Posts Tagged ‘folk’
“Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure”*…
We may all received time uniformly, but we tend to experience it wildly differently. Jonny Thaw had an issue with the way that we commonly refer to years-in-history, more specifically to the use of BC and AD (or BCE and CE) as a demarcation…
2025 AD? Wah?
I know that I live in 18 AiP (after iPhone)(as of 43 AL (after laptop)) and that makes it much easier because its talking about things that I KNOW
I don’t know an anno domini, i dont know a christ, let alone trying to comprehend what came before them??
So he did somethng about it: he created Improved Relative Time, which lets one create a categorical suffix appropriate to one’s own interests/experience.
For example, this year is 2025 AD (or CE)… but it is also 5000 AA (After Astrolabe) or 2400 AADRM (After Animal-Driven Rotary Drill) or 26 AG (After Google) or 3800 AOL (After the Origin of Language) or 585 APP (After the Printing Press) or 7500 AS (After Sailing) or 2500 ATS (After Toe Stirrup) or 123 AVC (After Vacuum Cleaner) or 2400 AW (After Wheelbarrow) or 133 AZ (After Zipper).
Dozens more examples (with links to sources), in what amounts to an amusingly formatted timeline, at Improved Relative Time.
* Seneca the Younger
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As we articulate the arc of history, we might recall that it was on ths date in 1965 that Bob Dylan entered the UK pop chart for the first time with “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” which peaked at #9 three weeks later.
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”*…
Artwork excavated from archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009).
A tribute to the lost days of unrefined self-expression on the Internet.
More at Art of Geocities.
* Thomas Szasz
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As we express ourselves we might recall that it was on this date in 1965 that Bob Dylan was booed off stage at the Newport Jazz Festival during his first public performance with electric instruments (and a band that included Michael Bloomfield and Al Kooper)… The cat-calling began with his opening number, “Maggie’s Farm,” and continued through three more songs, after which Dylan left the stage. As a peace offering to Pete Seeger and other aggrieved organizers, Dylan returned later to do two acoustic numbers… but the die was cast; thereafter, his career was electrically-powered…
For a sense of just how far things have come, check out Johnny Winter’s version of “Highway 61,” taped at a 1992 tribute to Dylan (on the occasion of his 30th anniversary as a recording artist):
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