The I-Pod has captured our hearts, for so many reasons. It's small, compact size and it's huge abundance of song & video capacity, make it a big hit, with lots of people...
But do you really know about the origins...the very beginning...when the I-Pod was invented.
Probably not...until now...
It was long, long ago...make that...skoodles upon skoodles, long ago...back to 1451A.D. when the I-Pod was originally invented by IZZY I. PODUS...an Egyptian monk, who was traveling thru Eurpoe, during the Black Plague...
IZZY...saw all the suffering...all the strife...all the disease...all the bloody beheadings...just a plague everyday...and he thought...to himself...
Hmmm...DOUBLE I...here's an excellent time, to unveil that musical device, you found at the foot of the pyramids, as a young boy...
So, Double I. Podus, went into the Best Buy...and said....Hey...You guys gotta put my super-cool, music machine on your shelves...and take down those...Girls Gone Guillotine & Vince Vaughn videos...
And from there...the world has never been the same...
It started slow...the first I-Pod...only carried enough KB's for 6 songs...but that was plenty...
The first I-Pod marketed to the Black Plague crowd was a special 5-song platinum I-pod, that people could carry around in their woven burlap satchels, rather nicely...It featured 3 songs from that popular boy band, The Mirth Makers Trey, who played some jammy mandolin melodies, that were quite the rage...Also 2 songs from Neil Diamond were featured...Sweet Caroline and Holy-Holy...(not the best N.D...but the best they had...back then...)
As time rocked on, thru the ages...the I-Pod continued to evolve...After the rage of the Black Plague...came the Renaissance...and famous painters...like Leonardo Da Vinci & such...always had their I-Pod's cranked to the Max...As a matter of fact, the Pope banished the I-Pod for 3 months, because Leonardo kept swearing, everytime he dropped his I-Pod, sending it crashing, while painting the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel...
After the Renaissance was over...the I-Pod...kinda lost its luster...for awhile...as batteries became scarce...because Lithium...was hard to find...and most people had to generate the energy to run their I-Pod's by utilizing solar energy...which was tough...because...everybody lived in just filthy mud huts and giant, clammy castles...back then...
But as the 20th Century arose...a new I-Pod...was born...an I-Pod of tomorrow they called it, as a Red, White & Blue I-Pod came upon the market back in 1911...when Ragtime & Razz-ma-tazz was so popular and you could kick back and listen to all of George M. Cohan's hits...on this mega-38 song I-Pod, all day...and all night...
But then came WWI and WWII...all music was banned for the betterment of society so the I-Pod, almost completely faded from existence...
Then...one day...20 years later....Jed Clampett...was shooting at some wild pheasant on his dirty little patch of land...down in Arkansas, around 1962 and he stumbled upon an ancient I-Pod...from long ago...
Next thing, you know, ol Jed's a millionaire...so they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly Hills...where Jed put his whole heart & soul into forming a giant conglomerate...APPLE, unleashing an I-Pod that could hold...over 1000 songs...videos...too...
From then on, it was never the same, nor will it ever be...for the I-Pod is here to stay...
Whether it was, astronaut Neil Armstrong's first words as he stepped on the moon...which were,
WHO THE HELL, ERASED MY GRAND FUNK RAILROAD...???...
or the words Ronald Reagan used to influence the inevitable fall of the Berlin Wall...
HEY GORBY...IF YOU TEAR DOWN THAT WALL, I'LL GIVE YOU MY I-POD THAT'S GOT THE NEW PINK FLOYD DOWNLOADS, AND A NEW, SUPER-RAD, PAULA ABDUL VIDEO, JUST OUT, TOO...!!!...
or even, just today...President Obama was implementing a new Economic stimulus, to boost our economy...saying...
SEE PEOPLE...WE CAN MOAN & FUSS OR TAKE THINGS INTO OUR OWN HANDS, LIKE BUILD A DREAM FOR TOMORROW, BY DOWNLOADING THE COOL & MELLOW SOUNDS OF YANNI ...MAKING AMERICA, STRONGER, AND MORE YANNI-FUL, THAN EVER IMAGINED...
As you can see...the I-Pod...believe me, is a part of us...we will never, ever, let go...
IZZY saw it all...
He's up in heaven...Double I. Podus, smiling...for he...knew, all along...anything you found...laying around the pyramids...was as good as gold....and that the I-Pod wasn't just a musical device, but an uncanny, whammy conduit...to rock the ages...into the cosmos...
About Me
- Jim OLeary
- I am just your average, ordinary 45 year old who has a huge passion for writing. Sure, I am proud to be Irish, thru and thru, but that just comes with the territory of being naturally brewed from fine stock out of the South-Side of Chicago. Maybe you remember me as a Crusader or maybe as a Blue Demon or possibly just as the crazy kid hanging around from 86th Street. But I have had an amazing journey thru life that really remains somewhat of a mystery to most. In reality, a great number of people only know about 5% of what has transpired during my life...Here is your chance to catch up on the other 95% you would have never known... Enjoy, I guarantee ...You will not be disappointed. Oh yeah, there are plenty of surprises ahead, some good and some bad, but more importantly, you just may come away with a whole new perspective on life thru my life experiences and all of the people who were an amazing part of it all.