Random thoughts and randomness in general

[sml]

After the first Snowden leaks, I went without any phone at all for years - Some of the nicest of my life too, albeit, a very solitary life.

After the first week once the addictive panic of disconnection wears off, a deep tranquility I didn't realize was possible sets in.

Unfortunately certain aspects of modernity are no longer possible without this device - Totally bogus.

But yeah, cellphone use and this level of jackedinness is a problem.

Backups though.. always backup everything and often.

 

[Rude]

Jerry band Sunday’s. My church is the best    

[Rude]

My cat imitating a dancing bear

 

[Rude]

The gambler he broke even 

[BillK522]

If Jerry finds out I'm hooked on 

the chicken I'm back in there

with the red menace.

 

Praise DSO.

[Greg from Chestertown]

Just a couple of random thoughts, a customer informed me today that the local grocery store (Redner’s) was playing Estimated Prophet on the overhead speakers today. 
 The other important thing is that when I was texting earlier, I typed the word ‘long’. My smartphone suggested that the next word was ‘strange trip’. I thought that was cool

[Hardpan]

6 hours ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

Just a couple of random thoughts, a customer informed me today that the local grocery store (Redner’s) was playing Estimated Prophet on the overhead speakers today. 
 The other important thing is that when I was texting earlier, I typed the word ‘long’. My smartphone suggested that the next word was ‘strange trip’. I thought that was cool

Me and Jake heard Estimated Prophet in the grocery store one day when we were shopping for groceries to go see a few shows, was a surprise!!

[bs69]

If you can't get a haircut and keep trimming your bangs to keep your hair out of your eyes,  you end up with a mullet

[Rude]

Curious if the less sanitary people we know are washing their hands or bodies during this?  Well not that curious. Hugs are now outlawed so the “am I supposed to guve so and so a hug” problems are resolved. I told the gf when in doubt, hug. Now only super spreaders and Louisiana churches will be participating in this archaic hugging practice. On a weird note, it seems that much of the new porn now, so I’ve heard, is with people wearing masks. Glad to know entertainers are being safe now. 
 

on an actual medical note, it seems from early results that Boston and New Yorkers have extremely high % of peeps with positive antibody tests. So like we’ve all known, way more people have had this than tested. But from one test it showed 30% of people in Chelsea, MA had antibodies. It wasn’t scientific and small sample size and it’s possible that mostly people who thought they had it months ago were the ones that had the test. But then again not surprised in an area where you are more likely to see girls fight in a bar than guys and where black guys cross the road if see white guys walking at them at night. Makes the jersey shore look like the hamptons. So of course they have herd immunity. Honestly I’m ready to have it already. It’s gonna mostly come for us all so let’s get it over with before summer. 
 

I think Dso needs to do a show on some private island like fyre festival. Trump wants to reopen the economy. I suggest that you guys get in touch with Jared kushner and speak on behalf of all touring musicians and get trump to tweet we will be reopening music halls soon. This is his path to reelection.  Get all the deadheads who care about shows more than politics to vote. If he gets me shows in July he’s got my vote. Of course he’s the laziest president we will ever have but his tweets are policy so maybe try to get on fox and friends and talk about how musicians want to play shows to bring up peoples spirits. Remember talking points like 

1. The cure cannot be worse than the disease 

2.  More people will kill themselves if no music than die from this 

3. The economy is more important than anything else 

4. Music like religion can kill the virus. Be gone Satan. I command you. 
5. Most importantly!!!! To be retweeted you need to say trump is the smartest and hardest working president we’ve ever had and if Jerry was still alive he’d be out there fighting for your policies of kindness and caring for all Americans. Thank you trump for reacting so quickly!! No one could have done a better job. 
 

Sincerely,
 

Bourbon 

[Greg from Chestertown]

I was reading somewhere recently that when the warlocks changed their name to the Grateful Dead, Bill Graham was upset about it. They already had an Acid test scheduled the next weekend. Members of the band told Bill, that’s what we’re doing. Put ‘formerly the Warlocks’ on the posters. 
 That changes my perspective on their ‘formerly the Warlocks’ shows they did in ‘89 in Hampton. 

[Rude]

I’m just mad I didn’t send 1 tweet that I could produce ventilators and that 69m check would have been funneled to me then to a Cayman Islands account. I’m so stupid. I bet diamond and silk are mad they didn’t think about it either. I actually could have been shameless and gotten 1mil masks for some governor early on in this as I had emails from factories but it just seemed like dirty business. Now that I’m shut down for maybe the rest of the year I’m rethinking that strategy......but after watching waco, the last thing you want is to be on any government radar. Any attorney general who wants to fuck you will. Conspiracy to profit during a national emergency is probably an executable offense. But I called my hospital clients and offered them respirators at cost. Didn’t mark them up a penny to try to help out—same with sanitizer. My good deed will show up in smaller margins and likely get me audited. But by 2021 the civil war will be included full effect as trump urges the 3%ers on the NE patriots to take action. But then again who’s scared of a kicker. 

[Rude]

Happy Mother’s Day from the president 

 

 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

covid crickets

[Brian NJ]

Here's some random shit...

 

My thoughts at 5 a.m. while driving, voice to text, edited for mis- pronunciation when I stopped. 

 

 Is killing a fish any greater a harm than killing a human?  Should I cry while eating a sandwich knowing I caused the demise of generations of 
fields of wheat  for that loaf of bread? Are my words said or unsaid any more painful to you than to me?God made us all imperfect so that we can learn from each other to be better humans. Am I lesser of a man for my prejudicial thoughts or deeds, or maybe I am more human than many that portray walking on clouds? All of who I am is allowing me to be 95% genuine. I strive for the other 5%... On Judgment Day if there be one, I want God to smile and say here stands a perfectly imperfect genuine human, my creation 😁

 

These are the kinds of things I think of when I turn the music off.

[Rude]

Pretty sure that cutting your yard makes the grass healthier. We are an overpopulated planet in places because of religious organizations who tell people contraception is wrong. In Africa the Catholics deny birth control for starving populations leading to more starvation. Now religious organizations are peddling conspiracies about vaccines. A new poll showed that 25% will refuse getting a vaccine if one is found. Many “evangelicals” are following trumps “lead”. These conspiracies that the far right are peddling about bill gates and Fauci will make it worse. It’s insane that we have someone in charge who meets with the QAnon leader whos main theory is Democrat’s and Hillary are running a child slavery ring.  Only idiots would believe this but he’s got a bunch of them and he’s retweeting QAnon tweets. Like your tax cuts but if you support this guy as a human being you are a pretty sad person who is helping him destroy trust in so many American institutions. It’s pretty gross really.  He really could shoot someone for no reason and Fox News would defend it and his people would have no problem. What loser says this anyway. He did say he’d run as a Republican because they would believe any lie he told. How brazen was he to say that and how sad is it to know that he can make up 50 things a day that aren’t true and he’s cheered. What a scumbag. 

[2muchfun]

16 hours ago, Rude said:

Pretty sure that cutting your yard makes the grass healthier. We are an overpopulated planet in places because of religious organizations who tell people contraception is wrong. In Africa the Catholics deny birth control for starving populations leading to more starvation. Now religious organizations are peddling conspiracies about vaccines. A new poll showed that 25% will refuse getting a vaccine if one is found. Many “evangelicals” are following trumps “lead”. These conspiracies that the far right are peddling about bill gates and Fauci will make it worse. It’s insane that we have someone in charge who meets with the QAnon leader whos main theory is Democrat’s and Hillary are running a child slavery ring.  Only idiots would believe this but he’s got a bunch of them and he’s retweeting QAnon tweets. Like your tax cuts but if you support this guy as a human being you are a pretty sad person who is helping him destroy trust in so many American institutions. It’s pretty gross really.  He really could shoot someone for no reason and Fox News would defend it and his people would have no problem. What loser says this anyway. He did say he’d run as a Republican because they would believe any lie he told. How brazen was he to say that and how sad is it to know that he can make up 50 things a day that aren’t true and he’s cheered. What a scumbag. 

Or could just round up positive cases from hospitals and put them in 

nursing homes...scumbags to the left....scumbags to the right....

here I am stuck in the middle with you

[friendofthedead]

I understand the fight to reopen. Economy is fucked. But l want paid, heavily armed ghetto thugs and hells angels enforcing mask use. Multiple cases of grocery clerks being assulted and killed by these assholes for being asked to wear a mask. Following the lead of this Menace

 

Your mask helps you most. Not this, my mask helps you, your mask helps me bullshit (although it works both ways). Show some fucking respect and wear a mask

[Rude]

Me and the gf always wear a mask to stores. I don’t see any issue protecting each other. South Korea stopped the spread with masks. It’s the only way. I have friends there and masks are mandatory to leave the house. In Seoul which is the density of NYC they only have around 50 new cases a day because of the mask policy. 

[Michael Doc Watson]

On 5/15/2020 at 5:20 AM, cnjBrian said:

.... Is killing a fish any greater a harm than killing a human?  Should I cry......

All good thoughts and ideas to ponder over. Discussions could solidify opinions but not bring truly solid answers. Maybe the truth of these questions is different in various lives.

 

Does the catapillar eating the leaves off my tomatoe plants cause more beauty than the butterfly ?

 

Peace and Love,

Doc

[Rude]

I’ll continue to eat tasty shit and burn gas and fly. Everyone of us likely burns more fossil fuels than the average human so we can’t say much about any of it. It’s life. We live and then die. Survival of the fittest. The earth will be here long after us. If it needs to swallow up Miami and New Orleans, so be it. I’d be a hypocrite to say don’t drill for oil as I do or used to do some 6k mile tour. Save the planet but I’ll hop flights to listen to music. 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

One of the first times I thought I was really hearing the lyrics was at the Wiltern in March of 1987 and I thought Jerry was signing "like a rose, like a rose leading on" I had a battery operated rose that I was holding in the air as Jerry instructed us to "turn around,  turn around and I'll be there " 

[BillK522]

In Dead Nation at the Still in

Timonium, MD on Friday June 5.

Outdoor,  socially distanced.

I hope it goes off, I can not wait.

 

Praise DSO.

 

 

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[BillK522]

Looks Like Rain

will wash out that show.

Can not catch a break.

 

Praise DSO.

[Rude]

Watched the deadco wrigley 7/1/17 stream last night. Was weird to end up dancing with so many Dso peeps that night. But an unsold section attracts the smarter deadheads who want space. What was weird was that deadco was playing pretty normal tempo. May 5% slower. Now they average probably 20% slower. The weirdest thing is that I see people post how Deadco now is like the dead in their prime. Those people are as delusional as the people who actually believe trump is the greatest president ever or even a decent president. Fuck that dude. He’s a pathetic human who only cares about himself. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

So, what’s up with ‘meet up at the movies’? Are we not allowed to have that fun either?    Guess not. God forbid. Better not. I might get sick and die. Better stay home and live. Bitter? Pissed? No, not me. This is more fun than eating dirt.