Harry Hay And Joe Pyne
Joe Pyne was a notoriously abrasive TV personality. He pioneered many of the things that today’s shock jock hosts do, before his death in 1970. One of his guests was Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. While writing a blog post about Lester, PG did a bit of research on Joe Pyne.
Wikipedia had an intruiging comment. “Gay activists Harry Hay and John Burnside—who were a couple from 1962 until Hay’s death in 2002—appeared on Pyne’s show in 1967.[citation needed]” Harry Hay is a seminal figure in certain “radical” communities. Mr. Hay had a sharp tongue, and might have given the combative Pyne a bit of pushback. PG decided to look for the video.
[citation needed] is the key phrase. Youtube has a few dozen videos of the Joe Pyne Show (links below.) None of the ones here include Harry Hay. The internet archive has a collection of Pyne tapes, but no Harry Hay. A google search provides many mentions of this interview, but no more details. Many of the references were apparently copied, verbatim, from Wikipedia.
There is a possibility that Harry Hay was never on the Joe Pyne show. There are other urban legends about Joe Pyne. The most famous involves Frank Zappa. It is helpful to know that Joe Pyne had a rare form of cancer in 1955, and part of his left leg was amputated. In the story, Mr. Pyne asks Mr. Zappa if his long hair makes him a girl. Mr. Zappa replied, does your wooden leg make you a table? No record of this exchange is available.
TV Party might have a reason for the missing video. “Most, if not all, of the syndicated Joe Pyne programs still exist on videotape in the archives of Hartwest Productions, Inc. Here’s what Hartwest tells us: “The tapes are 2″ Quads, meaning that they are so ancient that you only get one pass before the oxides flake off. That one pass is fine to make a new digital master, but the cost (including two digital clones) comes to about $600 a show. So far, we have only transferred three shows, with the cost being paid for by people who were either in the show, or who were making a documentary, or who now seem to worship one of the guests (and I mean the last literally).”
The research turned up another story. It is from “Remembering Harry and John”, by Mark Thompson on the occasion of Harry’s 100th anniversary “I remember the night we were socializing at the San Francisco Art Institute at a gala tribute for James Broughton. Harry (Hay) and James had sparked briefly as Stanford University undergraduates, but didn’t meet again until fifty years later at a faerie gathering. Few people knew that James had fathered a daughter with esteemed film critic Pauline Kael during their bohemian Berkeley days, but Harry was alert to the fact. Kael and Broughton were having their own reunion at the moment when, with typical impudence, Harry interrupted the conversation by loudly asking, “So, who was the mother and who was the father?” The stunned silence was punctured only by the whoosh of Kael’s furious departure.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost. Youtube has several videos from the Joe Pyne Show. There is a series, LOST JOE PYNE TALK SHOW PART 1 – PART 7 “This is from a 1967 kinescoped “demo reel”, used to sell “THE JOE PYNE SHOW” in syndication to local stations at the time.” 1 2 3 Helen Gurley Brown 4 5 7 Here are some other guests:
Amy White Fixler Christine Jorgensen Anton LaVey F. Lee Bailty
Godfrey Cambridge Lester Maddox Paul Krassner Jerry Rubin
Lewis Marvin Jack Anderson James Meredith Joel Fort M.D. Iceberg Slim
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David Bowie
It was a strange week to be a David Bowie fan. On Friday, I was looking for a rerun to post, and was reminded that January 8 was his birthday. (Along with Elvis and Shirley Bassey) I put up a piece about Mr. Bowie, and fashioned a poem out of his song titles. Aquarian Drunkard reissued a collection of the “best and most interesting Bowie oddities”. A new album was released, with a lot of comments about how strange it was. Strange is something Bowie fans turn to face.
On Monday, I woke up. Go on the internet. MSN news says that David Bowie has died. This is surprising. I know what people are going to talk about for a few days.
I typically download the new wtf podcast on Monday. The show is “supported” by Columbia records, presenting David Bowie’s new album “Blackstar.” Marc Maron gushes on about how ” DAVID BOWIE I LOVE DAVID BOWIE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” The single is called “Lazarus.”
The timing of the whole thing is bizarre. Was this planned? To release a puzzling new work on your sixty ninth birthday, and then die two days later. With the master media manipulator involved, prior planning cannot be ruled out. Or was it just a parting shot of synchronicity? We will never know.
In what might be a new move for celebrity deaths, sex scandal rumors emerged. A lady named Lori Maddox claims that Mr. Bowie “devirginized” her. Miss Maddox was underage at the time. Some people think that this incident makes Mr. Bowie a terrible person, whose artistic output should be ignored. One made the inevitable comment “As someone who sees White stars get a pass for things that celebrities of color get crucified for.”
I learned a long time ago to separate the performer from the performance. I also apply this rule to David Robert Jones. (David Bowie was a stage name. The legal name was never changed.) In 1976, there was an interview, where the artist said “Don’t believe anything you hear me say.” While the creative/marketing genius can be enjoyed, there was always a bit of coldness behind the mask. Some press reports say that this softened as the years went by. In the end David Bowie was human. Ziggy Stardust was a character played by an actor. Does it matter that they were a Cracked Actor?
It is ironic that David Bowie played Andy Warhol in Basquiat. Both combined creation of art, and the marketing of art product, into a seamless unit. The two did not have a good first meeting. “Remember, David Bowie was not a big star. He was just some guy off the street as far as Andy Warhol was concerned. They found a common ground in David’s shoes. David was wearing yellow Mary Janes and Andy had been a shoe illustrator, which David knew so they began talking about shoes.” UPDATE I got to see Basquiat. Andy Warhol’s wig, worn by David Bowie, gave an outstanding performance.
This would have been in 1971. Mr. Bowie discusses his adventures in between songs of this show. There is another story from that first tour: “I think that must’ve been part of the Mercury Records publicity tour in early 1971, Gus. Ted Vigodsky, if I remember correctly, brought Bowie by The Great Speckled Bird’s offices on North Avenue where Moe Slotin and I met him. Bowie was dressed in an ill-fitting gingham dress and looked something like a gaunt, poverty-stricken woman in one of those Walker Evans photos from the Depression. He informed Moe and me that he was gonna be the next big star in rock-n-roll. It took all of our will power not to laugh in his face. This was before anyone in America had heard of him and he had no records out yet (“Space Oddity,” a hit in England in 1969, was not released in the USA until 1973). Six months later Moe and I realized we had completely underestimated him. I had forgotten Charlie had called you about interviewing him.” Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
David Bowie is 75 today. Elvis is ageless. Betsy DeVos is unemployed. This Bowie tribute is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
A webpage called CaptainsDead had a download of a David Bowie concert. (Here is another edition.) Most Bowie live recordings are pretty dull. While the Thin White Duke is renowned for his concerts, they tend to be live events, that depend on staging and costumes as much as music. This show, from 1974, is different. Focusing on material from “Diamond Dogs”, the sound he produces comes close to matching the studio sound.
The next move for Bowie in 1974 was the “white soul” sound of “Young Americans”. He is moving in that direction in this show, even while he lingers in the glitter apocalypse. This tour included a stop at the Fox Theater, the first Atlanta show for Mr.Bowie. On the way to Florida for the next show, the truck with the sets and costumes crashed into a swamp full of rattlesnakes. The show in Tampa was performed in street clothes.
Maybe it is time for a Chamblee54 tribute to David Bowie. It is six am, and PG has stumbled into a job. The time and energy required to write new material is not always available.
The first album by David Bowie that PG heard about was “Hunky Dory”. At the time, Mr. Bowie had generated some buzz by admitting that he fancies blokes, or some uber british expression for being queer. In time, this would be seen as more publicity stunt than brave confession. The RCA debut got some good reviews, but not much else.
The next year produced “Ziggy Stardust”, a concept album. At about this time he did a tour of the United States, with costumes and onstage antics that generated even more publicity. More and more people started listening, some in spite of his outrageous image, and quite a few more because of it. He broke up his band, the spiders from mars, and announced his retirement. The band, according to reports, learned about this while standing on stage behind him. Mr. Bowie, for all his genius, is not always a nice man.
In 1974 there was an album, “Diamond Dogs”, about the decadent urban life in the scifi future. A stage show based on this album…the source of the download mentioned above…marked a return to the concert stage. The next year gave us “Young Americans”, and the year after that “Station to Station”. Every year was a different sound and vision.
Meanwhile, the artist was not doing so good as a human being. According to all reports, he was doing mountains of cocaine. (There is a story of going to meet the parents of Ava Cherry, one of his girlfriends. He shows up at 3am, and does coke on the dining room table.) There was an interview in Playboy (or maybe it was Rolling Stone ) where the first thing he says is, don’t believe anything I say. He went on to say that he admired Adolf Hitler. Have we mentioned the physical appearance of David Bowie in 1975? He looked like he was dead, and nobody bothered to tell him. (By contrast, in recent photo collections of rock stars, Mr. Bowie looks pretty good for a man who is 69 yo.)
This was the era of Rocky Horror show. At one point, Riff Raff sings (Tim O’Brien wrote the show, and gave himself some darn good lines) Frank n furter, it’s all over, your mission is a failure, your lifestyle’s too extreme.I’m your new commander you now are my prisoner we return to transylvania prepare the transit beam While this may not have been directed at David Bowie, he took the hint.
We interrupt this David Bowie tribute with an emergency announcement. A person, reputed to be an entertainer, was seen using the n word on facebook. The screen shots have disappeared, and all we have is the word of the accuser. More details will be available as soon as anyone is interested.
David Bowie saw himself at a dead end, and possibly a dead life. He moved into a little apartment in West Berlin, on top of a garage. Brian Eno offered his assistance, and a series of electronic albums was the result. The next few years saw rock and roll, dance music, and finally, crap. PG bought a Bowie album in 1984, the first time he saw it on sale, and was immensely disappointed. The last David Bowie album that PG got was a free cd that was given to people buying a magazine.
Around 1981, MTV was born, and radio was suddenly obsolete. A visual artiste like David Bowie was a natural for video. Unfortunately, many of these videos are not available for embedding in blogs. Ashes to Ashes was a staple of early MTV. Boys Keep Swinging , off the “Lodger” album, is a return to the gender bender Bowie of younger days.
David Bowie continued to do tours, and PG got to see two of the shows. In 1987, something called the “Glass Spider Tour” came to the Omni. (In a later interview, it turns out Mr. Bowie was extremely unhappy during this tour, and close to suicide at some points.) The Glass Spider was this mass of lighting effects that hovered over the stage, and was used to best advantage during “Scary Monsters”. The show featured Peter Frampton on guitar, and had a pack of dancers. (One apparent female took her drag off during the finale.) A good time was had by all.
In 1990, another retirement tour came to the Omni. This one had movies projected on a screen behind the stage, and featured guitar hero Adrian Bellew. The night had the feel of a contractual obligation. David Bowie is too professional to give a bad show, but this one did not have the fire of “Glass Spider”. PG had a new set of contact lenses, and his eyes were painfully dry most of the night.
Manufacturing Consent
A discussion group chose to feature Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. The 1992 flick is about Noam Chomsky, and his thoughts. His 1988 book, with a similar title, got this one star review: “Book came with a booklice and a carpet beetle.”
MC opens at “Erin Mills Town Center, the home of the world’s largest permanent, point-of-purchase video wall installation.” You see several of these video walls in MC. They are a matrix of living room sized tv’s, with wide black bars separateing them. A video wall was quite modern in 1992. Today, it is obsolete and boring. This is a metaphor for MC. While it’s ideas may have been cutting edge thirty years ago, they have been replaced many times. Is the news any more honest today, than in 1992?
MC is about how the media, and government, control the American people. Historically, when governments want to tell you what to do, they threaten to kill you. The American system is a bit more subtle. We use advertising techniques, and selective use of information, to get you to do what the government’s bidding. There is a quote about this in the film.
Interviewer: “Manufacturing Consent,” what is that title meant to describe? Chomsky: Well, the title was actually borrowed from a book by Walter Lippmann, written back around 1921, in which he described what he called the manufacture of consent as a revolution in the practice of democracy. What it amounts to is a technique of control. And he said this was useful and necessary because the common interests, the general concerns of all people, elude the public. The public just isn’t up to dealing with them. And they have to be the domain of what he called a specialized class. … There’s a version of this expressed by … theologian Reinhold Niebuhr … His view was that rationality belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith. And this naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent over-simplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.
MC was made when George HW Bush was President. Chomsky said something about stage managed elections. The 1992 elections were an example. Mr. Bush was a war-time President, with a quick victory. He should have been easily re-elected. Instead, Ross Perot ran as a third party candidate. The Republican vote was divided. The Democratic Governor of Arkansas was elected President.
Heavy-handed gimmicks illustrate some of the arguments. An article in the London times becomes a misleading article in the New York Times. A group of actors, in medical costumes, pretend to perform surgery. The patient on the operating table is the article. Sections of the article are removed with a scalpel. This is not how newspapers work. It should be no surprise that when AP sends an article to 100 newspapers, the text is going to appear in many different ways. Often, a paragraph is removed because there is not room for it. It is not always a sinister plot.
One of the central stories is the treatment given to the Cambodian genocide, and the war in East Timor. I heard a great deal about Cambodia, probably because it was a bunch of commies doing it. I may have heard about East Timor once or twice. Apparently it was a nasty little genocide. Unfortunately it was on behalf of some American allies, so we never heard about it. In the years since MC, East Timor gained independence from Indonesia, and is functioning today.
At the time MC was released, there was an exhibit in downtown Atlanta. Tbilisi, Georgia (თბილისი, საქართველო) was the “sister city” of Atlanta. I was talking to a lady. “In our country everything is run by the secret police. In this country everything is run by the banks and the computers.” In many ways, it doesn’t matter what the 99% thinks. The only opinion that really matters is who controls the capital, to finance everything. It is certainly convenient if the people do as they are told, and don’t make trouble, but ultimately it comes down to who has control of the money.
Much of this movie is the personality of Noam Chomsky. In one remarkable moment, he admits “I’m not given to false modesty.” Mr. Chomsky comes across as a rude, abrasive piece of work. One tough-to-watch sequence is devoted to a debate in the Netherlands, with Mr. Chomsky speaking past his opponent. It is typical of many discussions. People seldom address the concerns of those who disagree. In many ways, Mr. Chomsky plays the same selective information game as the media he roasts in MC. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Ta-Nehisi Coates On WTF Podcast
Episode 878 of Marc David Maron’s WTF podcast features Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates. Chamblee54 once wrote about a video featuring Mr. Coates. This seems like a good day to listen to the show, and take notes. This is a repost from 2018.
The show starts with TPC and MDM (Is Ta-Nehisi two words?) discussing the business of writing books. The word black is not heard until 28:33 of the show. At 31 minutes in TPC is talking about when he moved to New York, and struggled. He mentions that when you lie to other people, you begin to accept yourself as a liar.
At 53 minutes, TPC is talking about sexual harassment, and how he… a man … could never know what a woman experiences. MDM says that he … a white man … could never know what a black man feels, and how books by TPC made MDM realize this. You get the sense that this is what MDM wanted to talk about all along, and that TPC is tired of talking about race. MDM had the prominent black intellectual on the show, and MDM was going to talk about race, whether PBI wanted to, or not.
At 1:02 pm est, the show is over. PG has more respect for TPC now. Most of the show was about fatherhood, writing, and the struggle to succeed. The expressions whiteness, and white supremacy, were not heard. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Many of them were edited while listening to this show. The depression was a different era.
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Here is the last monday morning reader of 2021. ~ Capital One Orange Bowl. ~ This is what the prophets discovered. History is a nightmare. There are more scandals, more acts of corruption, than are dreamed of in philosophy. It would be blasphemous to believe that what we witness is the end of God’s creation. It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. Others may be satisfied with improvement, the prophets insist upon redemption. The way man acts is a disgrace, and it must not go on forever. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Polish-American rabbi, theologian, philosopher The Prophets, Vol. 1 (1962) ~ forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah ~ @wildethingy Question of the day posed purely to elicit engagement: Which sock do you put on first, the left or the right sock? ~ @chamblee54 it depends on what shoes i am going to wear the real issue: when you put a sock on foot number one, do you put a shoe on that foot, or do you want until both feet are sock enabled before putting your shoes on? ~ i just got back from the gym i was in this area with weight machines the man across the aisle was early twenties, had clean cut boy8ish features, with well pumped up arms while i was enjoying watching him, this other man came in early twenties, asian, with enormous arms and a man bun it was really tough to worry about my own fitness, when there were such splendid examples of young manhood everywhere ~ @repmorgan I had a black friend. I liked her and I think she liked me, too. But now she is hostile and unpleasant. I am sure I didn’t do anything to her, except be white. Is that what teachers and our political leaders really want for our society? Divide us because of our skin color? #CRT ~ In New Zealand and the US, the only two developed countries that allow direct to consumer advertising of prescription medicines, opposition has grown steadily from both the public and doctors. ~ Consumer drug advertising is uncommon globally. The United States and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world where direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs is legal. ~ “I’m scared to death about the denial of science,” said Ford. “Science is real. Science is the most real thing in our world, other than nature. I’m hoping we’ll all get back to a place where we can really understand that science is tested knowledge.” ~ 2022 Banished Words List 1. Wait, what? 2. No worries 3. At the end of the day 4. That being said 5. Asking for a friend 6. Circle back 7. Deep dive 8. New normal 9. You’re on mute 10. Supply chain ~ you made a comment elsewhere, that would be too much work to find, so I will reply here … you said happy ew year. I am certain that is a typo. 2020 and 2021 were ew years. we do not need more ~ XWinger, aka Michael Liebmann, passed away July 26, 2016. ~ Billboard, with assistance from wikipedia. ~ “forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah” ~ the last line of a facebook conversation: “I trust the FDA, and I don’t care what they do in Africa and India” ~ @Jonathan_Witt Here’s a thread of cliff notes for the @joerogan podcast with Dr Robert Malone. Would still recommend listening to the full episode but if you don’t have time right now this is how it went down. ~ the prompt was to take a lyric, and use every word in the phrase as the “end” word in the poem “make galileo look just like a boy scout” … i hope this prompt is for the e n d word make, e-n-d sure sounds like n not galileo, using that other word is not a good look, beelzebub finally disowned devils daughter just, voweling on with a residential a, just one more line to the end oh boy, let it all hang out sauerkraut scout ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
Tyler Perry And The Heart Of Atlanta
There is an old saying, what goes around comes around. When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. The thing is, it is not always obvious what is payback for what. Moreton Rolleston Jr. filed a lawsuit to have the Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional. Forty years later, a Black man, built a mansion on the site of Mr. Rolleston’s home. The fact that this Black man earned his money by playing Black women, in movies, is icing on the cake.
When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, Moreton Rolleston, Jr. owned the Heart of Atlanta Motel. He filed a lawsuit, trying to have the law overturned by the courts. The case went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the law.
The legal justification of the Civil Rights Act was a law giving the U.S. Government the right to regulate interstate commerce. Mr. Rolleston argued that this use of the commerce clause went too far. “‘The argument that this law was passed to relieve a burden on interstate commerce is so much hogwash. It was intended to regulate the acts of individuals.’ If the commerce clause can be stretched that far, declared Rolleston, ‘Congress can regulate every facet of life.'” (PG supports all citizens having the right to housing, education, etc. He also wonders if we are on a slippery slope. The government keeps taking more and more freedom away.) (The link for the quote no longer works.)
In 1969, Tyler Perry was born. From humble beginnings, he has been incredibly successful. His signature character is a woman named Madea.
In 1985, Mr. Rolleston was involved in a real estate deal that went sour. He was sued. In 2003, Mr. Rolleston was evicted from his Buckhead home. In 2005, the property was sold to Tyler Perry. Mr. Rolleston sued Mr. Perry, claiming that 2035 Garraux Road was still his property.
Mr. Rolleston , was disbarred in 2007. The Veteran’s History Project shows his race as “Unspecified.” Moreton Mountford Rolleston, Jr., born December 30, 1917, died August 29, 2013.
HT Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub.. This is a repost, with pictures from The Library of Congress.
Slow Days, Fast Company
On the last wednesday of 2021, I read the last paragraph of Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz. Bret Easton Ellis mentioned EB, and SDFC, several times on his podcast. I ordered SDFC from the library. While reading it, on December 17, Eve Babitz died. Did I kill EB, by reading her book?
SDFC has been described as the work of an unapologetically shallow California girl. It is true. Then EB references Virginia Wolff, or Diane Arbus. In one story, EB (no middle name) goes to a gated community in Orange County for the weekend. The people there are so Nixony! Later, one of the ladies commits suicide. EB plows ahead without missing a beat.
EB was gonna design an album cover for Janis Joplin, and went to meet her. Janis was in the studio. The music was painfully loud. Janis was passed out on the floor of the studio. A few days later, EB went to visit Janis at some hotel in Los Angeles. Janis was laying up in the pool face up, not drowning but obviously on a distant planet.
SDFC is an amazing book. It’s not very long, broken down into nine stories. EB went to Bakersfield to hang out with the son of a grape grower. Another is when that EB hangs out with a lady who is a musician, and heroin user. EB thinks that heroin is very glamorous, for other people. EB was a big tequila fan, and consumed a few plane-loads of white powder. SDFC is set around 1973, before the democratization of cocaine in the eighties.
After the demise of Joan Didion, and EB, Bret had Lily Anolick on his show. She did a podcast series about Bennington College. The lady … whose name is not anal-lick … wrote Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. Amazon had a one star review: Totally the C Word “After reading this book I thought I was going to have to go to the clinic and get treated for VD. Incredible, did she really have sex with this many people?”
SDFC is written by a woman, from a woman’s point of view. Here is a sample. “Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hair-dos. … The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, May 21, 22, 23, Galveston, Texas, 1927. This article includes the picture of a naked EB playing chess with Marcel Duchamp.
Bowel Games
The story below is a repost from 2013. The Dawgs® had a good year, and are in the Capital One Orange Bowl. The pictures are from The Library of Congress .
The Georgia Bulldogs beat somebody’s Aggies in Shreveport, Louisiana last night. The affair is something called the Independence Bowl. The Fishwrapper has an ad for a casino-hotel-spa. The link no longer works. Athens can go back to creating a school the football team can be proud of.
This is the season of bowl games. A few years ago, any town with a stadium, and a chamber of commerce, could get a bowl game. Any school with .500 season could go to a bowl, many of whom now had grafted on corporate names. There was, literally, the poulon weedeater bowl holiday classic.
What follows is a story PG read in Sports Illustrated when he was a kid. There is no source, and there is a slight possibility that it is not true.
In the sixties, NBC had a new years day triple header of bowl games. The sugar bowl was followed by the rose bowl was followed by the orange bowl. Hangovers and national championships were fixed in one day. NBC made handsome profits.
An Olympic committee had a meeting one day, to determine who would telecast the upcoming games. The man from NBC went in, with promises of money for amateur athletics. The presentation centered on the january first triple header: the sugar bowl, the rose bowl, and the orange bowl.
Another network won the bid. After the meeting, an Olympics official had a private conversation with the NBC man. The committee felt that their emphasis on bowel games was in bad taste.
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New York Police officers throw American flag on the ground, arrest unvaccinated man after trying to order food at Panera Bread ~ “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.” -Soren Kierkegaard ~ For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010) p. 210 ~ Someone posted a meme-quote by Isaac Asimov, “Any book worth reading is a book worth banning.” Being the pedant that I am, I went looking for the quote in Mr. Asimov’s wikiquote. Using banning and worth as search terms did not yield any results. Using reading uncovered this gem: “Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions, or reading a bad book for the dirty parts.” “Editorial: The Reluctant Critic”, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6, (12 November 1978) ~ i just learned that #EveBabitz also died this week. I am in the middle of Slow Days, Fast Company. It is almost as if I killed her ~ 99% Invisible recently did a show, “I can’t believe it’s pink margarine.” PIctures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.” This is a repost. ~ There is a story about the recording session. There is no source, so believe if you like. Gene Autry had a recording session. The studio time, and musicians, were paid for a certain amount of time. The session went well, and the sides were recorded. There was a half hour of paid up studio time available. Somehow had the sheet music for this song, it was passed out to the musicians, and Mr. Autry recorded “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.” ~ dear 2021 What are your preferred pronouns? I am going to call you he/him. You are a singular entity … for which we can be grateful … and therefore they/them is out. / If there is one thing you have taught me, it is to listen to my gut. The old saying is that if a man is not a liberal when he is 20, he does not have a heart. If he is not a conservative when he is 40, he does not have a brain. I am 67, and my heart and my brain are not what they used to be. However, my gut is bigger than ever. My gut tells me things that my heart and my brain are afraid to. / One news item from the last week is our anti-christ former president telling people to get the covid vaccine. His administration pushed to get a vaccine out in less than a year. I have my doubts and issues about this treatment, but am playing along. I would like to take human ivermectin as a prophylactic, but big pharma/big government/ big data are making that very difficult. My gut tells me that something is very, very, wrong here, but feel powerless to do anything. Just as I am powerless from having your time run out friday night, only to be replaced by another he year. ~ @chamblee54 @NYerFiction On podcast page of @WNYC the author is referred to as “her” In this tweet, the author is “his” Apologies play a role in this story. What apology is appropriate for this misgendering? ~ “i’m the most hated lesbian in baltimore due to my views on trans debate ~ @ContraPoints I have way more haters than she does for the record ~ @chamblee54this is progress. we have gone from babs johnson, the nastiest person in the world, to whatshername, the most hated lesbian in baltimore ~ @ContraPoints *filthiest ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
Solstice
1159 AM The audio entertainment for this morning is another episode of Cocaine and Rhinestones. This is a show about country music, with Tyler M. Coe hosting. Today’s history lesson was about soap operas, before diving into Tammy Wynette and George Jones. TMC got talking about how a George Jones song is the greatest country song ever written. This is kind of the sort of debate that I don’t really have much interest in.
Meanwhile, I am starting work on a villanelle. It was inspired by a 1960 something song, Let it all hang out. LIAHO is an esoteric piece of work, with lines like “makes Galileo look like a boy scout.” I don’t want to repeat copyrighted material, even if one of the villanelle rhymes is hang out. The other rhyming word is defenestration, and it is going to be all four and five syllable words. Some of these words I never knew before, like prefecundation. They are cool words, and will be exploited down to the last syllable. We will get back to George and Tammy, but not before Nashville made a suggestion. “Why don’t you shoot heroin like Ray Charles, instead of using that cocaine that ruins your voice.”
12:58 PM One of the biggest obstacles to getting anything done is Facebook. The temptation to check in on Facebook, or it’s evil sister Twitter, is overwhelming. I saw this post … something about Atlanta history … and they had this these catfish restaurants on Marietta, or Southside, or Alabama. Someone said something about having one on Cheshire Bridge. I had a ad on my computer for this one on Cheshire Bridge. The former catfish king is this building at the bottom of the hill, right next to Peachtree Creek. That building currently is a club called the heretic, and before that it was a lesbian wigwam called the sports page. If those walls could talk …
204 PM I’m experimenting with different styles of photo editing. I’m going to be using some shots of graffiti from east Atlanta. The idea is to go through the motions, until you start to do something that you like. I just finished my coffee. This is one of the turning points of the day, when I finish drinking coffee, and switch to water. Since it’s raining outside so I’m probably not gonna go walking, although I might go up to the gym. I have to take Mac to marta at 5:30, so I can’t really get anything going.
2:52 PM I’m finished with this episode of the show. It was time to sit down for a few minutes, and so I took the laptop into the living room. Next is the last episode of Operator, a show about people that had a phone sex room. In the last couple of episodes, people started to get too greedy and they started firing people. It’s getting into the sad part of the story. I used to read a lot of biographies of showbiz people, and they have a similar trajectory … they would start off poor, and then they work like crazy, and they get their break. They have a run of success, and then they start getting divorced, and taking drugs, and acting like fools. The craft starts to suffer. It’s kind of a typical story.
417 PM in three minutes it will be 420 which is not quite as much fun as it used to be. I’m taking a break from the pictures-and-podcast lifestyle for a minute. The podcast is You Must Remember This, hosted by Karina Longworth. It’s about Hollywood, and stories from the movies. Ms. Longworth is obnoxiously woke. She never misses a chance to remind you that racism is everywhere, and it is just horrible. The latest series is about Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. Ms. Longworth tells about the struggles Mr. Davis faced, in explicit woke fashion. Today was the last installment of the series. Dean and Sammy are dealing with the struggles of being old men. Mr. Davis did not help matters any by foolishly spending money, that he did not have. It was a sad finale to the story. The good news is that Ms. Longworth will move on to another subject, hopefully one with less racism to decry. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Made Myself Stupid
“So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.” James Richardson (b. 1950) “Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays” Michigan Quarterly Review, #17 (Spring 1999) Wish I’d Said That put this up on twitter. I made a copy of the 56AATSE.
It sat ignored on my desktop. until this morning. I was looking for something to work with, and started to pick out aphorisms that spoke to me. The first two to make the cut were #3 and #5, which are key players in the fibonacci sequence. Why not just eliminate all the players, except for the f-numbers? Then use those actors as a writing prompt.
First, we need to look into James Richardson. Turns out he is a recently retired English Professor at Princeton. A princeton.edu document has stories about Dr. Richardson: “Some of his colleagues in English will remember how, as department secretary, he recorded the minutes of meetings in rhyming couplets. … Jim is a philosopher-poet in the tradition of … his fellow baseball fan, Walt Whitman.” Apparently, Jim is a Yankees fan, which we can foregive.
1 “No matter how fast you travel, life walks.” Dr. Richardson is fond of semantics.
2 “Desire’s most seductive promise is not pleasure but change, not that you might possess your object but that you might become the one who belongs with it.” Ditto.
3 “There are silences harder to take back than words.” This is the first one that was noteworthy. This does not mean that I agree. Sometimes, the best thing to say is nothing at all. This goes against a commodity wisdom crowd-pleaser. “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Say Nothing.” As Mike Hunt once said, “Don’t just do something, stand there.”
Kyle Rittenhouse might have a few things to say about this. He heard stories of angry mobs ransacking businesses, and decided to do something. Mr. Rittenhouse was severely punished for his decision to help out. Many of the people who spoke out, about the trial, should have kept their thoughts to themself. Justice is not a popularity contest.
5 “If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.” 90% of the time, when people say theory, they really should say hypothesis. It is not known how this relates to reuseable wisdom.
8 “Everyone loves the Revolution. We only disagree on whether it has occurred.” There is a activist recipe. “To make an omelette, you have to break eggs.” Whenever I hear this, I feel like an egg.
13 “Like late afternoon, a pale cirrus crosses the nearly transparent moon. They are so alike, meeting, that I feel, suddenly and childishly, They like each other. Somehow I can’t help liking them for that. Somehow I can’t help feeling that they like me liking them.” Like Joni Mitchell, Dr. Richardson really doesn’t know clouds at all. We are talking about an atmospheric mass of water droplets, and a big rock traveling 403,000 kilometers away from earth.
21 “Birds are amazing, newspapers, stoves, friends. All that happens is amazing, if you think about it. All that doesn’t happen is even more amazing, because there’s so much more of it. Only habit keeps us from seeing all this. Habit is really amazing.” Is Dr. Richardson talking to newspapers, stoves, or friends? Maybe he is talking to all three. Of course, this was back when print media was much more popular than today, so maybe a newspaper was his friend. This does not account for the stove.
34 “I seem to need a larger vocabulary to talk to you than to talk to myself.” There are things that you know, that you never have to describe. When you talk to another person, you need to explain.
55 “Happiness is gratitude in search of something to be owed to.” Dr. Jim is probably grateful to the University of Michigan, for publishing his 56 Bright Ideas. When you are a high level academic, you need to publish things. UM is playing Georgia on New Years Eve. Many people in Alabama would be grateful if Georgia wins. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Selah.
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