This day in history (well, my story).
In 1964, this was the day my family moved from Holden, West Virginia to Richmond, VA. For a while it looked like it was going to be Louisville, KY but something changed. I am now sorry it was not Louisville which seems to me a far better place though I have never been there.
Immediate damage – I had to miss my last ever Little League baseball game. I think this was intentional because I volunteered to be catcher in the previous game (spare you that story) and my mother was pissed that the manager let me do it.
That night I missed my favorite DJ Dick Biondi of WLS in Chicago was doing a dance party/sock hop kind of thing in Logan which was 4 miles away. I listened to his show every night on my Hitachi transistor radio that could suck in flamethrower AM stations from almost half of the country under my pillow.
Long term consequences – Small coal country town kid hits the ‘big’ city full of right wing backward cracker bigots. I never liked Richmond and still don’t. Too bad most of my remaining family still lives there.
I always wondered what would have happened if we had never left WVa. I probably would not be in California and probably a lawyer or a judge or in politics there. I do know if we had moved to Kentucky I would not have been a jockey.
Sorry I have nothing to look at. Seems I lost my video and photo powers. Here’s my grade school.
Hope that gets your day off to a rip-roaring start.
Julia the Spy
:cake:
:yawn:
DICK BIONDI! :bow: :billcat:
In junior high, I had an orange and white AM radio which I’d sit next to my ear in bed and listen to Dick Biondi from WLS turning me on to R&R. Other nights, I’d listen to Dick Martin (Moonglow with Martin) out of New Orleans, playing jazz records.
For a while it looked like it was going to be Louisville, KY but something changed. I am now sorry it was not Louisville which seems to me a far better place though I have never been there.
Yeah, but if you were still living there, Mitch McConnell would be your senator. No one deserves that. Which is why we need to out him in November.
Dismiss him from office, I mean. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
And that photo of the grade school is a little scary, because mine looks almost exactly like that, except the building is older and it has a high fence around it like a concentration camp.
This is how we inspire children to love learning, I guess.
Colonel Hogan, I know NOTHING!!!
:doh:
Friday!!!
http://tinyurl.com/2doemn
In lieu of the forbidden emoticon:
:nana:
I suppose the factory look of American schools in that era was deliberate, mine was also similar although made out of stone.
I’m really old, and nver have been a good sleeper, so I listened to Gene Shepard who was followed at midnight by Long John Nebel, whose guests told tales of UFO’s and an elevator, in Manhattan, that went to the center of the earth.
I’ve taught in schools that were over 100 years old. One had been condemned in 1942 but is still a working school today. They were all designed to the same specs: 18 foot ceilings, transom windows over the clothes closets, lots of slate blackboards and desks, in rows, screwed into the floor.
The new schools have smaller classrooms, not smaller classes, lower ceilings, and either green magnetic boards, or worse, white boards that look very dirty, very quickly and which require markers that constantly run out of ink. All the desks and chairs are movable and teachers are told to place them in groups so that the kids can discuss things with each other. Of course that means they have to twist themselves to see the teacher and they certainly do discuss stuff, none of which has anything to do with schoolwork.
One year, there was a small pox outbreak in NYC. As I was never vaccinated because I was allergic to something in the vaccine, we stayed in Martha’s Vineyard and I attended the first grade in a one room school house. I lived with a farmer and his kids and I walked a very long way to school where we sat in the row of desks (they were also screwed into the floor,) that corresponded to out grade. One teacher taught us all.
Not so Magic Kingdom.
Bush said that US ships would be delivering aid to Georgia before he talked with the Pentagon or Turkey, which controls access to the Black Sea. So… no ships will actually be sent.
The Geogians are waiting for the American military to save them but Gates says there will be no military intervention.
And, Saarkashvili, was once a Washington lawyer, which probably explains some of his discision making, such as giving the Russians an excuse by invading Ossetia.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/48287.html
This will definitely change the way they staff where I work:
Now they’ll just have to write them up for ever little thing in retaliation if they refuse to work OT “voluntarily.”
hey! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn7H5zUzD-w
Sean, youshould have this playing in the background!
Jerry Wexler passes
Wex on Wax: Twenty Essential Jerry Wexler Productions
A few years back, Jerry Wexler burned a CD for friends of the songs he was the most proud of from his half-century career in music. Here’s the playlist.
Bloody Mary Morning
🙁 :gate:
There should be emo protocol and etiquette established online just for Kevin. :tongue:
Then maybe we could quell the fixation on the issue.
I didn’t realize there was an emoticontraversy except for some sensitivity about the (over)use of the recently departed machine gun.
There really isn’t an issue worth any salt. I’d much rather devote my energy on another topic, rather than typing and reading comments about it.
Alrighty.
Fox News: 12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth about Georgia
8/13/2008 12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth on Fox News about Georgia. Fox News even had to cut them off right in the middle of the account of Georgian aggression even though they had just come from a commercial break 2 minutes prior to that.
Fox News and corporate media do not want the truth out.
Shepard Smith looked like someone had handed him a turd.
:banana: :banana: :dancers: :banana: :banana:
Monday -heron flies then sails into the eye of the storm without the camera battery it seems which is still languishing in Kansas City.. :doh:
the whole catalyst for my falling off of the Amazon wagon was for this article in RD about my cousin :nod:
I even ordered the wrong month!!! :tongue: :doh:
Yes, for a short time there was a smilie (that my wife found quite funny, btw) of two bananas fornicating. However, somebody thought that it depicted one banana raping another banana and was too offensive, so I replaced it with :bf: .
So :bf: can either indicate censorship, or banana sex (depending on what sort of mood you’re in).
I never saw no fooking bananas. I do remember them being mentioned.
Emo Talk
They seem pretty mellow to me.
:banana: :bf: :banana: :no:
Hmmm just wondering how we’d all handle having them back :bf: :bf: :bf:
I vote yes!
just make them wear clothes
They had their skins on. It’s not like they were peeled (that would be obscene).
Thi appeared on a back page in the NY Times(It is all there was):
Reversing itself, the Bush administration said that states would not be penalized right now for failing to change a federal-state health insurance program to make it harder for middle-income children to enroll. States had been directed to make the changes in their State Children’s Health Insurance Program by Monday or face financial penalties. The directive was aimed at 15 states that extended health insurance to children in families with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level, $44,000 for a family of three. Under the required changes, children must be uninsured for one year before they could enroll and at least 95 percent of poor children eligible for Medicaid or the health-insurance program had to be enrolled in those programs before states covered higher-income children.
:bf: what is this?
The new monitor arrived while I was at work. Already setup.
SWEEEET!!!!!
Cool. Good thing there wasn’t a mix-up in the shipping department like so many people are complaining about.
:banana: :sammy:
:banana: :bow: :banana: :banana: :pup: :dancers:
Gray Wolf Returns to Oregon
Radio-collared wolf from Idaho confirmed in northeast Oregon
BOISE, Idaho – The La Grande Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) confirmed Thursday that a female gray wolf from the Boise, Idaho area is now making her home in northeastern Oregon.
Wolves were native to Oregon, and thrived there until sometime in the 1930s when they were eradicated from the state. Today’s announcement is an important sign that gray wolves are successfully returning to their historic habitat in Oregon.
The following is a statement from Suzanne Stone, northern Rockies wolf conservation specialist for Defenders of Wildlife:
“This wolf comes from the Timberline pack, which we here in Boise know very well – it was named after our own Timberline High School. She made quite a journey and she has chosen excellent habitat in which to make her home. Northeast Oregon is one of the places where we always expected wolves would someday return.
“Unfortunately, this great news comes on the same day that the FWS has announced new rules that make it easier for wolves to be killed by private citizens. Those rules threaten the very population of Idaho wolves that provided Oregon’s new wolf, and could undermine the gray wolf’s ability to recolonize more of its historic habitat.
“We always hoped this day would come, and we’re thrilled that it is finally here. We look forward to working with biologists, tribal leaders and ranchers to ensure the future of wolves in Oregon and across the region.â€
:fist:
Random Order
http://www.randomordercoffee.com/
:joe:
Speaking of Coffee Mugs, I still want one. :tap:
:bow: :joe:
:sammy:
Do you trust the government to evaluate the difference between left and right radio?
I don’t.
Michael Medved :doh:
would that be a morning seditionist coffee mug? :joe:
Hey NR…Great to see you here :pup:
It was so Grand to see you both in the dark hours …
:doh: I wish I would have checked … whilst working :doh: rats
Perfect 8) though…
Blue such a profoundly beautiful blue…
:pirate: A!I!V! Just a *fly* by…Sea-Ya *Poof*
Oops…
:rabbi: :sdavid: :sammy:
:menorah:
Citadel
<em>