Back to index of "this and that in my life" pages by Donald Sauter.
Dedicated to the proposition that every thought that's ever been thunk may be of use or interest to someone . . .
ME:
> I also forgot to mention that I have a book on engraving written
by Ted Ross who was the engraver for the Hansen Press. In it
there is one page giving an example of 19th century engraving and
it is one of the Nocturne Melodies by Zani di Ferranti. So I
guess they must have had originals in their possession.
Very interesting! I declare, there's more nuggets in each one of
your notes than in a whole Soundboard. I have the Ted Ross book,
too, and I had wondered mightily over that guitar music sample.
In fact, I used it in a dopey little column in the Washington
Guitar Society newsletter I called "The Guitar Strikes Again!",
where I presented fun instances of the guitar popping up in
unexpected places. I asked if anyone recognized the piece, not
that I expected, or got, any response. My excuse for not
recognizing it is that I got the Charles Hansen anthology
probably in the late 1970s and the Ted Ross Book in the mid
1980s. The Charles Hansen anthology never really got into my
regular playing rotation, and I can't remember every note I play,
sure wish I could.
THEE: Opera Listings
In your Opera listings, Americana, you list a copy of 'Stars and
Stripes Forever: two centuries of heroic music in America'.
Some of the pieces on this album were performed on the Brattle
Organ, now located in Portsmouth NH. Could you copy the liner
notes, or any of the information included with the album and
forward it to me? I live in Portsmouth and attend St. Johns
Church where the organ now resides. This year I took over
managing our tour guide service for the summer and am now working
to collect historical information on the treasures the church
owns. Any information from that album would be greatly
appreciated.
BTW, you wouldn't be interested in selling it would you?
ME: Thanks for asking me about the Stars and Stripes Forever
record in my collection. Nice to know my web pages have some
value. This is all the information in the liner notes that
relate to the Brattle organ. Here's the track listing
information, copied verbatim, for the 3 works played on the
Brattle organ:
THE LONDON MARCH
Anonymous
CHESTER
William Billings (1746-1800) Played on the Brattle Organ, Portsmouth
TRIP TO PAWTUCKET
Oliver Shaw (1779-1848) Played on the Brattle Organ, Portsmouth
In the liner notes there is no specific mention of The London
March or Chester; they are covered by a paragraph headed "MARCHES
AND COUNTERMARCHES". There is a paragraph devoted to Trip to
Pawtucket:
PAWTUCKET Far from the wars and rumors of wars, here is the merry
jingle of the stagecoach from Boston to Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Oliver Shaw was a popular writer of pieces for the parlor
pianists proliferating in the 1800s. The music is recorded on
the Brattle Organ of 1708.
If you think you need the rest of the liner notes, let me know.
Are you sure this isn't currently available on cd? I would have
thought that E. Power Biggs was a huge enough artist that his
recordings would stay in print. Also, have you set up a running
search on ebay? Also, have you looked into those legal music
sharing (if I'm using the proper terminology) services? I see
web sites that claim to have something like 9 billion songs.
When I typed in my most obscure records, they claimed they have
them. But I never looked into any further than that to see
whether they're just trying to snag you into signing up for their
"free" service.
I have been making some effort to pull together lp-to-cd
recording capabilities, but I'm not there yet. If all efforts
fail to track down this music, get in touch and I'd be glad to
get you a copy after I get the equipment and the routine down
pat.
THEE: Please help me with a song
Hello I am a young amateur guitarist from Romania and I would
like you to help me...I searched for an specific tablature or a
sheet music on the Internet for over an year and a half and I
didn't find it in any place. It's about "variations on an
anatolian theme" by Carlo Domeniconi. I purely love that song
and I really want to learn how to play it. I have the recorded
song played by Thimios Atzakas. I even tried to find him on the
internet but with no results. I tried to write the tab myself
listening to the song but i couldn't because it's very difficult.
I wrote to at least 60 sites and guitarist all over the Internet
but I didn't get any answer. So, if you do have the time and if
you have the tablature or sheet music or at least a midi file or
anything please e-mail it to me and I would be very thankful. I'm
sory for my bad english and I really hope to get an answer.
Thanks a lot..Adrian from Romania
ME: I feel pretty sure that the piece you want is really called
Variatians on a Turkish Theme. It's available from Guitar Solo
on this page...
I remember hearing the piece many years ago and thinking it was
wonderful.
THEE: Re: Opera Listings
Thank you for your great response. Yes it is surprising what you
find in different pages.
> If you think you need the rest of the liner notes, let me know.
Are you sure this isn't currently available on cd?
Not that I can find.
> I would have thought that E. Power Biggs was a huge enough
artist that his recordings would stay in print. Also, have you
set up a running search on ebay?
I would have thought so too. I am working on the "running
search", but it seems to take some time to set up.
> Also, have you looked into those legal music sharing (if I'm
using the proper terminology) services? I see web sites that
claim to have something like 9 billion songs. When I typed in my
most obscure records, they claimed they have them.
Interesting idea but I didn't get a hit on numerous tries of
varying key words. If you ever stumble across this album, please
let me know. I did find it in a library listing from somewhere in
Pennsylvania (on tape).
> I have been making some effort to pull together lp-to-cd
recording capabilities, but I'm not there yet. If all efforts
fail to track down this music, get in touch and I'd be glad to
get you a copy after I get the equipment and the routine down
pat.
Please let me know if you get there. I am also trying such a
project, mostly to get my home video and 8MM film on VCD or DVD.
But I understand how these projects become a low priority and by
the time you are ready to move forward, there are all new
technology options to chose from.
Thanks again, this was a great help.
THEE: Re: the guitar strikes again
Do you have the Hansen book on hand? What other pieces are in it?
ME: I always thought of it as a slightly strange hodgepodge.
Fortea/Albeniz/Arabic Serenade
Segovia/Albeniz/The Legend
Carcassi//50 methodic and progressive pieces
Carulli//The three days
Ferranti//Carnival of Venice
Ferranti//Six nocturne melodies
Giuliani//Etudes in Am Bm and F
Llobet/Granados/Spanish dance no. 5
Molitor//Great sonata
Sor//Magic flute variations (w/ intro)
Tarrega//Arabic caprice
Tarrega//Prelude in A, no. 8
Tarrega//Prelude in A, no. 9
Tarrega//Prelude in D
THEE: Re: the guitar strikes again
The ordering also is odd. Llobet sandwiched between Molitor and
Giuliani? I thought the book was 19th century pieces. Is it just
a general compilation then and not specific to the 19th c.?
ME: Actually, the list I sent was not in page order, but in
alphabetical order by composer. Page order is maybe a little
less odd: Giuliani Sor Carcassi Tarrega Carulli Zani di Ferranti
Albeniz Molitor Granados. On one hand it looks like they just
cobbled together a bunch of guitar pieces lying around. But they
went to some trouble supplying half- and third-page biographies
for the guitarists. There's also color artwork and some
scrollwork-type graphics, and a heavy border around each page of
music that's supposed to look classy, I guess, but mostly forces
the music to be reproduced somewhat smaller. I'm sure Charles
Hansen didn't do any of the engraving. The Sor and ZDF are
facsimiles of 19th C. editions, with some editing of text. I'm
not qualified to guess where they got the Giuliani, Carulli,
Carcassi and Molitor - maybe some of these are early 20th C.
German editions? You would know better than me the years of the
Albeniz and Granados compositions, but obviously (?) the
transcriptions are 20th C.
THEE: Subject: Guitar and Piano Music
Donald - In searching for a source for Guitar and Piano music I
happened across your web site. You never know if a web site you
find is current information or outdated so I thought I'd send
you an Email first to make sure one can still order music from
you. I'll be placing an order if you are, indeed, still selling
the music. Please let me know.
ME: My guitar & piano music page is so "current" that you're the
first to discover it! The Web has gotten mighty crowded in the
last few years. Hope you find some interesting pieces and put
an order together. Also, let me know if anything about the page
is unclear or needs improving. Thanks.
THEE: Re: the guitar strikes again
Sounds like a funky book. I wonder what else they have done. I
tried calling them and no one returned the messages I left.
ME: One series of Charles Hansen publications that jumps to my
mind is "Masters For Classical Guitar - transcriptions from the
masters" by Jerry Snyder. These are 16-page booklets. There are
2 for Bach and one apiece for Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann,
Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Bartok. Most of the pieces are familiar
in somewhat more sophisticated transcriptions, but I wouldn't
knock them.
Charles Hansen was also the printer and distributor of the USA
edition of Brian Jeffery's "Fernando Sor - Complete Works for
Guitar", 1977 (Shattinger International Music Corp.) I'm
comparing the Sor Mozart variations in this edition with the one
in the Jeffery edition, probably for the first time, and can
report they are two different engravings.
THEE: RE: Guitar and Piano Music
Thanks, Donald. I'll definitely be placing an order but it may be
a week or so before I do. I have to confer with my pianist friend
and agree on some pieces. You're certainly giving us a lot to
choose from!
THEE: Subject: karl katz
Thanks so much for putting the text of Karl Katz on the web. I
teach Karl Katz in my rhetoric class, and it's nice to have text
that I can copy and paste into Word documents--it means that I
can manipulate the text and make it more useful to my curriculum.
I've always loved the Karl Katz story and I appreciate your
labor.
ME: You're very welcome! I'm glad the page has been found
and made use of.
THEE: Re: the guitar strikes again
> One series of Charles Hansen publications that jumps to my mind
is "Masters For Classical Guitar - transcriptions from the
masters" by Jerry Snyder. These are 16-page booklets. There are
2 for Bach and one apiece for Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann,
Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Bartok. Most of the pieces are familiar
in somewhat more sophisticated transcriptions, but I wouldn't
knock them.
I don't recall ever seeing anything by them, but I may have just
passed over them. I didn't realize Hansen was involved in the
first Sor set of books. I got lucky and picked up 4 of the 5 at a
used book store.
ME: I'm really looking forward to the cd recorder - I've been
dragging my feet too long getting one. I'd be really upset if
the shippers break it. This has happened to more than half of
the electronics I've bought off of ebay. What I'd like to do,
since I feel like I got a very good price, is offer an extra $20
if you can pack it up well enough to withstand the abuse of the
shippers. I got a turntable in working condition because the
seller packed the turntable box in a larger box with styrofoam
pieces, double-packed, so to speak. So if you haven't shipped it
off yet and I see evidence of extra packing care and it arrives
unbroken, I'll send you a $20 bill in the mail.
THEE: Re: cd recorder packing
That sounds fine. I totally understand your concern. I have
already refunded you $10 for shipping since you used the Buy it
Now. I will go ahead and have it professionally packed and it
should arrive in great shape. You can either reimburse me via
Paypal or cash.
It should ship out tomorrow.
THEE: Your package (CD Recorder) is ready, but it has been
raining very hard today and I do not want to ship it incase it
gets wet at the UPS store. I will get it out tomorrow for you,
and I think you will find the packaging very well done.
ME: I had a surprise in the last few days - discovered I had a
Blind Tom piece on an album by E. Power Biggs.
Also got a nice note from a professor who was very grateful I put
up the Karl Katz story on my site.
Some recent culture: the Children's Theater production of
Huckleberry Finn. That inspired me to reread about a third of
the book. I should reread the whole thing.
Had a failed web search tonight. I'm sure that in at least two
of the Grimms stories, and maybe four, there were instances of
reattached heads with a tell-tale thin red line around the neck.
I can't imagine these passages not using the word "neck", but a
search of the complete Grimms text online for "neck" didn't turn
up any of them. I'm baffled.
This came about because of a short "scary scary" story that I
read recently. It's pitched at 2nd grade readers. It took me by
surprise; actually kind of hilarious in its shockingness. I read
it to Mizan today and she laughed her head off. Anyhow, the
credits at the back of the book say that this story is based on
the European folk story device of the thin line around the neck
from reattached heads, and I wanted to jot a cf to the Grimms
stories.
Sorry if I got you curious about the story. The book isn't here;
this is enough typing for one night; and even if it weren't, the
pictures are vital (ha ha) to the story.
THEE: Subject: It works
Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atomic bomb,"
was an extremely eloquent man, but at the first atomic test blast
in new Mexico, his first words were reportedly a stunned, "It
works."
These may have been my first words too. The tape thingie (is
that the right name?) [thing shaped like a cassette that plugs
into your car tape player that lets you hook up a cd walkman or
ipod] works! I gave it an in-depth 45-second test in the car
last night. I didn't move the car, so I can't report on
vibrations.
Thank you! This is going to be great.
Hey, it's extremely last minute of me to be asking this, but I
have tomorrow off from work and I'm going to be hanging around in
Rockville and Gaithersburg for a few hours tomorrow during the
day, while Hself gets groomed in Frederick. I was planning on
seeing if Second Story Book Warehouse is still in business and I
was planning on doing some less glamorous chores, such as buying
socks at Lakeforest Mall. If you had any thoughts of a visit
back here, I just mention this.
Thanks again. I'll have a full road-test evaluation in a
day or two.
ME: Glad the tape gizmo works. Give me a report on its "rattle
factor". My Sony job rattles louder than the music (depending on
the volume).
Thanks for the spur-of-the-moment invitation - that's the spirit.
I think "tomorrow" means today (Friday) and I'm just checking
mail now (11:33 am). I'll be hitting the auction today as usual.
On Tuesday was the biggest batch of opera records to date. I had
most of them, but would still put in a bid figuring they might be
in better condition than mine. Unfortunately, on Tuesdays I
can't stick around that long because of work. Still haven't
struck the mother lode, but there have been 4 times now when I
found a batch of records I would have bid on - but it was always
Tuesdays. :( Eventually have to move Tuesday students to
Wednesday, or find myself shut down, which would be far easier.
May have mentioned a little car work last week. Same ol' thing -
the car comes out of the shop not running worth beans. Under the
worst conditions I get 350 miles per tank. This is shaping up as
something like 200 miles per tank. Historically, mechanics have
ruined every car I've owned; I guess they've done it again.
THEE: Interesting find about the Blind Tom piece performed by E.
Power Biggs. As far as I know, I have nothing by Blind Tom
although I do by Blind Boone.
Sort of a coincidence that you've recently seen a children's
theater production of Huck Finn. We have one of Tom Sawyer here
this weekend; of course, I'll miss it because I'm heading out in
the next hour or so.
I was amused by Mizan's laughter at the "scary scary" story.
I've had students who say they wouldn't read "Little Red Riding
Hood" to their kids because it's too scary. Sheesh! They see
far worse on TV, including the news. Fictional fear is
preferable.
Is the reattached head with the thin red line some sort of
meaningful archetype? Odd thing to show up over and over, but if
I come across any such folks I'll recognize them. If there's a
synonym for neck, I don't know it. Good luck finding those
stories.
THEE: Subject: Music Order
Don - Here's a list of the pieces I'd like to order from you:
Pages
W0030 Carulli : Duo, OP 11 22
W0033 Carulli : Duo, OP 37 16
W0034 Carulli : Grand Duo, OP 86 18
W0035 Carulli : Duo, OP 151 13
W0089 Molino : Nocturne, OP 44 13
W0077 K|ffner: Serenade, OP 55 12
W0116 Weber: Divertimento, OP 38 16
Total pages 110 pages
x .24
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$ 26.40
But I'm actually going to send you $ 33 ( 30 cents per page )
I think you're short-changing yourself. If I were to order just
the last two works on my list above from GSP ( Guitar Solo
Publications ) it would cost me $36 - plus the shipping charge.
So $33 for all seven works on my list seems like a real bargain
to me.
THEE: Washington Guitar Society Forum
Wow! Thanks for all the work; a useful resource.
THEE: Subject: It still works
You missed nothing. I did make it to Second Story Book
Warehouse, where I found a replacement for a book my mother gave
me and which I then promptly left on a bus. Unpack that
sentence, why don't you? (Translation: Mom gave me a book. I
left it on a bus. I found a replacement.)
They seemed to have a number of classical LPs of operatic
interest at Second Story. Of course, they're $1 each. (Sale on
until the end of the year may knock them down to 70 cents.)
My other stops today were the bank, the grocery store, Best Buy
(where I got an iPod recharger that plugs into the cigarette
lighter), O'Brien's Pit Barbecue, the Hecht's at Lakeforest Mall
for socks and ties, and then back to Frederick to retrieve Bogar.
The tape player thingie seems to work beautifully. One time when
I put it in, it popped out and I thought I noticed just a little
hum at one point. That may have just been the source material, a
BBC radio broadcast. I ran it through its paces -- slow speeds,
fast speeds, and long and short times running. It seems great.
Thanks again!
ME: no think just buy [when price is right]
Would somebody tell somebody that stupid old records cost 25
cents now? And even that's crazy.
Don't think I mentioned I won a "cd recorder" off ebay. That
seems to be the most usual name for my own best guess: a "stand-
alone home stereo dual cd play/record deck". I presume the
shippers will smash it.
Somebody found my commercial guitar & piano music page under his
own steam and placed an order. So I guess the web is about to
smother me in filthy luchre. To be honest, I miss the old days
when people could find and read my web pages.
ME: I'm gonna let Mizan type a message on my computer. If she
busts it, you're in big trouble.
MIZAN: thank you for the birthday song .Don is silly. Me and Don
went to the post office and I played the slots and I won 11
stemps.And no I will not start a gmbling problom.Ha ha ha ha
haha.Please send me ahother E.mail please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
ps.thank you.And don't forget Don is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!
sincerly, Mizan
THEE: Hi Mizan,
Slot machines at the Post Office????????? That's a new idea to
me! I thought we lived in the same country, but the U.S. Postal
Service here hasn't started slots unless it's an innovation since
last week.
I spent a couple of days listening to a lot of great old music
played by guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, bass, dulcimer,
autoharp, harmonica, and leaf. Yup, leaf! One of professional
musicians played "The Missouri Waltz" on a leaf while his wife
accompanied him on the banjo. (Normally he plays the guitar, but
he had hurt his hand and was only able to play the leaf.) He
could have played it solo, and I was impressed. The tune was
perfect. By the way, "The Missouri Waltz" is Missouri's state
song. If you want to hear the tune, I've attached a website
link. Too bad it's not played on leaf, though.
http://www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/allsongs_1/missouri.html
ME: jackpot
Thanks for the rundown on the folklore bash. Laughed my head off
at your auction hijinxes - I don't handle it so well when I feel
pressured to buy something.
Maybe in Oklahoma they still call the slots "stamp machines"?
What happens in Delaware is that one, maybe meaning just me,
accumulates change at a much more furious pace than in Maryland.
See, Delaware doesn't have a sales tax, and with everything being
priced pennies below an even dollor amount, you always get a
handful of change back from the purchase of a few items. This is
in contradistinction from Maryland, which has a sales tax, and so
it's easy to get rid of a few coins every time you buy something.
So my cup of change gets really full here, and I get rid of it by
dumping it into the stamp machine. I had a huge pocketful
yesterday and let Mizan have the fun of playing the slots for me.
You have to play a *lot* of coins to win 11 stamps!
At the Dover sale on Friday I got a few books, one of which is a
reprint of an 1895 British "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and
Fairy Tales". It's over 600 pages. I'm having a great time
comparing it with "The Real Mother Goose", a reprinting of a 1916
American edition which I know I've mentioned earlier. There are
some interesting little differences, and I'm cross-indexing the
two, so I'll ultimately be able to see which ones appear in just
one volume or the other.
THEE: Subject: My article on the creation-intelligent design
controversy
Thank you for what you wrote about my article.
I do think that almost all discussions of this issue that I have
read embody an enormous amount of confusion -- some of it
deliberate and dishonest.
ME: It was a nice surprise to get a message from you. When I put
a copy of your article on my web site for everybody's easy
reference, I didn't do it with the presumption you would approve.
In particular, I could easily understand anyone not wanting to
risk the appearance of being associated with "this guy" and his
thoughts. If you ever have any reason for me taking it down,
please don't hesitate to ask.
THEE: Re: jackpot
> I had a huge pocketful yesterday and let Mizan have the fun of
playing the slots for me. You have to play a *lot* of coins to
win 11 stamps!
Maybe I'm still confused. So you're talking legitimate stamp
machines? Don't stamps come out of those in booklets. You've
got strange stamp machines out your way if they come out
individually.
> At the Dover sale on Friday I got a few books, one of which is a
reprint of an 1895 British "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and
Fairy Tales".
Know anything about the historic stories behind some of the
"Mother Goose Rhymes"? I've read only a few things and can't
swear they're fact, but they make sense and are interesting. May
not be anymore truth to 'em than to some of those outlandish
[...] song origin stories, though. Sounds like you have
another interesting project goin'.
ME: Yes, individual stamps. chunka chunka . . .
THEE: Re: no think just buy -- it works for me!
Good job on the online sheet music sale. I look forward, with
fingers crossed, for your report on the CD recorder.
The iPOD car thingie performed well again today.
THEE: Subject: Biggs Kids
Attached are Mizan's picture from Biggs Kids- it was wonderful
seeing her again, she is such a great little artist!
ME: Here's a recent picture of Mizan, if it gets forwarded along
with this message. "Biggs" refers to the Biggs Art Museum, which
shares the building with the Visitor Center that you started at
one rainy morning. To be honest, the photo doesn't look exactly
like Mizan to me, but kind of close. Hself remembered Mizan
from her visit earlier in the summer on Old Dover Days. Leaves
smeared with paint were used in making these paintings. I forget
what the story on the guy with the big red nose is, except that
it's not a big red nose.
At the visitor center was an interesting exhibit about which you
can read a bit about here...
I couldn't find a single photo of the exhibit on the web. I was
explaining everything best as I could to Mizan and a museum
worker must have heard that I could use some help, so she came in
and gave us a personal tour.
ME: all about
I see I inserted a new about and missed deleting the old one.
Dang.
THEE: I get it now. I think that it would be better to list the
contents of PD [public domain guitar] anthologies without regard
to how the publications are to be downloaded, not bothering with
ones that are not available, at least at first, and then list the
sources separately. I don't believe that there is any scanning
software adequate to the task, so just having indices in html of
adequately identified anthologies would be a permanent
contribution not subject to the many changes in library sites
which the future will no doubt bring. Putting all the links in
one place on the proposed site is a minor inconvenience, but it
would make the site or its successors one hell of a lot easier to
maintain.
So making individual indices and tocs is the job.
See if you can find some standard way of doing this that exists
already, or does every library catalog have its own format? Point
is that most of the work has already been done somewhere sometime
by somone. There is no published work on Pfennig-Magazin?
ME: I got the cd recorder today (Tuesday). It arrived in fine
shape. I've only had time to play around and try to get familiar
with the playback functions of the two decks. I heard some
electric clicks when I was skipping tracks and a bad crackle a
couple of times when I just touched, but didn't press, one of the
buttons on the machine while a disc was playing. I don't think I
heard any such clicks when the machine was simply playing a disc.
As long as this never happens when I'm recording, I'll be happy.
I'll need to go out and buy some appropriate discs before I delve
into the recording process. By the way, all my recording on this
machine will be from phonograph or cassette sources, not the
internal cd to cd function.
THEE: Thanks for your input.
The piece "Musique de Cour" is readily available from
sheetmusicplus.com
Tansman sounds like an interesting composer - I'll have to
research him a little bit.
ME: Found out today that you can't just run out and buy cd-rw
Music cds. I've ordered some online, so I'll have to wait for
the shipment before I can do any recording.
ME: Mizan got a kick out of the email. The next time I saw her
she was laughing about slot machines and leafs. The latter had
me confused because I was thinking of the leafs used in her
artwork at the Biggs Museum. Then I remembered the leaf
musician. I fired up the midi-fied state song for her. By the
way, you're right, our stamp machines let you buy them
individually. Spits 'em out from a roll. I'm wondering, if you
took a closer look, if yours also do the same.
There was another "save the Hanson House" letter in this week's
Dover Post. They still haven't torn it down, in spite of
swearing they would in October. At a homeowners association
meeting the other night, the Dover mayor was there. I thought I
would put in a personal plug for the Hanson House. Again, my
idea is not restoration or a modern facsimile, just to preserve
it a little, or maybe not even that, so we can just look at it
until it rots away to nothing. Beats to heck any ol' real estate
office any day. The only thing I could get out of the mayor was
something like, "The problem is the city already sold the
property." Never thinking on my feet, I didn't say, "Ok, take
the money and buy it back." All further efforts to convince him
that Dover's oldest building looks really neat sitting there got
no response at all. He just looked at me like I had twenty holes
in my head. I mean, we're talking about a regular person; it's
not like I was pestering the Mayor of Paris or London or
something.
Speaking of Dover, remember the courthouse on the Green where I
tried to relate the story of the tavern that used to be on the
spot? It was a King George tavern that changed to the George
Washington tavern in revolutionary times. Those names might not
be exact, but that's the idea. There was a sign that was painted
over that faded to the point where you could see both Georges.
For the sake of this discussion, we'll assume this isn't a bunch
of apocrypha. I thought it was neat that the same thing happened
in Rip Van Winkle:
...all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on
the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he
had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even this was singularly
metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and
buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the
head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted
in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
I was at an interesting lecture/slide show at the Archives the
other night. It was the 100th anniversary of the Archives. The
lecturer used a few of the items in the exhibition that we
visited. If you're like me you wouldn't remember this, but if
you're like you, which I think you are, you probably will. It
may have stuck because you were already thick with the infamous,
and stunning, Port Mahon lighthouse. Remember the caption to the
effect, "This is the most requested photo in the archives"? At
the end of Tom's presentation he paused to ask, "Does anyone know
what's the most requested photo in the archive's collection?" A
few people had a chance to make good, but wrong, guesses before I
got called on. He's given this presentation in other places
around the state and he was quite taken aback. I told him I got
the answer from the exhibition down the hall, which sounds like a
sort of a cheat, but that's not my fault. To bad you weren't
there to answer it. You could have said, "Come on, everybody in
Oklahoma knows that."
I did throw him for a loop with my pronunciation. He scrunched
up his face and had me repeat it a few times before accepting it.
I called it Port "Man", with that horrible short-a diphthongy
thing Americans use. Everybody else there knows it's "May'-
hahn". I said, "What do I know, I only moved here 2 years ago."
I was wondering if I ever mentioned my friend Hself in our emails,
but before doing a search I remembered she was mentioned in the
Sauter/Kent monolog tape series. Last time we talked on the
phone the subject of the new Liberian president came up. Hself
says, "I know her very well," and rattled off all the family
connections. Hself's former husband, a diplomat, may become
Secretary of Information, or some-such, in the new government.
I gave another shot at searching for the thin red line around a
neck in Grimm's, the old fashioned way - scanning hundreds of
pages. Still didn't find them. I know I didn't dream it up.
Sort of finished my Mother Goose study. In a perfect world I'd
keep at it until I had 'em all memorized. My American Mother
Goose has 305 rhymes; the British has 217. About 125 were common
to both, so that works out to 397 separate rhymes. There were
also 8 more in an amazing 870-page book I have called Story And
Verse For Children. Everybody should spend a few years of his
life with that one. Noting all the interesting variations is the
stuff of a dissertation, not an email, so you lucked out there.
Tommy Tinker vs. Tommy Tucker; Dickery Dickery vs. Hickory
Dickory; Mistress Mary vs. Mary, Mary; you get the idea. I
should have kept better notes on my new favorites. Here's a few:
Apple-pie, pudding, and pancake,
All begins with A.
My little old man and I fell out;
I'll tell you what 't was all about, -
I had money and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun.
If all the seas were one sea,
What a great sea that would be!
And if all the trees were one tree,
What a great tree that would be!
And if all the axes were one axe,
What a great axe that would be!
And if all the men were one man,
What a great man he would be!
And if the great man took the great axe,
And cut down the great tree,
And let it fall into the great sea,
What a splish-splash that would be!
Isn't this a million times classier than what we're used to?:
The rose is red, the violet's blue;
The pink is sweet, and so are you.
How do we interpret the last two lines of I Love Sixpence?
I have nothing, I spend nothing,
I love nothing better than my wife.
My Lady Wind is a good one. How about the assonance in the first
2 lines here? "It" is a tiny spark.
From it she raised up such a flame
As flamed away to Belting Lane
And White Cross folks were smothered.
At the auction today I got a nice "coffee table"-type book called
"The National Archives Of The United States". I'm just reading
the inner-flap blurb now and see that it marks the 50th
anniversary of the National Archives. That's significant in that
it was the exhibition back in 1985 called "The Archives At 50"
that knocked me out so and inspired this purchase. At a glance,
though, it doesn't appear that this book is meant to document
that exhibit. For example, I don't see Queen Elizabeth's
handwritten recipe for scones that she sent to President
Eisenhower after a visit here, or some of the schoolkid entries
for a new flag after the admission of Hawaii and Alaska.
Also got 20 teen magazines from about 1969.
ME: Hoping you have time to read my little essay on the
intelligent design/evolution issue. It's at
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/evol2.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/evolution-faq-2.htm ]
I fully grant the invocation of an intelligent designer is not
science. But Darwinism, that sequence of trillions upon
trillions of "beneficial" mistakes, is effectively the only show
in town for explaining the incredible march to ever more highly
developed creatures. That this is the best they can do after
pounding away at it for 150 years might lead some to wonder if
"something else" isn't going on.
THEE: Subject: gushalotta
I somehow collided with your website and noted that you are a
former pupil of Mr. Lieske, and an alumnus of Johnnycake JHS. I
was there from 1966 to 1969 and have always considered GSL
[George Spencer Lieske] to have been the one teacher who actually
switched on my mind. Anyway, it brought back some memories.
Does he still walk the planet?
ME:
> Does he still walk the planet?
You bet he does! I was fortunate enough to get invited to his
surprise retirement party last summer. His wife, the former Miss
Zendt, found references to Mr. Lieske on my website. *Please*
send him a note out of the blue; he'll love it. His address is
[...]
Just jump right in with "Hi Spence, ..."
P.S. According to the years you supply, you were a year behind
me. I can't find you in the 1966-1967 yearbook. Did you know my
sister Hself?
THEE: Subject: Brain teaser
Sir, As a young man of about 18 to 22, I remember having a close
friend give me a puzzle called "The great train puzzle" to figure
out. It was a brain teaser that I did in fact have some
difficulty figuring the answer out. I have looked everywhere that
I can think of for this puzzle to find nobody has a clew what I
am talking about. It had to do with, if I remember correctly,
information that seemed important that was not, and information
that seemed to not have anything to do with the puzzle. Again, if
memory serves me, there were two trains in the story. Any help
finding this would be greatly appreciated.
ME: Wish I could come charging back with your brain teaser, but
it doesn't ring a bell. I'll be sure to let you know if I
stumble on it. Sounds like fun.
THEE: Subject: Can't help sharing
Subject Daily Report - PUBLIC SAFETY
No crime to report.
Except this...
Giant radish in intensive care after murder bid Beloved Japanese
vegetable known as the 'Gutsy Radish' slashed
Reuters Updated: 3:09 a.m. ET Nov. 17, 2005
TOKYO - A giant white radish that won the hearts of a Japanese
town by valiantly growing through the urban asphalt was in
intensive care at a town hall in western Japan on Thursday after
being slashed by an unknown assailant.
The "daikon" radish, shaped like a giant carrot, first made the
news months ago when it was noticed poking up through asphalt
along a roadside in the town of Aioi, population 33,289.
...
THEE: Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Emancipation Proclamation Copy
Auctioned - Yahoo! News
THEE: Re: intelligent design
Thank you for your e-mail to Charles Krauthammer. You can be
assured that your letter will be read. However, we receive
hundreds of e-mails every day, and cannot guarantee that you will
get a personal response. If you wish, you can also submit your
letter as a letter to the editor. The e-mail address for the
Washington Post Letters to the Editor is letters@washpost.com.
Alternatively, you can submit a letter to your local newspaper;
in most cases, they publish an email or mail address on the
opinion page, as well as on their website. If you need any
further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank
you very much, The Washington Post Writers Group
THEE: RE: Brain teaser
Thank you Donald! Out of all the people that I have left messages
with, you were the first to reply. Thank you again!
THEE: Subject: Water and Wine..
Thanks so much for the full explanation of a problem that has
frankly bugged me for a long time. Isn't it great that when you
see a problem clearly, it is so simple! I also appreciate how
algebra some times just gunks stuff up.. THANKS!
ME: Glad you liked the wine in the water page. Now that I see
how simple it is, my fear is that everybody will write saying,
"You call that a brain teaser??? A *three-year-old" can answer
that!"
How about my rolling quarters brain teaser?
ME: Sounds good. How about 6:30? Does that vitiate the risk
factor? (Looked up that word today after reading it in Kipling's
"The Elephant's Child".) Or, you can name the earliest safe
time. Maybe I have a few minutes more show-and-tell than I
originally thought.
I put a stack of 5 stereo components out for the trash man to
pick up tomorrow. That still leaves me with 3 dual cassette
decks.
Now, with your hands off your computer, answer me this question:
who is Sajid Khan?
THEE: Subject: She Said She Sajid
Sajid Kahn without using the computer? Easy! I don't know.
See you tomorrow.
ME: zilch outta uno
"What is progress? Is it to run a little faster in a motor-car,
to listen to gabble in a gramophone?" (The Crime of the Congo,
p59.) Got your binding job done. Read enough of the book to get
the picture. Now I need to do a little more research to see how
it played out. Were the Belgian Congo troubles of the early
1960s a direct continuation of what Leopold started?
Thanks for having me over. Sorry to be so dense about the
sharing mode while ordering the Thai dishes. Don't be shy about
hitting me over the head when necessary. Guess I developed some
notion that the great old way of eating oriental meals fell out
of fashion somewhere along the way.
Thanksgiving crowd of 57 was a new record. My other two pies are
now in thanksgiving heaven.
You predicted correctly - I won the 16-cd set. The good news is
that I won it for the opening bid of $10, so that works out to
$1.60 per disc with shipping. The packaging looks very nice, but
I guess it'll be all French.
Gadzooks I bought a knockout cd at the Dover bazaar today (i.e.,
yesterday, Friday). It's called Filippa Giordano and features
the same. 7 of the 12 tracks are opera arias done seriously with
pop arrangements and a pop vocal styling. There should be more
of this - a whole radio station devoted to it, even. The other
half of the two for $4 deal was "The Carl Stallings Project
Volume 2". I could justify it on the grounds that volume 1 made
such good driving music, but I'm afraid it has more to do with a
newfound, and hopefully not long-lived, impulsiveness.
Here is the sneak peek in 16 Spec Magazine, Winter '69, No. 16.
I don't have any idea what Spec means. It comes from the offices
of 16 Magazine. The column is called "English News"; the main
section is called "Beatalia". The quote constitutes 1/4 of
Beatalia. All the artists and titles are in boldface.
A fantastic Beatle "revival" is on the way! The boys'
glorious full-length, animated cartoon Yellow Submarine will
be released all over America beginning November 15 and
running through the end of the year. Their next LP (which
did not have a title at press time) features 24 brand new
Beatle tunes and will be on the new Apple label, distributed
by Capitol Records. A sneak preview of the LP featured a
wild rock 'n' roll number sung by Paul called Backing USSR,
which is a political spoof - combining sounds of Fats
Domino, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and "early
Beatles up-to-date." For this new LP, Ringo wrote one song
himself and co-authored one with John. You will hear Ringo
singing solo on Prudence. All in all, it's a fantastic LP -
with two ballads, and all the rest hard rock - and should
bring those unbelievable Beatles back to the fore with a
great big bang!
Not clear whether this page is about a movie or a tv series
inspired by a movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061278/
On the other hand, this piddly review bats 1000 (sechs outta
seis):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060681/
"Your search - "glucklich ist wer vergisst" "hard day's night" -
did not match any documents." So says google. Still reeling
from the discovery of Die Fledermaus in A HArd Day's Night. I'm
guessing you could find more and better recordings on the web
more easily than I but here's a link to a page with a link to an
orchestral extract from "Glucklich ist, wer vergisst" (Happy is
he who forgets):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000045UK/qid=1132985370/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-1723712-6276655?v=glance&s=classical
THEE: The wheels are "turning slowly", but at least they're
turning as far as accomplishments at home. My FEMA trailer
should be there hopefully by the time I get home on Tuesday. I'm
in line with Office of Emergency Preparedness as far as having my
home bulldozed & hauled away. I've enjoyed living in Crowley,
but once I'm back home, it'll make the cleaning up process &
future planning a lot easier. (We've gotten a lot done already).
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE BEAUTIFUL GULF OF MEXICO
ME: Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes. I showed your flood
photos around and everyone was amazed. Time to start
thinking about Christmas, even though my Christmas
responsibilities are pretty light - a few cards and some little
homemade present for my students.
ME: Here's a history of the cds you made for me. It seems your
naming and numbering scheme, sensible as it is, always leaves you
scratching your head a bit.
The Greatest (Free) Hits of Kitty Brazelton, Sauter Sounds Vol. 1
(no DChron entry)
Not The Beatles At The Beeb (no DChron entry)
Royal Queen Albert and Beautiful Homer
(no DChron entry, date falls between 41 and 42)
I Can Get Some Rest (DChron 42)
"...my first official compilation cd for you."
Compiled in folder Don's CD.
Don's Other CD (DChron 45)
"...it was only natural that I label the folder Don's Other CD.
Right?"
Don's Third CD (DChron 47)
"Which I believe is the fifth cd I've made for you."
Don's Next CD (DChron 48)
Digital Don Vol. I (DChron 50)
"Oof, I've forgotten what number this cd is. So let's launch a
new series!"
Digital Don II (DChron 54)
Maybe You Can Drive My Car
(no DChron entry. Recorded during production of DChron 56.)
Digital Don III (at least) (DChron 58)
"For some reason, I have it down that this is only the third installment
of Digital Don. Can that be?"
Digital Don IV (DChron 60)
Paul McCartney - Live 8 (no DChron entry, falls between 61 and 62.)
Digital Don V (DChron 62)
"Really, just five cds? Hmmm."
I have a nagging suspicion that this might not be complete, even
ignoring some copying of home-recorded guitar cds whose originals
wouldn't play in my deck.
I really enjoyed the Alan Young Show. I look forward to
extracting just the opera for my second opera compilation cd.
Could be a while - just got a note from J&R saying my CD-RWs are
not in stock and are on back order. I'm not sure I've ever in my
life actually received anything "on back order". The opera
contains takeoff snippets from Rigoletto, Aida, and Trovatore,
and I think Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld in the
overture. Also liked the intelligible version of Cohen on the
telephone. Confused about Snakes and Snails. I've always
presumed Alma is female and "Dream Babes" seems to confirm that.
Is the masculine-sounding voice on Snakes and Snails Alma's? If
so, doesn't that create a problem with the lyrics, the fortune
teller wanting to have fun with her customer? Any theories at
all on "Here Comes Ringo"? Was it a Miami pool party? Was Beryl
Marsden's Breakaway a new one for you? I have it on Liverpool
1963-1968.
I found some decent tracks on The Moment Anthology Vol. 1. If
and when you find yourself in a somewhat receptive, non-super-
critical mode, program up tracks 15, 18 and 19 and have a listen.
Regarding the last email, I see now that "Spec" is groovy talk
for "Special". I found articles referring to tv specs, for
example. Maybe I was the last to figure this out.
Never mentioned that while doing a little hound dog research at
the Delaware Public Archives I came across an article in The
Delawarian (Nov 13 1919) headlined "'Old Razor Man' was a Woman".
This was discovered after he died. Some stories are timeless.
At Thanksgiving, my brother asked me if I check up on Beatle
Significa on ebay. I said, nope, never occurs to me. He said
there is ongoing action with a few sellers.
ME: Interesting name - harlequin duck. Found a nice picture in
my encyclopedia. I thought there was a particular word for
Harlequin's costume, and I found it again - domino. In his
earliest days his costume was patchwork, and my encyclopedia
didn't say so, but it's easy to find tons of references on the
web to Harlequin's motley ("the professional attire of a court
jester").
ME: I can't help wondering if my letter calling for the
preservation - not restoration - of the Hanson House you
published back in August might have been partly responsible for
its potential salvation. If so, I'm guessing it was the first
letter to a newspaper in the history of the universe to make a
difference. Thanks for your help. I thought location was a huge
part of the building's charm and they can burn it as well as move
it, as far as I'm concerned, but at least others may be able to
appreciate it somewhere. When I wrote the letter I was too dense
to understand that that little patch of earth was the last
possible location for a realtor's office in Dover, and for that I
apologize. After all, all the downtown business and office space
is filled to capacity (sarcasm).
The above paragraph was meant to be personal, but it seemed to
take some sort of clumsy flight and if you think readers might
enjoy it, feel free.
If you guys don't take a shellacking for that Wanker County muck,
there's no hope. Couldn't get past the name and the pictures to
read it to see if the Dover Post knows what a wanker is.
Main reason for writing is the following, submitted for
publication if worthy.
Dear Dover Post,
You recently reported that the Levy Court decided 4-3 against
Allan Angel's proposed six-month moratorium on accepting major
subdivision applications while the county planning staff takes
stock of the situation. I don't know, but I suspect that the
Levy Court may have acted in opposition to public sentiment. I
suggest that in this day and age, with our quick, cheap, and easy
electronic communication, public servants never need to presume
whether or not they are acting in support of, or disregard for,
majority will. How long could it take to tally a few hundred, or
thousand, even, "yeas" and "nays" in email subject lines?
That piece reported Commissioner Donald A. Blakey saying that
"growth is positive for the county." In an opinion piece in the
same issue, Jim Flood Sr. wrote, "Much of this change [the rapid
growth in Kent County] will be good." This is always taken for
granted, but I've always wondered, when you have something good,
why not preserve it? Isn't MORE MORE MORE! BIGGER BIGGER BIGGER!
a surefire recipe for eventual collapse? For the sake of
argument, consider the extreme case - a complete and indefinite
moratorium on new construction in Kent County. Who would be
hurt? Probably not Realtors, since our property would become
extremely desirable and property values would skyrocket over
night. Some of the new construction business would shift over to
replacing, repairing, and modernizing old housing and commercial
buildings. We could pay off developers and builders through a
transition period until the workforce has adjusted to this new,
"steady state" Kent County. In any case, county boundaries are
just a few miles away in any direction for developers who can't
stop. All the while, outsiders would look at Kent County with
drop-jawed envy.
If what I've written is simplistic - and how can such a huge
issue boiled down to one paragragh not be? - it is no moreso than
"Growth is good." I have no crazy hope that such a moratorium
will come to pass, only a wish that everyone take a step back to
get a bigger picture.
THEE: Re: really just five cds hmmm
I can't figure out my numbering system at all! Perhaps I'll
start the next one with Roman numerals, or something.
I have no data on Alma Cogen. Her premature death was the
subject of a bad Monty Python gag on a 1975 LP, so i heard the
name then and didn't know what it meant until I read that
biography of Brian Epstein.
And the liner notes on "Here Comes Ringo" are absolutely no
help whatever.
I have to walk the dog now. Another minor catastrophe
involved an unidentified stain on the Hselfs' living-room carpet
this morning.
ME: A couple days ago I put together another compilation cd -
"DChron Listenin', the Second". You can play it rapidly in your
head just by scanning down the track listing:
DChron Listenin', the Second
DChron 48 - Don's Next CD
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Jad Fair & Kramer
2. Twist And Shout - Jad Fair & Kramer
3. North Country Girl - Pete Townsend
DChron 50 - Digital Don Vol. 1
4. Miss Ann (Penniman) - Little Richard
5. Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) (Morton) - Shangri-las
6. Turn Out The Light - Harry Nilsson
DChron 54 - Digital Don Vol. 2
7. Danny Boy - Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles
8. Let It Down - George Harrison
9. It's Now Or Never - Paul McCartney
10. In Spite Of All The Danger - The Overtures
11. Clarabella - Thee Headcoats
DChron 58 - Digital Don Vol. 3
12. A Hard Day's Night - Peter Sellers
13. Help! - Peter Sellers
14. She Loves You/Tannha"user (Dr. Strangelove version) - Peter Sellers
15. Gentle Memories Of The '60s, cd sampler.
DChron 60 - Digital Don Vol. 4
16. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis - Ann-Margret
17. John You Went Too Far This Time - Rainbo (Sissy Spacek)
18. Waterfalls - Sloan
DChron 62 - Digital Don Vol. 5
19. Kansas City - Wanda Jackson
20. Funnel Of Love - Wanda Jackson
21. Breakaway (DeShannon) - Beryl Marsden
Biggest discovery was Tannha"user as the background music for
Peter Sellers' She Loves You. There were a handful more that
would have made the cut if they were 1:30 instead of 4:30. Best
of the best was Gentle Memories Of The '60s, but it was
disqualified, as in The Fest's For Beatle Fans battle of the
bands, for being a medley.
Here are a few questions and comments which may never have found
utterance along the way.
1. No, I can't link Good Golly, Miss Molly with the Beatles,
either.
2. Was there a story on My Sweet Lord (2000)? A demo with
overdubs?
3. Where'd you get the JL intros to Daddy Rollin' Stone in
digital form?
4. This time around I got the "church beadle will pass among you"
joke on Peter Seller's Help! Maybe picked up beadle from English
fairy tales; definitely not Oliver Twist.
5. I'm sure I don't need to know, but I can't make out a word in
Hole In The Scene: "It's like the Beatle said, the one that ____
dead."
6. You think Childish's Hollis Brown was the second recording for
me. If so, it was a fresh listening experience this time, too.
7. Are you the only one asking the insightful questions about the
Tony Sheridan/Beatle recordings? How hard can that be to piece
together once and for all?
8. Surely a dumb question: what's the I Ain't Got Nobody tie-in?
9. Little Joe Ritchie's version of Got To Get You Into My Life,
is identical to somebody else's, but I can't put my finger on it.
10. Already mentioned my appreciation of the Alan Young Show, but
forgot to bring up the American tea bags get caught in the throat
joke. Brings down slightly what was one of my alltime favorite
George Harrison interview quotes (Carroll James?) when he
complained that they get caught in your teeth.
11. Why is Sharon Marie's Summertime so short? Isn't there a
lower limit for pop songs?
12. Why would you have a Halibut cd?
THEE: Subject: Some Answers?
I may be able to offer some direction to the answers about those
dreams but I need to know this e-mail is still valid. I'll await
a response
ME: Yes, the email is current. By all means, let me hear what
you have to say on those "impossible" dreams. Let me know if
it's ok to post on my dream page as feedback. Thanks.
THEE: Subject: Some Answers?
If I'm not mistaken you enjoy puzzling over lifes
little enigmas. Healthy habit to say the least. More of us
should. No problems with posting Don, and Thank You for posing
those questions by the way. I enjoyed reading about those dream
enigmas.
Let me pose a couple of similar dreams I have had to you before I
begin.
One that I have regularly and poses similar questions is one
wherein I am at a large and antiquated mansion and while
leisurely exploring the various rooms I come across a library
room wherein there is placed a small book table. Being that I
naturally enjoy reading I am drawn to a tome of particularly
interesting binding which sits on the table. I open it and begin
to read from it. Each time I have this dream. (Approx, 3-4 times
a year) I find that I am reading something I have obviously not
read before but which has perfectly sound sentence structure and
purpose and I always come away with a sense of having information
I did not have before. But it is I who have dreamt the whole
thing and the new information seems to maintain its validity
even into the waking state.
Another I have had, and one I remember only because I have a
certain admiration for the man is one wherein I found myself out
under the stars on the sundeck of the home of Albert Einstein.
(No, I've never been to nor have seen his home) And he proceeds
to engage me in non physics oriented conversation which is
nonetheless intriguing. This particular dream left me feeling
profoundly honored and fulfilled as one might after an involved
intellectual conversation. But again. It was I who dreamt all
the particulars of this event.
I don't profess to know all the answers much but I can offer a
couple of things I do know. About dreams and dreaming I mean. It
might just shed some light on those questions.
I know. How the hell would I know, right? Reasonable question.
Considering most inhabitants on this planet still scratch their
heads on that one and books on dream interpretation still hold
their own in bookstores.
I know due to the second thing I can offer so we'll just have to
wait on that one. But I will say that one of the most important
things anyone can absorb from their living time is that
Perspective is everything. EVERYTHING. "The cup half full/half
empty" thing. Or the "box frame sketch" that seems to shift
from side to side the more you look at it. Its a question of how
you choose to perceive it or in the case of most people their
perceptual capacity of the situation. In time one realizes that
not even something so seemingly profound as Love is really
complex. It is we who complicate the simple. And, truth is always
simple.
I think the first thing we have to do to get answers to this type
of question is to put the whole thing into the proper perspective
first. Lets say we want to go flying. Not as a passenger but to
personally pilot the aircraft. Well, the obvious thing, we need
lessons. But. when we go to get those lessons, we find the
instructor who agreed to teach us doesn't start off by teaching
us how to fly. He starts by explaining just what an aircraft is
and exactly how it is able to fly in the first place.
Well, in our case we have to start by looking at how exactly we
dream in the first place. By what process are the images we are
given a nightly treat of and which we define as a dream, are
occurring. So that's the first thing I can offer.
Anyway, when we sleep, much of the energy which is normally
utilized for the extraneous bodily needs and conscious activities
is no longer required. Hence this "Relaxed Energy" withdraws
inward with much of it drawn to the Heart and Brain.
Dreams are made of Consciousness, Relaxed energy and an Idea. The
Idea is the film, The Relaxed Energy is the current and the Ego
is the projectionist. The Subconsciousness is the screen.
The relaxed energy from the nerves gathers in the brain and the
film is the experiences impinged on the brain cells where all of
our past experiences are stored. And what exactly is the
projector? The Medulla Oblongata specifically serves as the
projection booth.
So, when a person is dreaming, his energy has relaxed into the
brain; the ego is taking the current of relaxed energy and is
passing it and its ego consciousness through the experiences in
the brain cells and these are being projected as subconscious
dreams;
The ego, plus relaxed energy, plus experiences stored in the
brain, produce images.
Close your eyes right now and try to imagine i.e.; a pan of
frying eggs. You can sort of see the image but not very vividly
for most of us. In fact most people find they can only think the
idea but see no image whatsoever when attempting this. But in
sleep with the excess energy playing over those image storing
brain cells (Film) the images are a lot more vibrant and real to
us (Dream)
Now most scientist who deal with the mind and brain are generally
in agreement that the majority of people use about 8% to 10% of
their brain capacity with a good portion of those scientist
leaning more toward the 8%.
So here we have this excess energy "Enhancing" literally the
images we view in dream state but it stands to reason that the
very same image enhancing, extra (relaxed energy) is also in
various degrees enhancing other areas of mind by the same
mechanism in which it enhances the images. (Brain cells after all
serve other functions besides storing past experiences or
memories). This because, when we speak of the subconscious,
conscious and superconscious minds we have to realize that
although these are separate words describing separate levels,
areas or even specialties of mind, these mind levels themselves
are not so separate but in fact are connected one to the other
with a degree of overlapping of each with the other.
So if in waking conscious state I have a certain degree of
communication and exchange (Whether conscious or not) with the
higher levels of mind it would stand to reason that in sleep with
the now enhanced capacity, I may be having an enhanced exchange
with these higher levels of mind as well.
Here is the second thing...Try this for a six month period and
see if you notice any difference in your ability to be conscious
within your dreams. It is very simple to do and takes very little
discipline. You simply keep a note pad and a dependable writing
instrument on your nightstand as well as a small lamp. Each
morning, anytime that you dream ANYTHING and the moment that you
become consciously aware that you dreamt, immediately take the
time to write down every detail that you can about the dream
WHILE IMAGING it in your mind. EVERY detail you can think of and
remember clearly. If you wake up in the middle of the night aware
that you just dreamt something, turn on that lamp and again
immediately write down every detail. What we are doing in essence
here is pulling into the conscious mind, the dream images and
details which are obviously stored in the Subconscious mind.
Immediacy adds potency to the exercise.
Individuals vary of course but you will find that after a time
you have awareness within your dreams and the ability to control
the dream as well.
I won't get into it here but the bigger question that arises
about the particular content of our dreams is interesting as well
and if one can accept the idea of reincarnation, the
possibilities of the stored film become very interesting indeed.
I'd like to hear your thoughts or results if you should decide to
try this experiment.
ME: but i'm positive I'm *not* dreaming. didn't address my big
question, I don't think. a bit over my head
ME: Made an impulse purchase at the auction today - a colorful dumb
little clown flower pot. Lot cost $2; also got some little
goblets, a little blue hand-blown Williamsburg glass pitcher, one
bowling pin and a Catholic Bible.
THEE: Re: good listenin' more or less
I'll try to answer your questions before joining Hself for a
movie:
1) It's on the "Let It Be" tapes. (I just made that up. it's
an all-purpose answer. I have no idea why I included it.)
2) I thought it was a completely new recording. I could be
wrong.
3) I have a cheap CD of his radio appearances, with the songs
smoothly edited out. Drat!
5) I'm sorry: "and one of them is..."
8) Again, -- no idea.
12) I got it at a used bookstore in Takoma Park. I'd heard they
were a fun new surf band.
A question for you:
1) Why no Chuck Berry on your best-of?
ME: A trick question! Because there was no Chuck Berry on the 6 cds!
THEE: Subject: guitar music at the Library of Congress
I came across your website with information on guitar music at
the Library of Congress and I thought I'd tell you about
something there that you may not be aware of. I worked there in
the summer of 1993 as a Junior Fellow in the Music Division, and
one of my jobs was to create a finding aid for the scores in a 3-
box collection called the "Lord Saltoun Collection of Guitar
Music." This was a small collection of guitar manuscripts of
19th-century works by such composers as Carulli, Giuliani (I
think), and Sor. I don't believe they were original manuscripts
by the composers, but were rather handwritten copies by either
copyists or performers. There ought to be a "finding aid" for
this collection available telling exactly what's in it. I
created the finding aid myself, but I don't think I have a copy
of it anymore. If you're interested, though, I'll dig around and
see if I can find it.
ME: Yes, I remember looking at the Lord Saltoun collection. I
forget now why I didn't do anything with it. It may have been
that I was on some other project at the time, such as guitar &
piano. I seem to remember that the Moretti Tre Rondo were in
there. Perhaps I determined that most or all of the pieces were
available in published editions. But I remember it was fun to
look at.
THEE: Re: good listenin' more or less
Thank you. I knew that about Chuck. (Not really.)
I noticed in a catalog today that Berry's set from the Toronto
Rock 'n' Roll Revival is available on CD. What if he comments
about Lennon between songs? Do I need to get it?
A couple of notes from way back:
If I never properly thanked you for Bob Greene's "Be True to Your
School," I thank you now. One of my favorite bits was his
argument with his father about how he needs to shower every
morning because he gets dirty by sleeping. The cause of this
dirt is "the night molocules," he explained to his father. Tell
no one: I believed that in eighth grade and I believe it now.
Thanks for putting it in words, Bob!
I loved your line in a recent e-mail about how things on back-
order NEVER come. Actually, I hated it. I have a DVD on back-
order (for Hself for a change) at the moment and I just have a
feeling it's NEVER going to come. Thus, I feel your pain.
Week's highlights: I picked up more food at Ruan Thai on
Thursday. It was good!
We watched "The Last Waltz" last night.
THEE: From: eBay Mailed-By: ebay.com
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many artists! (4800577670)
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shipping address
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(Please confirm with buyer that the address is correct)
Your payment instructions: All payment instructions are clearly
described in the item description. Cash only, got it?
D.D. Stalder
1572 Windy Lane Yuma, AZ 85365
[D.D. Stalder never paid. Daniel Hannon was involved in this
robbery somehow, too.]
ME: My own learning center is experiencing some rough waters, but
I have ideas - never fear! It's kind of funny, but your working
hours are just about exactly my ideal - about 5 or 6 hours a day,
4 days a week. Even if it's more than you want, keep telling
yourself, it's not slashing sugar cane or pulling 100 lbs. of
cotton per day.
Thanks for the John Lennon heads-up. I am always the most
oblivious-to-dates person there is, so it didn't even hit me why
he was in the news this morning. Yes, it's been 25 years -
pretty surprising, if not amazing. I mean, that's a whole
lifetime for some pretty mature people.
By the way, the links you supplied didn't quite do the trick for
me. I mention this just in case you're not familiar with one of
the greatest features of the internet - google news. Go to
google and click on the news tab. The rundown of news there is
about all I need, but the fantastic thing is the search box
feature. Just plug in anything of interest, whether it's a
current event, or just a whim, and I guarantee you will turn up
interesting article after article from among 4500 news sources.
After I do this, I usually click on "sort by date". For
instance, here's an unlikely article that mentions the "violin",
from 1 hour ago:
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17484144%255E663,00.html
THEE: Subject: roofball photo
I am writing an encyclopedia of hobbies and interests for the
North American market and would like to add roofball. For this I
need a good action photo. If you feature your photo in the book,
I can offer credits in exchange, i.e. listing your name and
website. Would this work for you?
ME: I'd like to help out. Do you have a deadline? There are no
photos of my family and friends playing roofball, but I suppose
we could get some when we're together and the weather is good.
Also, have you tried the roofball.com link in my page? Does it
still work?
ME: Here's a letter to the Dover Post that didn't fly. Figured
I'd email you a copy so it doesn't go completely to waste. I
think the editor gets a litle tired of my letters propounding
pure democracy. Keep up the good work.
THEE: Re: roofball photo
Yes that website is still operational, Donald. Bob said he didn`t
have any photos either. Unfortunately without a photo I cannot
include the sport in the encyclopedia.
As to deadline: I am finalizing all photos as we speak. I will
try to keep the activity in the manuscript as long as possible,
to give you some time. Meanwhile I hope you and your friends
will play a game soon. If you do, would you be able to get a high
resolution, large format photo? Size matters in this case.
ME: The soonest I could possibly get a photo would be when I go
home to see my family at Christmas. Now, I can't guarantee that
even then that all the conditions will be right to get some
roofball photos, but I'll try if that's not too late. Let me
know if it will still be worth pursuing at Christmas. Thanks.
THEE: Someone out there obviously really likes the French!
(Incidentally, Don, as I'm writing this I'm listening to your
beautiful and relaxing guitar music--thanks.)
This is funny.
1- Go to www.google.com
2- Type in: french military victories
3- Instead of hitting "Search," hit "I'm feeling Lucky"
4- Tell your friends before the people at Google fix it
[The joke is, you get the standard-looking page about no web
pages found. Hey, didn't they help us in the revolution?]
ME: Did a little more (painful) experimenting with the cd
recorder. It failed a 2nd and 3rd time at or about the same
place in the cassette. I then put in a new cd-rw, figuring it
might be the cd-rw's fault. Failed again at about the same spot.
I never managed to have my eyes on it at the critical moment, and
only one time with the sound on.
ME: I finally got a shipment of music cd-rws and started testing
the cd recorder. I've had much success, but a few things still
seem "touchy" about the machine. On rare occasions it has
skipped in the play mode, on new, commercially recorded cds,
even. On some discs it has to really strain to "latch on" to it.
On a couple of commercial discs I can't jump to a high-numbered
track (19 on one, and 27 on another). These glitches are pretty
rare, although they always have me worried about something going
wrong in the middle of a recording project. But the main reason
for writing is to ask about my current problem. I'm trying to
copy a cassette to the cd recorder, and the recorder quits after
about 25 minutes, and I lose everything. On my 4th try, I used a
new cd-rw, in case the first one was faulty. The same thing
happened, at or about the same spot. I can't imagine there being
a 25-minute track limit, and I didn't notice such a thing in the
manual. Any ideas? Thanks.
ME: i know there's an amazingly clever subject line out there
somewhere
Completed analog->digital project no. 2 today. Unfortunately,
for you it will be old hat. Click here when you have 30 seconds.
http://www.dcguitar.net/donaldsauter/oprah.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/oprah-baltimore.htm ]
As per usual you were right about Jay North being in the movie
Maya. I knew that for a few days! I suppose I got myself
confused with the other big star of the movie who didn't join the
tv cast: Clint Walker.
Walking out of my house this morning to go up to the bank of
mailboxes to clear off the snow for the neighborhood, I saw a
huge plume of dark smoke and heard fire engines in the distance.
When I turned 2 corners I saw the house with flames roaring out
of almost every window. You know these things happen but it's
still a heart thumper in person. The heat actually melted the
siding of the house next door. Coming back from the shoveling
chore I heard that it was a clothes dryer that "exploded". Not
sure whether that means literally, as in faulty electronics, or
whether it was a lint buildup.
You wouldn't believe my current stereo hookup. Everything is
piggybacked. To play a tape on my Pro deck, it goes through a
JVC deck and then through the cd recorder and then to the
receiver. If that doesn't cause a fire, nothing will! There are
reasons for this setup.
ME: I found a recording of Oprah Winfrey on an old reel-to-reel
tape of mine, ca. 1980. It's a radio spot in which she plugs an
appearance by cosmetics lady Mary Kay Ash on "People Are
Talking", a Baltimore tv talk show.
Couldn't find a rec.oprah.fans group, so am posting it here, for
anyone who's interested.
http://www.dcguitar.net/donaldsauter/oprah.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/oprah-baltimore.htm ]
ME: Here's another "talking Christmas card". A better idea is to
take my word that it's a great story [Compliments of the Season,
by O. Henry], hunt up the text, and toss the cd. The written
story makes me cry my eyes out every time I read it. Well, so
does my recording (when I listen), but for a different reason.
The MLK special cd came about the night I heard that Rosa Parks
died, I wanted to make a tape of the Sister Rosa song for my
little friend Hself. One thing led to another and I put together
a whole tape of highlights from a Martin Luther King birthday
special. Hself is Delaware's biggest Martin Luther King fan, at
least. Then I got a cd recorder and borrowed the tape back to
put it on cd. (It just barely fit.) Try, to keep in mind it's
the "whole effect" - not any particular song or moment. My track
record is not great when it comes to "overall effect" sound
projects, so again, you might have to take my word that this, and
the 3-hour show it came from, is mighty powerful stuff. Give it
a listen every 3 or 4 years. Don't be put off by sound quality.
It's at least a couple of generations of tape copy. It gets
better than the sludgy Sister Rosa, although not till after the
old Leadbelly recording.
I also put together a little booklet of Rosa Park cartoons for
Hself. I got them off the internet. I made three since that was
minimally more effort than making the first one. Again, I
thought the cartoons were very moving. After the big deal of the
funeral, I suppose they don't have quite the impact as
immediately following Rosa's death.
I read a Scholastic book called "Hurricanes And Twisters". Do
you remember the great tornado that hit Flint on June 8
1953? It killed 113 people and was the 10th most costly in U.S.
history. It was also remarkable for the good-neighborly
rebuilding effort in August. "5500 men, women and boys turned
out as volunteers for "Operation Tornado". They put in 80,000
man-hours of volunteer labor. I also learned that Hazel, one of
the worst hurricanes in U.S. history, barrelled through Baltimore
3 days before my little sister was born. Mom doesn't remember it.
We had a record crowd for Thanksgiving - 55. Hope your birthday,
Thanksgiving and Christmas were or will be fine.
THEE: Sorry about the CD recorder. What in God's name is going
on?
THEE: Cool!
You have digitized an old reel-to-reel tape? Congratulations!
Have you worked out the remaining bugs?
ME: No progress on the cd recorder kicking out of record mode
after 25 minutes. I wrote to the seller about this, and I expect
that that will be the end of our communications. I have to
admit, 25 minutes sounds like such a "round" number that maybe
it's designed to stop there. I didn't see that in the user
manual, and I'm not inclined to reread the whole thing in the off
chance that it might be mentioned in some unlikely paragraph.
I completed another project - and I do mean *project*. It was
just recording about 15 minutes of my own spoken word. I
estimate with my modern technology it took about an extra 4 or 5
hours. Of course, if I knew what I was doing, it wouldn't have
been so bad, but it's a little hard for me to believe the gap
will ever close, or come close to it. That's a long way of
saying don't spring for a cd recorder before we discuss this
further!
One anecdote - when I applied the hiss and hum filter in Wavepad,
it eliminated most of the hiss and hum, 2/3 of my words and the
first half of each of the surviving words. That's one powerful
filter!
THEE: Re: baby and bathwater
Have you Googled "25 minutes" and "[name of recorder]"? Maybe
other shave experienced your pain.
I like that typo: "other shave." Please substitute "others
have."
My typos get worse and worse.
No news of interest here, I'm afraid.
THEE: Fill me in on the mad developer of Dover, your latest
musical events or crab hunts, your book bargains or Grimm
revelations, your newest Kumon students or funny occurrences, and
Mizan's most recent academic and/or artistic triumphs, etc.
ME: Donald Sauter sent you this eBay item: Vintage 1976 E. Power
Biggs - Stars and Stripes Forever (#4807170966)
Dec 12 (2 days ago)
iz710 sent you this eBay item
Personal message:
Hi Craig, Here's your chance, if you don't already have one!
THEE: Thanks Donald!
THEE: Sorry for the delay, I was out of town.
The last CD I recorded had no problems. It was 16 tracks, and
worked fine, and the recording was made about a week before I put
it up for sale. I specifically made a CD to ensure its operation.
I have never used it for anything other than duplicating CD's for
my car, and it has always performed very well.
I would check that the discs you are using are fully compatible.
Also, you mentioned skipping - that is normally cured with a good
cleaning of the CD, unless it is scratched.
Have you checked for any hints in the troubleshooting section?
Sounds like a setting not letting you record past 25 minutes?
With a CD I never had the problem.
THEE: When I visit Mom next week, I'm going to borrow Hself's
violin to play "Believe Me if All those Endearing Young Charms"
which was one of Reverend Hself's favorites and also my recently
deceased violin teacher's favorite. Anyway, why not take some
guitar requests from Mom, and you could play her a song or two of
her choice. Just an idea.
THEE: Subject: Baroque guitar
I am working on my doctorate in guitar at Shenandoah. My thesis
is on French baroque guitar music. I just moved to Winchester
and I am interested in meeting other guitarists and people
intersted in early music who live in the area. Do you live
around here?
ME: I moved from the Washington area to Dover De. two years ago.
I know there are some early guitar and lute music fans in the
Washington and Baltimore area. As a starting point, you might
check the web site for the Washington Guitar Society to see if
there are any leads there for contacting guitarists with similar
interests. Also, I'm sure the newsletter would be happy to print
a notice for you. In fact, they would be happy to print anything
you'd like to contribute.
THEE: Fw: don tapable
You remember where the phrase "Don tapable" comes from, right?
----- Original Message -----
Subject: don tapable
John Lennon: Yoko's Cash-In Continues All right, this is hard
even for yours truly to believe, but here goes. It looks as if
Yoko Ono has licensed a John Lennon action figure that will be
sold, I don't know, in stores of some kind. . . .
THEE: Re: Donald Sauter sent you this eBay item: E. Power
Biggs Stars and Stripes Forever (UNOPENED) (#4808905734)
Bidding for the first one isn't done till tomorrow, and I set a
kind of high maximum to make sure I could get it. But this is the
frustrating thing about eBay. Now an unopened copy comes along!
The person I was bidding against will probably take this one!
Thanks again for the heads up. (Maybe I'll by two?)
THEE: Just pretend you went to the mail box & opened up this
Christmas Card.
Yes, the below is my Christmas card this year. I did get a
Christmas letter out to a few who live away & weren't aware of
what happened.
Things are definitely getting better at home. My FEMA trailer is
set up in my front yard, the yard looks great, no mess anywhere.
We're all still waiting on the O.E.P. who's handling the tearing
down & hauling away of our homes. But one day, it will happen.
I'll like it better when it's gone, as everytime I go inside, it
still upsets me.
ME: On the way to the airport we stopped at the Arbutus firehouse
to look at the train garden. It was very nice, if you're in the
area. Lots of funny little details to look at, and a train that
almost crashes into itself. It's free, although they'll take
donations. I think on weekdays it opens at 6 pm (to 8 pm?)
Both times in Mom's room, I forgot to take away the 4 records I
brought in. If someone wants to get a little clutter out, they
can hold them and I'll get them back into Mom's collection.
THEE: Subject: card&CD
Thank you for the adorable little card and the CD. I need to
listen again, think I dozed off near the end.
I neglected to mention that we were not raised with fluoride in
our water, we have good teeth,so you fooled me with your logic.
Responding at the moment necessary is not my strong suit.
Thanks for the little twister book. I'll look it over soon. A
very appropriate birthday gift I must say!
I hope that you're holding up through this trying time. I
believe in miracles, especially for Mother. I pray for the
best.
ME: I noticed the fluoride flaw as soon as i said it.
THEE: Greetings from Amazon.com,
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that this completes your order.
Thanks for shopping at Amazon.com, and we hope to see you again
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THEE: Subject: Guestbook
I found your pages when I was searching for information on the
Barogue Guitar and they came in very handy, especially the page
on the Quasi-baroque guitar of yours. I did so with my first
classical guitar from 1960, and it worked fine, I did not even
have to use spacers behind the saddle! I also removed the low E
so there was no need for an extra peg. I can of course put in a
peg later if I also want to double the second string and thus
get a full baroque guitar! Since the guitar is rather smallish,
it is more like a baroque guitar also, and in addition I have
made a rosette in the sound hole and some extra ornamentation at
the bridge. Thank you very much for these pages!
ME: Thanks for writing. It's always nice to hear that someone
could make use of some of my suggestions. I always *presumed*
that spacers were necessary to keep the pair of strings from
rattling against each other. So they're not? Very interesting!
THEE: something new for the guestbook if you see value in it
I am a retired 67 year old Aircraft engineer encompassing the
conception that the universe is simply a natural phenomenon
difficult to reconcile with any existing peer-led theory or set
of religious ideas. This concept is expatiated through my website
www.cosmosview.com where a pdf of my book 'Different View' can be
downloaded free of charge
My perception stems from what can be observed in illustration 1c
page 10 of the PDF or page 12 in the actual book
It is my view that the illustration 1c page 10 of the PDF gives
positive proof that a force can produce circulations of energy
that reflect galactic order and magnitude, and at the root of
this force lies segmentation of distance and time; that is -
triangulation (step lengths inside a circle) not being able to
achieve equality within positive circulation (length of time)
reaches equality through the magnitude of negative pressure and
the length of positive straight lines (electromotive force). It
can be seen that positive uses up straight lines of energy
through galactic activity at the peripheries while negative
generates the pressure through the black holes/length of time to
the spherical centre.
THE COSMOS-- STRAIGHT LINES IN CIRCULATION
Looking carefully, the illustration shows on-off flickering of
light circulations in ever increasing separation (Galactic
Order)? as if positive reaction (on), is feeding galactic
activity across the partings of positive and negative straight
lines, while the opposite reaction off, (Negative pressure) goes
straight to the centre beyond our terms of reference.
The conclusion that can be drawn from this evidence, and which
seems natural to me, is that the cosmos is the harmonization of
two natural constants, 21/7 and 22/7, that interconvert
magnitudes of triangulation into distance and time. That is- Step
lengths in a circle =3, expanding into circulation 3 1/7, (22/7)
This is a frame of reference simple to see but extremely
difficult to understand because comprehension can only come
through natural expansion/contraction as seen in the illustration
above and not through the man made parameters of time and speed
THEE: Subject: Katz
Howdy?
I just happened to read Karl Katz last night.
Funny huh?
ME: Thanks for chipping in on Karl Katz. You mean you read the
story on my site, and found the coincidence with Rip Van Winkle
funny? Or, you read a print version and coincidentally found my
web version the next day? If the second case, what book did you
read it in? I'm still wondering how obscure this Grimms tale is.
THEE: Subject: bonz
I was just randomly searching for data that I'm using in an email
correspondance debate with a creationist who works at the NASA
Amese Research Lab, here in the bay area, when I stumbled across
this site and saw Bonz on it!
This guy is simply the most brilliant evolutionary debator I've
ever seen, and that includes the likes of Dawkins, Sagan, and
Gould. Before I talked to him on IRC some years ago, I thought
that evolutionists had to "justify" the plausibility of evolution
when debating creationists. It turns out, they don't. Even if
you ascribe extremely low probabilities to natural processes to
create life, those are still more likely than any other
explanation, simply because we don't know of any other
explanation.
Creationist, "intelligent design", or whatever you want to call
it, makes no sense, because we don't know of any creators, and
we've certainly never observed God making life forms.
It's sad that creationists so badly miss the point of so many of
his analogies. But they are absolutely brilliant, and I applaud
Bonz for his continual fight against the misinformation that
perpetuates creationism in this modern era.
ME: Thanks for giving me some background on Bonz - didn't know I
was rubbing shoulders with one of the big boys! I appreciate you
sharing your position on evolution in a level - friendly, even -
manner. There's little, if any, of that on talk.origins! My
position is that, if the best explanation for something is a
virtual impossibility, there's probably some other explanation we
haven't thought of yet.
When I signed on tonight I saw the verdict came in on the
intelligent design trial. I spent some time looking for
interesting commentary - as opposed to straight news. Let me
share a couple of links with you, not that I expect them to
change your views.
http://www.yucommentator.com/media/paper652/news/2005/12/19/Opinion/The-Darwinist.Inquisition.Against.Intelligent.Design-1127671.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.yucommentator.com
http://www.dakotavoice.com/200512/Opinion/Editorial/20051220_Editorial.html
http://www.pardonmyenglish.com/archives/2005/12/unintellingent.html
Thanks again for writing.
THEE: Subject: Woodrow Wilson, Okemah's favorite son
What a marvelous compilation--from the eloquence and touching O.
Henry and Martin Luther King, Jr. to the bluesy and folksy
Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie.
Thanks, Donald. Your CDs arrived yesterday afternoon, and I'm
enjoyin' 'em greatly!
THEE: Subject: ASAP
Who are you top 2-3 couple of opera composers?
ME: ASAP??? What kinda lowdown trick is that to get a lazy lout
to finally respond to an email? I promise, I've been promising
myself for weeks now it's time to get caught up! Actually, not
all that many separate topics to report on, although one of major
significance in my life. (Don't worry.)
It's always fun to do battle with common wisdom, but in opera
there's no sensible way - the big boys are Verdi, Puccini,
Rossini and Mozart. (I know that's 4, but you asked for 2-3
*couples*, i.e., 4-6 composers.)
And while I'm pecking away, where'd this subject line come from?
Subject: Woodrow Wilson, Okemah's favorite son
Glad you liked the records. Remember, the MLK special is not for
driving or doing dishes, etc.
THEE: Re: bonz
> if the best explanation for something is a virtual
impossibility, there's probably some other explanation we haven't
thought of yet.
If you're talking about some alternative explanation to Darwinian
theory, to account for life, yet you haven't observed it, or even
thought about it, then how can you say it is more likely than
Darwinian forces of mutation and selection to be the cause of
life? How can you evaluate the odds of something real and
measurable, against the odds of something we have yet to even
dream up, much less prove the existence of? And say there is
something else in the universe which creates life, with much
greater frequency than any Darwinian processes; if you haven't
observed it or even thought about it, how do you know it's
intelligent?
Now I'm going to basically make the same point, but with a more
visual and concrete mathematical analogy.
I'm going to now pull a nickel out of my wallet. It is minted
2005, and says "Liberty" on the face. On the "tail" side, it
displays two trees on an ocean front mountain side. I am going
to flip it 100 times. Luckily, I type on a dvorak keymap, so the
H and T are right beside each other, and I can shake a clear
container with the coin in it, while I type with my right hand.
I get..
HTTTHHTHTTTHHHHTHTHHTTHTHTHHTTTTTTHHHHTTHTHTHHTTHTHTTHHHHTHHHTHTHHHHTTHHHTTHTTHHHHTHTHTTHTHHHHTTHTHT
Whew..that took a few minutes. Now the probability of getting
this combination is 1/2^100, or 1 in
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's nearly
"impossible" to happen by chance, yet it happened. Do you
propose some other explanation, such as an unseen intelligent
being that acted on those coins with some kind of undetectable
force to make them land in that specific order? According to
your argument above, we could say, "If this particular sequence
of coin flip outcomes is a virtual impossibility, so there's
probably some other explanation (other than fair random flips)
that we haven't thought of yet". I hope this exposes the fallacy
of your argument above.
As for talkorigins.org, I think it is simply the most
authoritative, well written, and extensive source of its kind. I
don't think its authors are ever inappropriate in their
statements, at least not that I've read. It just that, once
you've finally gotten through the layers of confusion and
mathematical distortion that make creationism look like a valid
belief system, and then you see millions of creationists
tirelessly spouting off the same arguments (like the second law
of thermodynamics) that have been refuted time and time again,
all you can do at that point is treat them like a clueless mass
of pesky rodents. They aren't lions. They can't kill you. They
can't make the world stop. But gosh darnit, they are annoying,
and they want to teach your kids a bunch of nonsense instead of
science. Talkorigins might express an undertone that
creationists aren't so bright, which seems to be the case quite
often, but the facts and arguments therein are impeccable in
their accuracy. Imagine how you'd feel if you saw a bunch of
people trying to teach kids that Earth is flat. That's just the
same as creationism, utterly disproven.
I browsed these links. The first one is just typical creationist
complaining that academia won't give them the same
acknowledgement as evolutionary theory gets. I'm sure flat Earth
proponents are just as upset. Too bad. The third link just
outright lies, saying that there is no separation of church and
state, and that this only came from a letter (to the Danbury
Baptists). In fact this letter was written to explain the intent
of the First Amendment, to make sure that it was clear that it
implied government neutrality toward religion. Governments exist
to build roads and schools, give us police and military
protection, and provide infrastructure planning and environmental
protections. That's about it. The company in charge of serving
me by building my roads does NOT need to be taking a stance on a
personal issue! It need only uphold the values that the people
espouse. If 99% of Usians (US citizens) have a Christian
conviction that the death penalty should be in force, then they
can vote for it to be in force, through their representatives.
But they cannot make the government officially acknowledge the
right or wrongness (matters of opinion and personal conviction)
of a particular viewpoint. A government can only act in a way
that is effectual, or injurious, as Jefferson put it:
(O)ur rulers can have no authority over such natural rights, only
as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never
submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our
God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only
as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my
neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. In neither picks
my pocket nor breaks my leg
Please note that I don't wish to discuss this political matter
extensively, I'm just taking a moment to comment on the URLs you
gave me.
THEE: Re: bonz
A couple of corrections. I should have said "If this particular
sequence of coin flip outcomes is a virtual impossibility, then
there's probably some other explanation (other than fair random
flips) that we haven't thought of yet".
Also at one point I used the term "disproven", which is unclear
because it has this mathematical connotation of meaning 100%
certainty. What I should have said is, "overwhelmingly unlikely
in light of all available evidence".
Ta ta..
THEE: Re: Katz
I have a "Junior Library Edition' of Grimm.
ME: I finally took the time to do a google search on "junior
library edition" "grimm(s)" and "katz" and it turned up no web
pages that connect all three! Still intrigues me how obscure
good ol' Karl Katz is on the web, and funny how familiar he is in
your library. Reminds me of the time I was trying to find info
on the common "brown tree cricket" - and only *one* page came up.
THEE: Re: ASAP
Wow, I typed that lion (and advised it) weigh two fast, didn't I?
You don't make life easy with your four composers (and I coulda
named 'em, but wanted to be sure they were your favorites, not
just the big guns). I learned long ago not to assume you'd agree
with the rest of the world. And as far as ASAP, yup, it is that
. . . sorta.
As for the other subject line, it was admittedly a tad obscure to
a non-Okie. Why should I expect you to know that Woodrow Wilson
was Woody's real name. You've gotta clear your head of all that
campaign propaganda that someone is spreading. It's foggin' up
your thinkin'.
And to set your mind to rest, I didn't listen while drivin' or
washin' dishes. My chauffeur does the former, and my dishwasher
does the latter. ;-) I listened with the contents list and
lyrics in hands.
ME: mairzy doats
Please excuse one for the several-month lag in email: in your
frantic Thanksgiving celebration, you didn't get around to
marking and grading "Subject: just gab" of Nov 16 2005. Hey,
rules are rules. No they're not, and if anybody said that to me
I'd punch them in the nose. But you're made of sterner stuff, so
dig it out of your email archives and have thyself a busman's
holiday, haha.
> Why should I expect you to know that Woodrow Wilson was Woody's
real name.
Hey, I remember knowing that once! Plus, now that you shook some
cobwebs loose, I remember used to knowing that Woodrow Wilson
[Period] was born in Staunton, Virginia. So I shouldn't have let
myself get bamboozled by that Okemah business. During the spells
that I worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in
Charlottesville, Virginia, I would occasionally go over to Green
Bank, West Virginia, where the telescopes are. Staunton was on
the way.
Just looked up Woodie Guthrie in one of my encyclopedias and read
the interesting history of Guthrie, Ok. just below - "was founded
and became populous all in one day." The settlers were known as
"boomers". They really milked that word back then, eh?
If the shooting of two policemen in Baltimore Co. on Wednesday
made your news, it might be vaguely interesting to you that I was
driving through the vicinity not many minutes later. I noticed
how the area was thick with police, but didn't find out until
that evening what was up.
Two of my out-of-the-area sisters also received the O. Henry
reading. Hself was very appreciative, but freely admitted
falling asleep half-way through. Hself was also appreciative,
but wasn't familiar with her boombox cd operation, so played the
story in shuffle mode. I would think on the first listen, the
end coming at the end is sort of "right" for that particular
story. On her second try she hit a "repeat" button and heard the
12-second intro 435 times.
I first heard about the current Sudoku craze from family members
on Saturday. Got 2 Sudoku books as presents from students on
Monday. Funny thing is, I had done puzzles like these some years
ago, before the London papers got it from the Japanese, who got
the puzzle from American magazines, and started the craze.
You mentioned studies of the Mother Goose rhymes that give
possible connections with real people and events. That might be
Halliwell's work, which is at
http://www.presscom.co.uk/nursery/nurs4th.html#4_CCLXXV
This isn't one of those, but here's an example of his comments:
> [The joke of the following consists in saying it so quick that
it cannot be told whether it is English or gibberish. For the
version now printed, which is more complete than the one given by
Chambers, I am indebted to Professor de Morgan, who has heard it
in Dorsetshire. It is remarkable that the last two lines are
quoted in MS. Sloan. 4, of the fifteenth century, as printed in
the 'Reliq. Antiq.,' vol i, p.324.]
In fir tar is,
In oak none is.
In mud eel is,
In clay none is.
Goat eat ivy,
Mare eat oats.
Here's the nicest Mother Goose site on the web. I had a heck of
a time finding it the second time around.
http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+103261+hoccview.anv
Notice the funny editorial comments on some pages.
So far for the holidays I've made 2 cheesecakes and 3 different
kinds of cookies, of which, only the batch I made tonight still
survives.
ME: Gravity is a theory. Evolution is a theory. Gravity is good
stuff. Therefore, evolution is good stuff. QED.
Good grief.
What gravity and evolution have in common: no compelling
explanation for either one.
How gravity and evolution differ: everyone sees gravity in action
everywhere, all the time; no one has ever seen the evolution of a
new species in the laboratory, fossil record or nature.
THEE: Re: mairzy doats
> Just looked up Woodie Guthrie in one of my encyclopedias and
read the interesting history of Guthrie, Ok. just below - "was
founded and became populous all in one day." The settlers were
known as "boomers". They really milked that word back then, eh?
Guthrie is an interesting town even today. It got a raw deal,
though, when the capital was moved to OKC. On second thought,
maybe Guthrie was the lucky one. It was able to stay a quaint
little town.
Did you also read about "sooners," the folks that made the
landrun (illegally) sooner than the others? The University of
Oklahoma teams and students are dubbed the "Sooners" and Oklahoma
the "Sooner State." Doesn't speak well for local ethics if you
ask me.
I know the feeling of coming upon all that police presence and
not knowing why, however. That happened to me when I was headed
to the conference at Quartz Mountain Resort in early November.
Highway patrol were everywhere through one stretch of the state
west of OKC. Many people at the conference commented on it, most
saying that the patrolmen clearly weren't after speeders because
they hadn't been stopped. Our hunch was that a convict has
escaped from the prison in El Reno, but we were wrong. We later
learned that a little girl had been abducted in OKC.
> I first heard about the current Sudoku craze from family members
on Saturday. Got 2 Sudoku books as presents from students on
Monday. Funny thing is, I had done puzzles like these some years
ago, before the London papers got it from the Japanese, who got
the puzzle from American magazines, and started the craze.
The Japanese have long been good at borrowing from Americans, but
I hadn't realized these were another borrowing. Thanks for
filling me in. A Japanese friend told me a few years ago about
the "cookie bars" popping up across Japan, for instance. His
two-year-old son also surprised me with the English he'd already
learned, though growing up in Yokohama. He approached me in our
livingroom, looked up, and asked, "Yosuke good boy?" "Yes,
Yosuke, you are a good boy." "Cookie?" How quickly kids learn
how to get what they want!
I've been seeing those Sodoku books a lot. You can imagine that
I do quite a bit of my Christmas shopping in bookstores. I
considered buying a couple for my college roommate (and best
friend in junior high and high school). She's an elementary math
ed. professor at a state university in Illinois and travels
extensively to visit student teachers in the field. I resisted,
however, figuring she'd already have a shelf full of these.
Instead, I ordered two of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next mystery
novels from amazon.com. In one, Thursday Next, female detective,
meets Miss Havisham, in the other Hamlet. Still others deal with
Jane Eyre and Poe. Thursday Next has an uncanny ability for
entering the fiction realm. One of the book titles, Lost in a
Good Book, pretty much says it all, but you have to read to find
the militant Baconians heckling at performances of Hamlet or the
efforts to foil attempted literary homicide when Jane Eyre is
"plucked from the pages." Here's a short excerpt for page 2 of
The Eyre Affair; Thursday Next is speaking:
"I was what we called an "operative grade 1" for SO-27, the
Literary Detective Division of the Special Operations Network
based in London. It's way less flash that it sounds. Since 1980
the big criminal gangs had moved in on the lucrative literary
market and we had much to do and few funds to do it with. I
worked under the Area chief Boswell, a small, puffy man who
looked like a bag of flour with arms and legs. He lived and
breathed the job; words were his life and his love--he never
seemed happier than when he was on the trail of a counterfeit
Coleridge or a fake Fielding. It was under Boswell that we
arrested the gang who were stealing and selling Samuel Johnson
first editions; on another occasion we uncovered an attempt to
authenticate a flagrantly unrealistic version of Shakespeare's
lost work, Cardenio. Fun while it lasted, but only small islands
of excitement among the ocean of day-to-day mundanities that is
SO-27L We spent most of our time dealing with illegal traders,
copyright infringements and fraud."
Intereresting to note, too, that Boswell was Samuel Johnson's
contemporary and biographer. He's likely to have been a bit of a
fraud himself because he quoted conversations with Johnson
verbatim. In the days before tape recorders, this would have
been a feat.
THEE: Look at the date, Donald. Did this take two days to reach
me? Anyway, don't accuse me of breakin' any more rules . . .
even if I have to be reminded to play by 'em.
Wish you both could have hear Dave Para playing that leaf. I was
flabbergasted.
> The only thing I could get out of the mayor was something like,
"The problem is the city already sold the property." Never
thinking on my feet, I didn't say, "Ok, take the money and buy it
back." All further efforts to convince him that Dover's oldest
building looks really neat sitting there got no response at all.
He just looked at me like I had twenty holes in my head. I mean,
we're talking about a regular person; it's not like I was
pestering the Mayor of Paris or London or something.
Some people only care about "progress." Maybe if Dover was a
major tourist attraction like Williamsburg, he'd change his tune,
and then you'd have to deal with all the traffic, the new hotels,
etc. Still, it's a cryin' shame. Those buildings oughta be
preserved. Pack that developer off to New Orleans where he could
buy up property "real cheap" and build to his heart's content.
> Speaking of Dover, remember the courthouse on the Green where I
tried to relate the story of the tavern that used to be on the
spot? It was a King George tavern that changed to the George
Washington tavern in revolutionary times. Those names might not
be exact, but that's the idea. There was a sign that was painted
over that faded to the point where you could see both Georges.
For the sake of this discussion, we'll assume this isn't a bunch
of apocrypha. I thought it was neat that the same thing happened
in Rip Van Winkle.
Neat parallel. This must have been the Revolutionary War
equivalent of "liberty cabbage" and "freedom fries."
> Sort of finished my Mother Goose study. In a perfect world I'd
keep at it until I had 'em all memorized. My American Mother
Goose has 305 rhymes; the British has 217. About 125 were common
to both, so that works out to 397 separate rhymes. There were
also 8 more in an amazing 870-page book I have called Story And
Verse For Children. Everybody should spend a few years of his
life with that one. Noting all the interesting variations is the
stuff of a dissertation, not an email, so you lucked out there.
Tommy Tinker vs. Tommy Tucker; Dickery Dickery vs. Hickory
Dickory; Mistress Mary vs. Mary, Mary; you get the idea. I
should have kept better notes on my new favorites. Here's a few:
> The rose is red, the violet's blue;
The pink is sweet, and so are you.
So some American didn't know what a "pink" is and changed the
line?
> My Lady Wind is a good one. How about the assonance in the first
2 lines here? "It" is a tiny spark.
From it she raised up such a flame
As flamed away to Belting Lane
And White Cross folks were smothered.
Delightful for the kiddies . . . plenty of violence and death.
> At the auction today I got a nice "coffee table"-type book called
"The National Archives Of The United States". I'm just reading
the inner-flap blurb now and see that it marks the
50th anniversary of the National Archives. That's significant in
that it was the exhibition back in 1985 called "The Archives At
50" that knocked me out so and inspired this purchase. At a
glance, though, it doesn't appear that this book is meant to
document that exhibit. For example, I don't see Queen
Elizabeth's handwritten recipe for scones that she sent to
President Eisenhower after a visit here, or some of the schoolkid
entries for a new flag after the admission of Hawaii and Alaska.
Sounds like a neat book, but I want Queen Elizabeth's recipe! My
mom makes scones from a recipe that came from friend who grew up
in an Irish family in Newfoundland. (Btw, Iowa teachers always
insisted that that's "NEW'fundlund," but Jo calls it
"NewFOUNDlund.") I swear that they're plan ol' baking powder
biscuits with a handful of raisins tossed in. Give me the
cinnamon scones at Madeline's Bakery on the Rockville Pike any
day.
> Also got 20 teen magazines from about 1969.
A few years earlier, and I probably once owned 'em.
ME: We had a rainy Christmas, but did the best we could to get
some roofball photos. (Notice the rainbow in 151.) I will
forward the 28 shots in a separate email.
I hope you can find something useful. No one picture seems
perfect to me. Some of the problems are, blurriness, action not
all in the picture, one player blocking the other, ball not in a
good spot to give a good impression of the game. I wonder if you
could construct the "perfect" shot with a little editing. For
instance, 142 might be good if the ball were pasted in from
another picture. 153 or 130 might be nice if the ball were moved
up higher.
THEE: Re: roofball photos
You're the best, Donald! Thank you. I genuinely appreciate you
doing this - especially on Christmas. Looks like you were wearing
your red suit yesterday!
I really enjoyed reviewing those photos. My compliments to the
photographer. In addition to the must-see #151, I found two
other great matches with the enclopedia: numbers 129 and 153.
Would you be able to e-mail those at full size, please? And how
would you like the caption and credits to read?
My wish for you this New Year is as much good luck as your grin
can handle, Donald.
ME: Glad you found some roofball pics that might be usable. Let me
know if the biggies came through. I'll let you take care of the
captions, but here are some details.
Players: Roofball inventor (says he) Donald Sauter and nephew
Hself. Photographer: Hself of inventor). Location: western
Baltimore County, Maryland. This is a "vanilla" roofball roof -
as plain as you can get. A roof this long would allow for
multi-player teams. We used 2 balls that day; the one in
photo 151 is a Barbie (r) ball. I *never* wear a hat,
but borrowed one to make me look more like a sportster
for the photo shoot. I'm getting old, and I'm afraid
that Hself would whup me in a real game.
THEE: Subject: russian 7 string guitar
G'day Donald from DownUnda - thought I'd touch base. I've just
bought my 1st 7 nylon string guitar in a 2nd hand shop. The
dealer had no idea what he had - thought it was a home conversion
or something. It's Russian, Goron (?) brand with a bolt-on neck,
dated 1964 - no idea of its history or anything from the shop.
I'm restoring it and making it left handed as well. The original
brass frets have been filed mercilessly; all the fittings are
reasonably good and the woodwork is proving fine. I'm a guitar
teacher and fixer, so there's no worries about doing as good a
job as is needed. It was in filthy condition but once I got it
home and cleaned it up a lot, it looks as if it will be a
reasonable instrument. Time will tell re sound quality. I'll
experiment with the string gauges to get the right combination.
I'm intrigued with your tunings and comments on your site which
I'll be following up on them in the new year.
ME: Good luck with the Russian guitar. Since it's truly a 7-
string Russian guitar, you can play Russian guitar music exactly
as intended, without any alternate tunings. I've heard others
comment, and I'm sure it would be true for me, that the closer
string placement on the 7-string is hard to get used to for a
6-string classical guitar player. This is not a sales pitch, but
if you get into it and need some good music, I could copy the
nice Sychra "journals" I got from the Library of Congress for
$.24 per page plus shipping. I think there are about 110 pages.
I'd like to see this music get spread around.
ME: Yes, whenever I hear me or anyone bewailing their lousy
rotten modern day job, I simply think of slashing sugar cane or
pulling a 100 pounds o' cotton a day. And then I don't feeeel...
soooo... baaaad. (Name that tune.)
Have you added Pachelbel's canon to your gig repertoire? Here's
a simple but effective version. Hself sent this link along with
this note:
> Here's an interesting rendition. I know we're all far superior
players, but let's cut this poor kid a break! Maybe he'll get
better in a few years. -Hself
> http://media.spikedhumor.com/9250/canonguitar.wmv
Sorry you caught me at a bad time on your last call. Mom died at
2:30 p.m. on Christmas eve. That would be just about exactly two
weeks after the diagnosis of acute lympho-something leukemia.
She was her regular self, brightening up everyone in her
presence, right up to the very end, just weaker day by day.
A few weeks ago a person in Canada writing an encyclopedia of
sports in North America emailed me asking if I had any roofball
pictures. I didn't and said I would do my best when I got
together with the family at Christmas. Turned out to be a rainy
day, but I figured this was the the only opportunity. My nephew
was game, and Hself brought her camera out. The
rain slowed up and then the sun tried to come out. This isn't
one of the best roofball pictures, but it shows part of an
beautiful Christmas rainbow.
ME: Thanks again for all the help with the roofball project. The
writer liked the photos and the email with all the condensed
pictures turned out to be indispensable.
Don't lose the soon-to-be-historic roofball balls.
ME: We had a large and nice get-together at Hself's house on
Christmas. Before most of the crowd arrived, I showed Hself and
my father the classy card you sent, and they were very impressed.
Great art, great music - I need to add it to my opera collection
for the can-can [offenbach - "orphee aux enfers".]
THEE: Re: russian 7 string guitar
G'day again Donald -
Many thanks for such a prompt reply to my rather rambling email.
I was working on the neck at times yesterday. It' is a straight
as an arrow. I've found the right gauge of fret wire in my
stock, so in about three days, it will be finished. The body is
also sanded down to a fine blemish free smooth surface ready for
me to clear finish it tomorrow. Would you believe that the
finish on the neck was "Black Japan" which is a very common
furniture finish used in the 1920s and 30s and not very
serviceable - it chips like crazy. The body is finished in clear
enamel (would you believe) which will be so easy to add to. I've
done the neck in black enamel to keep the finish uniform and
easily retouched in the future. Today I'll be roughing the new
bone bridge saddle and nut, both modelled of the originals but
lefties. I'll leave the nut grooves 'til the last thing to do.
This project is proving to be a very easy one and satisfying.
Re the string spacing, I do also play a 1977 Ovation and a 1964
Telecaster (both custom lefties bought new), so the string
spacing may not prove to be all that much of a problem. The one
thing I am dreading is becoming used to a totally new tuning. In
all my years of playing, I've never been tempted beyond a very
occasional dropped D on the 6th string.
Also many thanks for your kind offer of the authentic Russian
music page copies. Yes, I would love for you to do and send them,
but before you do, please work out the way you wish to be paid
for them and let me know. I've had a couple of slow experiences
over the last year. I've used Mastercard, PayPal and bank draft,
all successfully, the last being by snailmail and therefore
slower, but it all works well. Western Union was a total waste of
time and proved very expensive. I do buy a lot of parts overseas
for the guitar upgrades and repair part of my business.
ME: One nice thing about the Sychra is that it includes some very
easy, but still nice, pieces that you could get used to the
Russian tuning on. My advice on the high D string is: think
*two* frets higher than you normally would. It's not so bad.
For the bass strings, I think you will find that they mostly get
used open. You'll have fun.
When somebody wants copies of my Library of Congress music, the
way I like to do it is just copy it and send it off. That way,
we don't have to guess at the total price beforehand. (I charge
$80/hr to count pages, haha.) I suggest surface mail, even
though it may take weeks, because it is so much cheaper. You've
waited all these years, what's a few weeks? I'm guessing that
with postage the total price will be something like $28 US or so.
If that sounds good, just give the go ahead and I'll get it off.
I'm guessing paypal is the easiest way to go. Someone paid me
that way once and later I couldn't even find any record of giving
him paypal info, so it must be easy.
Very entertaining and impressive web page! To bring a little
life to my own email, here's a picture that was taken yesterday,
Christmas, of me and a nephew playing a sport I invented,
roofball (although others have claimed they invented the same
sport. The nerve!) Notice the rare Christmas rainbow.
THEE: My dad, who died 5-1/2 years ago of liver cancer, as you
may recall, was also amazing. The last couple of weeks, he was on
morphine, which he controlled himself, as needed. He was still
at home. In fact, he was at home throughout the two years of
diagnosed cancer and extensive chemo, with only three hospital
stays when the immunity got so bad that he was hit with
pneumonia. He was moving around the house the day before he died
and eating meals. He had supper that last night. In the wee
hours of the morn, he awoke, got out of bed, and collapsed and
quickly fell into a coma from which he never awoke. He died
early in the evening, a couple hours after we had reached Des
Moines. Minutes before he passed away, Hself got Mom to move around
a bit out of the room, and I was alone with him. He moved
slightly, the first move since he fell into the coma. He then
stopped breathing. I was about to call or get them, but instead
I touched his hand and spoke to him. He resumed breathing.
Michael and Mom quickly returned to the room of their own accord.
Within a couple of minutes, Dad's breathing stopped again. I was
glad that I hadn't been there alone. We often hear that people
may be aware of far more than we think even when they are in a
coma. I've wondered if he knew I was there alone and didn't want
to go like that.
> the classy card you sent, and they were very impressed. Great
art, great music - I need to add it to my opera collection for
the can-can.
A Christmas can-can took me aback, but within the context it
somehow seemed to fit. Just another humorous touch. I found this
card site a while back, and when Christmas rolled around and I
failed to have found time to write real cards, I decided it was
well worth the $8 annual membership payable through PayPal to
send cards by a British artist with good music. What's $8? The
price of maybe 2-1/2 commercial cards. Pretty smart business.
Artists rarely rake in the dough, but by keeping her subscription
fee low (unlimited cards for a year for 8 bucks, and a personal
history page that keeps track of what one has sent to whom so
that repeats can be avoided), I suspect she does well.
It's been ages since I played roofball. My friends and I used
to do that as kids, and I played with the kids when they were
young. With small ones, we mainly used a whiffle ball which
regularly got stuck in the gutter. We always kept a ladder
handy.
> This isn't one of the best roofball pictures, but it shows part
of an amazing Christmas rainbow.
That must have been one heck of a gigantic, long-lasting rainbow.
The other end of it was in Tulsa about 5:00 on Christmas Eve as
we drove to Mom's for supper. It had rained all day and suddenly
started to clear. Christmas day was sunny and so warm that we
went walking without jackets in a small city park adjacent to
Mom's retirement community. It's mainly a large pond/small lake
about a block square, with gravel walking path all around and
dozens of ducks and Canadian geese. The walk was welcome after a
huge Christmas buffet in the retirement facility's diningroom--
everything from Caesar and Waldorf salad to rich homemade cream
of mushroom soup, prime rib and salmon, pecan and walnut pie . .
. and oh so much more that one couldn't possibly eat. The ducks
and geese are daily recipients of leftover dinner rolls from the
diningroom, so they are very friendly and always eager for the
bread line.
Since you didn't mention it, I assume that an envelope hasn't
reached you. Some luck after laying out the Priority postage
which shoulda gotten it there Friday--at least during non-holiday
mailing season. Oh well, watch for it tomorrow.
THEE: Re: roofball pics
They came through beautifully, Donald. Thank you! I also
appreciate the additional information. During final edit I will
e-mail you a copy of your page with more details. Meanwhile, have
fun.
THEE: According to dear ol' MapQuest, it will take me 41 minutes.
I'll allow an hour.
THEE: P.S. Your package to Detroit arrived in tact and I thank you for
all the neat items. Where do you find the time and motivation to
put it all together? You are a true archivist and your efforts
are much appreciated.
Answer to questions in your email:
My Favorite Things - in our holiday gig repertoire.
Pachabel Canon - Not " " " " " " " " " .
THEE: Re: christmas 2005
There's a rainbow in that picture!
Thanks.
THEE: Re: russian 7 string guitar
G'day Donald -
You'll have to send the rules for roofball to us here. I think
our kids have a similar looking game but it is punctuated with
timeouts called ladderbreaks so an intended 40 minute game may
take well over that or sometimes the roof won't give the ball
back so the game ends quite quickly!
I've finished the neck colouring. Rubbing back today to glasslike
sheen. So far, it looks good.
ME: I'll get the Sychra in tomorrow's mail (our Monday). Have
fun with it and share with everyone you can think of. Many, if
not almost all, of the pieces fit pretty well on a 6-string with
a string or two retuned. Exactly which one(s) depends on the
piece.
The "original" roofball rules are at
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/roofball.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/roofball.htm ]
Accept no imitations.
I am a stickler for razor-sharp, top quality photocopies, but
these came out shifted slightly high, and I didn't have it in me
to wrestle with the machine at that time. I hope the shift is
immaterial to you. The original copies were very difficult to
make because of the tight binding of the "journals". That
explains the scrunching and curved staffs on some pages. Anyhow,
it all adds to the charm, no?
THEE: Copy of Andrey Schyra's Journals de Petersbourg
I would be interested in a copy of Sychra's 18 Journals de
Petersbourg or as much as possible. Also I would be interested
in some of the Holland music if possible. So let me know what
costs, etc. and if we can work something out, that would be
great.
ME: Page counts for Justin Holland are approximate.
Justin Holland solo: 290 pp
Justin Minor Holland solo: 40 pp
Justin Holland duo: 100 pp
Justin Holland and Justin Minor single voice/gtr: 120 pp
Justin Holland and Justin Minor voice and chorus/gtr: 50 pp
So all of the Holland music is in the 600 page range.
The way I like to do it is, you email me with what you want and
your mailing address; I copy and send the music off with an exact
page count; and you send reimbursement for the music and postage
when it arrives in good condition. Sound good?
ME: I'll get on it right away. Thanks for being so definite
about it - most people put me through so much back and forth
before taking the plunge that it eats away any "tip" worked into
the price. I really appreciate it!
ME: The funeral for my mom was *very* nice last week. Brother-
in-law Ron Bossom (Harvester) gave a very powerful and moving sermon.
Here is Bob's message with the kid playing pachelbel:
> Here's an interesting rendition. I know we're all far superior
players, but let's cut this poor kid a break! Maybe he'll get
better in a few years.
> http://media.spikedhumor.com/9250/canonguitar.wmv
I confirmed in my encyclopedia of pop music that Pete Seeger
wrote "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (what we were calling "There's A
Season"). They referred to it as "a Biblical passage set to
music by Pete Seeger." I'm kicking myself that I even needed to
look it up to make sure, because I had just read the same info
lately in an old teen magazine in an article about Mary Hopkin.
She had an international hit with it back in 1968, recording it
in about 5 different languages.
ME: Thanks a million for the address labels. It's amazing how
people can "shop" for me better than I can for myself. I always
had address labels in Maryland, but I never got them here because
I never found the right "deal" (a million for $1.98) and because
I had been thinking my address here was a lot shorter. (One
character, now that I think about it.) No, they're not too large
at all. It's great having a bunch of choices, depending on the
mood and the item being sent. I got a "dawg" label off to my
friend Karen [see tribute page] who's making the Okanuba(?) and
Westminster rounds with Merlin again this year. Figaro is doubly
neat because of the guitar.
Mom's viewing and funeral were very, very special. Mom herself
had never placed great importance on funerals, but I can see,
maybe for the first time, how valuable they can be. My brother-
in-law Ron gave the message and you would have known Mom from
that alone, never having met her before. I wish I had the text
or a tape. My niece Elizabeth wrote a nice bio for the program
and I have an idea to put that up on a web page with a few other
thoughts and invite you and a few others to it.
On the way to Baltimore Co. on Christmas morning, I wasn't in
much of a Christmas spirit, as you can imagine. There's a tiny
town called Templeville, Md., I pass through. After turning onto
their "main street" I saw lots of cars parked on both sides. In
about a second I realized, Oh yeah, Christmas, and a Sunday
morning Christmas service at their small, white, wooden church
right up on the street, practically. That seemed nice. My next
trip to Balt. was on Wednesday morning for Mom's viewings. I got
a bit of a shock when I took a glance at the same church - it
wasn't much more than a charred, blackened frame. Of course I
was curious when and how it happened (candles on Christmas?).
When I got around to plugging "templeville" and "church" in
google news, I got no hits.
One of the things soaking up all my time lately has been a web
page pulled together from all those old teen magazines I
mentioned. The page is no big deal, but once I decide to do
something, there's no turning back. I know how things always
take more work than you can possibly imagine, and this took 5
times as much again. My original idea was to just pull out the
significant, weighty Beatle articles and mentions. After doing
that, and throwing out all the other pages, I found myself
finding loads of neat little mentions on the flip sides of the
pages I had kept. They were often more fun or interesting than
the big-deal articles. So I had to go through everything with a
fine tooth comb for every little reference. That meant digging
the discarded pages out of the trash - all the way at the bottom
of my huge Dover trash can. Luckily I only set it out every
couple of months. Think of it as long-term archives, as opposed
to the waste can in my kitchen, which is short term, about two
weeks or so. (Nobody on earth does as much rooting through his
trash cans as me.) Luckily, the loose pages were in some
semblance of order still, although there were many brain-twisters
to solve figuring out order of pages and which ones came from
which magazines. Well, that's all much more than you need to
know, but there might be a few reasons for you making a quick
visit. One is my handling of typos. Couldn't help wondering
what you would think of it. There's a link at the top of the
page to "Typos". Also, you jokingly remarked that, but for a few
years, the magazines might have been yours. I was thinking you
might enjoy vicariously the surprise I got in the pen pal
listings in the June 1968 Teen Screen. You might want to search
out the funny history behind Davy Jones as the Artful Dodger in
Oliver! (We had an exchange about that back in aught-Jan2002.)
Finally, I invite you to skim the "nostalgic" article about Apple
by Derek Taylor written from a 1988 perspective. Derek Taylor
had a reputation as an intellect and writer, I'm wondering what
sort of marks you'd give him. Directness is not his bag. Is
that enough assignments for one web page?
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/bteen.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/beatles-teen-magazines.htm ]
> It's been ages since I played roofball. My friends and I used
to do that as kids, and I played with Meghan and Meredith when
they were young. With small ones, we mainly used a whiffle ball
which regularly got stuck in the gutter. We always kept a ladder
handy.
You call that roofball??? Jeezy-peezy, now that I'm getting a
bit of belated and well-deserved recognition, *everybody's* going
around claiming he/they/um invented it! Here's a note from a
guitarist in Australia I just sent some (Russian) guitar music
to:
> I think our kids have a similar looking game but it is
punctuated with timeouts called ladderbreaks so an intended 40
minute game may take well over that or sometimes the roof won't
give the ball back so the game ends quite quickly!
Thanks for the haggis link. Welsh Harry brought me back a can of
haggis from one of his trips home. Weird-tasting stuff to these
buds. I forget, was it an overdose of sage that dominates the
flavor? (I just sniffed some sage in my spice box and it wasn't
too offensive - but maybe because it's over 20 years old by now.)
The folklore internet course was very interesting. Part of me
thinks, how come I wasn't infused with this great stuff when I
was a kid; the other part says, well, if they tried, how much
would have stuck, anyhow? Probably no better than the mythology
we were taught in elementary school. I could never really get
it, although I accept now that the same story, and the gods
themselves, even, differ wildly depending on who's telling.
Thanks for the newspaper word of the day site. I agree, that's a
nice approach. Had a little problem, though, with each of the
words I saw. For "unethical" I couldn't figure out *what* the
heck the newspaper article was trying to say. For "venue", the
newspaper example didn't fit any of the 4 dictionary definitions.
(I could be crazy, of course.)
I "played the slots" at the post office today with a pocketful of
change. *Then* I find out that rates are going up in a day or
two. Grrrr...
A little item I never checked off was to mention that I fumbled
Schertzinger when you brought him up in November. He wrote a
biggie, I Remember You, that became a rock era hit for Frank
Ifield, and even the Beatles performed it in their early days.
There's a cool live, audience recording of them doing it at the
Star Club in Hamburg on New Year's Eve going into 1963.
Another little note says to mention that Krystal's store is
claimed to have been an underground railroad stop. I have no
reason to dispute it. I don't think I mention she closed it down
a month or so ago. I got a chance to see the cellar and the
cubby holes for fugitives.
I found out in my local paper this morning they took down the
Hanson House in Dover, the one I was rooting for. The paper had
a picture of the operation, but their web site doesn't.
Searching the web for a similar picture didn't turn up one, but I
found this interesting article about what the plans *were* for
the house. Not sure when it was written.
http://www.newszap.com/articles/2004/05/25/dm/central_delaware/dsn02.txt
Anyhow, I went to the site today and picked out the oldest board
and brick I could find. Definitely 1730.
THEE: Re: Katz
"my library" is strictly happenstance.
ME: I gave Dover's First Night a rest this year even though it
was a lot of fun the last 2 years. Should make it a little more
special next year.
I unloaded a bunch of change in the stamp machine in the post
office today - then hear rates are going up in a day or two.
THEE: Subject: Harmony upright acoustic bass
I am looking for info on a "Harmony upright bass" and thought
perhaps it was carried by Sears.
Thank you for any info you may have.
ME: Wish I could help. I searched my disk for references to the
Harmony upright bass and didn't find anything (only a player of
the Bollman upright bass.)
THEE: Subject: Fw: my god, it's don tapable
Hself's always digging this sort of thing up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/m/meetthewife_7774260.shtml
THEE: Butter vs butter, or hink pink: a bovine friend
Regarding butter according to John. Holsteins make milk low in
butterfat, but large quantities of milk. Other cows, like
Jerseys, make a lot of butterfat. Since Holsteins make more
milk, that's what the bulk of dairies use. The breed of cow
affects the amount and probably the flavor of the butterfat.
Throw in the cow diet variable and you have lots of things
affecting the taste of butter.
P.S. cow pal
THEE: Subject: Early sears catolog
I stumbled onto your early Sears catalog pages featuring guitars.
Do you have pages about early banjos as well? Possibly, you can
point me in a direction to access these old catalogs. I am
interested in Montgomery Ward catalog info on guitars and banjos
as well.
Thanks for any info you can provide,
ME: I checked my old photocopies and found that banjos were on
one of the pages (p248) in the 1894 catalog. Unfortunately, the
text is completely illegible for the first 4 catalog items. The
last two, for the Steward model and Our Windsor, are barely
legible.
I've wondered myself whether microfilms of old Sears catalog are
in libraries and available through interlibrary loan. In recent
years, maybe going back 20 or more, there have been facsimile
reprints of early Sears catalogs published, but the ones I've
seen were not complete. Maybe these pop up on ebay or half.com
or amazon.
I'm guessing you want more than what I could provide, but if you
hit a brick wall, I could mail you a copy of my one relevant
page.
THEE: Gosh! Only just found your website. I think people were
nuts not taking up your offer. It is downright sad as well. How
can anybody who lived through the 60's not have some memory
attached to these 4 exceptional musicians? [beatles]
I remember seeing them at Heathrow airport when I was very young
and the excitement from the crowd, nothing like it. Even at 52 I
still know every single one of their songs off by heart, yet I
could not tell you one lyric from todays songs however many times
I listen to them!
Well, just because people didn't take you up on your offer
doesn't mean you weren't right to do it. Just makes you a special
person.
ME: Wow! That was fast turnaround - I just put the "teen
magazine" page up earlier today. Thanks for writing with your
memories. I'll have to tell some Beatle buddies I "met" a fan
who saw them at Heathrow - neat!
ME: Personal message: Guess I can't laugh too hard at this. Seems
there was a time when I thought there might be a few people
willing to pay "what they're worth" for some historic Beatle
bootlegs in my collection. Donald
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Time left: 5 days 18 hours
7-day listing Ends Jan-11-06 11:23:33 PST
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Summary
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directed by the best masters you can contact me before buying,
but beleive me it is a real deal My oncle leave me this
collection before he died,Contact me for the complete; inventory
I can send you by e-mail the catalogue Some vinyls never play,
the;other one are brand new;
ME: sajid, sajid sajid
I finished up my "teen magazine" ripoff page and got it on the
web today. Read it and absorb it so that we may have some
intelligent discourse on Saturday. (Sajid, Sajid, Sajid...)
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/bteen.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/beatles-teen-magazines.htm ]
Already got a nice email from Barbara in the UK who must have
found some Beatle mentions in the cracks between Sajid - told me
she saw them at Heathrow.
P.S. My turntable is not acting wholly reliable.
THEE: Subject: FW: Fantasia X
It is funny, but since I wrote this almost a year ago - it has
nagged me that I did not give more effort to use the tab's string
choices. Over the past few days I have been practicing Fantasia
X again and now conclude that the way of the tab is really best.
I am again glad you had it posted.
It is a grand piece. So evocative. It is curious that as a
Fantasia, and as I understand it, the idea was to use tempo
freely and extemporize. Yet everybody and his brother plays it
to a strict quick time -which is fun too, but nobody plays it
slower or ever alters tempo in any segment or ever has repeats or
variations. It is rich when you play certain passages slower.
Do any recordings of it stand out as unique to you?
ME: Interesting that you should ask. I always thought that the
recording by Renata Tarrago was very unusual, if not actually
odd. She takes almost 3 minutes to get through, when guys like
Parkening and Williams take a little over a minute and a half.
Now that you draw my attention to it, I'd say that parts of her
version do sound fantasy-like. She also plays some funny
harmonies (just plain wrong?) Also, Yepes plays it pretty slow,
taking something like 5 and a half minutes for two run-throughs.
Jose Luis Lopategui takes 4:12 for two run-throughs. Neither one
of them varies much, or anything, on the repeat.
THEE: Re: sajid, sajid, sajid
As always, excellent work.
ME: scrambled eggs aka saturday jan 7 2006
Thanks for coming on over. I never finished the Sudoku anecdote.
Two days after first hearing about Sudoku (under its new name), I
got those two books you saw as presents from two of my students.
About my cd deck being on its best behavior, I was trying to
think of "Murphy's law". I swear, one day I'm gonna wake up and
I won't be able to get a single thought to come to mind. My
American heritage didn't back me up on "punt", but I'm positive I
read that somewhere. I see the next word after punt is punty -
"in glassmaking, an iron rod on which molten glass is handled."
Maybe the reason for the indentation is so that end of the bottle
can be supported on a rod. I've never known how much of our
antics get reported back to Hself, but if she doesn't hear about
you spotting the boot scrape within a twentieth of a second at
2000 feet, there's no hope. Listened to Turtle Dreams last
night. It was ok for a listen, which is relatively high praise,
but won't join my collection. I listened to Beatlegs Podcast
Vol. 1 this morning. A radical thought occurred afterwards.
Maybe I should listen to them right in Wavepad and cut out
undesired material on the fly. One listen, and I have the
listenable goodies as a byproduct. Thanks for indulging me on
the spin through town to see the lights. That was the most
Christmas-y I've felt this season.
THEE: Subject: Harry
Surprise! Surprise!
Arrived home from the South Island before Christmas to find a
carton of gifts, letters and cards. I appreciate your thoughts
very much however, it was the least I could do to provide you
with what information I could as you weren't able to access that
yourself without coming to New Zealand.
It was a tragic event although I am sure you and members of the
Scrabble Club will have long and lasting memories of Harry's
life. Please pass on my thanks for the 'goodies' and letter to
the Scrabble Club members and thanks to you also.
Have been fairly busy with guiding, surveying and visiting family
over the past 3 months and am now spending some time home before
going away to other parts of New Zealand for various activities
later in January.
Egmont has just had a heavy snowfall to low levels. Although it
is not unusual to have light snowfalls this time of the year the
amount of snow this time is uncommon as heavy snowfalls usually
occur during winter and spring months.
ME: I had long since stopped thinking about getting a response
from John Jordan about our "thank you" package. I figured it had
gone astray, or John viewed it as wrapping things up, which is
fine. But I just got this nice email today from John to all of
us.
ME: The Sychra is floating languidly your way. If it arrives in
good shape, looks like the total cost is . . .
In case you or your students or anyone goes at in on a 6-string,
here are some suggested tunings for the Sychra pieces. There
really are lots of nice, playable pieces.
ME: While the music is flying your way, I thought I'd unload some
miscellaneous discussion about the Holland pieces in previous
exchanges. All in the spirit of "for what it's worth".
Also, here are some tuning suggestions for playing the Sychra on
a 6-string. (SYCHRA is plain text; I'm not feeling the energy
right now to create the same file with a billgate extension.)
ME: Here's the Holland chat. Again, it's just some raw emails
that you might find something interesting in if you dig around.
I had started to pull all my info and thoughts on Holland
together in a web page, but got sidetracked along the way. I
still need to pick up the pieces in the Vahdah Olcott Bickford
collection that aren't at LC. Between the two collections, just
about all the known surviving Holland publications are accounted
for.
THEE:
> Thanks a million for the address labels.
Glad you like them. I've made my own, too, but unfortunately
don't dare use most of WC's sheet music covers--a tad bit
politically incorrect. Some irate postal worker might come after
me.
> Luckily I only set it out every couple of months. Think of it
as long-term archives, as opposed to the waste can in my kitchen,
which is short term, about two weeks or so.
You only have to empty your kitchen trash can once every two
weeks or so. I'm impressed.
> I think our kids have a similar looking game but it is
punctuated with timeouts called ladderbreaks so an intended 40
minute game may take well over that or sometimes the roof won't
give the ball back so the game ends quite quickly!
Yup, that's just like Broken Arrow roofball, for sure.
> *Then* I find out that rates are going up in a day or two.
Grrrr...
I bought a sheet of "Let's Dance/Bailemos" stamps this past week
and have used one. Now I'll need some additional stamps to use
the rest.
> A little item I never checked off was to mention that I fumbled
Schertzinger when you brought him up in November. He wrote a
biggie, I Remember You, that became a rock era hit for Frank
Ifield, and even the Beatles performed it in their early days.
There's a cool live, audience recording of them doing it at the
Star Club in Hamburg on New Year's Eve going into 1963.
Interesting. I once asked Ed Berlin about Schertzinger. He'd
never heard of him that he could recall.
> Another little note says to mention that Krystal's store is
claimed to have been an underground railroad stop. I have no
reason to dispute it. I don't think I mention she closed it down
a month or so ago. I got a chance to see the cellar and the
cubby holes for fugitives.
Also interesting. There were two houses in some small town in
Iowa that were also supposed to be underground railroad stops.
Presumably for slaves who had escaped from Missouri. I can't
remember the town off-hand, and actually they were more in the
country than in town. It was somewhere between Des Moines and
Oskaloosa, nearer Oskaloosa where a great aunt and uncle of mine
lived--Dad's mother's sister and her husband. These were large
houses said to have belonged to wealthy brothers who built them,
one white frame house, one red brick. When I used to drive by
there with my parents maybe 4-5 times a year, I always wanted to
go inside, but that wasn't an option.
> Anyhow, I went to the site today and picked out the oldest board
and brick I could find. Definitely 1730.
And you didn' t get me a brick? I could use an historic door
stopper.
ME:
> Wow, funny find about your junior high classmate.
> What about this?
>> In November 1969 I bid $2 on a stack of teen magazines at the
auction at Spence's Bazaar in Dover, Delaware. I suppose I got
about $1 worth of fun out of them, so, to not take a loss, I'm
putting the Beatle mentions on the web. If ten people each get
ten cents worth of enjoyment...
Big deal, anybody can find glaring howlers in anything somebody
else wrote. Except Fido, who's even worse at checking the
plausibility of dates than I am. (Remember my Civil War of 1965,
or something?)
Thanks for the catch! Definitely had the magazine year on the
brain while typing that. Nice to get it fixed before the mobs
arrive. I hadn't invited rec.music.beatles yet, since I was
still making a few minor additions and corrections. I was also
thinking it's time to upgrade to no-ad, greater-transfer service.
Geocities shuts me down all the time for excessive traffic. I
took the plunge today. Now I can invite certain groups to some
of my recent, larger pages.
My friend spun out to Dover yesterday for his second visit.
Looked at the Hanson House void, spotted recent Where Am Is, etc.
etc. etc. Like all of my friends, Hself knows *everything*,
which, for the purposes of this discussion is another teen
magazine tie-in. He knew from web news that Barry Cowsill's body
had been found in New Orleans, apparently a Katrina victim. Kind
of touched me, having gone through so many Cowsill articles in
that batch of teen magazines just recently.
I read your review once and intended to read it again before
making any comments. But it sounded good and I'm guessing the
2nd time through won't give rise to anything of importance from
me. Very impressive the way you can research anybody or anything
in a flash. I did remember wondering if there are rules to
dashes - single vs. double and long vs. short. All I remember
about dash "rules" is a high school English teacher quoting some
grammar expert who said that you use them sort of the same way
you sprinkle salt or pepper on your food, implying no formal
rules and very much up to the individual. This doesn't have
anything to do with your review; you just got me thinking about
dashes. On the second reading, I want to pay attention to all
the government agencies, which makes for somewhat tougher reading
than Grimms, say. Also want to look a few things up, such as
Nisei, which, I presume I should be ashamed to admit, hasn't been
part of my vocabulary.
THEE: No work on instrument this week. Er've had high humidity
and rain which is bad to finish coats ... turns a bit milky if I
do it now. Otherwise I'd be up to assembly by now. I expect
another week.
ME: Step right up, folks! And tomorrow Hself will explain for us
all, for the first time ever, anywhere, by anyone, how this
incredible thing called "evolution" operates, and how it manages
to not leave transitions in the fossil record, the world around
us, and the laboratory. It'll be great!
ME: to rec.music.beatles
I just put up a page I call "Beatles in Miscellaneous Teen
Magazines" from 1968 and 1969. You're all invited. Lots of neat
little time-travelling goodies in there. If nothing else, search
out the Derek Taylor article on Apple in Hit Parader, March 1969.
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/bteen.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/beatles-teen-magazines.htm ]
ME: My current read is "America's Most Hated Woman - The Life and
Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair". That's A-I-R, don't
have a cow.
THEE:
> I was also thinking it's time to upgrade to no-ad, greater-
transfer service. Geocities shuts me down all the time for
excessive traffic. I took the plunge today. Now I can invite
certain groups to some of my recent, larger pages.
Good deal. I've run into that problem with one of those
freebie web servers. I'm going blank on the name. It happens.
Anyway, it's the website of the Escambia County Genealogy
Society--just a little something that came up one time among some
friends. Not exactly the website, but good ol' Railroad Bill of
folk song fame. The website has a pretty good bio of the guy who
inspired the song. I found a better one however, published by
University of North Carolina in its journal Southern Cultures.
But as for the website, about half of the time, it doesn't work.
Other times it works perfectly. The best I can tell, it's the
pet project of the local society president.
> My friend spun out to Dover yesterday for his second visit.
Looked at the Hanson House void, spotted recent Where Am Is, etc.
etc. etc.
Glad to hear that you're still collecting those Where Am I
photos. Maybe we'll get out that way again someday and need some
entertainment.
I hadn't heard about Barry Cowsill. I hadn't thought about
Barry Cowsill . . . Now that you bring it up, though, gosh, I
remember 'em well.
> I did remember wondering if there are rules to dashes - single
vs. double and long vs. short. All I remember about dash "rules"
is a high school English teacher quoting some grammar expert who
said that you use them sort of the same way you sprinkle salt or
pepper on your food, implying no formal rules and very much up to
the individual. This doesn't have anything to do with your
review; you just got me thinking about dashes.
For dashes, you gotta type two hyphens. Sometimes Word turns
'em into one continuous dash, sometimes not. Bill Gates at his
best, I guess. I try to check to make sure they're consistent,
but I'm willing to bet I don't catch all of 'em.
> On the second reading, I want to pay attention to all the
government agencies, which make for somewhat tougher reading than
Grimms, say. Also want to look a few things up, such as Nisei,
which, I presume I should be ashamed to admit, hasn't been part
of my vocabulary.
Shucks, that was the simplified version. I was confused
quickly by all the agencies and organizations. I finally had to
write them down on a notecard that I could keep in the book as I
continued reading. The main group, the National Japanese American
Student Relocation Council, was a Quaker group, not a government
agency. They worked in the camps only because they were
tolerated by the FBI, War Relocation Authority, etc. They came
darn near being booted out several times because Tom Bodine
didn't much care for rules. He wanted to help the students
however he could. By the way, the book doesn't mention this (or
if it does, I didnt' catch it) but Bodine was 27 when he became
director of the West Coast branch of the NJASRC. I got a kick
out of his reason for joining forces with the Quaker activists.
One of my German great grandfathers was a draft dodger, too.
That's what got him to the U.S. Trying to escape Kaiser
Wilhelm's army, he ran off to France and stowed away on a ship to
the U. S.
Hself nailed me on Nisei. I defined it parenthetically (American-
born children of Japanese immigrants). I got really confused in
reading the book. I knew Nisei from having read a bit about the
camps in the past. However, the author seemed to randomly use
Nisei and Nikkei. I don't recall ever seeing the latter. Then I
found definitions in an endnote. Nikkei is generic, referring
simply to Japanese people wherever they may be, whatever
generation they may be removed from Japan. The immigrants,
themselves, are referred to as Issei, their children as Nissei.
So . . . does that tell us that N is a kid of someone?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that our weather holds. We're
having rain right now ( a relief after all the dry weather and
wildfires out this way) and the temperature is predicted to be
around 33. There's a strong possibility of rain or snow until
noon tomorrow. If it freezes, I'll be sliding to work, and will
have empty classrooms. Our students never show when the roads
are bad, but the college doesn't close.
All of our students have college email addresses this semester,
which will save on a lot of wasted time when receiving emails
from students who write from anonymous addresses (such as
sexzchick2005), fail to sign their names or identify their class,
and send messages similar to this: "I don't understand the
assignment. Help!" I then must respond with Please tell me who
you are and what assignment you're asking about." By the time
the student sees my reply, explains, and then receives the needed
answer, it's sometimes too late. Anyhoo, after they get those
emails to me, they're ready for the week's real assignments.
THEE: Sounds like an interesting book. I had only vague memories
of this story so just read the article below.
http://crimemagazine.com/ohair.htm
I checked out crimelibrary.com, fully expecting to find more
there, but a search of the site turned up nothing.
I have more to read for the Missouri Folklore Society. One is on
the history of the Irish in St. Louis. The title sounds like it
could be fun, but the author is a priest, and it's all a goody-
goody story about Irish contributions to the city. It's a thin
book, so I hope to finish it this weekend. (Probably wishful
thinking.)
Next in line will be a biography of mother and daughter sharing
the name Marie Laveau, the voodoo priestesses of New Orleans.
That one will be fun.
THEE: Subject: Dover, that's my home town
To quote the last line, yes it is amazing what you can find on
the web...
They're playing our song -- for everybody else. A couple of months
ago, the Lawton Constitution posted an MP3 song file, "Lawton, My
Home Town," to our Web site to help Lawtonians celebrate the
city's centennial. It's been made available again as a free
download at www.lawton-constitution.com.
The 1961 song, originally offered as a promotional single (with
another tune, "The Lawton Twist," as the B-side) by KSWO-AM, won't
make you forget the Beatles, but it's certainly a musical
curiosity.
I asked in an Aug. 13 column if anyone knows anything about the
tune or its performer, credited as Terry Lee. . . .
THEE: I'm at work trying to create a self-scoring dictionary
skills assignment on my class site, and I find myself needing to
tell what I just heard from an older student who has returned to
school. Hself is in her early 30s, with two mixed-race kids,
living with an alcoholic boyfriend who isn't the father of either
child. She came back to school last semester after having dropped
out of high school in 11th grade and later gotten her GED.
Last semester she was required to take my Reading II class. This
semester, she was told that her placement test score was high
enough to take Freshman Composition I, but she chose to enroll in
my Writing II class instead to get some background in essay
writing.
A few minutes ago, I came upon her sitting at a table at the top
of a stairway studying and began talking to her. Here's a
fragment of what she said--as well as I can recall the words. "I
don't understand these kids' fascination with celebrity gossip.
I have enough problems in my own life and could write a book or
two of 'gossip.' When I'm at home, I feel like I'm closed up in
a box. There's a mind in here (touches her head) that needs to
breathe. School is like the air that I need to live. In just
four months, I've changed so much. For the first time in my
life, I have goals and feel proud of myself because I know I can
achieve them.
"For the first time, I can help my 5th grade daughter with her
school work if she has a question. In the past, I used to make
excuses because I didn't know how to help. Now I know the
answers, and it feels good to be able to help her."
Hself plans to enter our nursing program. Her first semester in
school she earned 3 A's and 1 B. In my class, she got her A by
about 1-1/2 points out of 1000. In math she missed it by 2
points.
This is the type of student we need in our community college
classes from time to time--the type that makes the frustrations
worthwhile.
THEE: Subject: A touch of Nilsson in the night
BBC NEWS Swedish opera star Nilsson dies Swedish opera star
Birgit Nilsson, known as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos,
has died aged 87.
Nilsson made her stage debut in 1946 at the Stockholm Royal Opera
and continued to perform around the world until her retirement in
the 1980s. . . .
ME: Thanks for the Nilsson catch. She's now in heavy rotation.
On my gala Fledermauses she sings the vienese folk song "I Could
Have Danced All Night" and speaks a few words in Danish. I see
that I have her in three different Turandot casts.
What on earth am doing spinning vinyl while not making digital
transfers at the same time? Criminy, I only have a couple of
decades left, probably less with hearing.
Hate to be dumb, but is "Lawton, My Home Town" the same as your
Washington song? They didn't mention Washington in the web
article, and they didn't make it easy enough for me to find on
the Lawton Constitution web site. And your flipside wasn't "The
Washington Twist." Heartwarming story, in any case. Actually,
kind of sad that any sort of wackiness or humor has been barred
from radio music for the last 40 years.
I've been plugging through America's Most Hated Woman. If they
ever write your biography, don't let Ann Rowe Seaman do it - she
doesn't miss a thing! *You* couldn't dig up so much stuff on
*yourself*. Amazing job, which is not to say an easy or
enjoyable reading experience. It's really sad how much impact
one messed-up angry loser [to be honest, she was the big winner]
such as Murray could have on a whole country. One revelation is
that even though she managed to soak up all the limelight for the
major Supreme Court case, she had latched her Maryland case onto
an existing, identical Pennsylvania case that would have won by
itself. Who remembers the Schemps?
Riffling the pages once they automatically stopped at mom's page.
I thought, "That's odd; why would the previous owner be looking
up Jane Sauter." Then I remembered you were the one. Does the
reference to 6 children get me in a book? I feel proud and
humble.
THEE: in regards to tomo 2(Libro 2)
First I should start by saying thank you for your site. I am very
new to guitar and i like the older versions (baroque and such)
but I've not much money for lessons and books and you site realy
helped me pick up my guitar and play instead of putting it in a
corner out of frustration.
so thank you agian
I am having trouble trying to print some of the Tomo 2(Libro 2)
pieces. As I am not always able to use the internet I would like
to take them with me so I can practice from paper. I tried using
the method of highlighting the part of the tablature that I
wanted from each page and then right clicking and hitting copy.
Then going to Microsoft works and trying to paste. My microsoft
works keeps printing out the format wrong and no matter what I do
it just takes the last part of each line of the tablature and
messes it up Like this: ex 1
if this is the tablature:
----x--------I------
------x-----I-------------x----I--------x-----------I-- ----x----
----I-------------------I------x-----------I---------------------
I-- --------------I------x-----------I---x--------------I--------
-x----------I-- ---x---------I-------------x----I----------------
---I---------x----------I-- --------------I-------------------I--
-----------------I---------------------I--
i kept getting a printout like this instead: ex2
------x--------I------------x-------I-----------------x-----I-- -
------x-----------I-- -------x-------I----------------------I----
-----x-------------I-- ---------------------I-- ----------------
I------x--------------I----x------------------I-- ---------x-----
-----I--- --------x------I--------------x------I-----------------
--------I-- ---------x----------I---- ----------------I----------
------------I-------------------------I--- ---------------------
I---
Now is there something I am not doing right? or would you sugest
just printing out some staff or tablature paper and doing the old
fasioned way of just copying it myself? but anyways.
p.s. do you know of any baroque guitar cds I should be looking
for that are good. Like any good solo baroque guitar I mean.....
I like A. Segovia and the fellow John Williams (guitar guy not
movie theme guy) but I dont realy know many others and my cd
stores are only pandering to a select type of people (if you know
what I mean COUGH) Well, thank you for your time and keep on
making good web pages so poor strangers like myself can learn to
play baroque guitar.
ME: Glad you can make use of the tablature, to some extent at
least. Looks to me like your problem is basically that your
margins are too big, so the tab line doesn't fit and gets broken
at the end. Did you visit my page
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/gentab.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/ascii-tablature.htm ]
I give some instructions for printing out from microsoft Word.
That's about the best I can do. I myself don't know what
microsoft works is. If my instructions don't make sense, maybe
you could find a friend who has some experience with Word.
Have you tried plugging "baroque guitar" into ebay as a "saved
search" so you will get a message every time somebody puts one up
for sale? Good luck!
THEE: I enjoyed reading some of the tips from your students. They
are very helpful. I am a student in Florida and I am always
looking for ways to improve. I need to work on improvisational
technique right now. It is just something I've always wanted to
learn and it sounds so entertaining on Spanish Classical.
ME: Thanks for visiting. If you're referring to the tips I
picked up at guitar master classes, let's give credit where
credit is due - those classes were given by some of the big names
in the classical guitar field! I'm just an avid amateur guitarist
who observed the classes. Good luck with improvisation - I never
had a knack for it, wish I did!
THEE: Subject: Bily Clocks (& Dvoraks)
A few minutes ago, I sent the following to Studio 360, NPR:
I enjoyed your program with Professor Nafisi Tuesday, January 10,
during my drive home after teaching an evening class at my
Community College. As a former Iowan, however, I spotted an
error in Jeff London's segment on Antonin Dvorak.
After quoting Willa Cather's comment to the effect that From the
New World perfectly captures the American prairie, London
countered Cather's words by saying that Dvorak had never seen a
prairie and that he composed From the New World in New York City.
Although I don't know how much Dvorak's time on the prairie may
have influenced his most famous work, he did spend the summer of
1893 in Spillville, a largely Czech community in far Northeast
Iowa, prior to the Carnegie Hall debut of From the New World.
If Mr. London were to visit Spillville today, he could see the
Dvorak clock designed in the shape of a violin
(http://www.bilyclocks.org/dvorak.html) by the Bily brothers and
now housed in the Bily Clocks Museum, located in the building
where the Dvoraks lived that summer in a small prairie town. He
could also visit the Dvorak Memorial Stone and site where Dvorak
is said to have composed every morning near the Turkey River.
ME: Good catch. I probably would have missed it, thinking, "Hmm,
I thought he made it inland, but I guess they know what they're
talking about." Thanks for refreshing me on Spillville. My own
contribution to the discussion is what Leonard Bernstein would
have had to say about the claim that "From The New World
perfectly captures the American prairie." From his Young
People's Concerts' "What Makes Music American":
" . . . But the trouble is that the music doesn't *sound*
American at all. It sounds Czech, which is how it should sound,
and very pretty it is, too. I'm sure you know the second movement
of the symphony - a famous tune that is often called 'Going
Home'.
"Most people think it's a Negro Spiritual, and it's often sung
that way. But it isn't a Negro spiritual at all; it's a nice
Czech melody by Dvorak. There's nothing Negro or American about
it. In fact, if I put words about Czechoslavakia to it, it could
sound like the Czech national anthem:
Czech - o - slo - va - ki - a, How I long for Thee!
No - ble hills, rocks and rills, land so dear to me.
"Doesn't sound very American, does it?"
I always thought that was kind of humorous.
> I have more to read for the Missouri Folklore Society. One is
on the history of the Irish in St. Louis.
I pulled out my "Irish Soldiers Of Mexico" book and looked up
Missouri to see if there were maybe some interesting stories
specific to Missouri Irish that would put you "one up" on your
author, but no luck. One quote was from a Missouri Protestant
who expressed some sympathy for the Catholic Mexicans. Colonel
William Selby Harney, who was responsible for the savage
execution of the 30 San Patricios (Irish American defectors), had
already racked up a brutal history, including beating a female
slave to death in St. Louis in 1834. He was indicted, jumped
bond, and was legally a fugitive from justice throughout the
campaign in Mexico.
Thanks for the Sweeney Todd link. Chapter 4, "Bloody Business",
describing the miserable, criminal under(?)world of 17th C.
London, was just a short, prose version of The Beggar's Opera.
Master thief and "Thief-taker General" Jonathan Wilde was Peachum
in the opera.
Man the world's a rotten place. Guess I've been reading too much
death and destruction.
ME: to half.com
I am iz710. I just put up 2 CDs. I noted that I would ship them
without jewel cases. Afterwards I saw that this is considered
UNACCEPTABLE. I apologize. It was an honest mistake. (I have
always hated cd jewel cases.) I wanted to confess my mistake
before someone turned me in. Might you consider relaxing the
jewel case requirement?
THEE: Re: Bily Clocks (& Dvoraks)
Thanks for the Bernstein comments. Jeff London made a similar
comment about the Czech sound but without mentioning Bernstein.
Woulda been nice if he had.
THEE: Subject: Aguado
Hi: Where would I get the complete works of Aguado? Thanks, Randy
ME: I don't know about the current availability. All I can
suggest is search the web for "complete aguado" and
"chanterelle". Good luck.
THEE: Re: in regards to tomo 2(Libro 2)
Thank you for answering me. I didn't know that ebay had saved
searches...ive need to pay a little more attention to these
things.. I will go look at your printing tips page now. thank
you again
ME: Didn't mean to leave you hanging - that's not like me and I
hate when people do that. How's this sound for wrapping up our
transaction (Philips cd recorder).
I haven't overcome the problem of the machine cutting off after
about 25 minutes of recording, all of which is lost. It seems
the problem is not unknown - see the usenet discussion below.
I'm also certain the machine is a bit touchy in the playback
mode, hiccuping every now and then where I'm sure the typical
player wouldn't.
However, I do use it for playing cds and I have used it to record
a few projects. Unfortunately I can't use it to record cassettes
and lps unattended, which was the main reason for buying. I am a
little disappointed, but not at all mad at you. I feel like this
is all part of the chances one takes when buying used, older
equipment.
P.S. If the discussion below makes you curious, I use TDK
blanks.
THEE: Aaron Chmbley May 19 1999, 2:00 am
I recently bought a Philips CDR 765 (the one with two decks). So
far I've been completely unable to make a CD. Every time,
without fail, it stops recording appx. 30 minutes into the disk
(30 min of actual recorded music). It then tells me that the
disk is full and will not finalize it. I'm positive that I'm not
actually filling the disk, I watch the timer very carefully to
make sure. I've tried recording the CD a couple different ways
(dubbing, external source, etc.) and it doesn't make a
difference.
Is this a defective unit? Can anybody tell if I'm just doing
something completely wrong?
Thanks a lot everyone!
-Aaron
PS. I e-mailed this question to Philips and so far no response.
THEE: Dennis Jordan May 20 1999, 2:00 am
Hopefully you have an extended warranty..as you will no doubt
read in my posting further down, I've had to return my unit 4
times now for the exact same problem. The latest news is that
Circuit City is going to give me a new unit for the 5th
time...sighhhhh
THEE: Lance Cleveland May 24 1999, 2:00 am
The "word" from Philips is that you may see this problem if you
are using blank CDs that are not up to spec. Philips is stating
officially that the only brands that are manufactured properly
are: - Philips (of course) - Sony - Maxell - TDK
ME: to talk.origins:
Here are a few articles inspired by the Dover school board case
relating to evolution, intelligent design and creation that I
personally found the most interesting:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/idarts.htm
[now http://www.donaldsauter.com/intelligent-design.htm ]
No claim there's anything here you haven't heard before, but I
think that goes for both sides.
THEE: Re: Bily Clocks (& Dvoraks)
> Man the world's a rotten place. Guess I've been reading too much
death and destruction.
Hey, all you've gotta do is read or watch the news. One
advantage to not having a TV. You're limited to radio,
newspaper, and Internet.
THEE: Subject: salary
your web site did not state whether the $1500 salary was weekly,
monthly or yearly. surely this might affect the choice of a
$75.00 or $300.00 raise.
ME: Good question. Salary means yearly here.
THEE: Subject: Cleveland on my mind
We're back from a long weekend in Cleveland. Yes, I visited the
Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. I saw Lennon's "Sarge" jacket and
George's "Concert for Bangladesh" suit, plus many other wonders.
I didn't comb the whole museum, but I didn't see any Beach Boys
at all. Are they still mad about Mike Love's acceptance speech?
Both "The Washington Post" and "the Cleveland Plain-Dealer"
offered photos of Nilsson wearing a miner's helmet with Valkyrie
wings on it. This was a supposedly light-hearted protest of the
darkness of the production she was in at the time.
THEE: I'm finally tackling those St. Louis Irish and winning. A
lot of dull church history but a few interesting folks such as
the man who wore armor and carried a gun after angering the
Jesuits with his anti-Jesuit speeches, who installed two cannons
on top of the medical school he started and aimed them at the
Christian Brothers' school soon across the street, and required
his medical students to spit on the lawn of the Christian
Brothers school on its graduation day. Then there's the Irish-
American performer who stole the hearts of the Germans with his
German dialect character and his aria to sauerkraut.
THEE: The music arrived and is in my hands, wow, what a fantastic
collection. Your check is in the mail.
I read your Holland discussion, wish I had anything intelligent
to add. It sounds like you have done some serious research in
the music archieves of the Library of Congress. Thank you for
that too.
My 7-string Russian carreer boundaries have been expanded
tremendously.
THEE: Subject: ONCE UPON A TIME IN DELAWARE Katharine Pyle 2nd Ed +dj -
Hello. I am the seller of this item, on which you were high
bidder. I will send the book by Media Mail as soon as I receive
your payment of $10.00 (your winning bid of $7.00 plus $3.00
shipping with delivery confirmation). I can accept Paypal, a
personal check, a cashier's check, a money order or cash. I see
that you live in or near Dover, as do I, but please note that I
am not able to hand-deliver the book, so we will still need to
work via the mails. Thanks very much!
You are bidding on a 162-page hard cover book, with dust jacket,
measuring 5-1/4" x 7-3/4" and entitled ONE UPON A TIME IN
DELAWARE by Katharine Pyle. Edited by Emily P. Bissell. Drawings
by Ethel P. B. Leach. Published by E. P. Dutton & Company. Stated
Second Edition. No publication date; however, a previous owner
has written her name and the date of Christmas 1935 on the first
free end paper. The book contains 12 true stories about Delaware
history for school children. The reading level is about 6th grade
and higher. CONDITION: The book spine is mildly sunned and
moderately end-worn. As mentioned, a previous owner has written
her name and date on the first free end paper. There is
occasional very mild foxing on the end papers and very
occasionally on the margin of pages of text. Otherwise, the book
is in very good condition. The dust jacket is mildly to
moderately soiled, and the jacket spine is moderately sunned. The
edges and fold are moderately worn, with chips missing from the
jacket spine bottom, the jacket spine top and adjacent area of
the rear jacket, and on the jacket corners.
THEE: Subject: Le sauteriot de Lazzari ?
Good morning,
I am also a rare and obscurs opera fan et I have a lot of live
radio recordings
Do you think, it is possible to exchange some recordings ?
ME: I am honored you would ask, but I really don't have much in
my collection that would be considered "rare" - it is all
commercially released material. I also have more than I can
listen to, and can accumulate more very inexpensively, so I
haven't gotten involved in trading recordings. But I appreciate
you asking.
Donald (jump)
ME: apocrypha for 6th-graders
Not a biggie, but I wanted to share with someone my most recent
ebay purchase. Got it today - a delightful little book. At the
same time the seller put up a first edition autographed by the
author, but it didn't have the dust jacket (and was more
expensive, but not so bad.) Plus I figured I might actually
experience tiny qualms about highlighting a first edition.
Katharine Pyle is the sister of Howard Pyle, whom I've mentioned
on occasion. He's a painter, illustrator, and writer of pirate
stories and a great fairy tale book I have.
Saw a very, very nice production of Amahl and the Night Visitors
in Smyrna, the town up the road, last Saturday night. First
opera I've seen in Delaware.
Thanks for the link to the MLK newspaper article archive. I
wanted to find the earliest one mentioning both King and Parks,
but didn't see a way to sort by date.
I see in a previous note I wrote 17th C. London when I meant
18th. Oof, I wouldn't have made that mistake in 1st grade.
A dash is 2 dashes - the things you don't learn every day!
THEE:
> A dash is 2 dashes - the things you don't learn every day!
Well, two hyphens, anyway.
THEE: Subject: [TNFP: Beach Boys Fanclub] John and Brian
The Beach Boys fan group I keep an eye on raised an interesting
question the other day: Did Brian Wilson ever meet John Lennon?
Brian apparently says he never did. here's a message from a
well-connected fan.
----- Original Message -----
Subject: [TNFP: Beach Boys Fanclub] John and Brian
May Pang emailed me about John meeting Brian:
John and I did not really hang out with Brian at this party that
we were at. Brian at that time was into all sorts of drugs and
asked John if he had any which John didn't so he went away.
Yes, we met Dennis a couple of times and had a nice chat.
THEE: Re: fingerstyle guitar cds
From: Daniel Hannon
Hi Donald. No, I'm still patiently waiting for them to arrive.
And yes, it has been quite a while since the date of winning
them...I hope the postal service has not made some sort of
mistake with the shipment. I'll be sure to keep you posted on it.
Thanks again. -Sincerely, D.D.
THEE: Subject: Digital Guitar Archive
This is a note to those people with whom I have corresponded
regarding my RIBS program. I have recently made available an
update to my Archive Search pages on my Digital Guitar Archive
website. As it is not complete I have not integrated it with the
main site yet. I am not hosting the digital files themselves, but
the database altogether has 4752 entries from 6 sources with
about 1800 digital files represented. Thumbnails of each page of
music are visible on the search results pages.
I have started a forum topic to discuss the Archive. I still have
lots of ideas for it and am working on at least 2000 more entries
from libraries and other types of materials are being prepared.
http://www.DigitalGuitarArchive.com/Archive_Search
Pass this information on to your friends.
Robert Coldwell www.DigitalGuitarArchive.com
THEE: Subject: Fw: Order Confirmed
I love half.com! I hope. I ordered this within seconds
after you called yesterday.
I'm listening to a wav file called "goose" at the moment.
ME: Looks like you got a steal on "Louise Brooks". The remaining
ones start at $12.47. But what are you reading that stuff for when
there are instant classics out there like America's Most Hated
Woman?
After our phone talk I ran out to the Dover auction/sale. Had
hopes of buying a turntable off of the person who got it last
week, but the deal seems to have collapsed. There was a
middleman.
Didn't leave empty-handed, though. Bought the Stairways To
Heaven cd for 50 cents from a dealer. Beat that on the internet.
I'll have to torture you with some of it in the future. The
"operatic" version falls short, in my view, due to the poppy
backing, as opposed to orchestral. Several Beatle connections.
First one is in the liner notes. Musical director Chris Harriott
says, "What amazed me was the extraordinary range - for instance
one version of Stairway that sounded for all the world like a
whale being tortured with a drum machine. It took me weeks to
work out it was Yoko Ono." That didn't make the cd. Don't know
if I can bear to listen to any of the tracks again, but my
dilemma is, since I have an album of Maple Leaf Rag versions, and
now one of Stairway To Heaven, do I need to become a completist?
I guess it's back to half.com for The Best Of Louie Louie.
You remember more about my life than me. Can you recall the
interest factor in the batch of Bob Harrington records I borrowed
from my mom's collection that we went over one time? He has a
funny part in the book.
THEE: Subject: Jackson Day
After reading the "Finding His Political Master" chapter, you
asked for a clarification of Jackson Day. I would have guessed
it was in honor of Jackson's birthday and would have been wrong.
Here's the truth--thanks again to newspaperarchive.com:
Today, January 8, is Jackson Day. It is the anniversary of the
famous battle of New Orleans, that has been so numerously and
fervently described by historians and orators. Though all
Democrats revere the name of Jackson all the time, on this day
especially do they turn back to the tender memories of that
formidable warrior and fearless politician, whose plan of life,
whose plan of battle, and whose plano of politics was
'steadfastness.' That word is a brief history of the life and
work of Jackson. . . . The celebration of Jackson day throughout
the country is of the most enthusiastic character and is
universal. It is gratifying to see the name of a great
Democratic leader like Jackson so revered. It is for a return to
Jacksonian methods of government that the country most yearns at
this time. That is why the celebration of Jackson day is so very
enthusiastic. . . .
He was of that plain, straightforward character, inspired by the
will of the people and for the people. To turn back to the life
of Jackson is to turn back to the page which directs to
overwhelming victory.
These lessons are taught by the observance of the 8th of January
throughout the country. ["Jackson Day Lessons." Newark (OH)
Advocate. 8 Jan. 1908. 4]
Another holiday has bitten the dust . . . another lost
opportunity for brass bands and parades.
THEE: Subject: fixing skips
All you want is 2 cents? The postage is more than that.
I was going to buy another record... and the song I got it for
wasn't even the one that was skipping.
I actually was thinking about doing something like your
suggestion, but I'm not sure I would have guessed you had to go
in reverse.
Anyway, I just figured I would write and say, "Thanks...It worked
pretty well."
If you want more than 2 cents I'd be happy to send a buck. Shoot
me your address.
ME: Don't worry about the money - it's way to late in life for me
to start getting rich, anyhow. I'm just happy my technique
worked for somebody!
THEE:
Hey Don, Do you remember me I was a guitar student at Saint Rose?
Remember bike riding up that big hill saying if I stop I will not
save the world? I will never forget that... you were a lot of
fun. I just got back into guitar and was surfing when I came
along your website. How are you? Hey your group sounds great!
I hope you have time to write back it would be great to hear from
you.
ME: Great to hear from you! Thanks for taking the chance on
trying to contact my through the trio website. Send me a mailing
address so I can send you a cd of what I think are the most fun
and pleasant cds the trio recorded. I worked around the
headbanging modern pieces. Come to think of it, I'll send you
*2* cds - one with the headbangers on it! Lucky you!
I moved from the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC a little over
two years ago to Dover Delaware, where I opened a learning
center, meaning math and reading. I had been volunteering and
working in local elementary schools for about 5 years before
that. I dug it instantly, and found I had a strong knack for
working with the kids. And they gave every impression of
enjoying working with me. I always tell them, "Just pretend that
the fate of the world depends on you getting the right answer."
(Actually, I only haul that out on occasion, when I'm sure the
student will take it in good fun.)
Well, talking about the move, what I *meant* to lead to is that
it effectively meant the end of our trio get-togethers. So my
own guitar activity has been at a lowpoint lately. If you poke
around my website, you will see I caught the opera bug some years
ago - maybe 8 or so now? Sounds crazy, and I would *never* have
imagined getting hooked by opera, but it's a blast. It was
actually guitar that made the connection. I was playing all
these 19th C. opera arrangements for guitar and finally sprung
for a couple of opera records to hear the originals - and I was
hooked! For the record, while I'm in an expansive mood, those
first 2 operas were Mozart's Magic Flute, of which there are many
guitar arrangements taken from (horrible sentence!), and
Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, of which I have 8 or so
arrangements of the famous Intermezzo. Take a look at my
collection of guitar music copied at the Library of Congress.
THEE: Bob Harrington? Bob Harrington?
Just back from dinner. Our hostess's boyfriend is reading the
new Beatles bio by Bob Spitz (sp?). I think loyal Beatle fans
are supposed to avoid it because of some inaccuracies. I didn't
say this.
If you're looking for albums featuring one song, may i recommend
the album I was listening to today? It's a Beach Boys bootleg
called "Good Vibrations." It consists of the recording sessions
for that particular song, spread over three discs, each more than
an hour long. Great! Zzzzzz.
ME: My rule on my new one-song album collecting craze is cv only!
> Bob Harrington? Bob Harrington?
Good, makes me feel better that you don't remember *everything*.
He was known as the Chaplain of Bourbon Street. Bob was an
evangelist who took a break and had, in your words, a little
"dance with the devil". In his words, in the newsletter you saw,
he had mobs of women "bragging on him".
I'm now going through Mom's Madalyn Murray O'Hair's collection,
correlating everything with the book. How many murder victim
autographs do you own?
Which reminds me, did you get a Lincoln symposium mailing?
THEE: I remember the Chaplain of Bourbon Street! I never would
have been able to come up with his name.
I did get that Lincoln Symposium notice! Are we there?
ME: pass on to Hself (using the aria-naming convention when stymied
for a subject line)
Pass on to Hself my thanks for the sudoku help. I had found the
move she suggested, but only after knuckling under and starting
to pencil in possibilities over the board. The square she named
showed only one possibility, and I kicked myself when I saw it.
The lesson for me is to have more respect for slice and dices
using a single row and column.
You sure about Lincoln? You won't hold me responsible for back-
to-back bummers?
Let a couple of decent-looking opera records and a nice old
booklet about the Library of Congress artwork slip away at the
auction yesterday.
I've been going through Mom's collection of letters from some of
the characters in the Madalyn Murray O'Hair saga. Mom kept up a
long correspondence with one of Madalyn's short-term (most of
them were) employees named Hself. Talking about Bob
Harrington speaking at one of the annual American Atheist
conventions, Hself wrote, "[Madalyn] doesn't mind a little send-
up of Atheism and she knows a send-up of Christians will drive
them wild, since they can't afford a humorous treatment of
Christianity. (The Monty Python production of "The Life Of
Brian" is one of the best treatments of Christianity I've ever
seen.)" Well, maybe that's not so riveting, but there is plenty
of stuff that would catch your attention, like Hself's tattling
that about 1/6 of the American Atheist "3 million dollar" library
was porn.
THEE: Subject: Bill Harry
Dear Donald, An interesting site. Many years ago I suggested to
Neil Aspinall at Apple that I begin a Beatles Archive for them,
but he didn't want to know. This year I'm going to start it
myself and I'll be seeking to collate as many Beatles features
from newspapers of the past as possible.
ME: Sounds great. Will you be soliciting contributors in the
rec.music.beatles group, for example? And if the project catches
fire, will you be able to handle thousands and thousands of
articles, interview transcriptions, etc., from thousands of fans?
It would be a nice problem to have. Hope the project takes off.
THEE: Subject: gruntled and consolate
Hi Donald,
You're one of my friends who will find this funny.
Hself
ME: yes now there's a funny subject or, i was so happy i was
almost gruntled
THEE: Where do I get a library card for the American Atheist
Library?
Lincoln? Two bummers in a row? Last year was great! I met
my favorite professor's son!
ME: This is the paid ad your email dredged out of gmail:
Death of atheist O'Hair - www.wjmurray.com - What really happened
to Madalyn Murray O'Hair? Son tells all!
They're really on the ball, no?
Ok! We're on for Abe!
THEE: Subject: whew . . .
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But I don't suppose that's good enough.
ME: You're not taking all that stuff about math and science
teachers serious are ya?
Funny coincidence, I was actually using good ol' sqrt(2) this
morning, plugging it into a BASIC program I wrote that spits out
values for cubic and quartic functions (zzzzz...) over a
specified domain of x (zzzz....). Now I guess I have to redo it
all a little more accurate... Not sure whether that makes me
gruntled or not.
THEE: Subject: e-bay listings
Thought you might be interested in my latest listings.
My new saying is" Have digital, Will Sell" .Hope things are going
good in Deleware. P.S. If you're coming to Hself's Groundhog
party, new rule is all gifts must be good enough to sell on E-
bay.
ME: Subject: Donald Sauter sent you this eBay item: Grapefruit-Yoko
Ono- First Printing- Intro.John Lennon (#7586757565)
Personal message: Look what I found among my brother's
auctions. Never knew he had such a thing.
Summary Grapefruit By Yoko Ono- Introduction by
John Lennon Copyright 1970 First Printing - Published by Simon
and Schuster I have owned this copy of "Grapefruit" since it was
new in 1970. It has been stored in a box for many years. It is in
very good condition. The dust jacket has one small tear (aprox,
1" long) on rear corner. The cover and binding is in like new
condition. No rips or tears. Upon very close inspection, you may
see two pages have a crease in them.
ME: Subject: Donald Sauter sent you this eBay item: Vintage Three
Stooges Finger Puppets- Larry-Moe & Curly (#6033041610)
Personal message: Here's another one. If this doesn't convert you
into a fan, thre's no hope. Makes me continue to kick myself for not
grabbing the exploded cigar off the stage of their skit at Gwynn
Oak amusement park when I was a kid. It was *right* in front of
me. Was afraid it might still be used in the show, and I'd be
arrested.
Vintage Three Stooges Finger Puppets- Larry-Moe & Curly Item
number: 6033041610
Summary Here is a nice old set of The 3 Stooges Finger Puppets.
I; recently found them while going thru an old box in the attic.
I'm 54 years old, and I know I had them while in elementry
school, or earlier. Very good condition. They are about 2" tall
and 1 1/2 "wide.
THEE: Re: this is the
On another topic, have you downloaded any audio treasures from
the Library of Congress website?
Moving ever onward, Elliott Mintz is in the news today. He's
the publicist now for Paris Hilton and is talking up her latest
crisis.
THEE: Re: Donald Sauter sent you this eBay item: Grapefruit-
Yoko Ono- First Printing- Intro.John Lennon (#7586757565)
Is that really your brother?
He's got a good feedback rating, so I better watch this one.
I suddenly realize that this is a gap in my collection!
ME: send a smell to the moon
Yep, really and truly my brother, Steven.
THEE: Thursday morning at the bottom of the steep hill on the top
of which West Campus is located, I witnessed the worst accident
I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. Coming down the hill was
an SUV, darting in and out of traffic on the 4-line street. The
driver cut around 2-3 cars and then clipped the rear driver's
corner of another while trying to cut around it. I don't know
why this happened because the SUV appeared to have hardly touched
the car, but the SUV went airborne. The rest seemed like slow
motion. When it landed, it was on its roof, and the roof
collapsed. There was a small amount of uncollapsed space on the
driver's side, but the rest of the SUV looked like a pickup with
NO cab. I've never seen the likes of it. I've watched the
newspaper for information but seen nothing. It's hard to imagine
that the driver survived. Two of my colleagues were in front of
me and among the first to grab their cell phones to call 911. I
was far enough back that I didn't call; I could already see many
people in front of me grabbing phones.
THEE: Subject: fish weight
No way,a 10 pound fish plus half his weight is 15 pounds.10
devided by 50% is 5,add them together,the answer is 15
ME: Not so fast - you just proved that a 10 pound fish weighs
15 pounds. How can that be?
THEE: Re: Donald Sauter sent you this eBay item: Vintage Three
Stooges Finger Puppets- Larry-Moe & Curly (#6033041610)
You saw the Three Stooges!?
ME: walk behind a person for four hours
Now why'd'ya have to bring that up? Makes me think about the
cigar I didn't grab waaah...
THEE: Subject: Browsing....
Hi: Just happened to come across your page by accident and
thought I would give you a hello. Having retired some seven years
ago, I was surprised and delighted to see someone had actually
looked up some of the old classical guitar pieces I had done for
The Sunpapers. Hope you are still well and be sure to catch the
new Michael Lawrence DVD about Manuel Barrueco. It was released
on Feb. 1.
Best, Larry Harris
ME: Thanks for stopping by - I'm quite honored! Your name was
immediately familiar, but I had forgotten how well-represented
you were in that web page until I just took another look. Thanks
for the great material! Feel free to let me know if I over- or
underdid it anywhere. On my last visit to Baltimore my father
mentioned the dvd about Barrueco. It quite surprised me that it
would register with him. I think he saw something about it in
the paper, although it might have been tv.
THEE: Re: fish weight
the question was a 10 lb. fish PLUS half his weight equals what?
ME: Maybe it's easier to think of the other way around - A fish
weighs half his weight plus 10 more pounds.
THEE: Re: send a smell to the moon
I'm still watching the "Grapefruit" auction.
Say, did you tell me a story once about Todd Rundgren and John
Lennon?
ME: Refreshing my memory of the Rundgren/Lennon "feud", I see it
may have been no more than one letter from John to Melody Maker
where he unloads on Rundgren for uncomplimentary things Rundgren
said about the Beatles in an interview. John's letter is in
Coleman's bio. Hmmm..., I never thought that book had anything
much to speak of. Now I see if you flip back 76 pages there's
the picture of John and Yoko in the "cluttered spare room" with
the two virgins (plus one) framed photo.
ME: I got your guitar & piano pieces copied and in the mail a few
days ago. At the post office counter I chose the cheapest postal
class, and as I walked away I regretted it. But what's done is
done. For not much more, it would have gotten to you much
faster. It'll take a few weeks now.
I hope you find a few satisfactory pieces in the LC collection.
In my note with the music I mention that, for me, the fun's the
thing, and I worry a little about others who are looking for
substantial or so-called "performance" repertoire. In any case I
hope at 22 cents per page customers can have fun just digging
around in the hopes of finding a nugget here and there.
I've mentioned my crazy idea to a few performing guitarists.
What would be a really fun recording for me would be an album of
some of the operatic arrangements, such as by Nu"ske, that
alternate a performance of the original aria, with singer and
orchestra, with the guitar & piano arrangement. That would be
unthinkably expensive with professional performers, but maybe the
vocal department of a conservatory could get interested in such a
project. Or, perhaps, a singer could lay down a vocal on a midi-
ized orchestral accompaniment. To whomever pulls this off . . .
I guarantee one sale!
THEE: Re: steal all the clocks and watches in the world
Thanks, Don, that's what I needed.
One final question: What's that have to do with the Three
Stooges?
One other final question: Where were you 42 years ago today?
ME: throw your shadow off a high building
Question 1 is the easiest one I've ever answered. The
Rundgren/Lennon/Three Stooges tie-in is well known to everybody.
Finger Lakes radio man Trevor Joe Lennon interviewed, among
others, offspring of the Stooges *and* bassist Tony Levin, known
for his work with Todd Rundgren, among others. (We've already
met our Lennon quota.)
Question 2 is shakier. Miss Beere's classroom watching the
astronauts touch down at Kennedy airport?
THEE: Fw: Question for item #7586757565 - Grapefruit-Yoko Ono-
First Printing- Intro.John Lennon
Hey Donald, Thought you might get a kick out of this. I'm just
glad the guy e-mailed me while there was still time for me to do
somthing. I had to do some serious work to find out how to cancel
a buyers bid. The E-bay community link did it for me. Got 2
answers real quick. Any how, now I'm worried the 2'nd highest
bidder is going to gripe about being bid up by dead wood.
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Question for item #7586757565 - Grapefruit-Yoko Ono-
First Printing- Intro.John Lennon
Dear friend I have bid for the book Grapefruit of Yoko Ono and I
have marked as bid maxim $10,00. But I don't understand reason
he/she has appeared $1.000. There has been an error. I only want
to bid for $10. He forgives for this problem. I have sent an
answer e-mail to ebay commenting him this incidence. Sincerely
rusolo1913
ME: lob a grapefruit over the moon
Thought you might be interested in what happened with the
Grapefruit auction. I see you didn't get mixed up in it.
THEE: Subject: We need money first
Well, Answer One certainly clears up a thing or two for me.
What!??
The answer I was looking for for question two was something
charming like: "I was talking to my friends about these weird
guys with long hair who had arrived in New York that day..."
THEE: Subject: Grapefruit
You know, I flat-out forgot to bid on "Grapefruit" last
night. I was sorry about that until I saw that it sold for
almost twice what I was willing to bid. I salute your brother's
windfall.
THEE: Subject: Bacon tree
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Fwd: Bad pun!
So bad, in fact, that I'm almost ashamed to send it, and yet . . .
Back in cowboy times, a westbound wagon train was lost and low on
food. No other humans had been seen for days, and then the
pioneers saw an old Norwegian sitting beneath a tree.
"Is there some place ahead where we can get food?"
"Vell, I tink so," the old man said, "but I wouldn't go up dat
hill und down de udder side. Somevun tole me you'd run into a big
bacon tree."
"A bacon tree?" asked the wagon train leader.
"Yah, n bacon tree. Vould I lie? Trust me. I vouldn't go dere."
The leader goes back and tells his people what the Norwegian
said.
"So why did he say not to go there?," a person asked.
Other pioneers said, "Oh, you know those Norwegian people - they
lie just for a joke."
So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the other side.
Suddenly, Indians attack them from everywhere and massacre all
except the leader who manages to escape and get back to the old
Norwegian.
Near dead, the man shouts, "You fool! You sent us to our deaths!
We followed your route, but there was no bacon tree, just
hundreds of Indians who killed everyone but me."
The old Norwegian holds up his hand and says, "Vait a minute." He
quickly picks up an English-Norwegian dictionary and begins
thumbing through it. "Oof-da, I made such ah big mishtake! It
vuzn't a bacon tree,
it vuz a ham bush."
ME: t.o thoughts any nearer to understanding how tiny random
variations can add up? computer genned t.o. comments? gravity =
intelligent force the "gosh" force" scientists band together.
For 99/100 of them , no more weight than newspaper editor.
planetary astronomer? defn of science = common sense. same darn
stuff I use to cross a street or boil a pot of water or put my
socks on. I know people who have never had cold. Suppose a cold
comes along that kills everyone who gets it, (or move to the
other side of the mountain)... Do doubters at least get an
honorable mention/apology for being right up through 2004? Has
orthodox micromutational Darwinistic evolution been abandoned in
favor of big-single-step transitions? I have one of those
evolvosorter machines. I like it when you dump a bag of nickles
in it and $50 gold pieces start dropping through. Evolution the
foundation of biology any more than all of astronomical research
depends on the big Bang? I can't do a science project to see
whether or not gasoline produces bigger roses than milk?
universally derided idea of "big jump" evolution (saltation). If
anything, my bias went the other direction; I included every pro-
evolution article that made any effort to describe it
compellingly. Went for poetry and punch. "It's insanity" I
can't say cuz you'll jump all over me.
ME: lob a grapefruit over two moons
For a while there, the competition was mighty stiff - an esol who
typed in a thousand dollars.
On one of the Sun Country Wine Cooler ads, Ringo says, "Are we
rolling, Bob?" I feel like I've heard George say that somewhere.
Sound familiar to you? And is the original version known to the
masses, or is this an in-joke?
By the way, what's your spin on the Lennon/Rundgren/Three Stooges
connection?
Donald
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