Whether To Laugh Or Cry
Category: From The Field
Do You Know Where You’re Going To
The rabbit hole of a melody that keeps popping into your head. In this case, Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To). What an interesting form! Odd measures, key changes, complex chord changes. And great bass playing! It was written by Michael Mercer and Gerry Goffin. First recorded in 1973 by Thelma Houston!
Meanwhile, I have to agree with Elton here… Where did actual songs go?
Elton John: “You look at most of the records in the charts – they’re not real songs”
Elton John has criticised modern pop music claiming that “proper songs” have become “too sophisticated” for the UK charts.
What’s In My Shuffle 6/9/20
Dolly Parton’s America Dixie Disappearance
Dec 17, 2019 – Dixie Disappearance Dolly Parton’s America ( Christine De Carvalho ). This episode delves into the controversy surrounding Dolly Parton’s …
Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music Wynonna
Cocaine & Rhinestones is a podcast about the history of 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us. Every episode is created by Tyler …
Cautionary Tales The Rogue Dressed as a Captain
Flanders and Swann By Air
Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo. Lyricist, actor and singer Michael Flanders… “By Air”–about the vogue for air travel. “I agree with the old lady …
Null Criminal Explorations – Marshall McLuhan
Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication (1953 – 1957). Explorations 1; Explorations 2; Explorations 3; Explorations 4; Explorations 5; Explorations 6 …
Wild – From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Wild – Part 03
^ Jump up to: Shapiro, Dani (2012-03-30). “The High Road / Wild, a Hiking Memoir by Cheryl Strayed”. Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
The Daily The Case For Defunding the Police
Jun 9, 2020 – The Case for Defunding the Police. Protesters across the country are calling for the abolition of policing. But what would that actually look like?
What’s In My Shuffle 5/14/20
Stay Tuned with Preet What is the Fifth Risk? (with Michael Lewis)
Dec 13, 2018 – His new book, The Fifth Risk, takes on the Trump administration. He speaks with Preet about the dedication of the civil service, Trump’s attack …
Exponential View with Azeem Azhar S3E04: The Innovation Economy
Azeem Azhar is an entrepreneur, investor, and the creator of Exponential View, a highly-regarded newsletter on the future. He is on the board of the Ada …
And The Writer Is…with Ross Golan Ep. 79: Ian Kirkpatrick…Stays At Home!
In the first episode of our “And The Writer Stays at Home” series, we catch up with a Grammy-nominated writer and producer from Season 3 who has produced …
Pearl Bailey Sings As Long As I Live
Lyrics to As Long as I Live by Pearl Bailey from the Some of the Best album – including… Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer.
Season 1 A Conversation with Michael Lewis
Lewis interviews referees (Season 1) and coaches (Season 2) from many walks of… Against the Rules Presents: Michael Lewis in Conversation with Malcolm …
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie How Rob Long Went from Cheers to National Review to LSD
Feb 12, 2020 – The New York City resident talks with Nick Gillespie about all that, plus Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and the 2020 election.
Alexander Shekhtman Tom Lehrer: Introduction (concert live) (1960)
Tom Lehrer: Introduction (concert live) (1960). Alexander Shekhtman… the introduction to his second…
What’s In My Shuffle 3/27/20
Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio New technology gives amputees a hand, a big dam proposal, your dog’s heat sensitive nose, was the Earth once a waterworld, the fight to be the first female astronaut and composting garbage
Mar 6, 2020 – Quirks & Quarks. Mar 7: New technology gives amputees a hand, a big dam proposal, your dog’s heat sensitive nose and more”¦… Was the Earth once a waterworld, the fight to be the first female astronaut and composting garbage. CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 06, 2020 4:21 PM ET | Last Updated: March 6.
FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS E1: Amazon Empire
Feb 20, 2020 – Listen to E1: Amazon Empire and one hundred more episodes by FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS, free! No signup or install needed.
The Tim Ferriss Show #413: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins
Mar 5, 2020 – Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins | The Tim Ferriss Show. Tim Ferriss. Loading… Unsubscribe from …
This Week in Startups – Audio E1039: Independent Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, “Lambda School’s Misleading Promises”, shares insights on what drew him to the story, where Lambda School went wrong, how they can be better & more
This Week In Startups. Supporting entrepreneurs & inspiring… E1039: Independent Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, “Lambda School’s Misleading Promises”, shares insights on what drew him to the story, where Lambda School went wrong, how they can be better & more · Jacqui Deegan | March 24, 2020.
This American Life 696: Low Hum of Menace
Mar 13, 2020 – Khristen, a single mom, decides to secretly record her home inspector to catch him sexually harassing her. Eight years later, reporter Jessica …
TED Talks Daily How we must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic | Bill Gates
3 days ago – Philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates offers insights into the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing why testing and self-isolation are …
Song Exploder Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
What’s In My Shuffle 11/2/19
Rough Translation Liberté, Égalité and French Fries
Planet Money #944: We Should Have Mentioned That
Oct 11, 2019 – Sometimes we forget to mention something. And our listeners always let… Episode 944: We Should Have Mentioned That. Planet Money. NPR.
The Little Shaman Healing The Aging Narcissist
The Little Shaman Healing The Little Shaman The Little Shaman is, among other things, a specialist regarding narcissists and cluster b personality disorders. She works with people to help them understand & heal after abuse. Creator of the Toxic Relationship Recovery Assistance Program.
This American Life 685: We Come From Small Places
Oct 11, 2019 – The staff goes to one of the biggest parties in New York City, the Labor Day Carnival and the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn.
DomainSherpa.com DomainSherpa Review – Oct 7: Demand.io, Parts.online, Feather.io
Oct 7, 2019 – DomainSherpa Review – Oct 7: Demand.io, Parts.online, Feather.io. This is the show where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors – people we call Sherpas – and talk about the value of specific domain names…. We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Demand.io, Parts.online, Feather.io.
The Daily The Moderates Strike Back: The 4th Democratic Debate
Oct 16, 2019 – The Moderates Strike Back: The 4th Democratic Debate… For an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on “The Daily” podcast come …
Domain Name Wire Podcast Improving GoDaddy – DNW Podcast #257
Oct 14, 2019 – A discussion about GoDaddy and how to improve it. Also: Pablo Escobar, domain hijacking, .UK, .Uno, and Tucows sends its cows out to pasture. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, view on Google Play Music, or click play above or download to begin listening.
After Words Bill Gertz, “Deceiving the Sky – Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy”
Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Bill Gertz is a national security columnist for the… Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy… The United States’ approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing… Word Wise: Enabled, Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled, Page Flip: Enabled …
And The Writer Is…with Ross Golan Ep. 71: Ben Platt
Listen to And The Writer Is…with Ross Golan episodes free, on demand. Our next guest achieved superstar status for his Tony Award-winning performance as …
Bookworm Salman Rushdie: Quichotte (Part Two)
Oct 10, 2019 – In part two, Salman Rushdie discusses Quichotte as an idealist, and his materialized-son Sancho as a cynic. Rushdie’s Quichotte is explored …
Update on Test iTunes Playlist Export to Html
This version adds a bit of a description for each item. Again it’s a little bit hit and miss because the script takes the podcast ‘Artist’, combines it with the episode ‘Name’, does a custom Google search for that artist/episode and then builds the link. The Google search has to happen because in my original iTunes playlist XML export, the item links to the downloaded mp3 on my computer.
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Serial Episode 05: Pleas Baby Pleas
Don’t tell the judges, but the prosecutors have the most power in the building.
This American Life 660: Hoaxing Yourself
Nov 2, 2018 – Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 413: The future of car ownership, a piano for everyone, and the decline of internet freedom
Nov 9, 2018 – Human-rights organization Freedom House releases their annual Freedom on the Net report…. 413: The future of car ownership, a piano for everyone, and the decline of internet freedom… Corporate Info · Ombudsman · Public Appearances · Commercial Services · Reuse &… Visitez Radio-Canada.ca.
DEA Manufacturing Caps for Oxycodone and Hydrocodone 2001-2017
The D.E.A (Drug Enforcement Agency) sets caps on the amounts of schedule 1 and 2 drugs that manufacturers can legally produce each year. I was curious to see how the caps had changed over time and it was relatively simple to discover via the Federal Register. Considering all the lawsuits now targeting pharmaceutical manufacturers like Purdue, Johnson & Johnson, Allergen and Teva, I wonder if the D.E.A could also be considered an actor in the current opioid epidemic.
…final aggregate production quotas for the following controlled substances, expressed in grams of anhydrous acid or base, be established as follows:
(Not sure what ‘conversion’ means in this sense, but I think it has to do with converting one substance to another, i.e. one drug could be converted into another.)
2001
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/10/15/01-25761/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2001
Oxycodone (for sale) 46,680,000
Oxycodone (for conversion) 449,000
Hydrocodone (for sale) 23,825,000
Hydrocodone (for conversion) 18,000,000
2002
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/09/20/02-23876/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2002
Oxycodone (for sale) 34,482,000
Oxycodone (for conversion) 1,100,000
Hydrocodone (for sale) 25,702,000
Hydrocodone (for conversion) 2,500,000
2003
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/09/30/03-24653/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2003
Oxycodone (for sale) 41,182,000
Oxycodone (for conversion) 700,000
Hydrocodone (for sale) 30,622,000
Hydrocodone (for conversion) 1,500,000
2004
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/11/16/04-25340/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2004
Oxycodone (for sale) 49,200,000
Oxycodone (for conversion) 920,000
Hydrocodone (for sale) 34,000,000
Hydrocodone (for conversion) 1,500,000
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Magic Mushrooms and the Healing Trip | New Yorker
This is some fabulous reporting. A long and detailed article about the use and effect of psilocybin as a medicine for dealing with end-of-life issues around cancer care. Read the full article: The Trip Treatment.
McLuhan’s 1960 Report on Project in Understanding New Media | Norm Friesen
In the cryptic note at the top right (on p. 2), McLuhan writes to Harley Parker, with whom he later co-authored Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (1968) and Counterblast (1969). Parker also appears with McLuhan in the 28 min 1969 film Picnic in Space, directed by Bruce Bacon.
This text reflects McLuhan’s then-coalescing thought as it relates to both education and to multiple media forms; and the text serves as relatively direct and clearly-written precursor for the 1964 Understanding Media.
The full text of this report is available as a 7.5 Mb PDF file.
via McLuhan’s 1960 Report on Project in Understanding New Media | Norm Friesen.
Avant-Garde to Electric Kool-Aid With Beats In Between
The book was first published in 1946. It’s by Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe and is about as Beat as anything I’ve ever read, although it predates the ‘Beats’ per se. Mezz was a white clarinet player from Chicago who befriended ‘the race’ when sent
to reform school. He never really went back to white America. He became good friends with Louis Armstrong. He’s known as well for introducing weed to Harlem. It has a great index and an appendix of hipster lingo such as:
Beat: exhausted, broke
Bunk Habit: practice of lounging around while others smoke opium and inhaling the fumes
Collar a nod: get some sleep
Cop a Slave: get a job
Guage: marijuana
The book came to my attention when shortly after being dumfounded by the discovery of Lord Buckley (His Royal Hipness, Discovery 71001 on cd) and his Be-bop stand up routines complete with weed references, recorded in 1951, I exclaimed at a party- Where did he (and the obvious tradition he was a part of) come from? An old hoot (with all respect) by the name of Oz Janiger chimed in- “You need to read Really The Blues”. -Man!- this book is a missing link. It blew my mind. I guess mainly because it attaches the Beats backwards to the swing era and the beat Blacks who were floating around underground making all kinds of wild music and language.
While I’m at it, from Really The Blues I go backwards with a book called Garrets and Pretenders- A History of Bohemianism in America by Albert Parry, written in 1933, and backwards from there to…
The Banquet Years- Origins of the avant-garde in France 1885 to World War l, by Roger Shattuck. Is this where the Beats began?
Covers Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire and the zeitgeist of the day. Fascinating!
I go forward from the Beats to Kesey and his crew with Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, where we find our hero Neal Cassady behind the wheel of Furthur. Then Neal and Jack die and the whole thing sort of comes to an end for me. I mean, the thread of that tradition that you can trace back to the Montmartre of Paris in the 1880s. But you know, I’m older now, not paying as much attention. Can anyone point to where the juice went? My pet theory, ala McLuhan, is that now we live in Internet Culture and the global village and all that, so things are really quite different and we get Raves instead of Beat Movements.
Junk Mail Calendars From Conservation Groups? Conservation FAIL
Not something I’d normally write about in here, but this is ridiculous! In the last week I received two unsolicited calendars from conservation groups!
Your Free Nature Conservancy Calendar 2010
Your Free National Parks Conservation Association 2010 Calendar
Does sending bulk junk mail calendars send the wrong message?
I think so. I’m going to keep a list of the free calendars I receive (and throw away) here, just to remind me NEVER to support these clueless conservation groups.
Let’s add Carl Pope and the Sierra Club for this Free U.S. Wall Map.
And a bulky full-color guilt trip of a reminder letter from The Nature Conservancy that I still haven’t donated to them for the calendar I didn’t want or ask for.
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E. Howard Hunt names the men who killed Kennedy
On November 23, 1963 I was a grade two student. I sat in the desk in the front row next to my friend Bruce. I remember that it was very unusual that the Sister who taught us rolled a television set into the classroom. She seemed to be very upset. There was the sense of something being very wrong. She turned on the black and white television and explained to us that the President had been killed. Today is the 45th anniversary (do you call it an anniversary if it was a tragedy?) of the murder of JFK
The following is a re-post of an article from May of 2007.
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I’m not familiar with prisonplanet.com, but they tell the story of a recording E. Howard Hunt made on his deathbed. The tape was recently made public by Howard Hunt’s son, Saint John Hunt. On the tape Howard Hunt describes a bitter LBJ and his involvement with the murder of JFK. Hunt names others who were involved in the conspiracy. Five minutes of the tape were aired recently on CoastToCoastAM.com
There is a direct link to the mp3 file here.
What’s been bugging me about it is, what if it’s true? I mean – just for a minute – inhabit a world where the Kennedy assassination has been solved- We know who did it, who helped who and why.
Now what?
How is justice served over 40 years later? Who’s going to pay?
What does it mean? What would change?
How do I heal, or why, or who cares?
Is it just miscellaneous information?