11/08 - World Pianist Day
Boomtime, The Aftermath 20, 3187 YOLD
And let us not forget 3.0.9.0.4 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
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Thelonious Monk
The New Orleans General Strike of 1892 was started by 3 unions, the Teamsters, the Packers, and the Scalesmen. All three unions were racially integrated so the businesses tried to use racist appeals to divide the workers and used racist propaganda, lies, and slanders to try to turn the public against them. Those attempts failed, and more and more other unions began calling for a general strike to support the three original participants. Eventually it evolved into a full blown general strike, and in the end, the workers' demands were pretty much met except for the institution of union shops. There are things to be learned from this, such as focusing on solidarity and the class struggle and the exceptional efficacy of general strikes. just sayin'.
Huelga!
On this day in history:
1291 – The Republic of Venice restricted glassmaking ito the "island of Murano"".
1519 – Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán
1602 – Oxford's Bodleian Library was opened to the public.
1605 – Robert Catesby, Gunpowder Plot mastermind, was killed.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invaded England
1837 – Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
1892 – The New Orleans general strike began, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays.
1917 – The first Council of People's Commissars was formed
1923 – The Munich Beer Hall Putsch went down
1933 – FDR rolled out the Civil Works Administration
1957 – The UK conducted its first successful H -bomb test
1965 – The UK formally abolished the death penalty for almost all crimes.
1966 – An African American was elected to the US for the first time since Reconstruction.
1966 – LBJ signed an antitrust exemption law for US style football
2002 – The US Govt lied the UN into passing Security Council Resolution 1441, a prelude to its criminal invasion of Iraq.
2004 – More than 10,000 U.S. troops illegally besieged Fallujah.
Born this day in:
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
~~ Sarah Fielding
1656 – Edmond Halley, astronomer and mathematician
1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher and judge
1710 – Sarah Fielding, author
1831 – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, poet (not That Bulwer-Lytton
1848 – Gottlob Frege, mathematician and philosopher
1854 – Johannes Rydberg, physicist and academic
1878 – Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist and archaeozoologist
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, shrink with blots
1897 – Dorothy Day, journalist and activist
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, journalist and author
1919 – James S. Ackerman, historian and academic
1923 – Jack Kilby, physicist and engineer,
1926 – Darleane C. Hoffman, nuclear chemist
1927 – Ken Dodd, singer and comedian
1927 – Chris Connor, singer
1927 – Patti Page, singer and actress
1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, singer and actress
1945 – Don Murray, drummer
11946 – Roy Wood, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Minnie Riperton, singer, songwriter
1947 – Margaret Rhea Seddon, physician and astronaut
1949 – Bonnie Raitt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1950 – Mary Hart, journalist and actress
1951 – Gerald Alston, R&B singer
1951 – Larry Burnett, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, singer, songwriter, and producer
1955 – Patricia Barber, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1956 – Steven Miller, record producer and engineer
1957 – Porl Thompson, guitarist and songwriter
1958 – Don Byron, clarinet player and composer
1959 – Chi Chi LaRue, drag queen performer and director
1961 – Leif Garrett, singer, actor, and television personality
1970 – Diana King, singer and songwriter
1977 – Jully Black, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1977 – Bucky Covington, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1980 – Laura Jane Grace, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1982 – Sam Sparro, singer, songwriter, and producer
Died this day in:
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
~~ John Milton
977 – Ibn al-Qutiyya, historian
1308 – Duns Scotus, priest, philosopher, and academic
1494 – Melozzo da Forlì, painter
1527 – Jerome Emser, theologian and reformer
1599 – Francisco Guerrero, pianist and composer
1605 – Robert Catesby, conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot
1674 – John Milton, poet and philosopher
1719 – Michel Rolle, mathematician and author
1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist, television personality, and game show panelist
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1978 – Norman Rockwell, painter and illustrator
1983 – James Booker, singer and pianist
1999 – Lester Bowie, trumpet player and composer
2003 – Guy Speranza, singer and songwriter
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist and astrophysicist,
2013 – William C. Davidon, physicist, mathematician, and academic
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Intersex Day of Remembrance (New South Wales, Australia)
International Day of Radiology (European Society of Radiology)
National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)
World Pianist Day
World Orphans Day
Harvey Wallbanger Day
Abet and Aid Punsters Day
World Urbanism Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Ken Dodd
Chris Connor
Bonnie Bramlett
Roy Wood
Minnie Riperton
Bonnie Raitt
Rickie Lee Jones
Patricia Barber
Ivory Joe Hunter
James Booker
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Good morning...
I started the piano as a youngster, but didn't stick with it. My Mom is quite good, but was forced to play as a kid and simply didn't enjoy playing. The autoharp (my primary instrument) is sometimes called the mountain piano because it is laid out like a chromatic piano scale and is portable.
I also like the idea of aiding and abetting punsters today (and every day).
A cool start this AM but heading toward 70 this PM. Fall colors are nice today too. Went to town this AM and deer are on the move everywhere. When I got home 20-30 turkeys were down in the bottom with about 5 deer among them. Deer took off but the turkeys only meandered out of the way. It is deer season here, so they are smart to be evasive.
Well y'all have a good day. Thanks for the OT and music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning LO. Slated for mid-sixties
today with afternoon showers, meaning a busy morning getting up remaining leaves and taking down and stowing our patio cover. (The patio has a solid cover on N half for clothesline, grill, and suchwhat with shade cloth on S half so we can sit outside and enjoy the sky and outdoors without too much blinding sunshine. It comes down for rainy season.)
Fall colors are good, as are turkeys and deer. Now that we're home, I'm mostly hanging around the house except for errands, hence not getting out to see much of any of them.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Funny you should mention Sovnarkom ...
That was the first Bolshevik cabinet, original members can be found here: Wikipedia
I just finished, yesterday, The Russian Revolution: A new history, by Sean McMeekin, 2017.
Really enjoyed it, learned a lot, highly recommend.
It's a revisionist history in that it doesn't rely on Bolshevik framing.
History is written by the victors, of course, and the Bolsheviks won. But that doesn't mean we must accept their version of events. The most salient fact of 1917 is that there was a Great War on. This fact tends to get pushed into the background sometimes as authors concentrate on Marxist historical theory. It seems obvious that, if there were no war, there had been no February revolution and if Kerensky had not insisted on continuing the war, there had been no Bolshevik coup d'état either.
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning Az. Thanks for all the info and
for the intro to the book.
Thanks for the music too, of course.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Krystal and Saagar nails it
Thanks gj, good clip & good point.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
howdy all
Hey EL! and all! Hope it's all good!
Did you get to see any birds on your trip?
We are just starting to see some 'winter' birds down here below 30N. In the last week the first White-crowned and White-throated Sparrow, meadowlarks just showed up, don't know which type, a Kestrel or two has arrived, a few Myrtle Warbler, but pretty slow by most standards. The lack of insects from the droughts, makes it so they just keep going, nothing sticks.
Love that Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George session. We were lucky to get that preserved. I saw Lowell with Little Feat back in his prime. Amazing.
Wasn't Hernan the Cortez the Killer of Neil Young?
Many were taught in socal schools the improper Cortez, with a z, but properly it was Cortes. as Hernan. The famous banks 90 miles west of San Diego where sometimes monster waves break is properly named Cortes Banks on charts. I have been there a few times, and seen it break, but not when real big. Albatross, albacore, and Tropicbird. Things I miss in socal.
be well all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good morning Dysto. No "exotic" type birds, outside of
a seemingly out of place wood stork. Lots of egrets and herons, some house finches, sparrows, and red-tails, plus jays and an accip or two. The crowns have been here in Castro Valley since late October.
Gulf of Baja, aka Sea of Cortez, it is everywhere. Even Keats, when erroneously giving Cortes credit for Balboa's discovery spelled it Cortez. ("On First Looking into Chapman's Homer").
There's another version of that Bonnie Raitt session floating around, with more opening chatter and tuning and the participants are obviously doing weed and a bit stoned (disclosed by the chatter).
Yep, the killer and double yep to Albacore.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
storks are great!
Hi EL! Wood Storks are always great. Got that dino thing goin' on very well. The 'new world' is rather short on storks.
I was drawin' a blank on Sea of ...
LOL I knew there was another big one down there I couldn't think of, THANKS! I read Steinbeck's Log from the Sea of Cortez at about 12 yrs. old. Loved it. Doesn't look good for Vaquito lately.
be well!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good evening, el!
I started to post Billy Joel's "Piano Man" and thought that might be to gooberish for our pals here.
At any rate, I play piano.
I got concert tickets to see Van Cliburn while he still practiced, and he tore it up. Dazzling!
I got tickets on an Easter Sunday afternoon to a Horowitz concert while he, too, was in his prime. Good grief, NOBODY could or can best him. One of my life's most memorable afternoons.
Hope you are well, and that you enjoyed your travels.
You take good care, my friend
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Goog evening otc. Must be great to still play.
Lot's of great pianists and styles. Among others, I'm a fan of Oscar Peterson, including his "Very Tall Band". Rick Beato is enormously effusive over some of his work.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Oh, I admire then all.
I hardly ever play now, but I can do some easier stuff that relies on heavy chords, and not the wild arpeggios. Plus, I have longish fingernails, a pianists' no no.
I still remember all those nights I was up late, playing Mom and Dad to sleep, with a song that years later, I discovered was Horowitz' encore. He played it at the Houston concert I attended.
Songs from Kinderschenen.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Inspirational Haka of the Day
Wellington, NZ - November 9th
We're trying our best
Last evening's celestial support - the moon and venus
Thanks, Janis, great pic.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks BR
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I'm just about certain...
that the end is always near"
"Roadhouse Blues"
Eric Burdon/Brian Auger Band 1991
But I won't be blue always...
Otis Spahn
"Trouble in Mind"
Thanks.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --