13: Take Note
1. I love swans and so was very disturbed to learn that a swan recently killed a man.
2. Since the death of Dick Clark and my friend Naomi’s blog post about him, I’ve been watching old Bandstand clips on youtube and remembering how my older sister got me into watching the show after school. There was nothing else like it on TV and it probably set the stage for my love of dancing at the Surf Ballroom every weekend in the beach town we lived in.
3. Naomi (who I recently visited in Hollywood) sang on Dick Clark’s Bandstand! She also had parts in past TV shows, like a bank manager in a Police Woman show HERE.
4. A must-see, awesome teaching tool for bullying involving the photo posted above HERE. Video demonstration HERE.
5. Is there someone in your past that you’d like to apologize to like THIS man did?
6. “If you don’t think you’re part of the problem, that’s part of the problem.” ~ My Dharmacratic friend Will
7. A must-see expose’ on how Wall Street got bailed out and Main Street didn’t: Watch Money, Power and Wall Street, a PBS Frontline special HERE.
8. A banker is someone who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it starts raining. ~ Mark Twain
9. Samuel Clemens took the name Mark Twain from his experience on the Mississippi River boats. The old word twain means two. Mark twain means there are two fathoms of water under the boat.
10. While looking up the word “twain” I came across some unusual words, like callithumpian (a children’s parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes), flibbertigibbeta (a chattering or flighty, light-headed person) and ninnyhammer (a fool or simpleton).
11. The best description of Floyd (the one traffic mountain town I live in), found on the Jacksonville Center’s, webpage begins: Floyd County has been a magnet for anti-establishment free-thinkers since the early 1700s. Independent-minded self-starters from Scotland, Ireland, and Germany said, “Just give me a spot of soil and some time, and I can do for myself.” They rejected urban offerings of the newly-settled New England and Eastern seaboard regions, and settled the remote Appalachians and Blue Ridge Mountains, which was the “frontier” of their time. This “do-for-myself” approach, well-rooted in the rugged Floyd geography for 250 years, brought a fresh wave of migration in the 1970s – not from farmers but from back-to-the-landers, entrepreneurs, artisans, and musicians trying to earn a buck on their own terms. More HERE.
12. A kaleidoscope of poetry (sent by Pearl) HERE.
13. A kaleidoscope of color you can play with with your mouse HERE.
April 26th, 2012 1:25 am
mark twain wasn’t an idiot. floyd county sounds interesting.
April 26th, 2012 1:41 am
With Dick Clark’s passing I learned something poignant about my own mom. She married in her late teens and had my sister and I right away, a year apart. She told me that “the happiest times in her life” were afternoons on the couch, with a sleeping baby on either side of her, watching the kids dance on American Bandstand, which was on daily back in those days. Because I watched AB on Saturdays, I could imagine her doing that, and it made me a little sad for her. She undoubtedly wished she was one of those teens, but she was already a mom.
April 26th, 2012 5:38 am
You get so much into your T13’s….It is always a great treat. And thanks for including me in your T13 for this week…! That clip from “POLICEWOMAN” has always given Earl & me a big laugh–we still say “They All Wore Gas Masks”….lol!
Incidentally, Oscar Hammerstein used the word Flibberdigibbit in “THE SOUND OF MUSIC”…in the song, ‘How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?’
LOVE Kaleidoscopes…and that is a wonderful one…..!
April 26th, 2012 5:45 am
Another interesting TT. I didn’t know that about Mark Twain’s name.
April 26th, 2012 8:04 am
I was going to tell you flibberdigibbit was used in The Sound of Music, too, but I see you’ve already been told. It’s a great word.
April 26th, 2012 8:50 am
I really like the analogy of bullying!!! I also like the quotes!! This is another fantastic TT!
April 26th, 2012 3:01 pm
This old hippie got stuck inside the Kaleidoscope. Thanks.
April 26th, 2012 3:29 pm
Put some Grateful Dead music on and sit back!
April 27th, 2012 12:46 am
Wow! Very well done. You left a comment on one of my posts and I came over for a quick look at your site and here I am 30 minutes later. The affection and effort you put into your writing here really shows. Thanks!
April 27th, 2012 12:39 pm
Never the TWAIN shall meet. Now I understand for the first time in my 48 years what that actually means!
Geez, I’ll really be more careful with the swans we have around the lake here.
Gotta fly, a meeting at work is about to start.
See you soon, my favorite anti-establishment town gal.
xoxox
April 28th, 2012 8:07 pm
Will’s a smart man.
April 30th, 2012 4:00 am
enjoyed seeing naomi! floyd couldn’t have happened by coincidence – thanks for the history! 🙂
May 10th, 2012 2:28 pm
How’d I miss this one?! Glad I came back over, what a treat to see Naomi in action! Sent my Dave the link to the kaleidoscope … he’ll totally dig that! Man…I so want to visit Floyd someday!