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Saved comments from December 2017

Once again, I'm using my Dreamwidth journal as an attic for my main blog. Today, I'm storing comments I left last month on other blogs, which I plan on mining as raw material for my blog entries in the near future. Today, the featured comment is an entire blog entry, Midweek Cafe and Lounge, Vol. 44

At his request, I'm filling in for Don Durito this week. While I promise to keep the music and booze flowing, I am putting my own touch on the party while I'm the host.

Don Durito and I both share a love for 1980s rock music, but that's not what I have in mind this week. Instead, I'm going to indulge my love of movie music by featuring this year's nominated songs (so far) from environmental and political movies at the Grammys, Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and Golden Globes.

"Moana" was one of two feature films nominated by the Environmental Media Association as having an environmental theme worth recognizing, so I'm considering the Grammy nominated song How Far I'll Go to be from an environmental movie. Who am I to argue with the EMA? If nothing else, the CGI scenery is pretty.



Music video by Auli'i Cravalho performing How Far I'll Go. (C) 2016 Walt Disney Records
"Chasing Coral" and "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" both had their original songs nominated at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. Both movies were also nominated by the EMA in the documentary film category. "Chasing Coral" didn't win, so its theme song, Tell Me How Long Music Video Feat. Kristen Bell goes first.



Kristen Bell performs "Tell Me How Long" from the new film Chasing Coral, now streaming on Netflix.

Music & Lyrics by Dan Romer and Teddy Geiger
The scenery is just as pretty and here it's real.

"An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" won the Documentary Film award from the EMA. Al Gore also won an award for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, so its theme song, "Truth to Power" by OneRepublic (perfect band name, if nothing else) comes next.



Music video by OneRepublic performing Truth To Power. (C) 2017 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
I'll post the nominated songs from non-environmental political movies in the comments. I'm looking forward to your favorite movie music in the comments, too.

The cafe/bar is open

In keeping with the environmental theme, tonight's drink is Earth Day Ocean Water.



1 ½ oz. (45ml) Coconut Vodka
¾ oz. (22ml) Blue Curacao
½ oz. (15ml) Lemon Juice
2 oz. (60ml) Lemon Lime Soda
Lime Peel

PREPARATION
1. To an ice filled glass add coconut vodka, blue curacao, lemon juice and lemon lime soda. Stir well to mix. Set aside.
2. Using scissors or a small knife roughly cut the shapes of the continents out of lime peel. Place shapes inside a round glass and pack with crushed ice.
3. Pour mix into glass and serve. Enjoy responsibly!
The bartender is now taking requests.
Comments left at Booman Tribune and elsewhere behind the cut. )

Next up, the top posts of December 2017 on Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

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2017-06-27 09:54 am

Saved comments from May 2017

One of today's "On This Day" notifications on Facebook was the first status I wrote on this computer two years ago.  That made me a bit anxious, as my desktops have lasted about two years on average before they either become obsolete or something bad befalls them.  That compounded another anxiety of mine, that I would lose the comments I've saved on my desktop computer that I sometimes recycle for blog posts.  A recent event made that anxiety more acute; the closing of The Archdruid Report and The Well of Galabes, complete with the loss of all my comments there.  I have all of them from January 2015 to the present saved, but all of them from 2013 and 2014, including some that I thought needed re-examination, are all lost.  I don't want that to happen to the rest because of computer failure, so I'm saving them here in reverse chronological order, beginning with the ones from May 2017.  Most are from Kunstler's blog, but there are also comments from Booman Tribune and The Well of Galabes.

Saved comments from Kunstler's blog, Well of Galabes, and Booman Tribune behind this text. )