Thoughts About Donald Trump and Reconstruction
America’s Founding Radical Concept
On November 19,1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the greatest political speeches in American history. The speech opened with……
Music from 1970: The Use of Ashes – Pearl Before Swine
Thoughts about 70s Music led me to – Pearl Before Swine
I was thinking about music in the late 60s and early 70s this morning.My thoughts quickly turned to one of my favorite bands, Pearls Before Swine. During those years the underground music scene was exploding. Typically AM commercial radio stations played pop music that was singles oriented. Underground music was album oriented and the tracks played were usually much more complex and longer. As the popularity of underground music grew several Philadelphia radio stations adopted the underground music format. Both WDAS and WMMR made the switch.To me the beauty of the format was the ability of the DJ to play just about anything HE wanted to play. WIBG’s DJ Hy Lit led the transition on WDAS and Dave Herman and his Marconi Experiment paved the way at WMMR.
Was I Really Raised by the TV Families of the 1950s?
Focusing in On Ed K’s Life Safari
A More Focused Ed K’s Life Safari???
The title of this blog is Ed K’s Life Safari and I have been thinking about that name, what the title means and how it relates to what I am posting. One of the definitions of a safari is:a long and arduous journey. Well guess that my life safari has luckily been fairly long – 65 years so far, and at times I think it has been fairly arduous.
The Second Life of Nick Mason – Steve Hamilton
So over the last three days, I have finished two books. The first bookk finished was The One Plan: A Week by Week Guide to Restoring Your Natural Health and Happiness by Yogi Cameron Alborzian The second one was The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton. They are respectively, books 36 and 37 of 2016. I am going to write about the second book The Second Live of Nick Mason in this post. I will tackle The Open Plan in a post about yoga, maybe later this afternoon.
September Reading Challenges Update!
A Quick Update of Where I Stand on My 2016 Reading Challenges
So far this month I have finished three books. They are; Life with Pi, The Winter Fortress and most recently Dark Run. This brings my total number of books read in 2016 to 35 books. My lofty goal is 60 books. So right now I am way behind the pace I need (five books per month) to read to reach that goal. However, I am not that far off the pace needed to match last years total of 51 books.
Dark Run – Mike Brooks (Keiko Book #1)
Dark Run – Mike Brooks Leaves Me Ready for Book # 2
Last week I checked out Dark Run by Mike Brooks from my library. I was not looking for a science fiction book, when I spotted the book. But after reading a couple of the quotes on the back of the book, I was intrigued. This is the one that won me over…..
The Winter Fortress – How Nine Norwegians Saved the World!!
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb – Neal Bascomb
The Winter Fortress recounts the tale of the 1942 sabotage of the Vemork hydroelectric plant in Norway. The plant was one of the few places in the world that produced heavy water. Nazi Germany wanted all the heavy water that Norway could produce.. Heavy water was a key element for the production of an atomic bomb. I never had really heard of the mission before reading the book, but now I feel that I lived through it! Bascomb did a great job researching and writing The Winter Fortress, The book reads more like an action novel than a work of non-fiction.
