{"id":7278,"date":"2013-02-21T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2013-02-21T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:08:26","slug":"the-dead-the-living-and-the-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7278","title":{"rendered":"The Dead, The Living, and The Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5059\" alt=\"userpic=zombie\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiczombie.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"88\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Today&#8217;s lunch-time news chum collection brings together stories about life and death:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Somethings Die.<\/strong> A couple of weeks ago, we went to the Ahmanson Theatre to <a title=\"A Visit to a Dark Smokey Rock and Roll Club\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7194\">see the musical &#8220;<em>Backbeat<\/em>&#8220;<\/a> about the earliest days of the Beatles. In that musical, we learned about the Beatles first recording stint&#8230; as the backing band to a fellow named Tony Sheridan. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-tony-sheridan-20130219,0,888898.story\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Sheridan just passed away at the age of 72<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Somethings Are Just Too Stubborn.<\/strong> The news has been filled with stories of late about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/19\/tech\/web\/microsoft-outlook-hotmail\/\" target=\"_blank\">the death of Hotmail.Com and the birth of Outlook.Com<\/a>.\u00a0 But some websites will never die, and <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2013\/02\/19\/old-websites-still-online-hotmail\/\" target=\"_blank\">PopWatch has a nice summary of a number of them.<\/a> These include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warnerbros.com\/spacejam\/movie\/jam.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceJam <\/a>website, the website for the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youvegotmail.warnerbros.com\/flashintro.html\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;ve Got Mail<\/a>&#8220;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nick.com\/amandaplease\/index.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Please<\/a>, and what they refer to as a &#8220;primordial online journal&#8221;, our favorite journaling site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Livejournal<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Somethings Remain To Haunt You.<\/strong> A fellow in Las Vegas has plans for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/20\/website-bring-greetings-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">website to bring greetings from the dearly departed<\/a>. Yup, this means you can&#8217;t even escape them when they die.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Somethings Thrive on Freedom<\/strong>. One of my music loves is folk music, and one of my favorite sources of folk music is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodsongs.com\/\">The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour<\/a>, which has a regular weekly podcast. This show keeps growing and growing on a model of being FREE. <a href=\"http:\/\/woodsongs.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/why-woodsongspartner-program-volunteer.html\">The man behind it, Michael Jonathan, explains how the free model works to help Woodsongs, its volunteers, its facilities, and the city of Lexington KY thrive<\/a>. This is all on a model of being FREE: free to attend, the artists work for free, the theatre is provided free to the program, the people on the program work for free &#8212; and yet all those involved gain from the transactions. [By the way, this ties to a meme going around FB about the importance of supporting the independent and live artists &#8212; which we must do &#8212; and which I do by attending live performances]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Somethings Keep Going on and on.<\/strong> h\/t to Andrew Ducker for finding an interesting link about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustandgrooves.com\/rutherford-chang-we-buy-white-albums\/\">a man who collects only White Albums, specifically, the &#8220;White Album&#8221; from the Beatles<\/a>. So far, he has almost 700 copies, in all conditions, and is buying more. This made me curious about my copy (or perhaps copies, as I may have two copies, one purchased new by my brother) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles_%28album%29\">White Album<\/a>; I&#8217;ll look when I get home to see if there is a serial number. And of course, continuing the circle, this ties directly to our first item and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonysheridan.com\/\">Tony Sheridan<\/a>, who gave the Beatles their first recording and first look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ETA: Last week I wrote about <a title=\"Image is Everything\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7216\">the piano on the beach<\/a>, slowly disintegrating. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/stew\/2013\/02\/21\/half-moon-bay-sunset-piano-cremated\/\">Today&#8217;s news brings word that it has been cremated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s lunch-time news chum collection brings together stories about life and death: Somethings Die. A couple of weeks ago, we went to the Ahmanson Theatre to see the musical &#8220;Backbeat&#8220; about the earliest days of the Beatles. 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