Happy New Year! Yes, I missed sending out last week's horoscopes but really, one week out of 52 ain't that bad. So Happy New Year to you all! Now get ready for the real New Year, this year's Lunar New Year is the Green Wooden Monkey Year, which falls on January 22, 2004. If you are in New York, then check out this site with the NYC celebrations. Also, if you are in NY and did not call me to say hi, then shame on you. http://www.chinatown-online.com/year/year.shtml+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++My ROCK STAR friend Jen Giles is working at WBUR in Boston and produced the following segments. I meant to send an update before the segments aired, but of course, my mind is a lentil soup of disorder. So here are the links to her segments!http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/12/20031222_b_main.aspStanley MilgramIn 1961, a young assistant professor at Yale conducted what some say was the most important psychological experiment of all time. Stanley Milgram wanted to test the limits of authority in a supposedly civilized country to see just how much cruelty would average people inflict on their fellow citizens just because they were told to. In the famous electroshock experiment, 65 percent of the volunteers -- some of them clean-cut Yale men -- believed they were torturing Milgram's test subjects, and did so just because a man in a lab coat told them to. The famous experiment is still Exhibit A in every college psychology course. But what did it prove?http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/12/20031224_b_main.aspShoutout From On HighThe Roman Emperor Julian wasn't a big fan of the yodel. The sing-songy shout out that conjures images of mountain maidens with long blond braids reportedly irritated the 4th century ruler. In his short three-year reign he wasn't able to silence the many centuries, and styles, of yodeling that would come after him. What likely began as a communication means for cattle herders in the Swiss Alps has enjoyed some artful adaptations, from cowboy ballads and the blues, to rap and rock n' roll. And the story of the yodel's evolution from occupational past-time to cultural icon, and from the agrarian Alps to Appalachia and beyond, is as much about migration as it is about music. The hills, and our studio, are alive with the sounds of music.
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This week's horoscopes are dedicated to:
>> My nephew Fraham, who is now 2 years old
>> Foliver, Fraula and Freven (but only a small dedication to Freven ;P), LOTR3 on IMAX!
>> Frfrancine and Frynda for allowing me to find my inner disco freak and what a wonderful brunch it was
>> Frann and Frabney and Fiedler
>> Frori and Frick, good to see you both!
>> Frim Freckscher Frecker, girl, thanks for the Picasso books
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