Post by Dance Away on May 11, 2009 23:44:03 GMT -5
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1999: Planning For Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Part 1
My last visit with a mental health counselor occurred in October 2001. From 1978 to 2001, I was a sporadic client of mental health counseling services throughout those years.
In September 1999, I sought to re-establish contact with a mental health counseling service agency in my community to inform that agency of my intent to engage in an action of nonviolent civil disobedience in the summer of 2000 in the center yard of the campus grounds of the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) to protest the existence of laws prohibiting women to appear disrobed from the waist-up of clothing in public places (i.e., to protest the criminalization of female toplessness; to protest the patriarchal tyranny of 'the censored breast' in our culture), and to talk about my concern for how my mother was going to psychologically cope with my action.
(This note inserted here on May 10, 2009:
In 2004, my mother at the age of 75 had a bout of double pneumonia that was nearly fatal. Her lung function was damaged as a result (scarring in the lungs). She never fully recovered to the health she had before the double pneumonia. Since the autumn of 2008, her health has been in a noticably progressing state of decline. My extended family and friends of my mother, we all recognize that her failing health in these past six months is, for the most part, attributable to her bout of double pneumonia in 2004. She's been seeing a doctor once a month, and has undergone various exams at the hospital to troubleshoot her declining health.
A year ago at this time, when someone would say to me that if I weren't living with my mother, she'd be in a nursing home, I would think that they were overstating the situation.
Today, I now know it's definitely true. If I weren't living with my mother, she'd be in a nursing home right now.
So, that's what's currently going on in my life right now. I'm tending to my mother whose health is in decline now.)
In my contact with the "Northeast Crisis Service" agency in September 1999, I was not experiencing a 'crisis.' I knew exactly what I wanted. I knew exactly where I was going. I was executing a plan of action that had been evolving in my mind for many months.
I present here a photo of my September 1999 "Northeast Crisis Service" document. I've reprinted the text of this document under the photo:
Northeast Crisis Service
Assessment Summary and Crisis Plan
Client Name: Aaron Vose
City/Town/Zip: Machias ME 04654
DOB: 4/18/63
Age: 36 (circa 1999)
Crisis Worker/Title (two workers):
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX LSW MHRT-II
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX LSW MHRT-II
Date: 9/30/99
PRESENTING PROBLEM:
Client presented at FCS (Family Counseling Services) to explain his plan to participate in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the summer of 2000 at UMM (University of Maine at Machias) to protest the law against women disrobing in public, and his concern about his mother's reaction to this.
ASSESSMENT SUMMARY:
No safety issues. Client would likely benefit from therapy for support as he works toward his goal of increased community contact, and coping with his mother's reaction to his plan.
CRISIS PLAN/REFERRALS:
1. NCS/WC will make referral to FCS for psychiatry and counseling services.
2. Client plans to join fitness center at UMM as soon as it opens.
3. Client plans to go to Machias Motor Inn and try the pool, as soon as possible.
4. He will call NCS/PN 1-800-245-XXXX for support or to access NCS/WA as needed.
By the arrival of the summer of 2000, my thinking had further evolved in my planning for my engagement in an action of nonviolent civil disobedience, and I had scrapped my plan for engaging myself in an action of nonviolent civil disobedience in the center yard of the campus grounds of UMM.
The summer of 2000 passed by without incident.
My first engagement in an action of nonviolent civil disobedience happened a half year later beyond the summer of 2000 on the date of March 27, 2001. To date, this is my one and only incident of 'criminal record' that has occurred in my lifetime thus far. Aside from this one and only incident of 'criminal record,' I don't even have a traffic violation to my name.
In my final 'blue text' thread presentation titled Takin' My Time (blue text #10), I thoroughly describe what happened in my engagement in an action of nonviolent civil disobedience on the date of March 27, 2001.
Ma'am, These are ...Just the Facts
Ma'am, This is the Real McCoy
(This is 'Empowerment')
Bangor Daily News, Tuesday, July 10, 2001, p. B3, "Courts"
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Ma'am, This is the Real McCoy
(This is 'Empowerment')
(This is our culture of 'the censored breast'
getting its patriarchal-biased knickers in a twist
upon witnessing this 'empowerment.')
But, Ma'am, This is Not the Real McCoy
(This is Not 'Empowerment')
Ma'am, You are Allowed to Dream Big
(This is 'Empowerment')
(this, or get married to a U.S. citizen)
Ma'am,
As a Legal Citizen of the United States,
You are Allowed
To Boldly Go Where No One has Gone Before
Ma'am, This is the Real McCoy
(This is 'Empowerment')
Bangor Daily News, Tuesday, July 10, 2001, p. B3, "Courts"
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Ma'am, This is the Real McCoy
(This is 'Empowerment')
(This is our culture of 'the censored breast'
getting its patriarchal-biased knickers in a twist
upon witnessing this 'empowerment.')
But, Ma'am, This is Not the Real McCoy
(This is Not 'Empowerment')
Ma'am, You are Allowed to Dream Big
(This is 'Empowerment')
(this, or get married to a U.S. citizen)
Ma'am,
As a Legal Citizen of the United States,
You are Allowed
To Boldly Go Where No One has Gone Before
Ma'am, here in the United States, a majority may vote that you are not allowed "to boldly go where no one has gone before," BUT, Ma'am, here in the United States, a court of law will overrule a majority vote if the court finds that where you "boldly go where no one has gone before" is your 'equal protection' right to do so as a legal citizen of the United States of America.
(This is 'Empowerment')
[/size]"I wrote Englishman in New York for a friend of mine who moved from London to New York in his early seventies to a small rented apartment in the Bowery at a time in his life when most people have settled down forever. He once told me over dinner that he looked forward to receiving his naturalization papers so that he could commit a crime and not be deported. "What kind of crime? I asked anxiously. "Oh, something glamorous, non-violent, with a dash of style" he replied. "Crime is so rarely glamorous these days.""--Sting (liner notes from the Nothing Like The Sun album)
Ma'am, I Sold Myself Short
(This is Not 'Empowerment')
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Ma'am, You Sold Yourself Short
(This is Not 'Empowerment')
Ma'am, I Really Like Your "Silly Pop Music"
Your Lyrics are Resonating
You're ...On the Right Track
You're ...On to a Very Good Thing
You're ...On-Message
Ma'am, You are the Message
I googled "you are the message"...
books.google.com/books?id=D4XAvxwA7dsC
...LMFAO...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes
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A Broken Window into Civilization
By Kathleen Parker
December 1, 2004
www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker120104.asp
(last three paragraphs shown here)
It is considered sophisticated, on the other hand, to ridicule America's "obsession" with such things as Janet Jackson's nipple, famously revealed during her "wardrobe malfunction" in the Super Bowl halftime show. It was just a breast, for heaven's sake! What's the biggie?
Nipple-schmipple. No it wasn't just a breast. A mother nursing her infant is just a breast. Janet and Justin's little prank was a deliberate act of juvenile defiance, a self-indulgent, narcissistic display by emotionally stunted adults playing fast and loose with the rules for their own amusement. It was a middle finger shoved in Middle America's face.
The point then, as now, is only this. Either we believe in and honor community standards or we don't. Ignoring simple standards, constructed to protect and advance civilization, is like ignoring the broken window. In time, the culture - like the neighborhood - goes to you-know-where in a handbasket.
--Kathleen Parker
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On July 12, 1998, I attended a showing of Meema Spadola's documentary Breasts at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine. At the end of that showing, Meema took to the stage to answer questions from the audience. To Meema and the audience, I offered my testimony about what happened to a boy at puberty who found himself growing breasts on his chest wall, and about the double mastectomy 'body mutilation' that that boy put himself through ...in this culture of 'the censored breast.' In Meema's response to my testimony, she said that she was aware that men do grow breasts, and that she did consider the idea of including men with breasts in her documentary, but, in production, she decided to keep it about women only.
When I spoke before that audience in that theater on July 12, 1998, it was the first time in my life that I spoke before a public audience [outside of a classroom].
This is 'empowerment.'
--Aaron Vose (SpaceMonkey)
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About Meema Spadola, Filmmaker
www.colage.org/documentary/meema.htm
Meema Spadola, Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com/name/nm0816551/
Ma'am,
Don't Give Up Now
We're Proud of Who You Are
1999: Planning For Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Part 1
[/color]Don't Give Up Now
We're Proud of Who You Are
1999: Planning For Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Part 1
Before the Eyes of Mrs. Shipp (blue text #1)
She's A Silly Wing, But I Lov'er Most (blu txt #2)
Bushido (blue text #3)
Duty. Honor. Country. (blue text #4)
Nothing Like The Sun (blu txt #5) w/1st pics of me
If You Steal My Sunshine (blue text #6)
Vive La Omelette (blue text #7)
A Created Rule Of Questionable Motive (blu txt #8)
1999: Planning For Disobedience, Pt.1 (blu tx #9a)
1999: Planning For Disobedience, Pt.2 (blu tx #9b)
Takin' My Time (blue text #10)
A Long, Long Time
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Bangor Daily News, November 15, 1990, p. 21:
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Shuttle Orbit Might Give Mainers a View of Craft
By Aaron K. Vose
Special to the NEWS
November 15, 1990
NASA's scheduled launch of the shuttle Atlantis Thursday night [on November 15, 1990] could offer people in Maine a view of the craft.
If the orbit inclination is 62 degrees and if the sky is clear, residents of Maine and eastern Canada will have an opportunity to observe the burning of the shuttle's orbital maneuvering system engines.
Last Feb. 28, Atlantis launched into a 62-degree orbit inclination to insert a reconnaissance satellite into orbit. In mid-March, this spy satellite was reported to have suffered a major malfunction. It had broken up into several pieces in low earth orbit and re-entered the earth's atmosphere - a total loss, according to the New York Times.
Thus, there is cause to speculate that the next military mission of Atlantis may be heading for the 62-degree orbit inclination once again to insert a replacement reconnaissance satellite into orbit.
Mounted on the aft end of the shuttle's fuselage and flanking its vertical tail are two big pods. Inside each pod is a liquid rocket engine. These two engines are identified as the orbital maneuvering system, or OMS.
The OMS engines provide the final boost necessary for a shuttle to complete its ascent to orbit. Without an OMS engine burn, the shuttle would fall back to Earth with its jettisoned external tank.----- (a break here in this news article for these inserts) -----
NASA press doc on OMS engines:
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The following three NASA press doc pages contain information that made it possible for me to plan out an observation of an OMS engine burn on February 28, 1990. "Table 6-II.--Space Shuttle Launch Events" is profiling (modeling) a 38-degree orbit inclination launch.
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Using the information in these three NASA press doc pages, I applied junior high math skills to extrapolate the 'OMS-1 ignition' range number in "Table 6-II.--Space Shuttle Launch Events" to model a 62-degree orbit inclination launch.
In a 62-degree orbit inclination launch, the downrange distance to the point of the first OMS engine ignition ('OMS-1 ignition') is 80 miles longer than it is in a 38-degree orbit inclination launch. It is longer because the more northerly 62-degree launch does not benefit as much from the speed assist of the Earth's easterly rotational velocity of 914 mph at KSC (Kennedy Space Center) as the more easterly 38-degree launches does.
Here is my 'OMS-1 ignition' range number extrapolation diagram and solution:
(Note: I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade. I missed out on trigonometry. I don't know how to do 'trig'. But that didn't stop me from figuring out what I needed to do in this extrapolation exercise.)
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When a rocket is launched directly eastward from KSC, before that rocket leaves the launch pad, it's already moving at 914 mph on the launchpad as it relates to what that rocket's orbital speed is going to be in a directly eastward launch [into a 28.5-degree orbit inclination] around the Earth. If a rocket were to be launched directly northward or directly southward from KSC, that rocket would then be moving at zero mph on the launchpad as it relates to what that rocket's orbital speed is going to be in a polar orbit around the Earth. Direct northward and direct southward launches get no speed assist to reach orbit from the Earth's easterly rotational velocity. Thus, the more northerly, or the more southerly the heading of a launch path is, the further downrange a rocket has to travel before the 'third stage' engine burn begins (the OMS engines on the shuttle are the functional equivalent of third stage engines on a conventional rocket).
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Using a world globe, a banjo wire, and a world atlas book, I plotted the path and location of an OMS rocket burn of a shuttle ascending up the eastern seaboard in a 62-degree orbit inclination launch. A "62-degree orbit inclination" means that the orbit travels no higher than 62-degrees north latitude, and no lower than 62-degrees south latitude.
I strung the banjo wire tight around the globe (I substituted about 6 inches of the wire length around the globe with a stretched length of rubber band in order to achieve both a tight and easily adjustable fit). I then adjusted the lay of the wire around the globe so that the wire lay over Cape Canaveral, lay over the 62-degree north latitude line, and lay over the 62-degree south latitude line. While adjusting the lay of the wire, I took care to make sure the wire was running in a straight line around the globe. With this banjo wire strung around a globe, I modeled a 62-degree orbit inclination launch path out of Cape Canaveral, and that launch path passed over New Brunswick, Canada.
As the shuttle ascends through of the Earth's upper atmosphere at about 3 minutes into the launch, the Earth begins to rotate or 'side-slip' eastward beneath the shuttle. Of the 10 1/2 minute ascent time to the OMS rocket burn, the Earth is side-slipping eastward beneath the shuttle for about 7 1/2 minutes of that 10 1/2 minute ascent time. This 7 1/2 minute eastward rotation of the Earth beneath the shuttle results in the OMS rocket burn path occuring about 100 miles to the west of the line presented by the banjo wire laying across New Brunswick, Canada on the globe**. After making a 100 mile adjustment to the west in the lay of the OMS rocket burn path over New Brunswick, it is revealed that the shuttle and its jettisoned external tank are passing over both Maine and New Brunswick in a 62-degree orbit inclination launch.
**There are 360 degrees of longitude going around the world. The earth rotates eastward one degree of longitude every four minutes. 7 1/2 minutes (7.5 minutes) divided by 4 minutes = 1.875 degrees of longitude of the Earth having rotated eastward beneath the shuttle at the point of OMS rocket ignition at the latitude line of "45 degrees, 45 minutes north" over New Brunswick, Canada (the latitude line is determined when measuring out the OMS rocket ignition 'range' mile number on a geographic map in a world atlas book). In miles, the distance of travel of 1.875 degrees of longitude at the latitude line of "45 degrees, 45 minutes north" is 85 miles. Calling it "about 100 miles" and "making a 100 mile adjustment to the west" is good enough. A 15 mile error in forecasting the path of an OMS rocket burn going across the sky is an insignificant error toward successfully shooting that OMS rocket burn observation.
My map illustration:
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On the countdown clock of shuttle launch operations, the first OMS engine burn begins at 10 minutes and 39 seconds after liftoff.
At my home in Machias, I stayed up all night and into the morning of Feb. 28 to catch the launch of Atlantis on the Cable News Network. The liftoff came at 2:51 a.m., which is when I started my stopwatch.
After a week of several launch delays. the event over Maine I had been anticipating was finally scheduled to begin in 10 minutes and 39 seconds.
As my stopwatch approached 10 minutes and 30 seconds I decided to keep my eyes glued to the sky. I looked at a 45-degree angle off the horizon, facing north-northeast, and a plume began to make its appearance several degrees below the center of my field of vision.
Over the span of a couple seconds, the OMS engines of Atlantis gradually came to life, developing into a full-throttle burn. The rocket plume was moving away from me, heading toward the northeast. I took a quick glance at my stopwatch; it was passing 10 minutes and 45 seconds.
Atlantis and its jettisoned external tank coasted in over the state of Maine above Penobscot Bay at a height of 62 miles, moving at a velocity of 17,540 mph. or 5 miles per second.
The OMS rocket plume was pastel yellow, and its size was like looking at a peppercorn held out at arm's length. Within the plume, shafts of rocket exhaust could be seen blowing like the curtains of an aurora borealis.
Imagine this oddly animated "bobtailed meteor" moving at the speed of a satellite passing across the sky (much slower than the movement of an actual meteor). This is the earthbound naked-eye view of the shuttle's OMS engines in operation.
Without an optical aid, I observed Atlantis' OMS plume for 40 to 45 seconds before the trees in my back yard obstructed my view at a 10- to 15-degree angle off the horizon. When I lost sight of the plume, Atlantis was above the northeast tip of New Brunswick beginning to move over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, more than 260 miles away from my viewing location in Machias. Were it not for the trees in my back yard, I believe I could have viewed this OMS burn for twice the time and distance.
The point of OMS ignition occurred approximately 15 miles northeast of McAdam, New Brunswick, at the coordinate of 45 degrees, 45 minutes north and 67 degrees, 7 minutes west between Magaguadavic Lake and Cranberry Lake.
Aaron K. Vose, an amateur astronomer, is a resident of Machias.
The 11-15-90 military shuttle mission did not launch northward up the eastern seaboard; it launched directly eastward into a 28.5-degree orbit inclination, ...oops!
The 11-15-90 military mission happened before the age of easy access to information on the Internet.
Had I made an effort before the 11-15-90 launch to go visit a state university library that carries the industry magazine publication of Aviation Week & Space Technology (that library is at the "University of Maine at Orono" or "UMO", a two-hour drive from my home), I would have learned that the 11-15-90 launch was heading directly eastward into a 28.5-degree orbit. And, I then certainly would not have submitted to the Bangor Daily News an article speculating over the possibility of another 62-degree orbit occuring in the 11-15-90 launch.
("Speculating" is a cardinal sin in the news reporting profession, ...a big "oops!", ...I f**ked up big time, ...LMAO)
Here are the Aviation Week & Space Technology reports on the 11-15-90 military shuttle mission that launched directly eastward into a 28.5-degree orbit, and the 2-28-90 military shuttle mission in which I observed the OMS rocket burn over New Brunwick, Canada (a 62-degree orbit):
STS-38 (11-15-90)____STS-36 (2-28-90)
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STS-38 (11-15-90) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-38
STS-36 (2-28-90) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-36
My tips for observing 57-degree and 51.6-degree OMS rocket burns in eastern Maine and Nova Scotia (51.6-degree is launch to space station), and my map illustration:
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Over the past 10 years, I've sighted about a half-dozen shuttles ascending to the space station at the +10:30 count into the launch while looking out toward Nova Scotia at 'one-fist' above the horizon. The optimal viewing conditions for these sightings have been at the end of dusk when the darkness of night has started on the ground, but the light of the setting sun is still illuminating the shuttle and jettisoned external tank at their high altitude in space. These sightings have been about viewing reflected sunlight off the shuttle and jettisoned external tank, not about viewing an OMS rocket burn at the +10:39 count.
What I've been seeing with my naked eye in these end-of-dusk observations of the shuttle's ascent to the space station at the +10:30 count into the launch is a bright frenetically twinkling star scooting across the sky (it's bright because it's sun-illuminated).
On the occasion of a moonless starry night, and well after dusk and well before dawn (the shuttle and jettisoned external tank at their high altitude in space must not be illuminated by a setting or rising sun), an OMS rocket burn observation should be possible in a launch to the space station, ...provided that an 'OMS-1' burn operation is applied in the launch.
I recently learned that not all shuttle launches require an 'OMS-1' burn operation at the +10:39 count into the launch. And, I've begun to suspect that in these launches to the space station, it may be the case that an 'OMS-1' burn operation is only applied in the event of a 'performance malfunction' occurring in one of the three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME engines) during the shuttle's ascent.
I have never caught a view of an OMS rocket burn in a launch to the space station. I have seen the RCS thrusters (Reaction Control System thrusters) firing away on a shuttle that is not sun-illuminated at the +10:30 count into a launch to the space station. (I made my first RCS thruster observation at the +10:30 count on March 15, 2009.) These RCS thruster firings look like a dull red (not bright) frenetically twinkling star scooting across the sky. Why the red color? The RCS thruster firings produce multiple, rapid, short bursts of white light ...like the multiple, rapid, camera flashes of the paparazzis shooting a celebrity. The dark orange colored jettisoned External Tank is in close proximity to, and moving in tandem with the shuttle at the +10:30 count into the launch. I would guess that the red color and the frenetic twinkling effect is caused by the multiple, rapid, 'camera flashes' effect of the RCS thruster firings illuminating the dark orange External Tank ...like the paparazzis illuminating a celebrity with camera flashes.
NASA press docs on RCS thrusters:
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A Uniquely Different View of a Shuttle Launch
A Floridian captured on his VHS camcorder the February 28, 1990 launch of Atlantis.
Floridian Youtube poster "KDD1247" writes:
"Here is a home video of a shuttle launch I shot on S-VHS tape. I never knew that in the future it would be broadcast on a medium like YouTube. Since I live approx 50 miles west of the Cape, I can walk outside to view a launch. What I often do is watch the lift-off on TV and then walk out the door to see the rocket clear the horizon and head for space. This is what I did here at almost 3am. What you'll see is NASA video of the early morning launch from my TV screen and then as it lifts off, I ran outside and captured the view from my yard. I add some narration here & there, but this was solely for home use at the time. The shuttle Atlantis (STS-36) was a secret Dept of Defense mission launch from Pad 39A and lasted just over four days. It had a crew of five and landed at Edwards AFB. I hope you enjoy my video as the rocket lights up the night sky! Recorded: February 28, 1990"There's no audio in the 'normal quality' mode. To hear the audio, watch video in the 'high quality' mode. KDD1247's camcorder clock is slow by 1 minute and 50 seconds. The liftoff time on KDD1247's camcorder clock is about 2:48:32 (I timed it to get a 'seconds' count measure). The actual liftoff time happened at 2:50:22.
On February 28, 1990, my OMS rocket burn observation of shuttle Atlantis began at my home in eastern Maine at 10 minutes and 39 seconds after the 2:50:22 a.m. liftoff. My OMS rocket burn observation began at exactly 3:01:01 a.m.
Video Shot by Shuttle Crew in
February 28, 1990 Military Mission
Here's a 19-minute silent video of the February 28, 1990 military shuttle mission. Almost 15 minutes of this video was shot by the shuttle crew while in orbit. There are some funny moments in this video of the crew doing silly things for the camera, like play-acting a baseball game and skiing in space.
At the 3:40 to 3:60 count in this video, you can see two free-floating crew members in the lower deck of the shuttle cabin become guinea pigs in this comical experiment: the OMS rocket engines are ignited for a brief instant (a brief burst) and those two free-floating crew members are sent careening into the aft cabin wall.
Space Shuttle Flight 34 (STS-36)
Post Flight Presentation Video
DOD mission, NO SOUND
www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle34.htm
Excerpt from "Takin' My Time (blue text #10)"
Post Flight Presentation Video
DOD mission, NO SOUND
www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle34.htm
Excerpt from "Takin' My Time (blue text #10)"
November 30, 2005:
On this morning, I rose from my bed at an early hour to the sound and lyrics of the song “Foreplay / Long Time” by Boston playing on a classic hits radio station.
“If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me …”--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), “American Note-Books” (1883, edited by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne), Hawthorne wrote this note at the Family Mansion on Union Street in Salem, Massachusetts on October 4, 1840.
December 1, 2005:
I changed the title of this document to “Long Time.”
December 2, 2005:
I changed the title of this document to “Takin’ My Time.”
“Well I’m takin’ my time, I’m just movin’ on.”--Refrain lyric, song “Foreplay / Long Time,”
--Boston’s debut album “Boston” (1976)
Who was the Real "Real McCoy" --
And was His Real Name Really McCoy?
www.unca.edu/ncccr/awq/archive/2008-spring/Hudson-Who_Was_the_Real_Real_McCoy.pdf
And was His Real Name Really McCoy?
www.unca.edu/ncccr/awq/archive/2008-spring/Hudson-Who_Was_the_Real_Real_McCoy.pdf
My first exposure to Star Trek happen in the late '60s in a movie theater. Yes, I was watching Star Trek in the late '60s in a movie theater. From '67 to '70, my family and I were in Naples, Italy. My father was a civilian federal employee working on the U.S. Naval Base at Naples. On the U.S. Naval Base at Naples, a movie theater there was showing TV episodes of Star Trek on 16mm movie film reels. While I was in Italy, I was not aware that Star Trek was a TV show back in the States; I thought Star Trek was being seen in movie theaters everywhere. And viewing those TV episodes of Star Trek on a big movie screen most certainly was a far more entertaining, far more impressionable viewing experience than seeing them on a small TV screen back in the States.
Best Cover Ever
Best "Right Stuff" Ever
"Uh-Oh, I've Got Happy Feet!"
Uh-Oh,...
...Oh No,...
...Aw Man,...
...Oh God,...
...Oh Dood,...
...Please,...
...Put a Shirt On!!!
Takin' My Time