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"Designing the High Line", an open, international ideas competition seeking visionary design proposals for High Line's reuse as 1.5-mile-long elevated public promenade, culminates in a large-scale exhibition at Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, July 10-26, 2003.
eat an impeach
get the shirt ugly americans
heard on the radio ... Bill hit N.O., some flooding in the French Quarter, at least one tornado. Also, the Stone Pony on the Jersey Shore may go the way of the Armadillo in Austin. And while I'm at itf, from the "Keep Santa Cruz Wierd" front, overheard on Pacific Garden Mall this weekend: three men having a serious and intense political discussion, while one was in full clown regalia.
The public business of this office is now concluded.
There is a tropical storm named Bill forming in the Gulf of Mexico. Go Bill go. Be a hurricane.
Sadly I missed many Neil Young shows when I seasoned on the West Coast, I was too Dead......Last nite show was great, Crazy Horse rocks, the new album/play part took some getting used to but it kicked in bigtime....5th show, Lucinda yahoo!!
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#1 1989 Garden w/ Sonic Youth (12th row)
#2 1989 Meadowlands w/ Sonic Youth (Back floor)
#3 1997 PNC Bank Center NJ (Front row)
#4 1998 Bridge XII Shorline (24th row)
#5 1999 Theatre at Garden Solo (seat showed me I need glasses)
#6 2003 Garden w/ Lucinda Williams (8th row)
bioblitzkrieg
Flame Warriors
saw some weird icon in my system tray so i clicked on it. turns out it was the usual temperature reading from central park that had changed colors from its normal easy to read blue to a hazy red. but the reason it had flipped was the reading itself -- 100 degrees. if only it would rain a little....
Wright's cartoon on Op-Ed page of 6/22/03 Times Picayune--shows four panels with a simple picture of a rock drawn in each one. The four panels read:
1. This rock doesn't believe weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.
2. Or that Iraq actually used such weapons.
3. Or that Iraqis were among the 9/11 hijackers.
4. Which, according to polls, makes it smarter than most Americans.
And conservative columnist George Will chimes in with this (from his recent column entitled The Search For Credibility)--
"Some say the war was justified even if WMDs are not found nor their destruction explained, because the world is 'better off' without Saddam. Of course it is better off. But unless one is prepared to postulate a U.S. right, perhaps even a duty, to militarily dismantle any tyranny--on to Burma?--it is unacceptable to argue that Saddam's mass graves and torture chambers suffice as retrospective justification for pre-emptive war." He ends with this--"Until WMDs are found, or their absence accounted for, there is urgent explaining to be done."
There is nothing new about this sentiment but that it comes from the mouth of George Will I think is an important turning point.
As I mentioned on my page, I found my old blogger username and password while going through some papers today. I signed in, and everything is still there. Here's the first post to this page (although I think this was the front page of the site at that point.)
[10/21/1999 5:32:09 PM | jim b]
Hello there. This is a beta version of the main page at digitalmediatree.com. I'm not at all sure what is going to happen here. My log, which is pretty much the same as what use to be here, is now inside (the link is on left.) This section can be updated by multiple users through the incredible blogger.com. But if you're seeing this you already know about that. Oh well. It's an interesting idea, although I don't know if it could work. memepool seems to run on a similar sturcture (although I don't think they use blogger.) Anyway, like I said, I have no idea what this should be, but it seems cool to be able to do it, so I'm trying to. Seen anything interesting lately?
Did everyone see the article in the times about Rivington street?
Bill Moyers addresses the Take Back America conference
Steve, she also did Crumb.....
Time passes; there are things that are timeless and will repeat over and over again.
The Birches lawn was always perfect.
Laura always met Dan at the driveway
Claire got a Camaro
Gene was a son of a bitch
Penny smoked too much
The kids did not know what was going on.
There's a mouse in my living room
SD&Z (simmons dylan & zappa)
(via fmu msg board)
What happened to Word?
my cat has a big fat lip, she leap jumped a huge bee, went down to eat it (why do cats like bugs so much??), it stung her and flew off, she's now in the corner not in any pain it seems with one puffy side...
good street reports on the RFTT show @ maxwells last night. richard lloyd was the quiet television wannahe ?
From the Washington Post
At least 19 people in three Midwestern states have contracted a disease related to smallpox, marking the first outbreak of the life-threatening illness in the United States, federal heath officials said yesterday....
The disease, known as monkeypox, usually only occurs in central and western Africa. It is caused by a virus known as an orthopox virus, which is the family of viruses that includes the smallpox virus, one of the most dangerous diseases known to man and a feared biological weapon....
While much about the monkeypox virus is unclear, it does not seem to be as deadly as smallpox. Authorities estimate that monkeypox has a mortality rate of between 1 percent and 10 percent, compared with a mortality rate of about 30 percent for smallpox.
The monkeypox virus is believed to spread through physical contact with a sick person or infected animal, or through infected body fluids, although health officials said it apparently is not as easily spread as smallpox, which is highly infectious.
Marijuana guru freed after day in jail
I'm going to go have a state's rights celebration, and call it a day!
The floating island: a moden adventure with pykrete:
In late 1942, Lord Louis Mountbatten - the British military's Chief of Combined Operations - paid a visit to Winston Churchill at his official country home, Chequers. Mountbatten had with him a small parcel of great importance. A member of Churchill's staff apologized that the Prime Minister was at that moment in his bath.
"Good," said Mountbatten as he bounded up the stairs. "That's exactly where I want him to be." Mountbatten entered the steaming bathroom to find Churchill in the tub. It was generally not a wise thing to interrupt Sir Winston in his bathtub.
"I have," Mountbatten explained, "a block of a new material that I would like to put in your bath."
3 Farms Festival on the East River. I think MB is involved? Our pal Samoa is playing, and I'm interested in David Johanson's folk act, the Harry Smiths. It ain't Jazzfest, but could be a good time.
Nice pictures of the baby Red-tailed Hawks on Fifth Avenue, posted on Marie Winn's page. She's the author of Red-tails in Love as well as The Plug-In Drug and translations from the Czech, including Vaclav Havel.