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Holy shit. CNN just interviewed the dude who took out the shooter. Very hard to watch.

Thanks for the heads up. Picked up the Gauraldi at my nearby store yesterday but nothing else interesting. Out and about today and stopped at one across town and found some nice ones. Sale was supposed to end yesterday and they were ringing up at regular price at the electronics checkout. I pulled a “Karen” and pointed out to the Mgr. they still had the sign up so the gave me the sale price.

Love off road racing. Dakar, Baja and WRC. Used to race dirt bikes so I love old footage of Barstow to Vegas and those Mojave Hare Scrambles.

Started to go to that game but didn’t make it. Looks like Paris next Fri. 2PM. Lucky winner gets the Carthage/Gilmer winner.

4A D2 Aubrey beats Center Pleasant Grove beats Caddo Mills

Holy crap. SOC recovers onside kick. Looks like the will hold on 42-37

35-10 now

SOC up on Lovejoy 28-10 3rd Q

Headed for a 4AD2 showdown: Carthage up 54-16 on Van Alstyne Gilmer up 60-20 on Gainesville

Guyer now up 49-28 midway 3rd

Used to watch JD sit in with local bands when he was 16. Their debut is one of the most interesting I’ve heard this year. Weird I didn’t get into Miles until much later in life but listened to fusion when I was a kid. Mahavishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report.

Hard to find any vintage 70s Marantz in that range anymore. Maybe a 2215. For 80s 90s stuff I like Sony and Yamaha. For a new one this is a nice basic 2 channel receiver from Sony. Phono input and Bluetooth. Around $150.00 STRDH190

Definitely in. Fripp is nuts but an amusing and brilliant nut. A lot of my favorite musicians have played in KC. Saw them in Fort Worth in ‘95. First time I saw Fripp was with Gabriel in ‘78. He was using Dusty Rhodes as a pseudonym. He sat on a stool on far stage left, almost offstage.

I can’t imagine riding that Vespa with Coolidge on back. Looks like a mid 70s model. Those things have drum brakes, 8 horses and about 3” of travel.

Sis in law took this pic of TR in Waco 2017. She’s been flying a Pitts in air shows for a long time and did several shows with the pilots. B.I.L. was going for a ride in TR when this was taken.

Not all of these were at air shows Saturday’s collision between two World War II-era military planes at a Dallas air show was the latest in a long list of crashes involving vintage planes used or designed for military purposes. Some recent fatal crashes in the U.S. and abroad: Oct. 2, 2019: A four-engine, propeller-driven B-17G Flying Fortress bomber with 13 people aboard crashed at Bradley International Airport, north of Hartford, Conn., during a traveling vintage aircraft show. Seven people were killed and six were hurt. The National Transportation Safety Board found that pilot error was the probable cause, with inadequate maintenance a contributing factor. Nov. 17, 2018: A privately owned vintage World War II Mustang fighter airport plane crashed into the parking lot of an apartment complex in Fredericksburg, killing the pilot and a passenger. The P-51D Mustang was returning after performing a flyover during a living history show at the national Museum of the Pacific War. The aircraft was destroyed, and several vehicles in the parking lot were damaged. Aug. 4, 2018: A 79-year-old Junkers Ju-52 plane operated by the Swiss company Ju-Air plunged into the Piz Segnas mountain near the Flims ski resort in eastern Switzerland, killing all 20 on board. Retired from Switzerland’s air force in 1981, the German-built plane was carrying tourists who wanted to take “adventure flights” to experience the country’s landscape in vintage planes. Swiss investigators said that “high-risk flying” by the pilots led to the crash. May 30, 2018: A small vintage airplane that was part of a GEICO stunt team with five other planes crashed in a wooded residential area in Melville, N.Y., killing the pilot. The World War II-era SNJ-2 aircraft, known as a North American T-6 Texan, had departed from a nearby airport and was heading to Maryland when it crashed. July 16, 2017: A pilot and an airport manager were killed in Cummings, Kan., after their World War II-era P-51D Mustang “Baby Duck” crashed into a field. Authorities say the pilot was re-creating a stunt he had performed on the prior day at the Amelia Earhart Festival. Jan. 26, 2017: A World War II-era Grumman G-73 Mallard flying boat stalled and nosedived into the Swan River in Perth, Australia, during Australia Day celebrations. Both the pilot and his passenger died. Aug. 27, 2016: A pilot from Alaska was killed when his 450 Stearman biplane, a World War II-era plane often used for military training, crashed during the Airshow of the Cascades in Madras, Ore. July 17, 2016: A T-28 Trojan, used by the U.S. military as a training aircraft beginning in the 1950s and also as a counterinsurgency aircraft during the Vietnam War, crashed at the Cold Lake Air Show in Alberta, Canada, killing the pilot. Thousands of spectators witnessed the accident. Aug. 22, 2015: A 1950s-era Hawker Hunter T7 jet crashed into a busy highway near West Sussex, England, killing 11 and injuring more than a dozen others. Investigators said the pilot, who survived, was flying too low and slowly to successfully complete a loop-the-loop. He was charged with 11 counts of manslaughter but ultimately was cleared. June 22, 2013: A pilot and a wing-walker were killed when their World War II-era Boeing-Stearman IB75A biplane crashed into the ground and burst into flames during a performance at the Vectren Dayton Air Show in Vandalia, Ohio. Thousands of spectators saw the crash, which federal safety investigators said was likely caused by pilot error. Sept. 16, 2011: The pilot of a 70-year-old modified P-51D Mustang called the Galloping Ghost lost control of the aircraft at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show in Reno, Nev., and crashed into spectators, killing 10 and injuring more than 60. The pilot also died. Federal investigators blamed the crash on worn parts and speed.

Friends in Denton say it’s legit. Probably check out the new location.

Don’t recall seeing that on Traces of Texas.

True. But if he posts something even slightly controversial on FB or Twitter the crazies come out.

All of R2 D8 got spanked. Texas High won the district and lost at home in OT to D7 4th place Terrell.

I’m seeing Lovejoy 38 Whitehouse 34

He pretty much covered most of that when I saw him speak. Also on his website.

Just resting

Everybody Sing! January made us shiver What if Mike Pence won’t deliver Bad news could be pending Sleepy Joe just might be winning And if the chosen one goes down Then who will wear his thorny crown He needs us now and we will need his call And we’ll be singing My my see the liberals cry Drove our Ram trucks to the White House Trump flags flying so high Them good old boys are kissing Mike Pence goodbye And singing this is where Democracy dies This is where Democracy dies