Website offer

Back a decade ago, after watching a tv documentary and reading about 8 big books, I got interested in writing some things about European history from 1870-1945. I ended up posting a website: http://www.geocities.com/greatwars. I worked on it off and on for about 2 years then in typical "me" fashion I moved on to other things. Even though it was one person's ideas about things, and not associated academically with anything, I did get mentioned as a source for a university, I think in Australia, for The First World War, and the "Battle of The Somme" in particular, one of two great battles that started on July 1st, my birthday (Gettysburg is the other).

I did not make it to 1945, only to about 1919.

A few weeks back I had an offer to "buy" the website, and I think he was as much interested in the Domain name as it had "great war" in the title, then in the actual articles. I thought about it and one idea was that since I hadn't looked at it much in so many years, that it might be nice for someone else to take it over and continue on.

I ran this idea past some friends who of course cautioned me that it would mean it would be totally out of my control. Google me and you get that website. I am associated with it for maybe all eternity! Worst case scenario would be that a person who does not share my views might steer it in a direction that it should never go in, such as, why the Nazis were not so bad a bunch of people, or that The Holocaust never happened.

I declined the offer.

TWF

AIDS

There has been a lot of AIDS talk over the past few weeks with the conference in Toronto. Unfortunately, since we still live in a mostly homophobic society, and AIDS struck the gay community in its infancy, there is still a stigma attached to this disease. Our wonderful P.M. , Harper, leader of the Reform Party, choose to skip the conference because he can’t handle homosexuality, even though AIDS kills people from all walks of life. He is likely to cut funding to the needle park in Vancouver and AIDS in general, not, in this case, due to any ideological reason beyond his party’s belief that government should only give money to people who already have gobs of it, or rather, tax them less, and to take away money given to people who really need it and not give them any more.

What a nice fellow!

TWF

Popular Music Thoughts

How much of popular music would be different if the "glad" did not rhyme with "sad"?

"We shall overcome". Would that, you know, hurt?

What, exactly, are the "pompitudes of love"? Are there pompitudes of hate? Indifference?

If a band is mostly male, but has one female, why is it likely she plays the bass?

If bass is as important as any other instrument, why do bass players, when they go solo, start playing guitar? (Paul McCartney, Mike Rutherford, Sting).

Back in the 80s when they started colourizing old black and white movies, in one film they gave Frank Sinatra brown eyes.

Is there anything worse than listening to a great live song recorded in the 70s than all of a sudden there is that 5-12 minute drum solo? That was just so everyone but the drummer could go to go get high, right? I Guess the drummer got high during the acoustic set?

Ian Gillian, on the album "Made in Japan" says, on a sound check, "I want everything louder than everything else". This is not an observation, but it is funny. The man played Jesus after all!

Once in 1983 while driving my parents' Dodge Omni, with some friends, one station played Genesis' "Supper's Ready". On the same night another station played the live version of that song. If you do not know, that song is 22 minutes long so the chances of that happening, even back then, are less than being shot by a terrorist, winning the lottery and being struck by lightning on the same day. Heck, there will be a black or female president of the United States before it happens again!!!

TF