a long long time ago #podcasts

WAY way back in 2012, I created a blog for my GCC class called BLOG SCOUTS!

And it was in the very early days of podcasts. I mean there was one guy writing about podcasts. ONE!

I knew more were coming.

But then celebrities got involved:

Of the two million or so podcast series in existence (that’s 48m episodes and counting), a large proportion is made up of groups of men talking about themselves and laughing at their own jokes. READ

I loved this BLOG (and I saved it somewhere on a disk)

I thought about doing a podcast called ARMY OF ONE, the meaning of my alias Laramie Harlow.

SO, there you have it... that is what happened...

What Just Happened?

QUOTE OF THE DAY!

Meanwhile, the U.S. military is engaged in war in some eighty countries — or nearly half the nations on the planet — and most Americans have no idea what kind of fighting is being done on their behalf or why.  via

Did you Know? 

 

The largest employer in the US is the federal government.

The US drops 46 bombs a day on average.

The USA spends $1.7 trillion on weapons.

The US has 150 hydrogen bombs (B61s) based in Europe.

World Military Expenditure grew to $1.8 Trillion in 2018.

(It was reported that the USA stopped nuclear tests in 1992. Did they?)

Number of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq  (War Casualties)

1,455,590

Read my latest book WHAT JUST HAPPENED and find out even more

 

predictions from 2019

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                                   pre-COVID fashion show photos in 2019, predicting???

I call him BONO

Did you see BLOOD SIMPLE?

I completely missed it but plan to see it - Frances McDormand is in it!

Arlo Parks HURT

 

Find My Way Home by Mister Wives

 

Texas - Say What You Want | Mr. Haze

weekend reads | what on earth

can you guess what this is?

I'm reading

Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a "mother of the movement." A change has yet to come. The lies cops tell—and the lies we tell about cops. Eavesdropping on $5,000 "antiracist dinner parties" in New York. Brown Asians are Asian, too. "I am ready to stop chasing after those who need to see your deepest wounds on display before they will even contemplate believing your words." There is a full-on revolt against American democracy afoot. Everything—and everyone—is a subscription now. How social media is helping white women and people of color identify possible symptoms of ADHD. A profile of the Linda Lindas. Running with a small group of elite Ethiopian runners in the Bronx. When artists fall in love with other artists. The slow decline of the gay bar, and Sarah Schulman on the lessons we can learn from AIDS activists. Finding the perfect book club at the public library. The case for letting go of college and marriage as milestones toward adulthood, and how Gen X sold out, as every generation does. Are celebrities ruining podcasting? How millennials learned fatphobia. On breaking up with your houseplants. The pandemic's effect on the fast food industry and impossible-reservation restaurants. Journey to the center of the bowling ball. Summer moods: On hickeys, sexy necks, and the perfect jean jacket. A press conference about what happened this morning, when I was supposed to get so much done.

 

 

Answer: ocean currents on WHAT ON EARTH tv show...

here's a sample

xox - new domain (and book) WHAT JUST HAPPENED

 

What Just Happened?

(we bought a new domain name: www.whatjusthappened.xyz)

 

 poll/ 23% of Republicans agree that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation,” 28% agree that “there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders,” and 28% agree that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” Among all Americans, fewer than 20% agree with those statements. (PRRI / CNN)

Civil War?

I like this guy: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/today/
 

How to See Palestine Whole (reblog)

Louis Haghe after a drawing by David Roberts, “Gaza”(1839) lithograph, From The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia vol. 2, (1843) pl. 15; Royal Subscription edition (image courtesy Library of Congress Digital Collections)

To observe that images distort reality is nothing new. (John Berger and his collaborators reminded us of this in Ways of Seeing nearly 50 years ago.) What is more interesting and important is to see how and why this is done in European and, eventually, American images of Palestine.

READ: https://hyperallergic.com/514154/how-to-see-palestine-whole/

first published on 9/4/19

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