Jack Daniel (often offline)
As someone who grew up in the Apollo era and lived and breathed all things space, I really want to be excited about this new thing.
But any time I think about it, I just hear Gil Scott-Heron saying "A rat done bit my sister Nell..."
Apr 6 at 6:24pmWeb
Show threadKrypt3ia1d ago
@jack_daniel Don't worry, after this flight they will go back to doing fuck all again and you can just go back to remembering the 70's.
Show threadPaul_IPv61d ago

@jack_daniel

like so many 60s protest songwriters, activists, poets, gil scott-heron is vastly too relevant and topical still. depressing...

would love to just be able to enjoy his wit as something that happened but we're all better now, but no...

Show threadRabbit1d ago
@jack_daniel I literally went out and bought the LP of him reading that the other day because I keep being reminded about it.
Show threadRabbit1d ago
@jack_daniel ...and how I think I understand it now, having not quite "gotten it" most of my life. I think it was for a specific moment in time, and that moment came around again to supply me the missing context.
Show threadRabbit1d ago
@jack_daniel Which is sad in its own right innit. Like a Halley's Comet of Shit.
Show threadMarcus1d ago
@jack_daniel
TIL a poet named Gil Scott-Heron wrote "Whitey on the Moon", nominally about the first moon landing.
https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-whitey-on-the-moon-annotated
Show threadJack Daniel (often offline)1d ago
@puzzled I should have linked it, I forget that I'm a ancient. I wish it didn't ring so true today.