Praise be upon him Ken Burns Baseball that one of the million reasons I love baseball and your American…is the tradition of our sacred National Anthems was its playing during…game One of the Worlds…Series …when the world was literally at war! In Fenway Park…1918! If it were kosher, me and my girl are going to show up late for our seats in the Kennedy Center (why do they always get it backwards call so sayeth the woman who dubbed them “Americas Camelot”, back to the future Jackie O!!!). Anyway, don’t mean to curse, but there is a reason why I call The Don an anti Truth Neo nationalist sociopath and his war secretary Ironcrossman. Did you hear President Duterte, I mean Trump had five more “‘suspected’ war criminals, I mean drug smugglers whacked today. No biggie, the United States Constitution need not apply...talk about bringing new meaning to offshore drilling. God help U.S. Idiocracy is based on a true story.
When I think the Saudis, I think of the Haus of Fraud and a cold blooded axe murder, I mean Texas…not…chain saw massacrer dressed like a Saharan cowboy. Forgive me Jesus, but talk about if it is ever okay for a President to whack a foreign gangster…whose crime family is responsible for so much pain and suffering since F.D.R. had to sell out our countries immortal soul on the line…again, speaking of the world at war with U.S. Jared Kushner gives me the creeps…and gives him some kind of superpower when his Arab friend and foes see it in him…They’ll give him what he wants…2 billion mullah (I dig your jive talking Jay). Anywho…whoever performs for an axe murderer can go to hell with him if you axe me…not for all the Saudi Dough in the second world. Fittingly called black gold…Pray for our sinners…so help. If you cannot tell a joke…what are you….a rhymes with hell out…Speaking of…
The Russian “President” and the American Greatness…may they share a fools gold place in…forgive me Jesus, I know you commanded me, speaking of Catholic internationalism, U.S. to pray for our sinners…butt them…oh, don’t get me started talking about dem North Korean counter cults.
Once a music snob, always a music snob…in the realm of the Beavis and Butthead …I am a you boob tube child of the Eighties…rizz, by second definition…Our Crazy Century. God HELP U.S.!!! Trumpism is a criminal conspiracy against Democracy. 19 Venezuelans cannot be reached for comment Guilty as charged, no memoir required.
One more passage. Coming in number three, behind faith and family, in reverse order, I thank God I was Born in the U.S.A. everyday. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Peace through superior mental firepower
"Klima defined Communism as “a criminal conspiracy against democracy.” I believe it is far more sinister and evil. I believe that Communism is a criminal conspiracy against all of humanity.
I was born in 1952. It seems like, when I was a child, almost every official meeting or event started with "The Star Spangled Banner". It seemed like it stopped during the political bitterness of the late Sixties, the race riots, the War in Vietnam, the assassinations, and the bombs. I like to hear our national anthem, regardless of whose idea it is.
I agree with everything you've said regarding the rich entertainers (a class that I consider to include pro athletes) sucking up to the Saudi despots. "We've established what you are. Now we're just haggling about the price.", a quote attributed to a variety of witty people would seem to apply.
I like the way the Houston Symphony Orchestra does it. The first concert of each new season they will play the national anthem. That’s it. I like that.
To me it would lose its meaning and not mean as much if they did it before each concert.
I don't consider this a snob level take, but I respectfully disagree about the few words soloists, or conductors, or concertmasters say before a performance. For us novices the background and insight is valuable and welcome. Just my $.02.
Loved the LIV article even though I missed it contemporaneously.
At the high school baseball game. The scheduled National Anthem singer is a no show. They ask my daughter who to get since she knows everybody. She volunteers me. I know the words and am notable for being loud in public.
Talk about pressure. Luckily, somebody's seven-year-old niece showed up at the last minute, and I was able to gracefully step aside. She nailed it.
Do they know the lyrics to the National Anthem? If they're baseball fans they do!
We just got back from a vacation in Scotland, and last weekend we went to a play in Edinburgh. My wife and I were both astonished when the performance . . . just started! No national anthem. No theater official talking about the play or plugging a fund drive. Nobody telling us where the exits were. And nobody spouting fatuous nonsense about how for millennia indigenous peoples were caretakers of the land the theater was built on.
The curtain just went up, and Chekhov's characters just started talking past each other.
Jay- as the father of a teenager, Rizz is about 3 yrs old and on its way out. But if you’d rather be somewhat up to date, just say “6-7” as you move your hands up and down, palms up, as if weighing between the two numbers. You’ll fit right in I’m sure. And this one is only about 6, 7 months behind.
Praise be upon him Ken Burns Baseball that one of the million reasons I love baseball and your American…is the tradition of our sacred National Anthems was its playing during…game One of the Worlds…Series …when the world was literally at war! In Fenway Park…1918! If it were kosher, me and my girl are going to show up late for our seats in the Kennedy Center (why do they always get it backwards call so sayeth the woman who dubbed them “Americas Camelot”, back to the future Jackie O!!!). Anyway, don’t mean to curse, but there is a reason why I call The Don an anti Truth Neo nationalist sociopath and his war secretary Ironcrossman. Did you hear President Duterte, I mean Trump had five more “‘suspected’ war criminals, I mean drug smugglers whacked today. No biggie, the United States Constitution need not apply...talk about bringing new meaning to offshore drilling. God help U.S. Idiocracy is based on a true story.
When I think the Saudis, I think of the Haus of Fraud and a cold blooded axe murder, I mean Texas…not…chain saw massacrer dressed like a Saharan cowboy. Forgive me Jesus, but talk about if it is ever okay for a President to whack a foreign gangster…whose crime family is responsible for so much pain and suffering since F.D.R. had to sell out our countries immortal soul on the line…again, speaking of the world at war with U.S. Jared Kushner gives me the creeps…and gives him some kind of superpower when his Arab friend and foes see it in him…They’ll give him what he wants…2 billion mullah (I dig your jive talking Jay). Anywho…whoever performs for an axe murderer can go to hell with him if you axe me…not for all the Saudi Dough in the second world. Fittingly called black gold…Pray for our sinners…so help. If you cannot tell a joke…what are you….a rhymes with hell out…Speaking of…
The Russian “President” and the American Greatness…may they share a fools gold place in…forgive me Jesus, I know you commanded me, speaking of Catholic internationalism, U.S. to pray for our sinners…butt them…oh, don’t get me started talking about dem North Korean counter cults.
Once a music snob, always a music snob…in the realm of the Beavis and Butthead …I am a you boob tube child of the Eighties…rizz, by second definition…Our Crazy Century. God HELP U.S.!!! Trumpism is a criminal conspiracy against Democracy. 19 Venezuelans cannot be reached for comment Guilty as charged, no memoir required.
One more passage. Coming in number three, behind faith and family, in reverse order, I thank God I was Born in the U.S.A. everyday. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Peace through superior mental firepower
"Klima defined Communism as “a criminal conspiracy against democracy.” I believe it is far more sinister and evil. I believe that Communism is a criminal conspiracy against all of humanity.
I was born in 1952. It seems like, when I was a child, almost every official meeting or event started with "The Star Spangled Banner". It seemed like it stopped during the political bitterness of the late Sixties, the race riots, the War in Vietnam, the assassinations, and the bombs. I like to hear our national anthem, regardless of whose idea it is.
I agree with everything you've said regarding the rich entertainers (a class that I consider to include pro athletes) sucking up to the Saudi despots. "We've established what you are. Now we're just haggling about the price.", a quote attributed to a variety of witty people would seem to apply.
Jay, your words about "rizz" remind me of a bit of Hillbilly Haiku that I learned from my father:
"Spring has sprung
the grass has rizz.
I wonder where the flowers is."
Sorry about that.
Love it!
I like the way the Houston Symphony Orchestra does it. The first concert of each new season they will play the national anthem. That’s it. I like that.
To me it would lose its meaning and not mean as much if they did it before each concert.
"Oh, thus be it ever that free men shall stand
between their loved home and war's desolation.
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
praise the power that hath made and preserved them a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just
Let this be our motto: In God is our trust.
And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
o'er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave."
Once a year every 250 seems more than reasonable to me.
I don't consider this a snob level take, but I respectfully disagree about the few words soloists, or conductors, or concertmasters say before a performance. For us novices the background and insight is valuable and welcome. Just my $.02.
Loved the LIV article even though I missed it contemporaneously.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is still in business? Didn’t Trump kill it?
At the high school baseball game. The scheduled National Anthem singer is a no show. They ask my daughter who to get since she knows everybody. She volunteers me. I know the words and am notable for being loud in public.
Talk about pressure. Luckily, somebody's seven-year-old niece showed up at the last minute, and I was able to gracefully step aside. She nailed it.
You'd've been good!
Always learn something new from your Substack. Checking out My Crazy Century by Klima
Do they know the lyrics to the National Anthem? If they're baseball fans they do!
We just got back from a vacation in Scotland, and last weekend we went to a play in Edinburgh. My wife and I were both astonished when the performance . . . just started! No national anthem. No theater official talking about the play or plugging a fund drive. Nobody telling us where the exits were. And nobody spouting fatuous nonsense about how for millennia indigenous peoples were caretakers of the land the theater was built on.
The curtain just went up, and Chekhov's characters just started talking past each other.
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Please write the book regarding National Anthems. I’ll take a signed copy, please.
"Everything I think is embedded in that piece."
You talked about this on The Remnant podcast. I thought both you and Jonah made reasonable points, but my gut was with you.
Also, my teenagers say "rizz" is over.
By time you’ve heard it, it always is.
My son Vlad's science team called themselves "The Rizzlers" three years ago, so I think that's when it peaked. Vlad is very trendy.
Jay- as the father of a teenager, Rizz is about 3 yrs old and on its way out. But if you’d rather be somewhat up to date, just say “6-7” as you move your hands up and down, palms up, as if weighing between the two numbers. You’ll fit right in I’m sure. And this one is only about 6, 7 months behind.