Last week I came back from Foo Camp to find a carton on my doorstep. MARCUS THE CARCUS and a post-it sticker with “Happy Halloween Mark-US!!” -> (turn around) John and Sophia, my lovely neighbours. At first I didn’t get it, but then it turns out that they bought me some super funny Halloween garden decoration. It is a guy who looks as …
Arnold Unplugged – It’s hasta la vista to $9 billion if the Governator is selected
I want my money back. I was wondering, when these energy companies that are sucking out money from California will have to stand trial and pay back? Now it all makes sense, why we have this recall election campaign. Don’t vote for Arnie, or there will be no justice and all the money will be gone. “Arnold Unplugged – It’s hasta la …
Via Boing Boing: Fabricating Global Warming News by the Bush administration
“Bush’s heavy-weather FUD is whistle-blown by EPA leak Stefan sez, “The fossil fuel industry and their ideological brown-nosers have done a great job of spreading FUD about Global Warming. This leaked internal EPA memo details the Bush Administration’s own contribution to the effort.” This is a disheartening and enraging document. 672k PDF Link (Thanks, Stefan!) “
My sister the Artist
My sister was here the last 4 months. It is incredible how fast they went by. So I am a bit sad that she is gone. We had a nice lunch together at Café Liberty just up the street today. It was a sabbatical for her and she used it to follow her bliss and did lots of Art pieces. She …
Guardian Unlimited: World-renowned scholar Edward Said dies
Edward Said was often interviewed on KPFA regarding the situation in the Middle East and I liked his reasoning and clarity. KPFA just rebroadcasted an interview he gave three years ago, where he talked about his life. His death is a great loss for peace and humanity. The Irish critic Seamus Deane described him as: “That rare figure: a truly public intellectual who has a powerful influence …
Real Cool Stuff
In the early 80s my brother had the coolest calculator, the HP 41cx. My middle school class was the last one to have learned how to calculate on a slide ruler. I still can compute basic stuff on it, or so I make myself believe. But then, electronic calculators got cheap enough and everyone switched to them. The most popular …
Speak in Tongues
The Onion current top story about No one makes it to Burning [Bummer no permalinks, will point to another story soon.] is so true for me this year (again). Didn’t get my act together, too many other things going on. But my neighbors did their awesome art piece again: The PlayaPhone. Staying with this year’s theme: Beyond Believe they encouraged to testify. I helped a little bit …
FORWARD : Forward Forum
“A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While Its Leaders Remain Silent“ Stumbled over this article of Avraham Burg after getting lost in the blog/link net (would that be blinknet?) out there. Voice of clarity, more of that is needed.
“Music Self-played is Happiness Self-made” TMBG
Other Weblogger list what’s on their CD player or iPod. I am a strong believer in this quote form They Might Be Giants: Music Self-played is Happiness Self-made. Therefore once in an orange Mars I will post what I am playing. Love the Piano and surprise, some of Sade’s best Songs are reachable for my limited piano abilities. I play two of them, …
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Forget Dean: Kucinich is the real progressive candidate
Dean, Dean, Dean everyone is talking about Dean. The real progressive candidate is Dennis Kucinich. As the conservatives ran with the non centric Ronald Reagan in the 80s, the Democrats should this time have the guts to run with a real progressive candidate and turn the tide. That candidate would be Dennis, I read somewhere, that Ralf Nader will not run if Dennis …