Book Board Chat

@grano9 --Patsy , I used those lidocaine patches earlier this year. I felt that they did not really help my problem. It seems, at least with my bouts of back pain, that time is the only healer.

@grano9 Patsy, Thanks. Guess her specialty is that she is a Boogie Bear figure. That is good enough. The BB figures seem to have a good value. Maybe worth $50-$60.
Thanks again, Helen

@grano9 Patsy, We are busy studying those 110 pieces of campaign literature. NOT !!!! Any ideas for recycling them?

After reading about the new Lincoln movie I slept really well for the earlier part of the night.Then wide awake at 2:00 a.m. I've gone to a theater to see only one movie in the past 20 years and that was to see "Julie and Me." I may have to go see the Lincoln movie when it comes around. .

@grano9 Patsy that is 627.581 books. Wonder who got the .581 book. LOL

@mysteryhorse --- Those adorable children !!! Yes, of course, all LRRHs wear tulle dresses under their capes. The wolf said " the easier to look at you my dear."

@grano9 Patsy , I did indeed mis-read your comment. I apologize. I think that I was fully awake.
@bookdelle Carol, No the belly bands were used for girls, too. LOL They were for protecting the umbilical cord until it dried up and fell off.
I've done a lot of other things today but I have done only one of those skirts--- no pictures of it though. Will do the other skirt and then be off to my bed and book.
Helen in Indy

@grano9 Patsy, If not belly bands or binders then what are they called? I used home made bands for our eldest DD born in 1951.I was a pretty dumb young mother but my mom convinced me that we needed to protect the stump of the umbilical cord until it dried up and fell off. Don't really remember about the other 3 children.

@lookwhatbobfound Bob, like Dupo , this dates us but DH and I were well along in our voting cycles when we went to a McGovern rally. When DH's all Republican Board found out that we had gone to that rally they were pretty unhappy with him and they never got past that unhappiness. Many years later we went to George H. W. Bush rally but DH was employed by a different cooperative by then. An acquaintance of ours had been a secretary for Bush while he was in China. And BTW I have voted in every election since I became age eligible to vote.

@grano9 ebay must be hiccuping as when I click on your URL I get This content is currently unavailable. Don't know why but I've always like looking in old cemeteries. Maybe because some of my earliest memories are of seeing my mom enjoy visiting with her childhood friends when we went to 'decoration day' at the cemetery in the neighborhood where she grew up.

@lookwhatbobfound and thanks Bob. I'll check the pottery board.

@grano9 ---Patsy, Even with the 'rain-outs' it sounds like a nice trip. Along with the sight seeing people watching can be lots of fun.

@bancheebabe ----Hi Pat, Good to see you, too. Glad you are keeping the transfer station picked.

And Happy Birthday Patsy --@grano9 . Hope there will be many, many more.

@grano9 Patsy, Remember weeks ago when I was asking for help with a balky printer. I thought of and found that it works most of the time ----- Unplug from power source the printer or other balky application for at least one minute. This seems to be my best and most workable current solution .

@grano9 Patsy , Thanks for the suggestion. My printing done for the moment. Will have one more shipping label to do when DH gets it ready.
I have rebooted and unplugged the printer but not at the same time. Will give that a go.

@grano9 Thanks for the update on casino . I had been trying to reach her by email.

@kathleen Great article on Woody Guthrie. I'll never forget the first time I heard This Land is Your Land. My nephew , as Music Critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote this article::
By Randy Lewis
July 10, 2012

LA Times

A long-held tenet of the Woody Guthrie story is that America's greatest folk singer and songwriter turned pointedly political in his music after he moved to New York in 1940 and fell in with the left-leaning East Coast folk community.

But several recently discovered recordings by the man widely regarded as the father of folk protest music, made while he was knocking around Los Angeles in the mid- to late 1930s -- well before he got to New York -- are helping to shift that view. The songs have surfaced for the first time on "Woody at 100," a new career-spanning three-CD box set that was released Tuesday by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

The four tracks, among the highlights of a new set that includes 57 Guthrie tracks, 21 of which had never previously been issued, constitute "The Los Angeles Recordings," only rediscovered in the last decade. They predate his famous 1940 sessions at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., made at the behest of Moses Asch, a New York folk music enthusiast and record label owner.

Beyond altering the timeline of Guthrie's known recording history, they open up new perspectives on the evolution of his writing.

"The four songs give us a glimpse into Woody as a songwriter during a period in which he was making a dramatic shift," Peter LaChapelle writes in one of the essays in the accompanying 150-page book.

That book also includes dozens of Guthrie's sketches, photographs, typed and hand-written lyrics, correspondence and articles about him by "Woody at 100" set producers and annotators Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum, and Jeff Place, archivist for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

LaChapelle, author of "Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California," writes: "I contend in my book that Los Angeles, not New York, appears to be the place which drew Guthrie into politics."

LaChapelle details his discovery of these tracks on two 78 rpm discs residing in obscurity in the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research in South Central L.A. They'd been donated long ago to the library along with other old records by longtime L.A./Hollywood political activist Harry Hay, who met Guthrie through their mutual friend, actor Will Geer.

Two of those songs are "Skid Row Serenade," which Guthrie wrote after spending time among the homeless along Hollywood's skid row, and "Them Big City Ways," in which he sings about how people become corrupted in moving from agrarian to metropolitan surroundings. The latter can be heard here.

"Guthrie was well-versed on conditions on Hollywood Boulevard," LaChappelle writes, "having published columns in the Hollywood Tribune describing skid rows on both Fifth Street [downtown] and Hollywood Boulevard in 1939."

The other two, "Do Re Mi" and "I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore)," became two of his best-known songs about inequities between society's haves and have-nots, an injustice he returned to repeatedly in his music.

"Woody at 100," which celebrates the centennial of his birth on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Okla., opens with Guthrie's best-known composition, "This Land Is Your Land," and encompasses most of his cornerstone songs -- "Pastures of Plenty," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Hobo's Lullaby," "Hard Travelin'," "The Sinking of the Reuben James," "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" -- along with less frequently recorded numbers such as "A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week," "The Ranger's Command" and "Farmer-Labor Train."
The third disc contains several radio broadcasts from stations in New York and the BBC in London that feature snippets of Guthrie introducing songs or otherwise discussing his music in illuminating ways.

A copy of the second page of his "Tom Joad" lyrics includes this explanatory note: "I wrote this song one night in New York. It was the night that I saw the moving picture, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' by John Steinbeck. If I could only think of the name of the friend that lived in that apartment, I would sure like to say thank you. You are friendly and wine is good."

During performances, Guthrie's son, Arlo, has been sharing the story of the letter his father got from Steinbeck after the author heard "Tom Joad."

"He wrote, 'You little bastard, how could you say in a few verses what it took me an entire novel to say?' "

Steinbeck returned the favor in a piece he wrote later describing Guthrie's astonishing output from the late 1930s to the early '50s, before Huntington's disease largely robbed him of his artistic gifts. Guthrie wrote some 3,000 songs, the autobiographical novel "Bound for Glory," newspaper columns, essays and poems, along with a voluminous number of sketches, paintings, drawings and other visual art works.

"Woody is just Woody," Steinbeck once wrote. "Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit."

@grano9 Patsy --- Congrats on getting released from your podiatrist care.

@bethofvt The zip lock bags is a terrific idea. I have not seen the 2 gallon size but I'll bet they are available right here on good old eBay. I'll go looking for them for my DGD.

For those with a violent dislike for PayPal this might be of interest.....I have been using ProPay for several years to process some of my book sales.
http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m08/i01/s02

Good morning BBers,
@justmim mim, Thanks for the update on your DH's. Hope he continues to do well.

@grano9 Patsy, Good to hear that your toe is getting better. Though maybe not 'coming along ' as fast as you would like.

I have a photograph question for Jim / dainisig . But later for that.

Not much going on here today. I am sort of waiting for DH to come out of his lair. We have an inquiry about a book and I want to be sure that the book is on the shelf before I respond to the inquiry.
Guess I'll try to get some more and/or better pictures so that I can finish some listings. My auctions are gathering a few watchers but no bidders.

@justmim Mim, So glad to see you posting . And sorry about your DH. Have to take exceptional care of him. And I know that you will. We had our first peaches yesterday. There are not as many as last year but the peaches that there are the nicest that we have ever had.

Sort of an odd thing about the peach trees this year. DH noted when we had that late freeze that only the fruit on the very top of the trees fell off. We are guessing that since it was a very still night the ground heat kept the freeze 10-12 feet above the ground.

@dianecox ---Diane, Hope you find some time for yourself as that is so necessary for all of us. You and your sister have certainly had your plates full for quite some time now.

@grano9 Patsy, I've been watching your reports on toe problems. I finally got the nasty looking nail on one of my big toes to come off by soaking it Epsom Salts water. It was raw for a week or so but did not get infected. It is still a bit tender and I still cannot really see the new nail coming in but the skin is solid so think it is going to be fine. It has plenty of protection as I wear socks 24/7 and always a solid shoe.