Archive for July 14th, 2020

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 106

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

I’ve got survival on my mind.

(That song belongs on the soundtrack to a movie based on one of Joe Lansdale’s books. Just saying.)

From 1961, “Survival Stresses”. I find this interesting: while it contains bits from other survival films, it concentrates less on specific survival techniques, and more on dealing with the stress of being in a situation.

Bonus video: I might post some desert and mountain survival ones later, but this popped up and I couldn’t resist. “Living Off the Land”, from 1944. This is (according to the uploader, “Australian Bushcraft Magazine“) an Australian Army training film about edible plants (“bush tucker”).

I think tomorrow, we’re going to see more bush tucker.

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Art (Acevedo), damn it! watch. (#AE of a series)

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

I kind of thought I was done with the Art watch. But great and good FotB RoadRich sent me a second tip yesterday.

In a June 2 video, the current Houston police chief takes aim at Austin diversity while also seemingly blaming the city’s residents for inciting violence in Houston.
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“I plead with you, [Houston] is the most diverse city in the United States. This isn’t Austin, Texas, where they’re diverse as long as they’re on the east side of 35,” said the police chief. “This is Houston, Texas. And for the people of Austin who want to come here and tear shit up, you’re in the wrong fucking city.”

Yeah. People from Austin were driving 300 miles round trip to tear (stuff) up in Houston, Art.

It’s unclear from the series of videos how Acevedo gets the megaphone, but he uses it to take another shot at Austin. “I know there are people here from Austin yelling at me and stuff from Austin, but I’m here to tell you, you ain’t in Austin,” Acevedo says. “You are in Houston. You are in H-Town.”
“One of the things I know is I’ve been coming here my whole life,” he continues. “We may fight, we may be angry at each other, but we know that when all these fucking people come out here from the outside trying to tear this shit up while the rest of the country’s burning. Nothing’s burning in Houston.”

Yeah, you’re in H-Town, all right, where Art Acevedo’s police department executed two innocent people during a drug raid. But somehow this is all Austin’s fault. We’re just out to get Art and his police department.

“One of the things I know is I’ve been coming here my whole life…”

Acevedo served as Austin police chief for nine years before taking the top job in Houston in 2016. He grew up in California, according to his HPD biography, and began his career in law enforcement in 1986 with the California Highway Patrol.

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Obit watch: July 14, 2020.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

Judy Dyble. I was unfamiliar with her, but she had an interesting career. She appeared on the first Fairport Convention album, but was let go from the group before it came out. She went on to do a lot of prog rock and electronic stuff:

After leaving Fairport Convention, Ms. Dyble met the saxophonist Ian McDonald. They advertised their services to work with other musicians and were answered by the brothers Peter and Michael Giles and the guitarist Robert Fripp; the three had already made an album as Giles, Giles and Fripp. All five recorded demo songs together, later released as “The Brondesbury Tapes,” before Ms. Dyble moved on. Mr. Fripp, Mr. McDonald and Michael Giles formed the now-eminent progressive rock band King Crimson.

Grant Imahara, for the record.

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Happy Bastille Day, everyone!

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

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