blog riley: December 2011 Archives
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10. Like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale listening to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" as they drew up the charter for the Black Panthers, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen were listening to "Hell Hound on My Trail" when in 1941 they wrote "Blues in the Night." "I want him on the session," Bing Crosby, a fan of "Terraplane Blues," said just before he recorded the song in 1942. But what he got was perfect anyway. (Greil Marcus in Oxford American)
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*My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan*
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I�m a husband, a father, a writer on the
Fox animated sitcom "Family Guy" and a member of the Unitarian
Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people
at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket,
and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh's "Being Peace" when 1,400 heavily-armed
LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of
about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked,
around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD
officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted "We Are Peaceful"
and "We Are Nonviolent" and "Join Us."
As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives
to slice open every personal tent in the park...
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Thank you for letting me share that anger with you today.
Patrick Meighan
