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Tangle
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Message 301 of 1282 (714007)
12-19-2013 2:46 AM
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12-19-2013 2:14 AM


Re: Appropriate for this thread for certain values of "great."
My irony meter needs recalibrating.

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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Message 302 of 1282 (715345)
01-04-2014 7:15 AM


Dream, Dream, Dream
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Phil Everly - Jan 19, 1939 - Jan 3, 2014 (top)
Reunion Concert - 1983
[ABE]
An indulgence for an old man's memories, please.
This one I used to sing to the pretty girls. You wouldn't know it now but I was pretty good at that 50 years ago.
To my young love.
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Message 303 of 1282 (716489)
01-17-2014 4:24 PM


Russell Johnson
I don't know, but I think a forum devoted to critical thinking and logic should salute one of mankind's greatest fictional polymaths (B.A. from U.S.C., a B.S. from U.C.L.A., an M.A. from S.M.U. and a Ph.D. from T.C.U.):
Russell Johnson (November 10, 1924 — January 16, 2014), as the Professor
Not sure if the type of watchers of Gilligan's Island ever appreciated his keen intellect, but I am hoping he inspired some to travel farther intellectually than they would have without his presence.
Russell Johnson - Wikipedia
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Message 304 of 1282 (717482)
01-28-2014 7:34 AM


Where have all the flowers gone?
Pete Seeger - Folk Singer, Social Activist
May 3, 1919 — January 27, 2014

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Message 305 of 1282 (717485)
01-28-2014 8:58 AM
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01-28-2014 7:34 AM


Re: Where have all the flowers gone?
I remember seeing him on the Clearwater going up and down the Hudson, more than 40 years ago.
I think his raising awareness about the environment is one of the reasons that there was an effort to clean up the river.

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Message 306 of 1282 (717516)
01-28-2014 12:57 PM
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01-28-2014 8:58 AM


Re: Where have all the flowers gone?
That's Seeger, the activist hero.
He all but flipped the bird at congress when called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, convicted of contempt, sentenced to 10 years (reversed on appeal). Then Vietnam, Cambodia, Watergate. Some funny, some deep songs, pointed right at the hearts of LBJ and Nixon.
For a generation of baby boomers he was a symbol of defiance, protest, renewal and hope. Bye, Pete. And Thanks.

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Message 307 of 1282 (717555)
01-29-2014 2:24 AM
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01-28-2014 8:58 AM


Re: Where have all the flowers gone?
I think his raising awareness about the environment is one of the reasons that there was an effort to clean up the river.
Jeez Ramoss, it just might...just might have been "possibly" a reason.
This country just lost its Greatest Living American.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 308 of 1282 (717556)
01-29-2014 2:33 AM
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01-29-2014 2:24 AM


I got a new tattoo

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 309 of 1282 (717721)
01-30-2014 6:07 PM


rest in peace pete seeger. I got to meet him and his wife at a concert he did at a Poughkeepsie church. made the mistake of bringing up Dylan.

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Message 310 of 1282 (717725)
01-30-2014 9:01 PM
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01-30-2014 6:07 PM


Are you in Poughkeepsie?? I worked at IBM in Pok for a bit. And what DID Pete say about Dylan?

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Message 311 of 1282 (717727)
01-30-2014 9:33 PM
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01-30-2014 9:01 PM


no, I live in millerton. he looked at me funny when I brought up Dylan after we talked about the banjo, his only anecdote (about the banjo) being that he didn't know how he played so fast on his early records. I think this was 2006 or so and he said a few years before Dylan showed up at his house unannounced and they shot the stuff for awhile, I suppose.
I don't think he cared really either way, but it was offputting for me to bring up Dylan because he is in some ways just as big of an icon as Dylan, and he aborted the convo shortly after. it was a relatively short encounter. I know he brought up how he couldn't understand a thing Dylan said the last time he saw him on stage.
he was one of my idols at the time, so it was nice meeting him. I don't think his wife appreciated the grandeur I seemed to place on her husband with my kinda awestruck eyes. I didn't expect to see him at all aside from on the stage. coincidentally my banjo instructor was in the audience with his wife. (I no longer play.) man, he rocked the house at that concert too. his hands were still really dexterous. I saw him awhile after in beacon and he wasn't nearly as pliant on the instruments.
it was kind of amazing how he could bring the house down in his late eighties or ninety or whatever the heck year it was with a simple banjo and a simple guitar. maybe a capo.
the Poughkeepsie journal did a whole issue on him now. I have it. it says bob Dylan once called him a saint and he responded "what a terrible thing to call someone."
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Message 312 of 1282 (717734)
01-31-2014 1:56 AM
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01-30-2014 9:33 PM


it says bob Dylan once called him a saint and he responded "what a terrible thing to call someone."
excerpted from Bob's 11 Outlined Epitaphs on the notes to his 3rd album, Times They Are A-Changin':
with the sounds of Franois Villon
echoin' through my mad streets
as I sumble on lost cigars
of Bertolt Brecht
an' empty bottles
of Brendan Behan
the hypnotic words
of Al Lloyd
each one bendin' like its own song
an' the woven spell of Paul Clayton
entrancin' me like China's plague
unescapable
drownin' in the lungs of Edith Piaf
an' in the mystery of Marlene Dietrich
the dead poems of Eddie Freeman
love songs of Allen Ginsberg
an' jail songs of Ray Bremser
the narrow tunes of Modigliani
an' the singin' plains of Harry Jackson
the cries of Charles Aznavour
through the quiet fire of Miles Davis
above the bells of William Blake
an' beat visions of Johnny Cash
an' the saintliness of Pete Seeger

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 313 of 1282 (718424)
02-06-2014 3:48 PM


RIP Ralph Kiner

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Message 314 of 1282 (718480)
02-06-2014 9:00 PM
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02-06-2014 3:48 PM


Re: RIP Ralph Kiner
After his career Ralph Kiner did New York Mets television broadcasts with Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy for years and years, and at end of each game he interviewed a ballplayer on Kiner's Korner. Nolan Ryan began his career with the Mets and Kiner broadcast Ryan pitching many times.
--Percy

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Message 315 of 1282 (719077)
02-11-2014 7:47 AM


RIP Shirley Temple.

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