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| Monday, July 13th, 2009 | |
apod
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5:02a |
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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009 |
misera
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5:07p |
blood-let; feeling better.
(just can't allow myself to think.) |
seraphimsigrist
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3:21p |
Campanella+ Buying a Trolley Car+ Ponds.
Friends, Every Sunday there is a flea market in a field in Patterson New York up route 22 about fifty minutes drive from here and not having been there in years I drove up and walked around as it is a beautiful afternoon and seemed right to go somewhere. Here is a bit of the flea market for anyone(as from another part of the world) not familiar with what this is ( Read more... )I bought a metal trolley car for $8. It is about 8 inches long and has wheels. It is of course useless as far as I can forsee. I am thinking, having visited grave of John McMahon yesterday, of his research in Tommaso Campanella of which unfortunately it seems no notes remained. I have not had a great intrest in Campanella... although the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa whose "Night of the Milky Way Railroad" I translated called one of his characters Campanella, likely with Tommaso in mind. I resolve to read his City of the Sun which we have at the library I work at. Any Campanella buffs out there? On the way back I stop and take photos of a pond. I have always liked little ponds in farming country and this is maybe something I found attractive in eastern Poland was the number of little ponds in fields...well but of course we have ponds too. The thing is it is not a simple thing to convey ,even to myself for starters, the same attraction in a photograph as I feel seeing it...I am not sure if I have succeeded at all but here is a pond. ( Read more... )Perhaps part of the problem of photographing ponds is that one does not easily get the entire pond into the photo which the eye is able to include at once... well but anyway as always I invite all you have on these or on anything else at all, yours +Seraphim  . The City of the Sun. |
hurricanecarol
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9:26a |
The Blueberry Patch
This is the local artist hangout. To say it is an eclectic mix of [insert a noun here as I am not entirely sure what to call some of it] is an understatement. On the other hand, it is a great place to listen to some mellow music and have a beer with friends...which is just what we did last night.  OK...I really hate clowns, but the lighting was so perfect for this picture that I had to take the shot!   ( six more ) |
hopeinvain
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2:36a |
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apod
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4:40a |
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009 |
misera
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8:08p |
woke up this morning to a crisis averted. then to celebrate, mimosas, blueberry muffins. before noon, drove to the theatre, saw public enemies. only scoffed three times (max) so a good film! afterward, derek bought me new strings for my gretsch, which I still have not named. a nap with rainy dreams and then out to the porch to combat mosquitoes with the overhead fan and citronella incense while I dove into typing up my zine. right now the plan is three different threads, differentiated by the fonts - (perpetua, typewritten, handwritten). there's no real unity, and I feel strange even working on a zine at 25 because I am completely apolitical, and who wants to read the lazy summer vignettes of a girl my age? |
seraphimsigrist
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4:02p |
Visit to an old friend. Hotei. + Views of Storm King
Friends, Today a little at loose ends I drove around a bit and came to the cemetary in Somers New York where an old friend, John McMahon is buried having died suddenly in 2001, I set on a bench by the small churchyard burial place and said a prayer and then noticed beside me on the bench a small black figurine which proved to be of Hotei Sama one of the 7 Chinese gods of good fortune, accepting it as being,as it were, a gift I put some wildflowers on the grave marker from the wood nearby... Driving on a bit in one of my usual drive courses I came to the Hudson River above Cold Spring and opposite Mount Storm King, I have taken enough pictures and shared them here of that small mountain, or large hill, but did find a couple of things perhaps new, one an angle from the South looking across , not the Hudson, which is beyond a narrow spit of land beyond the immediate water and on that spit is a railroad track running upriver, and there other is of the Hudson and of a sail boat passing before the face of Storm King. For these , and Hotei, please click to the right just here. ( Read more... )As to John McMahon no special sadness just passing by and stopped... He was a friend for some years after I came back from Japan and he wrote for the little magazine First Hour which I edited then, he had not really done published writing but he was gathering material for a go at a book on Tomasso Campanella the 16th century philosopher, he cut a grave , priestly sort of figure in a black turtleneck with a celtic cross typically, a classics master, he loved bad movies of every sort particularly vampire ones. He wanted for a future birthday that never came the urn with a boy leading the drunken hercules home from the Met or if that was too hard to steal then some 'objects' from the oriental room. I doubt Hotei was one of them as it says 'made in china' on the bottom and granted that some fine oriental objets d'art are from china I do not think they say made in china on the bottom. Our mutual friend Dr Allison of Godard Laboratory said of John's death in London that like the old Celtic wanderers he died 'seeking his place of resurrection.' So that and the photos and as always invite all you have on anything at all... By the way yesterday's Superman proves to be a young Russian American who apparently meant no trouble but he and Batman were taking money and playing music without a permit. I hope he did not punch the cop. Previously he had been arrested in a Tarzan costume. yours +Seraphim  . |
jk_fabiani
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12:32p |
It's not the symbol, it's the deed...
Denying Iraq veterans the right to fly their own flag upside down on their own property is a good reason to burn the rag. An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it — an Iraq war veteran — claims the officers trespassed and stole his property
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In mid-June, Congine, 46, began flying the flag upside down — an accepted way to signal distress — outside the restaurant he wants to open in Crivitz, a village of about 1,000 people some 65 miles north of Green Bay. He said his distress is likely bankruptcy because the village board refused to grant him a liquor license after he spent nearly $200,000 to buy and remodel a downtown building for an Italian supper club. An Italian restaurant without red wine would just be stupid. " Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." -- Arundhati Roy, Come September, 2002 |
ralphieinrigor
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9:32a |
Part of the last statement made by David Castillo before he was executed: "There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing."Is it just me or is this really profound and insightful? Also, when reading this article (you have to scroll down a bit) about David Castillo and his case, there seem to be some glaring inconsistencies and inequities that make it seem, well, not right. Justice was definitely not fully served here. So, what do we have here: 1) The victim in this case didn't die from the wounds he received during the robbery and shooting, but from the negligence of the doctors who left a NINE-INCH CLAMP inside his stomach. 2) There was NO direct evidence linking Castillo to the crime. 3) Castillo didn't have an adequate defense. 4) The main witness for the prosecution had been a suspect in the crime and also harbored ill feelings toward Castillo. Red flags, anyone? 5) When the police searched the home Castillo was living in, they found NOTHING. Yet, the next day, a bloody t-shirt and money bags were found. And this was a home shared by Castillo AND Garcia (the once suspect turned main witness for the prosecution). So, who actually left those there is in question. It could have been Castillo OR Garcia. 6) A witness that could have impugned Garcia's credibility was never asked to testify. 7) Castillo never admitted to the crime. 8) During the punishment phase of Castillo's trial, critical character witnesses were not brought to testify. And those that did were not adequately prepared. I'm not saying that Castillo was innocent. I don't know if he was or not. He may have well deserved to rot in jail. But he definitely shouldn't have received the death penalty. Then again, I don't think ANYONE should receive the death penalty. But especially in this case where there is so much doubt and so many red flags and inconsistencies. Here's another article that presents a slightly different view. And now this is where I go, "Hmmm ..." Castillo had been previously convicted of a robbery performed in a similar fashion. They found a bloody footprint that matched one left at the previous robbery. And the description of the perpetrator in both robberies matched that of Castillo. But there are still way too many inconsistencies pointed out in the first article for this to have turned out to be case where the death penalty was enacted. Amnesty International - Abolish the death penalty( The Death Penalty, Questions and Answers) Death Penalty Focus - Working for alternatives to the death penalty ( 10 Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty) Campaign to End the Death Penalty( Five Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty) |
| Friday, July 10th, 2009 |
hopeinvain
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10:12p |
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009 | |
apod
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4:20a |
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| Friday, July 10th, 2009 |
froulala
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11:52a |
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seraphimsigrist
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10:39a |
7 New York Cops Subdue Superman+Religion of Superheros+ Flower Photo:Microcosmic?
Friends, This morning the police in Times Square approached Superman and Batman and asked them if they had permits to wear costumes, no, and then for identification. They had none. Superman resisted being detained and it took seven cops to wrestle the 20 something year old guy to the pavement. It speaks for the bureaucratic society we are making in places like New York at least but also for the unworthiness of a Superman who would continue a discussion by punching a lady cop in the face. Still hope it goes not too hard for him... While looking for the picture below I find some information about Superman's religion ,from Superman writer Eliot S! Maggin, and for this and also Eastern Orthodox super heros and a flower photograph please click to the right. ( Read more... )The flowers whose name I have no idea of at all remind me of a enlargement of a microscopic or submicroscopic world... that is a thing that an image does, frees one a little from conventional consensus definition. So today these and invite all your thought +Seraphim  . Superman taken down in Times Square. From of
course the New York Post our best newspaper. |
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apod
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5:01a |
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 |
honkybullshit
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4:33p |
trying not to get too upset
i sat down to write out some ventage about derby. getting it all out made me feel better, but it sure doesn't entertain the masses. so, the truncated version: our league will have its first bout against an out-of-town league next weekend. the coach posted the list of players for that bout, and i'm not on it. if you want details, you can get 'em. |
honkybullshit
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1:43p |
wanted to put this somewhere, for posterity
Revolutionary Dreams - Nikki Giovanni i used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these white folks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke and dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution |
audrawilliams
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2:44p |
All apologies
So I tweeted a few days ago about being upset that cfny DJ Martin Streek had killed himself (shortly after being laid off from the station he'd worked at for 20 years). I've not lived in the station's range for ten years, and stopped listening even longer ago than that, but during highschool I went to lots of cfny events and found a lot of great music through the station and have a great affection for the folks who worked there. Anyway. After Streek died, Now's Susan G. Cole wrote this small piece, that ended with: He was fired from his beloved radio station in mid-May, a victim of restructuring. He had been trying to clean up over the past years – decades on the club scene had led to some dangerous excess.
But he didn't make it. Toronto's lost a true original.Does that read sort of like maybe he had a drug problem that sort of did him in? I think it kind of does. Many of Streeks friends wrote angry responses about how he'd been clean for years, like that he didn't even drink anymore, and that it was shitty to imply otherwise. She posted this 'clarification' the next day: I know that Streek was clean for years. I don't know how he died and I never intended to suggest that his death was related to substance abuse.
Now let's get back to remembering why Martin Streek mattered so much to so many people.It's just so shitty. I mean, if she knew he'd been off drugs and alcohol for years, why characterize it as "he'd been trying to clean up" and follow it up with "he didn't make it". I understand that someone can be off of drugs and still have addictions issues. I know it's not an on/off drugs binary. But still. I feel like her implication was really clear, and then when she was called on it she blamed people for misreading her. I don't really have much of an emotional investment in the whole thing, I'm mostly pissed off by crummy writing and even crummier accountability. |
seraphimsigrist
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12:17p |
Shed+ Koan+ Dali, Bicycles and the Marx Brothers
Friends, Often seems like there will be nothing to put on the journal but then something comes to mind to put in and it might interest someone so these... 1) Thought that the Grail question, who serves the
Grail? or it can be whom does the Grail serve?is in fact a 'Koan'(for anyone unfamiliar a Zen question designed to help one to go beyond simply logical answers) there could be various answers, the Fisher King serves the grail on one level etc but it leads to the irreducible mystery of all its parts who/whom, serve, Grail. 2)I sort of like a shed I saw the other day with ivy on it. at end of post. 3)A respondent yesterday noted that Salvador Dali did a postcard for the 1959 Tour de France apparently this ( Read more... )4)Dali also, besides cycling , loved the Marx brothers although probably the silent comedy of Harpo more than the fast talk of Groucho which his English was likely insufficient to take in except through translation. Dali in any case did a proposed film scenario for the Marx Brothers called Giraffes on Horseback Salads which they declined to use. Wisely I expect. It is available on line http://www.miskatonic.org/dali-marx.htmlhere is just the conclusion which can go with our cycling picture. ( Read more... )So that is three things to share...the shed reminds me (because of my limited movie viewing no doubt) of one in Schwarzenegger's "Commando"...well but surely more interesting ideas can come to mind they just dont in any definite way to mine...and yet there is something interesting to me in the picture... three things and as always all you have on them or on anything else is welcome, yours +Seraphim  . |
debunkingwhite
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11:04p |
Egyptian woman in Germany stabbed 18 times while giving evidence in court about racist verbal abuse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/german-trial-hijab-murder-egypt The headscarf martyr: murder in German court sparks Egyptian furyKate Connolly in Berlin and Jack Shenker in Cairo
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 July 2009 21.21 BST
It was while Marwa el-Sherbini was in the dock recalling how the accused had insulted her for wearing the hijab after she asked him to let her son sit on a swing last summer, that the very same man strode across the Dresden courtroom and plunged a knife into her 18 times.
Her three-year-old son Mustafa was forced to watch as his mother slumped to the courtroom floor.
Even her husband Elvi Ali Okaz could do nothing as the 28-year-old Russian stock controller who was being sued for insult and abuse took the life of his pregnant wife. As Okaz ran to save her, he too was brought down, shot by a police officer who mistook him for the attacker. He is now in intensive care in a Dresden hospital.
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Unemployed Alex W. from Perm in Russia was found guilty last November of insulting and abusing Sherbini, screaming "terrorist" and "Islamist whore" at her, during the Dresden park encounter. He was fined ¤780 but had appealed the verdict, which is why he and Sherbini appeared face to face in court again.
Even though he had made his anti-Muslim sentiments clear, there was no heightened security and questions remain as to why he was allowed to bring a knife into the courtroom.
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In Germany the government of Angela Merkel has been sharply criticised for its sluggish response to the country's first murderous anti-Islamic attack. The general secretaries of both the Central Council of Jews and the Central Council of Muslims, Stephen Kramer and Aiman Mazyek, who on Monday made a joint visit to the bedside of Sherbini's husband, spoke of the "inexplicably sparse" reactions from both media and politicians.
They said that although there was no question that the attack was racially motivated, the debate in Germany had concentrated more on the issue of the lack of courtroom security. "I think the facts speak for themselves," Kramer said.
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because it occurred just days after Nicolas Sarkozy gave a major policy speech denouncing the burka, many Egyptians believe the death of Sherbini is part of a broader trend of European intolerance towards Muslims...
More news: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.2518524.0.Egyptian_anger_after_mother_is_stabbed_to_death_by_fanatic.phphttp://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/6786-egyptian-woman-s-death-germany-outrages-egyptian-blogospherehttp://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-egyptians-cry-racism-woman-slaying-germany-qs-07http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8141130.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8141900.stmhttp://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=85&art_id=nw20090709124747147C631375 |
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apod
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4:29a |
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 |
insaneboatgrrl
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10:58p |
fantastically lovely translation fail.Edit: My favorite part is this: "Now the tower plan to restore the already established point guards, to hunters for the metal is not the rubble and raspilili tower. It has been said already attend. In the meantime, is not the first year of use tower beysdzhampery. The site is very complex and not many are solved by jumping from it. The most dangerous - that stretch for which you can catch a dome parachute." |
misera
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10:19p |
all these photographs trying to represent "love" as though love is nothing more than two attractive people, slightly exposed (playfully hiding from the camera? aware but pretending not to be?) in some sort of embrace - curled up together in bed, kissing, running through fields half-nude. well, okay...but how shallow, how confining - how facile! I'm no expert, but I much prefer the idea of love being singing "hey jealousy" together in horrible falsettos and watching hours of human weapon on friday nights while eating pizza and car-dancing to the classic rock station at red lights.
and speaking of love - a new song:
torch song. |
lovemotionstory
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5:28p |
Yep, still working hard at the Portland Zine Symposium..
Aaaaaaaaaand, I figured I should let you all know about some of the other fabulous events leading up to and during the Portland Zine Symposium... In other news, Jeff's visit to Portland was pretty rad. My housemate, Ashley, let Jeff use his bike while he was here, so we biked all around, got some work on comics done (not as much as we should have, apparently we get more done separated), ate a lot of yummy food, and majorly celebrated Canada Day (with poutine from Potato Champion, pies from Whiffies, and karaoke). When he first got here, I still have to nanny for a few days, but then the family went on vacation, which freed up my time. Jeff left Saturday morning and I spent the 4th of July with my neighbor friends (one who I've started seeing, Dan) and neighbor Dan and I biked to the Steel Bridge to watch fireworks in addition to bbqing and fire blowing. Today is my last day off from nannying and the past few days I have gotten tons and tons of PZS work done, which is a relief, but not so much work done on comics.. I am feeling like life is moving too fast, there's too much that I want to do, all the time. Current Mood:  busy |
sabotabby
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