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0604-1122 My walk today was typical. I did 36 minutes, and had mild foot dizziness. I could have walked more, but wasn’t really feeling it. I was pretty happy when I got to the top of the hill and heard the buzzer. … The podcast I listened to was Gone South. The story was about some frat boys at a college in Charleston. They were dealing drugs, getting caught, and narking off each other.
I had 9 minutes to go when that finished, and so I decided to go back to József Antal Eszterhás (Joe Eszterhas) on Joe Rogan Experience. I was already ninety minutes in, and had decided that JAE was a liar. JAE said that he had lunch with Martin Luther King, “before he became the towering international figure.” JAE would have been about 16 years old. JAE also said Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went to Woody Creek to see Hunter S. Thompson. Google said there’s no record of any such visit. I was already a bit suspicious of the dude.
So JAE starts talking about Jimi Hendrix. JAE went up to his hotel room. They started smoking pot at 9:30 in the morning. By 11:00 they were looking for lunch. Hendrix said I’ve got a driver downstairs, let’s go get something to eat . They go downstairs, and Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding were waiting. The five of them go to a Hungarian restaurant that JAE knew about. And then … this story is nonsense. Turn the show off, and walk down the hill in silence.
0605-0956 The second day of a new habit is always difficult. You have a bright idea, and it works well on the first day. You have to do it the second day. … The morning walk went well today. I had very little problems with my feet, but a little bit of soreness with my right knee. I can live with that. I even did an extra lap after the buzzer went off.
The podcast today was Criminal. The episode, Mantrap, was about people who property has been broken into. They set a booby trap to catch the burglar. Sometimes the shotgun goes off, someone loses a leg, and they sue the mantrapper. This is the sort of thing that lawyers love to argue about.
The word mantrap caught my eye when I first saw this show. There was a line in Our American Cousin: “Don’t know the manners of good society, eh? I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal, you sockdologizing old man-trap.” This was the cue for John W. Booth to enter the presidential box, and shoot Abraham Lincoln. At least the President died laughing. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in May 1939. “Nurse Shamburg weighing Ira Dencie Pettway’s baby in project clinic. Gee’s Bend, Alabama”
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