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Comment on Master Jack by andreas Mathios

andreas Mathios — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:37:10 +0000

who wrote the lyrics to this song master jack and did the person attend Witbank High in Mpumalanga?

Comment on Master Jack by Helen

Helen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:36:30 +0000

Trini Lopez recorded this song in South Africa on Reprise Records in about 1968 when he was performing there.

Comment on He Said, She Said. We’re Clueless by The problem with climate fatigue « Radio Freethinker

The problem with climate fatigue « Radio Freethinker — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:25:28 +0000

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Comment on Only the Righteous by Michael Burton

Michael Burton — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:13:02 +0000

DavidH, it sounds as if you might enjoy this YouTube video.

Comment on Only the Righteous by DavidH

DavidH — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:38:38 +0000

That’s what worries me. After all, Saturday was just the Rapture; the end of the world isn’t until the fall (October 21, if I remember correctly).

I had hoped we would be able to spend our last months free of these self-righteous, uh… prigs, but apparently even that is denied us.

Comment on Master Jack by Ken

Ken — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:29:44 +0000

Seems like I remember hearing this song, in English prior to 1968. When was the song written and does anyone know of another singer performing this song prior to 1968? Thank you.

Comment on Passing Some Buck by DavidH

DavidH — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:59:03 +0000

Or as Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long put it:

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)”

Comment on Master Jack by Jes Beard

Jes Beard — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:57:28 +0000

“Master Jack: was a reference to the Union Jack, or Great Britain, which the young whites in South Africa who came to see the evil of Apartheid blamed for the blight on their nation. Only at that time in South Africa you could not openly criticize Apartheid, so the lyrics and meaning are veiled, a metaphor in which a young person sees that the world they live in is strange, and unacceptable, and one to which they are never going to go back.

Absolutely nothing to do with Jack Kerouac.

Comment on Six Word Stories by Michael Burton

Michael Burton — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:44:56 +0000

My first attempt at a six-word story:

Bomb away over Hiroshima. Now, fly!

Comment on The Year in Crazy by Adam Frix

Adam Frix — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:28:11 +0000

Not to be confused with Sarah Palin’s “I can see crazy from my back yard.”

Comment on Hold Your Head Up by Spink Nogales

Spink Nogales — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:22:01 +0000

wake up wake up

before it’s too late.

will.i.am drop the beat now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F444CELomo

Comment on Play, Magic Fingers by Michael Burton

Michael Burton — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:32:13 +0000

I’m glad you like it!

Comment on Play, Magic Fingers by Spink Nogales

Spink Nogales — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:09:22 +0000

If there was a 2009 version of the Lawrence Welk Show then I think this young man would make a wonderful guest.

Comment on Black Belt by Michael Burton

Michael Burton — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36:45 +0000

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone, is what I say.

You’re right, though — at some point, we actually have to do the thing we’ve been learning to do. But if you’re any good, your education doesn’t end when your actual practice begins. After he’s worked on a few buildings, a good bricklayer should know things about bricklaying that nobody ever taught him. At some point, he should have enough confidence in his training and his own experience to try out innovations, and enough humility to know when a promising new idea isn’t working.

I don’t know what proportion of bricklayers are really passionate about bricklaying, but a really devoted bricklayer at the end of a long career should think, “You know, I was really starting to get the hang of this.”

I think we’ve got a mindset that there’s a point where we stop learning and start doing, but the world isn’t that simple. You can’t learn all there is to know about any subject worth thinking about. We should always proceed with a certain humility about the limits of our knowledge, and a mind open to learning more.

Comment on Black Belt by Spink Nogales

Spink Nogales — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:34:41 +0000

Eventually the baker must cut the cake, and the bricklayer must cast a stone.

als ich ein Kind war, some german guy said if you stare at the void for too long, then you risk becoming that which you have been staring at.