2020.10.22 07:00 - Verbal Ping Pong

The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: and friend
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Riddle Sideways: new shoulder friend does not speak, yet
Adams Rubble pants
Adams Rubble: rushed to get here
Riddle Sideways: minute ago did not see you online
Adams Rubble: job in back of yard took longer than anticiapted
Riddle Sideways: they always do
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: how are thigs?
Adams Rubble: things
Riddle Sideways: woke way to early
Adams Rubble: awwww
Adams Rubble: can't be the sun
Riddle Sideways: lay there until some thought said it was ok
Adams Rubble: even in sunny California
Riddle Sideways: no, sun is not quite up even now
Adams Rubble: it's very wet and foggy here--warm and hmid
Riddle Sideways: main computer decided it would crash SL
Adams Rubble: ohhhh
Adams Rubble: not nice thing to do
Riddle Sideways: no, but happening more and more
Adams Rubble: :(
Riddle Sideways: Audible has new content they make/write/publich
Riddle Sideways: and push adverts about how good they are
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: learning from orange man
Riddle Sideways: on a drive yesterday started listening to one. And realised should not drive nor do anything but listen to this one
Riddle Sideways: not sure it is anybody else's tea of cup
Riddle Sideways: but, an older white rock-n-roll guy faces the white supremest USA
Adams Rubble: that put "Getting to know you" from King and I in my head for some reason (cup of tea)
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble listens and thinks about Bruce Springsteen on Colbert show last night
Riddle Sideways: oh?
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: well T Bone Burnett grew up in a incelluar suburb, and at around 7 has learned to read and sees in a department store 2 drinking fountains with signs.
Adams Rubble: Bruce talked about years in bands
Riddle Sideways: goes home to stand in front of mirror and wonder about why he was not Colored
Riddle Sideways: must be a sync stream going through. Watched a documentary about Eric Clapton early bands last night
Adams Rubble: old folks refleting
Adams Rubble: reflecting
Adams Rubble: Bruce made image of us driving in a car with our 20 year old, 30, year old, etc.
Adams Rubble: all voices are there
Adams Rubble: it depends upon who is driving on what comes out
Riddle Sideways: ha, Live there too
Riddle Sideways: the many voices singing from the ages
Riddle Sideways: many times just walking
Riddle Sideways: the 20year old wondering if can jump up and click heels
Adams Rubble: Mr Bojangles
Riddle Sideways: good song to have stuck
Riddle Sideways: couple months ago, the drummer in that first band died
Adams Rubble: ohhh, maybe that is who Bruce was talking about
Riddle Sideways: There was a poster in one of Eric Clapton's later Albums showing the members and the connectedness of everybody
Riddle Sideways: all the bands he was in
Riddle Sideways: and how the members moved around
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: can't tell the players without a scorecard
Riddle Sideways: it is a wonderful scorecard
Riddle Sideways: yesterday, 4 of us sitting (socially distanced and masked) playing songs down memory lane.
Riddle Sideways: One plays 3 notes and all of us guess that song in those 3 notes
Riddle Sideways: and each has a different song
Riddle Sideways: and can't remember the name of their song
Riddle Sideways: nor the artist
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: it is so wonderful
Riddle Sideways: in 1965, enough we enough and the Rights to be Civil were given to ALL
Riddle Sideways: *WAS
Riddle Sideways: (makes work for the editor ㋡
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: well, in 1865 enough was enough also
Riddle Sideways: been hearing "Enough is Enough" a lot lately
Riddle Sideways: "Mad as Hell and Not going to take it"
Riddle Sideways: and so many more slogans
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: I have been sitting here thinking about all the people reflecting on their lives
Adams Rubble: an exercise of the aging/aged
Riddle Sideways: an exercise of quarantining too
Adams Rubble: people with time on their hands :)
Riddle Sideways: yep, too busy lives had to slow down
Riddle Sideways: and maybe do some thinking
Riddle Sideways: "How did I get Here"
Riddle Sideways: - David Byrne
Adams Rubble: he made it to eternity
Riddle Sideways: that is a different song, isn't it?
Adams Rubble: do we hear the singing from eternity?
Adams Rubble: the sounds of reconnecting
Adams Rubble: transforming
Riddle Sideways listening and listening
Adams Rubble: sorry to introduced the hard stuff (as in liquor)
Adams Rubble: still trying to find my way to the end :)
Riddle Sideways: the Beatles made one album (remember those, kids?) that did not make it to the end
Riddle Sideways: the last track was short of the End/pick the needle up now spot
Riddle Sideways: and they had a song named "The End"
Riddle Sideways: did not mean to whisper
Adams Rubble: whispering happens
Adams Rubble: two Beetles died young and two hanging on
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: friend says "one last song then I gotta go", so we made a Beatles song
Riddle Sideways: which ran right into the next
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: some old timers can play 4 hours worth of Beatles
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Dylan, Beetles, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon
Riddle Sideways: The Times, they are a changin
Adams Rubble: you betcha
Adams Rubble: I am afraid i must get going
Riddle Sideways: This session has cheered up. Think will now go listen to anything depressing ㋡
Adams Rubble: one month after another rollin along
Riddle Sideways: TIME - Chambers Brothers
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: TIME - Pink Floyd
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a great day and weekend
Adams Rubble: the leaves are peaking here
Riddle Sideways: great
Riddle Sideways: go watch them ㋡
Adams Rubble: lots of leaves on the ground to be cleaned up :)
Riddle Sideways: soon the clocks change
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: another symbol of unreposnive givernment
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Rubble: fond adieu