M Is FOR MASHUP - August 25th, 2021
What DJ’s Do At Home
By DJ Useo
Hey! It’s time for the all-new 23rd volume in the long-running ‘The Institute Of Bootleggers’ series. “The Institute Of Bootleggers Presents - What DJ’s Do At Home” album
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2021/08/institute-of-bootleggers-what-djs-do-at.html )
again features 16 new tracks by 16 bootleggers.
Many of the most popular home producers like ah!, DRA’man, & YITT return with more of their exceedingly appealing blends. Joining us are newer names like DJ Shirley Tempo, Quagga, & BrandMash, who all deserve to be heard.
The genre clash continues with pairings like Depeche Mode vs Jimi Hendrix, Electric Six vs High Voltage vs Yazoo vs Anita Ward, Sex Pistols vs Cheap Trick, & 13 more. A big plus is the included links to all the mixers’ pages, where you’ll find tons more killer past posts from all of them.
Please to be experiencing the incredible preview track from Amoraboy - "I Can See Only Mystery" ( Arthur Simms vs Johnny Nash ) (2021)
( sowndhaus.audio/track/22604/i-can-see-only-mystery-arthur-simms-vs-johnny-nash-2021 )
Free zip file for complete album available from several mirror links here
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2021/08/institute-of-bootleggers-what-djs-do-at.html )
Look for the next IOB collection around November 2021. Who knows which producers will be on it?! Send your guesses to me here - DJ Useo (useo8@yahoo.com)
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Hitters
• Even the truly great athletes need to retire at last. George Brett, hitting sensation for the Kansas City Royals, once was asked what he wanted to do in his final at-bat. He replied, “I want to hit a routine grounder to second and run all out to first base, then get thrown out by a half-step.” Lots of people would love to hit a home run in their final at-bat, so why did Mr. Brett say he wanted to go out in this way? He explains, “I want to leave an example to the young guys that that’s how you play the game: all out.”
• Slugger Josh Gibson hit towering home runs in the Negro Leagues. In Pittsburgh, he once blasted a home run that went over the stadium walls and kept on going. It was such a shot that everyone soon heard about it, including umpires everywhere. The next day, he was batting in Philadelphia when a strong-armed fan hurled a baseball from a high seat onto the field, where an outfielder caught it. The umpire turned to Mr. Gibson and joked, “You’re out yesterday in Pittsburgh.”
• Just how strong a batter was Oakland Athletics player Jose Canseco? While taking batting practice before a game against the New York Yankees, Mr. Canseco checked his swing, stopping in the middle, but still managed to hit the baseball with such force that it soared over the right-field fence. Mike Pagliarulo, the Yankee third baseman, was amazed, saying, “He checked his swing and hit one of the longest shots I’ve seen.”
• While in the midst of a hitting slump in Chicago, Pete Rose boarded the Cincinnati Reds team bus only to run into a non-player who was disembarking after finding out that he had boarded the wrong bus. Mr. Rose told him, “If you can hit, stay on the bus.”
• When the great hitter Rogers Hornsby was working as a batting coach, a young player asked him for advice: “What would you do, Mr. Hornsby, if you got in a batting slump?” Mr. Hornsby replied, “When you have a lifetime average of .358, you don’t have any slumps.”
• Aaron Bimler once declined batting help from his father, St. Louis major leaguer Mike Bimler, saying, “That’s okay, dad. I’ll strike out on my own.”
Honesty
• Early in his career, African-American tennis great Arthur Ashe played a friend, Stan Smith, in a match. At an important point in the match, Mr. Smith hit a return that was controversial. The officials were indecisive about whether Mr. Smith had hit the ball before a second bounce, but Mr. Ashe asked Mr. Smith if he had gotten to the ball before the second bounce. Mr. Smith said, “I think I got it,” and Mr. Ashe told the officials, “Hey, if he thinks he got it, he got it.” Mr. Smith says, “That demonstrated his faith in me as a friend and my being honest.”
• DeeDee Jonrowe has competed as a musher in the Iditarod, a 1,049-mile dog sled race in Alaska. During one competition, she ran out of batteries for her headlamp and had to make a deal with another musher for some batteries. She promised not to pass him, and he gave her the batteries. She kept her word during the race. Ms. Jonrowe says, “When you’re out there for 10 days, you have to depend on each other and trust each other. You have to be as good as your word.”
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Presenting
Michael Egan
U.S.A. said:
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC
Music: "I Wanna be a Teenage Boy"
Album: WATERLINES
Artist: Zoe FitzGerald Carter
Artist Location: Berkeley, California
Info: “Zoe's first solo album, WATERLINES, showcases her lyric-driven songs and distinctive, deep-honey voice. An author/journalist as well as song-writer, she's played with a number of Bay Area bands. Her first CD, WAITING FOR THE EARTHQUAKE, was recorded with her longtime Americana string band, Sugartown. It was released in 2018.”
“The album straddles a range of musical styles. My musical roots are pretty firmly planted in Americana and folk but I’ve come to love the complexity and texture of jazz and Latin music, some of which found its way onto the album. I even ventured into funk on ‘I Wanna Be A Teenage Boy,’ co-written with San Diego keyboardist, Hindy Bare, during the Kavanaugh hearings. We were both going crazy, but at least we got a cool bass line out of it.”
Price: #1 (USD) for track; $10 (USD) for 10-track album
Genre: Americana
Links:
WATERLINES
Zoe FitzGerald Carter on Bandcamp
Zoe FitzGerald Carter Official Website
Zoe FitzGerald Carter on YouTube
Other Links:
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
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David Bruce's Blog #1
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David Bruce's Apple iBookstore
David Bruce has over 140 Kindle books on Amazon.com.
Reader Suggestion
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Helen Suggests
Horror Movies
Hi Marty -
We've just published new research on the most popular horror movies in each U.S. state.
Here are some fun facts we discovered:
- The Devil's Backbone, by Guillermo del Toro, is the #1 horror movie in our nation's capital.
- The Shining, inspired by Stephen King's stay at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, is the most popular horror flick in that state.
- Oregon leads as #1 for horror film watching, and Host is their favorite movie.
New Venture
Michael Egan
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Staff Votes to Unionize
MSNBC
It’s official: The MSNBC newsroom has voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East.
According to a National Labor Relations Board tally, 141 editorial staffers voted to have the union represent their unit in collective bargaining and 58 voted against it. The NLRB counted the votes on Tuesday after MSNBC chose not to voluntarily recognize the union in June.
Composed of 300 members, the covered group includes writers, producers, booking producers, fact-checkers and planners on MSNBC programs and Peacock’s The Choice. When the bargaining unit announced their unionization campaign in June, they said in a statement that they wanted to join the Guild to promote greater diversity in the newsroom, fair pay and strong benefits, career development opportunities and “because we want to make sure workers have a say in what a post-COVID-19 workplace looks like.”
In July, over 1,000 members of the WGA East and West — including director Adam McKay, stars Tina Fey and Amber Ruffin and writers Neil Gaiman and Cord Jefferson — signed a petition in support of the unionization effort. “We work in scripted television and film, including many projects produced by NBC Universal. Through our union membership we have been able to negotiate fair compensation, excellent benefits, and basic fairness at work — all of which are enshrined in our union contract,” the petition read. “We are ready to support you in your effort to do the same. We’re all in this together.”
The MSNBC unit will join a significant number of digital media, cable and broadcast journalists represented by the Guild, which nevertheless represents primarily film and television writers. Companies with WGA East contracts include CBS News, VICE, Vox Media, Hearst Magazines, Gizmodo Media Group, Bustle Digital Group and MTV News, among others. The Guild’s digital news organizing efforts have become a point of contention among candidates for the union’s upcoming Council Election in recent weeks, with one major slate of candidates looking to survey union members on fast growth in the sector and another slate seeking to undo a pause on new organizing in digital newsrooms.
MSNBC
Headstone Unveiled
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker died in 1967, but it was not until last year that her ashes found a final resting place.
Now, at a memorial ceremony at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, her headstone has been unveiled at the family plot where ashes of the writer, humorist and civil rights supporter are buried, the New York Post reported.
Born in 1893 in New York, Parker wrote poems, short stories and theater and literary reviews for magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She was famous for one-liners such as, “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue” and “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
She died without leaving instructions on what to do with her remains but left her estate, along with the right to collect future royalties, to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom she had never met.
When King was assassinated, her estate transferred to the NAACP, which laid her ashes to rest in a garden outside their Baltimore headquarters in 1988. Before that, her remains had been held for years at a crematorium and in an attorney’s filing cabinet.
Dorothy Parker
Hands Entire Catalog to Universal
Aerosmith
Another week, another legendary artist announces a career-spanning global alliance with a major record company. Last week, it was Madonna and Warner Music Group. This time, it’s Aerosmith and Universal Music Group (UMG), jointly unveiling a new deal inked just ahead of the band’s 50th anniversary.
As a result of the new partnership, UMG will become home to Aerosmith’s entire recorded music catalog in 2022, as well as future music releases, merchandise and audio-visual content.
All of that is interesting, but perhaps the most interesting part is the “entire recorded music catalog” bit: A big chunk of Aerosmith’s classic catalog — including their 1973 eponymous debut, 1974’s Get Your Wings, and 1975’s Toys in the Attic — is currently released via Sony Music / Columbia, and has been for decades.
It appears that, next year, these rights will be reverting to Aerosmith, and the band has chosen to release them (likely via a global licensing deal, but time will tell) via Universal Music Group.
Doing so will unite this chunk of catalog with other gems from the Aerosmith timeline that were originally released via Geffen — now a Universal Music Group subsidiary. These Geffen records include 1987’s Permanent Vacation, 1989’s Pump and 1993’s Get a Grip.
Aerosmith
Revokes Cuomo’s Emmy
TV Academy
Hours after leaving office, scandal-tainted former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suffered another defeat Tuesday, losing the special Emmy Award he received last year for his daily, televised briefings on the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement that given Cuomo’s resignation amid a torrent of sexual harassment allegations it was taking away the prize and removing any reference to him in its official materials.
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, whose members include media and entertainment figures from over 60 countries and 500 companies, presented its Founders Award to Cuomo during a live-streamed ceremony in November.
In 2017, the academy reversed its decision to give the Founders Award to actor Kevin Spacey after he was accused of sexual misconduct. Other recipients of the award over the years have included former Vice President Al Gore, TV icon Oprah Winfrey, and director Steven Spielberg.
TV Academy
“Thrown Out To Pasture”
Sonya Heitshusen
As a prominent reporter and anchor at one of Iowa’s biggest local television stations, Sonya Heitshusen was known for doggedly investigating injustices and holding the powerful accountable.
A year after WHO-TV in Des Moines abruptly let her go, she is turning those skills on her former employer with a lawsuit challenging what she calls a widespread practice of removing older, female staffers from the air because of their looks.
Heitshusen filed an age and gender discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against WHO-TV’s parent company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc., which calls itself “America’s largest local television and media company,” with 199 stations.
The lawsuit alleges Heitshusen, 54, was “thrown out to pasture” because she was no longer seen as camera-worthy, after years in which she saw her male colleagues receive better treatment from management.
She said she was bringing the lawsuit to help spur a “cultural shift” in the industry that makes discrimination no longer acceptable.
Sonya Heitshusen
Solar Energy
Xochimilco
Mexican scientists have developed a unique "nanobubble" system using solar energy to improve water quality in the canals of Mexico City's Xochimilco ecological zone, a popular tourist attraction.
Officials in Mexico City have been focused on cleaning up the long-polluted waters of Xochimilco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the few areas of the capital that still boasts canal networks dating back to Aztec times.
A team of researchers from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) has developed a method using solar energy to activate a pump that sends cleansing "nanobubbles" into the water.
The bubbles help oxygenate the water, eliminating harmful pollutants and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which leads to healthier flora and fauna, according to Refugio Rodriguez Vazquez, a Cinvestav researcher.
Xochimilco is known for "chinampas," floating beds of farm produce cultivated by the Aztecs in the 14th century to feed the population of the pre-Hispanic city.
Xochimilco
Thailand Legalizes
Kratom
Thailand on Tuesday decriminalized the possession and sale of kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant and painkiller and which has a following in the United States for its pain-relieving qualities.
Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said thousands of legal cases for the possession or sale of kratom were being dropped, and 121 inmates convicted in such cases would be released immediately. Possession of kratom had been punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of as much as 200,000 baht ($6,077) for quantities of 10 kilograms (22 pounds) or more.
The decriminalization of kratom, which involved removing the drug from the official list of controlled narcotics, is the country’s latest move to liberalize its drug laws. In the past two years, Thailand has allowed regulated medical marijuana use as well as the licensed buying and growing of marijuana, and permitted households to grow up to six plants. Harsh penalties remain for hard drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine.
Easing pressure on Thailand’s justice system and its overcrowded prisons has been a major impetus for the new drug policy.
In Thailand, kratom leaves typically would be chewed to give the user a mild energy boost, although it can also be smoked. But it's sometimes mixed with other drugs to make a narcotic tea, or cocktail, a form in which it remains illegal.
Kratom
Certain Wasps
Biofluorescence
Recently, we've been learning that the world is a much... glowier place than we ever suspected.
More and more terrestrial organisms have been found exhibiting biofluorescence - a soft, eerie, beautiful glow that we can see under ultraviolet light. Now the glow has been found somewhere even more unexpected - the segmented nests of several species of Asian wasps.
To varying degrees, the architectural stylings of several species of the genus Polistes glow brightly green under blacklight, strongly enough to suggest the fluorescence has a function, even though the wasps themselves show no sign of radiance.
This peculiarity could help scientists figure out why the nests glow - and could also help identify a new biofluorescent compound, like the green fluorescent protein marker derived from jellyfish that has become so vital to biological science.
The work was led by chemist Bernd Schöllhorn of the University of Paris in France, who was hoping to uncover even more terrestrial biofluorescence.
Biofluorescence
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