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Video Streaming News

  • Drowning Out Night

    Drowning Out Night

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am glad I got to get tickets for the Friday music show. Yet I had to desperately save up cash to get tickets. Corporations have made every square foot of all downtown areas a money pit. The last few concerts I went to I only saw a tiny bit of music, and had to leave. One big problem is cameras on phones. If you have one bad night and fall on your rear everyone will have a photo they post for 20 years. If you have an abusive ex-boyfriend that is bitter they can take a picture of you dressed up for going out, and Photoshop a mistake into existence.

    When my older relatives were in college going out was cheap. If you did a bit of babysitting or lawnmower work, and had 20 bucks you could do everything. Art gallery shows, poetry readings, and music concerts were everywhere and people met friends and could date constantly. Husbands met future wives that way. Food and drinks were cheap, and available in many flavors day and night. Cover-charge was rare, and only $2 now minimum $20. Pay parking was rare, and now is expensive everywhere downtown in every major town. Uber and Lyft are 50 or 60 bucks for small drives, and the app deactivates riders for tiny issues. Free ride home services never show up, and I used to drive for Uber so I heard people speak in horror of dangerous situations they were in when waiting for a non-existent free ride.

    Then I saw the post below on Instagram. It talks about New York nightlife, but it is true of every city. Then people in comments said move to the country. Country rent is cheaper, but you still need massive down payment and rent. Next, to live in the country you have to have a vehicle to do anything and pay for insurance and repairs. That is before you buy super expensive gas and parking. Driving everywhere takes a long time so you will want a hotel room to rest in which has also gone up massively in price. I am not the one person to notice that art and nightlife are not just difficult it is nearly impossible to do anymore. The friends and happiness nightlife art created have gone forever with it. Congratulations corporations you have not made being non-lonely difficult you have made it impossible. #music #art #futureUSA

  • 2026 April Vote

    2026 April Vote

    By Andrea Menzies

    Yes I have voted. I got nine letters of spam mail a day for weeks. I get it, they are reminding me the Virginia election is important today.

  • No Out Bird

    No Out Bird

    By Andrea Menzies

    No going out for me this weekend. Internet friends were meeting me at a concert and music night in Maryland, and I was going to be free as a bird. Yet I have gone back to school, and have several papers due this week. Going back to night school means cutting back on fun, and not just saying you are making good grades online. Guess I am going to be an angry bird for a while.

  • Smart Ironic

    Smart Ironic

    By Andrea Menzies

    There is no such thing as a person who NEVER makes mistakes even if they make few mistakes on school papers and tests. It is always ironic that people good at school are called “smart” people. The professor on the TV show Gilligan’s Island could make an energy plant out of coconuts but he could not fix a five foot hole in a boat. How weird is it that no one noticed that as the show was on TV for many years? The Far Side has a famous cartoon of a kid at an honors gifted school pushing a door that says pull. Many people have noticed that school work and perfection are far from the same thing. I am starting a new class for a Master’s Degree program tonight, and the irony of learning is really powerful every first day of class.

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    Could not fix a five foot boat hole.
    Could not stop pushing the pull door.
    School uses up a life time.

    You must use time in a wise way to make good grades.

  • Tax Jokes

    Tax Jokes

    By Andrea Menzies

    I received no tax information from my teaching job so I have to go chase that down this week. The main office changed locations so that will be an additional challenge. Taxes must be filed by April 15th so the Internet is alive with hilarious government jokes this week.

    Luck of the IRS.
    Logic vs Taxes.
    The wealthy are the freeloaders.
    5 Horse-men of the end times.

    Technically at the gym with the government.

  • Easter Bonfire

    Easter Bonfire

    By Andrea M

    Alexandria Menzies, and Anne Brockett, and I went to the Easter Mass at Saint Augustine Church. They had a bonfire, candles, and holiday music for the event. Then we ate Chinese food. I was having a bad spring break holiday due to pneumonia and needing to go to the hospital. I could not travel or see music with that going on. At least I was able to go to family dinner by the end of the break.

    Easter Saturday night service.
    Sunset on the way.
    Bonfire before the church mass.
    Bonfire before church on Easter.
    I have been there more often than 6 times but don’t always have photos.
    The bonfire lit candles and people walked to seats at mass.
    Alexandria got the first candle of the group.
    Chinese restaurant after the music.
    Latin Market restaurant as well for holiday dinner.
    Me making “ohh” noises at amazement due to huge crowds.

    Me helping Anne sit for mass at Easter.

  • Honors Meetup

    Honors Meetup

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am Andrea Menzies and I got into a new honors society for making all A grades in 2025 and 2026 at a new University. I am also the Pokemon Go player Poedaughter7. The orientation is the same day as the park meeting today so the park thing is cancelled.

  • Arm Price

    Arm Price

    By Andrea Menzies

    Part of why I am not going to Saint Patrick’s Day events this weekend is the high gas prices. Here are some funny jokes I saw about it online. It is strangely comforting to know I am not the only person cancelling plans due to high gas prices.

  • Elephant vs Alien

    Elephant vs Alien

    By Andrea M.

    Every alien show says humans could not build large monolith buildings so aliens may have done it. They never mention many cultures had HUGE workhorse animals by the hundreds. Some even had trained elephants hauling wood and stones. Due to lack of antibiotics and food large human cities had only 50 or 60 people in most cultures 200 years ago or more. Each man could usually only lift around 200 pounds so HUMAN labor could not move things. However, huge stables of tamed horses, deer, elephants and other donkeys and llama existed all over the world humans could get animals to drag stones with large harnesses and ropes. Alien shows are fun to watch for pretty camera images, and pretty photos of interesting tourist destinations. I wish I could travel more frequently. I also think the government has been caught being less than truthful about many things, and we live in a time of caution and paranoia. I have watched a few alien shows, and I always detect the logic flaw of “only high tech can move things” which is never addressed. Without fossil fuel technology far more work animals were used in the past. With leverage, fulcrums, rope wheels, wooden rollers mixed in with the construction monolith stones could get moved, and they never mention this idea at all. Work horse transport had a second advantage, and there were few fatal wrecks. Horses have instincts that make them avoid running into other horses, and cars have none at all. With war being a modern problem with fossil fuel I almost envy times when loving furry animals for transportation was a social normalcy and not pollution making gasoline guzzling cars.

    Old breeds of work horses and elephants are super huge and can lift large objects.
  • Funny Alien Jokes

    Funny Alien Jokes

    By Andrea M.

    Sad, funny, and true jokes on the Internet this week. Funny in a social commentary way. I bought a “life is too short to die for oil” button as a kid, and it keeps being more true every year.