Michael Feldman poses the question(s) many potential emigres are asking themselves:
Canada? Mars?
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Canada? Mars?
January 21, 2017Phillips & Feldman: Oscar Talk
January 18, 2017
The Siskel & Ebert of today, Phillips & Feldman talk that Oscar talk.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune film critic, Michael Feldman, critic-at large
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/does-tom-ford-bug-you/id1164743623?i=1000380103742&mt=2
The Russian Frank Sinatra
January 9, 2017
The problem with all this with love to Russia stuff is your younger alt-righters (cool sounds like all-nighters) never experienced them at their most obvious, like when they were going to put nuclear missiles 87 miles off Miami Beach, or when they put up the wall to die for in Germany.
What’s needed is a sense of what it is to be Russian, and what it is to be Russian does this with Frank Sinatra:
–Joseph Kobzon, the Russian Frank Sinatra
Whad’ya Know on iTunes–It’s Apple Pie for the Face
January 9, 2017
Bright Side of the Dark Ages
December 23, 2016
Bright Side of Dark Ages
OK, it wasn’t the Renaissance, but if you like religious paintings, decent weather and steady work as a serf it was pretty darn good. But, with a new one quite possibly coming, it’s good to know a lot of fine, or at least useful, and innovative things came from the Dark Ages:
Romanesque, if you care for that sort of thing
Algebra, ditto
Universities
Monks
Beer (see Monks)
Chaucer
Cathedrals
Genghis Khan DNA
Crop rotation
Gunpowder
Voting
Chanukahmas for 2016
December 21, 2016Despite there being absolutely no requests for it, I give you, once again, Chanukahmas, a workaround for mixed marriages (Jewish and other, not one between a man & a woman) allowing them to celebrate both holidays with enthusiasm if not zeal.
I am indebted to Funky Drummer 
Clyde Stubblefield both for this adorable picture and for sitting behind me on the drums and providing rim shots. Merry Happy, Michael
PS catch the rest of the hilarity and the polka madness on Whad’ya Know Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play ‘Holiday Office Party’
From the Home Office Michael Feldman Being Patreonizing
December 20, 2016Podcasts are not all glamor. In fact if there is any glamor it isn’t coming from me.
Of course, I’m not in it for the glamor. Or the grammar, which, despite being a former English teacher, I have me some trouble with.
If you haven’t heard it yet, you will be surprised to hear how much the Whad’ya Know podcast sounds like your father’s Whad’ya Know, but, did you know, that takes a lot of skills that I cannot honestly claim to have– putting it together, getting the money to do it, getting John, Jeff, Stephanie & Lyle to sign on & keeping them happy, so, HR, promotion and distribution, combing and spinning, and several others I don’t even have a name for. One thing I will not do is fracking. Thank you.
No rest for the wicked, as Mom used to say, but I’m not complaining, but, I am cajoling, because it’s one of my many duties. If you listen to the Whad’ya Know Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play and think, “hmm, not too bad,” if you could see a place for it in your podcast line-up, you could, for as little as $3 US, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/michaelfeldman, Patreon being a wonderful service for funding all sorts of creative enterprises.
And now, in lieu of those poor caged dogs, Michael Feldman
Whad’ya Know Podcast Patreon Subscription: The Perfect Koozie Stuffer
December 20, 2016
The Whad’Ya Know Podcast on iTunes makes the perfect koozie stuffer for the New Year with as little as a $3 subscription on Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/michaelfeldman —-
But, don’t take my word for it–take Grammy winner Upland Stories recording artist Robbie Fulks’–word for it:
Come become Whad’ya Know on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play, and if you like what you hear, subscribe for
as little as $3–that’s Not Much, You?
Thank you so much–
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and all the best in the New Year!
Michael
Season’s Greetings
December 13, 2016
Last year I received one Christmas card, from a mortgage company. It showed Santa lowering himself down the chimney, presumably to foreclose. Other than that, there was just the funeral home calendar—the one with the mortuary that looks like a branch bank shrouded in snow with the sentimental reminder: “There when you need us/’
This year, since I haven’t thrown any business either way, I’m not expecting any season’s greetings. Starting right after Thanksgiving, I go out of my way to alienate anyone even suspected of harboring my name on a Christmas card list. The campaign has proved so effective, I believe I have reached the point of no return.
Christmas, traditionally, is a trying time of year for me, and was even when I was a kid. First, we had a false fireplace. Second, we were Jewish. Even if Santa had successfully broken and entered, he would never have gotten past my mother. We did receive our fair share of Christmas cards, but most were from my father the C.P.A.’s clients: Blue Island Slag and Smelting, A. Bass Scrap Metal (“Season’s Greetings—Top Prices Paid”), and, my personal favorite, Muskego Rendering, which each year sent out a snowy rendition of the plant with the legend, “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
Still, the highlight of the season was always the mystery card. Every year my parents got a card from “Sid.” Always the same card, noel with each letter on a globe ornament hanging from a disembodied fir bough, like White Fang’s limb as it reached for Soupy Sales. Inside the card was Merry Christmas in seven popular tongues over a skating rink. It was signed simply, “Sid,” in quotes. Nobody claimed to know “Sid/’ or anyone “Sid” may have stood for, and it was a seasonal bone of contention between Mom and Dad for years until “Sid” slid into the protected realm of folklore like Elijah, the invisible Passover guest.
This year, if all goes as planned, not even “Sid” will be able to track me down. It’s just not in the cards; although you never know. They say the “Sids” of the father are sometimes visited on the son.
Whad’ya Know Podcast Hard Sell
December 10, 2016
Remember learning experiences? Hi, I’m Michael Feldman of the Whad’ya Know Podcast.
Used to have learning experiences all the time, right, some of which you didn’t need to learn.
But, it was an experience.
Podcasting is like that, both the act of committing one, and the figuring out how the heck you get one.
Now, our kids think nothing of it. Or much else. Certainly mine don’t think about me as much as they could.
But all this Podcasting business for them is second nature, while, for us, in my mother’s words, “it’s a whole to-do.”
Please listen to this public service message which can help you join the wonderful world of content piped directly into your head through the magic of the Podcast, and, particularly, the Whad’ya Know Podcast.
Pod Much, You?
Whad'ya Know? 