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will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2009-11-26
happy thanksgiving
Blame Society Productions brings a unique Thanksgiving Day message with the help of "Sean Connery", "Jon Madden", "Christopher Walken" and others.
Blame Society Productions brings a unique Thanksgiving Day message with the help of "Sean Connery", "Jon Madden", "Christopher Walken" and others.
Labels: animation, thanksgiving, you tube
¶ 13:17 0 comments
2009-11-25
health care debate
Frank Woods is a man who has to save up money to obtain a prescription. He was at a free clinic held recently in Arkansas for folks without health care insurance. He said that it is "...small minded to argue about a basic right..."
FOUND AT: e-pluribus media with details posted on Daily Kos
Labels: fairness, health care, injustice, poverty, public option, social equity
¶ 03:59 0 comments
pollyticks
Sarah Palin supporters tell us where she stands and what they know about her perspectives on issues and policies.
SOURCE: New Left Media; FIRST SEEN AT: Bitchy Old Queen
Labels: book signing, interviews, opinion, Sarah Palin
¶ 02:28 0 comments
2009-11-15
roman catholic "christian" charity towrad gays and poor people
• Catholic Church in Washington D.C. will shut down services to the homeless and the poor if a gay marriage law is passed there.
Edward Orzechowski, President and CEO of Catholic Charities of DC, speaking at the October 26 hearing on Washington, DC's same-sex marriage bill. Today, November 12, the Archdiocese threatened the Council to withdraw services to thousands of District residents over gay marriage. At the Council hearing, was answering questions from Councilmen Phil Mendelson and David Catania. As was discussed, Catholic Charities gets 75% of its money from public funds, and according to Washingtonian, Orzechowski has a[n annual] paycheck of $268,000. As Catania stated, that's taxpayer dollars going to an organization that says it does not intend to comply with anti-discrimination laws.
[for the rest of the story... go here
...or you could watch the YouTube hearings where a DC city council member, David Cantina, [who has a long history of supporting taxpayer dollars being given to Catholic Charites] says he ...finds it offensive that DC Catholic Charities is willing to accept 40 million dollars of government funds, but be exempt from providing services in a fair and equitable manner. They arre threatening to shut down ALL public services if the major funding source [i.e. taxpayers] dont do what the Catholic Church wants.
Perhaps this means the church will then have more money to pay off the victims of pedophile priests.
Edward Orzechowski, President and CEO of Catholic Charities of DC, speaking at the October 26 hearing on Washington, DC's same-sex marriage bill. Today, November 12, the Archdiocese threatened the Council to withdraw services to thousands of District residents over gay marriage. At the Council hearing, was answering questions from Councilmen Phil Mendelson and David Catania. As was discussed, Catholic Charities gets 75% of its money from public funds, and according to Washingtonian, Orzechowski has a[n annual] paycheck of $268,000. As Catania stated, that's taxpayer dollars going to an organization that says it does not intend to comply with anti-discrimination laws.
[for the rest of the story... go here
...or you could watch the YouTube hearings where a DC city council member, David Cantina, [who has a long history of supporting taxpayer dollars being given to Catholic Charites] says he ...finds it offensive that DC Catholic Charities is willing to accept 40 million dollars of government funds, but be exempt from providing services in a fair and equitable manner. They arre threatening to shut down ALL public services if the major funding source [i.e. taxpayers] dont do what the Catholic Church wants.
Perhaps this means the church will then have more money to pay off the victims of pedophile priests.
Labels: BIGOTRY, CATHOLIC CHURCH, discrimination, gay rights, PREJUDICE, social control, TAXPAYER DOLLARS
¶ 16:14 0 comments
2009-11-14
2009-11-11
changing ISPs
Don't try looking for my rondak pages tonight. I am amidst changing ISP's and although I have been assured that the changeover would be seamless, that does not seem to have occurred.
We'll be back as soon as possible.
Don't try looking for my rondak pages tonight. I am amidst changing ISP's and although I have been assured that the changeover would be seamless, that does not seem to have occurred.
We'll be back as soon as possible.
Labels: ISPs, moving, websites
¶ 20:37 0 comments
music videos
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. During this time, she was also working at Interscope Records as a songwriter for several established acts, including Akon, who, after hearing Gaga sing, convinced Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her to a joint deal with the label and Akon's Kon Live Distribution label.
Her debut album The Fame, was released in August 2008 and was a critical and commercial success. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it has gone to number one in four countries, also topping the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart in the United States. The album's first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", have become international number-one hits, and the former was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards. In 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, Gaga embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour.
Gaga is inspired by glam rockers such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She is also inspired by fashion, which she claims is an essential component to her songwriting and performances. To date she has sold over 20 million digital singles and more than four million albums worldwide.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. During this time, she was also working at Interscope Records as a songwriter for several established acts, including Akon, who, after hearing Gaga sing, convinced Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her to a joint deal with the label and Akon's Kon Live Distribution label.
Her debut album The Fame, was released in August 2008 and was a critical and commercial success. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it has gone to number one in four countries, also topping the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart in the United States. The album's first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", have become international number-one hits, and the former was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards. In 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, Gaga embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour.
Gaga is inspired by glam rockers such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She is also inspired by fashion, which she claims is an essential component to her songwriting and performances. To date she has sold over 20 million digital singles and more than four million albums worldwide.
FIRST SEEN AT: Joe.My.God. BACKGROUND INFO FROM: Wikipedia
Labels: Lady GaGa, musicians, pop stars, videos
¶ 20:20 0 comments
human rights gains
The Church of Latter Day Saints [the "Mormons"] support anti-discrimination law in Salt Lake CityFROM THE UTAH DESERET NEWS:
In a rare public appearance before Salt Lake City lawmakers Tuesday night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported two proposed ordinances protecting gay and lesbian residents from housing and employment discrimination.
An LDS Church representative read a supporting statement at a public hearing before the Salt Lake City Council regarding the ordinances proposed by Mayor Ralph Becker.
"The church supports this ordinance because it is fair and reasonable and does not do violence to the institution of marriage," said Michael Otterson, managing director of the LDS Church's public affairs office.
Otterson added that the statement of support is consistent with the church's prior position on such matters, as well as its stance on marriage. Both are found in the church's August 2008 statement titled "The Divine Institution of Marriage."
In a rare public appearance before Salt Lake City lawmakers Tuesday night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported two proposed ordinances protecting gay and lesbian residents from housing and employment discrimination.
An LDS Church representative read a supporting statement at a public hearing before the Salt Lake City Council regarding the ordinances proposed by Mayor Ralph Becker.
"The church supports this ordinance because it is fair and reasonable and does not do violence to the institution of marriage," said Michael Otterson, managing director of the LDS Church's public affairs office.
Otterson added that the statement of support is consistent with the church's prior position on such matters, as well as its stance on marriage. Both are found in the church's August 2008 statement titled "The Divine Institution of Marriage."
THANKS TO: Pam Spaulding's Pam's House Blend blog.
Labels: discrimination, equal rights, gay marriage, gay rights, human rights, lds, overcoming prejudice, Pam Spaulding, social equity. mormons, social justice
¶ 09:19 0 comments
2009-11-10
knowledge is power
• Typo of the Day. Created by a group of librarians from all over the world with a common interest - keeping our online catalogs free of errors. Recent finds include "Away in a manager" and "Treachers."
We might learn something from that.
• The Center for Media and Democracy. Founded by John Stauber in 1993 as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, public interest organization. CMD's mission is to promote transparency and an informed debate by exposing corporate spin and government propaganda and by engaging the public in collaborative, fair and accurate reporting.
• Source Watch is a free encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively on this web site. It catalogs descriptions and details of PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives.
You may not agree with all of the criticisms on the site, and if you think something that appears is unfair, you can fix it! The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article by clicking on the "edit this page" link that appears in every article in SourceWatch. As more and more people edit the articles, they improve in quality all the time.
• Diamonds and Toads. Want to know the latest on fairy tales even re-written ones? Here's a place to visit.
We might learn something from that.
• The Center for Media and Democracy. Founded by John Stauber in 1993 as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, public interest organization. CMD's mission is to promote transparency and an informed debate by exposing corporate spin and government propaganda and by engaging the public in collaborative, fair and accurate reporting.
• Source Watch is a free encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively on this web site. It catalogs descriptions and details of PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. You may not agree with all of the criticisms on the site, and if you think something that appears is unfair, you can fix it! The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article by clicking on the "edit this page" link that appears in every article in SourceWatch. As more and more people edit the articles, they improve in quality all the time.
• Diamonds and Toads. Want to know the latest on fairy tales even re-written ones? Here's a place to visit.
Labels: language, media, non-profits, oversight, story telling, typography, vigilance
¶ 00:28 0 comments
2009-10-28
about this site
About "Short Notes"
The title comes from a column I wrote while working at a small chain of weekly papers in the Adirondack mountains, some 20 plus years ago. As it suggests, my intent is to try to keep to the gist of a subject,
reserving more detailed entries to linked pages, either things created by others, or by me.
Subject matter can and will vary, and may occasionally be all over the place. There is a lot that interests me. More than likely, since I'm a serious kind of guy, you can expect the tone to be serious. What I'm getting at is that you aren't likely to find tabloid gossip fodder here [though may have a link in the right hand column that could sate the needs of someone else ~ give a look at the other sites referenced]. I'm not without a sense of humor, so don't expect the tenor of the site to be completely gawd awful dull. I do want to keep you interested in content.
Other Blogs I read. They're all over the place politically and philosophically. While one might assume, based on my personal perspectives and points of view, that I stick to the left, I read many from the right as well as others off the charts. Evidence of thinking is my main criteria, not that the occasional addle-brained website doesn't ever get added. Diversity is good.
Other Links: What you see on the side are a sampling of those I have come across. They reflect subjects that have piqued my interest and about which I wish to share. I also maintain another blog Blogging about Links where I provide an annotated selection of links related to a specific topic.
The title comes from a column I wrote while working at a small chain of weekly papers in the Adirondack mountains, some 20 plus years ago. As it suggests, my intent is to try to keep to the gist of a subject,
reserving more detailed entries to linked pages, either things created by others, or by me.Subject matter can and will vary, and may occasionally be all over the place. There is a lot that interests me. More than likely, since I'm a serious kind of guy, you can expect the tone to be serious. What I'm getting at is that you aren't likely to find tabloid gossip fodder here [though may have a link in the right hand column that could sate the needs of someone else ~ give a look at the other sites referenced]. I'm not without a sense of humor, so don't expect the tenor of the site to be completely gawd awful dull. I do want to keep you interested in content.
Other Blogs I read. They're all over the place politically and philosophically. While one might assume, based on my personal perspectives and points of view, that I stick to the left, I read many from the right as well as others off the charts. Evidence of thinking is my main criteria, not that the occasional addle-brained website doesn't ever get added. Diversity is good.
Other Links: What you see on the side are a sampling of those I have come across. They reflect subjects that have piqued my interest and about which I wish to share. I also maintain another blog Blogging about Links where I provide an annotated selection of links related to a specific topic.
NOTE: First wrote this when I started this blog; modified slightly. Sems to make sense to periodically remind my readers [as well as myself] what keeps me coming back online.
Labels: philosophy, values, will brady
¶ 23:35 0 comments
making social change
Some thoughts on making productive social change
Affecting Social Change is much more than mouthing slogans or sound bites. It can mean devoting hours - days - years - spending time with those who are reluctant and unwilling to hear the truths of others or to work at changing existing social policy or considering other ways of living.
Yet making the fundamental changes in the values that underlie oppressive social policies require interacting with those who oppose us. This must be done before we get to the voting booth, before we get to legislative committee hearings or public forums. We need to get our points across and to affect change in board rooms and private offices; in juvenile and adult corrections, mental health, the courts, in educational, cultural, legislative and personal spheres ~ where ever decisions affecting all our lives are made regularly and daily ~ and we need to do this now!
We must infiltrate the meeting places of adversaries and decision makers who oppose eliminating wrongs. We must insist upon and make impact by directly negotiating policy change, laws and directions for the future. Once there, being heard, we have to make our points clearly enough to be effective advocates for change. Now, affecting change doesn't necessarily make for chit chat or small talk at parties. You won't be making friends with those you meet and confront at policy plannings or while negotiating change, nor will your own friends necessarily want to know about the details of your efforts.
Even if we cannot immediately make changes to oppressive social policies or practices, our mere presence in some of these meeting places can prevent additional harmful policies from being implemented. Also ~ remember to stay in touch with others who know what you say to be true, and to refresh and replenish yourself from behind-the-scenes battles rather than burn yourself out. Stay healthy to battle successfully.
Affecting Social Change is much more than mouthing slogans or sound bites. It can mean devoting hours - days - years - spending time with those who are reluctant and unwilling to hear the truths of others or to work at changing existing social policy or considering other ways of living.
Yet making the fundamental changes in the values that underlie oppressive social policies require interacting with those who oppose us. This must be done before we get to the voting booth, before we get to legislative committee hearings or public forums. We need to get our points across and to affect change in board rooms and private offices; in juvenile and adult corrections, mental health, the courts, in educational, cultural, legislative and personal spheres ~ where ever decisions affecting all our lives are made regularly and daily ~ and we need to do this now!
We must infiltrate the meeting places of adversaries and decision makers who oppose eliminating wrongs. We must insist upon and make impact by directly negotiating policy change, laws and directions for the future. Once there, being heard, we have to make our points clearly enough to be effective advocates for change. Now, affecting change doesn't necessarily make for chit chat or small talk at parties. You won't be making friends with those you meet and confront at policy plannings or while negotiating change, nor will your own friends necessarily want to know about the details of your efforts.
Even if we cannot immediately make changes to oppressive social policies or practices, our mere presence in some of these meeting places can prevent additional harmful policies from being implemented. Also ~ remember to stay in touch with others who know what you say to be true, and to refresh and replenish yourself from behind-the-scenes battles rather than burn yourself out. Stay healthy to battle successfully.
HISTORY: Written 11 November 1993 for a presentation at an Abuse Survivor's "Speakback" held in Waterbury, CT
Labels: commentary, philosophy, social change
¶ 23:00 0 comments
blogger news items
• The Courage Campaign pushes for marriage equality. Having now been legally wed for a couple of years now, I fully support the initiatives elsewhere.
On Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009- less than a week away- there will be critical votes on on LGBT equality in three states: Washington State, Maine, and Michigan. With so much attention devoted to other issues in the political realm, bloggers have banded together to ensure we don't forget the ones with a firm deadline next week.
For that reason, Courage Campaign staff have put together a summary of who, what, and how about these three campaigns. If you haven't heard of these campaigns, and/or haven't done anything yet to support them, please consider helping out. If you are a blogger please feel free to grab this content whole cloth and use it for your blog posts.
Last year, as Obama and Democrats were winning across the country, we lost marriage equality in California. It was a bittersweet victory. Pitch in to make sure 2009 isn't a bittersweet year. Take action to support LGBT equality TODAY. Find out more about phone banks and getting supportive voters to the polls at The Courage Campaign website.
• Absurd Inventions is the subject of a Planet Oddity entry. Everything you never thought to ask for including a bulletproof bed [the "Quantum Sleeper"]; piercings to hold eyeglasses to one's face [how's that for ick factor?]; the "Fish and Flush" toilet [the fish get a panoramic view of the sitter's back]; a hurricane proof house [a refurbished jumbo jet - the rationale being that the shape can already withstand high winds].
My hands down favorite, though, is "the human car wash." According to the blurb on Planet Oddity,
All said and done, I'd guess that these inventors marvels are not really the most absurd inventions of all time.
• Web Urbanist's Abandoned Wonders of the World.
There really is no shortage of abandoned buildings in the world and they are exciting. They stoke the imagination of many an urban spelunker. Websites such as Infiltration and Opacity freely offer advice to any neophyte explorer of abandoned buildings, sometimes with disclaimers suggesting not to traipse on property not technically your own.
The batch of sites noted at Web Urbanist provides a glimpse of the many kinds of sites that get abandoned. Most curious to me is the
Chapel to Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY. Such famous persons as Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas are among those buried there in everything from lawn crypts to family mausoleums. It seems strange, then, that the chapel at such an historically significant location would be abandoned to the elements, though it remains elegant even in its disrepair.
Of special interest to me is the Bethlehem Steel factory in Lackawanna, NY, located just south of Buffalo, I worked there for about a year as a laborer in the bricklayer's department. It would indeed be a treat to wander about that complex once more. The plant traversed the entire western edge of Lackawanna, and across a highway that separated that city from a most likely very polluted part of Lake Erie. At the north end were the coke ovens where we'd work on relining one oven just next to others that were operational. It was hot work.
I understand that much of that plant is no longer explorable and has, in fact, been demolished. In place of the old coke ovens are a small, and growing assortment of tall wind generator mills. Thankfully, people did manage to explore the plant before it was torn down.
• At Nightmare Hall, blood pressure rises with a TV diet of "...apocalyptic and tin foil helmet conspiracy news." This erstwhile blogger does no believe in conspiracies noting, aptly, that "...The powers that be are right in the sheeple's faces, but nobody seems to notice or care."
Arriving at a conclusion that TV can be toxic is nothing new, of course. My favorite film version of TV poisoning is the creepy Canadian produced 1983 social sci-fi flick Videodrome written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and singer Debbie Harry. The premise is that that Videodrome is the public "face" of a political ideology movement with unspecified but apparently violent goals. Sound familiar? I'll stop here.
Universal Studios announced, last Spring, they will do a remake of the film.
Harking back to Nightmare Hall's recount, he references Druid Journal's 8 reasons why TV is evil [It is Plato's Cave "...now in Hi-Def"] and check his other links to doing away with the one-eyed face-changing monster from your home and your life.
• The Courage Campaign pushes for marriage equality. Having now been legally wed for a couple of years now, I fully support the initiatives elsewhere. On Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009- less than a week away- there will be critical votes on on LGBT equality in three states: Washington State, Maine, and Michigan. With so much attention devoted to other issues in the political realm, bloggers have banded together to ensure we don't forget the ones with a firm deadline next week.
For that reason, Courage Campaign staff have put together a summary of who, what, and how about these three campaigns. If you haven't heard of these campaigns, and/or haven't done anything yet to support them, please consider helping out. If you are a blogger please feel free to grab this content whole cloth and use it for your blog posts.
Last year, as Obama and Democrats were winning across the country, we lost marriage equality in California. It was a bittersweet victory. Pitch in to make sure 2009 isn't a bittersweet year. Take action to support LGBT equality TODAY. Find out more about phone banks and getting supportive voters to the polls at The Courage Campaign website.
• Absurd Inventions is the subject of a Planet Oddity entry. Everything you never thought to ask for including a bulletproof bed [the "Quantum Sleeper"]; piercings to hold eyeglasses to one's face [how's that for ick factor?]; the "Fish and Flush" toilet [the fish get a panoramic view of the sitter's back]; a hurricane proof house [a refurbished jumbo jet - the rationale being that the shape can already withstand high winds].
My hands down favorite, though, is "the human car wash." According to the blurb on Planet Oddity, Hospital patients [and prisoners, as well] need bathing and to speed up this process, may we suggest the Human Car Wash? The HCW eliminates slipping and falling because the washees are strapped into a hanging harness and merely need to stand or dangle in a fixed position while the conveyor belt moves them from station to station. First the wetting station, then the soapy spray station, next the rinsing station and at the end, no towels are needed because there’s a blow drying station!Yeah, there's a few things that might be said about violations of personal dignity and the like, but with a contraption like this, it may cut down on rapes in the prison shower.
Developed in 1969 during the cold war, the inventor suggests the Human Car Wash can be built into a mobile trailer “to cope with the mass bathing requirements after an atomic bomb”.
All said and done, I'd guess that these inventors marvels are not really the most absurd inventions of all time.
• Web Urbanist's Abandoned Wonders of the World. There really is no shortage of abandoned buildings in the world and they are exciting. They stoke the imagination of many an urban spelunker. Websites such as Infiltration and Opacity freely offer advice to any neophyte explorer of abandoned buildings, sometimes with disclaimers suggesting not to traipse on property not technically your own.
The batch of sites noted at Web Urbanist provides a glimpse of the many kinds of sites that get abandoned. Most curious to me is the
Chapel to Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY. Such famous persons as Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas are among those buried there in everything from lawn crypts to family mausoleums. It seems strange, then, that the chapel at such an historically significant location would be abandoned to the elements, though it remains elegant even in its disrepair. Of special interest to me is the Bethlehem Steel factory in Lackawanna, NY, located just south of Buffalo, I worked there for about a year as a laborer in the bricklayer's department. It would indeed be a treat to wander about that complex once more. The plant traversed the entire western edge of Lackawanna, and across a highway that separated that city from a most likely very polluted part of Lake Erie. At the north end were the coke ovens where we'd work on relining one oven just next to others that were operational. It was hot work.
I understand that much of that plant is no longer explorable and has, in fact, been demolished. In place of the old coke ovens are a small, and growing assortment of tall wind generator mills. Thankfully, people did manage to explore the plant before it was torn down.
• At Nightmare Hall, blood pressure rises with a TV diet of "...apocalyptic and tin foil helmet conspiracy news." This erstwhile blogger does no believe in conspiracies noting, aptly, that "...The powers that be are right in the sheeple's faces, but nobody seems to notice or care." Arriving at a conclusion that TV can be toxic is nothing new, of course. My favorite film version of TV poisoning is the creepy Canadian produced 1983 social sci-fi flick Videodrome written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and singer Debbie Harry. The premise is that that Videodrome is the public "face" of a political ideology movement with unspecified but apparently violent goals. Sound familiar? I'll stop here.
Universal Studios announced, last Spring, they will do a remake of the film.
Harking back to Nightmare Hall's recount, he references Druid Journal's 8 reasons why TV is evil [It is Plato's Cave "...now in Hi-Def"] and check his other links to doing away with the one-eyed face-changing monster from your home and your life.
IMAGE SOURCES: Equal Rights map from The Courage Campaign; bulletproof bed and human conveyor shower found at Planet Oddity; Rusted doorway is an entry to a building that once housed the "criminally insane" and the rocking chair was in the basement of the same building. Those photos I took myself; Intestinal TV from Running Downhill
Labels: abandonded buildings, bloggers, equal rights, gay marriage, propaganda, steel mills, strange inventions, urban exploration, videodrome
¶ 12:42 1 comments
2009-10-24
2009-10-05
art exhibition
Some of my collage is on exhibit at the Berkshire Artists' Colony Gallery, 46 Eagle Street, in North Adams, MA.
My work is there together with that of "angel Artist" Bethann Shannon [who work expresses a fascination with Mexican "Day of the Dead" imagery and Frieda Kahlo, as well as recent permutations of the works of photographer Ian Grey.
46 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, 01247. HOURS: Mon - Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
My work is there together with that of "angel Artist" Bethann Shannon [who work expresses a fascination with Mexican "Day of the Dead" imagery and Frieda Kahlo, as well as recent permutations of the works of photographer Ian Grey.
46 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, 01247. HOURS: Mon - Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Labels: art and artists, berkshires, collage, exhibitions, north adams
¶ 09:12 0 comments
2009-09-25
lost in translation
While traveling along a back road in Northern Maine, I come across an old honey spreader festooned with patriotic bunting. Who would have guessed?
While traveling along a back road in Northern Maine, I come across an old honey spreader festooned with patriotic bunting. Who would have guessed?
Labels: bullshit, bunting, honey spreaders, manure, patriotism
¶ 19:23 0 comments
2009-09-22
dreaming house
FOUND AT: White Noise of Everyday Life, a weblog about photography and contemporary visual arts
Labels: architecture and design, art, urbanscreen
¶ 08:16 0 comments
maine bound
Moonrise in the Brooks Range in northern Alaska at the Chandler Shelf
Photograph: Rolf Hicker/Barcroft Media, one of a series of ten images
BillP and I are headed to Maine. We hope to see the Aurora Borealis. Predictions for sighting are low. According to the Ruby Range Tours Aurora Borealis Forecast "Weather permitting, low-level displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Fairbanks and visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage, Juneau and Whitehorse, Canada."...still way too far north but just getting to Ashland will be worth the ride alone. I know the weather temps are predicted to be chillier but that's what coats are for, eh?
Moonrise in the Brooks Range in northern Alaska at the Chandler Shelf
Photograph: Rolf Hicker/Barcroft Media, one of a series of ten images
MORE ON AURORA: Wikipedia on Aurora; Aurora Information + Images; U of Alaska's Geophysical Predictor; Ah, for the money... Arctic Odyessy's Aurora Sighting Trip set for March 2010 - only 5,200 dollars Canadian. PHOTO CREDIT: Rolf Hicker/Barcroft Media.
Labels: Aurora, Aurora Borealis
¶ 04:10 1 comments
2009-09-14
2009-09-12
space exploration
I've always been fascinated with space travel. Even when people cry out for cutting budgets I believe that these kind of endeavors should be financed. For more on space travel, ad outerspace in general, check out Universe Today.
Labels: shuttle discovery, space, space exploration
¶ 12:23 0 comments
2009-09-01
protection rackets
Those new patriots who began rationing health care options years ago [that is, the Insurance Industry] by forcing us to "join" HMOs now want us to believe that "big gommint" is going to make things worse.
...and let's not forget the valuable contributions we provide to the execs running Big Pharma. If you are healthy, take a pill and chill out.
Those new patriots who began rationing health care options years ago [that is, the Insurance Industry] by forcing us to "join" HMOs now want us to believe that "big gommint" is going to make things worse.
...and let's not forget the valuable contributions we provide to the execs running Big Pharma. If you are healthy, take a pill and chill out.
SOURCE: Nightmare Hall, a reliable source of thought-provoking videos and links |
Labels: big pharma, corporate profits, economic treason, insurance companies, thieves
¶ 04:01 0 comments
