{"id":2481,"date":"2013-07-21T20:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:18:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:18:03","slug":"marshall-mcluhan-is-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/07\/21\/marshall-mcluhan-is-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall McLuhan Is the Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MarshallFrench astronomer Jean Picard<\/a> was born on this day in 1620. I bring this up only because I never understood why Star Trek<\/i>‘s Jean-Luc Picard had a British accent. And that includes the episode where he goes home and we find that his brother had a French accent. And what did the family do for a living? Make wine, of course. That’s because the only thing that Star Trek<\/i> writers knew about France is that they make a lot of wine. Pathetic. French pioneer of thermodynamics, Henri Victor Regnault<\/a> was born in 1810. So that’s two famous Frenchmen who didn’t make wine for a living. Just in case any Star Trek<\/i> writers are reading…<\/p>\n

Train robber (who apparently always had their picture taken) Sam Bass<\/a> was born in 1851. Austrian painter Emil Orlik<\/a> was born in 1870. As much as he was a fairly awful human being, the absolutely great writer Ernest Hemingway<\/a> was born in 1899. Painter and sculpter Constant Nieuwenhuys<\/a> was born in 1920. That same day, the great violinist Isaac Stern<\/a> was born. Just how good was he? Well, here he is playing one of Bach’s ridiculously difficult pieces for solo violin, Chaconne in D minor<\/i>. Admittedly, unlike when a flute player does one of these pieces, Stern doesn’t need to worry about breathing. But it is hard to make these pieces musical, and just listen to what he does. It is a joy:<\/p>\n