Wes Bryan tells me that Johnny Rivers said, in more recent times, that 1950's early Rock and Roller and singer-songwriter, Ersel Hickey was "Really The First Punk rocker." This song proves it to me. I've been listening to it - and other early rock and roll tunes all day as we upgrade WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC. We're having a good time!
New Video Summer 2016
1/18/11
BOOK EXCERPT : SHOPTISM BY LEE EISENBERG
From SHOPTISM by Lee Eisenberg
regarding RUSSELL BELK
page 297
..."Belk makes a compelling case about the inter-dependence of having and being. In fact, he even proposes four stages of human development based on the connection between having and being;
1) as infants we seek to distinguish ourselves from our environment.
2) as children we seek to distinguish ourselves from others .
3) as adolescents and adults, we use our possessions to help "manage" our identities and
4) as old folks we rely on certain possessions to maintain a sense of continuity and prepare for the end. Nearing that end, we cherish not only letters and photographs but also things we purchased over the years, thoughtfully or impulsively: jewelry, china, mementos of various kinds, even, perhaps, an old dressing gown.
"Our accumulation of possessions," says Belk, thus "provides a sense of past and tells us who we are, where we have come from, and perhaps where we are going."
Something to think about the next time you lose a possession that had come to mean something important to you. A break-in, a house fire, your own carelessness, it doesn't matter how it occurred. The response is the same; a part of you has gone missing.
C author Lee Eisenberg published by Freepress
regarding RUSSELL BELK
page 297
..."Belk makes a compelling case about the inter-dependence of having and being. In fact, he even proposes four stages of human development based on the connection between having and being;
1) as infants we seek to distinguish ourselves from our environment.
2) as children we seek to distinguish ourselves from others .
3) as adolescents and adults, we use our possessions to help "manage" our identities and
4) as old folks we rely on certain possessions to maintain a sense of continuity and prepare for the end. Nearing that end, we cherish not only letters and photographs but also things we purchased over the years, thoughtfully or impulsively: jewelry, china, mementos of various kinds, even, perhaps, an old dressing gown.
"Our accumulation of possessions," says Belk, thus "provides a sense of past and tells us who we are, where we have come from, and perhaps where we are going."
Something to think about the next time you lose a possession that had come to mean something important to you. A break-in, a house fire, your own carelessness, it doesn't matter how it occurred. The response is the same; a part of you has gone missing.
C author Lee Eisenberg published by Freepress
1/14/11
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE JANUARY 2011 SECRETS OF THE COLOSSEUM
For three years now I've run the fact that maybe I should have studied anthropology on my profile. Yet this is the first I have linked to or quoted an article about archeology. Reading this Smithsonian article today was pure pleasure for I learned new things about the spectacles staged at the Roman Colosseum that I never knew. (Link to the full article above.)
Did you know that pastries and wine were thrown out to the spectators? That the archaeologists have realized that the strange architecture of the place provided for lifts for animals to be released into the coliseum from their cages so that the fighter didn't know how many animals or if an Elephant or Lion might appear? That the center of the coliseum was once flooded to float boats so people could watch mock sea battles? And that there is no proof that Christians were specifically killed for their faith?
Did you know that pastries and wine were thrown out to the spectators? That the archaeologists have realized that the strange architecture of the place provided for lifts for animals to be released into the coliseum from their cages so that the fighter didn't know how many animals or if an Elephant or Lion might appear? That the center of the coliseum was once flooded to float boats so people could watch mock sea battles? And that there is no proof that Christians were specifically killed for their faith?
1/11/11
A POX ON THE THIEF WHO STOLE MY MEMORY STICK
REALIZATION THIS MORNING!
This is the SECOND time someone has walked off with my "memory stick" rather than turn it into the LOST and FOUND at the library. In each case I moved away from a computer for just a few moments which means it was probably someone sitting to the left or right of me!
SHAME SHAME SHAME on YOU!
(and woe is me)
Don't most of us despise thieves?
There are thieves and then there are thieves.
This is the SECOND time someone has walked off with my "memory stick" rather than turn it into the LOST and FOUND at the library. In each case I moved away from a computer for just a few moments which means it was probably someone sitting to the left or right of me!
SHAME SHAME SHAME on YOU!
(and woe is me)
Don't most of us despise thieves?
There are thieves and then there are thieves.
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