SotD 7-11-12
song:
"Untitled" by Sma and the Plants from The Eft
Download 01-sam_and_the_plants-untitled
meme (vertiginous):
Anna Kane, 5, of Alton, Ill., top, Sophie Allaway, 4, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., center, and Grace Kane, of Alton, Ill. gaze down from The Ledge at the Sears Tower in Chicago. This enclosed glass ledge juts out from the 103rd floor of Sears Tower, which is the tallest building in the Western Hempisphere. (Tribune photo by José M. Osorio / July 1, 2009)
Three layers of half-inch-thick glass were all that separated me from what looked like Matchbox cars and tiny people about 100 stories below.
My stomach was queasy, and my heart pounded. But the view from this glass box -- about the size of an elevator -- was breathtaking and terrifying, especially for someone who fears heights.
I'm standing on The Ledge, the four new enclosed glass boxes that jut about four feet from the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower. The latest addition to the 110-story high-rise opens Thursday. From the glass boxes, visitors get a nearly panoramic view, from Wacker Drive below and up to 50 miles in three directions on a clear day. The boxes can hold at least 5 tons each, about the weight of an elephant, and they can retract into the building when the windows get washed.
The idea to suspend glass boxes 1,353 feet in the air spawned from all the forehead marks on the glass walls of the 103rd floor, known as Skydeck Chicago, general manager Randy Stancik said. Visitors just love looking down, so the Sears Tower decided to give them an unobstructed view.
SotD 7-10
song:
"Please Concrete" by Wye Oak from the Zach Galifanakos curated 7th volume of Score!: 20 years of Merge Records
meme (nothing ((but trees))):
Evolution of Eating utensils >>
SotD 7-9
song:
"The Afterlife" by Yacht from See Mystery Lights
meme (Super Afterlife):
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here
SotD 7-8
song:
"Tensile" by The Clean from Mister Pop
meme (obsolete skill):
Harness A Team Of Oxen
| Field | Agriculture |
| Went Obsolete | First half of the 20th Century in North America |
| Made Obsolete By | Cheap tractors |
| Knowledge Assumed | How to handle large domestic animals without injury |
| When useful | If the tractor breaks down; after the bomb |
To plow a field or haul your Conestoga to Oregon, you need animals. Oxen are cheap, being gelded bulls, but mules, donkeys, and horses have also been used.
The ox harness is usually carved out of wood, and features a stout draw bar which is set about the beast's neck with a smaller dowel curved to fit around the neck and pegged into place. The leads and reins are then attached to the draw bar, and to the tool or vehicle you want to pull.
Horse collars are usually made out of leather, but the principle remains the same.
This editor's grandparents used animal labor to tend their farms in northern and central Kentucky at least until the end of the depression. Cheap John Deere, Ford, and Alliss Chalmers tractors at first supplemented, and then replaced the animal labor.
SotD 7-7
song:
"Transcendental Express" by Can from Unlimited Edition.
Download 18 CAN - Transcendental Express
meme (list):
Heavy Metal
Board Games.
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Whitesnakes and Ladders
Motley Clue
Twister Sister
Black Scrabbleth
Guns 'N Risk
Slaynium
Jenga Priest
AC/cheesi
Hungry Hungry Skid Rows
Steppengories
SotD 7-6
song:
"Tweakers" by Spoon from Got Nuffin'
meme (rad racer):
Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous... from Dat on Vimeo.
SotD 7-4-5
song:
"(Take Back) the Revolution" by the Gossip from Arkansas Heat
Download 06 (Take Back) The Revolution
meme (list):
More Appropriate
Wi-Fi Network Names for
My Fellow Apartment
Building Tenants.
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Default_on rent most months
Belkin_N1_guywhostealsmypaper
Apt102hasextremelyloudsex
Sam&Dave_aretrulyterribleatRockBand
Kat&StevesWI-FIghtintheaptwhenwecanfightinthecourtyardandeveryonecanhear!
Thomas818HogsTheWashingMachines
WESTELLCreepyOldGuy_wholiveswithateenagegirlthatweallhopeandprayis_hisniece
SotD 7-3
song:
"Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous" by Jacques Dutronc
meme (i'm swayze):
WHOLE THEORY OF BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE
posted 9:46 AM
'My whole theory of beautiful language holds that it comes from nameless, groups of people looking for a more expressive way to say something. I'm always thankful to get a note where someone praises a sentence I wrote. But what I really want is the kind of genius that takes "I'm leaving" and turns it into "I'm ghost" and then takes "I'm ghost" and turns it into "I'm Swayze." Seriously, what kid decided to pull "Ducat" out of obscurity (at least obscurity for us 80s city kids) and use it as easy as bread, or ends, or greenbacks? Who decided that a gun should be called a "heater" and then a "toaster" and then finally a "biscuit"?'
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates
posted 9:46 AM
'My whole theory of beautiful language holds that it comes from nameless, groups of people looking for a more expressive way to say something. I'm always thankful to get a note where someone praises a sentence I wrote. But what I really want is the kind of genius that takes "I'm leaving" and turns it into "I'm ghost" and then takes "I'm ghost" and turns it into "I'm Swayze." Seriously, what kid decided to pull "Ducat" out of obscurity (at least obscurity for us 80s city kids) and use it as easy as bread, or ends, or greenbacks? Who decided that a gun should be called a "heater" and then a "toaster" and then finally a "biscuit"?'
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates
SotD 7-2
song:
"Death Wall" by Charlie Megira from Rock and Roll Fragments
SotD 7-1
song:
"Convinced of the Hex" by Flaming Lips from Songs form the Future Album Embryonic.
Radio Freedonia 6.30.2009
- "Yellow Sarong" - Yo La Tengo - Fakebook [1990]
- "Heavenly Pop Hit" - The Chills - Submarine Bells [1990]
- "This Way Please" - Golden Dawn - Power Plant [1968]
- "A Gathering of Promises" - Bubble Puppy - A Gathering of Promises [1969]
- "Les Playboys" - Jacques Dutronc - L'Integrale Jacques Dutronc (1967-68) [1968]
- "Acid Rock" - The Funkees - Nigeria Rock Special [2008]
- "Com Medo, Com Pedro" - Gal Costa - Gal [1969]
- "Colours" - Donovan - Early Years [1965]
- "Ghost Life" - Bowerbirds - Upper Air [NEW]
- "You Don't Love Me Anymore" - Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware [NEW]
- "Lionkiller Got Married" - Cass McCombs - CataCombs [NEW]
- "Hadd Mondjam El" - Sarolta Zalatnay - Well Hung: Communist-era Funk from Hungary [NEW]
- "Side On" - The Clean - Anthology [2001]
- "Mary" - Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Indian Giver [NEW]
- "Lucinda > Ain't Going Down to the Well" - Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Tour CD [2009]
- "Poetry Minute" - Brian Glavey
- "Take Your Time" - Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Indian Giver [2009]
- "Big Soft Punch" - The Clean - Vehicle [1990]
- "Egy Lány Nem Ment Haza" - Omega Redstar - Well Hung [NEW]
- "Lionkiller" - Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ [2008]
- "In Spite of Ourselves" - Bonnie Prince Billy & Susanna - Forever and Now CD
- "In Our Talons" - Bowerbirds - Hymns for the Dark Horse [2008]
- "Sunny Goodge Street" - Donovan - Early Years [1965]
- "Fais Bainas" - Gal Costa - Miz Voce, Miz Vida
- "Akula Owu Onyeara" - The Funkees - Nigeria 70
- "Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous" - Jacques Dutronc
- "Hot Smoke and Sassafras" - Bubble Puppy - A Gathering of Promises [1969]
- "My Time" - Golden Dawn - Power Plant [1968]
- "Watching Waves" - The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit 12"
- "What's Comes Next" - Yo La Tengo - Fakebook [1990]
SotD 6-20-21
song:
"Father's Day" by Method Man and Redman from the Blackout 2.
Download 08 Method Man & Redman - Father's Day
meme (daddy's day origin):
The idea for an official Father’s Day celebration came to a married daughter, seated in a church in Spokane, Washington, attentive to a Sunday sermon on Mother’s Day in 1910-two years after the first Mother’s Day observance in West Virginia.
The daughter was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd. During the sermon, which extolled maternal sacrifices made for children, Mrs. Dodd realized that in her own family it had been her father, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran, who had sacrificed-raising herself and five sons alone, following the early death of his wife in childbirth. For Mrs. Dodd, the hardships her father had endured on their eastern Washington farm called to mind the unsung feats of fathers everywhere.
Her proposed local Father’s Day celebration received strong support from the town’s ministers and members of the Spokane YMCA. The date suggested for the festivities, June 5, Mrs. Dodd’s father’s birthdays were three weeks away-had to be moved back to the nineteenth when ministers claimed they need extra time to prepare sermons on such a new subject as Father.
Newspapers across the country, already endorsing the need for a national Mother’s Day, carried stories about the unique Spokane observance. Interest in Father’s Day increased. Among the first notables to support Mrs. Dodd’s idea nationally was the orator and political leader William Jennings Bryan, who also backed Mother’s Day. Believing that fathers must not be slighted, he wrote to Mrs. Dodd, "too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the relation between parent and child."
Father’s Day, however, was not so quickly accepted as Mother’s Day. Members of the all-male Congress felt that a move to proclaim the day official might be interpreted as a self-congratulatory pat on the back.
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson and his family personally observed the day. And in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge recommended that states, if they wished, should hold their own Father’s Day observances. He wrote to the nation’s governors that "the widespread observance of this occasion is calculated to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children, and also to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations."
SotD 6-19
song:
"You May be Blue" by Vetiver, remixed by Neighbours.
Download 01 You May Be Blue (Neighbours Remix) - Vetiver-1
meme (so that happened):
The Mexican legislature has voted quietly to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and other drugs.
SotD 6-18
song:"15 to 20" by Phenomenal Handclap Band from their self-titled album.meme (she reads the Yes parts):
SotD 6-17
song:
"Lemonade" by Talk Normal from Secret Cog
meme (help wanted):
My son is turning 16 and really wanted Lil Wayne to perform for his birthday gala. Unfortunately his schedule will not permit him to make it. I need a Lil Wayne impersonator desperately.
Here is the kicker my son is blind so you do not need to look like the rapper just sound like him. I understand he grunts and mumbles a lot. I don’t care if you are 67 and Jewish if you can sing the songs you’re hired. Money is not an issue. Name your price. Interested individuals please let me know your rap experience, video of you performing as Lil Wayne would be better. If that is not feasible we can arrange for a live audition.
Serious inquiries only, this is very important to my family. Young Money Baby!
PostingID: 1218083689Here is the kicker my son is blind so you do not need to look like the rapper just sound like him. I understand he grunts and mumbles a lot. I don’t care if you are 67 and Jewish if you can sing the songs you’re hired. Money is not an issue. Name your price. Interested individuals please let me know your rap experience, video of you performing as Lil Wayne would be better. If that is not feasible we can arrange for a live audition.
Serious inquiries only, this is very important to my family. Young Money Baby!
- Location: DC-MD-VA
- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
- Compensation: Negotiable
Radio Freedonia 6.16.2009
Download 01 6.16.2009, Part II
SotD 6-15
song:
"If I were King" by Joe Bataan from Satin Latin's Day Massacre
meme (nothing ((but trees))):
Corporate to Personal Homeomorphism >>
SotD 6-12
song:
"Kelen Ati" by Orchetra Baobab from African Pearls Senegal 70: Musical Effervescence
David Sedaris signs a kindle at the Strand >
meme (maybe):
David Sedaris signs a kindle at the Strand >
SotD 6-11
song:
"No Hay Nada Mas" by Mos Def from The Ecstatic.
meme (patchin place):
via wiki >
Patchin Place is a gated cul-de-sac located off 10th Street and Avenue of the Americas in New York City's Greenwich Village. Its ten brick row houses have been home to several famous writers, including Theodore Dreiser, E. E. Cummings, and Djuna Barnes, making it a stop on Greenwich Village walking tours. Today it is a popular location for psychotherapists' offices.[1]
The property that became Patchin Place was once part of a farm belonging to Sir Peter Warren. In 1799 it was sold to Samuel Milligan, who later conveyed it to his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin.[2] The buildings that now occupy the site were put up in 1848 or 1849. Many guide books say they were intended to be boarding houses for Basque waiters who worked at the Brevoort House Hotel on Fifth Avenue, but the Brevoort was not built until 1855.[3] The rooms were small, and at the time, the street was noisy due to its proximity to the vendors in Jefferson Market.[4]
In the early 20th century, Patchin Place became popular with writers and artists for the privacy it offered in the middle of Bohemia. Indoor plumbing, electricity, and steam heat were added in 1917.[6] In 1920, Grace I. Patchin Stuart, the last remaining member of the Patchin family, sold the property to the Land Map Realty Corporation, and the houses were converted into small apartments.[7] E. E. Cummings moved in three years later; he wrote that "the topfloorback room at 4 Patchin Place ... meant Safety & Peace & the truth of Dreaming & the bliss of Work".[8]
In 1929 the gate at the entrance was added and nearby Jefferson Market prison was torn down, as Patchin Place resident John Cowper Powys noted in a letter to his brother:[9]
They've gone and put up iron gates at the entrance to Patchin Place — in the middle of the entrance — leaving the little openings by the new brick posts free. And they've pulled down the Prison — but so far not the Clock tower. In the foundations of this fallen Bastille, from where of so many Sundays we heard the imprisoned Baggages sing about heaven, is an iron clutcher with a dragonish dew-lap scooping earth and hissing with a steamy vibrant roar. I am deaf of one ear — but this noise is very strident. But do you know we can now see the Woolworth tower and also the Singer Tower from the entrance of Patchin Place....
The clock tower that Powys refers to is Jefferson Market Court, now a library branch. Berenice Abbott photographed the view of the tower above Patchin Place in 1937.[6]
The modernist writer Djuna Barnes, a friend of Abbott's, moved into a room-and-a-half apartment at #5 Patchin Place in 1941. She had lived in Greenwich Village in the 1910s and had been in the audience when residents organized a performance of William Butler Yeats's play The King's Threshold in the courtyard of Patchin Place as a war benefit, but had spent most of the 1920s and 30s in Europe.[10] After her return to New York she became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window "Are you still alive, Djuna?"[11] Yet in 1963, when a developer proposed to tear down the houses on Patchin and nearby Milligan Place in order to put up a high-rise apartment building, she left her apartment to tell a protest meeting that she would die if she had to move, and, less helpfully, that the destruction of the neighborhood would leave local youths with nowhere to practice their mugging.[12] Community activists, led by future mayor Ed Koch, succeeded in saving Patchin Place, and in 1969 it became a landmark.[6] Though she complained about "writing amid the roaring of plumbing, howling of downstairs dog, thumping of small child on elephant's feet",[13] Barnes remained in residence until her death in 1982.
