House Forlorn Reads 8 - HFR Transcript

House Forlorn Reads 8

Three pamphlets: the USGS Topographic Instructions, Communication with the Deaf, and the Southwestern Pennsylvania magazine.

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

Date of Production: 20081129
post-production completed: 20081100
Length: 00:00:00
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House Forlorn Reads episode 8

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 8. I suppose you were hoping to find that recording studio for the Egyptian Mortuary Practices podcast - I think if you walk down to the next pyramid, you'll find that podcast now recording in the main temple in the sub-sub-sub-sub-basement of the tomb.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be linked to via www.HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, playing video games for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside. Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast.

Do you have any stories about your books? My owner was perusing his Twitter feed this morning, and came across a video at BrePettis.com/blog titled "Things - Edith Kollath Creates Books that Breathe". How weird is that? Books that breathe? The art show shows that anything can, and will, be art. An excellent art show!

In today's show, we'll read three excerpts from three paper pamphets for you.

1 First is the "Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey: Color-Separation Scribing", Book 4, Chapters 4B1-4B3, 1961, published by the U.S. Department of the Interior. This is a very cool little booklet that came in some batch of books from an auction, detailing in pictures the methods and tools used to draw topographic maps. You may have seen topographic maps in your travels? They have squiggly lines (that's a technical term) which show the differences in elevation across a particular area of land.

2 Second is "Communication with the Deaf: A Guide for Parents of Deaf Children", Edited by Powrie Vaux Doctor, Ph.D., published by American Annals of the Deaf, 1963, 1969. A child's inability to hear through accident or birth defect can be a harrowing experience for the parent. This paper book seeks to help the frustrated parent by providing many avenues of teaching for developing avenues of communication with the deaf child: speechreading, hand sign language, cued speech and other techniques are discussed to provide an introduction for parents to an activity that will be crucial for the child's survival in this communication-rich society of ours.

3 Third, we have the Number 2 issue of the Southwestern Pennsylvania magazine. This is an excellent little magazine that shows pictorial and written descriptions of the cultural and industrial history of the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. From the migration of Slovenian-Americans into communities such as Granish Hill, Strabane, Bridgeville, Yukon and Herminie, to the building and reconstruction of Southwestern PA's log buildings; from the description of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and their churches, to the introduction to the people of "The Old Time Fiddlers Association", this magazine covers much of the cultures who built the communities of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Interestingly, it has no mention of the African-American experience, though it does specify that "Blacks and Germans" will be covered in a future Issue 4.

First, from the Topographic Instructions, on pages 24 & 25:

Next, I read page 47 of Communication with the Deaf:

Finally, In Southwestern Pennsylvania, a prose poem by John Mark Scott, 1973, titled "John Cooper":

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Link to the HouseForlorn blog via the www.houseforlorn.com landing page. You can follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn, and become a fan of the House Forlorn Facebook page. For a transcript of this and previous "House Forlorn Reads" podcasts, google the key phrase "HFR Transcript".

Have a moving day.

House Forlorn Reads #7: Transcript

House Forlorn Reads 7

Majorca, Ford and Used Books: Juan Bonet's "Majorca", Betty Ford's "The Times of My Life", and Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's "Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World".

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.
Date of Production: 20081116
post-production completed: 20081100
Length: 00:00:00
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House Forlorn Reads episode 7

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 7. If the podcast you were hoping to find is brought to you by the Leaf-rakers Guild of the Southern Hemisphere and concerns proper techniques for leaf-raking with professional leaf-raking implements, then I must disappoint - this is a podcast about books.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be linked to via www.HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, playing video games for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside. Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast.

Do you have any stories about your books? For example, my owner has a old 1963 set of Encyclopedia Britannica's, in which his mother has stuck all sorts of oddments, such as sweetgum, sycamore, maple and olive tree leaves, either between tissues or in contact paper. What strange objects have your family stuck in a book for posterity's sake?

In today's show, we'll read three excerpts from three smallish books for you - touching

1 First on "Majorca" by Juan Bonet, (Editorial Everest, 1969) - this is a picture book showing photos of Spain's largest island, off the country's eastern Mediterranean coast. Majorca, Mallorca in Spanish and Catalan, has been inhabited since paleolithic times, with tombs dating to perhaps 6000 BCE, or about 8000 years ago. Rome initiated habitation in Palma in 123 BCE, when Caecilius Metellus landed on the island. Majorca is the largest island in the Balaeric archipelago, of which Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera are the other three of the larger islands. This pictorial introduction to this island has maps, pictures of the islands industry, including fishing and almond-tree cultivation, pictures of landscape, of religious and secular architecture, of popular swimming beaches, and evidence of sports, such as the popular bull-rings.

2 Second, "The Times of My Life", by Betty Ford with Chris Chase (Ballantine, 1978-79), is an autobiographical overview of Betty Ford's life. Wife of US President Gerald (Jerry) Ford, Betty has a unique view on life, though she describes herself on the first page as "an ordinary woman who was called onstage at an extraordinary time." She says she didn't want her husband to become president, but accepted his decision, saying "You plan your life in one way, it goes another."

3 And third is this neat little book that my owner cannot remember purchasing, but is just the kind of book he'd purchase (as opposed to finding in a box of books at an auction, or outside of a bookstore, like Paradox Books in Wheeling, WV sometimes does): "Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World", by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, (St. Martin's Griffin, 1998). Lawrence and Nancy were book people: they'd go to Borders or other new-book bookstores and get the latest novels to read. But somehow they accidentally found their way one day into a used book store...and the rest of the story is a wonderful modern-day journey through the ancient world of books.

First, from "Majorca", I read a description of "The olive trees of Majorca", page 74:

Next, I read page 147, which is the first page of chapter 18, titled "The Other Woman" :

Finally, in :

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Link to the HouseForlorn blog via the www.houseforlorn.com landing page. You can follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn, and become a fan of the House Forlorn Facebook page. For a transcript of this and previous "House Forlorn Reads" podcasts, google the key phrase "HFR Transcript".

Twitterer Brij, tweets this about a books "Bought few books from Books & Beyond (Music World's new bookstore chain)" -- what books have you procured recently?

My owner recently attended and present at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 (PCPGH3). See what podcamps may be in your neighborhood at Podcamp.pbwiki.com; use keyword PCPGH3 in your google searches for related articles, blogs, videos and podcasts.

Have a windy day.

..HF.

House Forlorn Reads 6 - HFR Transcript

Seville, Ancient Egypt and the life of Auguste Rodin. tourist picture guide All Sevilla, John Ruffe's "The Egyptians", and David Weiss' "Naked Came I".

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.
Date of Production: 20081102
post-production completed: 20080000
Length: 00:00:00
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House Forlorn Reads episode 6

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 6. If you intended on finding a podcast about the continual adversarial relationship between Cleveland sports franchises and those in PIttsburgh, specifically of the pigskin ilk, you're hanging around the wrong Hall of Fame altogether - podcasts on that subject are probably being recorded in Canton, Ohio.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, showering for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside.

Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast. Let me know if you're a human or a house, where you're from, and what kind of house, home, apartment or tiny little abode you inhabit or are. Also, tell me what books drive your thirst. I'll leave names out of it, unless your name happens to be something like "colonial", "saltbox", "felt tent", "geodesic dome", "limestone cavern", "apartment" or "flat".

Do you have any stories about your books? For example, my owner recently came across 5 boxes of free books at an estate auction in Circleville, Pennsylvania - people are giving away the nicest books at the lowest prices, all because they don't wanna carry those boxes any further. What strange places have your books come from?

In today's show, we'll read three scupltural excerpts for you - touching on Seville, Ancient Egypt and the life of Auguste Rodin.

"All Sevilla" is the English Edition of a travel guide, with "127 Colour Photographs"; the guide was compiled by the Technical Department of Editorial Escudo De Oro, S.A., in a 6th Edition dated May 1984. This tourist guide to this ancient city in southern Spain covers mostly the religious architecture, but also touchs on bull-fighting, food, paintings of note and secular architecture.

John Ruffles' "The Egyptians" is a an in-depth overview of a culture that flourished for about thirty-one hundred years before running headlong into the Roman civilization that was spreading around the Mediterranean in 31 B.C. Egypt is known for popularizing many ideas and technologies we use today: weaving, calendars, beer and irrigation control for growing crops.

"Naked Came I", by David Weiss, 1963 is not the memoirs of a certain penguin named Opus in the Bloom Country comic strip, but rather a historical novel about the live of sculptor Auguste Rodin. The frontispiece in this book is a quote from Don Quixote, by Cervantes: "Naked came I into this world, and naked must I go out." Wikipedia reminds us that this was also said by Job in the Old Testament, when he said "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return" (Book of Job, 1:21) Rodin was a 19th century french sculptor who's life was controversial in many ways, but very influential artistically.

First, from All Sevilla, pages 72 & 73, the university:

Next, I read pages 170 & 171 from The Egyptians:

Finally, in Naked Came I, we see Rodin's father nearing death on pages 348 & 349:

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. You can also follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn. For a transcript of this and previous "House Forlorn Reads" podcasts, google the key phrase "HFR Transcript".

Twitterer pfmDesigner, in Zanesville, Ohio, tweets "Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds was the first book I read on my Kindle" -- what have you read recently?

My owner recently attended and present at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 (PCPGH3). See what podcamps may be in your neighborhood at Podcamp.pbwiki.com; use keyword PCPGH3 in your google searches for related articles, blogs, videos and podcasts.

Have a leafy day.

..HF.

House Forlorn Reads 5

House Forlorn Reads 5

Yorkshire, Mexico and Ritual: James Herriot's self-named "James Herriot's Yorkshire, Ignacio Bernal's "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology", and Elizabeth S. Helfman's "Celebrating Nature: Rites and Ceremonies Around the World".

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.
Date of Production: 20081028
post-production completed: 20081101
Length: 00:14:41

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House Forlorn Reads 5: Transcript

House Forlorn Reads 5

HFR Transcript

Yorkshire, Mexico and Ritual: James Herriot's self-named "James Herriot's Yorkshire, Ignacio Bernal's "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology", and Elizabeth S. Helfman's "Celebrating Nature: Rites and Ceremonies Around the World".

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.
Date of Production: 20081028
post-production completed: 20081101
Length: 00:00:00

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House Forlorn Reads episode 5

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 5. If you intended on finding a podcast about constructing musical instruments out of natural materials, I'm afraid you'll have to go down to that large bamboo grove just down the hill, where you see those people working with freshly cut culms.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, showering for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside.

Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast. Let me know if you're a human or a house, where you're from, and what kind of house, home, apartment or tiny little abode you inhabit or are. Also, tell me what books drive your thirst. I'll leave names out of it, unless your name happens to be something like "colonial", "saltbox", "felt tent", "geodesic dome" or "limestone cavern".

Do you have any stories about your books? For example, I like the things you can sometimes find in used books. In Betz's Basic Mathematics, published in 1942, I found several "Prevent TB" stickers, and a public transportation transfer slip, marked "N Wyoming" and "City of Detroit Dept of Street Railways". Who read this book prior to this sad house reading it?

In today's show, we'll read three cultural excerpts for you - touching on Yorkshire, Mexican Anthropology and Religious practices around the world.

James Herriot's self-named "James Herriot's Yorkshire", with photographs by Derry Brabbs, 1979, is "A guided tour with the beloved veterinarian through the land of "All Creatures Great and Small", gloriously photographed and memorably described". This is a delightful picture book depicting many of the towns, scenery and features that spring from the pages of Herrior's book "All Creatures Great and Small", as well as the television series of the same name.

Ignacio Bernal's "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology", 1968 & 70, Thames and Hudson, London, translated from Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom, takes the reader through the anthropological past of Mexico as seen through the collections of the National Museum. Mexico has a rich history of civilization with evidence of that past stretching back to 1500 BCE to 1500 CE, for a 3000 year time-span.

Elizabeth S. Helfman's "Celebrating Nature: Rites and Ceremonies Around the World", 1969 by the Seabury Press, takes us on a very nice tour of the religious cultic practices of indigenous peoples around our globe. Although the early part of the book focuses on the cultures of the Americas, Europe and Western Asia, the latter part moves us toward African and Asian cultures.


First, from Herriot's "James Herriot's Yorkshire", The Snowbound Roads, pages 106 to 110:

Next, I read pages 28 and 29 from Bernals "The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology":

Finally, in Helfman's Celebrating Nature", I read the prelude to the second half of the book, on pages 78-79:

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. You can also follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn.

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. You can also follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn.

Fellow Twitterer Everywheretrip recently read "Ancient Angkor" by Freeman and Jacques -- what have you read?

My owner recently attended and present at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 (PCPGH3). See what podcamps may be in your neighborhood at Podcamp.pbwiki.com; use keyword PCPGH3 in your google searches for related articles, blogs, videos and podcasts.

Have a Slushy Day!

..HF.

House Forlorn Reads 4: Transcript

House Forlorn Reads episode 4

HFR Transcript

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 3. If you intended on finding a podcast about your preferred school for young witches and wizards, that's in the next dungeon down the hall, just past the balrog-baiting trophy case.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, showering for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside.

Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast. Let me know if you're a human or a house, where you're from, and what kind of house, home, apartment or tiny little abode you inhabit or are. Also, tell me what books drive your thirst. I'll leave names out of it, unless your name happens to be something like "colonial", "saltbox", "felt tent", "geodesic dome" or "limestone cavern".

In today's show, we'll read three enervating excerpts for you - touching on mathematics, winemaking and flights of fancy.

"Basic Mathematics", by William Betz, published in 1941, 42 by The Athenaeum Press, reviews in-depth everything in math from addition, subtraction, multiplication & division, up through algebra and trigonometry, with very helpful illustrations and examples peppered throughout.

"The Winemaker's Companion", by BCA Turner and CJJ Berry, 1960, 63, 65 & 67, published by Mills & Boon Limited, is a complete introduction and study of winemaking, with such chapter headings as "Preparing the Must," "Ailments of Wine", and "Cider and Perry".

"The Search for Life on Mars: Evolution of an Idea" by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr., 1976, 79 & 80, is a biographical sketch of this scientific inquiry led by two camps: Carl Sagan, in one, and Klein, Horowitz, Levin and Oyama in the other. We'll look at an excerpt from the former which includes references to the latter.

First, from Basic Mathematics, "Testing your accuracy in Measurement" on page 130.

Next, I read the beginning of The Winemakers Companion on page 41, The Main Ingredients: I. Yeast.

Finally, on pages 103-4 of the Mars book, we learn a little about testing instrumentation.

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. Have a snowy day.

..HF.