Althouse: At the Wednesday Night Café...

October 15, 2025

At the Wednesday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

(Photo by Meade.)

31 comments:

William50 said...: For those of you who grow tired of the constant political conversations I offer you a couple of blasts from the past.

Small Faces - Itchykoo Park from Beat-cluB
(1967)

Faces Live - Stay With Me

I notice that Ron Wood is playing a '71 Ampeg Armstrong Lucite in the Faces video. I think the guy in Brownsville Station played one too. They were popular for a couple of years and then faded away.; 10/15/25, 7:43 PM
rehajm said...: Louisiana v Callais went well today…and in other news Lettie was harboring a fugitive on her ill gotten property? Quite the rancid onion she is…; 10/15/25, 7:52 PM
Derve said...: ann is travelling or sick?; 10/15/25, 7:55 PM
Derve said...: I hope meade and ann are both out enjoying some sunshine in LA, ready to take in the next two Brewers games. (See, I didn't say losses! ;-); 10/15/25, 7:58 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’Ron Wood is playing a '71 Ampeg Armstrong Lucite’

Those are interesting guitars. There was something unusual about the pickups, but it’s been a few decades since I’ve played one and don’t remember what it was…; 10/15/25, 8:00 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Beasts of England said...

There was something unusual about the pickups, but it’s been a few decades since I’ve played one and don’t remember what it was…

Weren't they set up so you could slide the pickups in and out of the rout and swap them easily?; 10/15/25, 8:04 PM
Dave Begley said...: Cited Ann Althouse in my talk to about 100 people in Madison, NE.; 10/15/25, 8:12 PM
Iman said...: Here’s a treat… a great tune, a tight band and guest Charlie Daniels on fiddle:

https://youtu.be/tbjBudsfH3g; 10/15/25, 8:15 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: https://youtu.be/PMXg_KAe5yc?si=EiEgEkNd6oK7uVL-; 10/15/25, 8:16 PM
Iman said...: That was cool, Michael Fitzgerald… never saw them play live… pretty rockin’ and the singer looks like Eugene Levy’s twin, lol!; 10/15/25, 8:21 PM
Iman said...: I personally am quite pleased they put just about if not all the Midnight Specials up on YouTube. Great memories!; 10/15/25, 8:24 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’Weren't they set up so you could slide the pickups in and out of the rout and swap them easily?’

I believe that’s it - thanks!; 10/15/25, 8:25 PM
bagoh20 said...: For those of us who postpone pain as long as possible, today was tax day. One word: Heartbreaking. I can hardly wait till next year.; 10/15/25, 8:38 PM
n.n said...: Japanese maple? Or are the leaves turning red before the Fall?; 10/15/25, 8:41 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Right on, Iman. Midnight Special was great. Today's musicians could really use something like that again. Did you have Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, or was that just east coast?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxNR-orOcV9d2AE09DIFJtMGhCi7J3MZL&si=dvhu3-TgIKe70bzD; 10/15/25, 8:42 PM
Jaq said...: Will WW3 be sparked by fight for control of Odessa? Not out of the question. We are in a time when we don't know if Trump is bluffing, and we can only wait and see, but the hard liners on both sides are done with negotiations, and both sides would welcome the new phase of the war that the Tomahawks would represent.

I guess the real question, should Trump provide them, is whether Russia will stick to its knitting, and finish up the war in Ukraine, or allow themselves to be drawn into a war with Europe. It's not obvious which path they will choose.

I am just trying to bring the Russian perspective into the discussion. Anybody who doesn't want you to know what the other side is thinking is just trying to leave you down some kind of primrose path into a war.

:"Don't you worry your pretty little head about it, we neocons who have led America into war after war after war have the situation well in hand."; 10/15/25, 8:42 PM
Paddy O said...: Bagoh, it could be worse. You could still be living in California.; 10/15/25, 8:45 PM
buwaya said...: Odessa - highly unlikely at the moment. The Russians would have to make a successful river crossing and bridging, under fire, of the Dneiper, which is going to be a tremendous military-engineering feat for anyone. The Russians do not have the naval craft to do even an initial river crossing. Given Russian performance lately its hard to see it.; 10/15/25, 8:51 PM
bagoh20 said...: I almost forgot, Paddy, and that makes me feel better.
These wonderful musicians always make me smile. I saw them live at the Brooklyn Bowl in Vegas a couple years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFycqnOpifQ; 10/15/25, 9:01 PM
Gospace said...: Was true a few years ago, and I believe it's still true.

Black Republican congressmen have been elected in majority white districts.

No black Democrat congressmen have been elected in majority white districts.

I wonder why...; 10/15/25, 9:05 PM
Caroline said...: “ Japanese maple? Or are the leaves turning red before the Fall?”— my guess is an invasive vine…in my experience, these little suckers are always deceptively beautiful.; 10/15/25, 9:07 PM
MadTownGuy said...: John Fetterman, quoted on X

"I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.”

“I REFUSE to call people Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody — anybody to Hitler.”

“Like Charlie Kirk, all I could say is let people grieve — give people the space. I’m not going to use that terrible thing and that assassination to make my argument and try to put out my views.”

“It’s like, my God, he’s a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet. And now people have forgotten: President Trump was in my state — was shot in the head. Could you imagine where our nation would be if he were hit in the same way as Kirk? We really got to turn the temperature down.”; 10/15/25, 9:14 PM
bagoh20 said...: I suspect that Fetterman has some rare genetic mutation that has left him immune to TDS, or Satan just hasn't gotten around to him yet.; 10/15/25, 9:40 PM
Iman said...: Yes, Michael, we had Kirschner's programs, as well. Our gaggle of friends were always prioritizing viewing both, made for good party backdrops. That was the Golden Age of our kind of music and so many outstanding musicians and bands were always appearing.; 10/15/25, 9:49 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Remarkable that the most sane sounding Democrat in D.C. might have gotten that way because he had a stroke.; 10/15/25, 9:51 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Via Facebook: National Geographic won the photo of the year award with this picture

Zoom in to see something that could be easily missed.; 10/15/25, 9:56 PM
TeaBagHag said...: lol, yes, good old fetterman, the senator you started loving when his brain was damaged to the point where he now endores the party of pedo protecting fascists.; 10/15/25, 9:57 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I was a regular watcher Midnight Special from mid 1978 until it was ended at the end of my freshman year in high school.; 10/15/25, 10:00 PM
Yancey Ward said...: TBH, maybe you can have a stroke and start making sense, too.; 10/15/25, 10:02 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Yes, if I had a stroke and my IQ dropped 50 points and I nurtured my resentment to the point of it becoming a religion, I would be quite popular in here.; 10/15/25, 10:14 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “my IQ dropped 50 points”

Aspirational in adversity?

I still got it!; 10/15/25, 10:22 PM