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Gossip, media, the rich, the poor
Until a few months ago I paid no attention to the gossip-papers-look-at-the-rich-and-famous side of the internet. Why should I pay attention when I’d not pre internet? Then one day I realized that this really was big business and that people who would perhaps never have looked at gossip sheets in the aisles of the grocery…
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Trickster Fire and the Birth of Knowledge
My first and perhaps only attempt to make fire without virtue of a modern appliance such as matches was probably when I was around eight years of age and likely had to do with a show or a movie I’d seen on television or can be blamed on the Camp Fire girls manual, an organization…
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Song as a plug to a live current
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Notes on “Cimarron”
Not too too long ago we happened to catch on television the 1931 “Cimarron”, based on a popular book by Edna Ferber which romanticized the opening of Oklahoma Indian Territory to white settlement, her characters migrating from Wichita Kansas to the Osage, Oklahoma, obviously a fictitious rendering of Pawhuska. I’ve not read the book but…
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Sarah Palin and the Amazing Aquasaur
Yesterday I saw something bizarre on the news that made my brain go to one of those last straw places you go to when your jar is filled with last straws and yet here is somehow another and it’s even more kinky twisted than the straw before it. “Oh,” you say, “certainly you’ve seen some…
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Seems some people were very interested, after the debate, in whether or not one can nail jello to a wall
Seems some people were very interested, after the debate, in whether or not one can nail jello to a wall. I too was watching the debate and my ears lit up because of the Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello to a Wall (aka Jello Christ) posting I did in May 2007. By the time…
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This Pair is a Treat to Watch
“Just because I can see the moon doesn’t make me an astronaut, you loon…”
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Past is Prologue, Certainly
Because of this I now have Mary Poppins on the brain. The hosts of Fox and Friends are concerned that a program in Ohio which allows same-day registration and voting could provide opportunities for voter fraud or manipulation. “Before you could try and actually prove where they actually live,” complained Gretchen Carlson, “if they’re actually…
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Leigh Bielenberg's Testimony before the Atlanta City Council
This five minute segment is of Leigh Bielenberg’s testimony before the Atlanta City Council. The full 45 minutes of the Atlanta City Council discussion on starting an independent audit on the Arborist Division on the Bureau of Buildings may be viewed here. Below is an image from the Atlanta Cyclorama in which is believed to…
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Atlanta City Council Discussion on Starting an Independent Audit on the Arborist Division of the Bureau of Buildings
As the Creative Loafing article asks, Why Was Atlanta Arborist Tom Coffin Fired? Tom Coffin has tirelessly fought to save Atlanta’s trees. Why was he fired? The Atlanta City Council meeting involves beginning an independent audit of the Arborist Division of the Bureau of Buildings. Some friends of ours have been fighting to preserve an…
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The Recording Cabinet of…(part 2)
No one from Italy has been by my blog on an Elfo search, so Albert Callegari remains happily ignorant of what I think of his Bravenet message board and visitor counters. But, you know, recording studios do this. They get caught up in the business of recording and forget to tend their websites appropriately. Next…