Reminder in JULY!
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It's already ended badly. It will subsequently go to badder and baddest.
Remember those bizarre old days when people actually did keep cash under the
mattress or, if they were more sophisticated, buried in the back yard? Cash is
now a cruel joke on traditionalists. Jeff Garten has a book coming out in July
about the U.S. going off the gold standard ("Three Days at Camp David: How a
Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy") which I am planning to
read..
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Linda Henry nee Pizzuti is a daughter of affluent real estate family and a doll
indeed Google pix of Celtics owner Wyc Grousbecks wife for a comp.
Pizzuti/Henry seems smart and competent. She is probably responsible for how
much I have been paying.
The Wonderland we are in is truly incomprehensible and will end badly as it is
fueled and sustained by debt which we are adding to it at a parabolic rate.
This only works for short periods of time and parabolas end abruptly with steep
declines. In debt it will be a decline of value—ie inflation and currency. I
think we will see at least the beginning of the downside but who knows. And
Rome rallied back a couple of times so maybe...
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I see that the wife of the owner of the Red Sox and the Globe is the new CEO of
the Globe. She is a looker, for sure, and emblematic of the takeover of America
by sexy, white, sociopathic females, who make up all of the non-male, non-white
Democratic members of congress and our state and local legislative bodies. All
we have left of a great America is our memories. It seems impossible what has
happened, and so quickly, but it's a good lesson for future historians how the
morals, ethics, values and collective wisdom of a country can be hollowed out
in a mere fifty years to make it a dumbed down, authoritarian version of
Pleasure Island in Pinnochio. I bet there were a lot of Romans who had feelings
similar to ours back in the day. I thought I was paying a lot for WaPo ($260)
and am blown away by how much the Globe charges. I told the ole ball and chain
that I would no longer pay for WaPo and she was so addicted to the TV section
that she renewed on her own.
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The Globe is the same. The editorial page is almost all vitriolic left. The
sports pages are not what they used to be either, and the internet allows me to
read as much about sports as I want to.
I am close to cutting the paper which now costs about $1,000/year. I will miss
a couple of the comics and the Bridge column, and some local news. Old habits
die hard, but I am sick of getting the BS shoved in my face every morning.
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This is typical example of why the Washington Post is unreadable. I still trust
the Bridge column, which they buy from a syndicate, and they have not yet found
a way to inject race into the Sudoku puzzle. Other than that, the Post is a
true bag of worthless, biased, white-hating, male-hating, Jew-hating horseshit.
"Intersectionality" apparently doesn't apply to people who are all of the
following: (1) straight, (2) white and (3) male. Or perhaps there's a separate
Post definition of "white supremacist" which they would---and in fact
do---define in terms of such intersectionality. Who'd a thunk back in the day
that we would all sixty years later be presumed without further inquiry to be
white supremacists, our sympathy for the civil rights movement notwithstanding?
Must have been the Rush Limbaugh malevolent influence.
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It is ironic, both overt and subtle.
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You will find that all of the Black iconic performers (other than Motown
artists) who have died within the last few years are lauded for particular
iconic recordings which were written by Whites and produced by Whites, although
that is rarely if ever mentioned in the obituaries. Only blackness matters. For
example, The New York Times obituary of Aretha Franklin in 2018 opens with
specific mention of five iconic songs she recorded, but only identifies the
composer for one of them, who was black. This is typical of the subtle and
blatant anti-White racism that pervades the media today.
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One could conclude that the writers were key, since both performers did very
well with the song.
L&S wrote a number of hit songs, many for the Coasters. Down in Mexico and Run,
Red, Run lesser known personal favorites
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And they were Jewish as well, so if you apply intersectionality to them, they
would be doubly hated and despised by certain prominent cohorts of today's
Democratic Party. It would be nice if at least in one of these
all-white-people-are-evil-racists articles the author would point out that the
record business, as with virtually all commercial enterprises, value sales
above all, and that the white population in the early 1950s was roughly six
times the size of the black population and that the record companies recorded
and promoted what they thought would sell best. I guess that's too much to ask.
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Those black guys Leiber and Stoller who wrote it must have got screwed too.
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I personally would have preferred this if it were part of a quiz to teach kids
to identify and describe misandry and anti-White racism. Might as well add in
intersectionality as well while we're at it.
KidsPost <https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/>
Blues singer ‘Big Mama’ Thornton had a hit with ‘Hound Dog.’ Then Elvis came
along.
After the “king of rock-and-roll” recorded a version, Thornton’s original was
largely forgotten.
By
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/haben-kelati/> Haben Kelati
Feb. 24, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST
Imagine you have a good idea, but someone copies it and gets more credit.
That’s basically what happened to rhythm-and-blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama”
Thornton with her song “Hound Dog.” If you know the song, you might only know
“King of Rock-and-Roll” Elvis Presley’s version. But before the song helped
Elvis’s career skyrocket, it was a big hit for Thornton.
Thornton, who was born in Ariton, Alabama, in 1926, signed with Peacock Records
in 1951. She stood out when compared with other female singers. Nearly six feet
tall and 200 pounds, she got the nickname “Big Mama.”
“She had this tough exterior, and she had this very powerful voice which made
her also seem very tough,” says Maureen Mahon, a music professor at New York
University.
She often performed while wearing a suit jacket and tie with cowboy boots.
“Sometimes she would wear a dress or gown, but she also liked to wear what
people would refer to as men’s clothes,” Mahon says.
Mahon says Thornton had an aggressive power when performing while staying true
to the emotions of a song.
“She could convey many emotions and different kinds of feelings through her
vocals. That’s a really important part of blues singing,” Mahon says.
Watching Thornton sing inspired Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to write “Hound
Dog” for her in 1952. Thornton recorded it with a growl emphasizing the
frustration that the song lyrics suggest — coping with a boyfriend who is also
dating someone else.
Thornton had moderate success with the song in 1953. It reached Number 1 on the
Billboard rhythm-and-blues chart. Several musicians recorded their own
versions, but none had much success until Elvis.
The 21-year-old performer had heard a version of the song in early 1956 with
some of the words changed. (It was about a dog, not a man.) Elvis decided to
record it. His recording climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and
stayed there for 11 weeks.
The song is seen as an important beginning of rock-and-roll, especially in its
use of the guitar as the key instrument, according to Mahon.
Mahon says Elvis’s cool stage presence, which captivated audiences, can be
traced to Thornton’s influence.
“I think he was getting that attitude from a singer like Big Mama Thornton, who
was projecting that in her song,” she says.
Elvis was able to get his version to wider audiences than Thornton, in part
because he was a White man, according to Gayle Wald, professor of American
studies and English literature at George Washington University. He had hit
songs by 1956, but he also had access to larger, mainstream markets.
“Popular music history is filled with examples of Black women being pushed to
the margins,” Wald says.
Wald points to the start of the blues as an example. “The first [vocal] blues
songs that were ever recorded [in the 1910s], were recorded by White singers.
It wasn’t until 1920, when Mamie Smith put out ‘Crazy Blues,’ that a Black
woman actually was on record singing a blues song. Even though blues was an
African American art form.”
“[Thornton] belongs in that story. . . . Because of the way race works in the
United States, Elvis got accolades” for “Hound Dog,” Wald says. “He received
exposure and celebrity and praise for it.”
Thornton’s influence on Elvis and American popular music as a whole is an
important part of her legacy. Although her work may have been forgotten by
some, researchers such as Mahon and Wald continue to study and elevate her
music and its impact.
“I think we’re making a lot of progress,” Wald says. “The Internet has made it
easier to let people know about artists from the past.”
