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Sangemon
Nyack, NY
A 50-something, empty-nesting, lefty-blogging, guitar pickin’, sound mixer and private pilot with a passion for political debate, an affinity for smart people, and a love of Beech Bonanzas and Martin guitars.
Things I’m grateful for:
1 fabulous bride of 28 years
3 brilliant kids
3 adorable grandkids
A warm home
A fulfilling career
My far-flung extended family
My lifelong friends
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Stephen Fleischman
Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Fleischman’s career as a television writer-director-producer spanned more than three decades beginning in the early 1950’s. In 1959, he participated in the formation of the renowned Murrow-Friendly “CBS Reports” series. In 1983, Steve won the prestigious Columbia University-Dupont Television Journalism Award.
His memoir, “A Red in the House”, about his thirty years in network news, is now in print.
For additional information, see: www.read2greatbooks.comE-mail to: stevefl@ca.rr.com
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About Us
Sangemon
Nyack, NY
A 50-something, empty-nesting, lefty-blogging, guitar pickin’, sound mixer and private pilot with a passion for political debate, an affinity for smart people, and a love of Beech Bonanzas and Martin guitars.
Things I’m grateful for:
1 fabulous bride of 28 years
3 brilliant kids
3 adorable grandkids
A warm home
A fulfilling career
My far-flung extended family
My lifelong friends
______________________________
Stephen Fleischman
Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Fleischman’s career as a television writer-director-producer spanned more than three decades beginning in the early 1950’s. In 1959, he participated in the formation of the renowned Murrow-Friendly “CBS Reports” series. In 1983, Steve won the prestigious Columbia University-Dupont Television Journalism Award.
His memoir, “A Red in the House”, about his thirty years in network news, is now in print.
For additional information, see: www.read2greatbooks.comE-mail to: stevefl@ca.rr.com
As expressed in the famous description of Zen attributed to Bodhidharma, “A special transmission outside the scriptures, not relying on words and letters / Direct pointing to the human mind, seeing one’s true nature and attaining Buddhahood,” the essential standpoint of the Zen school is not to depend on words and letters. Nevertheless, it does regard the study and chanting of sacred texts as an important part of Zen practice.
Hey, like the blog. keep posting stuff.
I’m just starting my own anti-war blog, if you want to leave some comments or advice, i would be very grateful
I hate to sound like False News, but some have asked me what amahchewahwah means.
When the youngest of my children was a young boy, he used to always be able to difuse any situation we might be having by looking into my eyes and saying, “I’m a chihuahua”. This would always result in hilarious laughter from me, and after that I would have a very hard time remaining serious. He used this to great advantage on many occasions.
Sometimes when I am stressed out and feeling angry I can recall that phrase and it still make me smile. When I see Bush I often imagine him saying it and it chills me out. So amahchewahwah is my own inner phonetic representation of how I imagine Bush saying that phrase, and it always tickles me.
Also, I used to call my maternal grandmother Amah, so I guess that figures in there somewhere.
Hello sangemon,
I came here at Steve Fleischman’s request. He and I know each other because Steve worked with my ex-husband, now deceased, at ABC in the 1960s.
Funny about names. For four years (2004-2008), I wrote comments at the Democratic Underground.com. They offered us an on-line journal and I really had a good time with that. My screen name was Radio_Lady. Easy choice. I have worked in media off and on for more than fifty years.
One fellow decided to use the screen name of phrigndumass.
For a while, I thought he was from Massachusetts. Not so.
One day, I asked him, “What does your screen name mean?”
The story is essentially this: He was talking to a friend. They got into a heated political conversation. Finally, the friend called him a “FRIGGIN’ DUMBASS” — and that’s how he came up with the screen name, spelled kind of phonetically.
He’s still there, and he did some amazing work predicting the 2008 election:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phrigndumbass
I don’t know how HTML works at your site, so I won’t mess around with it.
Peace, love and happiness,(Our sign-off from the kid’s show I co-hosted in 1957-58 while in college)
EK
Ellen Kimball
OH, JOY. Automatically formatted! (But no preview… oh, well.)
http://ellenkimball.blogspot.com/
Most people find this pretty interesting:
“I DATED LARRY KING, but NEVER MARRIED HIM…”
http://ellenkimball.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post.html