https://x.com/sommecourt/status/1868595984055558451?s=46 Full text of the poem: The Hills of Bastogne The crops should be full in Belgium this year, The soil should be fertile, but the price has been dear, The wheat should be red on the hills of Bastogne For its roots have been soaked by the blood of our own. Battered and reeling we stand in their way, Its here we are, and here we will stay. Embittered, wrathful, we watch our pals fall, God, wheres the end, the end of it all? Confident and powerful, they strike at our lines, But we beat them back, fighting for time. Berserk with fury, they are hitting us now, Flesh against steel, we hold, but how? For each day that we stay, more mothers must grieve. For each hill that we hold more men must we leave. Yes, honor the men who will some day come home, But pray for the men 'neath the hills of Bastongne. -Bernard J. McKearney 101st Airborne

One of the subtleties of this piece is in the first two measure (!). It starts on the 4th beat of the first measure, and then proceeds. My teacher suggested that when I start it, I make a point of counting "1...2...3...4" before I started playing, and doing it twice. On the second time, the the first chord comes on the "4" and mentally, you're at the end of the count, and less likely to stress that chord. So rather than coming off as. One Two Three FOUR, ONE Two Three Four.... It comes off as... One Two Three Four, ONE Two Three Four If that makes sense.

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I tried unsuccessfully to watch his special. I mean, I think he is one of the most talented human beings to have ever graced the earth, and I don't have any reason to expect the stroke took that away from him. But it was way too sentimental and schmaltz, I had to stop.

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Wow. My screen got a little blurry there.

I wonder how much the Biden administration paid to move the quarter of a million "migrants" out of South America and drop them off in upstate New York in the middle of the night.

""Ben Affleck: “AI can’t make film that is considered art.”" Neither can he.

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I thought The Penguin was wonderful. I thought Arcane was pretty good.

McFarren was originally nominated by Obama. After her 4 years were up she was renominated by Trump.