moon traveller herald

July 20, 1969 - I listened via radio, as always. Surprise at night: The moon walk would be televised. Culmination of great effort. But already wondering where attention should focus. Gil Scott Heron had perspecrtive: Whitey's on the Moon. When that fall at Marquette in Public Speaking class assignment to use a visual aid: I white-frosted a Styrofoam cake container and put my brother's little Astronaut figures on top. The surface of the moon was icing on a cake, inside the cake were the flames of war in Asia and riots in cities and starvation in Bangladesh.  I say it was bag mixed with confusion because there was combined great awe and pride - but there was even greater clarity in the view that Earth was in a Tangle. Same is true today, Funnily enough. .. What would Vonnegut say? 'so it goes.' My 2010s remake of the cake is enhanced here thanks to MS Co-Pilot. https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2019/07/50th-anniversary-of-landing-on-moon.html

  Ran in 2008 Bo Diddley died. There are probably some competitive flamenco cats that I am not aware of - but I would rate him greatest rhythm guitar player of all time. The guitar as percussive motivator in his hands was total banshee force, but full of invention. He also had a lyrical approach that was in its turn incredibly rhythmic and original and also humorous. Mona, Who Do You Love, You Cant Judge a Book, Road Runner .. so many numbers that were part of my best days. He created a foundational style of rocknroll and he did so by reinventing the instrument called the guitar. Who would say he did not have his hand on the pulse of his time as much as the Nasa astronauts or the Beats? Say Man, Mumbles, Ride on Josephine, Cadillac, Cops and Robbers. His super session with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. An all instrumental Checker record of his I used to have. Certainly unique. Some good articles have traced his tremendous influence. Let me add a few: The Doors doing Who Do you Lo...

Christmas 1972 When i lived in new york poor as a mouse door   i would go on fifth avenue shopping the windows   but i  got a white knit hat  for my sister at abraham-strauss   then there at scrbiners or coulda been doubledays and it was on about christmas i saw danny kaye brilliant, welcome, witty, immortal, adored by the store help i crossed ore a portal walter mitty in dream trance in life's dance a corker a short time new yorker.   would catch the train outta there but carry sprite danny sprite danny and the hat for my sister   in  a place in my memory.   until this very moment when here it is look here and you stand in front of me.                                        -JV also at  https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2012/12/christm...

  This is a semi religious poem construction for Labor Day! Jack thru John channels Clement. The Catechumen - Clement's Poem I Clement who waltzed my Matilda the known world over studying recall that the 'churches' were simple often, they were someone's apartment and the décor was no décor. You, the prayerful pilgrim brought your emptiness to the void and it became full. - My name is John and this came to me in a dream. more about this : https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2015/10/reading-on-christian-art-of-early-kind.html

 

Archives When buffers overflow their psychic boundaries, rage is feared by peace lovers. In Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, the simmer and pop of ethnic churn cycles always held the threat of breakout. Jerusalem has had these qualities. In fact, Iraq post Saddham is supposed to be a model. News goes bang in the middle but it happens at the edges too. http://radio-weblogs.com/0115044/2004/04/15.html

the plane bumped about slightly off its trolley as it gathered speed and lifted. the lights of the field arched and streaked. in tracy's view these were great candle-powered lamps. the lights - parallel and dance - recall the teacher's musical staff chalk contraption he would as a youth play with on the blackboard after school. supposed to be being punished. [Music] then tracy was in the air and he saw the canyon's lighter rock strata receding across the darkness. the mystery ice squadron boys were out there. the shroud valley boys too. he continued to push the throttle while pirate tearing asleep near a snooze  listen carefully to the engine it was difficult music very white in the watch tower with maylocks and cigarettes predicting the dam was key and the aptly named fog shrouded cast beyond texaco super b male left to come carry 545 passing arrows 555. the radio chatter crisp he could see the light of the tubes that glow through the enforced balsa dash even in the darkne...

Player Piano by Vonnegut describes the factory and the rise of automation in a dystopian but whimsical future. Machinists with their blackened hands. The punch press sound: 'Aw grump. Tonka Tonka. Aw grump. Tonka Tonka.' Vonnegut paints a picture where all humans face the fate of Native peoples run over by a colonizing power, in this case the power is technology, you have little but leisure time, your caught in a dream of 1984 with less harsh edges. He was something of a technical writer when he composed Player Piano [alternatively titled "Utopia."  [a press release and story writer for GE in Schenectady, NY after WW II] and was quite aware of "Cybernetics" because Weiner's writings were prominent. Norbert Weiner appears on page 14 of Player Piano, he comes up in conversation about time and motion.  Reading' And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut a Life" by Charles J Shields page 97 vonnegut is working at General Electric in Schenectady the job he got th...

 A rewrite My Secret Museum of Cybernetics i. Intellectual pretensions were welcome around my house growing up in Racine. I got a job at an after-school job at the library, and found  a book for every imagining I might have. At the point where Bob Dylan and Summer of Love mysticism was passing cars and rockets in my personal hit parade, I chanced upon the notion of feedback. It had a scientific aspect and a musical aspect [the latter in the hands of Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground and Canned Heat]. I was assigned to write a thesis that could serve as an essay for college admission. So I had a mind to study. With Bronski's Science and Human Values in hand I began a piece on The Humanization of Science, in part a Renaissance study. In part a look at the history of alchemy. I'd often begin at the beginning of things and hardly get any further. At the same time I found out about Norbert Weiner and Claude Shannon - about cybernetics and information theory. Cybernetics, closely...

Kremlin-financed media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) is little more than a propaganda machine controlled by Russian intelligence agencies. yet...Anyone shocked by the Kremlin-funded news station RT in all of this probably never heard of Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded news service that broadcast the American response to Soviet propaganda during the Cold War.  The Ruse seem quite able actors in this field - The US seems a ready audience. This stuff is taking me back to college days. I took a class on World Press at BU led by Larry Martin - actually L awrence Martin-Bittman , a former Czech Intelligence Agent - who had a unique view on "News". Martin-Bittman later wrote a memoir The KGB and Soviet Disinformation. There he wrote "Deception is a relatively easy game, particularly against anyone willing to be deceived. " One of Martin-Bittman's acts as part of Czech intelligence was to forge a letter from Cardinal Spellman to a W,German Anti-Commun...

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I remember the joy of watching Mr Wizard. Going into his lab, where he would welcome the kids. Somehow I recall him guest visiting Dave Garroway's Today show. A more vivid recollection is of a visit with Steve Allen. When my son was born, I begin taping his Nickelodeon [?] show to put him in front of it on demand. When I wonder why I am doing what I am doing now I think of shows like Mr Wizard, Bell Telephone Science Hour, and Connections. Thinking here: The kid who was Mr. Wizard's sidekick. It shoulda been me. I was green, the color of envy. I must confess.  https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2007/06/goodbye-mr-wizard-june-12-2007.html

I got hearts, ah, in my looney tunes I got dreams and you do, too I got ten-wheel drive To pick you up, up to your ears, oh I got refined carbon in my eyelids cleared I've got no one to love and no one to fear You better walk it And talk it less you lose that beat You better lose yourself mama And knock yourself right off of your feet. -Lou Reed HEY SHERMAN LET'S GO BACK TO APRIL 2024!