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Archive for June, 2009


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?


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.
The story.
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 [...]


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 [...]


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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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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]