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Saturday, September 3, 2005
Live Memory Aid 
| | KCRW (out of Los Angeles) is playing Louisiana 1927, by Randy Newman. Then Lipstick Traces, Tuba Fats' Brass Band, Louis Armstrong... The Meters... this is GREAT vintage Nawlins' music, music about New Orleans, the Mississippi, the Gulf Coast... On live radio. They're live on the Web in .mp3, Real and Windows media. Also on iTunes' radio directory. |
| | Note: KCRW isn't podcasting this, although I'm sure they'd like to, because the music isn't podsafe. For more about why (and it truly sucks), go here. Meanwhile, dig some great radio, and dig deep to support the relief effort. |
While we're not at it
| | Julian Bond on California and earthquakes: Feels like borrowed time to me. It is. Earthquake plans for California, I suspect, are far more advanced than they were for hurricane flooding in New Orleans. But earthquakes are no less inevitable and potentially far more damaging. Living here is a bet that our lives will not coincide with massively fatal earthquakes that occur at average intervals that exceed average human lifetimes. (Or at least, not right now.) |
| | To check our collective sobriety out here, follow the link behind the map above. The colors indicate motion force as percentages of gravity. Meaning: "down" for your house shifts from Earth to sideways. And back again. In 1906 this lasted for more than a minute in San Francisco, as well as the 220 miles of the San Andreas fault that shifted as much as a couple dozen feet. That was when the population and property values were a tiny percentage of what they are today. |
| | The 1989 Loma Prieta quake happened along a 10-mile stretch of the same fault and lasted 15 seconds. It was not The Big One. It was not our Katrina. That one is still coming. And others after that. |
| | Earthquakes made California. And they'll keep making it, too. |
Just podding around.
| | Requiem for Kool 99.3 is my latest podcast. It went from ATRAC to analog audio to 56kb .mp3 to .aup to 56kb .mp3 again, and lost some 'fi a bit along the way. Still, not too bad, considering. |
| | Anyway, it was a welcome break to mix parenting with a nonserious podcast subject and some laughs along the way. |
| | One of these days I'll produce a podcast that's an actual show. Meanwhile, fun goofs like this will have to do. |
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