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Interrogatories

What radio station(s) did you grow up on? What kind of music did they play? What tunes come to mind when you think back to those days?

Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer?

How do you define obscenity?

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On This Day

In 1949, the first U.S. radio station under black ownership went on the air in Atlanta, GA, under the call letters WERD.

In 1952, the U.K. successfully tested an atomic bomb, inside the hull of a ship off the coast of Western Australia.

In 1955, the Mickey Mouse club made its television debut on ABC.

In 1957, California State Superior Court Judge Clayton Horn ruled that Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Stories was not obscene, having “redeeming social importance.”

In 1961, the Dick Van Dyke show debuted on CBS.

In 1990, Germany was reunified after the German Democratic Republic ended, with its territory reverting to the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1995, ex-football hero O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of his wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

In 2008, Pretzeldent George W. Bush bailed out the “too big to fail” financial system when he signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Now conservatives blame Obama for this (he did vote for it).

Born on This Day

1644 – Adriaen Frans Boudewijns, Flemish painter (d. 1711)

1646 – Joseph Parrocel, French painter from a family that produced 14 painters in 6 generations (d. 1704)

1703 – Franz-Christoph Janneck, Austrian painter (d. 1761)

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1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)

1797 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)

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1832 – Constant Mayer, French/American genre painter (d. 1911)

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1835 – Stanislas Lépine, French Impressionist painter (d. 1892)

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1858 – Eleonora Duse, legendary Italian stage actress (d. 1924)

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1865 – Gustave Loiseau, French painter (d. 1935)

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1867 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (d. 1947)

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1872 – Henri Evenepoel, Belgian painter (d. 1899)

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1879 – Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor who is best known for playing the Chinese detective, Charlie Chan (because there were no Chinese actors around, right?) (d. 1938)

1882 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)

1894 – Elmer Robinson, American politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1982)

1898 – Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter (d. 1969)

1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)

1916 – James Herriot, English surgeon and author (d. 1995)

1922 – John Craxton, English painter (d. 2009)

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1925 – Gore Vidal, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2012)

1934 – Koo Nimo, Ghanaian singer and guitarist

1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1960)

1941 – Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter

1949 – Lindsey Buckingham, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fleetwood Mac)

1951 – Keb’ Mo’, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1954 – Al Sharpton, American minister, talk show host, and activist

1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1990)

1962 – Tommy Lee, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and inadvertent porn star (Mötley Crüe)

1964 – Clive Owen, English actor

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1969 – Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (No Doubt)

1973 – Neve Campbell, Canadian actress

1973 – Lena Headey, English actress

1979 – Josh Klinghoffer, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dot Hacker, Ataxia, and The Bicycle Thief)

Died on This Day

1226 – Francis of Assisi, Italian friar and saint (b. 1181)

1649 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian clergyman and theologian (b. 1576)

1685 – Johann Heinrich Roos, German painter (b. 1631)

1656 – Myles Standish, English-American military officer (b. 1584)

1830 – Robert Lefèvre, French painter (b. 1755)

1685 – Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter (b. 1614)

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1838 – Black Hawk, American tribal leader (b. 1767)

1856 – Rafael Tejeo, Spanish painter (b. 1798)

1860 – Rembrandt Peale, U.S. painter from a famed American painting family (b. 1778)

1867 – Elias Howe, American inventor and engineer, invented the sewing machine (b. 1819)

1884 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter (b. 1840)

1892 – Paul Peel, Canadian painter (b. 1860)

1896 – William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)

1926 – Otto Eerelman, Dutch painter specializing in animals (b. 1839)

1929 – Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)

1961 – Harold Knight, British painter (b. 1874)

1965 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)

1967 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Almanac Singers) (b. 1912)

1969 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)

1987 – Jean Anouilh, French screenwriter (b. 1910)

1987 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (b. 1947)

1998 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)

2000 – Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Cars) (b. 1947)

2004 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)

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  1. plf515

    What radio station(s) did you grow up on? What kind of music did they play? What tunes come to mind when you think back to those days?

    My brother and I shared a room. He chose the music, so I don’t remember what station. But it was rock. Stones, Beatles, etc

    Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer?

    No. I never watched that show.

    How do you define obscenity?

    It is obscene to treat people as objects. It is obscene to treat people solely as members of a group, rather than as individuals as well. It is obscene to hold people in contempt solely because of their misfortune.

    Or, in short, anything that lessens the humanity of people is obscene.

  2. anotherdemocrat

    What radio station(s) did you grow up on? What kind of music did they play? What tunes come to mind when you think back to those days?

    When we lived in the States, top-40 rock/pop stations, in Dubai ther was just the 1 radio station, I guess it played everything. In Algeria it was Radio Luxemburg if the atmosphere cooperated, otherwise it was my cassette collection. Saudi – I don’t remember there being radio, but there were a gazillion music stores to buy pirated music. I remember hearing U2 for the 1st time, wafting out the door of one of those stores. I was in a shop across the street when the opening riff of I Will Follow hit me — and I mean hit me, like a physical force. I swear the notes wrapped themselves around my spinal cord & yanked me across the street. I remember walking in & saying “Give me that, I need that” and they hadn’t even run off any copies yet. They said for me to come back in an hour, I could buy one then.

    Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer?

    I never saw the show.

    How do you define obscenity?

    Harming living beings.

  3. Floja Roja

    A vet visit is due today. Lilly’s eye needs to be tested, and Lolly is having trouble peeing. Fun!

    Meanwhile I’m canceling my ortho appointment because my wrist is fine now, and I have until the 31st to get in my COBRA payment but I am really considering letting it lapse till I can get on the exchanges in January. I can’t pay rent, eat, and have coverage, it’s not affordable. Fortunately I have a clean bill of health on all recent checkups, including mammogram. I just need to avoid accidents, mostly.

    Answers:

    When I was very young it was KFRC (AM) for rock and KDIA for soul. Then along came KMPX FM, which briefly changed radio. DJs played what they wanted, not just singles (but they would play the single if they liked it) and they could play any kind of music, though rock was the focus. KMPX moved over to KSAN and all was lovely until that dreadful Playlist Radio made its return.  For the AM radio, the song I think of most was “Little Red Book” by Love. The FM played such widely-varied music that no one song in particular reminds me of those days.

    When I was little there was a little blonde girl I identified with, but I don’t recall her name.

    Obscenity is the way the Teapublicans and the new breed of “Christians” behave. And anonymous women-hating men on the internet, especially the rape-apologists.

  4. JG in MD

    What radio station(s) did you grow up on? Baseball games, I forget where on the dial.

    Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer? Never saw the show. Never saw The Brady Bunch either, not even once. Dick Van Dyke Show, every episode.

    How do you define obscenity? Anything that puts cringeworthy thoughts into a person’s head. Even more obscene is when the person stops cringing.

  6. bubbanomics

    Sorry i’m so thin on the ground around there.  Maybe in a nother couple of weeks things will lighten up.



    What radio station(s) did you grow up on?

    WKDA-FM, nashville.  (some years ago they went country)

    What kind of music did they play?

    rock and roll.

    What tunes come to mind when you think back to those days?

    For What It’s Worth. InnagoddaduvEduh.  y’know.  MUsic.

    Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer?

    nope.

    How do you define obscenity?

    I’ll go with the dictionary on this one: ” Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.”

    Something I need to get onto the bubbapod…

  7. Gee

    What radio station(s) did you grow up on? What kind of music did they play? What tunes come to mind when you think back to those days?

    Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer?

    How do you define obscenity?

    It was all AM radio back when I was a kid.  My parents listened to WWDC (Washington, DC, natch), which had an odd mix of Top 40 and pre-Top 40, with a guy in the morning, named Art Brown, who played rather exotic old records, played the organ, talked quite a bit, and had canaries in the studio.  They also had a dj named Carroll James, who was the first guy in DC to play the Beatles.

    In elementary school, though, the kids were listening to WCAO (Baltimore), which played more Rock ‘n’ Roll.  My friend Norman really loved a song called “Motorcycle,” by (I found out recently) a “band” called Tico and the Triumphs.  I found a copy on the intertoobz, and it really rocks.  Turns out that a very young Paul Simon was behind it.

    Anyhow, the songs brought to mind might be “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” by the Highwaymen, “The Bristol Stomp,” by the Dovells, and anything you might hear if you watch American Bandstand.

    Also need to put a word in for the distant AM stations you could hear at night:  WBZ in Boston, WABC in New York, and CKLW in Windsor, Canada.

    After that came FM and progressive radio.  But I’ve gone on too long.

    Favorite Mouseketeer?  Cheryl.

    Obscenity = Tea Party.  They gave teabagging a bad name.

  8. JanF

    This Tweet:

       The Internet has given us a huge increase in the places where thoughts can be stored, but without a corresponding increase in thoughts

       – Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) October 1, 2013

    That reminds me of a story I saw recently about the use of English words for Japanese advertising and the author said “English words are often used for nothing more than decoration in this country”. Here too!!

    I suspect that right-wingers would not get the snark here:

       In 1850 the mainstream media blamed both sides for slavery– the rich white Southern slave owners AND the slaves.

       – Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) October 2, 2013

    The Shutting Out the WWII Veterans story has stomped on my last nerve. Photo-opping a government shutdown THAT YOU CAUSED and blaming it on the guy you are trying to extort has to be the very definition of chutzpah.

    Pardon me while I wander off to retweet this one and follow the author:

       If you spent the last 4 years blocking and obstructing healthcare access for millions of people, don’t even mention kids with cancer.

       – Frank Vdl (@fvdlfvdl) October 2, 2013

    Too KOOL!

    In 1949, the first U.S. radio station under black ownership went on the air in Atlanta, GA, under the call letters WERD.

    Hovering …

    – LOL at “Crimea River”!!!

    – Yew tree theme is very poplar this week.

    Thank you, Floja Roja!!

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