Archive February 2010
City done gone and died. Folks are still planning to build them some kind of Epcot Center version of "NewOrleensLand" that will have little or no relation to the vibrant, flowing, and dancing place that was unique and pleasing.The Nevilles still sing. Bless you boys.
But whenever I read about the current power struggle on the Right, my mind pulls up this scene from Cabaret:
(Photo: An explorer at work in Hoima, fromEpic quest for oil in Uganda, by Francis Mugerwa, no photo credit)Let's face it, short term predictions about oil prices, supply, and demand are one of two things: simple because you presume a straight line, or bullshit either because something in the world ...
Aurora photographer C.S. Ling is having a busy and exciting winter. Her nature & wildlife photography is being showcased simultaneously at three different venues across Asia: the International Environment Photograph Exhibition, Nov 2009 @ Japan (Group), Wild Moments Exhibition, 1st Jan – 28th Feb 2010 @ Sentosa, Singapore (Solo), and at ...
No one said any of this was going to be easy. BUT damn.So each day I wonder, where has my political fervor gone? I worked my ass off from 2002 till last year. Not a day went by where I did not do something political. And I mean way beyond ...
Several years ago, through a combined project of Sharon Bridgforth and our local YWCA's Racial Justice outreach, I was given the opportunity to teach poetry to a group of African-American preteens at a couple of Austin's public housing projects.Because of my own background with childhood poverty and having lived in ...
I give you the "G Point Mouse", from Yanko Design. h/t Gizmodo
(from GraphJam, hat-tip to Kat)
Wednesday, February 17th marks the opening night reception of the four week exhibit entitled “In the Words of Duras“. Images captured by Cosmos photographer Hélène Bamberger, co-founder of the Odyssey Agency, of the author will be exhibited highlighting the time they spent together. The four week festival celebrating French writer ...
(Photo From Associated Press)“When the Caribbean catch a cold, Haiti...she catch the bubonic plague.”—Unidentified West Indian Man on the 4 Train From Brooklyn, Jan. 14th, 2010I live in one of the western hemisphere's largest West Indian communities outside of the actual Caribbean, in jerk-spiced, heavily patois-ed central Brooklyn—Crown Heights, and ...
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