Let’s see, I didn’t have much time to check the talking heads shows out this week, but here’s a quick rundown. On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead has a pair of Republicans – Chuck Hagel & James “batshit crazy” Sensenbrenner – on to talk about… Jeezus H. Christ, immigration still? Aren’t we over this yet? Then, it’s a pair pf rightwing hacks from the WaPost – asshole David Broder, and douchebag David Ignatius, certifiably batshit crazy Kate O’Beirne, and yet another representative form the WaPost, Eugene Robinson.
Over on Faze the Nation, Bush Buddy Bobby Schieffer has Mitch “the dick” McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and – whoopdie-doo, Elizabeth Bumiller of The New York Times.
On This Weak with George Snufalufagus, it’s John Warner and Jack Murtha, on to talk about the massacre in Haditha and the general state of things in Iraq, plus former representative and current chairman of the “New Century Project” (which sounds more like the early 20th century to me) John Kasich, yet another right-wing hack from the WaPost, E.J. “Grey Poupon” Dionne, and George :jerk: Will. Then, believe it or not, a story on how Tony Orlando’s ‘Yellow Ribbon’ continues to inspire the troops. :barf: (Note to ABC, the song was written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown, and it was about a civil war soldier, a stagecoach and yellow handkerchiefs, not ribbons; they changed it to ribbons when they realized what makes hankies yellow).
On CNN’s Laid Edition, it’s Wolf Blitzer trying to pretend he’s relevant with Iraq’s deputy prime minister, Barham Salih, Timmy the Potatohead Russert (Christ, isn’t once a day with this meathead enough?), Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, and LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigos.
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has Bill Fucking Frist and Dick Durbin.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Ed Bradley talks to one of the two ex-New York City detectives accused of being Mafia hit men, and Mike “I’m so ashamed of my weaselfaced son” Wallace does a story on soldiers who’ve been severely wounded in combat.
No new Sopranos tonight – but you can catch up on the three latest episodes to get ready for the season finale next week.
Have a good Sunday y’all – it’s my last one at home, for a while.
First? Yes! For the first time in ages. :nixon:
they changed it to ribbons when they realized what makes hankies yellow)
Ha! Didn’t know the origin. PJ, you are chock-full of interesting facts. So Monday is travel day. Yeah, what is it about guys (may I generalize?) – the husband doesn’t pack until often the day OF – even for the sandbox trip. Nutso!
(i want to type chalk full but I’m pretty sure it’s chock full)
In other REALLY important news: :barf:
But this is the part that gets me:
jezus…. crazy 🙄
Morning :sheep: le
C-span is commenting on GW’s speach at West Point.. Bush comparing himself to Truman :barf: Bush comparing the war on Terra to the cold war :barf: I think i need some :40::rant1:
PJ: After you get to DC look around and see if you see Rod Sterling standing under a light pole.. that would go a long ways toward explaining what we see coming out of that part of world.
‘morning :joe:
good morning…watching C span now – some guy from the Heritage Foundation saying “…the fiction that our troops are stretched thin…” Ok, that’s quite enough for me already. That’s only one thing he’s saying, but I get the drift 🙁
I didn’t know Bush was at West Point till another teacher told me about it yesterday, so it seemed they did arrange a protest there. There was this wild rumor flying that he was also going to be at Indian Point (the nearbye nuclear plant) but that turned out to not be true.
I found out that a fellow teacher was a progressive and Air America listener, so that’s good. I was looking for someone to talk to at work on a topic other than kids.
Maybe I’ll tune into the Bobbleheads today, at least some of it. So “New Century Project” is not the same thing as “Project for a New American Century,” is it? It can’t be much better. It has that Fascist sound that calls forth images of uniformed youths looking into a a bright future filled with lots of white, blonde faces and not much of anything else. At least that’s what the language behind the phrase says to me
Speaking of Indian Point, did anyone catch “Ring of Fire” yesterday. Bobby Kennedy had on a candidate for the congressional seat in the 19th District. He is a prominent member of the band Orleans. He demands that the nuclear facility called Indian Point be closed down. In fact, he seems to me to be a nuclear energy abolitionist. Very good segment. One could catch it during today’s repeat of the show.
Close the goddamn thing down.:omg:
Hell yeah. I’ve been to protests up there with Riverkeeper
http://www.riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/indian_point
Bobby Kennedy Jr. rocks, he’s very active locally here and really does care.
He is a very impressive man. So, any mysterious packages?:omg:
not yet, no. I’m going to the art store later though, if it’s open.
Hey everyone! They rerun Ring of fire today at 3, I think, but if anyone wants it , I have it form yesterday…just have to edit and save as….
Murtha is on with snuffleupagus right now…
The Today show was just deep frying hot dogs…ah, America…what a way to remember…lets grill some meat and fry some snouts and gizzards!
Ah, and we can turn it off before Snuffleupagus get to TONY ORLANDO (without Dawn, or I would watch…I think one of them died recently…?) to talk about the meaning of the fuckin yellow ribbon…
Then I guess its on to the remembrance….
Are they doing a show of just names of all those killed?
I wonder…..
Ive got to get back to the beginning and see what PJ had to say. I usually wont even turn on the TV without PJ’s sunday guide.
Im also halfway through the Corporation DVD…did anyone see that?
Hey Melina, good morning 🙂 I’ll catch Ring of Fire on rerun I think. Yeah, just put on Murtha…ugh, William Bennet…
Yellow hankies!:omg: Gross!:rofl2: Serves the war pigs right, though. Anybody here fall for Gulf War one?. I helped organize people into the streets before the war even started. Was on the committee (of 2) who drew up the plans to occupy the state capitol. (Stop bragging. What have you done lately?) The protests of that war were terrific. Set the stage for later mass demonstrations, like Seattle, and the before the Gulf War two mass protests. Chomsky likes to say that this was the first time in history that people were protesting a war before the war started.
Out in the Streets! We Can’t Wait!:omg:
Bennet: “Some things need to stay in the dark” Screw you, you fascist…
Good for you, I love the passion and motivation. I need to get more active also. We can’t make change unless everybody gets off their butts and takes to the streets! :fist:
ok Ring of Fire will be rebroadcast here at 3 PM, right after David Bender’s show.
Yes. I saw Corporation. I was on the filmmakers’ mailing list for quite a while prior to the movie’s release. Speaking of critics of corporations, Tyger Thom had a guest on his Thursday national show–I caught it on KPOJ’s repeat yesterday–who has written what seems to be a fine book on the subject. David Korten, I believe is the writer’s name. His brief description of corporations were spot on. “Organizations designed to maximize profits for the few investors. Public costs be damned.” (Words to that effect, anyway.)
WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD
Second Edition of the Modern Classic
Released April 2001
by David C. Korten
“A searing indictment of an unjust international economic order.”
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“This new edition expands and updates Korten’s laser-like analysis of how global corporations dominate people and their governments. It will agitate your mind, elevate your soul, and engage your civic spirit.”
– Ralph Nader
“The new edition is even more powerful than the original in its articulation of the issues, its stories of the struggle and its compelling call to each and everyone of us to become participants in what I believe to be a sacred trust…creating a world that works for all.”
– Danny Glover
Hell. It has been out for a while.
Korten sounds interesting…
Radio Interviews
David Korten
May 24th: Interview with Robyn Shanti, KBOO, Portland
90.7FM Portland
91.9FM Hood River
100.7FM Willamette Valley
http://www.kboo.fm/index.php
May 25th: 8:30am- Interview with Thom Hartmann, Portland
AM 620 KPOJ – Portland’s Progressive Talk radio station
http://www.thomhartmann.com/
May 25th: 10:00am- Interview with Thom Hartmann, National Air America
503.248.0620 or 1.866.452.0620
http://www.thomhartmann.com/
I had heard of him, but was not aware of his book.
cool, I’ll check some of these out.
ok, enough of this television, there isn’t anything political on for another hour.
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Alex Carey
Edited by Andrew Lohrey
Foreword by Noam Chomsky
This compelling book examines the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesses and its export to and adoption by other western democracies, chiefly the United Kingdom and Australia.
“A unique study of the growth and development of corporate propaganda in western democracies. . . . Timely, and useful for anyone concerned about the influence of methods of mass persuasion in undermining democracy.”
— Elaine Bernard, Harvard University Trade Union Program
“An important book. . . . Analyses right-wing propaganda strategies and programs put in place this century in the U.S. and Australia–programs designed to ‘take the risk out of democracy’ by making the electorate ‘soft’ on business. Carey shows . . . how the risk to democracy is always construed by these campaigns as a risk to business interests.”
— Phillip Stephens, Education Australia
The late ALEX CAREY lectured in psychology and industrial relations at the University of New South Wales. ANDREW LOHREY is a Research Fellow with the National Language and Literacy Institute of Australia, working at the University of Tasmania in language, learning, and consciousness. NOAM CHOMSKY, a professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of books including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
The Orwell Diversion
by Alex Carey
In the ninteenth century Matthew Arnold described the aim of literature as to perceive life ‘steadily’ and ‘as a whole’. In the twentieth century the social sciences have challenged this traditional role of poets and writers as the most influential source of enquiry and reflection upon human life and values. It is my contention that the producers of our social science have largely abandoned Arnold’s goal. In consequence all of us now see the world more unsteadily than we need and, in a double sense, in a manner more partial and fragmented.
I would argue that the abandonment of an interconnected view of the community is deeper and more dangerous than ever before. Its cause is not due to a natural inevitability but is held in place, almost artificially, by the bitter divisions of our world. This predilection for division, a division which maintains a binary morality of them and us, finds its traditional expression in the terms ‘communist’ and ‘anti-communist’. I would suggest that this division has become a kind of global disease that scars and corrupts the best and most humane aspects of our liberal Western traditions.
The communist craze has been created and sustained for so long that we are in danger of believing in it – believing for instance, that we should take George Orwell’s warning about 1984 seriously. Orwell warned that a crude and brutal totalitarianism would come from the left of politics and subvert the liberal democratic freedoms we are all supposed to enjoy. Such a prospect is no more than part of the communist craze of the twentieth century, for while the freedoms of liberal democracy are certainly threatened, the danger has always come from the Respectable Right. It has come in the form of widespread social and political indoctrination, an indoctrination which promotes business interests as everyone’s interests and in the process fragments the community and closes off individual and critical thought.
…I believe that George Orwell’s warnings about future threats to liberal democracies were largely, even dangerously misconceived. Influenced by Orwell’s erroneous views, popular consciousness has been drilled in the expectation that the subversive Left, supported by influences from ‘outside’ the country, is about to control public and individual thinking. (This is the corporate sponsored narrative which provides the justification needed for managing democracy in the interests of business.) Meantime, the real attack is in stark contrast to Orwell’s expectations. It has come, for most of this century, from the Respectable Right. but this actual threat is more or less ignored by the community, for it is vastly sophisticated, appears uncoercive yet is dedicated to corporate interests.
Whatever Orwell’s intentions,his work has been exploited so as to misdirect and confuse the public into looking in the wrong places for the ‘brainwashing’ instinctively felt by many. Ever since World War I this circumstance has so blinded or intimidated the public that few writers and social scientists have attempted to see our world clearly or see it whole in its political-economic dimensions. [Fifty] years after Orwell wrote 1984 no writer has attempted to update it so as to make clear the seriousness of Orwell’s misguidance for democratic societies. Worse still, in the name of free enterprise and anti-communism, a great number of social scientists, sponsored by corporations, are willingly engaged in advancing Orwell’s thesis by way of a corporate-managed democracy.
OK…Frank Rich is on RIPCoco
more about propaganda, excellent. Dissect the strategies and language and tear them apart :growl:
thanks Melina – something about Frank Rich supporting Al Gore this week I understand, I’ll have to read it
There are some great points in that article (Nicki) I think Orwell was right about propaganda, but this seems to be on the mark that it’s coming from a different direction, in a different way. The term “respectable” right is important to understanding this. They have made themselves respectable over decades of careful propaganda and saturating the media with their highly sophisticated and successful messaging. Thhis is not a totalitarian society per 1984, it’s much more sneaky and insidious than that.
And of course Orwell didn’t write much about Corporations (not at all in 1984, if I recall…a lot of emphasis on televsion cameras doing ind control). There was some interesting stuff about how they kill/fight the sex drive in that novel, though.
He was terrified of a Stalinist like takeover. His ideas and perceptions were important; his choice of the enemy was wrong ’em, boyo!
Perhaps you could pinpoint the problem of modern world with the fact that so few benefit from the wealth generated by corporations. Orwellian propaganda prevents the majority to really understand what is going on. Or more likely, persuades them that this is the way it is, ought, and forever. World without end.
He didn’t know about Neocons and George Bush. I wonder what he’d think.
the thing that gets to me is how you have the poor and working class in America, especially away from the coasts in middle America, and they’re victimized the most by this system, and work the hardest. I think that book “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” touched on that a bit, but not enough…it didn’t dissect the actual propaganda, it just talked about the people who live out there.
the message itself is what has to be exposed. And it could be if the media itself would allow opposing messages, but it doesn’t. At least the mainstream media. It has to be done through alternative media and alternative means.
It might be interesting to look and see how liberals like Tyger Thom divert the majority. Are there any AAR hosts who call for the abolishment of corporations? Sam Seder says they are amoral, values neutral They need only be regulated. What the fuck happened to the New Deal? The reforms brought forth by the New Deal have been under attack since the late 1930s. And they are succeeding wonderfully.
:fu: What is Taft-Hartley? What did this law, passed by both Repos and Dems, destroy?
Read
Dime's Worth of Differencefor more on the question of why do working people vote for Republicans.You’re right…the message is to regulate corporations. I haven’t heard anyone say to do away with them. But then most of what I hear seems to be “work with the system we have to improve it…” almost without exception.
They would lose their jobs if they said otherwise. Unable to think outside of the box. Enure the rule by the few. But we will get more crumbs, ala Sweden.
In this sharply written volume, the editors and writers of CounterPunch, the radical newsletter and hugely popular website, reveal how each party is fattened by the same roster of corporate contributors; each party connives to gerrymander congressional districts so that as few seats as possible are up for contention ; each party bows to the desires of defense contractors and media conglomerates; each party endorses an economic scheme that shifts money from the poor to the super-rich; each party warehouses the poor by the millions in a vast prison system, one of the few booming sectors of the new economy .
sounds right on by that description
Anybody listening to Bernie Sanders on the AAR Stream? Talking about the Super Wealthy and their drive to make obscene amounts of money at the expense of the public good.
Sounds terrifying! I know it is the truth, though. So, what do we do about it?
Bernie Sanders is usually a pretty good guest on Thom. Where is that stream again? Is that your local station?
It’s AAR’s stream.
Thank you. When I was listening earlier it was Al Franken.
My senator is on Face the Nation…. talking about doubling the armed forces
[…]Here in Vermont, representative Bernie Sanders, the darling pseudo-Democrat, is running for the US Senate. Vermont’s “independent” and “progressive” had to be shamed into supporting representative John Conyers’ resolution on impeachment hearings. Recently, Bernie Sanders imported Democratic Senator Barack Obama to give his campaign a boost. Way to go Bernie, as Barack Obama is already supporting Bush’s next war in Iran.
Shame on Bernie Sanders for his comments on impeachment. His comments the day after four Vermont towns voted for impeachment implied that impeachment talk is “impractical” with the Republicans in control of House and Senate. By choosing practicality over justice, Bernie, and his fellow Democrats, are saying that prosecution for breaking the law must wait for the jury to be gerrymandered. What system of justice is this? The Democrats could have filibustered the Supreme Court nominations, but they chose not to take a stand. And now, they choose to let their colleague, Senator Russ Feingold, wither on the vine with his censure motion, even though they know that there is more than ample evidence for censuring George W. Bush. The people of the United State are ahead of the Democrats on censure and impeachment. The Statesman.com reports that, ”
A poll by the nonpartisan American Research Group found that 46 percent of Americans support censuring Bush for authorizing wiretaps of Americans without obtaining court orders, as part of the administration’s effort to fight terrorism. (Poll dates: March 13-15, 2006).
A Zogby International poll conducted Jan 9-12, 2006, found that 52% agreed with the following statement:
If president Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.
The Democrats are projecting themselves as saviors in the elections of 2006 and 2008. Hardly. Watch for more Nader-like bashing. It’s one of the few things Democrats do well. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org/hand04052006.html
::sigh:: poor Russ Feingold. Poor us 😥
No. This is how the system works. It’s the Constitution, baby!:omg:
Grrrrrr. I’m so angry.:mad: Watching these buttholes on TV is getting me more angry too.
I want change NOW. :fu:
Susan: To listen to Hartman you go to AAR’s web site and from the drop down menu on shows chose the Thom Hartman program. That opens a new page with the links to the stream. The main AAR stream still has Franken on it.. They are producing a syndicated stream for hosts like Hartman. You can also go to http://www.thomhartman.com and go to listen live to find alternate streams.
Now that the house reps are beginning to appear in public forums it seems that if you ask them questions somewhat negative about their position on the war or impeachment you get shouted down to told to sit down by the Dems at the meeting. As long as the majority of the jerks (translated voters) on both sides of the isle are living in Denial that we have a problem they will elect or reelect anyone with a pretty face. The idea of a “well informed electorate” must have been just that an idea.
Thanks Fred, I got Hartmann from the main AA stream – I just had not checked it so didn’t know Al Franken was over. But the ThomHartmann site is new to me, so I’ll keep that in mind as an alternate.
There was some interesting stuff about how they kill/fight the sex drive in that novel, though.
Comment by Susan Joy — May 28, 2006 @ 9:57 am
Sex as a political statement?
SEX = FREEDOM!!!
WHO’S WITH ME???
:banana::banana::banana:
The Physica consists of nine sections or books, the first and longest comprising accounts of more than two hundred plants. There follow books devoted to the elements (earth; water, including local German rivers; and air), trees, precious stones, fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and metals. The medical uses of these objects are paramount, descriptions often being reduced to statements of their four cardinal properties – that is, whether they are hot, dry, wet. or cold. This lack of information makes some of the plants, especially those that only appear under German names, hard to identify today. For example, “Pruma valde calida est. Et qui leprosus est Prumam in manibus terat, et succum exprimat, et suo illo ubi leprosus est saepe liniat, et lepram mitigat…. Sed et flores ejus in butyro vaccarum coquat, et sic unguentem faciat, et saepe cum illo se ungat, et lepra minorabitur . . .” (Broom [?] is very hot. And let those suffering from leprosy squeeze broom in their hands and express the juice and often smear it on themselves where they arc affected…. Or let them also cook up its flowers in butter to make an ointment and apply it frequently to themselves, and the sores will diminish).
When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man’s seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman’s sexual organs contract, and all the parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist.
Wow, where did that come from, Kevin? But….sure 🙂
1984 had its flaws but Julia and Winston were hot, is that what you’re saying????
Wow! This blog is getting crazy hot!!!!
If you offer your child to me when discerning intellect is not in him, but all his understanding lies undeveloped, and that offering is against his will because you have not sought his consent to it, you have not acted rightly….
And if you, O human, confine that child with such great strictness of bodily discipline that he cannot free himself from the pressure of his soul’s repugnance, he will come before Me arid and fruitless in body and soul because of the captivity unjustly inflicted on him without his consent….
If I comfort him by miracle so that he may remain in the spiritual life, that is not for humans to look into; for I want his parents not to sin in this oblation, offering him to me without his will.
Ague Root – Male Virility
Almond – Encourages Lust
Anise
Asafoetida – Aphrodisiac, Psychic Problems Due to Sexual Imbalances
Avocado
Banana – Impotence
Basil
Beans and Legumes – Impotence
Beebalm
Black Pepper
Bloodroot
Blue Eyed Grass – Lust
Buckeye – Virility
Burdock – General, Restores Male “Nature”
Butterfly Pea – Lust
Cacao – Aphrodisiac
Caper – Aphrodisiac, Impotence
Caraway
Cardamom – Aphrodisiac
Carrot – Lust, Impotence
Cashew – Virility
Catnip
Cat Tail – Lust
that’s only part of the list (from the index of the herbal book I wrote)
With earth was the human being created. All the elements served mankind and, sensing that man was alive, they busied themselves in aiding his life in every way. And man in turn occupied himself with them. The earth gave its vital energy, according to each person’s race, nature, habits, and environment….
Certain plants grow from air. These plants are gentle on the digestion and possess a happy nature, producing happiness in anyone who eats them…. Certain other herbs are windy, since they grow from the wind. These herbs are dry, and heavy on one’s digestion. They are of a sad nature, making the person who eats them sad….
Every plant is either hot or cold, and grows thus, since the heat of the herbs signifies the spirit, and the cold, the body
Banana=Impotence! :rofl2::banana:
Sounds like Culpepper
hehe, I know. There are even funnier correspondences/stories. My book concerns a lot of plant folklore
Then the ancient deceiver put me to the proof with many mockeries. For example, many were saying: “What is this? So many mysteries are revealed to this foolish and unlearned woman when there are so many strong and wise men? It will come to nothing for sure!”
For indeed many wondered about the revelation, whether it was from God, or from some withering influence of the spirits of the air who lead many astray.
I got art pens today!
Two stories clearly illustrate the apple’s link with temptation – the biblical Adam and Eve story, and the Greek story of The Judgement of Paris. In the Genesis story, it is not actually mentioned that the fruit was an apple, though the church certainly adopted the pome as the fruit of the Garden. Author Isabel Allende speculated that one reason the apple was chosen for this biblical role was because when cut in half its seeds appear to be arranged in the shape of a vulva. In any case, Malus signifies “forbidden fruit” of knowledge. In the second story, Eris (Discord) set out a golden apple marked “for the fairest”. Three goddesses desired the fruit: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Paris, a simple shepherd of the fields, had the unenviable task of judging which Goddess fit that description. Each goddess tried to bribe him. Hera offered him political control over the known world, Aphrodite would give him military prowess, and Aphrodite promised him the fairest of all moral women, Helen. Paris chose the Love Goddess’ offering, and the other two deities, acting out of jealousy and vindictiveness, started the Trojan War. This tale also shows that love could quite possibly be the most sought-after commodity in the world. It also indicates choice; and in this sense can be used in conjunction with the tarot card, The Lovers.
But now the Faith wavers among the nations and the GoodNews limps among the people; and the mighty books in which the excelling doctors had summed up knowledge with great care go unread from shameful apathy, and the food of life, which is the divine Scriptures, cools to tepidity.
For this reason, I now speak through a person who is not eloquent in the Scriptures or taught by an earthly teacher; I Who Am speak through her of new secrets and mystical truths, heretofore hidden in books, like one who mixes clay and then shapes it to any form she wishes.
(another exerpt from my book…I’ll stop the promotion now :wink:)
Who was I quoting above?
where are those last exerpts from?
That is good. :omg:
Hildegard of Bingen (at least one of these)
She was a woman of extraordinary and diverse talents – part of that early flowering of culture known as the twelfth century renaissance. She corresponded with bishops, archbishops, popes and kings, and spoke out openly against corruption in the church. She had a broad familiarity with the science of her day – primitive and dogmatic though it was. She often describes the natural world in her books, most often as a symbol or example for some religious point.
You are probably familiar with her nature studies. She was an herbalist. I notice a kindred spirit.
If she described nature or plants and what they represent or symbolize, I’ve probably got some information about her somewhere in one of my references. That’s pretty cool.
Her visions were quite detailed, and she also claimed to hear words, spoken in Latin. She saw them in her soul, not with her bodily eyes, which remained open. She often saw a brilliant light – more brilliant than a cloud over the sun. Inside this light she sometimes saw an even brighter light which she called “the living light.” This made her lose all sadness and anxiety.
Like all mystics she experienced total loss of self during her visions: “I do not know myself, either in body or soul. And I consider myself as nothing. I reach out to the living God and turn everything over to the Divine.”
Yeah…I sensed it was from the same era as Culpepper, and he also talked about hot/cold and the doctrine of signatures, that’s why I thought maybe it was him you were quoting
She sounds interesting, to say the least :blech:
“One day in the previous year, while I was in a trance, he [an angel] led me as if into a meadow. A tent was pitched there, and we entered it. He showed me a great pile of books kept there and said, “Do you see these books? All of these are still to be dictated before the judgement day.” Then, raising one from the pile, he said, “This is the Book of God’s Ways, which will be revealed through you after you have visited sister Hildegard and listened to her.”
oops, I meant that to be a happy smiley in the last comment :omg:
By Culpepper, I thought you meant a fruit that was grown from the wind or the air.
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 1654 in London) was an English botanist, physician, and astrologer. He was the son of Nicholas Culpeper, a clergyman. He studied in Cambridge, and afterwards became apprenticed to an apothecary.
He ran a pharmacy in the Halfway House in Spitalfields, London. He published A Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged and The English Physician and Family Dispensary.
He was a radical republican and opposed to the “closed shop” of medicine. He believed that the use of Latin by doctors, lawyers and priests was a conspiracy to keep power and freedom away from the general public.
he was “the people’s” doctor. He didn’t charge money for his services and remained poor most of his life. He pioneered much of what in that day passed for medicine
In addition to the interest in her music with the popularity of Gregorian Chants on the record charts, Hildegard von Bingen has also attracted interest from post-feminist writers and holistic healers. Today’s listeners appreciate von Bingen’s music perhaps for the peace of mind chant can help create. However, where to us the Latin phrases hang over heads as some mystical incantation, to von Bingen they were words of praise. These are songs of love and adoration to the God whom she worshipped. Like the great Gothic architecture of her time, these songs were used to create a space where the worship of the supernatural could take place.
I am certainly going to have to listen to her music
O fragile human, ashes of ashes, and filth of filth! Say and write what you see and hear. But since you are timid in speaking, and simple in expounding, and untaught in writing, speak and write these things not by a human mouth, and not by the understanding of human invention, and not by a human mouth, and not by the understanding of human invention, and by the requirements of human composition, but as you see and hear them on high in the heavenly places in the wonders of God. Explain these things in such a way that the hearer, receiving the words of his instructor, may expound them in those words, according to that will, vision and instruction. Thus therefore, O Human, speak these things that you see and hear. And write them not by yourself or anything other human being, but by the will of Him who knows, sees and disposes all things in the secrets of His mysteries.
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias
SOARING
In contrast to the narrow scope of most chants in her day, Hildegard’s music had a very wide range. She uses extremes of register as if to bring heaven and earth together. According to Pfau, by adding and omitting pitches and pitch groups in repetitions of melodic phrases Hildegard stretches and contracts melodic phrases to create the “soaring arches” that we are familiar with in her music.
LEAPS
Plainchant usually never employed intervals larger than a second or third. Hildegard’s music vaults upward and downward with wide intervals of fifths and fourths. She traverses the octave scale up and down with as much ease as she moved between the mystical world and the world of mundane affairs.
sounds like it would be wonderful music for rituals or meditation
I must start working on the zine. I have to compose an article on Jandek. I can’t find my folder with the images I was saving.
I’m going to work on the cartoon over the next couple of days, though I have to go to a barbeque tomorrow. I got all the supplies I need now, so it shouldn’t take me long
A classic model for that. Sequentia’s “Canticles of Ecstasy” might be a good one to start with. I’ll bet your library has copies.
Do you have images of the searchers? They would be easy to get from MySpace. And there are images of them in the latest zine. (I mean, it would be interesting to have the figures look like actual fans. But hey…)
White Plains library has everything, yeah, that’s a good idea. 🙂
Yeah, I was glancing at those girls’ profiles earlier. I’ll see what I can do to make them into cartoons. I was having a little more trouble thinking of what the man is going to look like talking to them. LOL I thought of Allen Ginsberg
Hildegard von Bingen – Vision
Vision – The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
Richard Souther with Emily van Evera & Sister Germaine Fritz (OSB)
Angel CDC 7243 5 55246 21
Contents:
Hildegard von Bingen:
1. Sequence: O virga ac diadema
2. Antiphon: Sed diabolus
3. Sequence: O Euchari, in leta via
4. Song: O viridissima virga
5. The living light (instr.)
6. Psalm antiphon: Unde quocumque
7. Psalm antiphon: O frondens virga
8. Votive antiphon: O quam mirabilis
9. Psalm antiphon: Deus enim rorem
10. The anointing (instr.)
11. Votive antiphon: Laus Trimitati
12. Sequence: O vas nobile (exc. from O Ierusalem)
13. Psalm antiphon: Karitas
14. Psalm antiphon: Hodie aperuit
15. Psalm antiphon: Cum erebuerint
16. Ordo virtutum: O vivens fons (virtutes)
17. Antiphon: O Euchari in leta via
Performers: Richard Souther (original compositions, arrangements and interpretations) with Emily van Evera (voice) & Sister Germaine Fritz – OSB (voice).
Playing time: 55′ 59″
Recording site and date:
St. Andrews Church, Toddington, England (Emily van Evera) & St. Walburga Monastery, Elizabeth, NJ, USA (Sister Germaine Fritz) [1994 or prior]
This is a modernish interpretation; the vocalists are superb.
No! I am so incompetent on computers that I need help posting images. I will try to find a facsimile. But hell, if you want Allen Ginsberg.
Did you read that post today where Lenni Brenner fairly trashed Allen?
Erin is on the last page. She goes by “Irish” on myspace, unless she changed it again.. She does the “Rules” space. One of the things I strive for is inclusion of people. Make them a part of it, formally.
If you need ANY help posting anything let me know, I’m getting fairly good at this kind of thing. Seriously. I think I read what you’re talking about.
Oh, I totally agree with you. It is a fan ‘zine after all, but the most important fans are the contributors, and it seems like they contributed a lot. They should be a big part of it.
I’m not going to do realistic portraits though, you realize these are going to be Suzie style toons 🙂
Use the Klaus Nomi image. Do you know where that is. Oh hell, He is all over the internet. Images.
Klaus Nomi? for what, the man that talks to the girls?
You are the artist. Can you make your creations resemble people?
I’ve done characatures before
depends how good my references are too.
if you have particular images you want me to consider using regarding any of these people, tell me which ones – or else I’ll just use my judgment
I just lost a fplder filled with text and images that I have been accumulation for a long time. What could have happened?
Use your own judgement.
You can use Allen Ginsberg too, if you want. Nomi got dissed when he played New Jersey. On the other hand, Allen Ginsberg was from NJ. Use Allen. I don’t care.
a folder on your computer? What kind of images, for that Jandek article? You can try google images; that’s where I got my car references for this cartoon I’m planning
I can use either, it doesn’t matter. I just thought of Ginsberg because I’ve been looking at your postcard a lot over the last few days 🙂
On my computer. :omg::mad:
Use Allen. I’ll do something with Klaus as the model.
How many groupies are in the car?
google images have jandek, I just checked. Does your computer have a search for folder feature? That’s one thing about my I Mac that I love, I can find anything with search
I was planning on the four that you mentioned
Junk I have been collecting for a long time. Pisses me off that it has vanished.
Yes. On a mission through the Pine Barrens.
it’s probably still there 🙁
I lost a whole fucking play once.
I should have thought of the Pine Barrens as one of my “tarot” locations, it didn’t occur to me though at the time…
I can download things online if I need to. I could lose all of it and still create a zine. Nothing irreplaceable. Still. It’s like losing a trunk full of stuff that you can use. A box of pictures. I am a pack rat.
oh, I understand believe me! I save everything too. I had a two-drawer file cabinet full of pictures saved in categories that I lost in the fire. I had been saving that stuff since I was a teenager!
Did you ever see the movie “The Last Broadcast”?
I can’t wait to see what else you have planned for this issue 🙂
no
It is Thursday night, April 20th. I am sitting in the Hollywood Theater with members of the band Corrupted System. We anxiously sit, waiting for the legendary Jandek to appear on the stage. A stage that is empty except for a few guitars, amps, and a drumset. Hanging on the walls on either side of the auditorium, pointing at the stage, is sophisticated recording equipment.
Set in the Pine Barrens. Similar in subject to that of The Blair Witch Project. It was made before the Blair Witch Project.
Setting the scene, I like it
the Pine Barrens is an unusual place. The plants are strange and dwarf, the people are called “Pineys” and are supposed to be a little odd/cut off from the rest of New Jersey…
it make a good setting for a horror novel, or a search for a missing rock star
Remember that Sopranos episode where Christopher and Paulie get lost there. That big Russian Commando gets away, after taking a head shot. I’ll bet he re-emerges before the show ends.
Yeah, there are two places in Jersey where you can dump dead bodies, the Pine Barrens, or the Meadowlands 🙂 The Meadowlands is overused though, the Barrens is further south and more obscure 😉
The most noteworthy thing about The Last Broadcast has nothing to do with The Blair Witch Project (more about this later). Instead, although most movie-goers are probably unaware of this, The Last Broadcast became the first feature-length motion picture ever to attain theatrical distribution without having been transferred to celluloid. The movie, which was made on video for a paltry $900, was beamed via satellite to the five U.S. theaters participating in its trial run, then projected using digital equipment. And, although The Last Broadcast didn’t make a lot of money, it was nevertheless deemed a modest success. Without the significant cost associated with striking a 35 mm print, co-producers Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler avoided going deep into debt in order to distribute their feature.
The Last Broadcast made its “official” theatrical debut in October 1998, less than three months before The Blair Witch Project became the talk of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. However, The Last Broadcast had been making the film festival rounds for the better part of a year, so it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Blair Witch directors Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez had seen or heard about the movie before putting their own production before cameras. Whether The Last Broadcast influenced The Blair Witch Project is a red herring. While there are nearly as many similarities as there are differences, calling The Blair Witch Project a “rip off” is both unfounded and untrue. Both films have nearly identical premises and documentary-style approaches to storytelling, but The Blair Witch Project is more intriguing, better written and acted, and, as a result, more compelling. At best, The Last Broadcast is an interesting failure. But it can make the rightful claim of having come first. (And, as a footnote, interest in The Last Broadcast has skyrocketed since its “connection” to The Blair Witch Project was reported in certain media circles.)
The Last Broadcast begins near the end. Documentary filmmaker David Leigh (David Beard) is chronicling the deaths of two cable access TV personalities who were murdered while in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens doing a live broadcast searching for the Jersey Devil. Four people – Fact or Fiction hosts Steven Avkast (Stefan Avalos) and Locus Wheeler (Lance Weiler), along with sound man Rein Clackin (Rein Clabbers) and psychic Jim Suerd (Jim Seward) – went into the Pine Barrens on a chilly night with the intention of making contact with the mythical beast. Only one, Seward, made it out alive. The police subsequently arrested him for a triple homicide. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced. He subsequently died in prison under mysterious circumstances. Leigh’s intent with this movie is to examine the events leading up to Avkast and Wheeler’s last broadcast and to determine whether Seward may actually have been innocent.
I’ve never seen that, interesting. The New Jersey Devil would be worth seeking. You know there’s a very cool website called “Weird New Jersey” that has more about these kind of things.
The Last Broadcast is so densely constructed and intellectually assured that it makes The Blair Witch Project look like a nifty stunt and not much more … You don’t have to be a film buff to recognize that one effort is clearly the product of a superior intelligence.”
The New Jersey Star Ledger
“The older The Last Broadcast is eerily similar to The Blair Witch Project. It’s a scary, thought-provoking, and extremely well-crafted film.”
IGN movies
“Sixty Minutes meets War of the Worlds meets The X Files meets the O.J. Simpson trial … The acting is realistic … The story is well told … It’s terrific.”
Bill Wine, FOX-TV Film Critic
“The Last Broadcast is creepy and provocative … a startlingly good feature … a smart, assured work no matter how exactly it was made.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
My intention for the Jersey Devil/Pine Barren reference is for a gag. Like someone joking with me about going into the Cascades in search of the Sasquatch.
Ever heard of Ape Canyon? In the Mt. St. Helens foothills.
yeah….:)
I have to go to New Jersey tomorrow :nod:
You have heard of Ape Canyon?
Not really, why don’t you tell me about it? There have been Bigfoot/Sasquatch sightings there?
Ape Canyon
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Ape Canyon is a former gorge along the edge of the Plains of Abraham on the northeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington. The gorge narrowed to as close as eight feet in one place. The name alludes to an alleged encounter with several ape-like creatures, later called Bigfoot.
It was reportedly the site of a violent encounter in 1924 between a group of miners and a group of Sasquatch. Their account was publicized in several July 1924 issues of The Oregonian.[1] One of the miners, Fred Beck, claimed the miners shot and killed one of the creatures and that night a large group of Sasquatch attacked their cabin and tried to break-in.
In 1950 a skier named Jim Carter was with a group of other men, but went off by himself to film a documentary. He was never seen again, despite a massive search. One of the search team members said he had a chilling feeling of being watched the entire time. Carter’s ski tracks seemed to indicate that he took off at a very high speed, making tremendous jumps that no experienced skier would make unless he was frightened beyond reason or being pursued.
“Ape Canyon” tells the story of an amorous forest-dwelling Sasquatch who lusts after Britney Spears and uses hikers, backpackers and nature photographers to satisfy his raging simian hormones. Half-man, half-ape, he stalks his prey like a Hell’s Angel trolling the roadhouses, takes his pleasure, then flees since it seems that, once a woman’s been satisfied by an ape, she’ll never again be content with her merely human bedmate. Pretty soon the woods are thronged with pining poetry-spouting babes trying to nab an ape husband.
Hmmm. Now that’s quite a story. I was going to tell you how we have a headless horseman in the woods a few miles north of me, but I think your story just beat mine :omg:
Ape Canyon Trail #234
Length:
5.5 One Way
Trail Categories:
Volcanic Landscapes-High Country Views
Trail Uses:
Season of Use:
summer to fall
Elevation:
3100 to 4200 feet above sea level
Visitor Use:
Medium
Location:
begins, Ape Canyon Trailhead, Forest Rd. 83; ends, Loowit Trail #216
Trail Talk:
* Walk along the edge of a large mudflow from the 1980 eruption. Compare the terrain swept by the mudflow with the untouched area traversed by the trail.
* Hike through a growing plantation of young trees; then enter one of the few remaining segments of old growth forest untouched by the blast or mudflows.
* Catch magnificent views of Mt. Adams from grassy meadows on the east side of the ridge. Observe the wildflowers and watch for mountain goats which have been sighted in this area.
Trail Facts:
This maintained trail begins at the crumbling edge of a mudflow and then follows an old road through a young regenerating forest. It then climbs through a remnant of old growth forest and emerges into open meadows on the east side of the ridge. It continues along the ridge through patches of old growth and standing dead trees and climbs to open meadows and volcano scoured rock at the top of Ape Canyon, where it terminates at the junction with Loowit Trail #216.
Considerations:
· This trail has a steady upward grade as it climbs to Ape Canyon. Beware of steep drops and loose rock in the Ape Canyon area at the top of the trail.
Connections:
The Ape Canyon Trail connects with the Loowit Trail #216 for access to the Windy Ridge area or a round-the-mountain hike. This trail is part of a popular loop for mountain bikers: starting at Windy Ridge, ride the Truman Trail #207 to Abraham Trail #216D, then continue south to the Loowit Trail #216 and follow the Loowit Trail to the junction at the top of Ape Canyon Trail.
I love the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Tappan Zee.
Have you ever seen “Blair Witch ll”? Tourists converge on the town. “Go home, people. There is no Blair witch here.” I like that movie better than the original.
sounds like a beautiful area. The Northwest is one area of the U.S.A. I still need to explore. I’ve been to almost all the other states. Yeah, Sleepy Hollow’s a neat place, a few towns up from me, and Washington Irving’s House. Really pretty area.
no, never saw II, just I. It scared me to tears
It’s fun to be scared at the movies sometimes 🙂 I haven’t seen a good horror flick in awhile
Ape Cave
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Ape Cave is a lava tube located in Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the side of Mt. St. Helens in Washington, USA. At 13,042 feet (3,976 m), it is the third-longest continuous lava tube in the continental United States. Lava tubes are an unusual formation in this region, as volcanoes of the Cascade Mountain Range tend toward the stratovolcano type and do not typically erupt with pahoehoe (fluid basalt).
Ape Cave is located near the site of former Ape Canyon, which was destroyed when the volcano erupted on May 18, 1980.
A logger named Lawrence Johnson discovered Ape Cave in 1947. A scout troop under the leadership of Henry Reese performed the first exploration in 1950; they named the cave for their sponsor, the St. Helens Apes: a group of local foresters, sometimes called brush apes (possibly owing to local legends of bigfoot).
I’ve seen pictures of the scenery from that area. It’s so breathtaking. Do they let tourists see that, or is the whole area off limits?
Most of it is not off limits. I haven’t been up there in so long. But unless there is reason to believe an eruption is about to happen, it is open to the public.
I was at the Ape Caves long after the eruption. No. Most of the area is not off limits.
I will definitely visit someday. I’m eating ice cream and wearing shorts. It was the first day that really feels like summer 🙂
Did you see the eruption? Was it seen for miles?
Directions to Ape Caves:
From Interstate 5 — take Exit 21 (Woodland Exit)
* Travel east on Highway 503 and USFS Road 90, approximately 35.7 miles to junction of USFS Roads 83 and 90.
* Turn north (left) onto USFS Road 83 and proceed another 2 miles to the junction of USFS Roads 83 and 8303.
* Turn west (left) onto USFS Road 8303 and proceed 0.2 miles to Trail of Two Forests.
* From Trail of Two Forests – proceed another mile on USFS Road 8303 to parking lot of lower entrance to Ape Cave.
I’ve heard of Bat Cavers; but Ape Cavers?:omg:
LOL I wish I could drive there right now and you would meet me there 🙂
Turning the locals on?:ear:
The big cave is scary. There is a smaller one that I have walked through.
Post a photo on MySpace.
Ha! What did I say? I still think I’m rated G. Ok, maybe PG, but everyone here is over 13, right?
:spank:
Back to the Scary Ape Stories:
The Longview Times — August 1963
SPIRIT LAKE, Mt. St. Helens, Washington — Ape Canyon, the legendary home of the Hairy Apes of Mt. St. Helens apparently swallowed an experienced mountaineer and expert skier in May 1950.
No trace of Jim Carter, 32, who disappeared from a 20-member climbing party from Seattle was found, although teams of the Northwest’s most proficient mountain rescue units combed the area for weeks.
“Carter’s complete disappearance is an unsolved mystery to this day,” declared Bob Lee, well-known Portland mountaineer who is a member of the exclusive world wide Alpine Club, a leader of the 1961 Himalayan expedition, and adviser to the 1963 American expedition.
Lee said he had never seen one of the monsters, but that there certainly was evidence “that there was something strange on the high slopes of the mountain.” He was convinced of this during the search for Carter, he said.
“Dr. Otto Trott, Lee Stark and I finally came to the conclusion that the apes got him,” said Lee seriously.
Lee, a member of the Seattle Mountain Search and Rescue unit at the time, describes the hunt for Carter in Ape Canyon as “the most eerie experience I have ever had.”
He said that every time he got cut off from the rest of the searchers during the long hunt, he got the feeling that “somebody was watching me.”
“I could feel the hair on my neck standing up. It was eerie. I was unarmed, except for my ice ax and, believe me, I never let go of that.” At this point in Lee’s story, I could feel my own hair standing up a bit.
:omg:
I just happen to be a nature lover
Ready to shoulder packs for a safari to Ape Canyon to try to determine whether there is any truth to the ape stories, I began to feel a little dubious about the whole expedition. The rest of Lee’s tale about the Seattle man’s disappearance didn’t do much to reassure me.
It seems that the missing man Carter had climbed Mt. St. Helens with a group from Seattle on a warm, clear Sunday. On the way down the mountain, he left the other climbers near a landmark called Dog’s Head, at the 8,000-foot level.
Carter told them he would ski around to the left and take a picture of the group as they skied down to timberline. That was the last time that anyone saw Carter. The next morning searchers found a discarded film box at the point where he had taken a picture.
From here, Carter evidently took off down the mountain in a wild, death-defying dash, “taking chances that no skier of his caliber would take, unless something was terribly wrong or he was being pursued,” says Lee, who was one of the first searchers to reach Carter’s ski tracks.
“He jumped over two or three large crevasses and evidently was going like the devil.” When Carter’s tracks reached the precipitous sides of Ape Canyon, the searchers were amazed to see that Carter had been in such a hurry that he went right down the steep canyon walls. But they did not find him at the bottom of the canyon as they expected.
“We combed the canyon, one end to the other for five days. Sometimes there were as many as 75 persons in the search party, but no sign of Carter or his equipment was found,” Lee says.
After two weeks the search was called off. Lee, who has lived in the Northwest most of his life, recalls there are about 25 different reports of people attacked by “apelike men” in the St. Helens and Cascade areas over a 20-year period.
One was a group of Boy Scouts from Centralia, he said. Couldn’t we check on that story? As near as he could remember, several of the boys who were taken off the mountain were hysterical after being attacked by the “ape men.”
Director Dick Whitney of the regional Boy Scout office in Olympia, Wash., promised to look for a record of the incident. To our surprise he called back to say that he had located the name of the leader and the troop involved in the incident. “It was a troop under the late Scoutmaster Pease from Centralia, “ he said.
Whitney promised to have Pease’s son, who works for the State of Washington call THE JOURNAL as soon as he returns from vacation.
Miners, scouts, Indians, mountaineers and most recently an editor and other reliable Portland residents, the list of persons who have seen the Hairy Apes of Mt. St. Helens is very impressive.
© The Longview Times, 1963
Hey! We are the only ones posting here.
I’ll bet you are.
very cool. It does make me wonder whether there are really creatures there.
Yeah… 😎
but…hey, you just NOTICED that??? :omg:
hehe
Don’t worry you two, I’m keeping an eye on you.:paranoid:
hey, I have a halo over my head.
From your neck of the haunted continent:
Found among the papers of the late Diedrech Knickerbocker.
A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
Forever flushing round a summer sky.
Castle of Indolence.
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the
eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river
denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and
where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the
protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small
market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh,
but which is more generally and properly known by the name of
Tarry Town. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by
the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate
propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern
on market days. Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact,
but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and
authentic. Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles,
there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills,
which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small
brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to
repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a
woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the
uniform tranquillity.
:omg:
Hartsdale is part of Greenburgh, as they call it now. It encompasses several townships including Tarrytown.
From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar
character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the
original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been
known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are
called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring
country. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land,
and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was
bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the
settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or
wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country
was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. Certain it is, the
place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that
holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to
walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of
marvelous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions, and
frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the
air. The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted
spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare
oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country,
and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the
favorite scene of her gambols.
The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted
region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of
the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a
head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper,
whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some
nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and
anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of
night, as if on the wings of the wind. His haunts are not
confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent
roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great
distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of
those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating
the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body
of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost
rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head,
and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along
the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated,
and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.:omg::doh:
Yep, I could recite that without looking at the book. Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Yous guys post so much stuff I can’t read it fast enough to make a comment.. good stuff though.
Get me lost in the Haunted Region.:omg:
I was sad that Ichabod lost the girl. Brom Bones was a villain, to me. Of course, Mr. Crane was no Cary Grant. But still…
:rofl2:
They really didn’t know which bridge the Headless Horseman rode over in the story, but they were quick to name the little footbridge near the Old Dutch Church as “the one” so now it’s a big tourist attraction. The graveyard is right next to it, so that works. Washington Irving’s House is the nicest part of the whole area though, it’s right on the river.
Yeah, Katrina van Tassel was a little flighty. I know the story was supposed to make fun of Ichabod, but he was sympathetic to me.
The tourist angle, 200 years after the fact. The first part of Blair Witch ll was playing on this theme.
I’ll bet the Rip Van Winkle region gets the same tourist treatment. I studied that story in college. A literary masterpiece!
Rip van W out!:omg:
yeah, there’s all kinds of touristy stuff up here, a lot of Revolutionary War stuff too, battle of White Plains (which the British actually won), and the spot where Benedict Arnold was caught running from West Point in Tarrytown, etc.
The Catskills are gorgeous. I mean man, yeah, you can see that happening up there, falling asleep in those mountains. They had a school of landscape painting over there and trust me, I understand why
Hey PJ…if I miss you tomorrow, travel safe and let us know that you got there safe somehow….
I guess that its gonna be a rainy week, but just as well that it not be 108 degrees and humid just yet…
Hey Suz- I brought Peach and Tweet4 home…they are just SO sweet…We are adjusting to the dogs, but everyone is Ok and eating alot. I apparently stay up way late for these guys! They were huddled in the corner sleeping over an hour ago.
Oh, and my dogs realized that they love millet!…go figure!
Ill have to post some pics tomorrow…
Nite everyone….
off to watch more of my 24 tape and maybe try to catch up on Bill Mahr.
Hang tough PJ- the summer is gonna fly by….
I was just telling my friend at the firehouse that we had better get to work on my path etc…because its gonna be september next week….;-)
…and then comes…NOVEMBER!!!ELECTIONS!!!! yay!
hey Melina! I’m so glad the birdies are home. Yes, do post those pics.
Ape Canyon is too remote for that sort of popular tourist thing. Much better for my purposes, though.
your purposes?? :jerk:
:doh:
Do you want a lot of people with flashlights, loudspeakers and whistles walking all around you?
Um…
so you can guarantee that when I come up there won’t be….that sort of thing? 😮
Peace and quiet. There might be some bears, elk and spotted owls, though.
That’s ok…I don’t mind them being around. 🙂
O gotta go to the store.:bow:
awww ok
now? Well yeah, Duh Suzie, that’s what he just said…
One evening, at a Bigfoot festival in the foothills of Mount St. Helens in Washington, Dahinden talked mostly about investigators; he was particularly upset about the way one recent sighting had been handled. “What was it, last year?” he asked. “We had three kids, I think. Saw one of the things out on a lake. And here’s the investigator asking how big was his eyes! You don’t ask how big was the eyes. He was across the lake, for Christ’s sakes! What kind of a silly question is that?” The next morning he gave me a tour of the converted Ford van he uses as a base for field research. It has a tired green cabin on the back of it and is equipped with a wood-burning stove, an inlaid map table that came from an old McDonald’s, and a gun rack that holds a rifle, two cameras with telephoto lenses and automatic advance mechanisms, a video camera, and a simple point-and-shoot camera.
:peace:
I want to see
Little Steven’s UnderGround Garage comes on in about 45 minutes (on the west coast).
not even sure what time it is here now. Ohh, after midnight I think
That was a non sequitor.:omg:
oh well, I’ll have to wait till next week unless I stream it somewhere
He does archive every show. I believe that you can listen to the current show here: http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/homepage.html
yay! It’s there. The Memorial Day show
hehe, I see the Monkees listed in the episode description
Monkees are a favorite.
I love them, yeah. He’s got quite a variety here
I remember this song by the Raspberries
It’s garage rock, baby!
Elwood’s Blues show is winding down.
yeahhhh baby
It’s on!:omg:
I like that they have some bluesy soul on this playlist
Beach Boys!
Round Round. I get around!:omg:
Dick Dale. Invented surf music in 1958!
I have a couple of his CDs, yep.
I saw this special once where all these guitarists were talking about their influences, and they all mentioned Dick Dale, then they showed him playing and I was amazed
Really? I know this dude in Portland who has a surfer record label. Small stuff. But he has Dick Dale albums. (He is also the leader of Portland’s no. 1 Ramones tribute band.)
then there was this great video, like a four-part history of rock n roll – they showed them on all the PBS stations. It was the best video history of rock n roll I ever heard, but the history stopped after the early 90’s…not too bad actually…I found out about a lot of history from those videos
Rockaway Beach!
mmm the Ramones
Are you listening to the show?
That’s the one I have “King of Surf Guitar: the best of Dick Dale”
yep.
Neil Young – He has a garagey sound with some of his music, so it makes sense
I always wanted a real jukebox. 😀
Dick Dale just gave a plug!:omg:
yeahh :banana:
Rasperries are now on in portland.
“I wanna be with you” 🙂
Out of Ohio. Eric Carmen.
I like that one and “Go all the way”
I’ll bet this blog is obsolete. Yesterday’s Papers.
Freddy Boom Boom Cannon “Palisades Park” Then the Beach Boys did a version of that which was pretty cool
Now he is playing blues.
You don’t have to slog through commercials. I am only on Buddy Guy.
This really is great. I’ll have to listen every week if I can. I like the mix of stuff
I am going to make a cuppa :joe:.
yeah, and I lost the webpage for a minute or so, so I had to fast forward with the jukebox on the website. It has a fast forward and rewind option. I might have lost track of the order of songs
Monkees!
“Take the last train to Clarksville and I’ll meet you at the station”
Standells “Dirty Water” 🙂
The Standell’s song has an interesting story behind it. The band was not from Boston. Classic garage rock.
From the Northwest singing about Boston? I know they remade that song in the 70’s a couple of times so that it was “London You’re my home” but the original is still the best
The Standells just now came on here.
NW or California. That’s the way it is supposed to be in Garageville.
I’m listening to Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly” Interesting choice 🙂
Yeah, you guys have better garages… :omg: We do some things good on the east coast, though…I’m not sure what…punk I guess 🙂
I am working on the zine.
Where is Little Steven from?
I’m going to go to sleep I guess. I’ll catch up to you sometime tomorrow when i get home from Joisey 🙂
I’m not sure…isn’t he from Bruceland? Central Jersey/Freehold area I would think?
Linking Post-Capitalist Alternatives
by Gregory Wilpert; May 28, 2006
Just as with the making of an invention, the building of a better society requires much trial and error and experimentation so as to come up with a working model. However, the search for a better model is aided by a good analysis and theory of society, just as the making of a new invention is aided by good natural science theories.
An integral analysis or theory of society of the sort I think we need to generate a full social vision will need to bring together not only means and end, but also all main spheres and dimensions of society and all realms of human experience (body, mind, and spirit). It will have to address key aspects of social experience such as political, economic, cultural, gender, communicational, artistic, and scientific spheres (to name some main ones). Second, so as to do justice to the age-long conflict between people-centered conceptions and social structure-based conceptions of society, it will need to focus on both types of conception and on the relation between actor and social structure. Third, it will need to be a historical approach that pays attention to the patterns of history and of social development.
Social Spheres
First, with regard to the different spheres of society that we should pay attention to, it will make sense, I believe, to make distinctions that are both logical and practical. For example, the most common distinction in social theory is one between the economic sphere and the political sphere. That is, it is generally accepted that while there are important links between these two spheres of society, they constitute distinct spheres (whose separation we can no doubt challenge and discuss). A third key sphere, which has only recently been recognized as one that needs special attention, is that of communication. Other important spheres include culture, households or gender relations, and, I would argue, the spheres of art and entertainment and that of science, and perhaps others. Clearly, there are strong linkages between all of these spheres, but we can make both logical and practical distinctions when it suits us, for the purpose of developing a clearer analysis of society and for creating a clearer vision of where we might want to go.