“Let’s just get it over with.”

I am trying so hard to be in a productive frame of mind today, gang. I’m not sure what’s up with my energy this morning.

I was so tempted to call in sick and just take the day for myself. But, you know. It’s Tuesday.

And now that my shift has changed on Tuesdays, I go to the Rural King before my shift even starts. And, well, you know. Now that there’s a chance that I could maybe get to see “Wild Thing” at the checkout counter for even 4 minutes…

I just sort of sighed and kept moving around here. Did not touch the phone. Well, I touched my phone. I constantly look at the phone for something or other. But I did not dial the On-Call service at the Agency to tell them to find a replacement for me…

And on we go.

And we can only hope that my world will be exciting for at least 4 minutes today. We shall soon see!

(Well, gang, this video alone just perked me up considerably!! “Wild Thing” by The Troggs on The Midnight Special in 1973!!):

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Ross K. Nichols posted this in his private Patreon Group today. I thought it was really engaging. A visual poem. Whispers of Moab: Fragments of Stone and Skin (4 mins):

If you don’t know about the controversial Shapira Scrolls, you can check out this book:

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And while we’re in a religious frame of mind…

Yesterday, I started Lecture 4 in James Tabor’s new course, “Christianity Before Paul,” and it is another really thought-provoking lecture: “Recovering a Lost Non-Pauline Gospel”. It deals once again with the history of John the Baptist that gets basically erased from and/or misrepresented in the New Testament.

By the way, the course is not anti-Paul, it just deals specifically with what the Jesus Movement was about before the New Testament was created, which focuses almost exclusively on the ideas of Paul.

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Oh, and I did get that book yesterday that Simcha Jacobovici posted about the other day, She Who Endures: Restoring the Real Artemis, and so far it is really interesting. Definitely a topic I know next to nothing about.

And it is doubly interesting to read it on the heals of having read James Tabor’s new book: The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus.

Carla Ionescu, the author of She Who Endures, maintains that the mythology that grew up around the Virgin Mary had its roots in the goddess Artemis.

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Okay!

Here’s this–

Another great photo of Johnny Thunders, from 1981:

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And here’s this!

A different Johnny — in the park, in the fall, not smoking:

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And here are these!

Another photo from just before the Stones US Tour of 1975– Keith cooking:

And in London in 1985, Keith smoking and talking, Mick not smoking and not talking:

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And here’s this!!

COMING SOON!

In 4 days, to be exact!! (Buy tickets here!)

Soon come, baby!! Soon come!

And here’s this:

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And I’m thinking that’s it for now because I gotta scoot and get this day underway.

Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Around 3AM, I was half-awake and half-asleep and having those disturbing feelings, like everything in the world is foreign to me now, and everything is just frightening these days. Eternally endless.

And in my head, I said out to the world, “Please, somebody, help . Give me something different to feel.”

And then this beautiful song came into my head and took over everything, like a comforting blanket, and I fell into a really deep sleep.

I think a friend of mine, who passed away in 2018, “sent” it to me. He loved Tom Petty. I hadn’t thought about this song in a really long time. It is so beautiful. So calming. So I share it with you.

“Beautiful Blue,” Tom Petty with Mudcrutch, 2016. Enjoy, gang.

“Beautiful Blue”

The shadows from the footlights made you fifty foot tall
I watched you as the music bounced around the hall
You called me in the morning and sent your car for me
I stumbled as I kissed you dropping ashes in your tea

I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I do, I do

Around you there’s a color
A shade unlike the rest
You’re laughing and you’re easy
The way I know you best

I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I do, I do

Gonna move outside the city
I know some friends out there
In a tree with painted bottles
Watch the sun dance on your hair

I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I wanna wrap you up in a beautiful blue
I do, oh, I do

c- 2016 Tom Petty