About sixty people turned out last night at the Tenney park lagoon to remember the Japanese victims of atomic war by making paper lanterns and floating them out on the water at dusk. The Raging Grannies performed. Clare Norelle sang and read a children’s story. Some feared the rain but it never appeared. It was a beautiful event.
There’s a short streaming video at Channel3000 (scroll down to “News 3 Multimedia.”)
Bratwurst?Tom has a sad notice regarding the recent death of Ralph Stayer, creator of the Johnsonville brat.
That place out in the avenues that served up the celebrity burgers? I was reminded by David Weinberger’s anagrammatic reference to the recently departed Beverly Sills, herself an honoree at the aforementioned burger joint. Googling Sillsburger led to the suggestion that I might be looking for Salzburger. I can has Opera with that.
Impeachment? Not just a Ben and Jerry’s flavor… We’re having an impeachment rally. Is there one in your town? Betsy runs impeachment up the flagpole today with surprising news regarding Republican dudes ‘tudes. She quotes both New Hampshire Senators,
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH): “Our society treats both perjury and obstruction of justice as extraordinarily serious crimes, ones for which people are put in prison,” Gregg told the AP.
Senator John E Sununu (R-NH) strongly agrees: “These acts are not merely technical violations of federal law; they demonstrate a broad and consistent pattern of behavior designed to corrupt our system of due process.”
The Declaration of Independence? Ronni has a copy, in full, at Time Goes By
…let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Flying saucers? Flemming Funch fends off flying saucer critics with this death bed testimony from a Roswell PR staffer.
We walked into a large darkened room with a few chairs around the wall and a few sort of bean-bag couches, so most people just sat on the floor. The screen was split into three, with the same picture left and right, and a different one in the middle. They weren’t as much images as set of changing squiggles and colors. The music was that eerie, disembodied Brian Eno music that was probably machine-generated as well.
The people who were there were probably from 30’s to 60’s. They seemed rapt, lying on the floor just watching. It was sort of a meditative exercise, because there didn’t seem to be any movement towards an idea or resolution. I guess you either “got” it or you didn’t. Or perhaps it was a way of making time stretch so it seemed longer! I lasted about 40 minutes……….
David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, is dedicated to the librarians. It could be likened to a lumberjack’s chain saw tearing down every Aristotelian tree in the forest, but that would probably be wrong. It would probably also be wrong to assert that the miscellaneous nature of everything in the universe destroys nested categories leaving homeless the twittering birdies of taxonomic classification. But I don’t know. I haven’t read it yet.
What I anticipate, now that I’ve pried the book away from Veneta, is a pleasant guided tour through the information hell of the 21st century with an opportunity perhaps to grasp new ways of seeing how things relate, and even why they don’t have to relate until I want to make sense out of what’s within my own field of vision.
I’m looking forward to reading it. I’ll blog about what I find out.
I’ve been through lots of YouTube videos looking for one to put up here as a background to letting down the tears for the students and faculty, parents and staff at Virginia tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. And you know it doesn’t matter. “Turn, Turn, Turn?” Those kids had barely begun to sow. Who knows what they might have reaped? KT Tunstall? Carly Simon? Hammered Dulcimers? Harps? James Earl Jones counting to ten on Sesame Street? It just doesn’t matter. Those kids are gone and hundreds of carefree youngsters have had their innocence erased. Son House? Don Van Vliet?
This image stolen from the UFOB Recipients site, with thanks and all kinds of happy-face contextualizing emoticons if you want to get two dimensional about it. My use of the image constitutes neither a blather-blather etcetera, nor legitimate licensed doo-dah, doo-dah so I hope Scruggs is not going to go all legal kung fu on me.
