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I have been keeping an eye out. You can even borrow my friend's trailer! https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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That is THE coolest looking of that kind of rig I've ever seen. I'm kind of a giant person, but I'll keep it in mind. Thanks!

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Well, he's on FOX Business, but...you know, sure, you're right, he's basically off the air.

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... tho' rumours of his ever having been may be exaggerated.

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#MFGS.

(Make Fox Grosser Still.)

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My friend did a great job restoring it. She took it from this to... this could be you... just sayin... https://uploads.disquscdn.c... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I really don't think we have enough data to make an aesthetic judgement - does anyone really know what Melania actually LOOKS like?I'm pretty sure she's the only quasi-celebrity on Earth who has never been photographed sans enough makeup to smother an entire Fashon Week, I bet Drumpf wouldn't even recognize her bare-faced.

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Where do I sign up?! It's really too bad I have to deal with shit like a "job" and "money". I don't know anyone else who has these kinds of problems.

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Right?? SO UNFAIR. Two teenagers pulled into the Vons parking lot next to me yesterday in a $200,000 Mercedes, and I'll be working until I'm 120.

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The Man keeping us down. Don't worry, I'm working to 120 as well. A life of self-employment is now seeming more like indentured servitude.

I live about a mile from the U. of Az. Many of the students now live in "luxury student condos" nearer the campus (what a concept, right?), but you can always tell which houses are the student rentals because they are surrounded by 5 or 6 really nice cars that make me feel like a hillbilly.

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Those rat bastards. I hope they're all history majors and they end up working in an Amazon warehouse.

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Drublic Jr. was a history/English major, and he works as a bartender, so probably (he also plays bass in my band, so I'm not complaining).

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Isn't that awesome when your kid turns out to be a good musician? Mine shreds on guitar but he didn't inherit my singing voice. But that's ok. One of us singing along with EVERYTHING is enough.

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Cool. How old? Does he/she play in a band? I actively encouraged Jr. in music.... piano, guitar, lessons etc. When he was about 12, I could tell he was going through the motions, mostly to please me, so I told him, no worries, I just wanted him to be exposed to it, you don't have to keep at it. He didn't touch the bass for 3 years, then picked it up again on his own and started playing it hours and hours a day. My lesson? I needed to step out of it and let him find his own passion. He's become something of a first call player on the local scene these days.

Singing. I do vocals in my band. I'm not great at it. As I say, "I do what I do." I can only say that I sound like me and nobody else. Depending on one's perspective, that can be a good or bad thing. I envy people that have the gift. Couple of guys in my band are great singers....can hear and instantly sing any harmony. Bastards.

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My kid is 23. He's not in a band, although he is gifted and should be playing lead guitar. He is currently homeless, having carefully avoided benefiting from years of therapy, residential treatment and all other efforts to help him adjust to social norms and ideas about growing up, so his father and I had to cut him off. Even though I think the life he is living is stupid and wrong I have to let him try to make one for himself. This is my lesson. Letting go and not blaming myself. He could have done anything he wanted in the music world and he is also a gifted painter. btw - I have picked out the harmonies to all my favorite songs, which I play on the juke box at my hangout and I sing along, although I know it's obnoxious as hell. Sorry. At least I know the words and can carry a tune.

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Wow. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to have to make those kinds of decisions. I'm sorry. But yeah, what can you do that isn't simply a form of enabling? I hope the light comes on for him and he gets things sorted out. I've known a few young people like this who have come back from the brink and are doing well, so there's always hope. I've been lucky that way. I've had people pat me on the back for raising such a good kid....I point to Jr. and say "tell him". He's the one who made the choices to be the person that he is.

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