Don’t Pet the Snakes in Life
April’s Fool 2024
Prices everywhere are getting higher; the impending Presidential election could put America at war with itself; seems like all the politicians are taking us all for a ride; fentanyl is ravaging the cities; inflation is going up; housing is making it so if anyone of us sell our house, we could never afford to buy in the neighborhood. Social media has changed the way we both interact and avoid interacting with. Tech employers laying off employees to reap more in profit; COVID was a time in which workers were able to work from home…..but now that they tables have turned, employers are using their power to make us all kiss their pinkie ring. Every little purchase is tracked and any deviation sounds the alarms of the 3 major credit reporting whores, by default , have access to your data before you can even say no. American society is quickly become eaten from the inside by all of the corporations, billionaires, the 1% keeping more for themselves than they are willing to share. The balance in this country is way off where it should be and I feel like it’s spiraling.
Or is it? I’ve noticed that when I stop reading the fucking news all the time (cause it’s an easy way to avoid having to interface with people) – I’m starting to shed my relying upon these big media companies to keep pushing filtered information to our devices. It’s all bullshit, what they push as news.
Jay Inslee’s fake empathy for citizens living next to encampments
Jay Inslee is a wimp of a man. He tells the parents whose children have to walk by a homeless encampment on their way to school…..that he will do everything humanly possible to clear the encampment in a couple of months. Thanks for he grift Jay. If this is your pathetic way of moving urgently to solve our problems…..you need to be vote out and replaced. To allow a small percentage of the population suck up so many city resources….fire, police, our parks, sidewalks – The city has enabled the unhoused homeless addicts to have carte blanche around the city….while the Seattle Times burys its head in the sand when it comes to report the real news – that our unhoused problem is actually a nasty, rampant drug addiction wave that has hit America first with Big Pharma seeding our communities with opioids then shifting their strategy and filling the demand for the insidious usage of fentenyl everywhere.
One thing you’ll never see in Seattle are any elected City Council members who have to deal with RVs and encampment around their homes. Tammy Morales of Dist 2 has a $3 million house near Lake Washington….far away from the tax payers of her district who continually have to contend with rampant crime, crazy drug addicts or witness the daily car / bike chop shops. Their policies that have accelerated the overall decline in quality of life in Seattle. Since they hold themselves above the citizens they are suppose to represent, I am quite surprised that there are few that are calling these so called leaders on the carpet for failing to ensure public safety, ignoring small business owners pleas to wake up and start listening to their stories about how their failed policies of decriminalizing coke, meth, heroin and fentanyl have made addiction and mental health bring forth more theft, lawlessness and a free for all for predators preying on the vulnerable population.
The City of Seattle has been abandoned by those trusted to serve the public; Since the resignation of Ed Murray, Jenna Durkan and her Administration made a mockery of everything with her “summer of love” comment…and then subsequently mysteriously delete her text messages after the East Precinct was handed over to the anarchists. As a result of the deleted text messages, city tax payers paid Durkan’s $3 million dollar fine….and then walked away, never held responsible for her actions.
What’s in my bag – An alternative to AI music curation
With AI officially curating the music you listen to, its getting increasingly harder to discover new music and new bands. Luckily, AMOEBA records in Hollywood / Berkeley has a great YouTube show called “Whats in my Bag?” Musicians like us are born to write songs, find melodies and try everything possible to make songs unique and memorable. Us musicians are a serious lot. We value an honest relationship with our music, our bond….and for any company or entity to try and take that away is major disrespect.
By listening to the musicians interviewed for “What’s in my bag?” I have discovered a lot of new, old music such as Scott Walker, Agent Orange, Bomfuck MC’s, Baby Metal, and Nirvana. Each episode I watch always has a key takeaway artist I have never heard of but yet they sound as familiar as the good ones. If you are stuck in a musical rut, be sure to tune into Amoeba’s “What’s in my Bag” and get ready to explore!
Welcome to 2023!
I am happy to start the new year off right, so I celebrate New Years with two of my dear friends. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today without their support and encouragement.
Moving forward….
Hello cruel and sweet world!
Welcome to my blog, a new hosting service and a new instance on WordPress.