Cross-processed (slide film processed in print film chemistry) image taken with my trusty old 6×9 folding pinhole camera. f/295, about 6 seconds. Apologies about the cruft on the image. I’m hoping it can be cleaned up, but it’s actually on the film, not an artifact of scanning.
Month: February 2007
trifecta
It is a trifecta: ruling elites must be willing to slay villages and put entire populations in concentration camps abroad; ensure that those of the lower orders who breach the principles of thrift and good morals find themselves in poverty and misery at home; and accept the probability of their own violent death for no reason other than that they have labeled somebody else an “enemy.”
The burden of empire . . .
a day which will live in…
humiliation.
Seriously, the citizens of Boston who didn’t wet their pants must be embarrassed to have such a non-event — large cosmopolitan city held hostage by Lite-Brites — and the attendant over-reaction.
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wheels within wheels
The Reality-Based Community: Puzzle solved?:
Why didn’t Patrick Fitzgerald indict anyone for the substantive crime of revealing the identity of a CIA NOC?
Perhaps because he discovered that the revelation was done on the orders of the President, who (at least arguably) can’t be indicted by a Federal prosecutor. Anyone down the chain (Libby, Fleischer, Rove) would have had a good defense that he or she was acting in good faith to carry out a Presidential order.
So if I am following this, Fitzgerald may be able to drag everyone up to and including the vice president into court to unmask the president as the person behind a “high crime and misdemeanor” punishable by death.
Interesting.
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links for 2007-02-02
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“I’m not a tough guy; I don’t bother nobody and nobody bothers me,” he said. “But if somebody is going to harm you, you got to harm them.” ’nuff said.
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but what about eating it? Film contains animal protein (the gelatin emulsion that contains the photo-sensitive silver is from animal bones) so can vegetarians use it in good conscience?
Olympic Sculpture Park
Split, a stainless-steel tree, with Alexander Calder’s Eagle in the background.
More in a photoset, with still more to add as I get it processed and scanned.
links for 2007-02-01
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you kids are too young to remember Tom Petty demanding his newest release (in 1981) be listed at $8.99 or he would make that the title.
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The first post he cites is well worth your time (Holbo is a very good but voluminous writer).
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Even if you don’t/can’t listen to the Beeb, this is an interesting experiment/survey as the BBC Trust tries to meet the digital world on it’s own terms.
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“We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders.” A sharp tongue and a first-rate reporter’s sense of what’s important. She’ll be missed.
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So what did he think about what happened to Rachel Corrie?