paulfan11 wrote:

Perhaps just maybe Paul wanted to do this interview? Doesn't mean he is desperate to sell records, good grief. Paul has teamed up with many musicians of all ages/genres before.

Paul is a musician.  He probably likes music.  It's weird how that offends some of his grumpy old fans.

If I made a list of all the things I care about, it would be weeks before I even wrote this one down.

I play LPs and 78s on a record player, CDs and digital files on a CD player, and everything loaded onto my phone in the car.  It all sounds good.  Other than those files I illegally downloaded off Napster at 5bps back in the last millennium.

Nancy R wrote:

The good news is that our national nightmare is over - Joe Biden was elected President! 🥳

International nightmare.  It will be a few years before the United States fully realizes how much influence it has lost around the world.

A small example is Taiwan's medical community.  They used to look up to American experience and expertise.  Taiwanese doctors would often train for a year or two in the United States.  Studying at an American university was considered something good to have on your CV.  After watching the US completely drop the ball, medical schools dropped American textbooks.  The United States is now seen as a cautionary tale.

The good news is that Taiwan will now be more dependent on their own research and development, which can only be a good thing.

love2travel wrote:

It’s a beauty, does it have a flux capacitor?

With all the bells and whistles, it just might.  These new cars have so many gadgets and gizmos, it's like buying a new computer and digging around to see everything that's installed.

Instead of an AM/FM radio, it can play digital music files from an SD card, by plugging a device into the USB port, connecting the phone via Bluetooth or using a paid music subscription service.  Oddly enough, it cannot play CDs.

Rather than simply moving the seats forward and backward, they can be adjusting in 14 different directions, with multiple memory settings so the seat goes exactly where you program it to go.  Because moving your own seat is so last century.

Once upon a time, you had to keep your foot on the pedal if you wanted to go forward.  That is too much trouble for today's cars.  When you want to set the cruise control, you can either get to the speed you want to go and let the car take over, or simply tell the car what speed you want to go and it will get there.  And if any cars in front of you slow down or someone changes lanes, your car will adjust accordingly.  It will even slam on the brakes if it has to.  Feet are no longer required.

The car can make sure you stay in your lane, and if you wander off a little, it can steer you in the right direction.  Hands are still required, though.

Something I find annoying is the warning alarm when cars are too close.  Where I live, other cars will always be too close.  Scooters routinely drive within inches of other vehicles.  My car beeps a lot.

What I like, but assumed I would not, are all the cameras all over the place.  My natural instinct is to turn around when backing up, but the rear view camera can see far more than I can, and it even shows you a 360 view of everything around you.  In a place with tiny parking spaces, this is especially helpful.  It also has a night view camera, which is essentially infrared that shows you people and things in the dark distance, far beyond the headlights.  That's great to have with all the stray dogs running around.

You can also close the doors without actually touching them, and if you do want to touch them, there is absolutely no need to slam anything.  The doors will close even with a slight tap.

Above all that, more important than the brakes and engine, the cup holders have covers.  For some reason.

love2travel wrote:

Praying for all obstacles to be removed in the path of Joe and Kamala.

I hope you like praying a lot.  The right wing extremists are going to put as many obstacles as they can, legal and otherwise, for the next four years.  They do not need to start a civil war.  They only need to get enough of their fans to believe in their conspiracy theories.

The good news is that Biden is assassination-proof.  The last thing those brave patriot Christians want is a black woman as president.

Welcome to the Mirror Universe Maccaboard.  Like mirror DS9 episodes, a little is too much.

Nancy R wrote:

HaileyMcComet wrote:

So what is the secret message?  I don't do clickbait.

Chicka ferdy (in Sun King) means f*#k off.

That's not what John claimed.  Though John was not always entirely honest in interviews, and he and Paul disagreed on a few things over the years.

SusyLuvsPaul wrote:

Hay Hailey Mc., long time no see...although I guess it hasn't really been that long ago you last popped up here, till informing us of your new travels and showing your new car (it's gorgeous) !  So you live in a different and equally lush, green and beautiful part of Asia now. You're an American, though, aren't you? You really get around ! Lucky !

-Well, actually,  I guess Hong Kong where you lived last isn't as "lush and green and beautiful" and tropical or semi-tropical as where you are now (?). I need to brush up on my geography. Last I heard, I think you worked at Disneyland China as a singer and dancer (?). What's your career presently? Still in entertainment? Have you written any new books

That's a lot of questions for a Tuesday afternoon.  You could even say Tuesday afternoon is never-ending.  Though the album version is only 8:23.

Hong Kong is indeed lush, green, and beautiful.  Most people think of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, which are tall, steel, and glass.  But the New Territories are mostly green and undeveloped, with several country parks, mountains, nature reserves, waterfalls, a wide variety of wildlife, and hiking trails up the wazoo.

Hong Kong has a humid subtropical climate, which means it can and will rain at absolutely any time and is always more humid than it really needs to be.  Southern Taiwan, where I live now, has a tropical rainforest climate, which means it can and will rain at absolutely any time and is always more humid than it really needs to be.  The only noticeable difference between the two, that I have seen, is that Hong Kong is mostly protected from typhoons by the Philippines and Taiwan.  Taiwan is protected by the Philippines to the south, but is wide open on the east coast.  I have lived in Taiwan for almost four months and have already seen more typhoons than the lifetime I lived in Hong Kong.

There is no Disneyland China, but there is a Hong Kong Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland.  I left Hong Kong Disneyland four years ago.  I was mostly a dancer, but medical issues pretty much ended that career.  So I took an enormous pay raise and became a choreographer.

When people ask if I am American, I have to think about how to answer that.  Technically, I am.  I was born in the Divided States.  But based on everything I have read and seen about the American way of life over the last few years, I do not identify as an American.  The country you live in now is not the same country where I was born.  When people ask what I am, more often than not, I say Hongkonger, which has its own problems.  Hong Kong is in China, but I am not Chinese.  Other than legally.

My new book is currently on the fourth draft.  I want to finish before the year ends, but I have let too many distractions get in the way.  Whatever happens, I will definitely finish before George Railroad Martin.

oobu24 wrote:

Congrats Hailey. What kind of car is it?

A brand new 2019 Porsche Panamera Turbo that I bought in 2020.  The year difference is kind of a long story.