> instead.<br />
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By the way, as Neil alluded to, this is not the first time he's explained leap years on StarTalk. I found <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd1i3vkkh-0">The Leap Year as Explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson | StarTalk</A> on National Geographic's YouTube channel from 2016.<br />
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<center><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yd1i3vkkh-0?si=gh_aepmAbLkKnRc_" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the logic behind the leap year, with a brief history in calendars as well.</BLOCKQUOTE>It's still the same basic story, so I can tell he's been telling it for a long time, but in fairness, Chuck wasn't there, so this year's video was the first time he dedicated an entire episode with Chuck present.<br />
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This concludes February's blogging. Stay tuned for the first post of March, when I plan on celebrating a bunch of holidays, including this blog's 13th birthday. My blog will become a teenager!Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-39129956749147347752024-02-28T12:17:00.000-05:002024-02-28T12:29:10.427-05:00SciShow explains the connection between the age of the Earth and unleaded gasoline plus more about leadToday's topic for an evergreen entry is <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/10/john-oliver-on-lead-for-national-tv.html">lead</a> and today's source is SciShow. I begin with SciShow asking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEFQH5UXHQ">How Do We Know How Old the Earth Is?</a><br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LXEFQH5UXHQ?si=q1k_C-57kAEeMSb5" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>In the wake of World War 2, Clair Patterson embarked on a scientific quest to find out how old the Earth really is. His hard work paid off, but it also revealed a modern danger.</blockquote>I have already shown this to my geology students to explain how scientists know how old the Earth is using radiometric dating of meteorites and I might show it to my environmental science students to illustrate how prevalent lead was and still is in our environment and the long-running effort to remove lead from gasoline, at least in the U.S. If I do, it would serve as an example of three of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2013/07/nablopomo-for-july-connect.html">Commoner's Laws</a>: Everything is connected to everything else, there is no away, and there is no free lunch. Nature knows best? Whatever that would be, it doesn't involve lead!<br />
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SciShow uploaded the above video on January 30th. The channel continued examining lead yesterday when it posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhkvihpdkRE">Why Does Everything Decay Into Lead</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uhkvihpdkRE?si=4ObNOt0dN5_2e1W2" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>If you look at a copy of the periodic table, you might notice that basically every element after lead is labelled as radioactive. And the vast majority of those elements wind up decaying into some version of lead eventually. But why is lead so special?</blockquote>I may have heard of magic numbers and nuclear shells before, but I don't recall it sticking. If it doesn't stick, have I really learned anything? If not and it sticks this time, then I have learned something new. It's always a good day when I learn something new. I hope my readers agree.<br />
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These weren't SciShow's first videos about lead. A good candidate for that would be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM1u29BeqC0">Lead: The Original Artificial Sweetener</a> from 2015.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CM1u29BeqC0?si=i3cyvBIEZo1ot4ev" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Lead is really useful when you add it to things like paint and gasoline. Problem is, it’s also poisonous.<br />
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Hosted by: Hank Green</blockquote>I think I'm more likely to show this to my environmental science students. It's shorter and more focused on lead's hazards. Besides, Hank Green is an entertaining host. Newer is not always better!<br /><br />
That's it for today's science lesson. Stay tuned for <a href="https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-leap-day-february-29">Leap</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/02/happy-leap-year-day.html">Year</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/02/bbc-news-explains-why-we-need-leap-years.html">Day</a>!Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-48758249842925300432024-02-27T11:20:00.000-05:002024-02-27T11:20:55.532-05:00Marching music for the Michigan Primary — Legends, U of M, MSU, Rockford, and DeWittI announced today's post <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/susan-lozier-at-ted-asks-is-climate.html">yesterday</a>.<blockquote>I've already decided to post this year's version of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-music-for-michigan-washington.html">Marching music for the Michigan, Washington, Mississippi, and Democrats Abroad primaries</a> focusing on my adopted home state of Michigan, which has the date all to itself, thanks to <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/02/democrats-are-trying-to-rearrange-dates.html">Democrats rearranging the dates of their primaries and caucuses to make them more representative</a>. I guess that counts as reality through my idiosyncratic lens. Now off to select the videos to watch and listen to while waiting for the results!</blockquote>Since I emphasize competitive drum corps in this series, I begin with what was Michigan's only competitive drum corps, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKhU09oBSoE"> Legends | #dci2022 | May Your Light Shine Forever</a> from Drum Corps International (DCI).<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xKhU09oBSoE?si=nhwBHXseedcm8P9g" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Kalamazoo, Michigan's Legends perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "May Your Light Shine Forever," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.</blockquote>That's the official upload. Drum Corps Library uploaded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcGreyaxfPg">the complete show</a>, which pays tribute to three adults who worked with the corps and were lost during the <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/pandemics">pandemic</a>.<br />
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<br />As the title and description of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepBdZgVMBA">the DCI video explaining the show</a> say, "'Three special people'...Legends' emotional 2022 production, 'May Your Light Shine Forever,' honors three individuals from the Legends community who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic." May the same be said about Legends, who did not field a corps last year and apparently won't field a corps this year, as they are not included among the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Drum_Corps_International_member_corps">List of Drum Corps International member corps</a>. Sigh. Legends are already missed.<br />
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I like transitions and connections and I have one for this post from DCI, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1WRuwg_V4Q">From Boston to "The Big House:" Crusaders Trumpet Excels as Michigan Drum Major</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P1WRuwg_V4Q?si=EkCIikkvCVuaNgvp" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Boston Crusaders member Blake Brdak has made incredible memories on the DCI Tour and as the 58th drum major of the University of Michigan Marching Band.</blockquote>Read more at <a href="https://dci.org/news/from-boston-to-the-big-house-crusaders-trumpet-excels-as-michigan-drum-major">DCI's website</a>. By the way, Blake should look familiar, as he led the band in the final video I featured in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/some-of-my-favorite-bands-at-2024-rose.html">Some of my favorite bands at the 2024 Rose Parade for New Year's Day</a>.<br />
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Follow over the jump for four featured marching bands from Michigan.<br />
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<span><a name='more'></a></span>I'm continuing with the University of Michigan Marching Band with two performances at the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl beginning with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6pdGzn1Sc">University of Michigan Marching Band - 2024 Pasadena Rose Parade</a> Luis of Music213.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/es6pdGzn1Sc?si=nBOiNO23aWWU1IQB" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Ann Arbor, Michigan,
The University of Michigan Marching Band performing at the 135th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 1, 2024.</blockquote>As an alum, I say "Hail to The Victors!" I can say that for at least one of the winners of today's primary. The other I told to go away when one of his ads showed up played before a video I showed my class. I hit "skip" as soon as it appeared.<br />
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Next, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u29VA6nKjHc">"Believe" (HC) - January 1, 2024 - Michigan vs Alabama - Michigan Marching Band</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u29VA6nKjHc?si=eLZgFHlQrHdfpTF_" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>MUSIC SELECTIONS:<br />
Eleanor Rigby - written by Lennon-McCartney, performed by The Beatles and Cody Fry<br />
Act IV: Scène and Scène finale from “Swan Lake” - composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
Music from Ted Lasso - composed by Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe<br />
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Musical Arrangements by Scott Boerma, Richard Frey, and Chuck Ricotta<br />
Flag Choreography by Joan Noble-Pruett<br />
Drill by Richard Frey</blockquote>My wife and I are finally watching <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/11/ted-lasso-and-hacks-accepting-their.html">Ted</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/ted-lasso-leads-comedies-in-nominations.html">Lasso</a></i> and enjoying it, so I appreciate it being Jim Harbaugh's favorite. We "believe." I'm sure all the remaining candidates believe, too.<br />
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Alabama's Million Dollar Band is lining up for their performance near the end of the video. I'm planning on including them and their rival Auburn in part one of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday.html">a marching music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-drum-corps-super-tuesday-2020.html">Super Tuesday</a> on <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-bands-of-2020-rose-parade-for.html">Marching</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/03/drum-corps-playing-mars-from-planets.html">Music</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/03/which-year-did-madison-scouts-perform.html">Day</a>, when I feature the corps and bands from Super Tuesday states east of the Mississippi. I'll get to the states west of the Mississippi on Super Tuesday proper.<br />
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In fairness, I'm also sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsUGUHB6_8Y">Spartan Marching Band: Halftime | 10.21.2023 - MSU vs. Michigan</a>.<br />
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This may be the first rock show I'm featuring today, but it won't be the last. Keep reading, watching, and listening to the end to see that. Until then, I'm going back ten years for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9PfK-tMLc">Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band - 2014 Pasadena Rose Parade</a> from Luis at Music213.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xU9PfK-tMLc?si=_wZQFBbclZ0EMpum" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From East Lansing, Michigan
Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band performing at the 125th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Wednesday, January 1st 2014.<br />
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MSU vs. Stanford at 100th Rose Bowl Game.<br />
Results: 24-20 - MSU wins!</blockquote>While I went to U of M, I didn't grow up in Michigan, so I don't dislike MSU and feel comfortable yelling "Go State!" That is, if they're not playing Michigan. Then it's "Go Blue!"<br />
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I'm continuing with Luis of Music213's videos by sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1yXuXmms">Rockford High School Marching Band - 2023 Pasadena Bandfest</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aRq1yXuXmms?si=zXQ6RFY7kVYUGMpT" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Rockford, Michigan
Rockford High School Marching Band performing their musical selections at the 42nd Annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Bandfest at Pasadena City College on Saturday, December 31, 2022.</blockquote>Rockford was the best high school band in Michigan in <a href="https://www.themcba.org/images/Championships_Archives_PDFs/2022_Championships_Recaps.pdf">2022</a> and the winner of its class in <a href="https://recaps.competitionsuite.com/da1690cb-a70e-4f44-9bec-1806888cd442.htm">2023</a>, so I'm glad they made it to the Rose Parade and were able to perform their show, despite the weather. That reminds me of my observation I first wrote in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/05/marching-music-for-nebraska-primary.html">Marching music for the Nebraska Primary</a>.<blockquote>Seeing this pair of videos reminds me of my experience growing up in southern California that it could be cold, rainy, and windy the week before the Rose Parade, but as soon as New Year's Day dawns, the skies will clear and the sun will shine. It's as if the Southland knows the cameras will be on it and it responds with "it's showtime!" It almost never fails.</blockquote>And it worked like a charm. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQE1wM_khyw">Rockford High School Marching Band - 2023 Pasadena Rose Parade</a>. Perfect weather!<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jQE1wM_khyw?si=sPaaNa51XUpvGL-x" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From Rockford, Michigan
Rockford High School Marching Band performing their musical selections at the 134th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, January 2, 2023.</blockquote>Hah, they're playing the "Captain America March" from <i>Captain America: The First Avenger</i>! That's a good selection for today.<br />
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I promised another rock show today, so I close with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbpQs8Ftet4">DeWitt High School Marching Band - Enter Sandman...Metallica: For Whom The Band Tolls.</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XbpQs8Ftet4?si=FdkT5NImoTD44Plq" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>DeWitt High School Marching Band playing Metallica's Enter Sandman for the 2023 Metallica For Whom The Band Tolls Marching Band Competition. Thank you to Box 5 Productions for the videography!</blockquote>Both <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/colts-hawkeyes-cyclones-and-rose-parade.html">the Iowa Hawkeyes and Iowa State Cyclones</a> played Metallica halftime shows and both became <a href="https://www.metallicamarchingband.com/">finalists in the competition</a>. DeWitt is the one finalist from Michigan, so of course I would include them. They also <a href="https://recaps.competitionsuite.com/5515b00e-8878-41d3-ba2c-38918a05367e.htm">won their class at the state championships</a>, beating Reeths-Puffer, which had won their class the year before. Congratulations to DeWitt on both achievements!<br />
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That concludes today's post. Now to vote!<br />
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Previous marching music for 2024 primaries and caucuses posts.
<ul><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/colts-hawkeyes-cyclones-and-rose-parade.html">Colts, Hawkeyes, Cyclones, and Rose Parade bands, marching music for the 2024 Iowa Caucuses</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-spartans-for-drum-corps-new.html">The Spartans for a drum corps New Hampshire Primary</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-south-carolina.html">Marching music for the 2024 South Carolina Primary — Carolina Crown, South Carolina, Clemson, and South Carolina State</a></li><li><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-nevada-primary.html">Marching music for the 2024 Nevada Primary from University of Nevada, Reno, and UNLV</a></li></ul>Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-8172903138276163642024-02-26T12:39:00.000-05:002024-02-26T12:39:50.616-05:00Susan Lozier at TED asks 'Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Ocean?'<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/snl-opens-with-trump-victory-party.html">I told my readers</a> "Stay tuned for a more evergreen post tomorrow." That's today, so I'm sharing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ql90yGWt0">Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Ocean? | Susan Lozier | TED</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6ql90yGWt0?si=nngoUG7SQl3z4CDB" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Ocean waters are constantly on the move, traveling far distances in complex currents that regulate Earth's climate and weather patterns. How might climate change impact this critical system? Oceanographer Susan Lozier dives into the data, which suggests that ocean overturning is slowing down as waters gradually warm — and takes us on board the international effort to track these changes and set us on the right course while we still have time.<br />
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Countdown is TED's global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at <a href="https://countdown.ted.com/sign-up">https://countdown.ted.com/sign-up</a></blockquote>For my response, I'm reusing my comments from <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/08/pbs-terra-asks-is-earths-largest-heat.html">PBS Terra asks 'Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Really Shutting Down?'</a><blockquote>This is not a new concern, as Al Gore described it in "<a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2013/04/showing-inconvenient-truth-to-my.html">An Inconvenient Truth</a>." I asked about it specifically in the worksheet I used in one of my classes, which I reproduced in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2013/08/hot-not-cold-blast-from-past.html">Hot (not): a cold blast from the past</a> along with an answer.<blockquote><blockquote>What is the likely effect of the melting of the Greenland ice cap on ocean circulation and global climate?</blockquote>In the movie, the idea is that the release of meltwater from a large glacial lake diluted the Gulf Stream, causing the water to become less dense and unable to sink to the bottom of the ocean off Greenland, jamming up the global thermohaline circulation and sending the planet back into an ice age for another thousand years. An analogous melt of water from the Greenland icecap, which is beginning to happen, would do much the same thing, slowing ocean circulation and cooling Europe. Both of those are indeed taking place.</blockquote>The movie came out seventeen years ago and I wrote the above more than ten years ago. It's not as if we weren't warned.<br />
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Speaking of which, PBS Terra listed the Greenland ice sheet and the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) last September in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/09/pbs-terra-asks-what-will-earth-look.html">PBS Terra asks 'What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?'</a> I'm reusing my reaction from that post as well.<blockquote>Watching all that reminds me that <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/climate">none</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/hot">of</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/weather">these</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/risk">threats</a> are new, so <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/05/noaa-predicts-another-above-average.html">my reaction isn't either</a>.<blockquote>First, welcome to <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/04/carbon-dioxide-at-levels-not-seen-for.html">the 400 ppm world</a>. Second, <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/07/pbs-digitals-hot-mess-asks-are-you.html">are you scared enough by climate change?</a> My readers should be.</blockquote>Hey, I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.<br />
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I'll see if I can resume my awards show coverage tomorrow or if it's easier to stick to reality. Stay tuned to find out.</blockquote>Even that outro works for today.</blockquote>The outro works for today, too, although I've already decided to post this year's version of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/03/marching-music-for-michigan-washington.html">Marching music for the Michigan, Washington, Mississippi, and Democrats Abroad primaries</a> focusing on my adopted home state of Michigan, which has the date all to itself, thanks to <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/02/democrats-are-trying-to-rearrange-dates.html">Democrats rearranging the dates of their primaries and caucuses to make them more representative</a>. I guess that counts as reality through my idiosyncratic lens. Now off to select the videos to watch and listen to while waiting for the results!Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-77444169338815605232024-02-25T12:25:00.000-05:002024-02-25T12:25:34.962-05:00'SNL' opens with a Trump victory party after the South Carolina Republican PrimaryI wondered what I would do today at the end of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/pbs-terra-explains-how-ancient-ocean.html">PBS Terra explains 'How An Ancient Ocean Shaped US History'</a>.<blockquote>Stay tuned for the final Sunday <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</a> feature of February. I could still compile a highlights post of tonight's <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</a></i>, but I'll see if I'm feeling it tomorrow.</blockquote>I'm feeling it. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcf6sGPx5wY">Trump Victory Party Cold Open</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fcf6sGPx5wY?si=TbIOQTDqYQWJR7DN" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Senators Tim Scott, James Risch, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio (Devon Walker, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Marcello Hernandez) discuss Donald Trump over a meal.</blockquote>It's enough to make me feel a bit sorry for the actual politicians, as much as I've made fun of them, particularly <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2015/12/farewell-lindsey-graham.html">Lindsey Graham</a> and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/Marco%20Rubio">Marco Rubio</a>. Then I remember what they did for party unity and discipline — party over country — and I don't feel so sorry for them anymore.<br />
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The cold open was ostensibly a victory celebration of <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Penguin">Donald Trump</a> winning <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/marching-music-for-2024-south-carolina.html">the 2024 South Carolina Republican Primary</a>, so it's time to watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Ong1uzOHI">Weekend Update: Trump Wins South Carolina Primary, Biden Raises $56 Million For Campaign</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_Ong1uzOHI?si=P4bnAuBw-0qio_n2" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like the Alabama Supreme Court ruling frozen embryos are children.</blockquote>I was wondering if the South Carolina Republican Primary would be called early enough for it to be the lead story on Weekend Update. I shouldn't have been concerned; it was called just after 9:00 P.M. EST. On the one hand, that's not great for Trump; he's not getting the numbers Joe Biden got. I'm recycling my comment from <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/george-santos-sues-jimmy-kimmel-and.html">George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel and Trump sells sneakers</a> for the other hand.<blockquote><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/Darling%20Nikki">Nikki Haley</a> is staying in for the same reasons <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/stephen-colbert-returns-after-his.html">Liz Cheney is opposing Trump</a>: "As <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/07/colberts-live-monologue-plus-chris.html">I wrote in July 2022</a>, 'In Liz Cheney's case, she'd like her pre-2015 Republican Party back. I doubt she'll get it any time soon, so she'll settle for damaging TFG instead. I wish her luck.' She's certainly doing her best." Too bad her best won't be good enough to win the nomination.</blockquote>But it might be enough to damage Trump. I hope she's happy with that. I know I am.<br />
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Weekend Update continued with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nUP-qm-82s">Zombie Deer Disease, Red Lobster’s Endless Lobster Experience</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5nUP-qm-82s?si=XhOrbUqTYKPm1Pb3" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like a study showing women benefit from exercise more than men.</blockquote>"Zombie deer disease" is formally known as <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/expanding-distribution-chronic-wasting-disease">Chronic wasting disease (CWD)</a>, a prion disease. That's as bad, if not worse, than <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2021/11/vaccinations-approved-for-children-5-11.html">COVID-19</a> <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2022/02/pbs-newshour-on-us-death-rate-long.html">in deer</a>. Cooking deactivates viruses, <a href="https://memory.ucsf.edu/dementia/rapidly-progressive-dementias/prion-infection-control">but not prions</a>. Yikes!<br />
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The joke about putting <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> where no one would see it on Paramount+ is a funny version of a whine <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-americans-wins-program-of-year-plus.html">I wrote six years ago</a> and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-good-fight-shorts-animated-musical.html">repeated the next year</a>: "'The Good Fight'...only seems to earn Emmy nominations for its music. At least the musicians are watching the show; other branches of the Television Academy don't seem to be watching." Something similar has been going on with the <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/star%20trek">Star Trek</a></i> shows, as the hair and makeup artists are nominating it, including <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/09/celebrate-star-trek-day-with-two-emmy.html">two Emmy nominations for <i>Star Trek: Picard</i> last year</a> and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2020/09/star-trek-vs-star-wars-futuristic.html">five nominations for <i>Star Trek: Picard</i> in 2020</a> including two for makeup, one for hairstyling, and two for sound. At least the <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2023/12/star-trek-vs-star-wars-at-51st-saturn.html">the Saturn Awards</a> committees were watching and nominated the franchise for a bunch of awards and <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-saturn-awards-votes-for-national.html">people like me voted for them</a>. Let's see if the next season of <i>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds</i> fares any better with the entertainment professionals.<br />
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<i>SNL</i> hasn't uploaded the interviews from Weekend Update yet, so I'm ending this post with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwgzcXnOHyI">Trump Sneakers</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WwgzcXnOHyI?si=1njHZ4zmUvaphhSo" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>Things turn around for a struggling man (Shane Gillis) when he's gifted a pair of magical sneakers from Donald Trump.</blockquote>"White Men Can Trump." Unfortunately, a lot of us can. Sigh. Also, SNL couldn't resist a "Biden is old" joke. Double sigh.<br />
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Enough topical humor. Stay tuned for a more evergreen post tomorrow.Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-28315804022959376882024-02-24T13:18:00.003-05:002024-02-24T13:22:28.825-05:00PBS Terra explains 'How An Ancient Ocean Shaped US History'As I wrote <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/future-proof-examines-rise-and-fall-of.html">yesterday</a>, "I'm planning on writing posts with a longer shelf life than the daily or weekly news cycle for the rest of this month." In that vein, I'm sharing PBS Terra's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmNXq-dnV0">How An Ancient Ocean Shaped US History</a>.<br />
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<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7FmNXq-dnV0?si=QwhvCvqTpj8-SeUO" title="YouTube video player" width="500"></iframe></center><blockquote>From ancient seas to fertile soils, evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton explores the remarkable journey that transformed the Cretaceous coastline into the fertile “Black Belt” region of the American South. He joins oceanographer Craig McClain, professor Sven Beckert, and geneticist Steven Micheletti to learn how millions of years of deposits shaped the events of Black American history.</blockquote>A lesson I teach my geology students is how the underlying rocks and sediments influence how humans use the landscape. The example I use involves stranded shorelines when lake levels were higher during the terminal Pleistocene here in metro Detroit. People like to site cemeteries and parks on them, particularly the shoreline of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Whittlesey">Lake Whittlesey</a>, map below.<br />
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My explanation is that these ancient beaches are elevated benches of sand that are relatively easy to excavate, wide enough for cemeteries, and provide good views. The first two are practical considerations, while I think the last is cultural. We may fancy that the dead would like a vista, but it's really for the living.</p><p>I drive this lesson home the Saturday before Halloween, when I lead a field trip past all these cemeteries, calling it a Halloween Graveyard Tour, that ends at a local cider mill. Students enjoy it, as long as they don't get lost, which does happen. I plan on adding addresses and GPS coordinates to the landmarks for future trips so my students stay on course. That's not exactly what I had in mind by incorporating technology into my teaching, but welcome to meeting my students where they are in third decade of the 21st Century.<br />
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All of that pales in comparison with the journey through time and space that Shane Campbell-Staton took his viewers through. It shows how connected history, economy, culture, and politics are to the Earth on a scale that dwarfs my example from the end of the Pleistocene to today. It also reminds me of my favorite <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12124-the-past-is-never-dead-it-s-not-even-past">William Faulkner quote</a>, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” Faulkner was a Southerner, so he was in a position to know, but even he had no idea how the deep past from the time of the dinosaurs still hasn't died and is still with us.<br />
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Stay tuned for the final Sunday <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment">entertainment</a> feature of February. I could still compile a highlights post of tonight's <i><a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/search/label/SNL">Saturday Night Live</a></i>, but I'll see if I'm feeling it tomorrow. If not, I might continue covering the Oscar nominees as I promised in <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol-and-abcs-of-book.html">'20 Days in Mariupol' and 'The ABCs of Book Banning' leading documentary nominees according to Gold Derby</a> or revisit <a href="https://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-saturn-awards-votes-for-national.html">My Saturn Awards votes for National Science Fiction Day 2024</a>. Return tomorrow to find out.</p>Pinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.com0