of course the police do not want us recording them. that doesnt mean that they are right...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/opinion/the-right-to-record.html?src=recg
5/22/12
5/21/12
No. Thank YOU.
5/20/12
5.20: for hiking, of course
BK 1/2
5/11/12
Puzzle pieces
~Elliot Smith
3/29/12
snow
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales
#rip shaima
it has really been a long time since I have been on here and a lot has happened in the world. i will attempt to catch up. i'm going to start not with Trayvon or the health care arguments in the supreme court but with March 21, when Shaima al Alawadi was murdered in her home in California. She was 32 and the mother of five. Her murderer left a note next to her body that said she should go back to her country and called her a terrorist. The "news" - 24 hours news cycle, has just started picking up this story. But if this doesn't reflect the state of america, i don't know what does. I am sure I will have more to add, articles and information, but for now I just have to say: RIPShaima.
This is from the blog strange things are afoot. Check it out.
2/13/12
it's that time of year again
Give you the stars above,
sun on the brightest day,
give you all my love,
if only you would say...
-tom waits
2/11/12
Komen vs. Planned Parenthood
First there was this:
Nation's Largest Cancer Charity Caves to Right-Wing Pressure, Ends Relationship With Planned Parenthood | TruthoutThen This:
And This:
and then this:
Komen foundation reverses decision to end Planned Parenthood grants (at fox news.com)
but there is still this:
Susan G. Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision, Does Not Promise To Renew Grants
check out at the Wall Street Journal how
Someone Like You
was written and performed to make you shed a tear
suckers.
1/18/12
in memory
To my friends whom I love:
I pray that your memories will provide you some comfort and that comfort will one day bring you peace.
My heart is with you.
You alone will have stars as no one else has them...
I pray that your memories will provide you some comfort and that comfort will one day bring you peace.
My heart is with you.
You alone will have stars as no one else has them...And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night.
You, only you, will have stars that can laugh...
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1/17/12
total recall: Wisconsin
There have only been two successful gubernatorial recalls in U.S. history – against California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and North Dakota Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921. (Huffington Post.) But United Wisconsin has collected over a million signatures, when all they need is around 530,000, to call for a recall election of their governor Scott Walker. Governor Walker has made some headlines over his attempts to dismantle the unions in Wisconsin. Mother Jones explained what happened here.
Stay tuned to see what happens in Wisconsin next.
on 1/18/12 A democrat jumped in the race. Kathleen Falk.
1/14/12
1/13/12
both sides, now
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow It's cloud illusions i recall.
I really don't know clouds at all.
I really don't know clouds at all.
-Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now
on falling in love: John Steinbeck 1958
In 1958 John Steinbeck's son Thom was in boarding school. Thom told his father he was in love. This is John Steinbeck's response to his son:
New York
November 10, 1958Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First -- if you are in love -- that's a good thing -- that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second -- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you -- of kindness and consideration and respect -- not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had.
You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply -- of course it isn't puppy love.
But I don't think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it -- and that I can tell you. Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
If you love someone -- there is no possible harm in saying so -- only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another -- but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I'm glad you have it.
We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.
And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Love,
Fa
From: John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter, an article published on 1/13/12 in the Atlantic.
1/11/12
Bill Moyers is back!
The opposite of poverty is not wealth, it is justice.
I really love Bill Moyers and he is back with a new show. Of course, we know the show is going to be great because in the opening clip is one of my favorite quotes of all time, from BS, executive director of the equal justice initiative.Watch the clip, please!
Moyers & Company Generic Promo from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
You have to check out the schedule on his website to find out where you can watch it.
Go see Red Tails
Really? On 1/10/12 George Lucas appeared on the Daily Show. The movie opens 1/20/12. Go see it!
This is what he said:
Movie mogul George Lucas says his new film "Red Tails" took more than 20 years to make "because it's an all-black movie.”
The creator of the uber-successful “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, in an interview with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, said movie executives told him the film, which features a largely African-American cast, would have trouble making money.
“There's no major white roles in it at all,” he said. “I showed it to all of them and they said nooooo. We don't know how to market a move like this."
See more here
This is what he said:
Movie mogul George Lucas says his new film "Red Tails" took more than 20 years to make "because it's an all-black movie.”
The creator of the uber-successful “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, in an interview with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, said movie executives told him the film, which features a largely African-American cast, would have trouble making money.
“There's no major white roles in it at all,” he said. “I showed it to all of them and they said nooooo. We don't know how to market a move like this."
See more here
New Hampshire primary
Results for New Hampshire Republican Primary (U.S. Presidential Primary)
Jan 10, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 97,532 39.3%
Ron Paul 56,848 22.9%
Jon Huntsman 41,945 16.9%
Newt Gingrich 23,411 9.4%
Rick Santorum 23,362 9.4%
Source: AP
Jan 10, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 97,532 39.3%
Ron Paul 56,848 22.9%
Jon Huntsman 41,945 16.9%
Newt Gingrich 23,411 9.4%
Rick Santorum 23,362 9.4%
Source: AP
1/8/12
The Bowery Presents:
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| The end of the show with the blind boys of alabama, the students from PHJB and all the other artists who performed over the course of the evening. |
Last night my parents and I saw the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Friends at Carnegie Hall for their 50th anniversary. It was really amazing to hear them talk about how they came to NY after Hurricane Katrina and it was because of the music community in NY that they were able to stay together and continue making music.
Check out their blog.
And the NY Times Magazine talks about them, too.
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| this lady did not stop dancing the WHOLE night |
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| Ed Helms. For real. He plays the banjo and went to Oberlin with the music director/tuba play. |
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| The Del McCoury Band w PHJB and Ed Helms |
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Check out this band-Givers-playing with PHJB. The lead singer,Tiffany Lamson, can sing. I mean, sing. |
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| Yasin Bey (K.F.A. Mos Def) dancing in the background and Trombone Shorty. Ahh-mazing. |
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| dancers from Trey McIntrye Project - performed selections from their project with PHJB "Ma Maison" |
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| The dancers are back with My Morning Jacket and PHJB |
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| My Morning Jacket. |
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| Tao Seeger...yup, the one and only Pete Seeger's grandson. He can sing and he seemed like a really cool person. |
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| Steve Earle. Enough said. |
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