Loose Leaf Notes

1. Disrupt or interrupt?

2. During all my recent Floydfest posting and sharing to two private pages, Facebook started taking down some of my posts. Their message said “It looks like you tried to get likes, follows, shares or video views in a misleading way.” Well, yes, isn’t that why we share? The misleading reference seemed to to be that they didn’t want me to link to my blog posts, sending readers to another site, which I’ve been doing for well over a decade.

3. Later, I realized the post they took down was titled “Feelin’ the Love at Floydfest” with links to my blog, and I thought maybe the big brother bots thought it was porn because they didn’t take down other posts with other titles. My Facebook page has been restricted ever since I made a comment on someone’s thread after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump had full immunity from official acts that said Hitler’s murderous actions were official acts.

4. This is me in the Teen Tent @Floydfest. They never asked for my ID.

5. I could do a whole post just on Floyfest crowd shots.

6. I posted a picture similar to this one (above) on Facebook and later learned from my first cousin’s son that the woman second over from the front right was his daughter, my first cousin thrice removed. I often find people I know in crowd shots after the fact.

7. Joe found this (right) image on his phone that someone from the teen tent covertly took.

8. Playlist or A-list?

9. Driving to Floydfest one day this weekend I saw a dead raccoon  on the side of the road with a balloon tied to it. Is that a thing?

10. You never know what you’ll see at Floydfest.

11. Several people at Floydfest @Festival Park (first time at the new site after being at the old site since 2002) spoke to me about having a hard time with the steep hills and the distances they had to travel from their campsites. By the last day there, I realized I’d have to rethink my footwear for next year.

12. Summer is like aging. You feel it coming to a close even when there’s still plenty of it.

13. “Old age has no future. Only in old age do you learn to live with the present.” Bridget Bardot

Floydfest 2024 day one is HERE.  Day two is HERE. Day three HERE. Check out my sidebar category Floyd festing HERE for 22 years of past posts on Floydfest and other Floyd festivals.

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