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Thinking of moving....
I'm thinking of de-investing my Cold War energies in Live Journal and putting them into a Google blog instead. As I read all my friends' LJs, I see that, for the most part, they are designed to let people know what is going on with them. This comes at a time when, more and more, I personally do not want to share on line (at least for the world to ( Read more... ) -
What's on the Changer? Bob Zimmerman's fear of the Reds!
My ever-faithful $100 Sony 6 CD changer finally bit the dust last year.
So far, after 12 months of shopping, I am convinced that there is not a decent small stereo system that allows you to play a random set of music from several CDs anymore. The one I bought is a tease. It plays five discs, and has a "random" setting; the problem is, you can ( Read more... ) -
Cool Cold War Trivia Of the Day
From the current read, "Khruschev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary" by Aleksandr Fursenko (the ex-Soviet half of the team) and Timothy Naftali (the western half of the team):
All Sputnik did was fly, and beep.
Sputnik's beep
There were rumors that the beeps represented encoded messages to KGB spies, or something like that, but ( Read more... ) -
Instant Karma Came and Got Me, or, First I Flame the Faculty Then There's a Death in the Family
Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa!
Of course, no one would disagree that William F. Buckley, Jr. lived a good long life, and may have mellowed out a little tooooo much in the end. The old conservative warhorse, whom I first became interested as more than someone to jeer at (during my contra-contra feminist communist-curious leftist years) when I learned he was ( Read more... ) -
Klating Frontwards! and settling for posting pictures, for now.
I can't post a picture of my high school.
The building I had classes in from August 1975 to June 1979 is enclosed in another building called Hillside Middle School.
The new high school is several miles away in what used to be brush, I think, or part of the golf course. It's not on what we always told people was the highest hill in Wayne County ( Read more... ) -
Upgrading
I really love the idea of lots and lots of userpics in this LJ. My other LJ is a fanblog, and, as such, I can post pictures with immunity in posts, but there's not much of a cause to do that. On the other hand, there are so many cultural icons of the Cold War, both Western and Soviet, that I would just love adorning this or that item in this blog ( Read more... ) -
New Hobby!
In college, totally imprinting on my preppy RA, I began collecting anything to do with cute little piggies. My family and friends obliged me every Christmas and birthday since . My family would occasionally asks me, "Are you done with pigs? Should we get something else?" And I would think about it and think, no, I like the pigs, keep 'em coming ( Read more... ) -
Netrebko hates listening to classical music
Ann Netrebko, diva du jour, recently told an interviewer that she was not at all fond of classical music as a child. To her, classical music just always made her think another president or Dear Leader or General Secretary or whatever must have died., because when that happened, that’s all one could hear on the radio.
Having grown up in the ( Read more... ) -
Another weapon in the folk army
OK, does anyone but me remember having a necklace or a t-shirt or a poster or something that said "War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Things" on it?
The pendant on the necklace was a rectangle with cut-outs that formed a flower. It reminded me of a dog tag. I thought I had the necklace, but the more I think back on it, I don’t believe I ( Read more... )