Month: January 2020 (Page 1 of 2)

Actor Anthony Head With A Pink Nintendo DS

January 30, 2020 / TSIBV

Drive-By Truckers – “Puttin’ People On The Moon”

January 29, 2020 / TSIBV

Werner Herzog On How Documentaries Should Be Made

January 25, 2020 / TSIBV

“The Baronetage Of England, Or, The History Of The English Baronets, And Such Baronets Of Scotland, As Are Of English Families” By William Betham (1803)

January 22, 2020 / TSIBV

This is another book I recently found online that describes my family’s days back in Wales.

The full book can be found here. These are the excerpts most related to the Hamner family.

“Wtf bro”

January 22, 2020 / TSIBV

A friend of mine thought he was messaging his wife but was actually talking to a recruiter.

Rod Stewart – “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”

January 21, 2020 / TSIBV

My favorite bad/great song!

Two quick things I associate with this legend:

When I was living in New York and walking around the West Village, I saw Rod Stewart walking down the street carrying what looked like a bag of groceries. He was being followed by two other guys yelling “Rod Stewart! Damn, Rod Stewart!!!”
One night while also living in New York, I was fast asleep when my roommate Andy came home with a bunch of people. They woke me up, so in a haze I marched into the living room and told them to shut up. They left, and I went back to sleep. The next morning Andy told me I’d told Rod’s daughter Kimberly Stewart to shut up while wearing just my underwear.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”

January 20, 2020 / TSIBV

In April 1963, King was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, after he defied a state court’s injunction and led a march of black protesters without a permit, urging an Easter boycott of white-owned stores. A statement published in The Birmingham News, written by eight moderate white clergymen, criticized the march and other demonstrations.

This prompted King to write a lengthy response, begun in the margins of the newspaper. He smuggled it out with the help of his lawyer, and the nearly 7,000 words were transcribed. The eloquent call for “constructive, nonviolent tension” to force an end to unjust laws became a landmark document of the civil-rights movement. The letter was printed in part or in full by several publications, including the New York Post, Liberation magazine, The New Leader, and The Christian Century.

The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, and it says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. Responding to being referred to as an “outsider”, King writes, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.

The full letter is included after the break.