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 Hot today in Boston. It's said the absolute record high for Boston is 10 4 ∘ F ( 4 0 ∘ C ) on July 4, 1911. But today it's said to be 104 deg in Roxbury Crossing [here]. So, hot. Such heat, does in conjure or create memory? The record high for August in Boston is 10 2 ∘ F ( 3 9 ∘ C ), recorded on August 2, 1975, in New Bedford. I feel like I remember that summer especially. Recall it packed with heat that pressed on the noggin, obscured reason, and reduced thinking to 16 rpm. Weather I wrote 1 Weather I wrote 2

HISTORY             SPACE               BLUES POETRY             TRADE PRESS DAYS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Always good to visit Al Compas. Jim Haas's music fiestra. Recently, his take on British Rock led me to create a small addendum. "Failure works for British Invasion Plan" ...  Failure to exactly recreate American Blues. This I learned. It was pandemic time and I wiled away the hours on YouTube. I learned that Paul Jones was childhood friends with Brian Jones - who invited him to move to London with him to start a band - said Paul, Nah – Later, ok he said I will go to London to jam the blues with some art schoolers – the Manfreds - happily end up reinvigorating Brill Bldg wall of sounders like sha la la and do wah diddy [with connection to American jive or cockney patois - where you fill in t...

 

 THis is more a page than a blog and is intermittently updated.  Every day Every day Looking for the bottom. Presidents of countries are now hip to what a meeting at the White House is about. And no version of Trump can shock. He's the guy that didnt want to get his bogus hair wet at the Normandy Memorial Event. How did he become president? He is attacking the Mayor of Boston for calling ICE agents what they are - that is Agents of Trump Chaos. Why not be honest? * * * What we’re actually seeing is much worse: An attempt to end politics as we know it, to deploy force to suppress dissent. Not eventually, but right now. Some supporters of President Donald Trump are calling for a Walmart boycott after an heiress took out an ad to promote a 'No king' protest of the president’s policies. Seems Trump folks want a king. Also dont really want 1st Amendment. Just show. *** · Jun 28 SotaMayor: “That the court uses this case of all cases to review the question of universal injunctio...

I blogged this a few years ago, around the time we hunkered in place, when Marathon bombers were on the loose here. That was still a high time for Globalism, different than now. Such change since! Change in tone at Harvard Commencement last week. Anyway, I thought I'd give a whole page to Havel's brilliant commencement speech of 1995. It's on Globalism. 30 years on. - JV   [Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, on the occasion of his receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, LL.D., at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, delivered the Commencement Address on June 8, 1995. We share with our readers a slightly abridged version of this address. -- ED.] One evening not long ago I was sitting in an outdoor restaurant by the water. My chair was almost identical with the chairs they have in restaurants by the Vitava River in Prague. They were playing the same rock music they play in most Czech restaurants. I saw advertisements I'm familiar with back hom...

My brother and I went to see Shane and the Popes at a place on Landsdowne. Later, a bartender I knew told me Shane n was seen next door drinking 10 gins at Mamakin (place next door) just before going on. He came on sweating and he had two big fans right in front of him set. We had found a place standing right at the stage. Good view. That was not wise because these big droogs started bashing into each other and basically we were in the way and candidates from broken arms etc. So went onto the stage, where a guard was about to block us. But in sign language I explained we were normal people, weren't going to mosh, and and we were just going round the big amps and then back into the safer part peripheral of the crowd again. That found us on stools at the very far back of the bar. We'd seen Shane and the Popes and we could hear them fine in the back. But, at some point he broke into Cracklin Rose. "Neil Diamond?" I asked my brother, Mike. "Wow" Un-cool beyond c...

   Bill Gates Source Code: Harvard Drop-Out Makes Good Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2025 With the likes of Sam Altman and Elon Musk dashing about, we crouch for shelter now in an era where well-funded high-tech bros can live a life that was once reserved only for Doctor Strange. That tends to make Bill Gates’ “Source Code: My Beginnings” a much more warmfy and life-affirming book than it might otherwise have been. In this recounting of his early days, and founding of Microsoft, he paints a colorful picture of a bright and excitable boy making good. Much of Source Code is set in “the green pastures of Harvard University.” [ story continues ... ] [I posted this on Amazon][But if they move the URL, note it is also on LinkedIn, Facebook, and ProgressiveGauge.]