At this moment, news outlets must be poring over the redacted affidavit that justified the search warrant for the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Florida home. What’s really strange is this is all about physical printed paper in cardboard boxes. I assume/hope the original digital Top Secret files the documents were printed from remain secure.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Get Ready Feddy
Fed chairman Jerome Powell will be speaking tomorrow.
I continue to read through former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s well-written book.
Three years before Bernanke was born, Encyclopedia Britannica explained the Federal Reserve Banking system, as it existed at that time. Bernanke’s book explains the changes that came later.
Cancel Culture Wars
Following up on a mention by mih of Carl Orff’s crowd-pleasing “Carmina Burana”, the opening poem is the one that’s familiar to most everybody.
Orff was a German who remained in Germany throughout the war. I was thinking I touched upon this difficult subject not very long ago, but it was longer ago than it takes to get a Bachelor’s degree. Slow down, space/time! Slow down!
Herbert Von Karajan’s career didn’t suffer after the war. Perhaps it isn’t surprising I was unable to find a Karajan recording of Orff’s composition.
After a 1941 performance of the popular Carmina Burana, the composer himself said admiringly, ‘the orchestra under Karajan sounds fantastic’.
https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/karajan-herbert-von/
https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/orff-carl/
Separating artists from their art isn’t always easy. Sometimes it isn’t possible, but their work must at least be put into context of time and place. Whether for a musical figure, or a cartoonist like the Belgian Georges Remi, aka Hergé, who was accused of Nazi collaboration.
For decades, Robert Crumb’s uninhibited portrayals of women and Blacks were both celebrated and controversial. Today, Crumb’s name is political poison and, rightly or not, he is seen by many as a toxic misogynist and racist. Space/time continues, freeing some in the process while trapping some others.
The True Boomers
Saying it’s time for the Baby Boom generation to let go of its political hold requires thinking that those born between 1940 and 1950 are Baby Boomers. The 1950’s is the true Baby Boom decade. There has never been a President who was born between 1950 and 1960, and it seems there never will be.
How Has it Come to This?
Lately I have been reduced to embedding Twitter posts. But I hate Twitter and want nothing to do with it!
Perhaps this psychiatrist can help me to understand my self-contradictory behavior. He seems to have a good grasp of Trump’s knotted thought process.
https://twitter.com/DMRDynamics/status/1558485280067268608?s=20&t=lcD3YhEw6YBYiygy3zD0pg
Gear Spotting
Did I ever point out the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) LA120 dot-matrix keyboard printers in Superman: The Movie? No? Well, they’re in there. If it was a sponsored product placement, the target market was quite narrow.
I don’t have Apple TV+, so I’m not watching Severance. On Thursday, Colbert had praise for the series.
Colbert thinks so highly of Severance that he has made this parody video. I may not be familiar with the series, but I recognize the non-Apple hardware in it.
That sure looks like John Turturro is sitting at a Data General (DG) Dasher D2 terminal. It’s same vintage as the DEC LA-120.
The headphones are Sennheiser HD 414’s from 50 years ago. They were very light and had clear sound, but you had to hold them tightly against your ears to hear any bass.
The turntable that Colbert plays in the video is a recent model. The Pro-Ject Classic EVO.
Speaking of DEC and DG, they were given something of a nod in the December, 1983 issue of Playboy. I was classmates with the Playmate of the Month’s big sister Susan, who was exquisitely beautiful.
Also making an appearance in that issue were Massachusetts-made Allison Three and Nine loudspeakers. By the end of ’83 I had owned my Three’s for four years. The Pioneer LD-1100 LaserDisc player was the model up from my LD-660.
