Gone – flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~ Alfred Tennyson
Monthly Archive for February, 2009
Something tells me that the guy selling papers at the end this news clip is out of a job today and that half of the people in that newspaper room are also out of a job…
I wonder if the guys at the Examiner working on this electronic news project had any inkling that this project of theirs would eventually lead to the layoffs of their colleagues in the newspaper industry today.
Continue reading ‘1981 KRON News Clip: Electronic News of the Future’
For 8 years, I spent a good portion of my summer vacations in a part of Italy not commonly visited by most tourists. Far from the vineyards of Tuscany or the city dwellings of Rome and Naples or the island region of Sicily is , the agricultural heart of Italy. Molise is the forgotten part of Italy, and if any tourist guides devote any attention to the region, it is usually in the form of two pages at most. Even then, these guides will describe the area as forgettable with maybe the exception of its beautiful beaches and the . I think they are wrong.
Molise occupies an area formerly known as Samnium, home to the ancient Samnites, who settled in the region starging around 600 BC and lasting until 290 BC when the Roman Empire conquered Samnium in the Third Samnite war. Many people you meet in ancient villages throughout Molise will claim to be direct descendants of families that have lived in the region for over 1,500 years and longer.
is a small town in the hills overlooking the Adriatic Sea that serves as an example of the hundreds of small towns that dot the landscape of Molise. This is a photo essay I took in the summer of 2004 of Bonefro.
At the heart of every village in Italy is the piazza, a place for people to hang out and talk with friends about anything from politics and the news of the day to the gossip of local neighbors. And most often the people that hang out in the piazza are men, usually retired or on break from their work in the fields. The women are usually not seen very often, as they are usually at home taking care of the family cooking.
On Wednesday’s radio broadcast of , the artist that day was an African musician named , pronounced ‘Asha’. I can’t quite pin down what type of music she plays, even if the genre description on iTunes is ‘World’, which is a pretty lame excuse of a term to describe a musician from Africa. Her website terms her music as ‘Nigerian Soul’, although there are elements of reggae, folk and ‘alternative’ all mixed into a unique sound that is really wonderful and pleasant to listen to. I listened to the album straight through two times after buying it, which I haven’t done in a while when buying .
Asa’s lyrics can be serious subject matter, although her music is very upbeat and very optimistic in nature, a subject that she actually discusses in her PRI interview. The interview can be found in the Global Hits section of PRI’s website for “The World”.
The album can be purchased on both iTunes and . I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
of the presidential inauguration was taken last month that allowed one to zoom in on the various people taking part in the inaugural festivities on January 20. Look closely, and you’ll see supreme court justice during President Obama’s inaugural speech. I also can’t tell if Samuel Alito is napping as well, although watching him at the inauguration, he seemed rather aloof to the entire affair (perhaps he is still annoyed with in the Senate three years ago). during oral arguments at the high court, Thomas takes it one step further by napping during not only a historic moment for the country and the world, but at a milestone in African-American history with the election of the country’s first black president.
harkens back to the days before TV and radio and to the premiers of ‘‘ and other ‘radical’ pieces of music.
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