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A capella and a rolling of the R's.

C.I. you can come back off that limb, now. I just laughed big time for the first time since George's pixel vixen.

Happy last day of Chanukah! Don't forget to send the last of the cards and put away the blue and white wrapping paper for next year.

Dear Dr. Lola,

I don't know quite how to ask this question, but here goes. When I'm kissing my girlfriend, what should I do with my hands?

Sincerely,
Bobby

Dear Bobby,

How old are you?

Dr. Lola.........in heat.

By 1952, Robeson was one of the 10 highest-paid concert artists in the world. His powerful voice, in the words of Seattle Labor Chorus director Janet Stecher, "created a new standard of what we expected to hear from a bass. Certainly, for people my age and older, when I hear 'Old Man River,' that's what I hear." That voice transcended folk standards; Robeson was equally at home at folk festivals and in opera houses. But he was far more than a singer: a gifted and highly successful actor, an athlete, a writer, a barrier breaker who shattered the stereotypes and preconceptions of whites toward African-American performers through sheer talent and force of will.
Which is how Robeson came to be on a flatbed truck at the Peace Arch, speaking and singing for 40,000 people on May 18, 1952. For some odd reason, Robeson--the son of an escaped slave; the first major concert artist to refuse to perform before segregated audiences; one man with a voice, a following, and a fervent desire for social justice--was such a presumed threat to the security of the United States that the government wouldn't let him leave the country. (Abroad, audiences presumably could hear Robeson's views on Jim Crow and other blemishes on the myth of American freedom. Or something.) In February 1952, when Robeson was invited to perform at a convention of the Western district of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in Vancouver, British Columbia, it was no great surprise; Robeson frequently performed for, and advocated for, labor groups.
The U.S. government, in the grips of another Red scare, had revoked Robeson's passport in August 1950, declaring that his travel was "contrary to the best interests of the United States." Passports weren't customarily needed for U.S. citizens traveling to Canada, but in 1952 when Robeson reached the border at Blaine, he was not permitted to enter Canada on the grounds that he had become "a danger and a threat to the U.S. government." And so, with Robeson forbidden to go to the convention, the convention went to him--along with tens of thousands of others--to hear a historic free Peace Arch concert. Robeson, on the back of a flatbed truck on the US side of the border peformed a concert to an estimated 40,000 canadians on the other side of ther border. People just wanna be free.

Hey, Jes. Thanks for that reminder to all our Jewish friends listening to WA2K.

Ahem: (still smiling at C.I.'s limb song)

Listeners, I am humbled by the life of Paul Robeson. During a time when feelings were high, and life was rough, he held on to his beliefs stating that his was not a political message, but more of an anthropological look at the heritage of serfs and blacks. The man held a degree in law; was Phi Beta Kappa, and was a published writer and a remarkable talent in acting and singing. His death was a disgrace to all thinking people everywhere, but the mind set of the culture at his time in the world, was deprived of the enlightenment that we are fortunate to have today.

He sang so many songs, most of which were Negro spirituals.

I think Panz would agree that this is the moment for all WA2K listeners to take a moment to think on Paul Robeson.

I heard Robeson's voice as soon as dys mentioned "old man river."

Dys, I'm glad that we complimented each other instead of duplicating the info on Paul Robeson.

Dr. Lola, funnnneeeeeee. Would that Bobby be Greyfriars Bobby by any chance?

Listeners, be you dog or human, feel free to ask Dr. Lola anything that you like.

Test. This is only a test. Should this have been a real emergency, you would have been given explicit instructions on what to do:




"Bush Monkeys," a painting by 23-year-old artist Christopher Savido of U.S. President George W. Bush, hangs at the Animal gallery on New York City's lower east side, December 13, 2004. The curator of the show Bucky Turco said that Savido's painting of Bush was removed from an art exhibit at the Chelsea Market in Manhattan over the past weekend after the director of the market protested the content of the painting of Bush, which is made of tiny images of chimpanzees in a marsh-like landscape. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES REUTERS/Mike Segar;"Bush Monkeys", a painting by 23 year-old artist Christopher Savido of U.S. President George W. Bush hangs at the "Animal" gallery on New York City's lower East side, December 13, 2004. Curator of the show Bucky Turco said that Savido's painting of Bush was removed from an art exhibit at the Chelsea Market in Manhattan over the past weekend after the director of the Market protested the content of the painting of Bush which is made of tiny images of chimpanzees in a marsh like landscape. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Hmmmm. I wanted to see if the picture worked. Obviously not.

Osso: E. Jane Stoddard
Osso, one of my favorite artists is E. Jane Stoddard. She specializes in painting victorian houses and gardens and the architecture of the era. She is wonderful.

http://www.iinc.com/nonprof/bsa/ns02.html

For more of Stoddard's paintings:

http://www.mississippiwatercolor.org/GN%202001/GrandNational2004%20055.jpg

http://www.mississippiwatercolor.org/Picture%20052.GIF

Raggedy, Thanks a zillion times. Doesn't that kid look smug?

BBB, I am certain that lovely watercolor is not of a gate in Charleston, WV. Hee hee.

It seems that Bare-naked Ladies
have recorded an album of everything from boogie-woogie to reggae to James Taylor. Talk about retro.

December 15 birthday celebrities:

1832 Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer and designer of the Eiffel Tower (Dijon, France; died 1923)
1888 Maxwell Anderson, dramatist (Atlantic, PA; died 1959)
1892 J. Paul Getty, billionaire oilman (Minneapolis, MN; died 1976)
1916 Maurice H. Wilkins, biophysicist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (Pongaroa, New Zealand)
1918 Jeff Chandler, actor (Brooklyn, NY; died 1961)
1931 Edna O'Brien, author (Tuamgraney, Ireland)
1933 Tim Conway, actor/comedian (Willoughby, OH)
1942 Dave Clark, musician, member of the Dave Clark Five (London, England)
1949 Don Johnson, actor (Flat Creek, MO)
1968 Garrett Wang, actor (Riverside, CA)

Happy Birthday Tim:

Tim was an officer? LOL

An Ensign in McHale's Navy.

Oh yeah, now I remember... I hope it's not altzheimers.

I had to google to find out, C.I.

Well, C.I. and Raggedy. Wasn't Tim Conway on the Carol Burnette show?

Where is the manager?

Now don't let anyone know, ok? but I remember the first song that Carol sang that gave her fame and fortune, listeners.

I'm in Love with John Foster Dulles! :wink:

Who couldn't use good advise during this holiday season?

Good advice


I am passing this on because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace.

Dr. Phil proclaimed, "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." So I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished.

So, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's, a bottle of Kailua, a package of Oreos, the remainder of those you feel are in need of inner peace.



Not wanting to leave anything unfinished, next came the Prozac and Valium prescriptions, the rest of the cheesecake, a bag of potato chips, some saltines and a box of chocolates.

You have no idea how freaking good I feel. Please pass this on to whoever you think it might help

Passed on or passed out, C.I.?

At this point, all the listeners from around the world are truly concerned about Seed.

When last seen, our Seed was wearing a t-shirt and a straw hat.

Canada seems in full array; Germany is still cookin'; The Netherlands is still holding fingers in the dike..................................

The Brits are conspicious by their absence.....

Another medical report from doc c.i. It is important as we get older to check out your eyes.
http://www.menshealth.com/eyechart/index.html#