Tuesday, May 2, 2023

A friend of mine is in Paris right now for his 40th Anniversay...

I sure hope they're having fun...
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I have no problem admitting I liked the guy's music.
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Maybe the problem isn't climate change after all. 
Maybe there's just too many fuckin' people.

Like many other rivers around the world, the Po River, a 652-kilometer (405-mile)  waterway which runs from the northwestern city of Turin to Venice on the eastern coast traverses Italy’s most densely populated, highly industrialized and most intensively farmed part of the country, known as the Italian food valley. Navigation will soon become impossible if abundant rainfall doesn’t arrive soon.
It’s home to fishers and boats, feeds rich farmlands, powers turbines and quenches local populations across its banks and delta. 
The water also maintains tourism, with world-renowned lakes like Garda and Como crowded every year by millions of international vacationers who love to enjoy fresh clear waters, art and good food. Those who rely on it have often conflicting priorities and are having to scramble for alternative, water-saving plans.
A study using satellite data confirmed earlier this year that Europe has been suffering from severe drought since 2018. Rising temperatures are making it difficult to recover from this deficit, leaving the Continent stuck in a dangerous cycle where water becomes ever more precarious.
 

The problem isn't the climate. There's too much demand because there's too many fuckin' people on the planet. Figure it out for yourselves...
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Beer Business Daily reported that Bud Light's sales outside of restaurants and bars was down 26.1 percent from a year earlier, in the week ended April 22.
Overall this year, Bud Light sales are down 8 percent as the fallout from the April 1 partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney continues.
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Fascinating how you'd never hear anything relating to this come out of the White House or the Senate, right? It all goes back to that simple construct - numbers don't lie, people do.
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Mother's Day is coming up soon.
 Are you going to wait until the last 
minute to get her something nice?
 You can do that. Wait 'til the very last minute and get her
some cheap-ass chinese made bulshit at the gas station.
 I'm sure she'll be overjoyed at your thoughtfullness.

OR - you could get her something like this... 

Click on the picture above for information on these earrings.
They're only $ 18.00 and that includes free shipping!
 You can find something nice for your Mom, your wife, 
your daughter or your girlfriend right here: 
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I never honestly gave this any thought at all beyond always thinking that somehow the food in the commissary was free to the employees and actors. I have no idea where that idea came from, either. A half a broiled lobster (with drawn butter) woulda set you back 55 cents back in 1941.
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There's no holding back for ole' King Chuckie. 
They're gonna throw him a whiz-bang bash.

Ya see, unlike here where we have a new President (sorta) every four or eight years, over there, this shit don't happen that often, so they make a BIG deal about it. Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Andrea Bocelli highlight the lineup, which also includes the British pop group Take That, plus U.K. talent Sir Bryn Terfel, Freya Ridings and Alexis Ffrench.
 Maybe it's me, but I'da thought they could put together a roster that was a little stronger on the Brit side, if ya follow my meaning.
The highlight of the program will most likely be The Coronation Choir, which unites a diverse group of singers from the Portishead RNLI sea shanty choir, farmers, cab drivers and reggae groups across the U.K., will also give a special performance with The Virtual Choir, comprised of singers from across the Commonwealth.
Holy fuck - are they kidding with this? I wanna see what's on King Charlie's IPod.
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I'd hope that most of you know who this is, and here's a interesting little tidbit. Y'all should know by now that I live in a rather substantial development here in North Central Florida. 
Anyway, Harold  Schwartz is the midwestern guy who started this whole Villages thing back in the 70's. Mr. Schwartz is also credited with the discovery of famed disk jockey and radio personality Wolfman Jack, employing him at his Tijuana, Mexico, radio station in the late 1960s.
 
That was him, playing himself, in American Graffiti.
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2 comments:

  1. My Moma always said (from 1950's on) there were two things wrong in this world: to many people and television.
    It is still way to many people and not just TV, but all advanced electronics....

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  2. If you look at a combination of fertility rates and age distribution across the population, the world in general is pretty close to a population collapse due to not enough babies being born for the last 40 to 50 years. Many countries, Italy included are beyond the point of no return. Even if they decided it was a problem and that they should do something about it, they don't have enough women child bearing age to avoid the cliff.

    The US has the millennial generation that most countries don't. The US is not as terminal as Europe, Canada, Australia, and industrialized Asia. France, New Zealand, and the US are probably in the best shape of the industrialized world. Everyone else in 20 years is royally screwed.

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