I told you those boots were made for walking, now the Google god is doing it diplomatically by offering up walking maps. I say Off your ass people, start walking.
CBS appears to have edited some of an interview Katie Couric had with McCain, splicing in a response from a different part of the interview in place of his initial response, his original being either wrong, or stupid – I forget which.
I would pretend to care, but a plate of Lebanese food and a bottle of wine made it insignificant last night and that hasn’t changed much today. Media still matters though, yes it does, so feel free to read the full story and view the video at the link provided.
The “better luck next time” award goes to the four peace activists in Iowa who tried to make a citizens arrest of Karl Rove. (source)
Let’s drink a cup of kindness for all things past. I was taken down a peg or two while scrolling my archives and finding I once wrote a post/poem about dots. The post was titled, what else, A Dots’ Thoughts for the Weekend. It’s entertaining enough though, and holds a clue to why I have yet to be inducted into the poets have of fame.
My old school friday post disappeared with no help from me, not sure what happened. I’m working on it.
I’m going to try to upgrade this to WordPress 2.6 this evening, so it may disappear.
Until then some history, and music. Music history?
On my way home from a meeting I was listening to NPR, featuring Janis Ian.
I know, the first EMO’er with “At Seventeen” right? A song by the way it took her three months to write, and which she knew would be a hit as soon as she wrote it. Unlike this little ditty written, according to the NPR show, after seeing an interracial couple on a bus, observing all the horrified looks and listening to all the nasty comments. There are several versions of the history of this song, but either way she wrote it when she was 15, in 1965, it was not autobiographical. I believe it was on her debut album.
At the age of fifteen, Ian wrote and sang her first hit single, “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking),” about an interracial romance forbidden by a girl’s mother and frowned upon by her peers and teachers; the girl ultimately decides to end the relationship, claiming the societal norms of the day have left her no other choice. Produced by melodrama specialist George “Shadow” Morton and released three times between 1965 and 1967, “Society’s Child” finally became a national hit the third time it was released, after Leonard Bernstein featured it in a TV special titled Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.[2] The song’s lyrical content was too taboo for some radio stations, and they withdrew or banned it from their playlists accordingly. In the summer of 1967, “Society’s Child” reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“Society’s Child” was too hot for Atlantic Records as well at the time. Ian relates on her website that although the song was originally intended for Atlantic and the label paid for her recording session, the label subsequently returned the master to her and quietly refused to release it. Years later, Ian says, Atlantic’s president at the time, Jerry Wexler, publicly apologized to her for this. The single and Ian’s 1967 eponymous debut album were finally released on Verve Forecast; her album was also a hit, reaching #12. In 2001, “Society’s Child” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which honors recordings considered timeless and important to music history.
