Thursday Night Open Thread

I never really got into Beck. And I don’t know why.

I have made a point to try to listen to his music, and some of it was okay. But, it did answer the first question I had when I first heard about an artist named “Beck.”

My first thought was “Jeff Beck?” Well, it didn’t take long for me to answer that question with a resounding “no.”

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“Submitted for Your Approval: Imagine Yourself in a World Where These Are the Decisions”

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So We Got That Going For Us

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Un Believable

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Spam / Free Comedy

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News From the Future

“Very entertaining, but where . . . and, you know, I’ve said this all along — where is my kaleidoscopic bacon?”

– Joe Biden at the 2020 Debates

Pottery Corner

When I take my kitten for a walk;
How I wish that it could talk.
Of all the wishes ever written;
How I wish I had a kitten!


Freaking people with freaking masks
Freak me out when some freak asks:
“Excuse me, are you Miley Cyrus?”
“No. Just long hair. Coronavirus.”

Four Titles

1. The Writing’s on the Wall

2. The Words of the Prophets Are Written on the Subway Walls

3. Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

4. Taggers Read Books?

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“Magnify, Mr. Sulu”

Newly Reprocessed Images of Europa Show ‘Chaos Terrain’ in Crisp Detail

NASA / April 30, 2020

The surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces that geologists call “chaos terrain.” Three newly reprocessed images, taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s, reveal details in diverse surface features on Europa.

Although the data captured by Galileo is more than two decades old, scientists are using modern image processing techniques to create new views of the moon’s surface in preparation for the arrival of the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter of Jupiter will conduct dozens of flybys of Europa to learn more about the ocean beneath the moon’s thick icy crust and how it interacts with the surface. The mission, set to launch in the next several years, will be the first return to Europa since Galileo.

Harsh Tag

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I’m not entirely sure I trust them, though.

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Song Parody: Certain USA

(To the Tune of the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA”)

♫  ♫

If everybody had an OSHA
To test ’em every day
Then everybody’d be certain
For a moment, anyway . . .

♫ ♫

You’d seem ’em wearing their facemasks

“I’m Clear of Hunan Today”

Finally, finally get their hair done

In Certain USA

♫ ♫

You’d catch them with their handfuls

Up at the checkout line

At an appropriate distance

And outside there’s a line:

All over Manhattan

It’s done the Democrats’ way:

Everybody needs Certainty:

Certain USA

Yeah, we’re planning out a coup:

We’re gonna make real soon

We’ve battened down our hatches

We can’t wait for June

It should be gone by the summer

Unless it’s here to stay:

Everybody say “It’s Trump’s fault”

It’s certain all they’ll say.

Haggard weekends in PJ’s

Specific rules imposed

Inappropiate funfests

Wide-open beaches closed

Alone, anhedonia

Mortality? No way

Everybody’s uncertain

Uncertain USA

♫ ♫

Everybody’s uncertain

Curtains, USA.

♫  ♫

Beethoven

‪On May 7, 1824, Beethoven shared his 9th Symphony with the world, even though he would never hear it.‬

The most poignant moment: 1:10:00 — “World, do you sense your Creator?”

Wait For It

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Straight Line of the Day: You Can Be Honest Now: How Are You Coping With The Break-Up of Comet Borisov?

Straight Line of the Day: You can be honest now: how are you coping with the break-up of Comet Borisov?

It wasn’t your fault, you know.