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Wow! First! :-)
Very nice piece.
Hey, I’m amazed there’s a Turkey-Day show, and a good topic too. Some people outside the USA don’t realize, here we have no real social safety net from the government.
Check out the homeless living structures in Paris:
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/homeless.html
Bonsoir,
I appreciate for a certain time, these windows which RB opens on a world that exists but our “modern†societies do not wish to see or face, because it is the side where the failure is the report.
The social subjects are welcome (old people dancing in the park, Africa, Doctors Without Borders, now the homeless people ).
It is a form of journalism which suits you well, for a public utility. Another vector for new technologies :
With the listening of all, for all.
A more real N to N relationship.
Bonne soirée..euh, journée ;)
S.
Nice story!
I am thankful that we didn’t get to hear Kathy Lee sing.
Thank you.
I, personally, absolutely!! could care less!! whomever or whatever Joanne “interviews.”If Joanne were to be interviewing a frog in the rain, a praying mantis in a garden, interviewing the five, six newborn kittens in a box in some barn, a monkey in a zoo …? even if she were to be out on a friday-the-thirteenth freezing cold winter night, with a telescope pointing to the full moon, with her back to the camera wait …, I retract that last part, I want to see her face when I click to RocketBoom, but that english accent of hers is simply adorable. Marmalade on rye toast, like banana slices on my peanut butter and jelly sandwich I simply and perfectly enjoy listening and hearing it spoken … buy her … alot.There are many dialects of languages. English has the Southern (US of A) dialect, there’s the Boston dialect, the Brooklyn accent, Joanne’s mine (I was reared in an area sixty miles north along the Hudson River from New York City …
Britain is a geographically small area. I believe her dialect is not Scottish (… it is?) Would a keen resident of Great Britain recognize to identify Joanne’s “accent” perhaps to the one of ten, fifteen specific regions of Great Britain that possess their own unique dialects? and then to know generally, specifically where she comes from? I’m just curious is all now.
RocketBooom still maintains my two thumbs up!
Good piece - the big guy with
the orange apron is the sort of
human being that comes across immediately.
And the kind of human being
I’m pleased to be able to share the planet with.
Joanne’s accent - unless I
miss my guess is a combination of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire accent’s - with
more emphasis on the Yorkshire tones.
Yorkshire is without doubt one
of the most beautiful places on Earth -
- although in general the accent doesn’t
reflect it.(Joanne’s an exception)
Steph; I agreed and it’s nice to see you post your thoughts openly and share with the world. It has reminded me that life is NOT the same for everyone and it’s easy to forget when you’re comfortable. But all my riches are not valuable without this open channel of communication. This “social network” may just help us fix the world yet… if I could talk to you this easily why could we not form a consensus which would effect real world issues? Why only vote once every 4 years when you could do it daily? Because Democracy is still privatized. I don’t know about you but I don’t trust today’s electoral system for obvious reasons. When will we use these Bean Counters to make a Real Democracy?
Re:
> “Yorkshire is without doubt
> one of the most beautiful
> places on Earth”
hop hop hop.
I think that you can cross the Channel for…arriving in Brittany. Same roots. ;)
Let’s make a small digression in the RB context which is at the base, New York.
I propose you a vision right on the other side of the Atlantic, in Brest.
Here what that gives :
http://cjoint.com/data/lxtcwv2q5g.htm
S.
P.S
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With the width of the frame, it possible to perceive the rontodity of our earth.
It’s always heartwarming to see hungry people eat.
I know it’s only a three minute show, but you let the middle-class dilettante do most of the talking. Why not invite the genuinely homeless people to talk about how they got into their present circumstances and what’s keeping them there? In this clip the homeless are used like props in a glib tableau vivant.
Enjoy the food, homeless people. Tomorrow, we’ll throw you back out on the streets.
Perfect!
david:
I disagree. The government is supposed to exist for the people, not for itself and not for big business, as it presently does. What we are seeing in the USA is a merging of big business and government, which is disturbing because that’s the definition of fascism.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006423.htm
Of all the holidays, the only ones that should be mandated to the level where federal workers have a paid day off, half the economy and social activity are curtailed, etc., are Thanksgiving and Memorial Day; those two days and that’s all. Administrators of an organization simply plan ahead on a reduced schedule on the big holidays like Xmas, New Years, whatever, but not every single employee should have a freebie day off to go do whatever they want, consequently shutting down the entire organization in the process, with no concern for the reason to their free day off in the first place. Get me into a position of political power and I’ll implement this idea into a practical form …, or so I like to think.That said, Thanksgiving is one day to pause for a moment and reflect on what made, and makes this nation great. With a ham sandwich in one hand, a plate with a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream, walnuts and a cherry sprinkled on top in your other hand, at the very least now say to yourself that you are not standing someplace like in North Korea or Cuba at the moment. (Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi sums the point succinctly, towards the end of the movie with the unforgettable one word utterance, Cuba?!! I couldn’t find a clip of the scene though one can imagine the thought of visiting Cuba for awhile does not appeal to Bibi.If you never do so any other time of the year, at least today close your eyes and speak to the darkness with a simple, Thanks …! It wouldn’t hurt to give a little bit of contemplative thought on how and why, on average more people in Hong Kong, the Japanese or South Koreans live “better” than than most Cubans or North Koreans, or most people in places on the earth today.Same idea with Veterans Day. Today in the year 2006 the threat to Western values and ideals (eg., Mergatroid) is nuclear Islamics. Imagine a Nazi government ruling over Europe for the last fifty years, because they got the bomb first, and used it. They didn’t get the bomb first because of little unknown and, to many it seems to me, the unnecessary and inconsequential incidents similar to this. My imagination is top notch, so it’s easy for me to fill war movie scenes with my own graphic details, which makes me appreciate quality movie productions like Saving Private Ryan.Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness …, big words if placed in proper context.Imagine an Albanian celebrating anything even remotely similar to the national American Thanksgiving. Why the thought doesn’t even enter the mind of an Albanian is possibly something to consider on this Thanksgiving day.
Rather, after posting my own comments for Thanksgiving day, and then reading B-man’s link of Michelle, I have to conclude that sometimes …? my imagination is a little bit flaky, it seems.So it goes.
Joanne, it’s disingenuous to suggest that you couldn’t talk directly with the homeless because they were eating and, darn it, that would be rude.
You didn’t have to shove a microphone into their face while they were trying to chew their turkey and ham. The street segment starring Mr. Yankoski was filmed ahead of time. Is it so hard to find a homeless person in Manhattan that you couldn’t rustle one up before Thanksgiving? The holiday is on the calendar, so you knew it was coming. I think a woman resourceful enough to conduct an interview from a cherry picker could have found a way.
My complaint with the segment is that it is superficial and trades on cheap sentimentality. This week a thousand local TV outlets will run essentially the same shallow bit.
It’s so easy to say tut-tut, isn’t it awful about these homeless. You’re better than that. Dig deeper. Do the thing that is hard to do.
Thanks for a thoughtful three minutes or so. I have no idea what all of the answers are but I appreciate when I see people who are doing what they can. I’m thankful that people like that exist.
js
wow, was that red wine they were serving with turkey…..?
classy..