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Monthly Archives: May 2022
Buy A Gun For Your Son
Monday morning, Tom Paxton, one of the best of the political songwriters of the 60s and afterwards, sings a song for Pete Seeger in 1965 about buying war toys. Little did Tom or Pete realize that the problem of war toys would be fully solved in our time by banning toy guns for children and insisting that they use real ones.
Thanks to Mitchel Cohen for pointing out this video.
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Growing Pains
Cards To Pocket
Guard Cat
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This cat was making it clear to me that he too had his eye on the young bird flitting in the bushes near us.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Lalena
Anyone remember this Donovan song? Is it the saddest song in the world?
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Every American Rom-Com Set In Ireland
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The Grey Catbirds were plentiful this week at the Salt Marsh–and noisy!
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Even Educated Fleas Do It
Monday morning, a young Josh takes Mr. Porter’s words to heart.
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Street Games
Street busking is an ancient trade, going back at least to medieval and Renaissance times, with actors and entertainers displaced by enclosure and plague making their living on the streets, dependent on their spectators for their livelihood. Their descendants are still among us today, and modern-day busker Todd Various is one of the best I have ever seen. The cups and balls is the bread and butter of the traveling magician, illustrated in Renaissance woodcuts, but Todd’s execution of it is so sublime, and his manner with an audience is so thoroughly engaging and cunningly crafted, that one wants to reach into the video and put a couple of dollars into his hat.
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“A Spectre is Haunting Europe…”
It’s May, and May brings up thoughts of Mayday and revolution and Karl Marx’s birthday, May 5,1818, so I thought it might be worthwhile to read from the surprisingly readable Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
Click on the grey triangle or mp3 link above to hear the reading as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the country.
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Crab Dinner
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The Yellow-crowned Night Heron has returned to Marine Park, digging for the plentiful fiddler crabs by the shore.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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3 Levels of Ain’t No Sunshine With Mary Spender
That’s Life
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Schenectady Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York
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First Day On The Guillotine
Ventura Highway
Monday morning, Chase Eagleson and Josh Turner so damned mellow that you want to strangle them.
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Every Jack The Ripper Documentary
The versatile and humorous Eleanor Morton takes us down a road we’ve been many times before.
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The Silk Stocking Sisters
In 1954, the Supreme Court issued their ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education, which was supposed to end segregation in US public schools. While that struggle was most visible in the South, it was occurring in different ways up North. In her book, Desegregation of the New York City Schools: A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters, author Dr. Theresa Canada was part of a desegregation experiment herself as a student in NYC in the early 1960s.Through her own example and the oral histories of others, A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters provides insight into the slow process of desegregation and eventual re-segregation within the New York City Public Schools during that time and the lessons learned. I was happy to speak with Dr. Theresa Canada about her experiences.
Click on the grey triangle or mp3 link above to listen to my interview with Dr. Theresa Canada as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica stations across the nation.
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So This Is What They Meant By Highway Robbery
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West 51st Street
New York, New York
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“The Words Of The Prophets Are Written On The Subaru Walls…”
He Couldn’t Resist…
Ed O’Neill tells a very short story about how comedian Jon Lovitz reacted to the death of Lovitz’s best friend Phil Hartman. (Hartman was shot by his wife who later committed suicide.) Am I a bad person for laughing out loud?
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Mighty May’s Magazine
This month in the Arts Express Magazine:
** Veteran Actor Jim Broadbent on playing a true-life working class hero in The Duke
** Artist Tom Keough shares scenes from his graphic bio about the Irish revolutionary, James Connolly
** Dennis Broe on the constructed media representations of Zelensky in “Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington”
and more!
View online here: May 2022 Arts Express Magazine
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pts 1 and 2
Josh Turner with his wife Kelly Oden travelled across the country this summer stopping at several points along the way to reconnect with old friends and make music. Here they are in Denver with Bob Barrick, Valley Lopez, Stu Garney, and Sam Dorrance covering the Flaming Lips and fighting off the evil-natured pink robots.
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How To Get A Seat
There’s no one quite like Todd Robbins, a trained Shakespearean actor who went wrong somewhere and made a career as a magician and carny sideshow performer. Here Todd helpfully illustrates how to guarantee a seat on the subway.
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The Price of Immortality
Some people seek immortality through fame, but others want physical-body-forever immortality. A new book, The Price of Immortality, explores the numerous paths that people have sought to extend their lives—and the hucksters and scam artists who have taken advantage of them. I was happy to have as my guest, the author of The Price of Immortality, Peter Ward.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Peter Ward, as broadcast today on Arts Express radio, heard on WBAI FM and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
