What every Greenwich Village music scene émigré living out his 50's in Bergen County does not do, to be sure, is settle into a white hammock hung the length of his living room to be interviewed an hour before his band -- the seven-member dancing, singing, improvised-instrument-playing collective Beat the Donkey -- was set to rehearse.
Well, today, geek's hearts worldwide skipped a collective beat when Google employee Jean-Baptiste Queru mentioned in a tweet both the words "Gingerbread" and "AOSP" in the same sentence.
It was pretty cool to see how over time the bus would transcend into one collective beat or song, if you can even call it that.
Now, sexual dimorphism is, of course, most extreme in primitive societies, or animal gatherings – any loose collective where beating a competitor to death might be more effective, as a way of propagating your gene pool, than impressing mates with your ready wit.
A collective heart, beating red and bloodied.
"Our winter collective winners beat the cheapest comparable (one-year fixed-price tariff) by £20 a year.
When we stop talking -- when we cut ourselves off from one another-our collective heart stops beating.
But according to the New York Times: "...top hedge fund managers rode the 2009 stock market rally to record gains, with the highest-paid 25 earning a collective $25.3 billion.... Beating the old 2007 high by a wide margin...
In the spirit of this brave new world of journalism from the heart I won't sully the art by telling you about the plot, but I will tell you that our collective heart rates started beating about eight beats per minute faster than usual about four minutes in, which means that's probably when something quite scary happened.
"Whispers In The Dark" gave credence to this phenomenon when in the moment at the change-up, the band members were so consumed at once, so lost in their craft, the audience, the stage, the job they set out to do seemed to fade away, and the collective hearts just stopped beating to listen to the regret of "But fingers tap into what you were once/And I'm worried that I blew my only chance".
