Posts elsewhere, Carnival, Trombone playing

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Just posted a buncha stuff over in the antiwar community. (Much mirrored in the moderated nonviolent community-- though since the obnoxious flame-bait troll with multiple accounts was finally booted out of "antiwar", discussion seems to be flowing back to there.) Also posted on the interesting infojunkies community.

It's Carnival time again in New Orleans. Went to a good costume & kingcake party. First parade (Krewe du Vieux Carre) will be the 19th.

I am looking around at for pay sites to move & expand my Mardi Gras webpages to. I hope to have something new up within the next few weeks.

My trombone playing has undergone a surprising rapid improvement this month. For years I've thought of myself as a player of no particular ability, whose playing would get perhaps a little better with increased practice, but not a whole lot. Somehow I experienced a sudden jump in ability, almost all at once being able to easily do a number of things I couldn't before. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Comments

Re: The Reality of War

[ex-karamazov744.livejournal.com]

The world will never be entirely pacifist. If it were, great, but it won't be. And it's because of the fact that there have always been tyranical and charismatic leaders that when the tryany of evil begins to spread, it must be fought with a militaristic force of justice. The one sin worse than war is the sin of oppression.