Archive for June, 2009
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You know that scene in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” where Ellen Burstyn is about to bash her head on the steering wheel with her 11-y-o son telling her over and over the same joke?
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Sayeth H.o.p.: That’s very 8 bit. Can you email me the link?
Parking garage partly pancakes a couple of streets away. Lots of helicopters have been buzzing around. Amazingly, thus far there appear to be no injuries. Hope that holds true.
My mouth was left agape by the woman who walked to the 4th floor of the deck subsequent the collapse, realized what had happened as she peered through the gaping hole, snapped some pictures (“Wow! Look at this!”) then DROVE her car down from that 4th deck and only as she exited did she realize that it was a perilous situation and the whole shebang could have dropped out from under her.
Huffington Post gives this translation:
The people of Iran, by phone and mails, have asked me to send their message to mister Moussavi.
This letter is a summary of what they have told me these past days from inside Iran and all over the world:
“President Moussavi:
give us your orders!
Political power is gained by making people act,
and is lost in the contrary case.
The liars and stealers of the people’s vote,
by buying time, are weakening people’s social powers.
President Moussavi:
do not keep silent, do not wait, give us orders !
What us people of Iran had lost was not information, but courage.
Our fear came from each one of us feeling alone;
but participating in the elections,
and demonstrating by the millions
proved that if we stand together we are invincible.
President Moussavi:
do not send people to their houses !
So that they are once again crushed by despair and fear
From a goverment that is itself illegal,
do not ask for a legal permission to peacefully demonstrate.
The majority of people of iran, who has voted for you, is waiting for your orders;
give us the orders to demonstrate !
give us the orders of a general strike !
give us the orders of resistance !
The people’s common need is your orders.
President Moussavi
give the people your orders !”
On the behalf of the people of Iran
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
the 6th of the month of Tir, 88
One down, two to go. As in, when one of three new, high rise residential apartment buildings simply falls over, who’s going to want to try out the remaining two? Great photo.
Nearly completed high-rise collapses in Shanghai
Michael Jackson died and pretty much took Twitter down with him. Amazing. The site slowed to a stop as news hit.
Incredible. By about 3:00 it becomes surreal. 4:00-4:44 a man tangled in one of the familiar green banners is caught, attempts to get away, there is no out, he is beaten and carried away off screen. Though viewing from several stories up, one has the feeling of being funneled into it physically/emotionally…
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BBC interviews Dr. Arash Hejazi who attended Neda as she died. Fearful for his life, he has left Iran.
This is for (redacted) whose parents were once fashion forward in what proves to be an iconic Diamond & Baratta, iconic forward New England/American design kind of way, a taste which I now see I was too pedestrian too appreciate. That said, what was not had was the validation of 7.5 million dollars of house in Central Greenwich, Connecticut.
As for the plaid flannel bathrobe foyer. I’d get up in the morning, walk into that, reflexively yawn and go straight back to bed.
Have to admit that I’m vaguely appreciative of the droll whimsy of the Timothy Leary meets Alice in Wonderland “Eat me” “Drink me” bedroom, but only as a set for a film.
I have seen other examples of Diamnd & Baratta and while not to my taste I can’t help but feel the true story behind this house has its roots in Rock Hudson and Doris Day’s “Pillow Talk”.
I read the house is in foreclosure and has been on the market since 2005. So, Doris drained Rock’s bank account, wouldn’t marry him, and he tumbled into financial ruin.
I took the stomach acid reducer, but laughter is the best medicine
June 24th, 2009 |Posted In: Uncategorized
Following Iranian news from the usual sources I’ve been noting. Now taking a stomach acid reducer.
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Once upon a time, there was a Family Values governor whose wife and “Cubby Culbertson” knew he was having affair, and the gov and the wife and the “spiritual giant” were really working on this really hard in political back rooms, trying to make it all right.
Then the Family Values man thought “No one will pay attention to me while Iran is falling apart” and told his staff he was going hiking and he piled camping gear in his vehicle and drove to the airport and flew away to South America because, as he later told reporters, he needed to go somewhere exotic and get out of his bubble.
The Family Values governor’s wife interpreted this as Family Values husband deciding he couldn’t stand the public not knowing about his affair any longer, and the governor’s wife said to the press, “I don’t know where he is”, because she was passively-aggressively cooperating by throwing the press a game called Solve This Riddle.
The governor cried and cried in Argentina because he knew this meant he would never be president which was really unfair. He thought of Bill Clinton and how he’d demanded Clinton resign over Lewinsky and his betraying family values. And it still felt very unfair. “I know, it’s so unfair,” his lover said. And together, in Argentina, they cried.
The end.
35,000 year old flute crafted from the hollow bone of a Griffin Vulture discovered in cave in southwestern Germany.
“Archaeologists and other scholars can only speculate as to what moved these early Europeans to make music.”
Well, they could talk to a musician about that.
“The Hohle Fels flute was uncovered in sediments a… few feet away from the carved figurine of a busty, nude woman…”
Do tell.
