Friday Thoughts

       A couple of nights ago I had sort of a nightmare. It was probably more towards morning, and it was not a full blown nightmare. Not sure what it was, but I am sure that it happened because I fell asleep with television still on. I try not to do that. When I awoke there was a fire and brimstone person speaking, actually shouting, as so many of them do. He was talking about what God did not like, punishment for not doing the right thing, etc. Much like my dream; so I am not sure if I was dreaming or heard the person talking as I was awakening. Anyway very disturbing and frightening.  

 

This will be one of those run around days. I have to pick up vendor items from my biz mail. I am hopeful that there is not a lot of mail as well. I have fortified myself with a cup of pea soup. Yes Bloggie, I know that it is not 7:30a yet, but I am southern child and come from hard working folks. Pea soup does it for me. My goodness, I seem to be having a hard time picking my feet up this morning. I have tripped twice already. I can't have that kind of thing happening today :-( too busy.

 

When I woke up this morning, none of my news people were on. Too early. No news on Channel 13 either. However I did catch the tail end of a documentary about the group, Weather Underground and the Weathermen in the early 70's. PBS Independent Lens documentary  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/today.html I am sure that I have seen it before, but still found it fascinating. Most of the Weatherman were educated and very bright. After these people came out of hiding, turned themselves in, etc. I find it ironic that many have become professors or such in colleges and universities. I remember Mark Rudd best because he and his family lived in the Orange area. The NJ Jewish News interview with Rudd (2003) shows that the Rudds lived in Maplewood, not West Orange as I had thought. http://www.markrudd.com/Homepage/NJNews.htm  Brian Flanagan former Weather Underground member owns a bar in New York. Wonder which one. 

 

People change? Perhaps not their thinking, but maybe their direction. Former Black Panther Bobby Seale has written a cook book and you get  free BBQ recipes from his site  http://www.bobbyseale.com/freereci.htm  Lots of  rhetorick on the primary page, not sure if it's heartfelt. But the recipes look good. Also, you can see former Panther, distinguished actor Danny Glover in the newly released Disney movie The Shaggy Dog.  

 

Incidentally, the some of the amazing background music for the Weather Underground program was from disc cuts of master poet of/for the 70's disenfranchised, Gil Scot-Heron http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/music/muze/index.p l?site=music&action=biography&artist_id=26876  While re-reading this entry, it came to me that the 1970's were about choices and which road traveled. Hence, the above graphic. The 70's were an amazing time in all ways. Would'nt have

missed that time for the world.  I love this picture of Scot-heron