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    The Company

    By JamesSavik,

    If you haven't seen it yet, I've got a new story. It's quite a departure form my usual style. I usually don't include a lot of sexual content because unless it's balanced, that ends up being all there is.
    As I try to deliver a good story and maybe spark peoples interest in new things, I might as well experiment a bit. My plan is for four guys in the eighties to find each other and have adventures... and lot's of smoking hot sex along the way.
    I was stalled on another project and needed to put my head somewhere else for a while. This was fun and I like the characters. I hope y'all do to.
    Check it out. Maybe in private. 😀
     
    -James
     
    The Company
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    Cambridge Audio Christmas

    By JamesSavik,


    Home Audio
    This Christmas I had two choices: either I let my old stereo die or replace it with something new and modern that could do things like streaming my old system could not.
    I've been replacing it by bits, but my old amp was on its last legs.
    I did my homework. I read reviews, looked at specs and found something I could afford and gave me the kind of options I wanted.
    The core of my new system is a Cambridge Audio ARX-85. It's a capable little amp that can push 85 watts over two pairs of speakers. It can handle a CD player, AV audio and a turntable. Its Bluetooth connectivity allows me to steam off my phone or computer.
    I matched it with a Cambridge Audio AXC35 CD player.
    I added a Furman power director, so clean power is going in, and I already had the Sony Blu-ray player.

     
    This Audio Technica LP140XP is connected directly to the ARX85 with no need for a pre-amp. The required circuitry is built in like it was in older systems where a turntable was de rigueur. People still love their Vinyl and this generation of equipment excels at filling that niche.

     
    I'm still experimenting with all this cool stuff this little system can do. I have it hooked up to my TV, so it can give me theater sound for DVDs or television. The tricks I can play with the Bluetooth connectivity are only constrained by imagination. Being able to stream right off my computer is loads of fun.
    My only regret is I didn't go with the next step up: the ARX100. I'm getting over it. That would have made the whole system pricier than I wanted to go.
    As a tekkie, I am used to struggling with tech to make it work. This system acts like it never heard of Murphy. Everything I've tried has worked right the first time with no problems. This hardware is a joy to work with, not a struggle. Cambridge Audio equipment is well worth looking into.
    Anyone can build a banging system with a big pile of money. The core of this one only cost ~750. The rest of the hardware was already on hand.
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    The Unblinking Eye

    By JamesSavik,


    media
    The Unblinking Eye

    Once upon a time, the news of the world came to us at the sedate speed of the newspaper man's Linotype. The news of the world would arrive at your door every morning along with sports, comics, book reviews and obituaries. On its way, editors might decide that the typhoon in China or the earthquake in Persia wouldn’t be of interest to local subscribers. Sometimes the images of distant disasters and war took weeks or months to end up before the public.

    Given the advances in telecommunications like microwave relays and satellites, the news cycle, and vast amounts of information can reach us as it happens. Now we can see the great events in real time.









    Our generation has seen more, known more, been more connected than ever before. We have had a high definition box seat to every earthquake, every volcano, every hurricane, every typhoon, every forest fire, every terrorist bomb, every war, every plague, and every human misery across the globe.
    It’s only human for people to say- I just don’t remember this much chaos in the old days.
    That chaos has always been there. We just weren’t as connected.
    Now we have to consider exactly what we are shown and what gets left on the cutting room floor. In the eighties, we wouldn’t have seen that typhoon roll over Taiwan. In the nineties we wouldn’t have seen the glaciers calving in the Antarctic. There’s a reason why we are seeing this and not something else. There’s a reason why we see human interest stories and silly cat pictures instead of something else.
    I won’t suggest whose agenda is being served. I won’t suggest that it is all a huge political cat fight. No one is stupid. We know this.
    It’s just important as you sit in front of your digitally multiplexed information pipeline to your brain that the people turning the spigots have a purpose and an agenda. It’s up to you to think for yourself and decide whether that purpose and agenda is in your best interests, your country’s best interests or the world's best interests.
    These images are not flat. They are three-dimensional and interactive. We are not simply observers. We are also players in this huge game and must take responsibility for our tiny part of it. How that works is a personal choice, but the great game is in progress and will continue with or without your input.

     
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    Scientific Consensus

    By JamesSavik,


    science
    Scientific Consensus
    Alfred 1 Wegener (1880-1930) was a German meteorologist who picked up an interest in geology.

    He wondered why some continents like Africa and South America fit together almost like a key?
    He began to wonder: do continents move?
    In Victorian times such an idea seemed ludicrous as every good Christian fundamentalist knew that the world was 10,000 years old.
    Anyone who might suggest processes like Wegener s or his contemporary James Hutton that took place over hundreds of millions of years was obviously daft.
    But Wegener’s suggestion that continents actually did move over time answered questions in biology.
    Why are there related species on the different continents but- they are obviously distant relatives. Obviously, well adapted for their environments, similar but obviously related.
    This did not prove Continental drift but, it certainly made a case for further investigation.
    Wegener suffered for his outlandish theory. No one in the scientific community gave his ideas any credence, and he didn’t get tenure at a prestigious university. In fact, he was a laughingstock.
    He died at the age of fifty doing field work in Greenland.
    His theory did not die. It didn’t come back as a coherent theory until the technology was developed to gather the data needed to prove that continents did indeed move.
    The theory of Plate tectonics was born and still remains controversial in some circles, but it is now a theory with hard data to back it up.
    This is a theme repeated time after time in science.
    If someday someone will come up with a theory better than plate tectonics, then science will adopt it. Otherwise, it works, it explains how demonstrable phenomena works, and it can be measured.
    Always be skeptical when someone tells you that the science is settled.
    Skepticism is the way of science: someone has an idea (hypothesis), then we test, test, test it. If it works, it becomes a theory. If not, we go back to the drawing board.

    Science is never static. Our understanding of ourselves, our planet and our universe is always changing.
    Anyone who tells you the science is settled doesn’t have a clue how science works.
    If the history of science is any guide, the “consensus” is wrong more than its right. We need mavericks like Wegener to show us a new way of looking at our world.
    The big question now is our climate changing?
    Yes. It has changed numerous times.
    Climate in geological time has changed for a number of reasons from comet bombardment, volcanic out-gassing and variations in solar output.
    The question of the age is that climate change man made or is it a natural cycle like a Grand Solar minimum.
    This question is by no means settled. Both hypothesis have their merits.
    Pretending that we know this answer is the worst sort of scientific hubris.
    We don’t know. We need to know because both models will treat 7 billion humans harshly.
    Only one is the right answer and getting it wrong would be a disaster.
  5. JamesSavik
    Some people might think that the 1st memes invented were Keyboard cat, Philosoraptor and the numa-numa guy.
    That would be very, very wrong.
    Imagine you lived in a Kingdom that was one of the most powerful and influential in the world but, it had fallen on hard times. The king was, by all accounts, a corrupt incompetent dolt. The people were hungry and the spoiled, foolish Queen, when told there was no bread for the peasants said let them eat cake.
    While this might sound uncomfortably familiar to modern Americans, this was the climate that gave rise to the French Revolution. It was also the fertile ground for the French satirists who I submit were early generation memers. What people fail to understand about memes is they are much more about ideas than humor but the combination of the two makes them that much more powerful.
    What we call memes is an evolution of an ancient idea called satire more succinctly defined as the illustration of the absurd with absurdity.
    Every middle schooler naturally knows about satire because that is when they inevitably meet an incompetent and bungling bureaucracy. One must take care with satire as to be a proper smart ass, you must first be smart. Otherwise, you are just an ass.
    There were many French satirists. I would like to focus on a gentleman named Voltaire.

    Voltaire and the French satirists used their wit to point out the myriad hypocrisies and inequities of their political and social situations. Like Charlie Hebdo, many of the French Revolutionary era satirists faced rather deadly blow-back from those that failed to see the humor in their work.
    This was an amazing era and one that the modern democracies owe much to because many of the things we see as foundations of democracy were first discussed by the thinkers during this era. They were seeing the end of the monarchy as a practical form of government and looked forward to imagine what the next step would look like.
    See if you recognize any of Voltaire’s ideas:
    I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Common sense is not so common. It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. Prejudices are what fools use for reason. As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; reason quenches them. Voltaire would have been hell on wheels if he had internet access.
    Be suspicious when you hear people in power discount the ideas of others. Those silly memers that poke them right in the hypocrisies have quite the history. So, when you see memers banned from facebook or twitter, what you are really seeing is da man swatting the Socratic gad-fly that stung him in a sore spot.
    Only a fearful tyrant censors speech. He is afraid that you will tell the people just what a putz he really is.
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    The Truth About COVID-19

    By JamesSavik,


    COVID-19
    COVID-19 is a modified Coronavirus(1). Coronaviruses are first cousin to the Rhinovirus which cause the lions share of head colds. One guess which family causes the rest of them: coronaviruses.
    Coronavirus and Rhinovirus are positive stranded RNA virus which means their genetic material is the single stranded RiboNucleaic Acid (RNA). They differ significantly from DioxyNucleaic Acid (DNA) based viruses. RNA viruses do not have double-stranded genetic material of DNA viruses and are much smaller than their more evolved cousins. As a consequence, RNA viruses do not have the error correcting mechanism built into dual stranded DNA, and are apt to mutate at the drop of a hat.
    These mutations happen very rapidly, and soon a population with and Alpha RNA virus will soon have Beta, Gamma, and Delta strains.
    It is possible to create a vaccine for a specific Rhino or Coronavirus, but the problem is that each mutation Serotype will differ enough from the original that the probability that the vaccine will work decreases with generational mutation.
    This is why there has never been a vaccine for the common cold. There are literally hundreds of thousands of Rhinoviruses and Coronaviruses each with a unique protein shell. It is that serotype that vaccines use to train our immune systems to look out for.
    This is also why the COVID-19 vaccine is of very limited efficacy. Most of them do a reasonable job of inoculating against the original COVID strain, it is only partially effective against current sub-strains of COVID like Delta and Gamma. It will be completely useless against future substrains as they diverge further and further from the baseline COVID serotype.
     
    Without hysteria, consider what Coronaviruses and Rhinoviruses actually do: they cause mild respiratory illness. In patients who are elderly, present with pre-existing conditions or compromised immune systems, this can escalate to a viral pneumonia.
    Nothing has really changed other than we have a wide-spread  virus with shadowy origins that make us all very nervous.
    The way that it has been handled on a national and international level is extremely questionable.
    Why destroy national economies for a virus with a 99.8%+ recovery rate?
    Why force vaccinations when natural herd immunity is better for actually killing the damn thing eventually?
     
    A much more rational policy is to protect vulnerable populations like the elderly, people with pre-existing conditions and compromised immune systems than to inflict vaccination on an entire population. One of the dirty little secrets of vaccination is that the tiny rate of Vaccine Injury when applied over a large enough population may eventually kill more people than the virus itself.
     
    It's not ignorance alone that has people looking askance at the mass vaccination for COVID.
    I have had both doses of the Pziefer vaccine. I took it because I am around many elderly people. Knowing what I know now, I won't be taking anymore.
    This entire COVID phenomenon has been managed fear and hysteria which has been leveraged by sharp operators and oppertunists for political advantage, and to enrich themselves by the billions while spreading misery and economic disaster to the rest of us.
     
    It is past time to JUST SAY NO to the overreach.
     
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    1- https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/nih-funded-chinas-gain-of-function-research-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/x
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    Cassarole for a Dinner on the Grounds

    By JamesSavik,


    recipes, southern
    Many Protestant denominations have a wonderful tradition called Dinner on the Grounds. That alone is enough to give you religion but, I digress. It's often held in late summer or early fall so the bounty of farms and gardens can be shared with friends and neighbors. Many a little old church lady...

    ...will don her blue wig and show off her best recipes. This is why there are no anorexic Baptists.
    If you would like a taste of this heavenly goodness without the associated hymns and prayers, some of these recipes are so easy a heathen child could make them.

    Heathen Child
     
    Maw-Maw's Casserole for Dinner on the Grounds
    Ingredients:
    2 cups of Minute Rice (white or brown)
    2 Cups of Water
    1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
    1 Can Cream of Onion, Celery or Chick- your choice
    4 Green onions chopped
    1 small can of mushrooms
    2 cups of medium cheddar cheese (use one, save one)
    1 pound of shrimp peeled OR 1 pound of chicken sliced into small pieces (Note: that's OR, not AND)
    1 Tablespoon Creole Seasoning
    1 Can of Rotel Tomatoes
    1/2 stick of butter
    Three pieces of bacon, crumbled
    One large Mixing Bowl
    One 9 X 13 Casserole Pan
    ____________________________________
    Instructions:
    1. pre-heat oven to 400 degrees (F)
    2) grease or use Pam on the Casserole pan
    3) In the mixing bowl add 2 cups rice, 2 cups water, 2 cans of cream of whatever soup, 1 can Rotel, 1 cup cheese, one Tablespoon Creole seasoning, green onions, mushrooms and 1 pound of chicken or shrimp.
    4) Mix thoroughly and place mixture in Casserole pan creating a flat and even distribution.
    5) Cut butter into thin slices, place on top of the casserole.
    6) Place in oven and cook at 400 degrees for 50 minutes.
    7) at 50 minutes, remove the Casserole pan from the oven.
    8. Place 1 cup of cheese on top of Casserole and then crumble the bacon on top
    9) Cook and additional 10 minutes.
    10) Remove from oven. Let sit for 15 minutes before serving.
     
    You can vary this recipe a great deal with different kinds of onions, bell pepper, you might even substitute half of the meat with cooked sausage. It's so good, it's almost a religious experience.
     
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    Fun with the Eagle Nebulea

    By JamesSavik,


    astronomy
    This is the Eagle Nebula. It is otherwise known as M-16 or "the Pillars of Creation". As a star forming region, it has long been studied. The Hubble's images from the nineties have given us a better look at it than ever before. We can now see structures that no telescope ever before could resolve.
    This gave us a chance to see these gems.

    All of these artifacts are gas, dust, multiple stars in the process of formation and their interactions.
    The Demon is five major stars forming and, probably, a dozen more we can't see.
    The Sleeping Cat is formed by hot stellar winds interacting with cold nebula gas.
    Hooters is formed by two big, bright stars and numerous smaller pre-stellar objects.
    Fred is two newly formed stars and a cluster of stars for the nose. A dark nebula forms his mustache.
    Sadly, this region is thousands of light years from here and no longer looks like this. Much of the gas will have burned off and the infants stars will be further along in their life cycle.
    It really is a glimpse at creation as we are seeing new worlds being born.
     
    -JS
     
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    Urban dictionary

    By JamesSavik,

    I have contributed some old eighties slang to the urban dictionary. There is, of course, much more of it. This is all I've written up so far. [entries in red have not been accepted yet.]
     
    The Urban Dictionary is pretty raunchy but where was I going to find out what a filthy-Sanchez was? Wikipedia?
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Disgusting alert! Be warned- it gets ugly below.
     
    organ-spasm
    A mind-blowing, earth-shaking orgasm so intense that you never forget it. It must be something of a religious experience as most people shout, "Oh God, Oh God, Oh God!".
     
    Holy crap Jessie can give great head. That was an organ-spasm I'll never forget.
     
    synonyms: big-o wet rapture climax squirm cum
     
     
     
    try-sexual
    A young guy that is such a horn dog that he will try most anything sexual.
     
    My buddy Shawn is a try-sexual: he f**ked his that fag-hag girl Mandy and her pal Travis.
     
     
    Leg Hound
    1. a male dog the humps your leg
    2. a young man with a powerful sex drive that will f**k anybody, anything, anytime, anywhere.
     
    1. What could be more awkward than meeting your girlfriends parents with their damned leg hound humping and nutting on your shin.
    2. Jesus Shawn! I can understand f**king fag-hag Jamie but did you really have to f**k her buddy Travis too?
  10. JamesSavik
    I have two rather large writing experiments that I've been running for a while now.
    I have been running them at GA because I can access them directly and don't have to go through an intermediary to post or do hot online edits. These are highly experimental, and I'm trying a lot of new and different things. I'll share my findings here.
    I had several goals that I wanted to achieve:
    Get proficient with self-editing Work on the process of outline => draft => revision Get the product out faster See how the experimental elements work. I'm going to share my results here.
    The Company
    https://gayauthors.org/story/jamessavik/the-company/
    Plot synopsis: A young man just out of college receives a huge inheritance. He decides that he's going to build this team and new family at the same time.
    Style and Experimental Elements: Each chapter is a day. It's not stream-of-consciousness but, it is quite dense with some chapters running up to 40K words.
    I work with a rather large cast of characters and am actively working on characterization. It is quite a monster at this point weighing in at over 285K words.
    It is an ongoing effort but not a front-burner project. There is much more to go.
    I'm not pleased with the dense style. It's a lot of work and continuity is a real pain. It has created a fun story, but it is SUPER LABOR INTENSIVE. I probably won't use the style in future work.
     
    The Summer Job
    https://gayauthors.org/story/jamessavik/the-summer-job/
    Plot synopsis: A young man who has recently undergone a family tragedy relocates to a new town to get away from bad memories and to start over.  His new job is a huge part of his personal reconstruction. He's basically a good guy, but he learns a lot about himself in the process.
    Style and Experimental Elements: Each chapter is one to three scenes. It is much less dense with chapters running from 1000 to 4000 words max.
    Again I work with a large cast but not as big as The Company. I experiment with a villain I make you hate and then admire. I show how gossip gets twisted and assumptions can be way off base.
    Summer Job just hit its climax and will soon be completed. It's been a fun story to write, and it's not the time sinkhole of the high density style. I've learned a lot from it and can bang out a chapter a day as long as I'm not so busy with real life I've got the time to work.
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    The Vinyl

    By JamesSavik,


    music, albums, vinyl
    Like many kids my era, I collected albums, smoked a lot of weed and listened to music real loud. Unlike many of my contemporaries, I held on to my collection and treated it with great care. It sounds as good today as it did in the seventies.

    Jackson Browne The Pretender LP   R The Beatles Abbey Road LP   R Foreigner Foreigner LP   R Billy Idol Billy Idol LP   R Rod Stewart Greatest Hits LP   R Velvet Underground 1969 LP   R Prince 1999 LP   R Rush A Show of Hands LP   R Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol LP   R U2 Under a Blood Red Sky LP   R Heart Greatest Hits LP   R Queen Greatest Hits LP   R Rod Stewart A Night on the Town LP   R Berlin Count Three and Pray LP   R Billy Idol Rebel Yell LP   R Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come LP   R Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time LP   R Jeff Beck Wired LP   R The Mothers Just Another Band From LA LP   R Yes Classic Yes LP   R Ramones Road to Ruin LP   R various artists Miami Vice LP   R Elton John The Very Best LP   R Santana Abraxas LP   R Rush Power Windows LP   R The Kinks Live the Road LP   R U2 The Joshua Tree LP   R Jefferson Airplane Worst of Jefferson Airplane LP   R Boston Don't Look Back LP   R The Clash Combat Rock LP   R Eurythmics Sweet Dreams LP   R David Bowie Let's Dance LP   R REM Document LP   R Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City LP   R Aerosmith Greatest Hits LP   R Rush Hemispheres LP   R Kinks Golden Hours LP   R Eric Clapton Collection LP   R Cream Collection LP   R Dire Straits Alchemy LP   R Rolling Stones Collection LP   R David Bowie Changes Two Bowie LP   R Police Ghost In The Machine LP   R Police Every Breath You Take LP   R The Animals Collection LP   R Lynyrd Skynyrd Gold & Platinum LP   R Pink Floyd A Nice Pair LP   R Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band Shaved Fish LP   R Jim Croce Greatest Hits LP   R Bread The Sound of Bread LP   R The Byrds Greatest Hits LP   R Genesis Collection LP   R Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue LP   R Beach Boys Endless Summer LP   R Cheap Trick At Budokhan LP   R Kansas Leftoverture LP   R ELP Welcome Back LP   R John Lennon The Collection LP   R Kansas The Best of LP   R The Beatles Rubber Soul LP   R Pink Floyd The Final Cut LP   R Jethro Tull Original Masters LP   R Doobie Brothers Best of LP   R The Cars Candy-O LP   R Police Zenyetta Mondatta LP   R Ramones It's Alive LP   R Yes Yesterdays LP   R Yes Tormato LP   R Yes Yesterdays LP   R Jon Anderson Song of Seven LP   R Steve Howe The Steve Howe Album LP   R Asia Asia LP   R REM Eponymous LP   R Dire Straits Brothers in Arms LP   R ELP Works LP   R Pink Floyd Meddle LP   R Yes Going for the One LP   R Yes 9012Live LP   R Yes Time and a Word LP   R Kinks Greatest Hits LP   R Rod Stewart Collection LP   R Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side LP   R Harry Chapin Greatest Stories Live LP   R Eric Clapton Just One Night LP   R Benjamin Orr The Lace LP   R B B King Best of LP   R The Kinks Low budget LP   R ELP Trilogy LP   R X Under the Big Black Sun LP   R Hawks Hawks LP   R Sugarloaf Sugarloaf LP   R David Bowie Changes One Bowie LP   R Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits LP   R Thunderclap Newman Hollywood Dream LP   R Eric Clapton Time Pieces LP   R Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland LP   R The Doors Strange Days LP   R ELP Brain Salad Surgery LP   R Yes The Yes Album LP   R Yes Close to the Edge LP   R Yes Yessongs LP   R Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs LP   R Yes Relayer LP   R Yes Tales of Topographic Oceans LP   R Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced LP   R Pink Floyd Ummagumma LP   R Metallica Mastaer of Puppets CD CD2 R Simon & Garfunkle Greatest Hits LP   R Police Reggatta de Blanc LP   R The Cars Greatest Hits LP   R Yes Drama LP   R The Cars Heartbeat City LP   R Police Synchronicity LP   R The Cars Shake It Up LP   R Rush Signals LP   R Rush Grace Under Pressure LP   R Led Zeppelin II LP   R Jeff beck With the Jan Hammer Group LP   R Jeff Beck Jeff Beck Group LP   R Rush A Farewell to Kings LP   R ELP Tarkus LP   R Billy Idol Whiplash Smile LP   R Rick Wakeman The Six Wives of Henry the 8th LP   R Rick Wakeman Journey to the Center of the Earth LP   R the Who Tommy LP   R Alan Parsons Eye in the Sky LP   R Alan Parsons Ammonia Avenue LP   R Alan Parsons Best of 1 LP   R Alan Parsons Best of 2 LP   R Alan Parsons Tales of Mystery & Imagination LP   R The Babys Union Jacks LP   R Camal Breathless LP   R The Cars Panaroma LP   R Cheap Trick At Budokhan LP   R The Doors The Doors LP   R The Doors Waitng for the Sun LP   R The Doors Morrison Hotel LP   R The Doors Soft Parade LP   R The Doors LA Woman LP   R The Doors 13 LP   R Eagles Greatest Hits 1974-78 LP   R Eagles Greatest Hits 2 LP   R ELP ELP LP   R ELP The Best of LP   R ELP Love Beach LP   R ELP Brain Salad Surgery LP   R Jeff Beck Blow by Blow LP   R Kansas Point of No Return LP   R Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here LP   R Pink Floyd Animals LP   R Pink Floyd The Wall (1 & 2) LP   R Gerry Rafferty City to City LP   R Rush Moving Pictures LP   R Rush 2112 LP   R Supertramp Breakfast in America LP   R Yes Fragile LP   R Yes Yesshows LP   R Schubert The Unfinished Symphony LP   C Chopin Collection LP   C Debussy & Ravel   LP   C Debussy & Ravel The Debussy Album LP   C Liszt Very Best LP   C Stravinsky The Firebird LP   C
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    CD Collection

    By JamesSavik,


    Music
    I have a bunch of CDs and I had to get them organized, so I'll know what I have and where they are. I'm working on my vinyl collection too but, it's a lot more work. I'm taking them out, cleaning them covering the outside in plastic and replacing the liners that need it with an after-market product. I wanted to have this list in a few different places. Anyway, gaze upon my works and despair. Yes- there are duplications (trade bait). Location is where they are. After getting this actually done I'm shocked and am ripping a lot of old stuff that's new again. This is just the CDs. What till you get a load of my vinyl.
    Group Album Med Loc Genre Velvet Revolver Contraband CD CD2 R Heart Greatest Hits CD CD2 R King Crimson Court of the Crimson King CD CD2 R Oasis What's the Story CD CD2 R Jeff Beck & the Yardbird The Yardbird Years CD CD2 R Guns & Roses Appettite for Destruction CD CD2 R Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell CD CD2 R Green Day American Idiot CD CD2 R Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-78 CD CD2 R Uriah Heep Celebration CD CD2 R Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 70-78 CD CD2 R Yes 90125 CD CD2 R Yes Drama CD CD2 R Alan Parsons I Robot CD CD2 R Pearl Jam ten CD CD2 R Blind Faith Blind Faith CD CD2 R The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker CD CD2 R The Police Synchronicity CD CD2 R Queen News of the World CD CD2 R the B-52's Nude on the Moon CD CD2 R Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill CD CD2 R Supertramp Crime of the Century CD CD2 R Cheap Trick Authorized Greatest Hits CD CD2 R ELP Works Vol. 1 CD CD2 R ELP Works Vol. 2 CD CD2 R Who Who's Next CD CD1 R Joan Jet & the Blackhearts Greatest Hits CD CD1 R ZZ Top Greatest Hits CD CD1 R Black Sabbath Paranoid CD CD1 R Gordon Lightfoot An Introduction to CD CD1 R Rick Wakeman Myths & Legends of King Arthur CD CD1 R Metallica Kill 'em all CD CD1 R Van Halen van Halen CD CD1 R Jeff Beck Jeff Beck & the Jan Hammer Group CD CD1 R Black Sabbath Paranoid CD CD1 R Alan Parsons Turn of a Friendly Card CD CD1 R Kansas Point of No Return CD CD1 R Metallica Ride the Lightning CD CD1 R Steely Dan A Decade of CD CD1 R The Cars The Cars CD CD1 R The Cars Candy-O CD CD1 R Alan Parsons Instrumentals CD CD1 R Al Sreward Greatest Hits CD CD1 R Staind 1996-2006 CD CD1 R Flogging Molly Swagger CD CD1 R Men at Work Contraban CD CD1 R Toto The Essential CD CD1 R various artists Top Gun CD CD1 R Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds CD CD1 R The Police Synchronicity CD CD1 R Cult High Octane CD CD1 R Yes Yessongs CD CD1 R Tom Petty Greatest Hits CD CD1 R Glenn Frey No Fun Aloud CD CD1 R Glem Frey Solo Collection CD CD1 R ELO Very Best of CD CD1 R Patsy Cline Definitive Collection CD CD3 C Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists CD CD3 R Hank Williams 20 of Hank Willians Freatest Hits CD CD3 C John Cougar American Fool CD CD3 R Grateful Dead Very Best of CD CD3 R Lynyrd Skynyrd Extended Versions CD CD3 R CCR Chronicle CD CD3 R Joe Satrini Surfing With The Alien CD CD3 R Blondie 10 Great Songs CD CD3 R Rush Permament Waves CD CD3 R Rush Hemispheres CD CD3 R Eagles The Studio Albums 72-79 CD CD3 R REO Speedwagon 81-91 CD CD3 R Styx The Grand Illusion CD CD3 R The Doors Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine CD CD3 R Simon & Garfunkle Greatest Hits CD CD3 R Steely Dan The Definitive Collection CD CD3 R Everclear Best of Everclear 1994-2004 CD CD3 R Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits CD CD3 R Sheryl Crow Icon CD CD3 R Basement Jaxx the Singles CD CD3 R Type O Negative The Least Worst Of CD CD3 R Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans CD CD3 R Cheap Trick At Budokhan CD CD3 R The Smiths The Smiths CD CD3 R The Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Vol 1 CD CD3 R various artists Heavy Metal 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    The Summer Job (A Preview)

    By JamesSavik,


    preview
    Phillip is 16 and new in town with his first job: working for the Y. With no friends and his Dad stuck in London (or was that Hong Kong or Singapore?), he resolves to make a few. One of the new fiends older brother Andy is known to be a real asshole and, he wants to have a talk to Phillip.
     
     
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    Horrible Writing Advice

    By JamesSavik,


    horrible writing advice
    Horrible writing advice...
    Heroes wear white. They ride on high white horses and have shiny plot armor. They are, of course, interesting because who wants to read about a bum, right? Heroes should be flawless role models because seeing them overcome their petty human experience is just plain boring.
    Villains wear black. Their horses don't really like them. They don't get shiny plot armor because the writers guild demands it! They aren't very interesting because they're just plain old evil and no one really cares how they got that way. Furthermore, they always have henchmen or perhaps lackeys and are linked to shadowy nefarious plots.
    Dynamic characters are passé. They confuse the reader, so we shouldn't use them despite, real people having to learn and grow. It confuses the reader when heroes make mistakes and do things that aren't heroic and might be considered dastardly, cowardly or just plain wrong. It's even worse when a villain does something to show virtue and integrity. This whole line of writing should be saved for litany fiction since nobody really reads that stuff.
    Role Reversals- Everybody hates it in a story when the hero and the villain reverse roles. It's too complicated for the modern reader that has a 15-second attention span before they change the channel. Besides, the guy in the black hat saving the girl would be just plain un-American.
    So remember: always write what's expected. You can't go wrong pandering to your audiences' shallowness and stupidity. Throw in some populist political ideology for good measure to prove you're woke and, you can't go wrong.
    After all, it's worked so well for Kathleen Kennedy's Star Wars and the new Doctor Who.
     
    For Terrible Writing Advice, check out my buds channel:
     
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    If you knew Mary Sue
    Then you'd know why I feel blue
    With Mary, my Mary Sue
    Oh well, I loathe you, gal
    Yes, I loathe Mary Sue!
    Mary Sue, Mary Sue
    I'm so fucking sick of you
    Oh, Mary, F-ing Mary Sue
    Oh well, I loathe you
    Yes, I loathe you Mary Sue
    Mary Sue, Mary Sue
    Annoying, bitchy, perfect Mary Sue
    Oh, Mary, f-ing Mary Sue
    I'm so f-ing sick of you
    Die horribly perfect Mary Sue!
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    Shrimp Creole

    By JamesSavik,

    Cajun food is a lot like jazz. There are some basics but, there a lot of ad lib going on.
    Some of the old recipes were designed to vary significantly depending on what you had on hand. For something like Jambalaya the rice and spices are constant but, it can be loaded up with anything from sausage, hamburger meat, shrimp, deer meat, etc. It's how a Mom could feed a lot of kids based on what's in the kitchen.
    It's not hard to do, fun and you come up with some absolutely delicious stuff.
    I'm going to take you through making Shrimp Creole. It takes about an hour and it looks and tastes great. It's a good recipe for company you like. They'll sure come back.
    You need:
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    2 pounds shrimp- (peeled and de-veined works best as it skips a time-consuming chore. Thawed if frozen).
    2 cups chicken broth
    1 can Rotel
    1 small can tomato paste
    1/2 cup sliced celery
    1/2 cup sliced green peppers
    1/2 cup diced onions
    3 cloves of garlic, crushed
    (optional- a few green onions sliced)
    2 tablespoons flour
    1/2 a stick of butter
    1 tablespoon creole seasoning
    1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
    [salt & pepper to taste]
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    Start out by preparing your vegetables. Onions, green bell pepper and celery are the base for a number of creole dishes ranging from red beans & rice, étouffées, gumbo and others. Make sure your shrimp are ready to go. They need to be thawed out if they are frozen.

    Next it is time to make the roux. Roux is a gravy base. It is the base of numerous Cajun recipes. Once you start cooking, it thickens up. Roux is easily done but you have to pay attention to it. If you burn it, it's wasted. Take the pot you are cooking in and apply medium heat. Melt a half stick of butter and then put in the flour- stirring frequently. At first, it will look like this:

    As it cooks, it will smell very good. Stir it and keep stirring. Don't let it sit still. You don't want it to scorch. It will gradually darken to a peanut brown color (we call this a blond roux for étouffées). Eventually it will cook to a darker color like this:

    When the roux is this color, it's ready. Now dump in your vegetables, garlic last. Continue stirring and sauté all of your vegetables in the roux.  This takes about four or five minutes. Once the onions are translucent, add in two cups of chicken broth, 1 can of Rotel and the tomato paste. Add in your spices now. Stir this all together and make sure the paste dissolves good. Bring the pot to a hard boil and then reduce heat and simmer covered for thirty to forty-five minutes. It will look like this:

     
    After simmering for at least a half hour, add in your shrimp and stir them up. Let it continue for another five minutes as the heat in the pot will cook the shrimp.
    Remove the pot from heat and let stand 5 minutes.
    Serve over rice.  Pairs well with white wine, garlic bread and you can garnish it with fine chopped parsley.
     

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    Chili Verde

    By JamesSavik,

    This is my version of the recipe. Your mileage may vary. 🙂
    Chili Verde

    2 pounds pork loin cut into chunks- browned on the stove
    1 X 28 oz can of tomitillos (crush them
    5 X 7 oz cans of verde salsa
    1 X can Rotel
    1 X small can of chili peppers (to taste)
    1 red onion chopped
    3 garlic cloves
    1 tbs chili powder
    1 tbs cumin 
    1/2 teaspoon red pepper 
    1 tsp black pepper
    Put in (large) crock pot for 4-6 hours. Serve with tortilla chips, cheese and sour cream.

     
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    Ingredients:
    3 X chicken breasts
    1 X large onion (red or yellow)
    1 X green bell pepper
    1 X red bell pepper
    Spice Mix:
    1 TBS chili powder
    1 TBS Cumin
    1 Teaspoon salt
    1 Teaspoon black pepper
     
    1 large crock pot
     
    Steps:
    Prep the veggies
    Slice onions and peppers.

     
    Load up the crock pot
    Create a bed of onions and peppers for the chicken.

     
    Park the chicken on a bed of onions and peppers

     
    Apply the spice mix to the Chicken
    Be sure to get both sides.

     
    Add 1/2 cup water, cook for 4 hours on high.
    When done, remove chicken and shred it with a fork.
    Retain the onions and peppers. Strain the liquid, add broth to the shredded chicken.
    Build your fajitas as usual with shredded chicken, onions and peppers.
    Add your favorites like cheese, guacamole, Spanish rice, refried beans, salsa, pico, lettuce, tomato, etc.
     
    Enjoy.
     
     
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    Porky's Chili

    By JamesSavik,

    Porky's Chili

    Ingredients
    1 pound lean ground beef
    1 pound pulled pork (smoked is best, no bbq sauce)
    1 medium red onion
    1 bell pepper (may add or sub Anaheim or Poblano)
    1 small can chili peppers (heat depends on your tastes)
    1 can Hunts chili fixings
    1 can Rotel chili fixings
     
    Spices (note: this is a "safe" amount. If you are more adventurous, you can turn up the volume by adding more chili powder, cumin or red pepper at your own risk)
    1 1/2 tbs cumin
    1 tbs chili powder
    1 tea spoon salt
    1 tea spoon black pepper
    1/2 tea spoon red pepper
     
    Kidney or Pinto beans (optional)
    ________________________________
    Dice the onions and peppers. It's OK to cheat with a food processor.
    Start browning the ground beef
    Add diced onions and peppers to the beef, cook them together ~6-8  minutes until onions turn translucent.
    Add Rotel chili fixings, Hunts chili fixings and small can of chili peppers.
    Add pulled pork.
    Add spices
    Stir thoroughly, bring to a boil for ~ 1 1/2 minutes.
    Optional: add beans at this step.
    Reduce heat and allow cooking for thirty minutes. Stir frequently.
     
    Serve with Mexican cheese, sliced Jalapeños, sour cream, tortilla chips .
    Pairs well with light beer.
    Also goes very well on hot dogs.
    Even better the next day if you have leftovers.
     
    WARNING: This chili is VERY rich.
  23. JamesSavik
    This gentleman has been on the case since the very start. He has had a daily video and, published this summary.
    Things are looking up. It looks like we're not going to have the deaths we thought we might. Lockdown may be boring but, better bored than infected with this little monster.
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    Get Well Soon

    By JamesSavik,

    I am going to recommend a book that's timely and provides some perspective.
    Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright is a short history of the worst pandemics in history. It starts with the Antonine Plague which so weakened the Roman Empire it eventually fell. The book proceeds through history and the big nasty pandemics that collapsed empires and economies like Black Death, Yellow Fever and even AIDS.
    What is important about this book it that is notes the historic mistakes almost every society makes. Give it a read. It's not long and it is funny. If you prefer an audiobook, look here.
    Nothing is new under the sun. Neither are the mistakes. Let's try to skip them this time.
     
     
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    Remember when?

    By JamesSavik,

    Remember when we used to joke about the Corona virus? It's not like we haven't seen new viruses get hyped like SARS and MERS. Someone would leap on a podium, bang a shoe and claim it is the end of the world and, it would fade away.
    Remember how the politicians didn't even take a break from their regularly scheduled circle jerks? Yeah. That was really stupid.
    Remember how we made fun of the conspiracy theorists on the internet that said Wuhan was the home of the Peoples Republic Biowarefare Research Establishment. If you looked it up, holy shit, they were right.
    Remember how some usually stolid and unimpressed epidemiologists practically crapped their pants and had security remove journalists who attempted interviews outside officially sanctioned channels? Yeah, that was a little creepy.
    Remember how they kept revising the NCov19 R0 (R-nought) number upward? That's kind of important as that's an indicator of how easily this bug gets around.
    Remember when a paper was published that claimed unnatural patented gene sequences appeared in the RNA of the virus. Then the paper disappeared from the internet and even archive sites?
    Remember when some scientists were talking about it causing a cytokine storm in some patients- just like the Spanish Influenza of 1919? Coronavirus Cytokine Storm
    Remember when we found out people who had NCov19 could be infectious and asymptomatic for up to twenty-four days? Yeah, that's when another holy shit went out because anything epidemiologists might do in the way of contact tracing is almost a month behind.
    Remember when the scientist who discovered the virus died of the virus?
    The scientist who discovered SARS said:
    The US military is prepping for the pandemic. US Military Prepping for Coronavirus Pandemic
    Some sources say FEMA has proposed martial law.
    Strap it on tight boys and girls. This might turn very, very ugly.
    Nobody at all should be laughing anymore.

     
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