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1023 – Reading Funny Papers, the path journal for last week, is now available wherever you get your stuff. … The walk today was a bit ordinary. I lasted for 48:49, with no foot problems. The entertainment was the rest of Stewart Copeland, on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan. “Cuz in rock and roll we don’t do music on the page. In fact, how do you get a guitarist to turn the volume down? Put a sheet of music in front of him.”
1024-1329 – Today’s walk was scary. I went to a neighboring street, anticipating a block party. My feet decided it was a good day to get dizzy. At the halfway point of the walk, I considered getting a uber to get home. I drank some water, and things got better. I was essentially undizzy by the time I got home, finishing with 1.32 miles in 39:40. … The first show was Is your new co-worker secretly North Korean? on Search Engine. Tech workers in North Korea are going abroad to work, and sending most of the money back home. If they don’t play ball, their families back home will be punished. “We have created a strange world, with strange problems.” The second show was Tootle of a Devilish Song on 99% Invisible. Yodeling evolved from lonely shepherds singing to their flock, to entertainment for tourists, to American country music.
1025-1154 – The walk today was a return to form. I did 39:59 with no foot trouble. The show today was Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Wall Cano” on The New Yorker: The Writer’s Voice . A ten year old Laotian refugee lives with her father and brother, after her mother leaves the family. The six story building they live in is very different from life in Laos. After that story was over, I listened to “Das Rheingold,” by Richard Wagner. It was a magic moment. The first act slowly got started, while I was walking downhill into the autumn sunshine and the leaves.
@NYerFiction Any man Mom talked to, our dad said, was a man trying to steal her. So it was our job to watch out for these men and make sure they didn’t come near our mom”: a story by Souvankham Thammavongsa in next week’s New Yorker.” @chamblee54 I look forward to hearing Deborah Treisman pronouncing that name. She is good at pronouncing names from unfamiliar cultures.
1026-1035 – Today’s walk is over. I felt some mild dizziness at the start of the first lap, and thought it was going to be bad. Fortunately, this faded fast, and I did 40:24 without any trouble. … I very quickly decided that two podcasts were not for me today. The first was Episode 329: An Attempted Trans Ratfracking In Texas on Blocked and Reported. At 7:56, Katie said “This is a heavy trans episode,” and I turned off the episode. The trans issue is almost as boring as racism.
The second show was Redemption: The Nuns Who Visit Death Row on Gone South. “Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright” started talking about growing up in a Texas superchurch. I left before the pastor got caught with his pants down. At this point, I took out the ear buds, and listened to the wisteria arguing politics with the english ivy.
1027 – Today’s walk was a disaster. The good news was that I did approximately 34:00, with no foot dizziness. … I found Cemetery Cleanup, a 2015 story that I wanted to repost. I decided to walk up to Nancy Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. I had a new camera I wanted to try out. So far, so good. I went looking for an 8’ tall monument for Emily Goodwin. It had vines growing on it a few weeks ago. The vines have been cleared off the monument.
Several of the other Goodwin family graves were still covered with weeds, including Harris Goodwin, the husband of Emily Goodwin. Mr. Goodwin moved to Georgia in the early 1830, and was one of the first white residents in what became Brookhaven. Two of his sons, Gustin E Goodwin and Charles Harris Goodwin, died in the War Between the States. Charles is buried at NCPBCC.
I was exploring the back part of the cemetery, and having a great time. Then I had a disturbing thought. Yesterday, I had been raking leaves in my back yard, when I hit a nest of yellow jackets. I got stung in several places. What would happen if something similar happened while I was back in the mini-wilderness? … A few minutes later I stopped, put my bag on the ground, and took a hit off the water bottle. As I stood up, the left earbud fell out of my ear This was woods, with all sorts of nature covering the ground. After a half hour of looking, I realized that the ear bud was gone forever.
The show was Iggy Pop Part 1 and Iggy Pop Part 2 on Broken Record. James Newell Osterberg Jr. is considered a rock legend, for some reason or another. I saw him at 688, and am amazed that we are both alive 46 years later. Listening to Iggy’s tales of broken glass were an ironic counterpoint to searching for Charles Goodwin. … IP: “The MC5 were gonna go to Chicago to play during the big showdown at the convention. I think it was the Republican or Democratic Convention in Chicago, that resulted in the police beatings. They went to play in the park, and wanted the Stooges to come and do it. I said no, I’m not, that’s not us, that’s not me.” … IP: “My mother told me that … by the time I was six I already had 12 or 15 stitches in my chin.”
1028-1015 – Today’s walk was another day. After a bad dizzy incident at walmart last night, I did not know what to expect. When dizziness started on the second lap, I did not know what was going to happen. Fortunately, the dizziness stayed at a nuisance level, and I finished with 44:11. The show was EP-04 Exposing the Hart of The Great War on Hardcore History Addendum. “Dan (Carlin) and the British Imperial War Museum’s famed First World War historian Peter Hart talk about one of their favorite mutual interests…World War One.” The show was released April 12, 2018, and made confusing references to “the Iraq war.”
1029-1035 – Today’s walk was 47:03 up and down the street, with a slight touch of dizziness. The podcast was Lonelyhearts and Misfits (The Bisexuals, Part 7) on You Must Remember This. Since there is no transcript, the stories today must be recreated from memory.
There is this thing in movie star stories. At first they are the latest young/pretty sensation. Then they hit their peak, and begin the long, slow decline. Today’s episode is about the decline of Libby Holman, Jane Bowles, and Monty Clift.
At one point, Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons) told about a conversation he had with Jane Bowles. YMRT said something that many people have wondered … Can you believe a word Truman Capote says? With TGC, it is not what he says, but the way he says it. … Monty starred in a cursed film, The Misfits. Part of the story is about cowboys catching wild mustangs, and selling them to dog food factories.
If you are interested in why I walk every morning, read The Path Journal, Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in March 1940. “Skiers from Boston, Massachusetts, relaxing in lodge at North Conway, New Hampshire”
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