Random News: September 3, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morn- uh, wait. Good late afternoon. It’s September 3, 2022, and it’s a Saturday, and I’m a little late on my bullets today, but no one gives a shit so let’s go…

• The reason I didn’t write my bullets in the morning as usual is that I got sucked into watching the Taylor Hawkins Tribute concert being streamed live from Wembley Stadium in London, UK.
• I was going to “check it out for a few minutes”.
• I then turned it on and left it on for five hours.
• It was outstanding. Those kinds of events are extraordinarily difficult to pull off. The Foos and their many, many friends did an amazing job.
• Obviously being drummer-centric, the list of talent who performed made it one of the more memorable concert events of this century.
• Lots of next-gen musicians performed, including Wolfie Van Halen (son of Eddie), Violet Grohl (daughter of Dave), Shane Hawkins (son of Taylor), Rufus Taylor (son of Roger), not to mention young Nandi Bushell and others.
• Lots of classic rockers coming back for the show, some who are already somewhat retired and we may not see live again, including Stewart Copeland (The Police), Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson (Rush), Brian May and Roger Taylor (Queen).
• And overall legends like The Pretenders, Them Crooked Vultures (Dave with John Paul Jones and Josh Homme), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Brian Johnson (AC/DC), the James Gang (Joe Walsh), and of course the Foo Fighters themselves, who closed the show with a variety of drummers filling in for the late Mr. Hawkins.
• Anyway… that’s why my bullets are appearing late in the day, and it was well worth it.
• Something I can tell you about music… just because you like new music doesn’t mean you have to then dislike more established music.
• That’s ridiculous. That’s like, “Oh, I really like tacos, so I can’t eat fried chicken anymore.” No, that’s just silly. You have room in your life for tacos and chicken. I have room in my brain for brand new indie rock, and ‘90s rock, and ‘60s rock, and baroque music from the 1700s, and jazz and bluegrass and prog and all manner of shit.
• Like what you like. Fuck everyone if they don’t like it.
• Alright, maybe some news stuff.
• Information on the detailed contents of the documents that had been stashed away at Mar-a-Lago was released yesterday.
• Most disturbing was the inclusion of 48 empty folders that had been marked as containing classified information. 
• Where are the original documents that the FPOTUS stole from the USA? None of us folks in the public know yet.
• The theft of the documents themselves as well as the obstruction in hiding and failing to return the documents are very serious crimes.
• If it’s found that the documents or the information held within have been sold or otherwise shared with a foreign entity, the crime increases from espionage to treason.
• So, we’ll be seeing what happens there.
• The hosting company Cloudflare has dropped KiwiFarms, a message board that existed to make targeted threats and harassment against transgender people. Fuck KiwiFamrs. This is good news.
• And now, The Weather: “Simulation Swarm” by Big Thief.
• Today in history… Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompey, ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate (36 BC). San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded (301). Richard I of England — aka Richard the Lionheart — is crowned at Westminster (1189). During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time (1777). Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery (1838). Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (1935). France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations (1939). Qatar becomes an independent state (1971). The American ‘Viking 2’ spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars (1976). The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement (2016).
• September 3 is the birthday of engineer/businessman Ferdinand Porsche (1875), physicist Carl David Anderson (1905), actress Kitty Carlisle (1910), blues pianist Memphis Slim (1915), blues guitarist Freddie King (1934), Beach Boy Al Jardine (1942), musician Dug Pinnick (1950), Sex Pistol Steve Jones (1955), MTV veejay Adam Curry (1964), actor Charlie Sheen (1965), NBA player Damon Stoudamire (1973), and snowboarder Shaun White (1986).

So, that’s all. I sat around in my own sticky, sweaty filth for most of the day while watching the tribute show, and then finally too a shower and put on a different pair of shorts and a new t-shirt. It’s the first day of a three-day weekend, so this is about my maximum effort. Enjoy what’s left of your day!