I guess I’m in the minority, I’m happy about the merger. I’ve had XM since May. I’ve been really happy with it, especially the uncensored comedy channels, and XMU and the Verge. But very recently, the merger had an unexpected effect — a channel merge. Now I have the Grateful Dead channel, which Sirius listeners have had for a while. You know I have a soft spot for the music of the Dead. Now I can have it every day. And it’s often more fun when someone else is calling the tunes. They have this feature every day at 7am, 11am and 7pm where they go back to a historical Dead show on the same day. Today they were playing November 21, 1973 in Denver. I thought I had a favorite Morning Dew in Sarataga 6/18/83, but I might have a new favorite now. I’ll have to listen again tonight.
Yesterday they played a full Weather Report Suite, including Let It Grow, from the same series, closing out set 1 the night before. I had always thought of that suite as a hearkening back, but a lot of people think that this economic collapse we’re allegedly going through could lead to people stabbing each other for food, perhaps the song could be interpreted as a post-apocalyptic anthem, something we sing to each other as we re-learn how to farm for ourselves. Central farming was always a bad idea. Centralization leads to single points of failure, and we see the results of this in the news constantly. Tainted tomatoes, tainted spinach, food becomes tainted at central processing plants and millions of dollars of food must be destroyed while hundreds if not thousands of people nationwide become ill. Buy local and if this happens, it happens on a much smaller scale.
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