You're fooling yourself and you don't believe it...

 Tommy Shaw is a genuine rock star.

 I've watched this 100 times...  

 

Sing For The Day! showcases Styx guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw's 2016 solo gign with the Cleveland-based Contemporary Youth Orchestra, under the direction of principal conductor/founder Liza Grossman. Alongside guitarist/musical director Will Evankovich and backed by the next generation of the finest high-school-aged musicians in Ohio, Shaw also celebrates the tenth anniversary of Styx's triumphant 2006 One With Everything performance with the CYO. 

During the entire performance (which can be seen on PBS), the CYO & Chorus bring new life to many classic band and solo tracks in front of an enthusiastic audience at the intimate Waetjen Auditorium in Cleveland, including "Blue Collar Man," "Girls With Guns," "High Enough," "Too Much Time on My Hands," "Crystal Ball" (featuring the debut of its never-recorded lost verse), and most especially "Renegade," highlighted by an epic guitar/violin duel between Shaw and a noted CYO alum. "It was so much bigger and more everlasting than any of us imagined it would be," marvels Shaw - now see and hear just how magical Sing was for yourself.

Here's the Orchestra's website:
https://cyorchestra.org/

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The Number One problem with today's society:

 

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This wouldn't seem so crazy if it wasn't so real, and remember - these people are community leaders and they are serious about this. That thought alone should scare the fuck out of you.

The New York Post is reporting that San Francisco politicians will meet today to publicly consider a reparations package that would pay $5 million lump-sum payments to its eligible black residents. The city’s Board of Supervisors will weigh the draft plan, which recommends eliminating personal debt and tax burdens and doling out guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years to an undetermined number of black citizens in addition to the hefty check.

Black families could also buy homes in the expensive city for just $1 under the plan aimed at amending centuries of enslavement and systemic racism that have disadvantaged black citizens in educational, economic and other sectors of American life.

“It is not a matter of whether or not there is a case for reparations for Black people here in San Francisco. It is a matter of what reparations will and should look like yet,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, who is Black, said at the hearing’s opening.

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There's this guy who's referred to as a 'Celebrity chef ' by the name of David Burke who owns a bunch of very upscale, expensive eateries. He recently opened The Fox & Falcon by David Burke at 19 Valley Rd. in South Orange, NJ if you're in the area and craving stupid shit like this. He calls it 'Clotheline bacon' and that's the actual presentation - I think they do the torching tableside. $ 18.00 for three pieces of scorched bacon. Seems like a bargain at twice the price to me...
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Think the Boston Globe is a Lib newspaper?

This is what they think of DJT...

 

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File this under 'The shit we see every day 

that  we never give any thought to'.

Somebody has to be working inside Big Ben.

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I make fun of 'Florida Man' all the time mostly because the term itself has 

come to represent stupid people doing stupid shit in stupid places, and they're usually funny as fuck.

One of the things I really do enjoy about living here is the fact that we really do feel much safer here - whether it's an illusion or not. I mean, no matter what, if you're in a big urban city or area crime rates are gonna be higher, sure, but where I am shit - I go five minutes north of my house and I'm in horse/cattle/cirtus country. It's the genuine boonies, and ya know what? The boonies are pretty fuckin' good place to live, not excluding the fact that damn near everyone you see is strapped. Juss' sayin'...

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The Academy Awards have lost whatever smidgen of respectability they may have still had left over.

I watched about two thirds of this movie the other day. It was one of the stupidest, most convoluted, ridiculous things I've seen in a long, long time, and that's saying something because I see some really stupid shit during the course of my day. The movie had absolutely no redeeming value at all. The camera work was quirky. The dialogue was garbled and stupid. There was just way too much cartoony-shit going on. How the fuck could something like this win so many awards? I'll explain it as simply as I can. The Academy members are a buncha over-politicized liberal jerkoffs with little to no taste or respect for true art and achievement. Tada...

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