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EVENT # 296: Holiday Special: G21 2002 EVENT
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Beginning our long march to our 300th Web Event, the G-Crew focuses on our new look for the new year. As THOMAS HART says of 2001's space odyssey in this week's RDR column: "Glad that's over!"
As you can also learn on our coming attractions page, thanks to Loyal Readers in Orange County, California, who are also computer consultants, this year your World's Magazine goes mobile. Yes, in January, we hope to premiere a Palm-friendly version of your favorite read. And that's not all that's in the old hopper either. So thank you for staying with us. You won't regret it.
Happy Holidays to All!
Mary J. Blige said it on her latest CD: "Don't need no hateration.../...DANCE for me!"
TODAY'S RDR: THOMAS HART says of 2001: "Glad That's Over!" -- PLUS our Web Site Pick of the Week and the Readership Poll: ("2002! Oh Baby! I'm going to....?") RESULT THUS FAR: "SSDD" 50% -- Now go rock the vote. ABOUT US** TABLE OF CONTENTS **
I was a little dismayed to read in the G21 that I told
you that you should join the Laborers Union. That was not my intent at all. I merely wanted to share my experience with you and discuss some possiblities that prehaps hadn't occurred to you, that is all. Please never let it be said that I told you what you should or should not do. I do not know what you should do. I have a difficult time trying to divine what I should do, or even doing it when I think I do know.
That is all, LOve and Kisses.
Von Helsing
PS Of course if I ever actually tell you what you should do, then disregard the above...More
MARIETTA, OH, USA - Last week I wrote about the Powers family and my grandkids' preferences in music. There are no jazz fans amongst the bunch, but I always hope to convert at least one or two before their tastes become set in concrete
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This week I received an e-mail from our 16-year-old granddaughter Emily Elliott, who let me know a thing or three. Here's what she had to say:
"I just read your most recent article on Powerssound. I enjoyed it, although I have to admit that I was a bit offended by your suggestion of your grandchildren (the girls) being into Nosing and the Backstreet Boys and various other boy bands. I speak only for myself and some of my friends that not all teens are into the 'Teeny Bopper' type of songs. I do not enjoy Nosing or Britney Spears. Those are the type of people who are only into publicity and record sales.
"I enjoy a little bit of every kind of music. I love punk rock of the '80s, the Woodstock era, hip-hop, and country. I enjoy the songs as long as they have a good beat and good lyrics, which I find a lot of today's groups don't have. I feel the best groups write their own songs and have a passion for their music. That's why I don't like people, mainly adults, to categorize 'teen music.'...
Your column is a curious one. It was funny, and Iım sure accurate, that Asian students used to refer to your ESL mentor as Dr. Lick (instead of Rick), but it also brings up the problem of pronunciation among students from that part of the globe. Do you know of any techniques used to ease the confusion Asian students have pronouncing the letters "r" and "l"?
Douglas
Tokyo, Japan
Dear Douglas,
Due to the good doctorıs peculiar temperament he eschews techniques in the favor of tricks. In this situation, he uses what is known as "The Bic in Mouth Trick." Have your students place a pen lengthwise across the back of their mouths. As it is the holiday season, have them say something like Merry Christmas, I love you long time (a phrase heard often in Bangkok and Tokyo watering holes this time of year)... More
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NEW ORLEANS, 24 December - Last Thursday the stench was especially intense in the apartment where I live on Dauphine here in New Orleans. My hope, as I began previewing the articles meant to appear today and laying out this cover, was that the smell of open sewer would abate by Christmas Eve
Then, on Saturday, when I normally go into full court press on this effort, things just fell about. My zip disk failed on me and most of the articles and all the cover design work I had done was lost. (I'd done my last serious back-up of my essential files on the 18th. Oops. That meant that during this worst time of year for middle-aged men who can't be with family, all of whose friends are going out of town, I was stuck with spending the holidays working again.
Then our server at Ugo.com went down. Nobody could get to the site and I couldn't reach anyone at Ugo to solve the problem. Arrgh! So, as I write this, I face the prospect that you won't read our new Christmas issue until after Christmas... More
SUSSEX, ENGLAND - It is too early for the historian to say but it is time for journalists to think about the proposition, cited so widely after the events of 9/11, that "Things" will never be the same again. As far as the inhabitants o New York and the United States are concerned, these "things" are sad and simple enough but there were some grandiose statements, the inevitable accompaniment to crisis management, that need to be examined.
Before that, however, a word about the argot of the debate. On both sides of the Atlantic governments have been asking legislatures to approve of anti terrorist emergency measures though, heaven knows, most of them seem to have enough already. Opposition to such urgings has been based implicitly upon the proposition that we are not at war and that, therefore, the measures are not needed. To most people the idea of war is limited to the open organisation of state-sponsored violence, usually involving defence of the father/motherland and so the idea that "War" per se will continue once Afghanistan has been quieted is an alien notion. ..More
AUSTIN, REPUBLIC OF TEJAS - Even without the world having changed on 9/11, I don't know one durned person down here in the trailer park who is gonnah be sad to see the year 2001 over. There was the contentious coronation by the Supremes of His Fraudulency to begin with and all the mayhem of them globalization protests. Jennifer Lopez up and got married on us! And then came Osama bin Laden and Al-Quida and our country being under attack. Not to mention the anthrax thang, which most intelligent people feel is a bunch of homegrown wing-nuts takin' advantage of a bad situation.
So, like a lot of folks this week, I'm sorely looking forward to New Year's 2002 and sayin' "Phew! Glad that's over!".... More
RDR 12.17.01: FAYCAL FALAKY on "The World as Theatre." More provocative thinking from your World's Magazine
RDR 12.10.01: MATTIE LENNON offers "A Kingdom of Song" from Dublin
RDR 12.03.01: One of our favorite writers, MAX ADAMS, shares her impression of "Seattle Men."
DUBLIN, IRELAND - When I smell wild woodbine (Honeysuckle, to you) I'm no longer a middle-aged balding, overweight eejit sitting at a computer. No. I am once again six years old, standing in a field, with my mother, on a June evening while buttercups grow profusely underfoot. The smell of chalk dust and it's 1952. And I sit in gap-toothed amazement in Lacken National School. One whiff of creosote and it's the early days of rural electrification and ESB poles are being delivered to West Wicklow by the lorryload. I could go on and on...
Olfaction or smell is our most evocative sense.
'Ever noticed how your childhood home seems smaller than you remember it? When you bring that old cracked LP down from the attic and play it you'll find that your memory has been playing tricks on you.
And maybe even the things you remember feeling...More
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Beginning our long march to our 300th Web Event, the G-Crew focuses on our new look for the new year. As THOMAS HART says of 2001's space odyssey in this week's RDR column: "Glad that's over!"
From Terry T., Sebastopol, CA, USA:
"I just read your most recent article on Powerssound. I enjoyed it, although I have to admit that I was a bit offended by your suggestion of your grandchildren (the girls) being into Nosing and the Backstreet Boys and various other boy bands. I speak only for myself and some of my friends that not all teens are into the 'Teeny Bopper' type of songs. I do not enjoy Nosing or Britney Spears. Those are the type of people who are only into publicity and record sales.
