the art of writing is discovering what you believe
(I would love if someone could explain to me exactly what happened, though, in the scene toward the end where Tommy Lee Jones goes into the motel room.)
…if it’s that good, why the question about what happened?
Saw it this afternoon and it’s just indescribably good. (I would love if someone could explain to me exactly what happened, though, in the scene toward the end where Tommy Lee Jones goes into the motel room.) [From ‘No Country for Old Men’]
if it’s that good, why the question about what happened? Does a movie that good leave you hanging like that?
In January 2008, the Photomedia Center will be featuring artists who have been invited through an open submissions process to exhibit their photography which was created with the assistance of the Holga toy camera. This plastic miracle has produced a track record of unexpectedly beautiful results in the hands of skilled image-makers.
ATTENTION fine art photographers working with HOLGA cameras! In January 2008, the Photomedia Center will be featuring artists who have been invited through an open submissions process to exhibit their photography which was created with the assistance of the Holga toy camera. This plastic miracle has produced a track record of unexpectedly beautiful results in the hands of skilled image-makers. [From THE HOLGA SHOW: CALL FOR ENTRIES]
I have been slack this year, but perhaps I can find something worth sending along. And I have a few weeks to make something, if it comes to that.
” We’re off to Portland by train and I am finishing up my preparation and packing…. a Minolta X-700 with a zone plate replacing the lens (I just made the zone plate and am hopeful it works)
As he once said, “If I have a little money, I buy books. If there is any left, I buy food and clothes.“
We’re off to Portland by train and I am finishing up my preparation and packing. I am bringing some cameras. Some means:
Now to pack some clothes.
I’m pretty backed up on film scanning and uploading, for various boring reasons. Maybe a wealth of nice new images will get me going.
America’s elites are, at heart, the same way. They’d prefer to be emirs and kings running a shambling catastrophe of a country than moderately rich men in Sweden.
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Quiz – Alabama Literacy Test circa 1965 ():
Take this quiz to see whether you would have been able to vote
before 1965 if you were not white. The Federal Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, made tests such as this one illegal.
I didn’t know some of this and some of the questions confused me. See how you do.
This is who CNN feels is acceptable to host programs:
Think Progress » AUDIO: Laura Ingraham Tells Listeners To Jam Voter Protection Hotline:
Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline.
After playing a recording of DNC Chairman Howard Dean promoting the line to voters, Ingraham suggested her listeners call en masse:
Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time.
Continue reading “new CNN show host’s history of dirty tricks”
There is a total lunar eclipse in about a month. It seems that this would be a good place to go see it.
There are other options, but that might be interesting.