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FEATURE We can’t let their motivation — Fox, QAnon, the Denver airport — overwhelm our responsibility.

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INSIDE WEST 7TH Many wonder if the area’s safer now that a suspected rapist has been caught.

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Amanda Seyfried tries to hold together a crumbling tech empire in The Dropout.

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Amanda Seyfried rules in Hulu’s miniseries about a tech company’s extensive fraud.

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It is so fascinating to watch Amanda Seyfried’s lead performance in The Dropout.

This actress has taken on romances like Letters to Juliet, shown off her musical-theater chops in Mamma Mia!, and garnered a long-overdue Oscar nomination for 2020’s Mank, but she is most memorable when exploring extreme psychological states, as in

her fearless turns as the repressed teen in Jennifer’s Body and the young mother with postpartum depression in A Mouthful of Air. On the Hulu miniseries, she plays Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of Theranos who made billions with blood-testing technology that didn’t exist, and Seyfried makes this fraudster into a strange and fascinating bird indeed.

The series begins with Elizabeth’s childhood in Houston, where, having gained early admission to Stanford, she’s already planning to drop out like her idols Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to start a billion-dollar tech company. As a pre-med student who shares her mother’s phobia about seeing her own blood, she envisions a small device that will test a patient for 70 different diseases with only one drop of blood, delivering results within minutes instead of requiring days for lab analysis. Her family wealth enables her to found her startup in Palo Alto, and early trials of the device come through, but she and her sales team are in Switzerland to demo the device for Novartis when it suddenly stops working.

She fakes the test results for the pharma company, starting a years-long pattern of hoodwinking investors and delivering false results to patients, along with the connivance of Sunny Balwani (Naveen Andrews), her considerably older boyfriend, COO, and designated office screamer who sends employees running out of offices in tears.

The creator of this show is Liz Meriwether, previously best known for her

successful Fox sitcom New Girl. This is a character study of a very different sort of woman, a Type A among Type As with a palpable need to be perceived as a successful CEO regardless of the means. Part of this comes from her upbringing: When Elizabeth is raped at Stanford, her mother (Elizabeth Marvel) clearly speaks from her own experience when she tells her daughter to put away all her inconvenient feelings until they disappear. I do like how the show presents the sexism, corporate and otherwise, around Elizabeth without using it as an excuse for her financial crimes. Theranos’ British head chemist (Stephen Fry) succumbs to the legal pressures on him to testify about the company’s misdeeds, and Elizabeth’s reaction to hearing of his suicide is perfectly chilling. The same applies to a late confrontation between Elizabeth and Sunny after Theranos’ public implosion, and the two domestic partners jockey to position the other one as the villain responsible for it all.

Contrasted with this, the show casts a dim view of the adulation of a beautiful white woman who builds a tech juggernaut before she turns 25. (This situation is always going to be catnip to more than just tech journalists. We see Holmes receiving a glowing endorsement from then-Vice President Joe Biden.) Then, too, there’s the skillful sleight-of-hand that Elizabeth and Sunny perform when the firm direly needs funding, as they pit executives from Walgreens and Safeway against each other —

and against the absent CVS — to play on their FOMO and make both retailers pay for Theranos’ devices in their stores.

All this is solid, but what really breathes life into the show is Seyfried. The actress has publicly discussed her real-life OCD and how the repetitive business of acting has helped her cope with her condition. It perfectly suits her to the role of an obsessive who reacts to an explosive fight with Sunny by standing in her bathroom mirror and compulsively repeating “This is an inspiring step forward,” a phrase from a planned speech to her shareholders. (We also see her practicing the artificially deep voice that contributed to Holmes’ infamy even more than her scientific and financial shenanigans.) The Dropout emerges as the tragedy of a woman who can’t let anyone see her vulnerable, driven insane by the various pressures applied by herself, her family, the business world, and social media. Maybe the most indelible scene comes at the very end, after Elizabeth leaves her deserted former corporate headquarters for the last time with the words of her ex-legal counsel (Michaela Watkins) ringing in her ears: “You hurt people, Elizabeth!” Standing alone by the road, she screams a scream of primal rage at everything that led her to this disgrace, including herself. Then her Uber driver pulls up, and her smile flicks back on like a torch as she greets him. The mask must never slip, no matter how exhausting it is to keep it up. l

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The days following the late June rape of a young woman in the West 7th corridor were filled with terror. Warnings that a sexual predator may be stalking the area flooded local social media.

“A close friend of mine was raped at gunpoint at 1:301:57 am on Monday,” read one post from user aaliyahkernn13 that was reshared multiple times. “The suspect followed my friend to her car and forced himself on her in her own vehicle. … No one can ever anticipate these horrible situations so please be safe.”

Static This spring, Mayor Mattie Parker breathlessly tweeted in fluent crypto boosterism, “We’re making Fort Worth the first city government in the United States to mine bitcoin. We launch at 2:30 p.m. CT today, livestreamed here on Twitter.”

Since that giddy April day, when Fort Worth burst into the bitcoin mining world, the cryptocurrency has taken a nosedive.

CNBC says, “bitcoin has lost around 58% of its value in the second quarter of 2022.”

This is no small thing. Based on reporting by Forbes, “approximately 107 [million] Americans invested in crypto for the first time in the last two years,” so during a time of economic uncertainty, bitcoin, which has advertised itself as a hedge against inflation, has proven to be a terrible investment for millions of our family members, friends, and neighbors. But they’re all suckers who deserve what they get when they invest in what Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has described as a “postmodern pyramid scheme,” right?

Perhaps, but as citizens of this city, we are, whether we like it or not, involved because Fort Worth, in its excitement to burnish its lackluster credentials as a high-tech entrepreneur hub and appeal to the liber-

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More than a week passed before police were able to arrest the suspect. County records show that Caylon Washington, who is being held at Green Bay Jail in south Fort Worth on $75,000 bond, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony.

“It hit home for me,” said Mallorie Anderson, 31. “I wouldn’t have been out that late, but a female in her 20s maybe doesn’t understand the dangers” out there.

The crime has spurred changes to Anderson’s behavior such as going out only in groups and starting discussions about rape among her friends and family, something Anderson said doesn’t happen often enough. The reluctance of men and women to talk about sexual assault may be one factor that leads women to feel ashamed to report the crime, she said.

“Why not talk about it?” she said. “This is a problem and an issue that women end up facing. They may not know how to respond [to a personal assault or the rape of a friend]. It’s a touchy thing to acknowledge, but it can happen to anyone.”

Based on data from RAINN, an anti-sexual assault nonprofit, for every 10,000 sexual assaults, only five perpetrators ever go to jail or prison and two-thirds of sexual assaults are never reported. Last year, an alleged crime in-

tarian-leaning technogentsia, prematurely lent Fort Worth’s good name to bitcoin and by extension other cryptocurrencies, giving them some veneer of “respectability.”

While I’m sure Fort Worth hasn’t helped bitcoin as much as Matt Damon’s embarrassingly pretentious “Fortune Favors the Brave” commercial, we should still all be concerned about lending our city’s name to something that can potentially tarnish it.

And bitcoin, as it exists now, certainly has that ability. In July, Lael Brainard, the vice chair of the federal reserve, delivered a speech in which she enumerated the problems involved with cryptocurrencies: “Risks include runs, fire sales, deleveraging, interconnectedness, and contagion, along with fraud, manipulation, and evasion.” As Krugman summarized it, Brainard was pointing out that traditional banking is “regulated for a reason; crypto, in bypassing these regulations … has created an environment subject to bank runs, not to mention ‘theft, hacks, and ransom attacks’ — plus ‘money laundering and financing of terrorism.’ ” So should the City of Fort Worth and, by extension, all of us who live here have anything to do with any of the above? Clearly, no, we should not.

And while involvement with financing terrorism and money laundering is certainly bad enough, should we, during a time of high energy usage because of spiking temperatures this summer putting strains on our already problematic electrical grid, be involved in bitcoin mining, which wastes

side the popular West 7th sports bar Varsity Tavern went unreported to police (“Fear Factor,” April 2021). The alleged victim said she had little faith that law enforcement would take the incident seriously. She also wanted to move on with her life and not relive the trauma of being allegedly dragged from the bar by a young man who may have planned to harm her. She was able to scream for help while he was pushing her past a group of late-night revelers toward a park a few blocks east of Varsity. The man released her arm, which allowed her to run back to her friends at the tavern.

Although police presence has improved over the past few weeks, multiple West 7th bar managers have said there’s a significant shortage of active officers assigned to the corridor that attracts several thousand late-night revelers every weekend.

So how safe is West 7th compared to other entertainment neighborhoods in Fort Worth?

Based on information from CrimeMapping.com, 182 police reports were filed in the West 7th corridor over the past six months. With 70 crimes reported, Sundays (including midnight to 2 a.m. or later on Saturday nights) saw the most incidents, while around 45 alleged crimes occurred

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Mayor Mattie Parker may have made Fort Worth the first major city to mine bitcoin but at what price?

enormous amounts of energy solving very complicated computational math problems to produce the currency? As the Center on Global Energy Policy has said, “ERCOT estimates that crypto miners may increase energy demand by up to 6 gigawatts by mid2023, roughly the equivalent of adding another Houston to the grid.”

While Fort Worth’s one crypto-mining machine will not by itself cause the grid to collapse, normalizing and sanctioning crypto mining, as Fort Worth is doing, does add

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more pressure on our already strained grid.

And that is just bad public policy.

Of course, Parker is not the only head of a major city to go gaga over cryptocurrencies. The mayors of New York City and Miami have done likewise. For what purpose?

As Fort Worth City Councilman Leonard Firestone related to the Fort Worth Business Press recently, Fort Worth being the first city to mine bitcoin “communicates to people that we’re a very progressive city with a young mayor, a young council. We’re embracing technology and recruiting technology.”

So for reasons that are largely symbolic — to say in 2022 that you are for high-tech business — Fort Worth has championed an unregulated, incredibly complicated, and volatile technology that uses an enormous amount of energy, lending the city’s good name to a potentially dangerous economic innovation that has lost investors trillions of dollars this past year. As quickly as possible, Fort Worth should say no thank you to continued bitcoin mining. To persist in lending its good name to an unregulated cryptocurrency is not being modern or cutting edge. It’s being flagrantly irresponsible. — Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue This column reflects the opinions of the author and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

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has recently increased the number of patrol officers in the area.

“Our neighborhood police officers are working rotating Fridays, with two officers on patrol, and Saturday nights, with four officers on patrol, through the rest of summer,” the spokesperson said. “We also have a special operations group with extra officers to supplement the West 7th units and NPOs [Neighborhood Police Officers] down there which, if fully staffed, will add six additional officers on Fridays and eight additional officers on Saturdays.”

The spokesperson advised West 7th residents and workers to report any kind of suspicious activity or incidents to police. I asked the police if incidents of sexual assault are on the rise in West 7th and was told that information would have to be compiled via an open records request, a step that can typically take several weeks to complete. We will update this story when we receive that information.

Anderson said many of her friends are aware that rape is underreported and underinvestigated. Changing that reality, she said, may require ending the taboo around talking about sexual assault.

“If we are more aware of how often these crimes occur, maybe victims will be less ashamed of filing reports” or acknowledging they were attacked, she said. l

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In June, warnings that a sexual predator may be stalking the West 7th corridor flooded local social media.

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on Saturdays, meaning the vast majority of offenses in the area happen on weekends. A total of 53 assaults were reported by police in the past six months, while 10 police reports were filed for drug- or alcohol-related charges. Seven offenses dealt with use of a deadly weapon. Other than assault, the majority of crimes revolved around vandalism and theft. There were no reported incidents of sexual assault, and it is unclear whether CrimeMapping combines physical and sexual assault figures.

Criminal activity in the West 7th corridor may be more prevalent than CrimeMapping.com data suggests. Several West 7th bar owners and managers have told me that underage drinking, drug sales, and open displays of handguns have become increasingly common due to the low police presence. Fort Worth police spokespeople say their department is dealing with staffing shortages.

Nearby downtown had 123 police reports filed for criminal acts during that same time period, 59 fewer reports than West 7th. Police reported 14 assaults in the area over the past six months, and reported crime was distributed evenly across weekdays and weekends, with larceny and vandalism accounting for more than half of all criminal acts reported.

The South Main Street portion of the Near Southside saw 155 reported crimes over the past six months, 27 fewer reports than West 7th. The 29 incidents of assault, 19 cases of burglary, and 60 incidents of larceny were spread evenly over seven days.

The data indicates the different crime characteristics of each neighborhood. Assault and drug- and alcohol-related violations are highest in the West 7th area, while theft and vandalism characterize crime downtown and along South Main.

West 7th bar owner Chas Taipale said police presence has drastically improved in the West 7th corridor recently. The head of the 30-plus-member W 7th Bar and Restaurant Association said there was little discernible police presence in the area throughout late spring and early summer.

He hasn’t asked the police why they’ve beefed up security but believes they’ve finally been able to work around the staff shortages.

Local bar owners regularly hire off-duty cops to provide security inside businesses, but that doesn’t help the situation on the streets, Taipale added, where the most recent sexual assault occurred. Among other provisions, he said he’d like to see more lighting throughout the neighborhood.

“I would say lighting would help,” Taipale said. “It helps with identification later and ensures that criminals don’t feel as safe as they may want.”

Emil Bragdon, who owns several bars and properties in West 7th, said beat officers are aware of the patrol shortage and privately convey frustration at the lack of officers on weekends.

A Fort Worth police spokesperson said the West Division that oversees West 7th

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here are a couple conspiracy theorists in my life that I can’t quit. I know them as well as I know my older brother and slightly less older sister. Like all believers in the fantastical, Lenny and Virginia (oops) share a common desire for the otherworldly. Life itself, in all of its grand, scary, short but also really long-feeling wondrousness, is clearly not enough for them. Maybe play some Dungeons & Dragons instead? Asking for a fragile democracy.

Conspiracy-y people are drowning in you-spin-me-right-’round headlines, even more misleading conmen on TV, and way too many Fakebook posts from the class of ’79 to be able to grasp reality firmly. The fantasy stays alive when one clings to two or three plausibilities chained to an anvil of fiction rather than accept a night sky’s worth of verifiable, non-litigable truths.

Please understand that believing only what you want to believe doesn’t make it factual.

Information that cannot be disproven isn’t inherently true.

This is the kind of world we live in.

These are the kinds of people we’re dealing with — the kind who would also murder our mother with a plastic butterknife to cast a ballot.

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I wish most of us empathetic, globalist folks cared enough to beat them. I’m afraid we’re way too easily distracted. Passionate — yes, we’re that — but also prone to cocooning. The dopamine drip from our devices (text, scroll, text, scroll, smile!, post, check phone 900 times before bed) breaks up the grind of painting or teaching yoga or running through scales or writing literary zombie novels or chasing whatever other fun, mostly unprofitable creative dreams our DNA instructs us to pursue — there was an election yesterday? Was it mentioned in Artforum? Or on Spotify? Maybe Netflix said something about it. When’s the next vote?

I’ll definitely put on some good sweatpants, drag myself out of the apartment, get in the car, reflexively flip on the radio, suffer through soul-crushing traffic (I hear you, “Slow Ride”), ch-ch-change the station a few hundred times, and wait in line for hours to cast my ballot (“I don’t wanna wait in vain,” either, Brother Bob). Yeah, I’ll do that right after I finish penning this chapbook of Ashberyian poems that will almost kill me but that no one will ever read.

“One consistent theme for 2022 is that Republican turnout has been more robust than Democratic turnout, particularly as compared to 2018,” said Kyle Kondik from the University of Virginia after the summer primaries. “If you believe that this is a Republican-leaning cycle and that Republicans are poised to do well in November, more robust Republican turnout is consistent with that story.”

I am — or once was — friends with a couple conspiracy theorists in my neighborhood. I haven’t talked to them since not long after the most recent presidential election (no surprise), and I’m afraid they’ve only dug deeper into the postmodern, literally surreal ooze of fantasy. I asked my wife about them a while back. “You don’t want to know,” she replied. As he has with so many friends and families, the Sultan of Spray Tan has come between our dear former pals and us. I wish them well. I just want to know why they’re thinking what they’re thinking and why they turn to Fox News and worse when nearly everyone else on the planet is screaming the provable truth within comfortable, clickable earshot.

I’m pretty sure the wealthy or wannabe-wealthy, Whitey-first version of Christianity probably has a lot to do with conspiracy theorists’ willful ignorance. Example: If Black lives matter, the willfully ignorant ask, then why do African Americans keep shooting up one another in the ghettoes?

Capsule answer: because decades ago our government, in its infinite wisdom, thought that confining former slaves and their descendants to certain, shitty parts of the country through redlining would maintain the façade of separate but equal. As history has proven, living stacked on top of one another in rat shacks with no job, supermarket, or bank nearby but with lots of places selling essentially whiskey in Home Depot bucket-sized cans for $1.99 creates a toxic mentality that leads to survival-at-all-costs decisions, including crime. Not excusing the behavior, just providing the kind of context that most white people willfully ignore because Fox News has scared them senseless. “Ooooh, Black people defacing statues.

Has anyone noticed the Denver airport looks like tinfoil hats?

Never mind cops actually murdering living, breathing human beings — Black, white, and every other color in between. Look at those poor statues!”

There’s also the fetuses. Christianity’s wealthy whites keep trying to find the right Bible verse that says life starts at conception.

All they can come up with is “People with flat noses can’t get communion!” (Leviticus 21:18-21), “Nonvirgins should be stoned!”

(Deuteronomy 22: 20-21), and “Eat your children if you sin!” (Leviticus 26:27-30).

The closest the Bible comes to addressing the question is to say that life starts with the first breath, so until Dr. Oz proves that fetuses are inhaling oxygen and exhaling CO2 in the womb like Usain Bolt after a 100-meter sprint, practitioners of this warped species of the faith should just admit the truth: They want to abolish abortion to punish women, poor women, Black and brown women.

Banning choice also probably means some ladies want to pump out kids and stay home with them (#blessed #joy #noviolentthoughtsatall) while their husbands do all of the timecard-punching and money-earning. It’s just too sad and pathetic to think about. Do better, sister-mothers. You are vessels of pure energy existing for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a millisecond in universal time, riding the only rock capable of nurturing life out of a zillion of them hurtling through the vast canyons of space. And men are stupid. Do better.

“Let me say that I am not implying that all evangelicals will become conspiracy theorists,” writes Joel Lawrence, executive director of the Center for Pastor Theologians, “but in the last few months, we have witnessed a disturbing number doing just that.”

Christians, tweets atheist activist @ godless_mom, are “more susceptible to conspiracy theories because they’ve been groomed to accept ideas w/o evidence.

The threat conspiracy theorists pose to the health and wellbeing of our world today is precisely why atheists have been vocal about the dangers of faith for years.”

Texas is one of the most conspiracy-heavy states in the union. I’m virtually fanning you right now because I know you just fainted. The most popular tall tale among us, according to BetKansas, a sports betting site, is not that the JFK assassination in Dallas was an inside job, though it’s up there (No. 3, behind that other done-dirty deal, 9/11).

It’s an airport.

Ranked as the second overall conspiracy in the country, behind 9/11, the Denver International Airport is where conspiracy lovers believe the Illuminati and architects of the New World Order reside. Both groups.

I’m just curious. Do they share a communal kitchen and the same Keurig? Do they have reserved parking spots? How can they focus on transforming society to their image and bending us to their will with the roar of all those 737s taking off and landing constantly? Anyway, secret bunkers and Freemason signage dot the facility and environs, and lizard people prowl the subterranean depths.

The Denver airport is also the top-ranked conspiracy in Colorado and Nevada, two states I expected better of.

With one eye closed, I googled what this supposed New World Order is. What I learned is that a bunch of really rich, really powerful Jews are now-not-so-secretly orchestrating our current la fin du monde (runaway viruses, mass shootings, climate disasters) to subjugate us. Only the super Heebs can save us, and in our salvation, we will become their slaves, doing their laundry, I guess, fluffing their pillows, mowing their lawns, taking down their trash, directing their Hollywood movies. To which I would like to add, with great respect to actual slavery, isn’t Conald Trump already our savior?

Isn’t his New World Order (white supremacy, probably genocide, definitely lots of golf) already taking over? And aren’t the rest of us already effectively shackled? More than half of our daily lives is spent preparing for, continued on page 9

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participating in, and recovering from work, and the minimum wage hasn’t gone up one cent in 13 years. That was in 2009. In 2009, Obama had been in the White House a year, and most of us probably believed that that was the start of a new world order of peace, justice, love, and endless veggie burgers with mountainous sides of quinoa. In 2009, I was two years into my marriage, 12.5 pounds lighter, and writing about largely uncaring local bands and painters as if it was going to launch me to The New York Times’ Arts & Leisure desk. I’m smarter now. Heavier and totes glummer but smarter. My current daydreams revolve around living on an island in the middle of the ocean with my family and spending my days fermenting native fruits. I can’t imagine what the NWO or the Illuminati would want from any of us other than maybe our black liquescence like in The Matrix. (Where do I sign up?)

Here is the rest of the Top 10: After 9/11 and the Denver airport, we have 3.) the Illuminati is real, 4.) the JFK assassination was an inside job, 5.) COVID-19 is a hoax, 6.)

QAnon, 7.) the moon landings were faked, 8.) HAARP (?) is behind all our global catastrophes, 9.) Area 51 is hiding aliens, and 10.) Wayfair trafficking (??).

I believe I’m correct in assuming that most of us have heard about a majority of the Top 10: Little green men crash-landed in New Mexico decades ago and were hauled to Nevada to be examined, bombing our own landmark skyscrapers was an excuse to build a pipeline through Afghanistan, the coronavirus, which escaped from a Chinese lab, doesn’t exist, but the lab does (the first rule of conspiracy theorizing is not to ask too many questions), the commie mafia killed JFK, no one really landed on the moon, and some faceless guy named Q is right about everything while everybody else is wrong. The two I had to look up

are HAARP and Wayfair. After conducting some heavy, in-depth research on them (on the toilet), I found they’re just specific names for common conspiracies: weather modification (HAARP, or the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks) and human trafficking, here by the titular furniture retailer. Someone in Wayfair’s marketing department should have known better than to give super-white girl names like Ainsley and Kathrina to high-priced sectionals and poufs. We are a nation of ridiculous, absurd, infantile fantasists. Everyone knows this, Wayfair. Everyone.

BetKansas doesn’t say how many people actually believe these fictions, just that each theory was stuffed through Google Search Trends and KeywordTool.io and aggregated. The email BetKansas sent me contains a link for additional info, but when I clicked on it, I only ended up being taken to a generic welcome page. (Illuminati!)

One conspiracy theory conspicuously missing from the Top 10 is the Big Lie. More than 70% of all Republicans, and probably 100% of all Kansas Republicans, believe the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.

Their “information” comes from one source: Fox News, a joke that somehow got away from Rupert Murdoch (and the rest of the right-wing puppet masters). They don’t care.

No one cares. Tucker Carlson and the rest of the network’s propagandists masquerading as “journalists” say precisely what most conservatives want to hear, a litany of falsehoods and innuendo, anything but the verifiable truth. In 2020, Carlson beat a slander case against him by having his lawyers argue that he lies on-air for money. Kind of like a whore. Relying mostly on the attorneys’ arguments, U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, said the “ ‘general tenor’ of [Carlson’s] show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’

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and ‘non-literal commentary.’ ” His viewers love his untruthfulness and the lies of Fox News and the lies of contemporary conservativism in general. As it was explained to me a while back by a bro from the old, sad neighborhood, “Sometimes just saying crazy stuff makes the cockroaches scatter.”

Two weeks ago, I had to go in for a routine colonoscopy. The lady next to me in the prep room cranked up Fox News on her hanging TV. They were trashing the vice-president because of course they were. She’s Black, a woman, and in charge. She’s what the right has nightmares about. I responded the only way I knew how: setting my iPhone on the table between us and blasting my Nina Simone playlist. “To be young, gifted, and Black / Is where it’s at! Is where it’s at! Is where it’s at!!!”

I often wonder what’s keeping a lot of us here in Texas. Along with banning abortion, banning books, not banning assault rifles, and pulling a seemingly endless number of other unfunny, incredibly dangerous pranks, Gov. Greg Abbott’s gutless acquiescence to the Big Lie is why he and his co-conspirators in Austin have installed apparatchiks into the sacred halls of government. They’re there to overturn the will of the people next time. The same may be true in Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, three swing states whose Republican candidates for governor and secretary of state reject the results of the 2020 presidential election. Just be prepared. When Abbott and his thieves slip victory out from Beto O’Rourke’s back pocket, I’m saying burn the whole damn thing down. I’m googling “how to light a stupid, ridiculous, probably racist statue on fire” right now. I’m serious. Action must be taken. And then we can move away to an island in the stream, not a moment sooner.

You could say that what separates us from the conspiracy theorists is that while they’re living in the future, we are here in the Now, doing normal things like helping people, even some we don’t agree with, doing our dishes, brushing our teeth, curling our hair, accepting reality, you know, being normal. We aren’t existing in the Great Beyond. If the Bible is to be believed — and as

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a Catholic schoolboy, I’ve read almost all of it — then realize that as much as Jesus wanted us to repent to enjoy a five-star hereafter, he wanted us to live our divinity now. When asked what the churches look like in heaven, Willem Dafoe said there are no churches in heaven — you’re already there. And that’s what Jesus wanted on Earth, what Willem Dafoe said in that Scorsese movie from the 1980s.

The Former Guy does figure prominently in one of the Top 10. The country’s sixth-highest trending conspiracy, QAnon, says that Donald tRump is waging a secret war against “a worldwide cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles [sic].” Yes, the guy who regularly walked in on teen beauty queens in their dressing rooms is leading some kind of global battle against demonic pervs. How he does all this from a shitty golf course in the nation’s armpit is even more miraculous.

Grab some pine, guy who rose from the dead after three days. Our new savior is here.

Being white and blonde isn’t where the similarities between Jesus and Don-old end.

Both men grew up poor except for the one who inherited millions of dollars, both were smart, so smart you didn’t know what to do with them, they were so smart, so terrifically smart, you still can’t even see their grades, that’s how smart they were, both knew money (one hated it; the other developed a preternatural talent for blowing it), and both died on the cross — Donald Trump’s “great life” ended on June 16, 2015, when he announced his candidacy for president.

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“and now, all I do is, people go after you. It’s vicious. It’s horrible.”

Is there no end to the sacrifices this guy makes for all our straight, rich, white loved ones on the daily?

The November election will determine whether we remain a free, fair democracy or a Christian caliphate. This time, it’s real. Sorry, but we have to say this every other minute because we hope it will stick someday. Maybe the people we elect will be able to, possibly, pull themselves away from MSNBC and takeout Le Diplomate long enough to effect change we can count on. We do not need any more “URGENT!” fundraising emails or more kowtowing to sWiNg VOtErS or any more nonsensical tweets that have nothing to do with voting rights, choice, or equality.

You went to Taiwan today. Congrats. Now can you come back to Washington and maybe save democracy? Because that would be great. *slurps coffee* We need to bury white supremacy and the desire for a church-state completely, or we will fracture even further. There’s a lot more of us than there are of them. The difference is that our conservative kinfolk aren’t as easily distracted from rocking the vote as we mankind-enlighteners are. They don’t make worthwhile music. They don’t make worthwhile food. They can’t dance.

Their incredibly awkward, painfully wooden Christian melodramas suck. (I know. I’ve had to steer my 10-year-old away from them in his mistaken belief that they are “just sports movies.”) The only artist on their side is that weirdo who painted Trump grabbing Robert Mueller by the tie, and dude’s understanding of human anatomy is almost as painful as the hellscape he’s going to be deposited in for forgetting Colossians 3:23: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your

heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,” including the right’s massa in chief, who’s undoubtedly swinging a 9-iron and … Truth Social-ing? … as we speak.

We relatively normal contributors to the world’s intellectual and emotional betterment are way more distracted than the competition. In the primaries so far, more Dems have been staying home than Republicans. We’re probably busy making art.

More likely, watching Black Bird and reading literary zombie novels. A’hem.

I promise I’ll do my part to get ready for Nov. 8.

“Hey, guys,” I’ll text two people I love dearly but can’t trust with their ballots — at all. “Check out this list of the Top 10 conspiracy theories in the country. Can you believe the Denver airport is only No. 2?!?

I definitely thought it’d be first. What are those list makers smoking, amirite??”

Can I keep this up through Nov. 9?

Using tricky messages to distract an older brother whose name might be Lenny and a slightly less older sister possibly named Virginia through election day? I should add that “Lenny” is an incredible illustrator and “Virginia” is an amazing singer. They’re the only Republicans I know who add to the world’s edification. Them and Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the Congressional committee investigating Jan. 6, who referred to TFG’s attempted coup as a “seditious conspiracy.”

Not that kind of conspiracy, BetKansas.

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This summer, on a much-needed weeklong vacation, my fiance and I took a road trip to see Primus in Kentucky for the band’s Farewell to Kings-Rush tribute tour as North Texas was not a stop. I was born in Kentucky, but my family moved away when I was a toddler. I’ve always wanted to visit the state in general and Mammoth Cave specifically. On a lark, we grabbed some tickets and went for it.

Along the path, we also stopped at many Civil War sites like Shiloh National Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace.

Still, no stop was more impactful than the National Civil Rights Museum (450 Mulberry St, Memphis, 901-521-9699). Several years ago, Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, Coretta Scott King, purchased the Lorraine Motel, where King was assassinated, and after a multimillion-dollar build-out, she transformed it into a state-of-the-art multimedia museum.

The Lorraine’s façade is still intact, but the entrance is a brick building to the left of the hotel. Upon entry, the layout guides you on a tour, tracing the beginning of slavery, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement leading up to — and following — King’s assassination. Toward the end of the tour, you are directed down a narrow hall, past signs about quiet contemplation, and then you

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realize that you are standing in the hallway in front of Dr. King’s hotel room. Peering through the glass wall on each side of where you stand, you can see his group’s two rooms, left just as they were that fateful day.

When in Memphis, skip Graceland.

This museum is what you need to see. The content and exhibits here should be in textbooks in every state. It’s that informative.

Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. King, is continuing her parents’ legacy. She is the CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (449 Auburn Av, Atlanta, 404-526-8900), which works to institutionalize and promote the philosophy of nonviolence. She and Dr. Kimberly Johnson have written the children’s book It Starts with Me! about a young girl who encourages her friends to “be love.”

“Through love, we can create the Beloved Community, a world where injustice ceases, love prevails, and everyone is a beneficiary of belonging.”

The book reminds children and adults alike that “while we all can want to make the world better, we have to own that it starts with each of us taking a stand for what is morally right and just.”

Join King and Johnson on Sat, Aug 20, for a reading of It Starts with Me! at 11:30am, followed by a book signing at noon, at Galleria Dallas (13350 Dallas Pky, 972-7027100) on Level 3, adjacent to the Children’s Play Place.

The event is free to attend, but you’ll need to purchase the book. There will be a special kiosk on-site Fri, Aug 19, and Sat, Aug 20, with the book and other merchandise for sale. A hardcover copy is $21.99, while the paperback is $12.99, with proceeds benefiting the King Center. For more information, visit TheKingCenter.org. l

Meet Dr. Bernice King at the It Starts with Me! book signing Sat, Aug 20.

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From 9am to noon, Arlington Charities (@ArlingtonCharities) hosts its Back 2 School Saturday Mobile Food Market. With Arlington schools starting back on Monday, Arlington families can ensure their pantries are full of goodies for packing those lunches. The first 400 families in line — no appointments — will receive free supplemental groceries. Sim-

ply pop open your trunk, and the volunteers will load up your vehicle with food. Speaking of volunteers, they need some! If you’re interested in helping out at this or future events, email Wendy@ArlingtonCharities.org.

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Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater — the world-renowned venue in Colorado Sunday — is on my bucket list. In a world where I have unlimited funds, I would have flown myself to the recent two-day concert with Primus and Ween in celebration of South Park’s 25th anniversary. Les Claypool wrote/performs the theme song, and both Ween and Primus have been featured on the show. Since the concert was taped for a special broadcast, I’ll be streaming it at home Saturday on Comedy Central or Sunday on Paramount+ like the rest of you. (Spoiler alert: I think they may have killed Kenny.)

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For many families, back to school means back to homeschooling. For students Thursday needing to participate in an activity, sport, or physical education class this school year, horseriding lessons at Benbrook Stables (10001 Benbrook Blvd, 817249-1001) might be the answer. The Riding School is in session 9am-11am every Thursday (ages 6-9) and Friday (ages 8-11) from Thu, Sep 1, thru Fri, May 26. The cost is $250 for a block of four two-hour classes, and the class sizes are limited.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tarrant County (@BBBFriday AM STarrant), a volunteer-run nonprofit that matches caring adults with children for one-to-one mentoring, relies on donor support to carry on with its mission. To that end, from 7am to 11:30am, Alpine Shooting Range (5482 Shelby Rd, 817-478-6613) hosts its annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Fort Worth Clay Shoot. Proceeds will benefit BBBS’ Bigs’ Outdoors Mentoring Program, in which “Bigs” and “Littles” meet one another through firearm safety classes, nature days, fishing events, and hunts. Corporate sponsorship opportunities range from $1,500 to $7,500. The general public can participate individually for $150 per person, $250 for a four-person junior team (under 18), or $500 for a four-person adult team (18 and over).

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In celebration of anime, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (200 Darnell St, Friday PM 817-738-9215) hosts Anime at the Modern 2022 with screenings in the auditorium. This festival features five movies, including Fortune Favors Lady Nikuto (5pm) and Belle (7:30pm) tonight, Pompo the Cinephile (2pm) and Inu-Oh (5pm) on Saturday, and then Belle (noon) and The Deer King (3pm) on Sunday. The museum’s gift shop will feature Japanese-inspired merchandise and snacks. Tickets for individual films are $10 each at TheModern.org, but discounted, full-festival passes are also available by calling or visiting the museum’s admission desk.

Sure, go back to school, but not as an imposter. That’s exactly the stunt that then Friday 30-year-old Brian MacKinnon pulled in 1993 when he enrolled as a fifth-year student at Bearsden Academy in Scotland as 17-year-old Brandon Lee. When he was found out in 1995, it made global news. Former classmate Jono McLeod’s new documentary My Old School tells the crazy story through present-day interviews, archival footage, and cartoons. As the real McKinnon would not go on camera, actor Alan Cumming was hired to portray him on film, lip-syncing to the audio interviews.

Magnolia at the Modern is screening My Old School in the auditorium of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215) today thru Sun, Aug 28.

Showtimes are 4pm and 8pm today, 5pm Sat, and noon, 2pm, and 4pm Sun. Tickets are $10 except on Sundays, when they’re always half-price.

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of the new Amplify 817 series, the library presents 817 Day 6pm-9:30pm at the Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av, 817-392-7469). Enjoy a live concert by Fort Worth musicians Cut Throat Finches with Averi Burk, BenC Jones, and GRANT and see installations by local artists presented by Art Tooth. Printed Threads will be onsite silk-screening exclusive 817 Day T-shirts that will be available for purchase, benefiting the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation.

(While the city funds essential library services, the foundation raises money to provide programs and resources beyond the basics.)

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Gimme quality over quantity any day.

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Founders Stan Hudson, a native of Lampasas and expert in engineering and homebrewing, and Sean Doublet, a master chemist from New Orleans, are the heart and soul of Neutral Ground. It’s not just their prowess, but their passion — “a combination of science and artistry,” per their mission statement — that compels them to

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In fact, the microbrewery’s name pays tribute to the armistice struck between rival military leaders after the Louisiana Purchase. They declared that the disputed territory between then-Spanish Texas and U.S.-acquired Louisiana would temporarily serve as “neutral ground,” a place where people could enjoy free trade and camaraderie without threat of conflict until the border was officially established. What could have been ravaged by fighting instead became a haven, and what better way to honor that legacy than by bringing people of all walks together with craft beer?

Though in present-day Louisiana, neutral ground is tantamount to a road median, the spirit of the historic alliance lives on at Neutral Ground. The taproom was fairly packed when my friend Sasha and I dropped by one Friday, with children teeter-tottering about freely and lively chatter filling the modest space.

Not only that, but the beerhouse also frequently hosts local food trucks and popups to promote and gather its neighbors.

That evening, Love, Sammy’s served up crispy tostadas with all the fixin’s and picante rice. As the chefs warmly greeted people and the barbacks enthusiastically recommended pairings, it occurred to me that the place may be small, but the people, on either side of the bar, fill it with life and make it feel substantial.

While its simple, industrial design and color scheme may live up to the name (emphasis on “neutral”), the brewery is anything but plain. Wood slats painted a mossy green wrap the barroom from floor to ceiling and back like a ribbon on a gift box, a windowed garage door all but spans the façade,

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The clear frontrunner was The Accursed, an unsurprisingly award-winning Baltic porter. Dark, rich, and smooth, it left behind a lingering robust coffee aftertaste.

And if there’s one thing I love more than beer, it’s coffee.

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But that’s where the analogy ends, because there’s nothing neutral or middle-ofthe-road about the brews.

When sampling a beer selection, I always opt for a flight or two. With four tasters in each flight ($16), Sasha and I went all over the map, determined to take advantage of the shorter pours to dip our toes into a wider variety of Neutral Ground’s brews.

for cider by the looks of it, the Belgian-style beer was a touch fruity, spicy, and nutty, and I even detected notes of ginger. Pardon me as I remove my monocle, but even if my detective skills pale in comparison to those of Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple, trust me that Fool’s Fancy is a must-try.

Neutral Ground is making its mark and creating community. And for a good price, I was able to partake in a good portion of their high-quality offerings. You best believe I’ll be back for the rest — especially since, as I closed out, the bartender informed me I’d missed out on one of the best beers they have on tap, a tripel called Mannequin de Belgique, and teased their upcoming fall batches. l

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It took a few sips of La Bruja to get past the sweet, spicy, and salty of the tajin and lime adhered to the rim to the refreshing Mexican lager within, but once I did, “The Witch” had me wishin’ I was lounging on a tropical beach somewhere like someone straight out of a Corona commercial.

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Meet Me Underground The local house music scene finds a home at Curfew Bar. S T O R Y A N D P H O T O S B Y J U A N S A L I N A S I I

DJ Stephen Carmona’s recent set at Meet Me Underground had bodies pulsing for hours.

music. However, she realized it didn’t matter, thanks to MMU’s emphasis on dancing rather than preening.

MMU Creative Director Alvaro Gonzales originally planned a limited run for event, but since it’s been so popular, he’s turned it into a weekly shindig that seems to be here to stay.

“Meet Me Underground came about from the need to dance and party again once the lockdown stuff lifted,” Gonzales said. “I was doing parties here and there and really wanted to take them to a different level and sought out clubs and bars in the area to run some parties out of.”

Gonzales is thrilled with MMU’s success and how much it’s grown over the past year.

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MMU attendees are there to dance, not necessarily hook up.

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First of all, watch your step. Going down two flights of not entirely well-lit stairs isn’t easy, but once you hit rock bottom at Curfew Bar, you’ve entered what some regulars call the “underground rave.”

Every Monday, this quirky, hidden watering hole downtown hosts Meet Me Underground (MMU), a party that I would describe as a time machine to the early 2000s.

MMU focuses on house music and is heavily influenced by anime and gaming culture.

In its few months’ time, it has gained a cultlike following, mostly for its welcoming atmosphere. Bringing in people of all sorts of subcultures that you wouldn’t expect to see mingling with one another, MMU is inviting and decidedly non-pretentious.

“There is nowhere else … that could make you feel so comfortable to be yourself,” Kamy Lafavers said. “You can dance like no one is watching because everyone else is dancing.”

Lafavers was initially intimidated because she doesn’t usually listen to house

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two for ourselves,” he tweeted not too long ago, “but the support from all of you has carried us up.”

Gonzales has been curating parties at warehouses around North Texas for about 15 years. The only issue with Curfew Bar, which turned out to not be a problem at all, Gonzales said, was the day of the week, but as a year into MMU proves, Mondays work just fine.

Gonzales said Curfew’s interior and vibe were perfect for the kind of event he wanted. The place has an intimate dance floor, funky disco balls, colorful neon lighting, fun messages hanging on the walls, and TVs displaying clips of popular animes.

But the ambiance would be for naught if not for the sounds.

The two resident DJs are C.B. Smoove and BoyBlk, a.k.a. Sterling Hasley, who said he loves showing off his inspirations when he’s spinning. He said he started dee-jaying nearly eight years ago to liven up the anime convention after-parties he would frequently attend. His sets are heavily influenced by gospel music since he spent a lot of time at church as a kid. He sees house music as a “spiritual experience” that he wants everyone in the club to feel.

“The CDJs are my bible, and the club is my church,” BoyBlk said.

He added that the difference between MMU and other, similar events around North Texas is that MMU attendees actually dance instead of trying to look cool and

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get laid. MMU brings back the culture of house music’s roots, he said, by creating an environment where people are there to dance and express themselves.

Even when the two resident DJs are off, the party is still jumping at Curfew on Monday nights. The last time I went was on the Fourth of July. Two local DJs, Stephen Carmona and Bout, both delivered fantastic sets, keeping the crowd bouncing and grooving for hours. While there might not have been any fireworks in the sky that night — thanks, grassfires — MMU attendees appeared spellbound by the great tunes and the delish food from the Gustos Burgers + Stuff van.

“I don’t think there’s any place like it in the entire DFW, to be honest,” said A-Wall, a Dallas artist. “The level of curation MMU brings is insane.”

A-Wall isn’t the only North Texas creative you might bump into on Curfew’s dance floor.

On the Fourth, I got to say hi to Karina Salas from Noches De Fortuna, a group of DJs who focus on Latin music. If you want to get to know the North Texas house music scene, MMU is where a lot of major players come to get loose.

“If you’ve never been, what are you waiting for?” A-Wall said.

You could tell there is so much passion and care when it comes to MMU, and it’s just something you need to experience.

“I’m not too familiar with Fort Worth [nightlife], but I do know Dallas, and MMU is different,” Claudia Castaneda said.

Gonzales said there’s now an additional location for MMU. The second spot is in Dallas at Green Light Social (2625 Floyd St, 469-871-0111), where Meet Me Underground will take place every Wednesday starting Aug. 10. MMU will also do a oneoff in Big D on Thu., Aug. 18, at It’ll Do Club (4322 Elm St, 214-434-1702). MMU merch, Gonzales added, is also on the way.

“I’d just like to thank everyone that comes out every Monday,” he said. “That alone is such a wild thing to me personally.” l

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Had the lights down low, glass of (non-masticated) wine nearby, my 11-and-a-half ’s up on the ottoman. Electric candles, lit. Laptop, open.

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Sorry, but quite possibly my favorite band of all time is on now. Well, a tribute to them is. Call me the crawlin’ king snake / And I rule my den!

It was a Saturday night, and I was about to take in a concert by The Odors, the only Doors cover band I know of in North Texas.

They were livestreaming from MASS. Since my wife and I live 20 minutes from town and have a demanding 10-year-old (sweet as heck, but c’mon, dude — do we have to do all your thinking for you?), my humble little setup was going to have to pass for the Hollywood Bowl circa 1968 tonight. It had been years, literally, since I had done anything for myself that didn’t involve sweat, and even that hasn’t been doing anything for me but for the people who depend on me. I was not going to miss this G.D. show. I dug my whimsical pizza-socked feet deeper into my footstool.

And what a kickass show it was, 34 songs long, and if you know The Doors as well as I do, every tune is a slice of pure pop brilliance.

The only track I never needed to hear again is “Alabama Song,” but The Odors made it as palatable as a sweating rocks glass of Uncle Nearest 1856. Pretty much every rendering was delicious, and while I would say I appreciated the deep cuts, they’re all A-sides to me.

Backed by guitarist Chris Holt, Richard Zemcik and “Big Mike” Michael Richardson both on bass and keyb’s, and drummer Eric Hicks, who held everything together expertly, El Hicks did a great job matching Jim Morrison’s porterhouse steak of a voice, and if you squinted at the screen at some moments, you could be tricked into thinking, “Yeah, El could be Jim circa 1995,” a slightly graying, longish-haired, bearded, shoeless shaman who no longer writhes on the stage floor or pretends to suck off the guitarist during a solo or relieves himself into the first row. Just a talented man there to give the simply beautiful rock music (that’s right) the respect it deserves.

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The last time I saw a Doors tribute act was in the late ’90s at a nightclub back in my crappy Rust Belt hometown. Rosebud or The Rosebud or whatever it was called was super-douchey, but everyone back then was super-douchey, self with tight T-shirts and hair so spiky it could impale a MFer included. The show was kind of a religious experience for me. I had worshipped at the altar of the Lizard King since senior year in high school, when that greatest hits cassette tape somehow found its way into every Buick Century, Ford Bronco, and diesel Mercedes-Benz in Pittsburgh. The “hits” didn’t move me. I’d heard them all a million times before on classic-rock radio and some of them even on MTV. No, it was “Celebration of the Lizard,” a.k.a. “Not to Touch the Earth.”

God damn.

“Dead president’s corpse in the driver’s car!” Jim shouts/sings. “The engine runs on glue and tar! Come on along, not goin’ very far!

To the east / To meet the czar.”

I was entranced, and I stayed that way for a long time. Musically, I’ve mostly moved on to jazz and classical, but I still listen to my Doors Pandora station every week or so and now will catch The Odors any chance I get if only for their spellbinding version of “Not to Touch the Earth.”

I will stream them. I just don’t think I’ll ever be able to see them or really any other band that doesn’t go on before 7pm in person.

I just don’t live that rockaroll lifestyle anymore. I’m old. I’m married. I have a kid. I live far away. And 6:30am rolls around pretty early these days.

The livestream itself was seamless, admittedly not as rocking and rollicking as being there but still way beyond adequate. I was also able to virtually tip the musicians decently with the money I probably would have forked over to the bar and definitely would have spent on my Uber home.

I’d like to thank the man behind the livestream. Big Mike knows it works — it still exists on his Facebook page where we all watched the show. I also think we need to thank MASS for putting musicians first and bar sales second, because I bet all that money the bar didn’t make went right to Big Mike, El Hicks, and the other cats onstage and off-.

This Odors show was the second tribute evening of the weekend for MASS. The night before, Puce Floyd, another Big Mike production, put on an all-Pink Floyd show, and I may still watch that one, too, but please. No one sings me lullabies. — Anthony Mariani

Even if you haven’t been down so goddamn long, livestreaming like this Doors tribute show still rocks.

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