Archive November 2009

Adam Clark & Jim Thornburg for Mountain Gear

Aurora photographers Adam Clark (image at right) and Jim Thornburg (image at left) have been featured on the covers of Mountain Gear’s Fall and Winter 2009 catalogs. To see more work by Adam Clark and Jim Thornburg, visit Aurora Photos.

Remembering Steve and Celebrating Life

As I threatened after last Gilly day where some members of our community remembered and marked Steve's Death, again-- From here on out I am going to celebrate his Birthday! Steve Gilliard was born on 11/13/1964. Somewhere out there I imagine him toasting to life for his 45th ...

Michael Hanson for Continental Airlines

Aurora photographer Michael Hanson’s images of Waimea Canyon are featured in the November issue of Continental Airline’s in-flight magazine to illustrate an eight-page travel article about inland adventure on Kauai. Also known as “the Grand Canyon of the Pacific”, Waimea Canyon is relatively easy to access at the rim, but ...

President’s Fort Hood Memorial Speech

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Focus, Trinity

(Bill David Barnett, age 2.5, and Maggie, age 5, trailer park in Pecos, Texas, summer 1961)Today my little brother Bill would have turned 51.Which means he's been dead almost 9 years. Can't quite understand that.He was waiting for health insurance to kick in at his new job: We'd ...

Benjamin Drummond Awarded Nau’s Grant for Change

Aurora photographer Benjamin Drummond has been awarded the first annual $10,000 inaugural Grant for Change from Nau – a hip, outdoor clothing company in Portland, Oregon – along with writer Sara Joy Steele. The pair was selected from a pool of 294 people after a six-week open nomination period. The ...

Sacked!

“Awwwww folks, you just hate to see that kind of thing happen...not!I believe...yes, I'm almost certain that it was a British poet of some renown from the latter 20th century who famously and through wasp-stung lips howled “You Can't Always Get Whatcha' Want”. It was a simple mantra. One ...

Diary 7 November 2009

(Westward IV screen shot)In my e-mail today is an offer from Sandlot Games to pre-purchase the upcoming release of their game Westward IV for half-price. These folks already have my business for several reasons: They have equal or almost equal numbers of available heroines in a variety of ...

Futures, Declarations, Promises, Trust, and Betraying Teh Gay

Barack Obama in New Hampshire (Jan 4, 2008). Click for LARGE size.photo Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images.What I Trust Obama For(and why he gets NOTHING from me)I don't remember if I contributed to Obama or not during the General election; I don't think I did but I may have, after the primary ...

TOO LONG FOR TWITTER AGAIN

(Maggie and Nilmoni cropped from larger photo, 1958 Kolkata, India)Too long for Twitter, again: Dinah prowled and wailed every half hour all night long. I'd call to her and she'd come at a trot, need extensive contact to stop vocalizing. I had an endless fount of reassurance. I can ...

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