(I like musicals, a bit)
they say "candy" instead of chocolate for christ sake
Prince Buster
Jonesyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20239694
The Great Barrier Reef:http://www.outsideonline.com/2112086/obituary-great-barrier-reef-25-million-bc-2016It makes me quit sad that we're actually living through the age of human-led destruction of the planet. It's like a bit, slow, pre-apocalyptic film playing out in front of our eyes. We know the causes, we know the solutions...yet we drag our heels, we but barriers up, we refute the science. All in the name of making a bit more money...A sad day for humanity.
To be fair to Chris, we now live in a post-fact world, where true or false no longer exists, it's simply a matter of stating something and maintaining that position. If Chris says he died this week then I think that's a refreshing viewpoint we need to respect. He's telling it like it is, not what the establishment wants you to believe.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/10/junko-tabei-obituaryNever heard of Junko Tabei before. I have now.
An open letter to the climbing media:Junko Tabei was the first woman to scale Mount Everest and to ascend the highest summit of every continent. She died from cancer on Oct. 20 at the age of 77. Yet even with these amazing accomplishments, I am disappointed that I didn’t learn of her death in one of the major climbing magazines I read regularly. I learned it from the New York Times.Not a single US-based climbing publication, Alpinist Magazine, Rock and Ice magazine or Climbing Magazine has bothered to cover her death. Do the people running the climbing media not read the news? Did they not hear about her passing on NPR? Or see one of the many articles honoring her on CNN, ABC, LA Times, Washington Times or Denver Post?She was the first woman on the Seven Summits! And not one of our climbing publications shared the news of her passing. Not even one tweet. Just silence.I’m not a huge follower of mountaineering news and I had never heard of Tabei until the other day. But here was an amazing person, an amazing climber who happened to also be a woman and a mother and the climbing media seems to be ignoring her life and what she did for female climbers.From the NYT: “The feat was hailed not only as a triumph of physical fortitude but also as a milestone for women — both in a field dominated by men and in a society in which, Tabei said, “Even women who had jobs, they were asked just to serve tea.”On her ground breaking ascent of Everest, Tabei led a group of 15 women up the slopes as she did on other notable alpine ascents. She was buried in an avalanche on her way up and still continued to the top. She could have been serving tea at home in Tokyo. Instead, she was making history.Tabei's life is a triumph of the human spirit and a role model for women around the world. It’s a shame that our climbing media doesn’t see it the same way.
Leonard Cohen
