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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Manny Oquendo and his Conjunto Libre performing some delightful salsa, featuring Andy Gonzales, Herman Olivera, Papo Vasquez, and Jimmy Bosch, with Steve Turre on conch (5:30). Question: is there any reason, in principle, why a human and a conch shell couldn’t have done that or equivalent together, tens of thousands of years ago?
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Obviously, the sax would be right out, since it hadn’t been invented yet, but the conch and humans had. So? Could it be that proto-Romeo wooed proto-Juliette by blowing a conch shell? Hey baby, wanna’ come upstairs and see my resonant cavities? Ah. Well, what about my Archimedes’ screw? What’s that, you’re busy being obsessed with the current U.S. administration? Well, I can’t compete with that kind of distraction. I might as well pretend there’s some sort of great collapse going on, or not believe in the Beer-Lambert law.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Anyway, the Mirabel meeting, at which Schreiber brought the ever popular gift stuffed with thousand dollar bills, just to paint a word picture — totaling $100,000 or so.
Did the Progressive Conservative Prime Minister say anything to Schreiber?
“Yes, he said thank you,”
‘Nother cut to the arts.
It’s your fault*. That’s equalization payments in action in Canadduh.
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“National Ballet cancels tour of Western Canada Globe and Mail”
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*Ontario joins ranks of the have-nots
Ottawa Citizen – 2 hours ago
TORONTO – Ontario received its first equalization payment in history Tuesday, banking a $14.46 million federal transfer and officially inaugurating a ‘have-not’ era for the once-mighty province.”