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Michael

I failed in my revised "bucket list" of new photography challenges while re-visiting some favorite swamps, marshes, rivers, and lakes.

First I wanted to video the song of the black-bellied whistling duck ("what's it whistling?"), but it's dry now and they were not in their usual spot. Then someone gave me a tip about where a rare cuckoo (non-human) was just seen nesting, but no luck.

So...

Bungled in the Jungle.

And just then, this song came on the radio (Sirius Classic Vinyl). Ooooh. Cosmic timing!

And as a consolation prize, I did run into a big pod of white Pelicans (though a bit distant in a cove, at low tide, Sanibel Island).
And some roseate spoonbills, armadillos, cormorants, and close-up Cooper's Hawk.

White Pelicans

More bird photography @ www.fenichel.com/birds

#music #musica #musique #JethroTull #Jungle #Bungle #myphoto #Fenfotos #Sanibel #FL #birds #nature

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

New Jethro Tull!
🎶 🔥

Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene (Official Video)

Great song (as usual) and cool video, very modern for Tull (Anderson as a cartoon taking a selfie, etc.)

With gasoline...

~~

"The Zealot Gene"

Half of us are in the apple
Half of us are in the pie
All of us are in the pudding
When the last bus has gone by
Someone has to take the high road
Someone has to make the bed
No-one has the right to tell you
To lie down when all is said

The black and white, the stereotype
The polarising pitch at play
While some of us sit in between
Interminable shades of grey
No need to walk the tightrope
Set out on that great divide
The balance scales may tremble
But the featherweights are on our side

Carrying the Zealot gene
Right or left, no in between
Beware, beware the Zealot gene
Naked flame near gasoline

The populist with dark appeal
The pandering to hate
Which xenophobic scaremongers
Deliver on a plate
To tame the pangs of hunger
And satisfy the lust
Slave to ideology
Moderation bites the dust

Bee buzzing in your bonnet
And a wasp right up the bum
A V-8 under hood
A cocked hammer under thumb
Ear-splitting twitter thunder
And a screaming banshee wail
You got too many opinions
And a tom cat by the tail

Carrying the Zealot gene
Right or left, no in between
Beware, beware the Zealot gene
Naked flame near gasoline

Carrying the Zealot gene
Right or left, no in between
Beware, beware the Zealot gene
Naked flame near gasoline

Half of us are in the apple
Half of us are in the pie
All of us are in the pudding
When the last bus has gone by
Someone has to take the high road
Someone has to make the bed
No-one has the right to tell you
To lie down when all is said

The black and white, the stereotype
The polarising pitch at play
While some of us sit in between
Interminable shades of grey
No need to walk the tightrope
Set out on that great divide
The balance scales may tremble
But the featherweights are on our side

Carrying the Zealot gene
Right or left, no in between
Beware, beware the Zealot gene
Naked flame near gasoline

--

#music #musica #musique #zealotgene #JethroTull #IanAnderson #rocklegend

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Wood Stork

The only stork found in North America (endangered). Unique appearance. Hairless, s/he seems to be peering out from a wooden mask.

Pardon the whimsy but it's that time of year when stories abound about all sorts of creatures, mythological and not, from the woodlands. And so:

Songs from the Wood

#myphoto #songfromthewood #JethroTull #woodstork #stork #nature #Music #musica #musique #fenfotos

Wood Stork

More nature photography from the wood - and swamp - @ http://www.fenichel.com/nature - plus links to my (global) photos.

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Ear-worm of the day.... #JethroTull

She said she was a dancer.....

She said she was a dancer.
If I believed it, it was my business.
She surely knew a thing or two about control.
Next to the bar we hit the samovar.
She almost slipped right through my fingers.
It was snowing outside and in her soul.
Well, maybe you're a dancer,
And maybe I'm the King of Old Siam.

I thought it through...best to let the illusion roll.
I wouldn't say I've never heard that tale before,
my frozen little señorita,
But if your dream is good,
Why not share it when the nights are cold?

Hey Moscow, what's your story?
Lady, take your time, don't hurry.
Maybe a student of the agricultural plan.
Hey Moscow, what's your name?
If you don't want to say, don't worry.
It would probably be hard for me to make it scan.

With her phrase book in her silk soft hand
She spoke in riddles while the vodka listened.
I said, "Let me look up love, if I might be so bold."
She was the nearest thing to Rock and Roll
That side of the velvet curtain
That separates eastern steel from western gold.

Hey Miss Moscow, what's your story?
You needn't speak aloud, just whisper.
Am I just the closest thing to an Englishman?
You've seen me in your magazines,
Or maybe on state television.
I'm your Pepsi-Cola,
But you won't take me out the can.

She said she was a dancer, so she did.
She said she was a dancer.
If I believed it, it was my business.
It felt like a merry dance that I was being led.
So I stole one kiss.
It was a near miss.
She looked at me like I was Jack the Ripper.
She leaned in close. "Goodnight, " was all she said.
So I took myself off to bed.

#music #musica #musique #IanAnderson #rocklegends

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Life is a Long Song

Time to be thankful for the many verses we still here now have enjoyed.
And for those who share the melody and made it possible. Happy Thanksgiving!

Photo - A long-lived tree which caught my eye today (#myphoto)

Lyrics:

When you're falling awake
And you take stock of the new day
And you hear your voice croak
As you choke on what you need to say
Well, don't you fret, don't you fear
I will give you good cheer
Life's a long song
Life's a long song
Life's a long song
If you wait then your plate I will fill
As the verses unfold
And your soul suffers the long day
And the twelve o'clock gloom spins the room
You struggle on your way
Well, don't you sigh, don't you cry
Lick the dust from your eye
Life's a long song
Life's a long song
Life's a long song
We will meet in the sweet light of dawn
As the baker street train spills your pain
All over your new dress
And the symphony sounds underground
Put you under duress
Well, don't you squeal as the heel
Grinds you under the wheels
Life's a long song
Life's a long song
Life's a long song
But the tune ends too soon for us all
But the tune ends too soon for us all

#Tree #Thanksgiving #Fenfotos #Life #Song #nature #music #musica #musique #JethroTull

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

My Sunday Feeling *

Reviewing the week's (US) news summary - following a bad week too for things like global environment - this article hits some key points (with links following the top story leading to the other main events).

Bipartisan Report: Trump Suffers A Sunday Sad Over Steve Bannon Indictment

Of note, it seems more clearly that Texas slime Ted Cruz is not only bizarre (suggested here as verging on insane), but has been flirting with the idea of Texas seceding back to the good old days pre-Civil war. (Hope he'll take Florida with him. Seal off the world from the super-spread of the #DeathSantis & #Abbott #TrumpVirus variants. As Cruz attacks a Sesame Street character (Big Bird) for being "woke" and spreading "propaganda" (encouraging vaccination).

And as 2 Republicans own Cruz for his "alternate reality", Dark Lord StableGenius sobs tears over how badly Seditionist #1 Steve Bannon (still free, too) has been treated, despite Trump having already pardoned him for his fraud in conning MAGA cult believers into sending him & DJT money "for a wall" (i.e., the linings of their pockets). Meanwhile, nobody has been jailed for contempt of Congress, the traitors are still free (some sitting in Congress), and the world of GOP/Q has already seceded - from reality. Other than that, nice calm holiday times...

  * On a nicer note, from Jethro Tull: My Sunday Feeling

#Sunday #news #JethroTull #music #musica #musique

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Iris Hidding

Beyond The Dutch Episode 55: The Last Huzzah

The official last episode of the music podcast with your roving reporter Iris and radio veteran Raymond! Be prepared for weird accents and unpredictable musical picks! Raymond and Iris look back on their previous episodes, interviews and music adventures. You will hear music from Squid, Frost*, Qui and Trevor Dunn, VOLA, Dictaphone, no-man, Black Country New Road, Chroma Key, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, AWOOGA, The Dale Cooper Quartet, Richard Barbieri, and Jethro Tull.

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