February 2011 Blog Posts (9)

Clips from this Billy Joel Q&A in 1996 have been popping up on FB lately. I was

a photojournalist at the time and took stills at the event. A favorite memory ;)

<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/20438977">Billy Joel Q&A</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/photo2010">photo2010</a> on <a…

This video gives you a good sense of how BIG Wisconsin's demonstrations are.

Today, despite the freezing snow, 100,000 people stood for worker's rights.

The last four seconds made me…

My Husband found this for me. Apparently he doesn't think I'm screaming out in my sleep enough.

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"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." -Ludwig Von Mises…

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center is advising that a powerful X-class solar flare is on its way to Earth. Charged plasma particles are expected to reach earth today. 

A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth’s northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said.

But the Earth appears to have escaped a widespread geomagnetic storm, with the effects confined to the northern…

Louisville Sluggers,

Jelly Bellys

and the armaments that killed somebody's loved ones in Bahrain today.

logged on in after like ages of not..

how is everyone in here?

ah..Syd's birthday..

happy birthday captain.

hello Blanche. wish you well.

and ofcourse Chig, Willie, Pyper, Photo2010, Annelidafilms,  NatureJunkie, Jinboy, Dan

and everyone else here, hope all is good.

wait, have you seen Sara around?

she's not here too anymore? ugh

anyways..

rock on everyone. Il see ya around.

:-)

It's 19 degrees outside.  I am standing in the shadow of this building.  I knelt to extinguish candle after candle in this place where 5 people's lives where extinguished less than a month ago.   It was not exactly what I had signed up for, but I guess it brought me to this place I had avoided now for weeks despite its close proximity to home.   We discussed how things were to be separated, cleaned, dried, and placed in boxes.   Like some sort of dreadful assembly line we each took to a task…