TreasonousBastard
TreasonousBastard's JournalJust peeked out window. Snow just dusting and not much...
wose than when it started an hour ago. Predictions are still iffy.
But, Long Island RR cancelled everything tomorrow and I've been getting emails about closed stuff tomorrow.
Met a woman in the grocery loading up on burger meat and chips for her kids' snow party tomorrow.
"The greatest composer you never heard of..." Florence Price-- Black and a Woman...
Two slams to make sure she's unheard of but over 300 compositions and kudos by orchestral groups and a place of fame with the Chicago Symphony.
https://www.classical-music.com/composers/guide-florence-price/
So its something of a mystery as to why Price couldnt get her First Symphony published, despite nationwide performances. It spurred her on to send a letter to the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My dear Dr Koussevitzky, she wrote. To begin with I have two handicaps those of sex and race. I am a woman with some Negro blood in my veins. Knowing the worst then, would you be good enough to hold in check the possible inclination to regards a womans composition as long on emotionalism but short of virility
I am listening to BBC overnight and Boom Boom Marcos is running to run the Philippines...
His father, you may remember, is the murderous dictator who once ran the country with his wife's 10,000 pairs of shoes.
Interviews on the street are along the lines of "Marcos? He was a great guy. There was no corruption."
Sound familiar? See, I keep saying it's a human problem. We have not evolved far enough to rule ourselves.
Accuweather says snow on Long Island started 10 minutes...
ago and will go until Noon.
Newsday says it's a weather emergency, sort of, and we can expect 5-9 inches on eastern Long Island
So far, no snow and no plows at standby sites.
Jefferson-- "Every generation needs a revolution" Washington--
"This government might last 20 years"
And many other quotes from that day have fortunately proven false. Even Franklin, who said we might last 200 years, although partly in jest.
150 years ago it was put to the test, and barely passed. Let's not try again.
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