{"id":8373,"date":"2013-08-24T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2013-08-24T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:21:50","slug":"saturday-news-chum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8373","title":{"rendered":"Saturday News Chum: Poor Wandering Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Ah, the weekend. Time to rest, relax, and recharge&#8230; while gorging yourself on this collection of interesting links that didn&#8217;t quite fit into a theme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Forgotten Subway Stations.<\/strong> New York is a big city. So big, in fact, that it has subway stations it built and never uses. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelettes.net\/new-york-city%E2%80%99s-hidden-subway-station\/\">an interesting article on one of those stations: the City Hall station<\/a>. Looks beautiful for a station that old. I always like the style of NYC subway stations. LA&#8217;s, even with their unique station art, are so utilitarian.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Names, Second Generation.<\/strong> When my wife and I got married, she elected to keep her last name. This was actually quite common for folks of my generation. But times change. We then had a large period of hyphenation&#8230; and now&#8230; ? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/haraperson.com\/2013\/08\/generational-blip-the-last-name-question\/\">an interesting article that considers how the children of my generation got their last names<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not Fitting Into Stereotypes.<\/strong> Given I just mentioned names, I&#8217;m sure if I gave you a particular last name &#8212; Schwartz, Cohen, Abramowitz &#8212; you would think &#8220;Jewish&#8221;. But that&#8217;s a stereotype, and Jews just don&#8217;t fit your stereotypes. <a href=\"http:\/\/popchassid.com\/10-photos-to-remind-you-that-jews-dont-fit-into-a-stereotype-and-never-have\/\">Here are 10 photos to remind you of that<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Singing Voice is Silenced<\/strong>. The first show we ever saw at McCabes was a young man out of Tucson by the name of Shep Cooke. His claim to fame was that he was part of the Stoney Poneys, Linda Ronstadt&#8217;s first group. Linda has had quite an interesting career &#8212; pop, rock, Broadway, Mexican music, standards, &#8230; and alas&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aarp.org\/2013\/08\/23\/linda-ronstadt-discloses-her-battle-with-parkinsons-disease\/\">that voice has been silenced by Parkinsons<\/a>. Here&#8217;s to a brave women for discussing the effects of a horrible disease. [As a side note, we&#8217;re on vacation&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/events\/escondido-ca\/different-drum\">the theatre here is actually doing a Ronstadt tribute show<\/a> the day after week leave]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expensive Travel.<\/strong> We&#8217;re at the locale hinted at in the previous link because airfare to our normal timeshare was just too expensive (anyone got a good lead on airfares between LAX and OGG at the end of August?). Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicmatt.com\/travel-blogs\/expensive-airfare\/\">an article explaining why airfares are so expensive<\/a>. Think about this article the next time you hear that airline consolidations are good for the industry. Less competition always means prices rise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watts Towers<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re a student of LA (as I am), you know that one of unique places is Watts Towers. Here&#8217;s an interesting article from UCLA on <a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucla.edu\/portal\/ut\/watts-towers-247989.aspx\">how UCLA engineers are studying the towers to make a better mortar that will enable the towers to stand for another generation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the weekend. Time to rest, relax, and recharge&#8230; while gorging yourself on this collection of interesting links that didn&#8217;t quite fit into a theme: Forgotten Subway Stations. New York is a big city. So big, in fact, that it has subway stations it built and never uses. 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