Thoughts!

You cannot possibly keep up with this shit. This nation's descent into irrelevance continues. WE are becoming that asshole neighbor who has no brains, no couth yet has 400 guns and yells a lot at anyone who comes near his lawn. Yeah everybody knows it isnt going to end well for this cretin, but he's so out of his mind, and he's armed, so you just go out of your way to avoid him. God Bless America! Please, soon.

1) Mike Pompeo is a bigoted Kansas nitwit. The man makes a disastrous Secretary of State like Rex Tillerson look like Jefferson. Yet the Senate, including a bunch of Democrats, still stuck in the belief that a Trump voter would actually vote for them if they just voted for enough brain dead bigots to satisfy their stupid, approved this balloon headed shithead to represent American values abroad. Ya know, bigotry, homophobia, anti-Islam beliefs, all those American values. Pompeo will take his Jesus based bullshit abroad to turn the State Department even more irrelevant, which may be the mission in the first place. Diplomacy is a lost art, just bomb the fuck out of anyone who gets in your way and say America Fuck Yeah! The only problem with this idiotic belief is eventually the whole world hates your guts. That's when the road to bring down the Block Bully becomes easier. We need friends.

2) Joy Ann Reid is a national treasure. She may or may not have made tweets offensive to the LBBTQ community in her distant past. Obviously that was not cool. Joy Reid apologized for that today. So lets not eat our own again because of imperfection. Joy Reid is a lot like a lot of people. What she believed as someone who didnt know the people she looked down upon became old news. When she found out that the people she looked down on were all around her the views changed. This is called learning and progressing. Its called changing your mind. Changing your mind is strength, not weakness. Some day perhaps Trumpers can try it. Perhaps neanderthals like Mike Pompeo can try it.

3) Jazz is still my music of choice. To listen to jazz is to be content. The true American music. The San Francisco Jazz Collective came thru town the other night to entertain hundreds of us old jazz fans. The average age of the crowd at a true jazz show is somewhere between decrepit and dead and I am including myself. But what transpires is pure heaven. The SF Jazz Collective played the music of Miles Davis and their own selections. Miles stuff ranged from the cool to the fusion while the original material was more concentrated on solo work. I never had the pleasure of seeing Miles Davis but to hear a band of talented musicians do his work was absolutely mesmerizing.

4) My favorite musical of all time is Jesus Christ Superstar. It came along as I lingered in a Catholic high school years ago and taught me more about the Bible than all the fire and brimstone combined. I bought the record and wore it out. I was in Texas once when I was seeing The Godfather with my Dad and as we came out a young man said you guys HAVE to see that JC Superstar movie. I went back the next day, alone. Loved it. I have seen the live show more than any band or play ever. I love it. It makes me think. But that live JC Superstar on NBC a few weeks back was 50% great and 50% snooze. Im sorry, but John Legend isnt the type of singer who can handle that role of Jesus. Alice Cooper was being Alice Cooper on valium. That crowd of screeching millenials annoyed the shit out of me. But there were good things. Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas was the star. Sarah Bareilles was fantastic as Mary Magdalene. All in all it was good. I hope this live Broadway continues. Minus overenthusiastic crowds.

5) Goddamit why is Donald Fucking Trump still in office???

I'm done!