Tonex – Squandered Opportunity?
Playing with Navidrome and listening to old digital music, I’ve made a couple posts about artists who start well and end not so well (1, 2), with this one being perhaps the saddest example. Tonex grew up in a church…
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Now it’s SERIOUS. (Sailing Alaska to Greenland)
I recommend going back to the beginning with them buying the boat and getting it seaworthy in the Napa, CA area. They then sailed out the Golden Gate and north to Alaska going through the Canadian coastal islands. But this…
Christon Gray – Squandered Opportunity?
I’ve done a previous post about musical artists that start strong, but end poorly. And we’re just talking facts, as I’m not their judge. And when you find success in entertainment, strong temptations will follow along with industry compromise. But…
The Truth About The Wildfires
An excellent recap.
Life with Eb
Over a decade ago I used to watch a repo guy out of Utah, and he was using license plate scanners, looking for vehicles in a commercial database his scanner populated along with others… And he did a lot of…
No Agenda Show Analysis of Terrorist Attacks
The No Agenda Show, which does media deconstruction, has some good analysis of the terror attacks along with the media messaging around it. They’re concluding an FBI entrapment operation gone wrong as part of the FBI six week cycle I…
The Japanese Bruce Lee of Boxing – Naoya Inoue
I’m mainly an MMA fan, but Inoue’s boxing is super technical. And he really digs shots to the body which is often underutilized in fighting, as fighters get locked into head hunting. Japan might not have a champion MMA star…
The Iconic 1977 Pontiac Firebird Formula from “The Rockford Files!”
The wife and I have been watching old shows as a lot of modern TV is trash and dark, and they beat you over the head with the propaganda messaging, especially the alphabet mafia nonsense. And they were even doing…
No Joke, She Knocks ’em Out Harder Than Men – Dakota Ditcheva
A lot of female MMA practitioners just aren’t that interesting, as the sport has been dominated by juice queens that used PEDs instead of developing real skills or having talent. But Dakota may be the most impressive exception. And I…
Goldman Delivers Grim Outlook For Prospective Homebuyers
Looking at the map of affordability (bottom) by percentage of income required to purchase a home, you can certainly see where Californians fleeing have impacted the entire west. And for some reason a lot moved to Tennessee, which was reported…
I Bought a Sailboat to Start a Life in the Arctic
This is the promise of YouTube and other online video platforms, non-megacorp video productions of the interesting stories happening around the world.
Living Free on the Water for Decades – Now Forced to Shore
Interesting documentary on the anchor outs in the SF Bay area. Multimillionaires living around the bay with their boats in the marina don’t want to look at old boats marring their scenery, so they use the wheels of government to…