#anectdotes

[hogans-heroes]

So yesterday I read the scrapbook of Joe Broz, a guy in the 27th Aero Squadron in WWI, and boy are there some hilarious incidents. Bless this boy for his attention to detail and mass of photos which really helped my research, but I thought I’d share the ones that made me giggle (I should mention the average age of these guys was 19).

1. A new friend while training in Toronto:

2. This delightful account:

3. Some quick thinking while stationed in France:

The entire scrapbook is a gem. He gives such a casual and personal look into the lives of the young, young boys in a squadron so famous and with such a tragic history. Here’s the link if anyone’s interested. 

[oupacademic]

In the days before theatres were air conditioned, show opened in the fall or in December just before the Christmas holidays. Today, shows try to open as close to the Tony Awards as possible, with the idea that voters’ memories are short and shows that open early in the season won’t be remembered in the spring.

Ken Bloom in Show and Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes

[thefutureispast]

Who Month. Out of my brain on the 5:15

Who Month. Out of my brain on the 5:15

I was trying to make sense of this Rock thing. By 1973 the world of rock was beginning to really captivate me. It was a journey without a map, all I had was the New Musical Express and late-night radio shows. Occasionally I would catch The Old Grey Whistle Test but that tended to confuse matters as it seemed to feature Californian singer songwriters rather heavily. As I commented previously, the…

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[thisisselfsabotageoriginalblog]

I realized that in addition to poetry and artsy things, I want to use this blog for personal entries. I'll keep it artsy though. I'll tell everything in an arsty, story like way..

[sodomyordeath]

Let's talk about experiance or, better, anecdotal evidence.

When we end up in a discussion we want to use scientific evidence but it's very unlikely that we have exactky what we need at hand. I agree that nowadays it's often a option to pull the right date up on your smartphone and make your point.

Most people don't do that. (See what I did there? I just puted a claim out as a fact. Gotta love Rhetorics.)

What we, as humans, are very good at is putting our own experiances out there to make our point.  I call this "personal truth" vs. "universal truth".

Someone says that person xy isn't nice. I know person xy and that person was always nice to me so my personal truth is xy is nice. Turned out xy isn't nice to pretty much anyone else so data based xy isn't nice and that's the universal truth.

I never meet someone who's a 1 or a 6 on the Kinsey scale so monosexuals don't exist, personal truth. Data indicates there are a lot of 1s and 6s out there,universal truth (also I still doubt it :p)

Lesson learned: Don't you only check your privilege also check your evidence.

[lugubrious-euphoria]

Give me those lazy, summer mornings.  The mornings where the only way we keep time is by watching the sun change positions.  Give me those mornings where it is warm and almost stuffy, but the whirring of an air condition is not something you want to ruin this.  The kind of warm where you lay, not wearing pants, but maybe a big college t-shirt with your hair a matted mess from a night of solid sleep.  Give me the feeling that the music engulfing me instead of the aggravating buzz of lawn tools.  The kind of engulfment where you lose yourself in the music and you find yourself tossing your hair violently to a guitar riff or picturing that somebody else was here, on this lazy, summer morning, intertwining their legs with yours, despite the rising temperature.  I want that.  

[abi-shut-up]

I NEED HELP!!! (If we could get someone a fluffy chicken, you could help me out with this)

So, I have to do a Sociology power point and I've chosen to do it on Symbolic Internationalism in Music. So, I want to do sort of like an interview kinda thing and I need people to tell me why Music is important to them and what are some songs that are symbolic to them and why. 

I just thought it would be fun and such, so please? The due date is March 30th. 

Thanks in advance for your help!