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Promising guitarist, singer/songwriter, composer from Western Nebraska Patrick Spicer Cassidy of Spectra Music Group talks about his release “Oxygen” featuring the title track, “Falling In, “Stone Cold Inside” along with “Lost in the Desert”, “Find You In The Void”, “Ghosts” and more! Patrick began his amazing career singing & playing at a young age with his late father Matthew and his sister (Patrick's aunt) played for the legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker in the late 80's and became a godfather to young Patrick! Patrick also played guitar at 12 in Western North Carolina for “Skinny Legs and All”, went back to Nebraska to begin music school and moved to Florida to be closer to his mom! Check out the amazing Patrick Spicer Cassidy and his newest release on many major platforms and www.patrickspicercassidy.com and www.spectramusicgroup.com today! #patrickspicercassidy #promisingguitarist #westernnebraska #spectramusicgroup #oxygen #fallingin #stoncecoldinside #lostinthedesert #findyouinthevoid #westernnorthcarolina #singersongwriter #skimnnylegsandall #johnleehooker #florida #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerpatrickspicercassidy #themikewagnershowpatrickspicercassidy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

Promising guitarist, singer/songwriter, composer from Western Nebraska Patrick Spicer Cassidy of Spectra Music Group talks about his release “Oxygen” featuring the title track, “Falling In, “Stone Cold Inside” along with “Lost in the Desert”, “Find You In The Void”, “Ghosts” and more! Patrick began his amazing career singing & playing at a young age with his late father Matthew and his sister (Patrick's aunt) played for the legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker in the late 80's and became a godfather to young Patrick! Patrick also played guitar at 12 in Western North Carolina for “Skinny Legs and All”, went back to Nebraska to begin music school and moved to Florida to be closer to his mom! Check out the amazing Patrick Spicer Cassidy and his newest release on many major platforms and www.patrickspicercassidy.com and www.spectramusicgroup.com today! #patrickspicercassidy #promisingguitarist #westernnebraska #spectramusicgroup #oxygen #fallingin #stoncecoldinside #lostinthedesert #findyouinthevoid #westernnorthcarolina #singersongwriter #skimnnylegsandall #johnleehooker #florida #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerpatrickspicercassidy #themikewagnershowpatrickspicercassidy  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-mike-wagner-show--3140147/support.

Donald Trump mocked President Joe Biden's “skinny legs” this week during a blistering interview with Tucker Carlson, RadarOnline.com has learned.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Blue Mountain "Soul Sister"Ike & Tina Turner "River Deep Mountain High"John Hammond "I Want You to Love Me"Albert King "Answer to the Laundromat Blues"Margo Price "Ragged Old Truck"Dr. John "Zu Zu Man"Mamie Perry And The Gus Jenkins Orchestra "Lament"Bob Dylan "Most of the Time"Ry Cooder "It's All Over Now"Betty LaVette "Let Me down Easy"Charles Mingus "Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul"Grateful Dead "In the Midnight Hour"Townes Van Zandt "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold"Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis "Ain't Nobody's Business"Porter Wagoner "Satan's River"Eilen Jewell "Queen Of The Minor Key"Old 97's "Good With God"The Louvin Brothers "Knoxville Girl"OutKast "Elevators (Me & You)"Amaro Freitas "Trupé"Staple Singers "What's Your Thing"Tina Turner "Hard Times"Charlie Parr "Funeral Road Blues"Steve Earle "When I Fall"Bonnie Raitt "Sweet Forgiveness"Lightnin' Hopkins "Katie Mae Blues"Billy Joe Shaver "I Been to Georgia On a Fast Train"Aimee Mann "Goose Snow Cone"Joan Shelley "Sweet Dark-Haired Man"Doc & Merle Watson "Dig a Little Deeper in the Well"Peter Buck "Southerner"The B-52's "Private Idaho"Tom Waits "Long Way Home"Asie Payton "Skinny Legs & All"The Ronettes "I'm On the Wagon"Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Evidence"Bob Dylan "She Belongs to Me"Aretha Franklin "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is Serious Business)"JD McPherson "Crying's Just A Thing That You Do"Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Sailor's Grave a Sea Of Sheep"

Titans OG Aaron Brewer joined 3HL to talk about how tired he is of being called undersized, training against Big Jeff, and his appearance in the Boom Boom Room.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi Basementeers all over ....Well it's that time of year, Christmas is past, and what's next ?? the turn of a new year, sooo yes we have a New Years show for you. If you are going to stay in or haven't any party's you were invited to ??? Well join ours. We made a show with an party atmosphere for this occasion.Will have our own new years celebration in the musical basement.The songs we have for this show will be from: Diamond Head / Etta James / The Bar Kays / Boz Scaggs / Bobby Vee and a few more.....So all of you are invited to party with us in the Basement.  HAPPY NEW YEARAnd hope it's a better one then the last....or just as good.....Intro: Auld Lan Syne-Guy Lombardo1. 1492-Betty Johnson2. Another Year-Ian Gomm3. 1963-Bobby Vee4. What's Another Year-Johnny Logan5. Early 1970-Ringo Starr6. A Couple More Years-Dr. Hook7. Back In '72-Bob Seger8. 20 Years Ago-T.C. Atlantic9. Son's Of 1984-Todd Rundgren10. 1982-Randy Travis11. 1993-Boz Scaggs12. Year Of The Cat-Arnie Fogel 13. 1999-Prince------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                           The New Years Segment 14. Countdown / Auld Lan Syne-Guy Lombardo15. It's Just Another New Years Eve-Barry Manilow16. New Years Day-U217. Everybody Rejoice-Diamond Head--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                             Party Time18. Party-Elvis Presley19. Rockabilly Party-Hugo & Luigi20. Gonna Have A Goodtime Tonight-The Easybeats21. Party Lights-Claudine Clark 22. Party Girl-Dick Roman23. Party Girl-Tommy Roe24. Up In Heah-Junior Wells25. Party '66-The G Cleffs26. In The Basement-Etta James27. Soul Finger-The Bar Kays28. Play The Music Tornados-The TSU Tornados 29. Skinny Legs & All-Joe Tex30. Soul Time-The Packers31. Ruby's House Party-Ruby & The Party Gand32. Believe In Me-Jessy James33. Cracker Jack-Mickey & His Mice34. Bring Up The Guitar-The Dapps & Alfred Ellis35. Teen House Party-Sandy Nelson36. The Baldy Stomp-The Decons37. Farmer John-Idle Few38. The Slide-Gregory Dee & The Avanties39. The Grind-Gregory Dee & The Avanties40. Straight Jacket-Gregory Dee & The Avanties41. Here Comes My Baby-The Tremolos42. Do Something To Me-Tommy James & The Shondells43. My Baby Comes To Me-The Chicago Loop44. New Years Party-George Thorogood45. Auld Lan Syne-Guy Lombardo   

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This week I speak to one of my oldest friends in comedy, we talk about looking like a paddle pop, Taree trying to be cool and not being able to catch snakes.Follow Andy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/andysaunderscomedy/Follow Urzila on Instagram http://instagram.com/urzilacarlson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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The Proud Family got GAYER??? Bring It On is going to be a horror movie??? Love Death + Robots dropped a second season??? Also, we got an Infidelity Playlist and a lil something for dick appointment flakes. Subscribe to Big Boy Brunch on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Anchor. Be sure to leave a rating and a review and tell 10 of your friends!!! DM us!!!!! Twitter: Big Boy Brunch (@BigBoyBrunch) / Twitter IG: Big Boy Brunch (@bigboybrunch) • Instagram photos and videos Wanna advertise? Hit up LoLo @ losimpsoniv@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bigboybrunch/support

Honeymoon at St. John's Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands   Tonight is our last night at Beit Hawa, which means the House of the Winds.  Howie's friends, Barry and Margarite Rich let us use their island home for our honeymoon.  Tonight has been the best day yet.  The vacation allowed us to do a lot of things that were fun and gave us the chance to get away from the phones and hassles of our daily life.  It inspired a lot of lovemaking in some pretty interesting places, including the porch over Rendezvous Bay.  We had time to read and to write and to reflect and tonight our collective creative juices were cascading like the waterfalls of Cinnamon Bay.  It was unstoppable and as we each shared what we had been working on.  We were amazed to see how closely our goals and dreams dovetailed.   Howie has asked me several times to sit down and write out a 20 year plan.  He wanted me to be clear about what it is that I want so that he can help me achieve it within a time frame that leaves us some time to enjoy life without every day being a struggle.  He was being remarkably generous in offering me 20 years to get there and so I did my best to draft a plan that would do it in 10.  The result is the 2005 Master Plan that I won't detail here yet because I just gave him the first draft and he will undoubtedly fine tune it to make it workable.     I am so blessed to have a husband who is so willing and capable of making my dreams come true.  I have been concerned that these have been MY dreams and that ending the suffering of exotic cats in captivity is just not what Howie would prefer to be doing with his time.  He has told me that he wants to play more tennis and play more golf and spend more time at peace.  The idea of administering such an aggressive plan as we proposed to each other tonight did not seem to me to be the way for him to have the leisure time he wanted.  He confessed tonight that it may just be the product of too much caffeine in the coffee and cigar he had this afternoon and that tomorrow he will wonder what on earth he was thinking.  If that is the case, that is okay too.   For now he says that it takes a couple of years to really get a handle on a situation and to start to make sense of it.  He believes that he sees a path to reach the ultimate goal that I seek and that although it means structuring his time differently, and less play time, it will give him the sense of purpose that his life has lacked.  I often think about what it will mean to be at the end of my time here, looking back.  Will I feel that I spent this time wisely?  Will I have made a difference?  I think we all have moments like these, but unfortunately too many of us don't have them until it is too late.  I don't want to cause Howie stress.  I want him to get out of life whatever he needs to make him happy.  I just can't help but think that achieving a definable goal will bring far more satisfaction than any game can.   Our honeymoon was spectacular!  The house is beautiful and there is always a strong wind so it is cool even in the direct sun.  There is a waterfall and small pool, a Jacuzzi, main house and guest house.  The view is stunning and ever changing with the clouds, the sun on the bay, the pelicans by day and bats by night flying by and the howling of the winds.  We spent three days snorkeling and did a little hiking.  The coral reefs were full of beautiful fish, turtles, sting rays, sea urchins and color.  We swam until we were out of breath and then just floated, face down, watching all of the underwater dramas unfold.  We visited Caneel Bay, Hawksnest Bay, Cinnamon Bay, Trunk Bay, Salt Pond Bay and of course Cruz Bay where the ferry brought us in.  Howie did a great job of getting us around the island on these narrow roads despite rain, mud slides, sand slides and vertical pathways and all of it done on the left side of the road!  The whole island is only 9 miles across and we drove every paved inch of it.   We ate at the Del Groto, The Fish Trap, Shipwreck Landing, Skinny Legs, Morgan's Mango and the Salty Dog Café at Mongoose Junction.  We saw a real mongoose crossing the road, lots of donkeys (they say there are 400 of them here) plenty of free roaming goats and cows and we heard a lot more birds than we saw.  We visited the Sugar Mill on the far East end of the island and saw quite a few plantation ruins and that of a fort.  We spent an evening at the Westin in their gym and walked down to the bar in search of the perfect Pina Colada.  The best was a non alcoholic version at the Fish Trap.   We took our first shower together in the outdoor shower of Beit Hawa.  We made love almost every day.  One night I heard Howie yelp from the outdoor shower and discovered that in the dark he had reached for the soap and it moved…it was a very large frog perched on the soap rack.  The view from the bathrooms and dressing rooms was more spectacular than most seaside hotel lobbies could ever boast.  We walked hand in hand through the misty coastal forests and ruins.  We held each other close as we walked along beach after glorious beach.  While snorkeling we would turn to each other with outstretched hands and through our masks, with our faces all smushed by the goggles would make google eyes at each other.   I love him so much!  He is such a blessing!  Thank you God!!!   I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

Our first guest on the Books in Bed podcast! Erica's mom! We talk a lot about habits and falling out of them as you grow older. And we talk alittle bit about the Tom Robbins book called Skinny Legs and All.

Hour three of the Boomer & Gio show proved to be a good one, as the guy's provided some examples of how the Mets might be able to refocus the attention on them and his name is George Springer.  (9:43) Plus, we hear why it actually 'makes a ton of sense' for the Jets to go get Deshaun Watson, (12:51) Boomer doesn't take kindly to being called a name, (14:38) Jerry Recco provided another update worth listening too, (16:38) James Harden understands that everyone has a role to play, (20:58) Kevin Durant still has very skinny legs and (40:26) an in-depth conversation about aura and how much of it Boomer possesses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello Basementeers all over.... Yes it's time to say goodby to this rottin year we just went through. For the paople who thought 2020 was the best year of there lives.....well.....here comes 2021........ So however you thought of the passing year, we have a musical gathering in our basement of music to bring in the new year no matter what year it will be. If your celebrating this new years alone, well Let us bring our party to you, so you wont feel alone. My crowd had a sober time making this special show, and wasn't easy putting it together. We will play songs from: U2 / Ringo Starr / Etta James / Joe Tex / Ruby & The Party Gang / Elvis Presley / Dick Roman and many more...... So you will feel the party spirit on this episode of SFTB on the special New Years show.....we hope..... Intro: Auld Lan Syne-Guy Lombardo 1. 1492-Betty Johnson 2. Another Year-Ian Gomm 3. 1963-Bobby Vee 4. What's Another Year-Johnny Logan 5. Early 1970-Ringo Starr 6. A Couple More Years-Dr. Hook 7. Back In '72-Bob Seger 8. 20 Years Ago-T.C. Atlantic 9. Sons Of 1984-Todd Rundgren 10. 1982-Randy Travis 11. 1983-Boz Scaggs 12. Year Of The Cat-Arnie Fogel (Artic Enterprise) 13. 1999-Prince HAPPY NEW YEAR SEGMENT 14. Countdown / Auld Lan Syne-Guy Lonbardo 15. It's Just Another New Years Eve-Barry Manilow 16.New Years Day-U2 17.Everybody Rejoice-Diamond Head PARTY TIME MUSIC 18. Party-Elvis Presley 19. Rockabilly Party-Hugo & Luigi 20. Gonna Have A Goodtime Tonight-The Easybeats 21. Party Lights-Claudine Clark 22. Party Girl-Dick Roman 23. Party Girl-Tommy Roe 24. Up In Heah-Junior Wells 25. Party '66-The G Cleffs 26. In The Basement-Etta James 27. Soul Finger-The Bar Kays 28. Play The Music Tornados-The TSU Tornadoes 29. Skinny Legs & All-Joe Tex 30. Soul Time-The Packers 31. Ruby's House Party-Ruby & The Party Gang 32. Believe In Me-Jessy James 33. Cracker Jack-Mickey & His Mice 34. Bring Up The Guitar-The Dapps & Alfred Ellis 35. Teen House Party-Sandy Nelson 36. The Baldy Stomp-The Deacons 37. Farmer John-Idle Few 38. The Slide-Gregory Dee & The Avanties 39. The Grind-Gregory Dee & The Avanties 40. Straight Jacket-Gregory Dee & The Avanties 41. Here Comes My baby-The Tremolos 42. Do Something To Me-Tommy James & The Shondells 43. My Baby Come To Me-The Chicago Loop 44. New Years Party-George Thorogood Auld Lan Syne-Guy Lombardo Everybody Have A Great New Year.....Let's make it better then the last. See you in 2021.........

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Una selección muy personal. Hay una buena tanda de canciones canadienses de artistas favoritos como Ron Sexsmith, Sarah Harmer, Destroyer o Feist. También lo nuevo de Fiona Apple que me tiene flipado. La voz de Shelby Lynne me estremece como muy pocas. Algo parecido me sucede con la forma de cantar de Craig Fuller (Pure Prairie League, American Flyer, Little Feat). Lapido escribe como nadie letras de rocanrol. Sarah Jarosz es uno de los grandes descubrimientos de este siglo de la americana. DISCO 1 BRUCE COCKBURN Train In The Rain DISCO 2 DESTROYER Painter In Your Pocket DISCO 3 SARAH HARMER Pendulums DISCO 4 PAUL REDDICK I Will Vanish DISCO 5 RON SEXSMITH Whatever It Takes DISCO 6 FEIST Secret Heart DISCO 7 CITY AND COLOUR Wasted Love DISCO 8 SHELBY LYNNE Dreamsome DISCO 9 FIONA APPLE I Want You To Love Me DISCO 10 LYLE LOVETT Skinny Legs DISCO 11 AMERICAN FLYER Call Me, Tell Me DISCO 12 SARAH JAROSZ I Can't Love You Now (Song Up In Her Head) DISCO 13 JOSÉ IGNACIO LAPIDO En el Ángulo Muerto DISCO 14 LESLEY DUNCAN Could've Been A Winner DISCO 15 AMERICAN FLYER End Of A Love Song Escuchar audio

On today’s episode of The Pod, Digs continues to reluctantly accept his role as the host of the show, the guys reminisce about a road trip to Pittsburgh that comes back to one memory, and they introduce a few new segments. On this week’s “Sh*t I’ve Seen on the Internet” the guys discuss a tweet going around that asks what movie traumatizes you as a kid and the guys have some interesting answers. They also try to choose what fruit or vegetable is the easiest to throw the farthest distance, decide whether or not tomfoolery was involved in making Foxy’s legs look like toothpicks in a green screen photo, cover news you need to know with Nick, and give some movie/TV show picks in the new segment Check it AHT or Don’t check it AHT. Don’t forget that St. Paddy’s day merch is now available on patmcafeeshow.com, and we’re opening the search for a new original theme/intro so DM submissions to @ThePodPMI on Twitter and Instagram. Enjoy the show, and have a great weekend.

Welcome to the Ultimate Fantasy Podcast - your one-stop shop for all things Fantasy. Alfie is very pleased to be joined by the #SecretJournalist, Nathan Taylor, BowstringTheCarp (AKA Matt Kearney), Top Marx, FPL Nymfria, and Tommy Gunn as they take an intricate and lighthearted look ahead to the upcoming gameweek. PT1: (00m00s) Intro/Contents (01m10s) General News (04m00s) Quiz Question (4m19s) GW22 Roundup (05m43s) Football Chat (08m08s) FPL Results (12m33s) Genius or Madperson (14m02s) Team Names (16m39s) Draft Results PT2: (20m44s) Tommy Gunn (25m12s) Tactics Truck with BowstringTheCarp (AKA Matt Kearney) PT3: (29m33s) GW23 Fixture Focus (41m36s) FPL Nymfria (42m57s) Quicktures (49m10s) Remaining Fixtures PT4: (53m08s) Quiz Answer A MonkeyBuns Production Original stings and material by Alfie Evers Get in touch: @UltimateFPod Join our FPL league: psdbv4 Please like & share our podcast. A little love goes a long way! Like and subscribe to the YouTube page of FPL Nymfria for your FPL tips Twitter: @FPLNym For more Fantrax info check out the web page of The Fantasy Football Chaps Twitter: @TheFFChaps Matt Kearney AKA BowstringTheCarp Twitter page: @MattKearney92 Extra music by: Ross Power The Insider Theme by The Insider An Example For by Captive Portal Soma by Teeho x VYVCH Blue Highway by Podington Bear Looking for a platform to host your Draft Fantasy Football needs? Visit the guys at DraftFantasy and sign up now! Listen to ‘Pressure’ by Alfatron6000 - the unofficial official song of Fantasy Football This episode is sponsored by Subject Six - the new novel by William J Robson Buy yours on Amazon now

“The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world. Thus, since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.” - Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins My guest is Cole Suttle - President of the Helping Friendly Book Club http://www.helpingfriendly.com/ and we are talking about The Family on Netflix and how people use religion to scam, brainwash, control and do evil things. Who gets the ultimate pass in trust? Is anyone above the law? Are there no checks and balances for certain people? The Catholic Church has hidden pedophiles for YEARS!!!!!! So that children could continue being assaulted!!!! Not to mention every other religion with laundry lists of scandals of abuse. Here is just ONE example of fleecing in the name of the Lord --> Ephren Taylor, who fleeced some $16 million from members of church flocks in 43 states by preaching so-called "prosperity gospel." (from CNBC) Why should anyone get a pass of complete trust for uttering key phrases? Especially since fraud is RAMPANT in this area! Religion becomes a taboo topic -- when you question faith. However -- if you can't question something -- RED FLAG! If you've got nothing to hide. You've got nothing to hide. What if there is something even deeper than just scamming your neighbor.... Cole Suttle - posted about "The Family" on Netflix - and WHOA! - We are going to talk about it - and dive into what I touched on above. Cole was born to high school sweethearts and grew up in Pasedena California. He attended SMU and majored in religious studies with a double minor in Philosophy and English and is currently working on a Master of Arts in Design and Innovation at SMU. He began working for the Ritz Carlton in Aspen and returned to Dallas to build the Guest Relations department from scratch for the newly opened Dallas Ritz Carlton. He loved working for The Ritz-Carlton, they have a great philosophy and it felt like a giant laboratory for studying Human Behavior, focusing especially on the art of blowing people’s minds. He was fascinated to better understand what the difference between a 4 and a 5 star hotel was, and this led him to develop something he likes to call the Metaphysics of Hospitality. He was awarded The Ritz-Carlton Gold Standard Award (given annually to only 5 Ladies and Gentlemen worldwide) before switching from operations to Business and Executive Sales to further test out his theories. Concurrently he’s been working on his passion project, The Helping Friendly Book Club, which started in 2013 “to search for the Secrets to Eternal Joy and Never Ending Splendor” with his friends. More than anything the book club was a way for him to keep exploring the universe, to keep searching for the truth, and to keep following his curiosity with a community people instead of just on his own. Little did he know that almost 7 years and 32 books later the club would still be going strong, and is now grown into The Helping Friendly Foundation, a non profit 501c3 on a mission “to help elevate the public conversation and connect people through books in convivial ways.” Positioning ourselves at the confluence of the placemaking and the Little Free Library movements, the goal is to elevate the free-public book exchange to the level of an artform in three phases. (See www.helpingfriendly.com/theplan for more). www.allwaysanotherway.com

Rev. Pat continues her "Wounded Word" series. The third most common words noted were "religion" and "church." What came to Rev. Pat's mind was the Dance of the Seven Veils featured in Tom Robbins' novel, Skinny Legs and All. With each veil dropped, another truth is revealed. When the fourth veil dropped, a Robbins character reflects that “longing for the Divine is intrinsic in Homo sapiens. . . enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. . . Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization.” Does organized religion and/or Unitarian Universalism help to broaden or diminish the mystical impulse?

A detailed look at black, African-American, culture during the "Sixties". (1960-1969) (Bonus Artists: hidingtobefound & Luck Pacheco)   Overview   "The Sixties":  the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling – or - irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order.   Also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time.   Also described as a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom, broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm.   The confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union dominated geopolitics during the '60s, with the struggle expanding into developing nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia characterized by proxy wars, funding of insurgencies, and puppet governments.   In response to civil disobedience campaigns from groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), U.S. President John F. Kennedy, pushed for social reforms. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 was a shock.   Liberal reforms were finally passed under Lyndon B. Johnson including civil rights for African Americans· and healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Despite his large-scale Great Society programs, Johnson was increasingly reviled. The heavy-handed American role in the Vietnam War outraged student protestors around the globe.   The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., anti-Vietnam War movement, and the police response towards protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, defined a politics of violence in the United States.   The 1960s were marked by several notable assassinations:   12 June 1963 – Medgar Evers, an NAACP field secretary. Assassinated by Byron de la Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Jackson, Mississippi.   22 November 1963 – John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.   21 February 1965 – Malcolm X. Assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in New York City. There is a dispute about which members killed Malcolm X.   4 April 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader. Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.   5 June 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, United States Senator. Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, after taking California in the presidential national primaries.   Social and political movements (counterculture)   Flower Power/Hippies In the second half of the decade, young people began to revolt against the conservative norms of the time. The youth involved in the popular social aspects of the movement became known as hippies. These groups created a movement toward liberation in society, including the sexual revolution, questioning authority and government, and demanding more freedoms and rights for women and minorities. The movement was also marked by the first widespread, socially accepted drug use (including LSD and marijuana) and psychedelic music.     Anti-war movement The war in Vietnam would eventually lead to a commitment of over half a million American troops, resulting in over 58,500 American deaths and producing a large-scale antiwar movement in the United States. Students became a powerful and disruptive force and university campuses sparked a national debate over the war. The antiwar movement was heavily influenced by the American Communist Party, but by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement centered in universities and churches: one kind of protest was called a "sit-in".   Civil rights movement Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the late 1960s, African-Americans in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and voting rights to them. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the civil rights movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and anti-imperialism. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama.; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities. Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the civil rights movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.   Hispanic and Chicano movement Another large ethnic minority group, the Mexican-Americans, are among other Hispanics in the U.S. who fought to end racial discrimination and socioeconomic disparity. In the 1960s and the following 1970s, Hispanic-American culture was on the rebound like ethnic music, foods, culture and identity both became popular and assimilated into the American mainstream. Spanish-language television networks, radio stations and newspapers increased in presence across the country.   Second-wave feminism A second wave of feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s. While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning de jure inequalities, the second wave was focused on changing cultural and social norms and de facto inequalities associated with women. At the time, a woman's place was generally seen as being in the home, and they were excluded from many jobs and professions. Feminists took to the streets, marching and protesting, writing books and debating to change social and political views that limited women. In 1963, with Betty Friedan's revolutionary book, The Feminine Mystique, the role of women in society, and in public and private life was questioned. By 1966, the movement was beginning to grow and power as women's group spread across the country and Friedan, along with other feminists, founded the National Organization for Women. In 1968, "Women's Liberation" became a household term.   Gay rights movement The United States, in the middle of a social revolution, led the world in LGBT rights in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inspired by the civil-rights movement and the women's movement, early gay-rights pioneers had begun, by the 1960s, to build a movement. These groups were rather conservative in their practices, emphasizing that gay men and women are no different from those who are straight and deserve full equality. This philosophy would be dominant again after AIDS, but by the very end of the 1960s, the movement's goals would change and become more radical, demanding a right to be different, and encouraging gay pride.   Crime The 1960s was also associated with a large increase in crime and urban unrest of all types. Between 1960 and 1969 reported incidences of violent crime per 100,000 people in the United States nearly doubled and have yet to return to the levels of the early 1960s. Large riots broke out in many cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. By the end of the decade, politicians like George Wallace and Richard Nixon campaigned on restoring law and order to a nation troubled with the new unrest.   Economics The decade began with a recession and at that time unemployment was considered high at around 7%. John F. Kennedy promised to "get America moving again." To do this, he instituted a 7% tax credit for businesses that invest in new plants and equipment. By the end of the decade, median family income had risen from $8,540 in 1963 to $10,770 by 1969. Minimum wage was $1.30 per hour / ~$2,700 per year (~$18,700 in 2018)   Popular culture   The counterculture movement dominated the second half of the 1960s, its most famous moments being the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967, and the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in 1969. Psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, were widely used medicinally, spiritually and recreationally throughout the late 1960s, and were popularized by Timothy Leary with his slogan "Turn on, tune in, drop out". Psychedelic influenced the music, artwork and films of the decade, and several prominent musicians died of drug overdoses. There was a growing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy, and many attempts were made to found communes, which varied from supporting free love to religious puritanism.   Music   British Invasion: The Beatles arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 7 February 1964   "The 60's were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana.     As the 1960s began, the major rock-and-roll stars of the '50s such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard had dropped off the charts and popular music in the US came to be dominated by Motown girl groups and novelty pop songs. Another important change in music during the early 1960s was the American folk music revival which introduced Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Odetta, and many other Singer-songwriters to the public.   Girl groups and female singers, such as the Shirelles, Betty Everett, Little Eva, the Dixie Cups, the Ronettes, and the Supremes dominated the charts in the early 1960s. This style consisted typically of light pop themes about teenage romance, backed by vocal harmonies and a strong rhythm. Most girl groups were African-American, but white girl groups and singers, such as Lesley Gore, the Angels, and the Shangri-Las emerged by 1963.   Around the same time, record producer Phil Spector began producing girl groups and created a new kind of pop music production that came to be known as the Wall of Sound. This style emphasized higher budgets and more elaborate arrangements, and more melodramatic musical themes in place of a simple, light-hearted pop sound. Spector's innovations became integral to the growing sophistication of popular music from 1965 onward.   Also during the early '60s, the “car song” emerged as a rock subgenre and coupled with the surf rock subgenre. Such notable songs include "Little Deuce Coupe," "409," and "Shut Down," all by the Beach Boys; Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" and "Drag City," among many others.   While rock 'n' roll had 'disappeared' from the US charts in the early '60s, it never died out in Europe and Britain was a hotbed of rock-and-roll activity during this time. In late 1963, the Beatles embarked on their first US tour. A few months later, rock-and-roll founding father Chuck Berry emerged from a 2-1/2-year prison stint and resumed recording and touring. The stage was set for the spectacular revival of rock music.   In the UK, the Beatles played raucous rock 'n' roll – as well as doo wop, girl-group songs, show tunes. Beatlemania abruptly exploded after the group's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.   As the counterculture movement developed, artists began making new kinds of music influenced by the use of psychedelic drugs. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix emerged onto the scene in 1967 with a radically new approach to electric guitar that replaced Chuck Berry, previously seen as the gold standard of rock guitar. Rock artists began to take on serious themes and social commentary/protest instead of simplistic pop themes.   A major development in popular music during the mid-1960s was the movement away from singles and towards albums.   Blues also continued to develop strongly during the '60s, but after 1965, it increasingly shifted to the young white rock audience and away from its traditional black audience, which moved on to other styles such as soul and funk.   Jazz music during the first half of the '60s was largely a continuation of '50s styles, retaining its core audience of young, urban, college-educated whites. By 1967, the death of several important jazz figures such as John Coltrane and Nat King Cole precipitated a decline in the genre. The takeover of rock in the late '60s largely spelled the end of jazz as a mainstream form of music, after it had dominated much of the first half of the 20th century.   Significant events in music in the 1960s:   Sam Cooke was shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles, California [11 December 1964] at age 33 under suspicious circumstances.   Motown Record Corporation was founded in 1960. Its first Top Ten hit was "Shop Around" by the Miracles in 1960. "Shop Around" peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Motown's first million-selling record.   The Marvelettes scored Motown Record Corporation's first US No. 1 pop hit, "Please Mr. Postman" in 1961. Motown would score 110 Billboard Top-Ten hits during its run.   The Supremes scored twelve number-one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go".   John Coltrane released A Love Supreme in late 1964, considered among the most acclaimed jazz albums of the era.   In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released two successful albums during 1967, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, that innovate both guitar, trio and recording techniques.   R & B legend Otis Redding has his first No. 1 hit with the legendary Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. He also played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 just before he died in a plane crash.   The Bee Gees released their international debut album Bee Gees 1st in July 1967 which included the pop standard "To Love Somebody".   1968: after The Yardbirds fold, Led Zeppelin was formed by Jimmy Page and manager Peter Grant, with Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones; and, released their debut album Led Zeppelin.   Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin as lead singer, became an overnight sensation after their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and released their second album Cheap Thrills in 1968.   Gram Parsons with The Byrds released the extremely influential LP Sweetheart of the Rodeo in late 1968, forming the basis for country rock.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the highly influential double LP Electric Ladyland in 1968 that furthered the guitar and studio innovations of his previous two albums.   Woodstock Festival, 1969   Sly & the Family Stone revolutionized black music with their massive 1968 hit single "Dance to the Music" and by 1969 became international sensations with the release of their hit record Stand!. The band cemented their position as a vital counterculture band when they performed at the Woodstock Festival.   Film Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1960s include: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Apartment, The Birds, I Am Curious (Yellow), Bonnie and Clyde, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Carnival of Souls, Cleopatra, Cool , and Luke, The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Exodus, Faces, Funny Girl, Goldfinger, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, , Head, How the West Was Won, The , Hustler, Ice Station Zebra, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jason and the Argonauts, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Jungle Book, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, The Longest Day, The Love Bug, A Man for All Seasons, The Manchurian Candidate, Mary Poppins, Medium Cool, Midnight Cowboy, My Fair Lady, Night of the Living Dead, The Pink Panther, The Odd Couple, Oliver!, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, One Million Years B.C., Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, The Sound of Music, Spartacus, Swiss Family Robinson, To Kill a Mockingbird, Valley of the Dolls, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Wild Bunch.   Television   The most prominent American TV series of the 1960s include: The Ed Sullivan Show, Star Trek, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Andy Williams Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Wonderful World of Disney, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Batman, McHale's Navy, Laugh-In, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Tonight Show, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Mission: Impossible, The Flintstones, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lassie, The Danny Thomas Show, The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Show, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.   The Flintstones was a favored show, receiving 40 million views an episode with an average of 3 views a day.   Some programming such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became controversial by challenging the foundations of America's corporate and governmental controls; making fun of world leaders, and questioning U.S. involvement in and escalation of the Vietnam War.   Fashion   Significant fashion trends of the 1960s include:     The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket.   The hippie movement late in the decade also had a strong influence on clothing styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye and batik fabrics, as well as paisley prints.   The bikini came into fashion in 1963 after being featured in the film Beach Party.   Mary Quant invented the miniskirt, which became one of the most popular fashion rages in the late 1960s among young women and teenage girls. Its popularity continued throughout the first half of the 1970s and then disappeared temporarily from mainstream fashion before making a comeback in the mid-1980s.   Men's mainstream hairstyles ranged from the pompadour, the crew cut, the flattop hairstyle, the tapered hairstyle, and short, parted hair in the early part of the decade, to longer parted hairstyles with sideburns towards the latter half of the decade.   Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade.   African-American hairstyles for men and women included the afro.       James Brown "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" (1965) "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (1965) "Say It Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968)     Ray Charles "Georgia On My Mind' (1960) "Hit the Road Jack" (1961) "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1962)     Marvin Gaye "Ain't That Peculiar?" (1965) "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1968) "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (1969)     The Temptations "My Girl" (1965) "Ain't Too to Beg" (1966) "I Can't Get Next to You" (1969)     Bobby "Blue" Bland "I Pity the Fool" (1961) "Turn On Your Lovelight" (1961) "Ain't Nothing You Can Do" (1964)     Aretha Franklin "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) "Respect" (1967) "Chain of Fools" (1967-68)     The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1964) "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1965) "Love Child" (1968)     Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "Shop Around" (1960-61) "You've Really Got a Hold On Me" (1962-63) "The Tracks of My Tears" (1965)     The Impressions "Gypsy Woman" (1961) "It's All Right" (1963) "People Get Ready" (1965)     Brook Benton "Kiddio" (1960) "Think Twice" (1961) "Hotel Happiness" (1962-63)     Jackie Wilson "Doggin' Around" (1960) "Baby Workout" (1963) "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (1967)     Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" (1960) "Bring It On Home To Me" (1962) "A Change is Gonna Come" (1965)     Otis Redding "These Arms of Mine" (1963) "Try a Little Tenderness" (1966-67) "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)     Jerry Butler "He Will Break Your Heart" (1960) "Never Give You Up" (1968) "Only the Strong Survive" (1969)     Wilson Pickett "In the Midnight Hour" (1965) "Land of 1000 Dances" (1966) "Funky Broadway" (1967)     Stevie Wonder "Fingertips, Part 2" (1963) "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (1965-66) "I Was Made to Love Her" (1967)     B.B. King "Beautician Blues" (1964) "Waiting on You" (1966) "Paying the Cost To Be the Boss" (1968)     Joe Tex "Hold What You've Got" (1964-65) "A Sweet Woman Like You" (1965-66) "Skinny Legs and All" (1967)     The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" (1961) "Beechwood 4-5789" (1962) "Too Many Fish in the Sea" (1965)     Mary Wells "Bye Bye Baby" (1960-61) "The One Who Really Loves You" (1962) "My Guy" (1964)     The Four Tops "Baby, I Need Your Loving" (1964) "I Can't Help Myself (A/K/A Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (1965) "Reach Out, I'll Be There" (1966)     Martha & The Vandellas "Heat Wave" (1963) "Dancing in the Street" (1964) "Nowhere to Run" (1965)     Dionne Warwick "Don't Make Me Over" (1962-63) "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1963-64) "Walk On By" (1964)     Solomon Burke "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)" (1961) "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" (1964) "Got To Get You Off My Mind" (1965)     Etta James "At Last" (1960-61) "Tell Mama" (1967-68) "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1967-68)     The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (1960-61) "Dedicated to the One I Love" (1961) "Baby It's You" (1961-62)     Chuck Jackson "I Don't Want to Cry" (1961) "Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)" (1962) "Beg Me" (1964)     Gene Chandler "Duke of Earl" (1962) "Rainbow" (1963) "I Fooled You This Time" (1966)     The Drifters "This Magic Moment" (1960) "Save the Last Dance for Me" (1960) "Up on the Roof" (1962-63)     Jr. Walker & The All-Stars "Shotgun" (1965) "(I'm A) Road Runner" (1966) "Home Cookin'" (1968-69)     Gladys Knight & The Pips "Every Beat of My Heart" (1961) "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" (1967) "Friendship Train" (1969)     Carla Thomas "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" (1961) "B-A-B-Y" (1966) "Another Night Without My Man" (1966)     Chubby Checker "The Twist" (1960) "Pony Time" (1961) "Dancin' Party" (1962)     Sam & Dave "Hold On! I'm A Comin'" (1966) "When Something is Wrong With My Baby" (1967) "Soul Man" (1967)     Joe Simon "My Adorable One" (1964) "Nine Pound Steel" (1967) "The Chokin' Kind" (1969)     The Dells "There Is" (1967-68) "Stay in My Corner" (1968) "Oh, What a Night" (1969)     Little Milton "So Mean To Me" (1962) "We're Gonna Make It" (1965) "Grits Ain't Groceries" (1969)     Ben E. King "Spanish Harlem" (1960-61) "Stand By Me" (1961) "That's When it Hurts" (1964)     Betty Everett "You're No Good" (1963) "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1964) "There'll Come a Time" (1969)     Hank Ballard & The Midnighters "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" (1960) "Finger Poppin' Time" (1960) "Nothing But Good" (1961)     Major Lance "The Monkey Time" (1963) "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" (1964) "Investigate" (1966)     Booker T. & The MGs "Green Onions" (1962) "Hip-Hug-Her" (1967) "Time is Tight" (1969)     The Intruders "Together" (1967) "Cowboys to Girls" (1968) "(Love is Like a) Baseball Game" (1968)     Ike & Tina Turner "A Fool in Love" (1960) "Goodbye, So Long" (1965) "River Deep--Mountain High" (1966)     Johnnie Taylor "I Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (1966) "Who's Making Love" (1968) "I Could Never Be President" (1969)     The Orlons "The Wah Watusi" (1962) "Don't Hang Up" (1962) "South Street" (1963)     Barbara Lewis "Hello Stranger" (1963) "Baby, I'm Yours" (1965) "Make Me Your Baby" (1965)     Maxine Brown "All in My Mind" (1960-61) "Oh No, Not My Baby" (1964) "One in a Million" (1966)     Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters "Cry Baby" (1963) "Tell Me Baby" (1964) "I'll Take Good Care of You" (1966)     Ramsey Lewis "The In Crowd" (1965) "Hang On Sloopy" (1965) "Wade in the Water" (1966)  

A detailed look at black, African-American, culture during the "Sixties". (1960-1969)   Overview   "The Sixties":  the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling – or - irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order.   Also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time.   Also described as a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom, broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm.   The confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union dominated geopolitics during the '60s, with the struggle expanding into developing nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia characterized by proxy wars, funding of insurgencies, and puppet governments.   In response to civil disobedience campaigns from groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), U.S. President John F. Kennedy, pushed for social reforms. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 was a shock.   Liberal reforms were finally passed under Lyndon B. Johnson including civil rights for African Americans· and healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Despite his large-scale Great Society programs, Johnson was increasingly reviled. The heavy-handed American role in the Vietnam War outraged student protestors around the globe.   The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., anti-Vietnam War movement, and the police response towards protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, defined a politics of violence in the United States.   The 1960s were marked by several notable assassinations:   12 June 1963 – Medgar Evers, an NAACP field secretary. Assassinated by Byron de la Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Jackson, Mississippi.   22 November 1963 – John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.   21 February 1965 – Malcolm X. Assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in New York City. There is a dispute about which members killed Malcolm X.   4 April 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader. Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.   5 June 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, United States Senator. Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, after taking California in the presidential national primaries.   Social and political movements (counterculture)   Flower Power/Hippies In the second half of the decade, young people began to revolt against the conservative norms of the time. The youth involved in the popular social aspects of the movement became known as hippies. These groups created a movement toward liberation in society, including the sexual revolution, questioning authority and government, and demanding more freedoms and rights for women and minorities. The movement was also marked by the first widespread, socially accepted drug use (including LSD and marijuana) and psychedelic music.     Anti-war movement The war in Vietnam would eventually lead to a commitment of over half a million American troops, resulting in over 58,500 American deaths and producing a large-scale antiwar movement in the United States. Students became a powerful and disruptive force and university campuses sparked a national debate over the war. The antiwar movement was heavily influenced by the American Communist Party, but by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement centered in universities and churches: one kind of protest was called a "sit-in".   Civil rights movement Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the late 1960s, African-Americans in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and voting rights to them. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the civil rights movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and anti-imperialism. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama.; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities. Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the civil rights movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.   Hispanic and Chicano movement Another large ethnic minority group, the Mexican-Americans, are among other Hispanics in the U.S. who fought to end racial discrimination and socioeconomic disparity. In the 1960s and the following 1970s, Hispanic-American culture was on the rebound like ethnic music, foods, culture and identity both became popular and assimilated into the American mainstream. Spanish-language television networks, radio stations and newspapers increased in presence across the country.   Second-wave feminism A second wave of feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s. While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning de jure inequalities, the second wave was focused on changing cultural and social norms and de facto inequalities associated with women. At the time, a woman's place was generally seen as being in the home, and they were excluded from many jobs and professions. Feminists took to the streets, marching and protesting, writing books and debating to change social and political views that limited women. In 1963, with Betty Friedan's revolutionary book, The Feminine Mystique, the role of women in society, and in public and private life was questioned. By 1966, the movement was beginning to grow and power as women's group spread across the country and Friedan, along with other feminists, founded the National Organization for Women. In 1968, "Women's Liberation" became a household term.   Gay rights movement The United States, in the middle of a social revolution, led the world in LGBT rights in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inspired by the civil-rights movement and the women's movement, early gay-rights pioneers had begun, by the 1960s, to build a movement. These groups were rather conservative in their practices, emphasizing that gay men and women are no different from those who are straight and deserve full equality. This philosophy would be dominant again after AIDS, but by the very end of the 1960s, the movement's goals would change and become more radical, demanding a right to be different, and encouraging gay pride.   Crime The 1960s was also associated with a large increase in crime and urban unrest of all types. Between 1960 and 1969 reported incidences of violent crime per 100,000 people in the United States nearly doubled and have yet to return to the levels of the early 1960s. Large riots broke out in many cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. By the end of the decade, politicians like George Wallace and Richard Nixon campaigned on restoring law and order to a nation troubled with the new unrest.   Economics The decade began with a recession and at that time unemployment was considered high at around 7%. John F. Kennedy promised to "get America moving again." To do this, he instituted a 7% tax credit for businesses that invest in new plants and equipment. By the end of the decade, median family income had risen from $8,540 in 1963 to $10,770 by 1969. Minimum wage was $1.30 per hour / ~$2,700 per year (~$18,700 in 2018)   Popular culture   The counterculture movement dominated the second half of the 1960s, its most famous moments being the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967, and the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in 1969. Psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, were widely used medicinally, spiritually and recreationally throughout the late 1960s, and were popularized by Timothy Leary with his slogan "Turn on, tune in, drop out". Psychedelic influenced the music, artwork and films of the decade, and several prominent musicians died of drug overdoses. There was a growing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy, and many attempts were made to found communes, which varied from supporting free love to religious puritanism.   Music   British Invasion: The Beatles arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 7 February 1964   "The 60's were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana.     As the 1960s began, the major rock-and-roll stars of the '50s such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard had dropped off the charts and popular music in the US came to be dominated by Motown girl groups and novelty pop songs. Another important change in music during the early 1960s was the American folk music revival which introduced Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Odetta, and many other Singer-songwriters to the public.   Girl groups and female singers, such as the Shirelles, Betty Everett, Little Eva, the Dixie Cups, the Ronettes, and the Supremes dominated the charts in the early 1960s. This style consisted typically of light pop themes about teenage romance, backed by vocal harmonies and a strong rhythm. Most girl groups were African-American, but white girl groups and singers, such as Lesley Gore, the Angels, and the Shangri-Las emerged by 1963.   Around the same time, record producer Phil Spector began producing girl groups and created a new kind of pop music production that came to be known as the Wall of Sound. This style emphasized higher budgets and more elaborate arrangements, and more melodramatic musical themes in place of a simple, light-hearted pop sound. Spector's innovations became integral to the growing sophistication of popular music from 1965 onward.   Also during the early '60s, the “car song” emerged as a rock subgenre and coupled with the surf rock subgenre. Such notable songs include "Little Deuce Coupe," "409," and "Shut Down," all by the Beach Boys; Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" and "Drag City," among many others.   While rock 'n' roll had 'disappeared' from the US charts in the early '60s, it never died out in Europe and Britain was a hotbed of rock-and-roll activity during this time. In late 1963, the Beatles embarked on their first US tour. A few months later, rock-and-roll founding father Chuck Berry emerged from a 2-1/2-year prison stint and resumed recording and touring. The stage was set for the spectacular revival of rock music.   In the UK, the Beatles played raucous rock 'n' roll – as well as doo wop, girl-group songs, show tunes. Beatlemania abruptly exploded after the group's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.   As the counterculture movement developed, artists began making new kinds of music influenced by the use of psychedelic drugs. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix emerged onto the scene in 1967 with a radically new approach to electric guitar that replaced Chuck Berry, previously seen as the gold standard of rock guitar. Rock artists began to take on serious themes and social commentary/protest instead of simplistic pop themes.   A major development in popular music during the mid-1960s was the movement away from singles and towards albums.   Blues also continued to develop strongly during the '60s, but after 1965, it increasingly shifted to the young white rock audience and away from its traditional black audience, which moved on to other styles such as soul and funk.   Jazz music during the first half of the '60s was largely a continuation of '50s styles, retaining its core audience of young, urban, college-educated whites. By 1967, the death of several important jazz figures such as John Coltrane and Nat King Cole precipitated a decline in the genre. The takeover of rock in the late '60s largely spelled the end of jazz as a mainstream form of music, after it had dominated much of the first half of the 20th century.   Significant events in music in the 1960s:   Sam Cooke was shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles, California [11 December 1964] at age 33 under suspicious circumstances.   Motown Record Corporation was founded in 1960. Its first Top Ten hit was "Shop Around" by the Miracles in 1960. "Shop Around" peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Motown's first million-selling record.   The Marvelettes scored Motown Record Corporation's first US No. 1 pop hit, "Please Mr. Postman" in 1961. Motown would score 110 Billboard Top-Ten hits during its run.   The Supremes scored twelve number-one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go".   John Coltrane released A Love Supreme in late 1964, considered among the most acclaimed jazz albums of the era.   In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released two successful albums during 1967, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, that innovate both guitar, trio and recording techniques.   R & B legend Otis Redding has his first No. 1 hit with the legendary Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. He also played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 just before he died in a plane crash.   The Bee Gees released their international debut album Bee Gees 1st in July 1967 which included the pop standard "To Love Somebody".   1968: after The Yardbirds fold, Led Zeppelin was formed by Jimmy Page and manager Peter Grant, with Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones; and, released their debut album Led Zeppelin.   Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin as lead singer, became an overnight sensation after their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and released their second album Cheap Thrills in 1968.   Gram Parsons with The Byrds released the extremely influential LP Sweetheart of the Rodeo in late 1968, forming the basis for country rock.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the highly influential double LP Electric Ladyland in 1968 that furthered the guitar and studio innovations of his previous two albums.   Woodstock Festival, 1969   Sly & the Family Stone revolutionized black music with their massive 1968 hit single "Dance to the Music" and by 1969 became international sensations with the release of their hit record Stand!. The band cemented their position as a vital counterculture band when they performed at the Woodstock Festival.   Film Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1960s include: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Apartment, The Birds, I Am Curious (Yellow), Bonnie and Clyde, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Carnival of Souls, Cleopatra, Cool , and Luke, The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Exodus, Faces, Funny Girl, Goldfinger, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, , Head, How the West Was Won, The , Hustler, Ice Station Zebra, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jason and the Argonauts, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Jungle Book, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, The Longest Day, The Love Bug, A Man for All Seasons, The Manchurian Candidate, Mary Poppins, Medium Cool, Midnight Cowboy, My Fair Lady, Night of the Living Dead, The Pink Panther, The Odd Couple, Oliver!, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, One Million Years B.C., Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, The Sound of Music, Spartacus, Swiss Family Robinson, To Kill a Mockingbird, Valley of the Dolls, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Wild Bunch.   Television   The most prominent American TV series of the 1960s include: The Ed Sullivan Show, Star Trek, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Andy Williams Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Wonderful World of Disney, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Batman, McHale's Navy, Laugh-In, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Tonight Show, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Mission: Impossible, The Flintstones, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lassie, The Danny Thomas Show, The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Show, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.   The Flintstones was a favored show, receiving 40 million views an episode with an average of 3 views a day.   Some programming such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became controversial by challenging the foundations of America's corporate and governmental controls; making fun of world leaders, and questioning U.S. involvement in and escalation of the Vietnam War.   Fashion   Significant fashion trends of the 1960s include:     The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket.   The hippie movement late in the decade also had a strong influence on clothing styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye and batik fabrics, as well as paisley prints.   The bikini came into fashion in 1963 after being featured in the film Beach Party.   Mary Quant invented the miniskirt, which became one of the most popular fashion rages in the late 1960s among young women and teenage girls. Its popularity continued throughout the first half of the 1970s and then disappeared temporarily from mainstream fashion before making a comeback in the mid-1980s.   Men's mainstream hairstyles ranged from the pompadour, the crew cut, the flattop hairstyle, the tapered hairstyle, and short, parted hair in the early part of the decade, to longer parted hairstyles with sideburns towards the latter half of the decade.   Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade.   African-American hairstyles for men and women included the afro.       James Brown "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" (1965) "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (1965) "Say It Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968)     Ray Charles "Georgia On My Mind' (1960) "Hit the Road Jack" (1961) "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1962)     Marvin Gaye "Ain't That Peculiar?" (1965) "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1968) "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (1969)     The Temptations "My Girl" (1965) "Ain't Too to Beg" (1966) "I Can't Get Next to You" (1969)     Bobby "Blue" Bland "I Pity the Fool" (1961) "Turn On Your Lovelight" (1961) "Ain't Nothing You Can Do" (1964)     Aretha Franklin "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) "Respect" (1967) "Chain of Fools" (1967-68)     The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1964) "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1965) "Love Child" (1968)     Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "Shop Around" (1960-61) "You've Really Got a Hold On Me" (1962-63) "The Tracks of My Tears" (1965)     The Impressions "Gypsy Woman" (1961) "It's All Right" (1963) "People Get Ready" (1965)     Brook Benton "Kiddio" (1960) "Think Twice" (1961) "Hotel Happiness" (1962-63)     Jackie Wilson "Doggin' Around" (1960) "Baby Workout" (1963) "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (1967)     Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" (1960) "Bring It On Home To Me" (1962) "A Change is Gonna Come" (1965)     Otis Redding "These Arms of Mine" (1963) "Try a Little Tenderness" (1966-67) "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)     Jerry Butler "He Will Break Your Heart" (1960) "Never Give You Up" (1968) "Only the Strong Survive" (1969)     Wilson Pickett "In the Midnight Hour" (1965) "Land of 1000 Dances" (1966) "Funky Broadway" (1967)     Stevie Wonder "Fingertips, Part 2" (1963) "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (1965-66) "I Was Made to Love Her" (1967)     B.B. King "Beautician Blues" (1964) "Waiting on You" (1966) "Paying the Cost To Be the Boss" (1968)     Joe Tex "Hold What You've Got" (1964-65) "A Sweet Woman Like You" (1965-66) "Skinny Legs and All" (1967)     The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" (1961) "Beechwood 4-5789" (1962) "Too Many Fish in the Sea" (1965)     Mary Wells "Bye Bye Baby" (1960-61) "The One Who Really Loves You" (1962) "My Guy" (1964)     The Four Tops "Baby, I Need Your Loving" (1964) "I Can't Help Myself (A/K/A Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (1965) "Reach Out, I'll Be There" (1966)     Martha & The Vandellas "Heat Wave" (1963) "Dancing in the Street" (1964) "Nowhere to Run" (1965)     Dionne Warwick "Don't Make Me Over" (1962-63) "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1963-64) "Walk On By" (1964)     Solomon Burke "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)" (1961) "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" (1964) "Got To Get You Off My Mind" (1965)     Etta James "At Last" (1960-61) "Tell Mama" (1967-68) "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1967-68)     The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (1960-61) "Dedicated to the One I Love" (1961) "Baby It's You" (1961-62)     Chuck Jackson "I Don't Want to Cry" (1961) "Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)" (1962) "Beg Me" (1964)     Gene Chandler "Duke of Earl" (1962) "Rainbow" (1963) "I Fooled You This Time" (1966)     The Drifters "This Magic Moment" (1960) "Save the Last Dance for Me" (1960) "Up on the Roof" (1962-63)     Jr. Walker & The All-Stars "Shotgun" (1965) "(I'm A) Road Runner" (1966) "Home Cookin'" (1968-69)     Gladys Knight & The Pips "Every Beat of My Heart" (1961) "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" (1967) "Friendship Train" (1969)     Carla Thomas "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" (1961) "B-A-B-Y" (1966) "Another Night Without My Man" (1966)     Chubby Checker "The Twist" (1960) "Pony Time" (1961) "Dancin' Party" (1962)     Sam & Dave "Hold On! I'm A Comin'" (1966) "When Something is Wrong With My Baby" (1967) "Soul Man" (1967)     Joe Simon "My Adorable One" (1964) "Nine Pound Steel" (1967) "The Chokin' Kind" (1969)     The Dells "There Is" (1967-68) "Stay in My Corner" (1968) "Oh, What a Night" (1969)     Little Milton "So Mean To Me" (1962) "We're Gonna Make It" (1965) "Grits Ain't Groceries" (1969)     Ben E. King "Spanish Harlem" (1960-61) "Stand By Me" (1961) "That's When it Hurts" (1964)     Betty Everett "You're No Good" (1963) "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1964) "There'll Come a Time" (1969)     Hank Ballard & The Midnighters "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" (1960) "Finger Poppin' Time" (1960) "Nothing But Good" (1961)     Major Lance "The Monkey Time" (1963) "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" (1964) "Investigate" (1966)     Booker T. & The MGs "Green Onions" (1962) "Hip-Hug-Her" (1967) "Time is Tight" (1969)     The Intruders "Together" (1967) "Cowboys to Girls" (1968) "(Love is Like a) Baseball Game" (1968)     Ike & Tina Turner "A Fool in Love" (1960) "Goodbye, So Long" (1965) "River Deep--Mountain High" (1966)     Johnnie Taylor "I Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (1966) "Who's Making Love" (1968) "I Could Never Be President" (1969)     The Orlons "The Wah Watusi" (1962) "Don't Hang Up" (1962) "South Street" (1963)     Barbara Lewis "Hello Stranger" (1963) "Baby, I'm Yours" (1965) "Make Me Your Baby" (1965)     Maxine Brown "All in My Mind" (1960-61) "Oh No, Not My Baby" (1964) "One in a Million" (1966)     Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters "Cry Baby" (1963) "Tell Me Baby" (1964) "I'll Take Good Care of You" (1966)     Ramsey Lewis "The In Crowd" (1965) "Hang On Sloopy" (1965) "Wade in the Water" (1966)  

After a win at Magic Weekend 2018 for Castleford Tigers both Oliver Holmes & Jy Hitchcox are in jubilant mood with both of them scoring tries against Leeds Rhinos. But whose was better? Tom Maguire behind the desk as ever stewing the debate about the future of Magic Weekend, should it stay in Newcastle or head to New York?  The future of Shaun Wane is discussed, the week's upcoming fixtures, Oggy's skinny legs, the Pub Quiz and even the Royal Wedding gets discussed. A jam packed episode of the Six till Eight Debate as ever!

This episode gets a little stabby. We discuss the new NRA and their tote bag, a man whose rectum fell out, Skinny Legs Tommy's stabbing story, cuckold haiku, a trifecta of Daily Grinds, and Dev's review of Star Wars The Last Jedi.

In this video, I’m going to give you 4 leg workout tips for mass that will help even the hardest of hardgainers to pack on size and start bulking up your legs in no time.

It's good news for Joanna Lumley and tattoos. Bad news for Peppa Pig and the sea!

It's good news for Joanna Lumley and tattoos. Bad news for Peppa Pig and the sea!

this is colorful monsters’ ninth and official weekly podcast Monster Bunker. in a wasteland 3,000 years into the future, a trio of guys have awaken from their cryogenic sleep in search of food and music. they are completely oblivious to all releases and important cultural moments since the end of 2016. join them as they uncover worthy musical artifacts starting in 2017 and maybe you’ll find them worthy too. In this podcast, they discover “Luz” by Rubio, “Spectrum” by Muzzy, and “Skinny Legs” by Elohim. Find out more about them here: Rubio: facebook.com/franstraubemusic/ Muzzy: www.monstercat.com/artist/muzzy @muzzydnb facebook.com/MuzzyMusic/ twitter.com/muzzymusic Elohim: elohimxelohim.com/ @elohimelohim facebook.com/elohimonline/ twitter.com/elohimmusic ___________________________________ www.colorfulmonsters.com @colorful_monsters twitter.com/BuryTheMonsters facebook.com/colorfulmonsters/ open.spotify.com/user/colorfulmonsters

My guest today is Kirtan singer and lovely person, Nina Rao. Nina learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in a village in south India when she nine years old. The chants quietly stayed with her until she rediscovered chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. Her childhood was spent living in and moving between many countries around the world and when she settled in New York her working life began in the banking world, switched to organizing and leading photographic wildlife safaris in Africa and India, and now for many years, is Krishna Das' business manager and assistant. Topics Discussed Nina's worldly and inner journeys The concept of a Guru Kirtan as a regular practice The power of sound/music The concept of Home The evolution of the Kirtan movement in the West Understanding the "why" behind focusing on a particular path The importance of an open heart To find out more about Nina visit her website: ninaraochant.com This week's book giveaway is Tom Robbins, "Skinny Legs and All." To enter the weekly book giveaway contests join the Synchronicity Community right here: eepurl.com/bSWrqT And of course subscribe to Synchronicity today because it's a smart thing to do.

Words ring like bells when you collide them correctly. It's in the Bible. In the opening chapter of Genesis we read about the creation of the universe – God spoke it into existence if you can believe it – and we read about the creation of mankind. An interesting chapter, that one. The only information we're given about God is that God said this and that and things began to spontaneously appear. Then in verse 26 God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness… So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Stay with me, I'm almost done with the religious part.God spoke worlds into existence and we can, too, because we are made in his likeness. You and I speak worlds into existence in the minds of our listeners every time we bang words together. And now we get to the Scottish part:In her most excellent book, The Power of Glamour, Virgina Postrel tells us that glamour is “an old Scottish word meaning a literal kind of magic spell that makes us see an illusion, something different than what is there, usually something better than what is there.” In the Late Middle Ages, the Scots would speak of a person having “cast a glamour” so that another person was enchanted by it.Interestingly, that Scottish word from which we take glamour is the same word from which we take grammar. Grammar: the banging together of words so they create realities in the mind; a literal kind of magic spell that makes you see an illusion, something different than what is there, usually something better than what is there. Here are some examples of “casting a grammar.”“The key!” shouted Bilbo. “The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!” Then Thorin stepped up and drew the key on its chain from round his neck. He put it to the hole. It fitted and it turned! Snap! The gleam went out, the sun sank, the moon was gone, and evening sprang into the sky. Now they all pushed together, and slowly a part of the rock-wall gave way. Long straight cracks appeared and widened. A door five feet high and three feet wide was outlined, and slowly without a sound swung inwards. It seemed as if darkness flowed out like a vapour from the hole in the mountain-side, and deep darkness in which nothing could be seen lay before their eyes, a yawning mouth leading in and down. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit“This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention. This is the room where your wisest ancestor was born, be you Christian, Arab, or Jew. The linoleum underfoot is sacred linoleum. Please remove your shoes. Quite recently, the linoleum here was restored to its original luster with the aid of a wax made from hornet fat. It scuffs easily. So never mind if there are holes in your socks.” – Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All   “From the town hall it creeps between shops whose upper floors are almost connected; it passes cafes where Gypsies dance; it winds through markets heavy with fruit and fish; it is the center for silversmiths and booksellers and the carvers of rosaries. It is the most extraordinary passageway in Spain.” – James Michener, Mexico         “This week has been a hard one. I have put the forces of evil against a potential good. Yesterday I wrote the outward thing of what happened. Today I have to show what came of it. This is quite different from the modern hard-boiled school. I think I must set it down. And I will. The spots of gold on this page are the splatterings from beautiful thoughts.” – John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little...

This episode stars Amy Guth (Pilcrow Lit Fest, Three Fallen Women). It was recorded at Intelligentsia Coffee in Chicago, IL in May 2009.