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RE: In your locality – what’s it really like?
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ernandez R
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From: Alaska USA
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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Well, as I've mentioned I'm spending my Covid time recovering from having me foot crushed. It's not fun. It's not healing fast. I've had to take a few steps back and just keep lying down. My nickname in this vary aviation centric state is Rocket and you can guess how I acquired it. I get **** done, it's done fast, and it's done right: airworthy. I never drop parts and I never stop until it's done. One summer I worked forty days straight never sleeping in my bed: office couch, hanger floor, belly of a Beaver or under the wing of a Cessna, fishing lodge, abandoned remote hanger, or in the seat of my own airplane; eaten alive by white socks or drained by clouds of mosquitos. Anyway, here I am, I've been laying in bed for all but an hour and a half today, it's 7:00pm I've got my #1 guitar in my hands vamping in Fregian E Dom just sliding around the G string cause I've been playing for over four hours already today and my fingers are raw, but you see when I'm playing my mind erases the surface nurapathy that feels like a bag of bumble bees are in my foot stinging like hell to get out. I know most of the world has it bad right now so I'm not complaining. Anyway I've been working this one string mostly pulgar, crushing it just short of rolling the string on the saddle. This girl has a lot of break angle so I'm really hammering it, deep pushes with a clean smooth break. I like the challenge and silkyness you can get with the fat nylon G. ****, it's back, that buzzing... So, I'm working four fret stretch over and over again cause I can and all the sudden this shinny black and white Magpie lands on a branch just outside my open window. The bees are so bad I can barely type on this I pad, the 600mg double evening dose of Gabapentin I took hasn't kicked in yet. This Magpie is looking at me and starts squawking like they do, I keep playing hoping he will pick up my rhythm: 12, 123, 456, 78, 9 10, 11 No joy but he keeps looking and squawking just the same. Then I realize what his problem is, what he is saying, Man, that's not Flamenco and your are not in Compas!
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Date Jun. 18 2020 5:54:52
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ernandez R
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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Ritchard, Can't image how it must feel, after serving for your country faithfully in so many ways, to find our Republic on a dangerously pointless path. Keep the faith Brother, there is fork in the road, it's on Noveber third, and I see a smart America taking the proper way. HR
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Date Jun. 18 2020 6:01:11
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Piwin
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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There have been a few protests in Madrid (Vox, bullfighting aficionados, BLM supporters) but nothing quite as large as what is happening in the US. I can empathise, but I'll admit to having a hard time supporting protests at the moment. My American friends (mostly on the left) seem to have politicised the expected covid spike, for instance by showing a picture of people packed in a shopping mall and saying "don't you know they'll blame the next covid spike on the protesters". They probably have a point, but I can't help but find it rather irrelevant. I doubt covid cares all that much whether the cause for such gatherings is just or not. I wish people would just hold off on the protests, or at the very least, that they take appropriate measures to ensure adequate distancing. The best example I've seen so far was an anti-Netanyahu protest in Tel-Aviv. The protest was static, and the organisers had placed markings on the ground so the protesters would stay 2m apart from one another. Perhaps on the ground it was more messy than the pictures made it look, but what I saw made it seem like the ideal way of holding a demonstration in these circumstances. Most of Europe will be allowing intra-Europe travel in the summer, probably in large part to give the tourism sector a lifeline. I wonder when travellers from the US will be allowed in. It seems that you have successfully "flattened the curve", but that tail end just isn't dropping as fast as it should:
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Date Jun. 19 2020 4:35:05
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FredGuitarraOle
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From: Lisboa, Portugal
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Piwin)
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I wish people would just hold off on the protests, or at the very least, that they take appropriate measures to ensure adequate distancing. The best example I've seen so far was an anti-Netanyahu protest in Tel-Aviv. The protest was static, and the organisers had placed markings on the ground so the protesters would stay 2m apart from one another. Perhaps on the ground it was more messy than the pictures made it look, but what I saw made it seem like the ideal way of holding a demonstration in these circumstances. It sure is more messy than it looks on the pictures. This photograph is from the celebrations of the 1st of May here in Lisbon. That's what showed up on the news, talking about all the security measures, the limited number of people, about everyone being static, the markings on the ground, yada yada yada. Although the event itself took place as described, the overall reality was much different. The surroundings to the avenue were, at various times, completely jammed with people, making all the security measures quite trivial. But still, it's better than nothing.
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Date Jun. 19 2020 17:21:08
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to flyeogh)
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One thing my wife Marta and I have done during this lockdown is cut our own hair. We just did it again today, and they don't look like such bad jobs. Definitely not professional, but "reasonable," let's say. We each cut our own hair on the top and sides, and we cut each other's hair in the back. Oddly, among the first businesses declared to be open in the Washington Metro area were barber shops, hair salons, and massage therapists, all of which require very close contact with clients. I don't think we will be going to the barber shop or hair salon anytime soon. They just seem like breeding grounds, or petri dishes, for the coronavirus. Bill
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Date Jun. 20 2020 22:04:47
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Piwin
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to rombsix)
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Well, I just saw that Villa Rosa is shutting down. Casa Patas confirmed a while ago that they would also be closing shop, and word on the street is that Chinitas won't be far behind. Significant blow to flamenco in Madrid. Apparently, though closed, they are still retaining the building and what not in the hopes that, when the time comes, they'll be able to get the tablao up and running again (I believe that's what Casa Patas did as well). From what I've been told, tablaos in Madrid rely almost entirely on tourism, whereas in Andalucia public funding is also a significant part of the mix. Back during the 2008 crisis, tourism still did alright, but public funding was cut, so tablaos in Madrid did alright, but tablaos in Andalucia struggled. This time, it's the other way around, with public funding still there but tourism almost entirely gone, so Madrid is the one struggling this time around, and Andalucia comparatively better off (though I doubt anyone on the Andalusian circuit would say it's been a walk in the park for them either...).
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