Saturday, March 23, 2024

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom_Wiggins

Prodigy at remembering and reproducing sounds - pianist. Also composer. Idiot savant type.

"In this [later] phase of his career, Tom usually introduced himself onstage in the third person, imitating the pronouncements of his various managers from years past. He talked about his mental state with a characteristic lack of self-awareness. He had been diagnosed as non compos mentis by a doctor, and in his foggy netherworld the phrase was a matter of personal pride. Willa Cather described the poignance of one such concert: "It was a strange sight to see him walk out on stage with his own lips—another man's words—introduce himself and talk quietly about his own idiocy. There was insanity, a grotesque horribleness about it that was interestingly unpleasant. One laughs at the man's queer actions, and yet, after all, the sight is not laughable. It brings us too near to the things that we sane people do not like to think of."[citation needed]"

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Misc.



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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Soccer

 1958 WS-Verlag Fussball Weltmeisterschaft

Monday, February 5, 2024

Boards of Canada





















Pitchfork reviews rescored

 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/pitchfork-reviews-rescored/

tQ

Soccer stickers

Sunday, January 21, 2024

New York Public Library cigarette card collection

Japanese site with ancient box scores


1973-74 Venezuelan facts

(would like verification)

Misc.

Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky




Relates to Geography of Nowhere

interviewer is working on dissertation on Swedenborg

Friday, January 19, 2024

Soccer

Soccer cards

Sets not on TCDB

 1923 Boys' Magazine
1931 Shirley's Gum Beter Dan Andere
1933 Phillips
1934-35 R.&J. Hill Footballers
1938 Konig Fussball
1953 Chix


1954 Kiddy Fusball Weltmeisterschaft - Vogelsang-Tabak back.

1958 WS Verlag Fussball Weltmeisterschaft 
1962 Editora
w/o numbers
1963-64 Sicker-Verlag Die Besten Fusballspier aus Deutschland und aller Welt
1964-65 Sicker-Verlag Die Neue Bundesliga
1964-65 Sicker-Verlag Die Besten Fusballspier aus Deutschland und aller Welt
1978 Ping Pong Futebol

Misc. sports
1936 Ardath Series F & Z
1937-38 Ardath
checklists are incomplete
1948-53 A & J Donaldson Sport Favourites

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Friday, January 5, 2024

Private property and the high water mark.

 https://www.panix.com/~kabesq/webdoc2.htg/water.pdf


Under New York law, an owner of land abutting a navigable waterway has title to the land only up to the average (also called the mean) high water mark.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Monday, January 1, 2024