if you didn't get high and listen to this shit in the 70's ...

just gotta say ... you missed out, cause it was super friggin' trippy back then, esp. on a great system ... or better yet, headphones ... his 1976 record Oxygene and 1978's follow-up Equinoxe (which I still have on vinyl bought in a hong kong record store in 1980) were like nothing you'd heard. But you'd be soon to hear LOTS of stuff like it in the near future ...

Okay I didn't get high until 1980 technically, but ...

Who wants to toss some salad?

The Chef Salad I just made, that is!

As you can see, I don't muck about when it comes to the food I make ... even when it's just for me

the farm - groovy train (studio-1990ish) this one'll take ya back ...

Some authorities saying that you should NOT stop taking your BP meds (ACE inhibitors) out of CV fear

the avett brothers - no hard feelings (live in studio - 2018) a really beautiful song ...

One for when you're ready to chill out Sarge

It's almost surreal watching this be played it's so freaking good.

lucinda williams/doug pettibone - fruits of my labor (live-2003) i just love lucinda man ...

Did you know it's not technically 'shale oil' that's being fracked?

What's being fracked is regular oil, trapped within formations of regular shale (referred to as a tight shale play).

If you think of a cake, the oil is the frosting bit in the middle, the shale is the fluffy spongy part.

Shale Oil is OTOH derived from a specific type of shale which has been saturated with a hydrocarbon called kerogen (called, oddly enough, Oil Shale), which is basically dug up en masse and converted (via various physical and chemical processes) into a mixture that approximates traditional petroleum, called 'shale oil'.

In this scenario, the shale is fluffy spongy part, the kerogen is sugar. The sugar is chemically removed from the spongy part, and then converted to like-frosting.

We actually have TONS AND TONS of this type of saturated shale in the US that we COULD do this with, but traditionally it's been very low energy returned on energy invested, and hence not economically viable.

Not saying we SHOULD or even that we ever will. But oil removed from tight shale formations via fracking ... is not 'shale oil'.

Just your factual tidbit for the day

Calling All Angels ...

Seemed appropriate for this AM

A 'Test Kit' and a 'Test' are two different things ...

The CDC test kits can process about 700 specimens, and typically people are tested twice, so about 350 people per test kit.

Hence the word 'kit'.

This may be the source of a lot of confusion and people shaking their heads at the 'math' they're hearing.

For those who don't feel like doing the math, you need 2857 test kits to test 1,000,000 people.

jerry garcia - dear prudence (studio-1982) one of my fave covers of all time