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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

    under the apple suckling tree oh yeah under the apple suckling tree oh yeah   underneath that tree-hee-hee there's just gonna be you and me   under the apple suckling tree oh yeah    

I was there...in mission hill at the apple fest 2011 with The Homestead Family Band.

Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Kansas City Red, Floyd Jones; 1980-81 [Earwig Records] Honeyboy’s music was so straightforward. It is amazing he carried on right up to just recently. He outlasted them all. And became pretty big. A fellow in Chicago named Michael Frank did a great job to get Honeyboy out on the road…to the Smithsonian, and everywhere… Michael formed a studio combo group around Honeyboy [despite the fact that he was a timebreaker from his heart] in the early 80s…Included Walter Horton, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, and Sunnyland Slim. They made a record called “Old Friends” on Michael’s Earwig label. Through Slim I got to meet Honeyboy. He invited us into his house (my wife Cecelia, Slim and Homesick James or Floyd Jones) and was very kindly cordial. Like a lot of South Side homes, they got the bottle of cold tap water out of the refrigerator and poured water for all. Old times. Good times. I am off today…we are moving about two doors down fro...

When he was a year old, Albert Einstein's family moved to Munich, where his father began work in his brother's gas and electrical supply company. Munich was one of the earliest European cities to switch to electric lights. The city had a very small minority of German Jews such as the Einsteins. At four or five, sick in bed, the young Einstein was given a compass, its needle controlled by the invisible field of magnetism. It produced in him a sense of wonder that, according to biographer Walter Isaacson, stayed with him through life. He sought a particularly visual understanding of problems, even when young; relied on the approach later, in his greatest work. In a relatively quick burst of work in the early 20th Century, the brilliant but lowly Zurich patent clerk Albert Einstein upended the conventional Newtonian physics of his time – this despite a mixed academic record, plenty of setbacks associated with anti-Semitism, and a troubled bohemian marriage. He won the Noble ...