Well, crud. Here I was bracing myself all week and expecting three hours of Eagles and Billy Joel. Harumph! I even bought a quart of earwash to have on hand. Good morning and have a fine show later.
Your show is now a family affair. My 80 year old mother got an earful last Wednesday, and now she is looking forward to whatever you've got today. My sister, however, sang along with James Taylor for real and made me want to barf.
Pulled off WABC "mysteriously" when he started discussing Hilary's health. And then vanished nationwide apparently. All to destroy support for Trump he claims. But perhaps he's back on? He claims he has 20 million listeners. Radio Hall of Famer.
i'm starting to think h.l. mencken may have been psychic.
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
Apart from the 'nearly supernatural' nonsense, what this guy's saying about karate-dō is, so far, what I've been taught by actual masters (not that I got much of anywhere, too weak-minded).
I'd googly eyes at him and whack him in the head with a sock filled with pennies. Then I'd draw tears under his eyes with a magic marker because of all of the crying.
The 'kara' was changed by Funakoshi Gichin from 唐 ('Tang dynasty China') to 空 ('empty') c.1920 when he moved from Okinawa to Japan (an Okinawan-descended person who worked on "Adventure Time" suggested, àn explanation of some broken Japanese in one episode, that one think of Ireland vs England to get a fkavour of the difference and relationship). Funakoshi, after a little youthful rebellion, decided to get with the programme, that being a modernised Greater Japan with little room for {ancient Chinese}-sounding stuff…also, he didn't do weapons teaching in Japan as far as I know, even though that was pretty often seamlessly added in Okinawa. Sorry to data-dump.
@Cliff in Prague:
Jack Seward, an occupying U.S. Army guy who married-in and stayed, wrote that he really wanted to write a primer titled "Japanese in Twenty Difficult Years". They started training him and many others in early 1942, language and culture, with 'reducing my chances of getting shot-at by being kept in reserve' as the incentive. C.2004 I often thought of that, as in `_That_'s how you do an occupation. '.
If my karate seniors ran Sexy Aerobics, it would be like 'Sultry Eyes! Yōi…HAJIMÉ!! Ich'! Ni! San! SULTRIER!! Shi! Go! Roku! SHOULDERS DOWN!!! Ku! SEXIER!! Ju! KA'I'TÉ!!…[repeat ten or fifty times]….Ya-mé! Yas' mé. `
There were these two gals in my Aikido class that couldn't have been much over 5 feet tall, and they were so pleased when they were able to throw me and some of the other guys that were closer to 6 feet and had a good 80 pounds or so on them.
@Cliff in Prague:
Hard external (nominally) linear style or flowing internal harmonising, hardass Japanese instruction is hardass Japanese instruction. My guess is that strip-mall belt-mills are a little different, but my instinct is that they're the Trump University of martial arts instruction.
And it's pronounced 'sh[u]toh', Funakoshi never claimed to have invented it, and he derided people who said it could pierce flesh.
WFMU Staff: I am NOT KIDDING. The western orange parking pylon has been hit. Interlopers are streaming in to the lot. I am on the air and can NOT deal with this right now. Can somebody get out there with a potato gun and rescue the downed pylon?!
Sam:
In a transition to fascism, it's generally a good idea to get hit early on, it convinces you _viscerally_ that it's time to fight, knuckle-under, or get the fuck out. (All work or don't, to various degrees, and my guess is that American fascism would be closer to Italian, murderously racist but genocidally so only abroad, at home it'd 'only' be police abuse times ten without even the fig-leaf of redress, all Latinos treated like illegals…Asians and Deshi allowed some whiteness if they're useful enough, ditto Jews not related to Huge Leader. And, of course,
Now comes the part where, in a scuffle between the two of you, the identifying marker that distinguishes the evil Brendan from the good Brendan gets removed, and then someone is forced to figure out which one they have to kill to bring order back to the universe. And... GO!
The Federals are taking over the broadcast stations! The internets will be next!! All right-thinking Patriots flee to the hills, don't listen to the radio or watch TV, and especially don't post to Facebook!—the left-wingers will use Alinskian NLP and dark-person VOODOO to take over your mind, and no target however small is safe! Bring food and find adequate clean water.
Things should be safe again in, oh, I don't know, let's say 42 days. Good luck.
The multiple problems of the first nationwide emergency alert test included : "Some DirecTV subscribers said their TV sets played the Lady Gaga song “Paparazzi” when the test was under way. Some Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York said the test never appeared on screen. Some Comcast subscribers in northern Virginia said their TV sets were switched over to QVC before the alert was shown." tinyurl.com...
ASIDE: i wonder if AMY VOGEL knows this guy: "We spoke with Tenement Museum President Morris Vogel about a $12.5 million expansion project at 103 Orchard St. When it's finished next summer, a new exhibition focused on Chinese and Puerto Rican immigrants, as well as Holocaust survivors, will debut. Vogel filled us in on a related issue, the relocation of six families living at 103 Orchard..."
Hey Ken! You guys doing anything special for National Emergency Alert System Day today? Did you hang your stockings out? Remember, FCC means nothing without U in the middle.
damn.. the new house next door has an open house today. ALL YUPPIES. Like super wasps all hanging out in the back yard drinking champagne.. whoever moves in is gonna love the music I play. There goes the neighborhood!
@herb.nyc: two things I hope to experience before I expire: a human Mars landing and to hear the Eno tracks from Devo's A: Are We Not Men? session. I don't think that's too much to ask.
@JP from KC:
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" did a non-boring version of it: Good Version wasn't so nice, Bad Version wasn't so bad, and they both shout out 'Shoot us both, Spock!' and bust-out laughing.