Sunday Open Thread: September 2 is Liliuokalani's Birthday, Damnit!
The US recognizes but no longer really celebrates JV Day, and recognizes National Blueberry Popsicle Day, but not the queen we overthrew (by proxy) in order to seize Hawai'i.
and it is also Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 26, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
World History this day
1752 – Great Britain belatedly adopted the Gregorian calendar. It didn't seem to make matters any better, but it didn't make them any worse either.
1807 – The British Royal Navy bombarded Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets. Over a thousand buildings were destroyed and the Daish fleet was partially destroyed, and partially captured and added to the British fleet. The point of the operation was to prevent neutral Denmark from chanigng its mind and joining the French during the Napoleonic wars. (The US isn't the only nation that refuses to allow countries to be neutral, isn't that comforting.)
1898 – The Battle of Omdurman where British and Egyptian troops simply slaughtered Sudanese tribesmen established British control of Sudan. The British were unaware that there was oil in Sudan and wouldn't have cared if they knew, so it is unclear why they wanted to own and run it, except that empire is habit forming.
1945 – Vietnam declared its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. It would take it 9 years to so decisively defeat the French (at Dien Bien Phu) that they would leave and give up their colony. Sadly, the US objected to their freedom, and they remained at war for decades.
1945 – The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. This ended combat operations in the Pacific Theater and, hence, WWII. It used to be celebrated in many countries, but now that unending war is humdrum and habitual, the celebration of peace accords has fallen off as being quaint or something.
US History this day
1864 – US troops entered Atlanta which had been abandoned by the Confederates on September first. True southrons are still bitter about this for some reason.
2013 – The replacement Eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge opened, just under 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake broke the old span.
Science & Technology this day
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
Birthdays of Note this day
1838 – Liliuokalani, the first queen regnant and last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
1839 – Henry George, political economist
1917 – Laurindo Almeida, composer and guitarist
1928 – Horace Silver, pianist, arranger, and composer. Hard bop pioneer
1931 – Clifford Jordan, saxophonist
1932 – Walter Davis, Jr., pianist
1934 – Sam Gooden, singer, rooster, impression
1938 – Jimmy Clanton, singer and songwriter
1943 – Rosalind Ashford, singer
1943 – Joe Simon, singer and songwriter
1946 – Marty Grebb, keyboardist, guitarist, and saxophonist
1946 – Billy Preston, singer, songwriter, pianist, and actor
1946 – Dan White, twinkie aficionado
1948 – Christa McAuliffe, educator and astronaut
1953 – John Zorn, multi-instrumentalist composer.
1957 – Steve Porcaro, keyboardist and songwriter
Deaths of Note this day
1910 – Henri Rousseau, painter
1934 – Russ Columbo, singer, violinist, and actor
1969 – Ho Chi Minh, civil rights activist and freedom fighter
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, writer
1975 – Mabel Vernon, suffragist and pacifist
1992 – Barbara McClintock, geneticist and botanicist
2012 – John C. Marshall, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
So now some music
Laurindo Almeida
Horace Silver
Clifford Jordan
Walter Davis, Jr
Sam Gooden
Jimmy Clanton
Rosalind Ashford
Marty Grebb
Billy Preston
John Zorn
Steve Porcaro
John C. Marshall
Photo:
Internet Archive Book Images: Image from page 138 of "History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time" (1912)
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Edit - fixed the lapsed time in Bay Bridge story from 4 years to 24 years, HT Bisbonian
Comments
Some recommended reading re Hawaii
To Steal a Kingdom: Probing Hawaiian History, by Michael Dougherty; ISBN 978-0963348401
Stolen Kingdom: An American Conspiracy, by Rich Budnick; ISBN 978-0944081020
Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawaii, by Tom Coffman; ISBN 978-0982165607
Good morning, lol, thanks for reading. I read a bunch on
Hawaii years back, not remotely a good thing, start to finish. Exploitation from first contact/day one as I recall. One of the world's more severely threatened ecosystems too, with a lot of species gone or failing.
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 --
“Many see Hawaii as a basket case w/regard to conservation work”
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/53/8/694/269515
A surfeit of rats — both two- and four-legged . . .
Sherman's march
Marching through Georgia - Jay Ungar and Molly(2.5 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDBJ_FW8ato]
When the tune was played at the 1924 DNC the GA delegation walked out. The Dims lost dramatically that year. http://gothamist.com/2016/07/26/1924_dnc_history.php
It is a shame what we did to Hawaii - 3 min
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3g9_dnjaFY]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. The love affair between the Dems
with the reactionary south instead of maybe Huey Long has been their undoing time and again. LBJ, of all people, turned out to be one of their more "progressive" actors (as opposed to talkers), and pretty much their last one too. They keep trying to re-claim the banner and mission that was never really theirs in the first place by propaganda and theater but their actions are still neo. Sadly too many fall for it for a solid third party to emerge, at lest so far.
Hawaii, paradise, paved, what a perfect image. Thanks for the tune.
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 --
Good morning, el and everyone else. Dang!
Queen Liliuokalani's birthday always sneaks up on me. Once again, it's too late to send a card. Yes, Hawaii was a monarchy--I assume a relatively peaceful one-- until US business people and the US government decided that it shouldn't be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_B._Dole
Obama was our first President from Hawaii, of course. However, he ceased living in Hawaii after high school. When Obama was about ten or eleven, he began living full-time with his grandparents, who sent him to private high school. He and his mother had also lived with them when he was a child and his mother was on welfare. So, in all, his maternal grandparents had a huge role in his upbringing.
His grandma, whom he and his sister called "Toot (from the Hawaiian "Tutu," informal for "grandparent") lived to cast an absentee ballot for him as President. However, she passed only two days before his general election win.
Well before her death, in March 2008, then Presidential candidate Obama made a generally very well-received speech about racism in which he mentioned his white grandmother's racism. Some called that part of Obama's speech throwing his grandmother under the bus. My guess: he had run that part of the speech by her and asked her permission and she could deny him nothing.
Leave out all the rest Linkin Park, made even more heartrending by the suicide of lead singer, Chester Bennington
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZIummTz9mM]
I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
'Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here?
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest,
leave out all the rest
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shed but I'm me
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest,
leave out all the rest
Forgetting all the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come
And save me from myself
I can't be who you are
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest,
leave out all the rest
Forgetting all the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come
And save me from myself
I can't be who you are
I can't be who you are
Good morning, HAW. I suspected that Obama was a con
early in the game I'm sad to say, and early on he started to prove it too. His followers were completely idolatrous, like Hillbots, but HIM instead of HER. Couldn't push him to change because he was flawless. Ah well, history is to learn from (we never do), not to mourn.
Linkin Park was late, too late for me. I started seriously tuning out popular music in the eighties because so much of it was dreck (and other reasons) and pretty much ignored it from the early nineties on. My nephews turned me on to some stuff that I liked a lot and took to, but I had such a vast universe of prior stuff to explore and enjoy that I didn't really seek out anything new. My loss perhaps, as I'm discovering slowly but surely doing these OTs, but a lot of what I'm newly drawn to still isn't mainstream. Example: Toto's "Africa" supra, is cool, but Zorn's piece above it rocks in a wildly different manner.
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 --
Cecy Krone Memorial Ride (San Diego)
http://www.sdbc.org/events
http://www.openarchitecture.org/cecy/
alcoholism destroys family
and so do cars
the end of birthdays
--- disenfranchised report
http://2040.planbayarea.org/
TOO MANY PEOPLE
keep flushing!
...
and another thing! lol
Huffman bill favors agriculture in Point Reyes National Seashore
wtf? anyone else in The Bay Area feel unrepresented to death? Don't answer. California professional experts agree, everything is fine.
good luck
Good morning, eyo. Our justice system has always sided
with the auto and its wielders, especially over perestrians, cyclists and wildlife, but also, more broadly over ecosystems. It is a sad sate of affairs, but, then again, I do do road trips, so ...
Disenfranchised? That implies that we ever were "enfranchised". Our electeds are never our representatives, they don't try to be and many like DiFi don't even try to claim that they are.
Sh why is it again that so few people vote? Heh.
Have a great day.
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 --
Did you receive your Pink Postcard? ballot warning lol
thank you for not taking my junk personally, just 'cause my life is, was, and always will be shite, doesn't mean every life is shite. That's the system.
solidarity
This is printed as a sentence by itself, in the center of the Pink Postcard, I am not kidding:
Bold, italic, AND underline, woo. Capital Election Night, wtf? What happened to... oh forget it. Election notification for idiocracy, designed by MicroSoft Word "graduates" (shakes fist at sky) Smile and tell myself it's okay. c'est la vie
---meta
The editor wants to use "ins", not "u" for underline markup, that is why text often shows up in yellow highlight around here I guess, I don't know. Do know; all browsers suck, PHP and javascript make eyes bleed, and jesus cry. I don't how JtC does it. gawd
good times
IN OUT
hello goodbye
Heh. neither postcard nor ballot yet. Got enough other stuff on
my mind and plate that I'm almost beyond giving a shit anyway.
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 --
Oops. dupe. Now what?
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 --
love da fugs
new words same as it always was...
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Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
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Good morning, el. Village Voice RIP
Leaned yesterday of the Voice's demise, damn, can't imagine the Village without the Voice.
Nothing about it on its site today; but here are a couple of quotes from the Guardian and New Yorker: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/31/the-village-voice-ceases-p... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-closing-of-the-villag...
A sad day, thanks you Mailer and all the writers for leading us, enlightening us, feeding us. You will be missed.
Thanks, el, for the OT and Tunes and have a good one.
Greenwich Village, 1988
thanks for the memories. My aunt, Patricia Cunningham, used to visit California in September to escape the Manhattan heat, (and the Church/Mafia Annual Street Fair). Either that, or she'd visit dear friends who lived in France.
These are photos I took from my Uncle's art studio on the top floor of 44 Carmine, they bought the building in 1944. I'm pretty sure the camera was a crappy little disposable thingy, remember those? The film has KODAK printed on the back, and the date developed was Feb. 1989. good grief scanned and magnified
Village Paint Shop
37 Carmine Street
New York, NY
1988
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Village Video
CCCCCCCCCopies to Go (LOL)
House of Oldies
35 Carmine Street
Greenwich Village
1988
RIP Village Voice
Edit: I changed the "which" typo in the Subject, it made me LOL. I have been spelling Greenwich wrong the first time my entire life. There is a constant.
Ah...Carmine, sweet, eyo ~memories galore ...
Fist stayed in the Village in the Summer of 68 and by the time my New York theatre days ended, i boast to having lived on almost every street in the West village including one apt. in the East and on 49 at the ice rink and under the bridge on 59th. Moved a lot in those days for various reasons usually job related or taking over a sublet, thee apartments around the corner of Carmine on Jones, corner of Bleecker and six and on Minetta Lane which runs into Carmine.
Tended bar on the corner of Carmine and Bleecker, Murry's cheese shop around the corner, best bakery in the world there. Oh, to reincarnate to those days.
Thank you for this memory. Posted a poem few months ago on Saturday's OT about Marie Crisis, the Bohemian bar on Grove street, the last home of Thomas Paine and is named for his "American Crisis." Paine also lived on the other streets I mentioned in the poem.
Poem didn't stir any conversation, it's not very good, i'm afraid, or it's subject matter too obscure.
Just had a look round, here:
https://www.streetadvisor.com/carmine-st-west-village-manhattan-new-york...
Thank you for the photos, you family connection and for being here; you've made my day with this memory. hope i'm not being too selfish and vain in sharing so much.
ps: guilty of making the same spelling mistake for a lifetime, often, with Bleecker St. as well.
"Not great for ... Peace & Quiet." lol
thanks for the link, those ratings cracked me up.
red circle around my pal, the singing brownstone dawg
House of Oldies was still there last time I checked a Street View map, the sign looked about the same. Amazing.
peace
Good morning, Smiley7, thanks for reading. I saw about the
Voice yestidday, quite a downer. I knew it by repute mostly, and by reprints or circulated snippets and quotes, but somewhat avidly read all the local alternative press wherever I happened to be (to the extent I had access). A somewhat darkened day.
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 --
yep, we theatre folks in the day would have been lost without
the Voice and the The Stage; had to see if you'd lit the lights after a show's opening and to be on top of what's going on. Wish all that content were online; thankfully i do have a few articles and reviews in the sacred chest of memories.
Not sure when the Oakland Bridge was done,
but the Loma Prieta earthquake was in 1989.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Sorry we missed you.
Maybe we'll go down there for the Stairclimb/Beer Festival.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning, AZ, 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 --
Good morning to you, el.
Looks like the heat is finally over here, a high of only 93 is predicted for the Labor Day Picnic tomorrow. We may even get some cloud cover.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good mornng, Bisbonian, thanks for pointing that out. It
should have been 24 years, and is now fixed. Have a great 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 --
The Part of Billary Will Now Be Played by Ivanka Trump
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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Heh, good morning and thanks, Aspie. Good phraseology
there.
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 --