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Nothing comes close to Monkeyman's consistently off-topic post for longevity. I'm hoping this thread will at least approach that.
Post here any and all anecdotes, humor, cool videos, or whatever that you feel will make someone's day a little brighter. Lately I've bumped into negative comments here that I didn't expect, catching me completely off guard and feeling like our stress level is rising. This thread is not the place for that. This is a great board (thank you, James). Let's keep it that way.
The rules are simple - NO negative comments. None, seriously.
And I'll start off:
Burst into song at the workplace today at some random moment. Some co-workers may think you're nuts (and you probably are), but it's sure to make someone smile - and what's that worth? I've done things like this from time to time and now my co-workers KNOW I'm nuts, but they're smilin'.
Philippe
DP 11.23, 2020 M1 Mac Mini [9,1] (16 Gig RAM), Mac Pro 3GHz 8 core [6,1] (16 Gig RAM), OS 14.3.1/11.6.2, Lynx Aurora (n) 8tb, MOTU 8pre-es, MOTU M6, MOTU 828, Apogee Rosetta 800, UAD-2 Satellite, a truckload of outboard gear and plug-ins, and a partridge in a pear tree.
What contemporary Brooklyn is to New York City, Oak Cliff is to Dallas, at least culturally speaking. It's a highly mixed-culture with a young population determined to have arts, music, dining, and recreation on their terms, not dictated by some city zoning commission. The restaurants are wonderful with a little of everything; eclectic. There are murals on the buildings, pedestrians on the sidewalks, and dogs in the parks. More than a veneer on a town left behind when its residents fled to the suburbs, then gentrified by real estate developers who like the word "quaint," Oak Cliff is more urban rebirth by young residents who recognized its inherent beauty and took back their town from urban decay. Now it's the place to live, and if Dallas Area Rapid Transit's light rail lines weren't enough to connect it to its big brother across the river, they've now reincarnated the old street railways to carry people from event to event, parks to food, arts to jobs.
And so, when my daughter moved there about a year ago, I was happy she wanted to be a part of something on the rise, a phoenix from the ashes. She has developed a reputation, apparently, because she was invited to perform in a prominent spot, both geographically and time wise, in a street fair on Bastille Day in the Bishop Arts District of Oak Cliff. A nearby makeshift fountain hosted a 15 foot Eiffel Tower, and the crowds were thick and noisy for blocks with street performers, food carts, food trucks, booths selling all the things you'd imagine for such an occasion. As my daughter and her co-performer were setting up their gear and doing sound-checks for their set of French songs, which she performs regularly along with her originals and her specialty: bossa nova and samba from Brazil, we all began to get word via our iPhones that something terrible had happened back in the French homeland. Too soon for details, we just knew that crowds were panicked, people were lying dead in the streets of Nice.
Then Bronwen began singing in French, and her powerful style, her smooth and masterful guitar playing, and her charm infused into something I had not seen before: a determination to uphold something dear, a sense of prevailing against unknown and unseen forces. And it caught the audience. Where people can often seem indifferent to music in a language they don't know, that night they listened and cheered. Fists in the air, hands clapping, the response was clear: message received.
It was one of those moments when music does what it's always been there to do: give us hope. Remind us who we are. It was a magical night with the full moon over the Eiffel Tower on the streets of a neighborhood reborn. Bastille Day in Oak Cliff!
Shooshie
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You're welcome. I hope it makes up at least a little for the negativity I caused in another thread, recently. My apologies for that. I was just out of line.
Shoosh
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You're welcome. I hope it makes up at least a little for the negativity I caused in another thread, recently. My apologies for that. I was just out of line.
Shoosh
I was on high alert there. Wasn't sure what I had somehow done... Really confused and rather upset that someone thought I was being rude.
It wasn't you guys that I was referring to. No need to mention it. Really.
This thread needs beer!
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Whenever my 93 year old dad, whose memory is pretty unreliable, is ready to conclude one of our regular phone conversations, he says something like "Say hello to your wife, your kids, and anybody else around there who might appreciate it." Always puts a smile on my face.
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Am I the only one who NEVER posts negative or snarky comments here?
Yep. The only one!
Did you ever find a dermatologist?
You're killing me here.
DP 11.23, 2020 M1 Mac Mini [9,1] (16 Gig RAM), Mac Pro 3GHz 8 core [6,1] (16 Gig RAM), OS 14.3.1/11.6.2, Lynx Aurora (n) 8tb, MOTU 8pre-es, MOTU M6, MOTU 828, Apogee Rosetta 800, UAD-2 Satellite, a truckload of outboard gear and plug-ins, and a partridge in a pear tree.
MLC walks into a gynecologist's office and says, "I need help. I'm a moth."
The doctor replies, "You don't need a gynecologist, you need a psychiatrist."
"Yes, but the light was on."
DP 11.23, 2020 M1 Mac Mini [9,1] (16 Gig RAM), Mac Pro 3GHz 8 core [6,1] (16 Gig RAM), OS 14.3.1/11.6.2, Lynx Aurora (n) 8tb, MOTU 8pre-es, MOTU M6, MOTU 828, Apogee Rosetta 800, UAD-2 Satellite, a truckload of outboard gear and plug-ins, and a partridge in a pear tree.
