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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

April 21, 2020: "Half a Show . . . But All-Alive"



ONCE AGAIN, YOUR BLACK META is bringing MAXIMUM AWESOME! Music, Mindful, and META!

Art by Will Lyle, of Thorneater.



This week, YOUR META's halfway to BACK! And we're talking springtime, beluga whales, planting and farming, ethnolinguistics, signalling theory, George Washington Carver, listening to Mustn'ts, and the only thing more beautiful than the Pillars of Creation--

 It's been a loooooooooong, plague-ridden month, with more to go. But, just as our chyron would say, if we had one: BACK. STREET'S. BA--uhhhhhh . . . BLACK. META'S. BACK . . . ALRIGHT!


--Your Black Meta!

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This page is dedicated to sharing real-time information, resources, news, and the important conversations we’re having in Kingston and beyond during this time of unprecedented transformation. It's designed to provide aid and support to our community, and to provide a place of connection for everyone affected by this crisis.


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Your Meta will keep you updated regarding local events and demonstrations as we 
hear about them!






FreedomWalker's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links




COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO



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THE SPRUCE
  • Thespruce.com



MINDFUL MUSEUM



  • Reading excerpts from the book. "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird.
  • Chapter 9: Wizard of Tuskegee,  pg 136-42, Carver George Washington.











beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links


~ SEVEN UNDER SIX ~
(You're welcome!)


  1. "NOC whale sound." NOC, the whale, recorded by Ridgway et al, Wikipedia.org. October 23, 2012. [0.19] Recording of human-like sounds produced by NOC, a beluga whale. 
  2. "Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode) - 500 Hungarian musicians - Cityrocks Hungary - Kecskemét 2019." CITYROCKS HUNGARY, Youtube. October 8, 2019. [4:09] Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus - 500 Hungarian musicians - Cityrocks Hungary - Kecskemét 2019.
  3. "These Therapist-Approved Tips Can Help Manage Your Anxiety Around the Coronavirus." Jessica Moulite, Theroot.com. March 31, 2020. “There is the temptation to kind of busy ourselves right now because we have all this free time, so to speak, which is not free time, you know. And so for people who are feeling pressure to kind of be extra creative right now or, you know, do some great work right now, I want you to know that it really is OK to just be surviving right now.” — Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
  4. "Target Lady: Boogie Bulks Up - SNL." Saturday Night Live, Youtube. [5:29] Boogie (Daniel Radcliffe) rips his shirt off to show Target Lady (Kristen Wiig) how he's bulked up, but only catches the eye of Mr. Evenings (Bill Hader) because she's too busy sharing personal information with all the customers. Aired 01/14/12.
  5. 'Laura Benanti and Christopher Fitzgerald sing "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" from The Sound of Music.'  MCCTheater, Youtube. [4:46] Laura Benanti and Christopher Fitzgerald take on the roles of "Liesel" and "Rolf" in "The Sound of Music" at Miscast 2015.  Donate Now to Support MCC: http://www.mcctheater.org.
  6. '"Cell Block Tango" w/Jeremy Jordan, Ben Platt, Joshua Henry, Christopher Fitzgerald, Leslie Odom Jr.' Broadwaycom, Youtube.com. [6:56] At MCC Theater's MISCAST benefit on March 31, 2015, "Cell Block Tango" from CHICAGO is performed by Jeremy Jordan, Ben Platt, Joshua Henry, Christopher Fitzgerald, Leslie Odom Jr. & Walter Bobbie.
  7. 'Ben Platt and Uzo Aduba sing "A Little Priest" From Sweeney Todd.' MCCTheater, Youtube. [6:02] Uzo Aduba and Ben Platt take on the roles of "Sweeney Todd" and "Mrs. Lovett" in "Sweeney Todd" at Miscast 2015.  Donate Now to Support MCC: http://www.mcctheater.org.







~ AND ONE OVER TWELVE ~
(SORRY . . . SERIOUSLY!)



"Boiled Pudding part 1 - 18th Century Cooking Series S2E2." Townsends, Youtube. [12:42] All about Boiled Puddings.  Plum Pudding recipe 4oz flour, 4oz butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of milk, 1 Tablespoon of sugar, teaspoon of  ginger, mace, nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon of salt. plus the sauce.

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Sources for Meta on the Meta: "If All the World Was Crazy"



Multimedia

  1. "If the World Was Crazy." Shel Silverstein - Topic, YouTube. [1:14] Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment  If the World Was Crazy · Shel Silverstein  Where The Sidewalk Ends  ℗ 2000 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Released on: 1993-01-20. 







Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites

  1. "What Does 'Sold Down The River' Really Mean? The Answer Isn't Pretty." Lakshmi Gandhi, Npr.org. January 27, 2014. For generations, the phrase "sold down the river" has been used to signify a profound betrayal.  "River" was a literal reference to the Mississippi or Ohio rivers. For much of the first half of the 19th century, Louisville, Ky., was one of the largest slave-trading marketplaces in the country. Slaves would be taken to Louisville to be "sold down the river" and transported to the cotton plantations in states further south.  In his 2010 history of the Mississippi River, Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild journalist Lee Sandlin said "the threat of being 'sold down the river' was seen as tantamount to a death sentence."
  2. "'Who told me to get out?': Beluga whale mimics human speech." Smh.com.au, October 23, 2012. Muffled conversations initially had researchers at a San Diego aquarium baffled, but when a diver thought he was told to get "out" of the water they realised the chatter was coming from a beluga whale.
  3. "Hubble image reveals the mighty baby stars that will probably destroy the 'Pillars of Creation'." Brandon Spektor, Livescience.com. April 12, 20202. Spearing the sky like monolithic elephant trunks, the "Pillars of Creation" are a vast region of star-forming material located in the Eagle Nebula, about 6,000 light-years from Earth. These tendrils of gas and dust, made colorful by the radiation of bright young stars smoldering within, became a Milky Way landmark thanks to an iconic visible-light image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Now, NASA scientists have shared a new view of the pillars, focusing instead on the infrared radiation normally invisible to human eyes. In the new infrared image (also taken by the Hubble Space Telescope), the colorful pillars fade to ghosts of their former selves, revealing a kaleidoscope of newborn stars within the dust.










Sources for Black X-Files: "Listening to the Mustn'ts"

Multimedia

  1. "Listen to the Mustn'ts." Shel Silverstein - Topic, YouTube. [:23] Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment  Listen to the Mustn'ts · Shel Silverstein  Where The Sidewalk Ends  ℗ 1984 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Released on: 1993-01-20.
  2. "Peanut-Butter Sandwich." Shel Silverstein - Topic, Youtube. [3:31] Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment  Peanut-Butter Sandwich · Shel Silverstein  Where The Sidewalk Ends  ℗ 1984 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Released on: 1993-01-20.
Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites



  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Poetry_Month
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein
  • https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/
  • http://www.shelsilverstein.com/






Music Playlists





FreedomWalker's Playlist:



  1. Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Kiss them for me"
  2. Radiohead: "Lotus Flower"
  3. Sia: "Bring Night" 





beetle's Playlist:

  1. Metric: "Help I'm Alive" (Album Version)
  2. half•alive: "still feel."
  3. KD Lang & the Reclines: "Luck in My Eyes"





LYRICS



  • Geniuslyrics.com











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