on-track shower classy in cranberry
7:31 ofc open
retired a couple of analog books
Tampermonkey scripts backupped in Joplin
cloud recipes folder localized
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The Blues Brothers cover of The Chips' 1956 "Rubber Biscuit" was on the radio en route to work.
If I knew this, I'd forgot until TI(re-)L:
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's "Blues Brothers" alter-ego band (qua "Jake Blues" and "Elwood Blues") debuted 1978-04-22 on SNL (season 2). Steve Martin hosted that ep, and later invited them to open for his 9-night September residency at LA's Universal Amphitheatre. Their 1978-11-28 debut live album went platinum.
chrono context
Belushi was born 1949, Aykroyd 1952. They met and became close friends in the early 70s, i.e. in their early 20s, at Toronto's Second City comedy theatre, years before that spawned the "SCTV" broadcast show.
'78 was a big year for Belushi:
- launched the band on the #1 late-night TV show in April
- starred in the #1 movie "National Lampoon's Animal House", released in July
- dropped the band's 1st album in November, which charted #1 in Feb 1979
Pop culture Triple Crown all in a one-year span.
The Blues Brothers movie came out in 1980. Belushi died 1982-03-05 of a cocaine/heroin speedball OD.
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When I heard about the Rat Park experiments around 2008~12, it made a deep impression on me. After that, when I heard about people struggling with addiction or overdosing as a cause-of-death, I assumed they were probably numbing out abuse trauma. Important context, I grew up with a lot of mixed messages on the topic: smoking and drinking were grown-up if not downright "cool"; they weren't "drugs"; and "drugs" were for "losers"... unless you were a successful high-society entertainer, lawyer, Wall Street trader, or business executive when suddenly coke and bennies were cool again, candy for grown-ups.
History is pretty silent about whether Belushi experienced child abuse; biographers point more to a pattern of insecurity/self-doubt at odds with his objective career success, coupled with grueling industry schedules and a work culture that ran closely parallel to drug culture. His brother Jim has also noted John started suffering seizures in high school, and connected that to head injuries sustained as an all-star football linebacker. In short, maybe he was self-medicating traumatic brain injury. Ofc in the mid-late '60s, nobody was thinking "putting kids at high risk of TBI on the football field is a form of child abuse".