Teaching secondary school (English, mostly) since 1980. American by birth, Canadian by choice. #covid #justice #drums #jazz #dodgers, maybe. Good things: #Bikes, #walking, #gardens, #realfood, #acousticmusic, #art, #reading and #writing. Pieces too long for social media are posted on my blog: http://www.EricMacKnight.com/. No cats, NFL, NBA.
Here’s an idea: Let’s try being kind and respectful to everyone.
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I have questions about this photo of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, ca. 1921. Too tedious to break up into separate posts here, so please go to my tracking-free, non-profit blog post if interested. Thanks!
https://ericmacknight.com/wordpress/2024/07/12/king-olivers-creole-jazz-band-two-photos/
Portrait of a Nazi
Hans Globke (1898-1973), enthusiastic Nazi and persecutor of Jews who served first in Hitler's government and then, from 1953 to 1963, as chief of staff to the West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.
In this undated photo he looks like a Hollywood parody of what he actually was: a Nazi bureaucrat. In his memoir, "Pigeon Tunnel," John Le Carré refers to Globke and quotes Adenauer saying, "You don't throw out dirty water when you have no clean water." #history #nazis
Several years ago the Dutch supermarket chain, Albert Heijn, began selling beer mugs with a built-in breathalyzer, so that as your blood-alcohol level rose, the beer mug limited the amount you could drink. They called it the Albert Heijn Stein.
Pure genius!
"‘I am willing to wait for months’: Chinese Tiananmen critic ready for long haul in Taiwan transit lounge"
