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"THE END OF ALL INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS IS TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR SYNTHESIS."--H.G. Wells. "It's always a leap into the unknown future to write anything."--Margaret Atwood "Be kind, be useful, be fearless."--President Barack Obama.
Monday, April 20, 2015
The Best of What's Still Around
I saw this for the first time in the full concert footage and didn't recognize the performer. I heard a good voice and especially heard good diction--as great as Sting's lyrics are, he doesn't always sing them clearly, especially with the Police. So I understood some of these lyrics for the first time. Turns out of course that it's Robert Downey, Jr, aka Ironman etc. With Sting (yeah the shaved head looks weird, don't know what that was about) and a great backing band.
I've been aware of this concept of the Bucket List for a few years but didn't have one. Now I've got one item. I'm not deluded enough to say "sing with Sting" or in a particular venue. I'd just like to sing on stage with two or three hot lady backup singers. Just one night. I've got sweet backup voices on my one and only record but we did our parts separately (I didn't even meet the sax player whose solos are my favorite moments until years later.) But I've never had that experience in real time. I suspect it would be a bit of an out of body experience, but maybe a video of it would allow me to savor.
The Games Are Over, Let the Blah Blah Blah Begin
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The Lakers victory over New Orleans was surprising, but Sacramento
pummeling the Golden State Warriors was almost shocking. Depending on who
is talking...
Origins: Easter and April Fool's Day
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Easter is what’s known in Catholicism as a moveable feast—that is, it
doesn’t occur on the same date every year. This religious holiday had been
observ...
N. Scott Momaday 1934-2024
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N. Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, playwright, artist, essayist, scholar
and teacher, died in January. He is best known for his first novel, *House
Mad...
Strange Old Worlds
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On September 8, 1966 the first season of the Star Trek series began. It
explored strange new worlds in the galaxy of imagination as well as in
televis...
Legacy of the Carnegie Libraries
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The centennial celebration in 2004 of the Carnegie Library in Eureka, CA,
transformed into the Morris Graves Museum of Art a few years earlier, was
the occ...
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The Malling of America
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Manifesto
..."The answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day."--Barack Obama Nov. 4, 2008
"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage." Barack Obama January 20, 2009
"If you turn away now – if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn’t possible…well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves. Only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward.--President Obama on Sept. 6, 2012
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