an experiment using the google rss reader, for those curious about Ohio:
if you click 'read more' you will exit my blog (and give thanks). but those are from today in general; if you click this you might see news from 20 minutes ago from tv stations / wires from the BUCKEYE State
http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/13672695236396171624/label/ohio-news
note to self:
keep in mind manage subscriptions and tags to share
May 21, 2007
Paul has been trolling for a home from coast to coast, the best bang for the buck from Bangor to San Diego? Akron (and other reasons: Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast; Quakes in California; a desire for 4 seasons -- climactic not travel) Akron, more bang per buck.
He found this location, country club adjacent, quiet, pretty . . .
4 bedrooms, fire place, stunning grounds (more than a yard) in the back.
The mere thought of moving makes me jittery . . . but
http://www.homes.com/Content/ListingDetail.cfm?propid=51750122#
its tempting to sell the condo, buy it, and wait for what the TRIBUNE does next....
hum.....
He found this location, country club adjacent, quiet, pretty . . .
4 bedrooms, fire place, stunning grounds (more than a yard) in the back.
The mere thought of moving makes me jittery . . . but
http://www.homes.com/Content/ListingDetail.cfm?propid=51750122#
its tempting to sell the condo, buy it, and wait for what the TRIBUNE does next....
hum.....
Youtube v. Vimeo. Half of my uploads to youtube.com failed, one would work, then the 2nd would work, but after that FAILURE -- and failure with no explanation. I'd click upload video and upload and wait, then see FAILED (instead of LIVE). I did a google, and found a blog writer with the same problem. They suggested vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/). It takes seconds to sign up (youtube is a bit nosey) and uploads fast, AND none have failed -yet. And it easy to embed. Maybe youtube grew too fast and gets digital constipation, but they atleast could say FAILED and give a reason, not just leave you frustrated. VIMEO has no content, so YOUTUBE is great for finding a tv snip or music video -- vimeo great for your own stuff, a free bank of space.... -john
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Friday was a beautiful day in Chicago. On my lunch I walked down to Millennium Park (between the office and the Art Institute) to take a few pictures of the Cloud Gate, aka “the Bean.” It’s a large piece of art, shiny as a mirror, shaped like a bean, but a giant bean.
I found a crowd of people taking pictures. Its photogenic – as it always changing. A curved mirror, you can see the skyline, others, distorted as they approach, elongated then cloned into multiples . . .
And this from under:
I also found some exciting public art by MARK DI SUVERO, who is that? Well you can check, www.millenniumpark.org/documents/MicrosoftWord-DiSuvero.pdf
Johnny Seed looks like it walked a million years ago . . with the dinosaurs maybe.
the pieces up close
Johnny Appleseed - Millennium Park Chicago from john on Vimeo
++++++++ from afar
Johnny Appleseed by MARK DI SUVERO MILLENNIUM PARK 2007 2 from john on Vimeo
Its really large as well, a hodpodge of industrial refuse, two large steam shovels, giant rings, steal beams, it looks like the skeleton of the industrial age. But then I realizeed I had seen it before, not as an image or object; but described in the prose of George Saunders in The Brief and Frightening Reign Phil. The book is populated by giant shapes, they are the walking talking characters – with LOAFD of personality.
http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_12_007305.php
http://www.reignofphil.com/map.html you will want to read it after this…..
Look at the video of JOHNNY APPLESEED by Di Suvero and think of Saunder’s characters:
Saunders wrote, of one of the less lovable creatures, Phil:
Phil had another problem, which was that the bolt holding his brain in position on his tremendous sliding rack occasionally fell out, causing his brain to slide rapidly down his rack and smash into the ground. This happened now. His brain slid down, fell off his rack, and rolled into a ditch.
Phil had a crush on Carol, who married another, Carol was:
He was captivated by her glossy black filaments and transparent oscillating membranes, the delicate curve of her exposed spine, her habit of demurely scratching one bearing with a furry glovelike appendage . . .
IS JOHNNY APPLESEED a subject of King Phil?? If not King Phil in some way??
Ah, a great Friday walk…..
Of course, I saw the Bean/Cloud Gate in 1957 a few weeks ago when I was tooling about the continuum in my TIME SHIP from Nieman Marcus’ X-mas Catalog:
TIME TRAVEL and the BEAN from john on Vimeo
hasta luego,
JUAN
I found a crowd of people taking pictures. Its photogenic – as it always changing. A curved mirror, you can see the skyline, others, distorted as they approach, elongated then cloned into multiples . . .
And this from under:
I also found some exciting public art by MARK DI SUVERO, who is that? Well you can check, www.millenniumpark.org/documents/MicrosoftWord-DiSuvero.pdf
Johnny Seed looks like it walked a million years ago . . with the dinosaurs maybe.
the pieces up close
Johnny Appleseed - Millennium Park Chicago from john on Vimeo
++++++++ from afar
Johnny Appleseed by MARK DI SUVERO MILLENNIUM PARK 2007 2 from john on Vimeo
Its really large as well, a hodpodge of industrial refuse, two large steam shovels, giant rings, steal beams, it looks like the skeleton of the industrial age. But then I realizeed I had seen it before, not as an image or object; but described in the prose of George Saunders in The Brief and Frightening Reign Phil. The book is populated by giant shapes, they are the walking talking characters – with LOAFD of personality.
http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_12_007305.php
http://www.reignofphil.com/map.html you will want to read it after this…..
Look at the video of JOHNNY APPLESEED by Di Suvero and think of Saunder’s characters:
Saunders wrote, of one of the less lovable creatures, Phil:
Phil had another problem, which was that the bolt holding his brain in position on his tremendous sliding rack occasionally fell out, causing his brain to slide rapidly down his rack and smash into the ground. This happened now. His brain slid down, fell off his rack, and rolled into a ditch.
Phil had a crush on Carol, who married another, Carol was:
He was captivated by her glossy black filaments and transparent oscillating membranes, the delicate curve of her exposed spine, her habit of demurely scratching one bearing with a furry glovelike appendage . . .
IS JOHNNY APPLESEED a subject of King Phil?? If not King Phil in some way??
Ah, a great Friday walk…..
Of course, I saw the Bean/Cloud Gate in 1957 a few weeks ago when I was tooling about the continuum in my TIME SHIP from Nieman Marcus’ X-mas Catalog:
TIME TRAVEL and the BEAN from john on Vimeo
hasta luego,
JUAN
The CLOUD GATE, and its proud, if not pained Parents, "YOU MEAN YOU LAID THIS, Come on, really?"
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Johnny Appleseed by Di Suvero 
THE CLOUD GATE in SUNSHINE SPLENDOR
standing under the bean:
a walk during lunch on Friday, May 18th, 2007; thr u Millennium Park. The shiny bean is the CLOUD GATE; the construction hodge podge JOHNNY APPLESEED.....
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May 16, 2007
I just love the minor candidates: GOP Debate II: Fox Goes After Ron Paul
Paul: "You-you have to realize that the base of the Republican Party shrunk last year because of the war issue, so that percentage represents less people. If you look at 65-70% of the American people, they want us out of there, they want the war over."
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
the debate on fox 15may07 Shocking Mainstream Media Defense of Ron Paul's 9/11 debate comments
Osama's reasons for 911 v. Rudy's freedom rant reasoning: This is rock solid proof that Ron Was Right when he tried to school Rudy!!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
May 12, 2007
Dynamite for the Brain:
MOMA: Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931
time to think, some verbal nitro to go with the dynamite:
from: http://mum.edu/msvs/9199terry.html
tic toc tick toc tic tok . . .
But this is my historic favorite...... thru the ages to the ages . . . the thoughts that bind us . . . . what would you ask Ari? Homer?
MOMA: Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931time to think, some verbal nitro to go with the dynamite:
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past . . .
all time is eternally present.
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets' -the opening lines
from: http://mum.edu/msvs/9199terry.html
tic toc tick toc tic tok . . .
But this is my historic favorite...... thru the ages to the ages . . . the thoughts that bind us . . . . what would you ask Ari? Homer?
a bit of art . . . dame una sonrisa....
put your neurons in high gear and discover something . . .
May 11, 2007
California Dreaming, Woodland Hills, Denny's, Daily News
Back in 1989 Paul and I moved to LA for 18 months (from NYC, then back to NYC). We lived in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills. We were surprised to find apartments did not include fridges, and got a small one. Thank god there was a Denny's right across the street. And I could walk to work - at the LA DAILY NEWS, pretty good for LA, right? We met some of our best friends in that short 18 months. As well as saw it snow and experienced dozens of small earthquakes.
In blue is the Denny's (where we once found a purse belonging to Melody Records, I kid you not, that was her name).
zoom in with the + button..... click hybrid to see Denny's roof . . . fly that kite high mr google:
I am practicing using my maps on google, and my maps plus to generate a code to embed that shows up as the map above.....
MAP of WOODLAND HILLS
Back in 1989 Paul and I moved to LA for 18 months (from NYC, then back to NYC). We lived in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills. We were surprised to find apartments did not include fridges, and got a small one. Thank god there was a Denny's right across the street. And I could walk to work - at the LA DAILY NEWS, pretty good for LA, right? We met some of our best friends in that short 18 months. As well as saw it snow and experienced dozens of small earthquakes.
In blue is the Denny's (where we once found a purse belonging to Melody Records, I kid you not, that was her name).
zoom in with the + button..... click hybrid to see Denny's roof . . . fly that kite high mr google:
I am practicing using my maps on google, and my maps plus to generate a code to embed that shows up as the map above.....
MAP of WOODLAND HILLS
May 10, 2007
This is where I grew up, in theory. If you zoom to the blue box you can see a car in the driveway. 2770 Hametown Road, in Norton, OHIO, near a lake. No idea when the picture was taken, but . . the camera must have been attached to a very high flying kite.
Click Satellite or hybrid and see that mysterious car. I have not lived there since the early 1980s - don't think it was my car. I feel like Captain Kirk, and now I am going to lock on the phasers! there goes OHIO!!!!
This is tougher than sticking a video in youtube.com and linking / embedding it.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SUNNY HERE.... is it as sunny in Norton? New York? Portland? Atlanta? Paris? Baghdad?
http://www.mymapsplus.com/Home
http://maps.google.com/maps
http://earth.download.googlepages.com/
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Click Satellite or hybrid and see that mysterious car. I have not lived there since the early 1980s - don't think it was my car. I feel like Captain Kirk, and now I am going to lock on the phasers! there goes OHIO!!!!
This is tougher than sticking a video in youtube.com and linking / embedding it.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SUNNY HERE.... is it as sunny in Norton? New York? Portland? Atlanta? Paris? Baghdad?
http://www.mymapsplus.com/Home
http://maps.google.com/maps
http://earth.download.googlepages.com/
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May 5, 2007
CHICAGO:
Dropping a curtain on stage smokers City aldermen won't let actors light up in the line of duty
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what next? would a seditious book with these lines be banned:
I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot and drinks a lot and are found dead in a gutter at the end of every film.
Chicago's new laws:
1) large dogs are deemed dangerous, ART INSTITUTE told to cover all graven images of Large Dogs in paintings and sculpture and all works of art. Mayor announces ban on yellow t-shirts, color yellow ban in art sought by City Council
2) Police dept split up, traditional ticket giving police and the NEW CHICAGO MINISTRY OF VICE AND VIRTUE PATROL (eating foie gras penalty: Death by stoning)
3) several large statues of Budha like figures have been discovered in Wicker Park, there is a reward for information leading to the artists involved, contact Ayatolla One-eye at the Chicago Police Dept 312-555-vice
The police are pleased to announce the capture and re-branding of 13 creative writing students engaged in blasphemy.get the idea, no?
well, impossible??:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0705042052may05,1,1285317.story
Dropping a curtain on stage smokers City aldermen won't let actors light up in the line of duty
By Dan Mihalopoulos and Azam AhmedTribune staff reporters
Published May 5, 2007
During the recent Chicago production of the classic play "Twelve Angry Men," George Wendt and other actors portraying the bickering, deadlocked jurors lit up cigarettes on the stage of the LaSalle Bank Theatre.
In following the play's script, the actors violated the city's anti-smoking ordinance.
This clash between art and public-health concerns became fodder for Chicago's aldermen Friday, as a City Council panel considered -- then rejected -- a proposal to create a loophole in the ban so actors can smoke on stage.Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd), proposed the exemption at the behest of Lou Raizin, president of Broadway in Chicago.
The group presented the recent run of "Twelve Angry Men" and a long list of other works that have brought clouds of smoke to stages at downtown theaters.
Forbidding actors to smoke in cases where the playwright would have wanted them to puff away amounts to "asking an artist to change his art," Raizin told members of the council's Buildings Committee at City Hall.
Committee members voted 4-2 against the ordinance granting an exemption for actors who smoke in the line of duty.
Dropping a curtain on stage smokers City aldermen won't let actors light up in the line of duty
+++++++++++
what next? would a seditious book with these lines be banned:
I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot and drinks a lot and are found dead in a gutter at the end of every film.
Chicago's new laws:
1) large dogs are deemed dangerous, ART INSTITUTE told to cover all graven images of Large Dogs in paintings and sculpture and all works of art. Mayor announces ban on yellow t-shirts, color yellow ban in art sought by City Council
2) Police dept split up, traditional ticket giving police and the NEW CHICAGO MINISTRY OF VICE AND VIRTUE PATROL (eating foie gras penalty: Death by stoning)
3) several large statues of Budha like figures have been discovered in Wicker Park, there is a reward for information leading to the artists involved, contact Ayatolla One-eye at the Chicago Police Dept 312-555-vice
The police are pleased to announce the capture and re-branding of 13 creative writing students engaged in blasphemy.get the idea, no?
well, impossible??:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0705042052may05,1,1285317.story
Dropping a curtain on stage smokers City aldermen won't let actors light up in the line of duty
By Dan Mihalopoulos and Azam AhmedTribune staff reporters
Published May 5, 2007
During the recent Chicago production of the classic play "Twelve Angry Men," George Wendt and other actors portraying the bickering, deadlocked jurors lit up cigarettes on the stage of the LaSalle Bank Theatre.
In following the play's script, the actors violated the city's anti-smoking ordinance.
This clash between art and public-health concerns became fodder for Chicago's aldermen Friday, as a City Council panel considered -- then rejected -- a proposal to create a loophole in the ban so actors can smoke on stage.Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd), proposed the exemption at the behest of Lou Raizin, president of Broadway in Chicago.
The group presented the recent run of "Twelve Angry Men" and a long list of other works that have brought clouds of smoke to stages at downtown theaters.
Forbidding actors to smoke in cases where the playwright would have wanted them to puff away amounts to "asking an artist to change his art," Raizin told members of the council's Buildings Committee at City Hall.
Committee members voted 4-2 against the ordinance granting an exemption for actors who smoke in the line of duty.
May 3, 2007
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Tulips and the Moon: views from Chicago
later
Tulips and the Moon: views from Chicago
The Third of May, 2007
The way to work, in the morning, just around the corner, TULIPS at Tulip level;
later
From a living room window at 10:30 at night, you can see the moon, a thin, thinnest of line of lights across the lake, the shimmer of reflected moonlight; then right above the shortest building the lights of Navy Peer. (click it to see it larger)
I finished a book a few days ago, with a few lines the moon returns to me, rich in sentiment and atmosphere:
I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot and drinks a lot and are found dead in a gutter at the end of every film. (p. 202)
and
Who can resiste sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean? (215)
Both are from Andre Aciman's CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, a phrase to whispered in the closest of moments. Set in Italy it is a serious story of youth and love; opposed to the fun and funny novels by James Hamilton-Paterson stories. If you like peaches you should skip the Aciman . . .
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May 2, 2007
MY GENERATION:
from the WIKIPEDIA
The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. Viral videos are often humorous in nature and may range from televised comedy sketches such as Saturday Night Live's Lazy Sunday to unintentionally released amateur video clips like Star Wars kid, the Numa Numa song, or The Dancing Cadet.
oh, here's one now:
a bit different from - older, from 1969 - and not VIRAL:
The Who - My Generation [Woodstock 1969]
from the WIKIPEDIA
The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. Viral videos are often humorous in nature and may range from televised comedy sketches such as Saturday Night Live's Lazy Sunday to unintentionally released amateur video clips like Star Wars kid, the Numa Numa song, or The Dancing Cadet.
oh, here's one now:
a bit different from - older, from 1969 - and not VIRAL:
The Who - My Generation [Woodstock 1969]
May 1, 2007
V for Vendetta (a 2 disc dvd set being priced at the moment)
I remember when it came out, I wanted to see it. But I don't go to movies often, I wait for the DVD. If I am too anxious there is always piracy. DVD's offer all that commentary, all those little insights, captioning for those hushed high impact whispers.
SO I SUGGEST THIS MOVIE - you may have to click 2X:
now to demonstrate the value of captioning,
(via: http://www.whysanity.net/monos/vendetta.html )
(broadcasting from a captured TV station.) V: Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday - I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot!
---- OK, now isn't that 1776 all over again?
this could bring a tear to your eye:
Can trust a movie, maybe buy American only? maybe this then:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Letter from Th. Jefferson to James Madison
Paris, January 30th, 1787
I remember when it came out, I wanted to see it. But I don't go to movies often, I wait for the DVD. If I am too anxious there is always piracy. DVD's offer all that commentary, all those little insights, captioning for those hushed high impact whispers.
SO I SUGGEST THIS MOVIE - you may have to click 2X:
now to demonstrate the value of captioning,
(via: http://www.whysanity.net/monos/vendetta.html )
(broadcasting from a captured TV station.) V: Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday - I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot!
---- OK, now isn't that 1776 all over again?
this could bring a tear to your eye:
Can trust a movie, maybe buy American only? maybe this then:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Letter from Th. Jefferson to James Madison
Paris, January 30th, 1787
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