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Open Thread - 01-13-23 - Nine Volt Heart
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 7:48am![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212496565_b2b949e0a3.jpg)
We all travel back through time. Where the temporal may not pass, the minds-eye goes freely.
What is it that can cause a ten year old boy to pause? Having already survived the fallout from the hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll, the premier of The Mickey Mouse Club, potential hip dislocation dancing to Heartbreak Hotel, invention of the Frisbee, the creation of NASA, Fidel Castro coming to power, Bill Mazeroski's home run, Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday, that fateful day in Dealy Plaza, and 1964.
The summer of '64. A fine year to be ten years old. Little did I know what was about to happen on that beautiful sun drenched summer day. I can remember it so well because I recall exactly where I was and where I was living at the time. I was alone in the back yard. The cute girl next door was actively ignoring me, by trying to get my attention. My mind was on Cassius Clay and killing nazis. I had just pulled a Pete Rose and a Mickey Mantle from a couple of packs of baseball cards, gum in mouth and pet beagle at my feet. School was a distant memory and life was as it should be for a boy my age. And then it happened.
An event so seminal in a young man's life that all things subsequent are newly defined as a linear division between the alpha and omega. An event that has shades that color the entirety of a life yet sung. An event so revealing it walks with him through life, as an expressive companion to his soul.
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12/12 - National Ding-A-Ling Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 5:00amSunday Open Thread: December 24 is Xmas Eve + How to Wear a Man Bun
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 12/24/2017 - 8:00am![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212496565_b2b949e0a3.jpg)
World History this day
1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent
Sunday Open Thread: July 2 is World UFO Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 07/02/2017 - 5:00am![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212496565_b2b949e0a3.jpg)
World History
Resistance Radio is looking
Submitted by Wink on Fri, 12/30/2016 - 3:15amfor a co-host. Or co-hosts. The Resistance may not be televised - but it WILL be radioized! As we expand coverage in 2017 I'm looking for a co-host for my Wed. night show. It "airs" on "web radio" (or internet radio) Midnight to 2am EST on NetrootsRadio.com. If interested in being a voice for the resistance give me a shout here or at... wink@netrootsradio.com
Anyone going to NN16
Submitted by Wink on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 8:53amin St. Louis this weekend please stop by "Radio Row"... https://bambuser.com/v/5663525 and say hello!