"Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable."
-Michelle Obama
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
new journalism - still feels fresh
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold by Gay Talese
Esquire Magazine, April 1966
"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel." --Frank Sinatra
Esquire Magazine, April 1966
"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel." --Frank Sinatra
Monday, June 16, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
modern art has never been more enjoyable
My Kid Could Paint That is a welcome return to ambiguity in the documentary, while posing perhaps the year’s most intriguing mystery, even more so than last year’s diverting examination of art-world snobbery, Who the $#%& is Jackson Pollock? Even if only two films make up this exclusive subgenre (art-world exposé/mystery?), it would suffice.
From www.film-forward.com
From www.film-forward.com
Monday, June 2, 2008
take it into your own hands
Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area
by Joe Robinson
LATimes.com
There is no law against planting on city landscaping, except for ficus trees, whose roots wreck roads and sidewalks. The city discourages unapproved gardening but tries to work with road planters it discovers. "If you want to do this, my advice is to contact myself or the council person," says Arevalo. "We want to partner with people who care about where they live."
At a time of shrinking city budgets and skeletal landscaping staffs, it's a hint at where guerrilla gardening could go -- to approved brigades of citizen gardeners helping cities turn wasted space into food and flowers.
hey, bo diddley
"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.”
- Bo Diddley (1928-2008)
Monday, May 26, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
sometimes the world is a confusing place
"A March 2007 study in The Journal of Food Science looked at the effects of boiling, steaming, microwaving and pressure cooking on the nutrients in broccoli.
-Steaming and boiling caused a 22 percent to 34 percent loss of vitamin C.
-Microwaved and pressure-cooked vegetables retained 90 percent of their vitamin C."
-Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables by Tara Parker-Pope
NY Times Online
-Steaming and boiling caused a 22 percent to 34 percent loss of vitamin C.
-Microwaved and pressure-cooked vegetables retained 90 percent of their vitamin C."
-Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables by Tara Parker-Pope
NY Times Online
Microwave Oven, patented Jan. 24, 1950 #2,495,429
Sunday, May 18, 2008
major tom?
Port of Long Beach as seen from outer space.
NASA Earth Observatory
Orange sodium vapor lights illuminate the port facilities of Long Beach, California, supporting the round-the-clock operations of one of the world’s busiest commercial cargo ports. Image ISS016-E-27162 was taken on February 4, 2008, using the 400 mm lens, providing superior resolution
NASA Earth Observatory
Orange sodium vapor lights illuminate the port facilities of Long Beach, California, supporting the round-the-clock operations of one of the world’s busiest commercial cargo ports. Image ISS016-E-27162 was taken on February 4, 2008, using the 400 mm lens, providing superior resolution
conservation
To preserve, maintain & protect in order to extend usefulness and enjoyment - improvement by way of damage prevention
the big picture delivered in under an hour
This American Life (radio) 355: The Giant Pool of Money
Prologue.
Ira talks with NPR business and economics correspondent about two gatherings he attended. One at the Ritz Carlton and one at a community college in Brooklyn. The first was an awards dinner for finance professionals who created the mortgage based financial instruments that nearly brought down the global economic system. The other was a non-profit conference for people facing foreclosure. Ira explains that today's show lays out how the finance guys and the people facing foreclosure are connected by a chain of middlemen, and that together, they all brought about the current housing and credit crisis. (4 minutes)
Ira talks with NPR business and economics correspondent about two gatherings he attended. One at the Ritz Carlton and one at a community college in Brooklyn. The first was an awards dinner for finance professionals who created the mortgage based financial instruments that nearly brought down the global economic system. The other was a non-profit conference for people facing foreclosure. Ira explains that today's show lays out how the finance guys and the people facing foreclosure are connected by a chain of middlemen, and that together, they all brought about the current housing and credit crisis. (4 minutes)
Friday, May 16, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
needing, wanting, willing
"People think chutzpah is in the genes. It isn’t…it’s in the needing and wanting and being willing to fall on your face. It isn't fun…who wants all that rejection, but life is sweeter if you make yourself do uncomfortable things."
-Helen Gurley Brown (1922- )
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
size and strength are relative measures
"A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair"
-Iranian Proverb
counting on you, mr. zappa & weinstein co.
"Dance your cares away,
Worries for another day,
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock."
Fraggle Rock (1983-1987)
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