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2005-05-27
ON THE ROAD
Bruce is off buying a bathing suit | We can't very well swim in the hotel's pool in the buff | He's more likely o come back with something like this while I'd settle for the more modest boxer or gym trunks | Our favorite eatery has closed its doors, so we'll have to find someplace new | In teh meantime, it's shepard's Pie at Press Cafe | Quite filling, actually | ¶ 17:55 0 comments
Bruce is off buying a bathing suit | We can't very well swim in the hotel's pool in the buff | He's more likely o come back with something like this while I'd settle for the more modest boxer or gym trunks | Our favorite eatery has closed its doors, so we'll have to find someplace new | In teh meantime, it's shepard's Pie at Press Cafe | Quite filling, actually | ¶ 17:55 0 comments
TRAVEL
This time tomorrow we'll be looking over the skyline of la belle citi from the Hotel Gouverneur Place DuPuis | We'll most likely see the Museum of Fine Arts Edwin Holgate exhibition | We plan on seeing the new Cirque du Soleil performance of CORTEO [bought tickets months ago] and get in on Sunday's annual Free Museum tour | I'll be checking the site and the e-mail at Presse Cafe so drop a line if you'd like | ¶ 00:41 0 comments
This time tomorrow we'll be looking over the skyline of la belle citi from the Hotel Gouverneur Place DuPuis | We'll most likely see the Museum of Fine Arts Edwin Holgate exhibition | We plan on seeing the new Cirque du Soleil performance of CORTEO [bought tickets months ago] and get in on Sunday's annual Free Museum tour | I'll be checking the site and the e-mail at Presse Cafe so drop a line if you'd like | ¶ 00:41 0 comments
CHINESE ARITHMATEC
The following site is likely to become a runaway hit | Chinese Arithmatic | This week's New Yorker Magazine violates and victimizes a poor patient with an embarrasing condition by printing a lot of info about him that would make it possible for him to be identified. A serious HIPAA confidentiality violation. Not to mention the coarse use of common gutter talk | Go read it |
Image: "Fleet's In" by Paul Cadmus |
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2005-05-25
OTHERS' ART
Kenn Brown's digital artistry knocks me over | Here's more from his website Monolithic Art |
Kenn Brown's digital artistry knocks me over | Here's more from his website Monolithic Art |
Accidental discovery from: EYE a "computer graphics portal" |
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IRAQ QUAGMIRE
An Infantryman's Point of View | Thanks for the courage of stating your opinion | ¶ 08:49 0 comments
An Infantryman's Point of View | Thanks for the courage of stating your opinion | ¶ 08:49 0 comments
PLANNING FOR THE PAST
Retrovert gadfly and politician yearing for a mesozoic future Lamar Alexander has gone public in opposing the development of wind turbine energy "...for at least the next two years because they are costly, unreliable and unsightly." | According to an Associated Press release on Monday, Alexander,
Heartening to know that we have such idiots in public office, isn't it?
Retrovert gadfly and politician yearing for a mesozoic future Lamar Alexander has gone public in opposing the development of wind turbine energy "...for at least the next two years because they are costly, unreliable and unsightly." | According to an Associated Press release on Monday, Alexander,
"...chairman of the TVA Congressional Caucus and chairman of the Senate Energy Subcommittee, sent a letter to TVA's board, asking the federal utility to halt construction of the 300-foot-tall structures in its seven-state region.Alexander said he objects to the noise and visual pollution from wind turbines, which often are located on ridgetops and can be seen for up to 25 miles.
"These oversized windmills produce a puny amount of unreliable power in a way that costs more than coal or nuclear power, require new transmission lines, must be subsidized with massive federal tax breaks and, in my view, destroy the landscape," wrote Alexander.
Heartening to know that we have such idiots in public office, isn't it?
THANKS TO: Ken Bosley for this update
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ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS ???
The Marines show what it takes when they get "a few good men" together | Text from the official DOD approve USMC website reads as follows:
How this got past the US Government censors is beyond me | After all, since it now seems certain that the Newsweek "...trash the Qu'ran..." story was patently false [yeah, right], this, obviously, must be just another twisted joke | Oh those madcap boys in the field | Couldn't they just have been happy with a Dream Girl picture?
The Marines show what it takes when they get "a few good men" together | Text from the official DOD approve USMC website reads as follows:HADITHA DAM, Iraq (May 18, 2005) -- As the Global War on Terrorism progresses, the Marine Corps continues to use an intimidating pieces of machinery on the ground …the M-1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.
The tanks, which weigh up to 70 tons and provide awesome firepower, were introduced into the Marine Corps during the early 1990s andare usually incorporated into initial ground assaults.
“When insurgents see us rolling into town, they may set off an (improvised explosive device),” said Gunnery Sgt. Richard J. Layton, a tank commander with 4th Tank Company, 1st Tank Battalion in support of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment. “But, that doesn’t phase these big guys and we just keep rolling right through it.”
While the tanks hardly ever have a chance to use their heavy weaponry, they are always ready to respond to any insurgents’ mortar or RPG fire if the need arises.“We have a 120 mm main gun, a .50 cal. (heavy machine gun) and an M-240 medium machinegun on each vehicle,” said the 1994 Overbrook Senior High School graduate. “We just sit tight and wait to see if anyone wants to fire on our troops, so we can respond back with deadly accuracy.”
Tanks also provide security for ground troops in cities. The tanks ...easily breach buildings and walled off sections in towns that the Marines need to enter. “A lot of Marines would be injured or killed if we weren’t there to hit an IED first or enter a heavily fortified section of a city,” Layton said.
It has been said that tanks are becoming a thing of the past. But according to Layton, that is wholly inaccurate. Some people say the need for tanks is ending.
“My response to that statement is, ‘You can’t win in the air without planes and you can’t win on the ground without tanks,’” Layton said with a huge smile.
How this got past the US Government censors is beyond me | After all, since it now seems certain that the Newsweek "...trash the Qu'ran..." story was patently false [yeah, right], this, obviously, must be just another twisted joke | Oh those madcap boys in the field | Couldn't they just have been happy with a Dream Girl picture?CREDITS FOR FINDING THIS TO: Ron's Log and AmericaBlog | Pix Credit to image of woman on plane: AirVenture's Nose Art |
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2005-05-24
ARCHITECTURE
Philadelphia's City Hall building, a masterpiece of French Renissiance 
architectural style, has been magical to me ever since my adolescence when I first saw it |
Here's two glimpses | The larger one looking up from Broad Street from the south side of the building | The smaller one is the view from just below Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway |
The Parkway is a marvel to behold itself | Traversing roughly northwest from City Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Parkway is home to several museums [the Franklin Institute, Rodin Sculpture Garden and the Academy of Natural Sciences among them], a main branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia and a couple of elaborate formal founatins all line the Parkway's route |
Built up between 1919 and 1935 The Parkway stands as testimony of what public spiritedness can create | Perhaps some of the Robber Barons of the Roaring Twenties had a conscience about giving back their due | Quite unlike the greedy bastids that have profited from the latest Gilded Age in this country, who have thus far provided only show trials and feigned innocence after staling the public trust blind | ¶ 22:40 0 comments
Philadelphia's City Hall building, a masterpiece of French Renissiance architectural style, has been magical to me ever since my adolescence when I first saw it | Here's two glimpses | The larger one looking up from Broad Street from the south side of the building | The smaller one is the view from just below Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway |
The Parkway is a marvel to behold itself | Traversing roughly northwest from City Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Parkway is home to several museums [the Franklin Institute, Rodin Sculpture Garden and the Academy of Natural Sciences among them], a main branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia and a couple of elaborate formal founatins all line the Parkway's route |
Built up between 1919 and 1935 The Parkway stands as testimony of what public spiritedness can create | Perhaps some of the Robber Barons of the Roaring Twenties had a conscience about giving back their due | Quite unlike the greedy bastids that have profited from the latest Gilded Age in this country, who have thus far provided only show trials and feigned innocence after staling the public trust blind | ¶ 22:40 0 comments
HUNGER PANGS
People get hungry no matter where they are and what they do for a living | This is a candid shot taken while visiting a veterinary office | Mmmm! Mmmm! | Chinese food? | No, just sandwiches and pickles |
Mind you, I'm no innocent in this department | Years ago, in college, I had an early morning bio anatomy lab | We dissected animal cadavers | I used to stop by on the way to class and grab a coffee and a bite and nibble while working | Nobody much said anything about it until I brought in jelly donuts | When a big glob of red jelly oozed out that back for all to see, the professor came over to me and asked if I would like to have my own personal area the rest of the semester | Appreciative of the larger work space, I thankfully agreed |
It wasn't until yyears later that I realized some of my fellow students got grossed out at the sight of me eating while cutting carcasses up that prompted her to give me my own spot away from the rest of the group | I wasn't alone though | My partner, a no-nonsense farm girl went with me | She like eating donuts, too | ¶ 22:17 0 comments
People get hungry no matter where they are and what they do for a living | This is a candid shot taken while visiting a veterinary office | Mmmm! Mmmm! | Chinese food? | No, just sandwiches and pickles |Mind you, I'm no innocent in this department | Years ago, in college, I had an early morning bio anatomy lab | We dissected animal cadavers | I used to stop by on the way to class and grab a coffee and a bite and nibble while working | Nobody much said anything about it until I brought in jelly donuts | When a big glob of red jelly oozed out that back for all to see, the professor came over to me and asked if I would like to have my own personal area the rest of the semester | Appreciative of the larger work space, I thankfully agreed |
It wasn't until yyears later that I realized some of my fellow students got grossed out at the sight of me eating while cutting carcasses up that prompted her to give me my own spot away from the rest of the group | I wasn't alone though | My partner, a no-nonsense farm girl went with me | She like eating donuts, too | ¶ 22:17 0 comments
OTHER VOICES
" 'Terrifying powers work within us, or are carrying out their work through us,'
Auden wrote [in 1940] and these powers could never be fully eradicated - not through art, education, economics, politics, or any other means.
This did not mean [that] one should stand by and allow those who chose to act on their evil impulses to continue. It did mean, however, that another approach must be taken in fighting them.
No one could operate from the assumption that he was immune to infection or was not causing a form of the disease itself.
The flip side to this belief was that a higher consiciousness - the truest and best of human thinbking - was equally potentially present in every human soul. Auden hoped to increase his own and others' awareness of the "Hitler" in all of us as well as the devine."
Auden wrote [in 1940] and these powers could never be fully eradicated - not through art, education, economics, politics, or any other means.
This did not mean [that] one should stand by and allow those who chose to act on their evil impulses to continue. It did mean, however, that another approach must be taken in fighting them.
No one could operate from the assumption that he was immune to infection or was not causing a form of the disease itself.
The flip side to this belief was that a higher consiciousness - the truest and best of human thinbking - was equally potentially present in every human soul. Auden hoped to increase his own and others' awareness of the "Hitler" in all of us as well as the devine."
Sherrell Tippens
Find out more about February House, Ms. Tippen's group biography [as it were] of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane And Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, And Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America |
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