Tim's Ancient Links

Memphis

• "Media Priests of the Big Lie". Pere Ubu's David Thomas finds himself in Memphis during Death Week.
• Memphis in May. The annual get together featuring music and barbecue.
• Motss.Con.99. I helped host a get together of participants from Usenet's soc.motss newsgroup in Memphis during the fall of 1999. The web page has some nice Memphis photos in it. These photos from the .con itself were taken by Ken Rudolph.
• The National Civil Rights Museum. The major action of the civil-rights movement of the late 1950s and the 1960 took place between Little Rock, Arkansas, and Montgomery, Alabama. Memphis is right on that axis. The Civil Rights Museum is housed in the Lorraine Motel, when Dr. Martin Luther King was staying when he was assassinated.

Music

• King Crimson / Robert Fripp. Discipline Global Mobile is Mr. Fripp's record company. Elephant Talk is the online Crimso fan site. The Road to Graceland is a collection of thoughts by Mr. Fripp on the nature of musicianship. Frippery is a random selection from the Collected Sayings of Chairman Fripp.
• Minutemen. Paul's sister said, ``This is difficult music to listen to,'' but we already knew it was worth the effort. Check out the photos I took sometime in the mid 1980s.
• Parliament / Funkadelic / George Clinton. ``Fried ice cream is a reality.''
• Pere Ubu. ``Walked around, took a bus...''
• Phish. There's also Phish.Net.
• Frank Zappa. There's also this page, owned by The Zappa Family Trust.

Thoughtful Stuff

• Judge Kevin Chang's ruling on same-sex marriages in Hawaii.
• Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Romer v. Evans (Colorado Amendment 2 decision).
• Vermont Supreme Court ruling on gay civil unions.
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: ``I Have A Dream''.
• William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. ``...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion...''

• Herb Simon on Experimental Methodology.
• Georg von Békésy on Scientific Problems.

Unclassifiable

• Jay Kinney's Private Clinic of Cultural Collision.