We start things off with podcast randomness, then we talk about books/music that we used to love but now are like “meh,” then we cover Evel (being) dead and a $6,800.00 bottle of Coke, then we finish the show with an insightful discussion on the amero.
Links:
- NaPodPoMo
- A. Rex
- All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
- Desolation Angels
- Little Women
- “Evel Knievel, 69, Daredevil on a Motorcycle, Dies”
- “BIEDENHARN CANDY CO” HUTCH! ~ “ROOT 471 / BCCo”
- “The Amero - North American Currency”
- “North American currency union”
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I bought a copy of “Big Sur” by Jack Kerouac in NYC about 10 years ago, mainly because i liked the cover. I’m very shallow when it comes to buying books. I’ve read it about 20 times and still have no idea what it’s about.
The Amero sounds like a crap idea thought up by a couple of fucknuts with no sense of reality. We had a couple of fucknuts that thought up the euro, nobody knew they were fucknuts until the euro became reality. Sure, one single currency sounds very convenient if you travel a lot, but one of the cool things about traveling is that you get to see different cultures and meet lots of weird people that you can’t understand. Before the euro France had Francs with a little topless chick on it, Germany had the Deutschmark with Hitler and a swastika, i mean, it was fun. Now it’s all the same, even in Belgium.
And the euro has made every day life much more expensive. Most retailers suck at math and didn’t bother to recalculate their prices, they just replaced the currency sign. Didn’t Jen talk about expensive clothes or footwear a few shows back? To give you some idea how expensive stuff like that is over here, go to Abercrombie & Fitch, look at the prices and double it.
Canadian money:
The queen is only on the $20 bill as far as i can see.
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/images/images&downloads/currency.jpg
Jen, I read “Catcher in the Rye” for the first time only 2 years ago and I have to disagree with your assessment. Books like “Catcher” and “Little Women” were not meant for young readers at the time they were published. They were meant for adults or mature readers to read and enjoy as reflections of their own lives or the lives of someone they may know. I thoroughly enjoyed “Catcher” on many levels and would recommend it to any adult. Hell! I just read “Tarzan of the Apes” last summer and loved it. There is no way a young reader could even understand most of what is going on in there.
As for the Amero, I’m not completely opposed. The novelty of getting currency was an expensive one. I dunno how much international travel you have done but if you wanted to tour Europe before the Euro was introduced you could literally spend hundreds of dollars in exchange fees (both buying the new currency and then buying back your home currency). That’s bullshit if you ask me. You know … when the US was first established under the Articles of Confederation there was no unified currency. Each State was free to design and distribute it’s own currency. As a result trade become difficult at best and the new nation struggled to survive economically. I say make as many currencies the same as possible and let each member nation establish it’s own rate of inflation.
Teacher Marc,
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that “Little Women” was, in fact, written specifically for girls to read and enjoy, not adults, but girls. I think I read that the author, Allicott was asked to create a story for girls to enjoy because there weren’t any stories for girls at that time, but there were stories being written for boys. It was a marketing idea. Pretty sure I read that in the notes that were on the inside of the BN copy of the book.
I’ve never read “Tarzan”, so, can’t comment on that one. “Catcher In The Rye”… well, maybe it’s more of a guy book, and that’s why I just found Holden to be annoying the second time I read the book.
I also found “Catcher In The Rye” a tedius read, i don’t think i finished it, i think it’s overrated. Thankfully I was never forced to read it at school.
A tedious read? I don’t find a first person story about a young man searching for his own identity to be tedious at all. I could see why a girl might not like it though. Even I will concede that Holden is an annoying jerk. That’s the point of the character. Most of us were annoying jerks in one fashion or another. We might have been like Holden or we might have been just a bit precocious.
I apparently stand “almost” corrected on the Little Women thing. I say almost because you added comments like “I’m pretty sure” and “I think I read”. Nya-nya. : )
I have hit the classics shelf pretty hard at our local Barnes and Noble. The books are inexpensive (because the copyrights have expired) and they are fun to read. I’d recommend them to most people.
You know what “classic” book I couldn’t stand? “The Great Gatsby.” I read it in high school and found it to be incredibly boring. Maybe I’ll read it again when I grow up.
Also, has anyone else been having difficulties receiving e-mails about new comments? I’m not always getting them, and I’m the site administrator!
I’ve had them for this one, is it supposed to be global or per show thread,it says “Notify me via e-mail when new comments are posted to this entry”, i only get them when i comment on a show so it seems to be per show. But wordpress should send you emails when comments are posted anyway as you are the post author. (I’m on gmail btw)
Thanks for your input, Paul. It’s weird. I used to get all of the e-mails for all comments sent to me right away. But since about a week ago, some comments (not all) have been delayed. I’ll have to contact my web host and see if something’s clogging up the tubes. I know someone else who uses the same company and he had a similar problem.
And yes, you do need to subscribe to comment notifications for each entry. Don’t think there’s any other way to do it with this setup.
I too don’t get the emails.
Now I’m equal to Paul on the leader board again. : )
Marc, are you making sure the checkbox that says “Notify me via e-mail when new comments are posted to this entry” under the “Submit comment” button is checked? ‘Cause if it it’s checked, you should get follow-up comments in your e-mail. I just heard from our web hosting company, and apparently there was some SNAFU between their e-mail and servers and Gmail that was causing some problems with delayed messages. That’s supposed to be fixed now, though.
I am a huge Kerouac fan but ‘On The Road’ is not one of my favs. I love ‘Desolation Angels’ and ‘The Dharma Bums’. His writing is compared with BeBop horn lines - running along with barely room for a breath.
BTW Shawno, if you declare yourself the winner of National Podcast Post Month (a position that I fully support), you have to come back next year to defend your title! (Read the NaPodPoMo rematch clause!)
Lovin’ the show, guys. Keep it up!
Yeah, I’m at least a few episodes behind… sorry…
My big “looking at something through adult eyes” experience is the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Saw it as a kid and thought, way cool… wouldn’t that be an amazing experience. Saw it as an adult and came away almost offended. I mean crimony, the guy abandons his family! I mean sure, he gets to travel the galaxy with his new E.T.-lookalike buddies… but what about his kids? They’re going to be hoping he gets dissected… ft
His kids will at least always have the fond memory of when he smashed the model trains together. That was pretty cool. And I loved that film also, as a kid. I haven’t seen it in years. Maybe time to check it out again.