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10 interesting things
Sep. 17th, 2019 08:19 pm1. Superfans: A Love Story - via the New Yorker.
( I'm not sure this is really a love story...but your mileage may vary )
2. Unfriendly Climate - Texas Tech’s Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most respected experts on global warming in the country. She’s also an evangelical Christian who is trying to connect with the very people who most doubt her research. Too bad the temperature keeps rising.
( Read more... )
3. A 350 Year Old Trick to Get People to Change Their Minds is Now Backed Up with Psychological Evidence?
( excerpt )
4. For the Price of $85 and a lengthy interview...you too can get TSA Pre-Check.
5. How to Get Paid to Travel Cheaply
6. A Fire Lookout on What's Lost in a Transition to Technology
( excerpt )
7. You can thank Dolly Parton for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel...?
( Read more... )
I don't know, I thank Gail Berman.
8. Rest in Peace Ric Ocasek, former lead singer of The Cars. Dead at 75
You Might Think I'm Crazy Video
(That's the song I listened to endlessly back in the 1980s on the radio.)
9. Rest in Peace Cokie Roberts at 75
This is unnerving. My mother is 77 turning 78. Also, hello -- Universe? Politicians! We need to get rid of some 70 something Baby Boomer politicians!! (I'm beginning to think they are too rotten to die...they'll probably outlast us all like vampires.)
10. Tonight's episode of "Country Music" discusses the singing cowboys (sigh - Gene Autry and Roy Rodgers), (Coulie) Minnie Pearl (really cool -- she decided to be an actress, and went to the best finishing school in the country, studied Shakespeare, and traveled around the country collecting folk stories and anecdotes -- developed a character with those stories in mind and didn't put on freckles or anything else. She was a sophisticated woman but wore a straw hat with a price tag, and scream out Howdy, talked about a character named brother, and she poked fun at herself -- and made fun of how she looked.
She started on the Grand Old Opry at the age of 28. (I remember her on Hee Haw in the 1970s and various variety shows.) She was amazing -- she developed through improve a series of characters based on real stories.
It also talks about ASCAP and BMI, and how BMI came about as an alternative to ASCAP, the music rights warehouse that doubled the rates charged to radio stations. So, BMI - Broadcast Media International came about -- which allowed for the first time black music to be aired. Black music had been shunned by ASCAP. (Country music was hillbilly and race music at this time.) BMI allowed songs from a broader group that ASCAP had shunned such as hip-hop, black song-writers, the Carter Family, and various others.
ASCAP eventually negotiated an agreement with BMI, but BMI had becomes so popular it stayed around.
De Ford Bailey -- one of the few black country musicians, got kicked out of the Grand Old Oprey, at 42 years of age, because he didn't play ASCAP songs. So he moved to a storefront in downtown Nashville and refurbished as music store -- in 1965, he was finally invited back to the Grand Old Oprey.
This is good, if you find the history of American music at all interesting.
( I'm not sure this is really a love story...but your mileage may vary )
2. Unfriendly Climate - Texas Tech’s Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most respected experts on global warming in the country. She’s also an evangelical Christian who is trying to connect with the very people who most doubt her research. Too bad the temperature keeps rising.
( Read more... )
3. A 350 Year Old Trick to Get People to Change Their Minds is Now Backed Up with Psychological Evidence?
( excerpt )
4. For the Price of $85 and a lengthy interview...you too can get TSA Pre-Check.
5. How to Get Paid to Travel Cheaply
6. A Fire Lookout on What's Lost in a Transition to Technology
( excerpt )
7. You can thank Dolly Parton for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel...?
( Read more... )
I don't know, I thank Gail Berman.
8. Rest in Peace Ric Ocasek, former lead singer of The Cars. Dead at 75
You Might Think I'm Crazy Video
(That's the song I listened to endlessly back in the 1980s on the radio.)
9. Rest in Peace Cokie Roberts at 75
This is unnerving. My mother is 77 turning 78. Also, hello -- Universe? Politicians! We need to get rid of some 70 something Baby Boomer politicians!! (I'm beginning to think they are too rotten to die...they'll probably outlast us all like vampires.)
10. Tonight's episode of "Country Music" discusses the singing cowboys (sigh - Gene Autry and Roy Rodgers), (Coulie) Minnie Pearl (really cool -- she decided to be an actress, and went to the best finishing school in the country, studied Shakespeare, and traveled around the country collecting folk stories and anecdotes -- developed a character with those stories in mind and didn't put on freckles or anything else. She was a sophisticated woman but wore a straw hat with a price tag, and scream out Howdy, talked about a character named brother, and she poked fun at herself -- and made fun of how she looked.
She started on the Grand Old Opry at the age of 28. (I remember her on Hee Haw in the 1970s and various variety shows.) She was amazing -- she developed through improve a series of characters based on real stories.
It also talks about ASCAP and BMI, and how BMI came about as an alternative to ASCAP, the music rights warehouse that doubled the rates charged to radio stations. So, BMI - Broadcast Media International came about -- which allowed for the first time black music to be aired. Black music had been shunned by ASCAP. (Country music was hillbilly and race music at this time.) BMI allowed songs from a broader group that ASCAP had shunned such as hip-hop, black song-writers, the Carter Family, and various others.
ASCAP eventually negotiated an agreement with BMI, but BMI had becomes so popular it stayed around.
De Ford Bailey -- one of the few black country musicians, got kicked out of the Grand Old Oprey, at 42 years of age, because he didn't play ASCAP songs. So he moved to a storefront in downtown Nashville and refurbished as music store -- in 1965, he was finally invited back to the Grand Old Oprey.
This is good, if you find the history of American music at all interesting.