This Bard being the students of Bard College. This video was created in support of Planned Parenthood.You don't have to be a young person to use the services of Planned Parenthood. There are middle aged and older people having unprotected sex. You have to know that sexually transmitted diseases do no respect age or how much hair dye you use.Planned Parenthood is a resource you can use to get tested for STDs at any age. Let folks know that this is more than about abortion services. It is about access to sexual and reproductive health care.In other...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Citizen Journalism Discussion at Pasadena Library
Posted on 4:32 PM by Unknown
The term citizen journalism is often used as a pejorative by mainstream media unless those same citizens make it easier for mainstream and corporate journalist folks to whip up a quick story. Just got an e-mail that Andrea Coleman of the Pasadena Weekly will be having a discussion about citizen on March 29, 2011 in the Donald R. Wright Auditorium at the Pasadena Central Library. 285 E. Walnut St., in Pasadena starting at 6:00pm.I happen to think the term is more expansive than the professionals give credit and most times they don't or they are...
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Poetry In Plain Sight - Gina Bove
Posted on 3:13 PM by Unknown
The next poem up on deck is from Gina Bove who is also in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Issue #49.Don't forget folks, April is National Poetry Month and there will be all kinds of doings in unexpected plac...
Poetry In Plain Sight - Nick Barrett
Posted on 2:01 PM by Unknown
Yes, I've been a little slow on the uploading. I'm sorry. This is my way of making amends. First up is Nicholas Barrett and his poem is called Mercy Tree.For more info check out http://sgvpq.blogspot.comIt is the life/time thing again. I almost bought an iTouch 4th Generation this weekend. I could record and edit via iMovie on the bus and upload as soon as I walked in the door. I couldn't bring myself to do it. $299 and I still would have had to buy a protective case, a mount to steady the iTouch4G and $5 for the iMovie app.Every time I watch...
The Stripper Bookstores and the License to Read
Posted on 10:54 AM by Unknown
I don't want to misled anyone. This is not about strippers running bookstores. This is memory about an old bookstore and news vendor practice. On my other blog, Create Video Notebook, I was explaining about being willing to learn when you know nothing about a topic. As a teen I really wanted to know about photography but outside of looking at Life Magazine there wasn't the information explosion that is occurring now. There were photography books at the library.Most of those books talked about chemicals, processing charts or lighting concepts. I...
Friday, March 25, 2011
Betty Wright - Clean Up Medley on the Freakout Extra
Posted on 6:08 PM by Unknown
Oh my goodness. This was so much fun to watch I might turn around and watch it again. Way back in the day Betty Wright had a hit called Clean Up Woman; a very instructional song about love, attention and opportunistic people willing to recycle your discarded loved one.Time passes and Betty, who really is a talented woman, re-creates her hit woven with with musical imitations of Patti LaBelle, Tina Turner, Barbara Mason, the O'Jays and Al Green. I'm petitioning for folks to remember Betty Wright for Women's History Month; the musicians and performers...
Be My Valentine on the Finally Friday Freakout
Posted on 12:01 AM by Unknown
Normally I would hesitate to have any reference of that long delinquent love archer on the blog but I am making an exception. First the introductions; the musician is Johnny Blu who is a man with a very pleasing voice.So why the video? Well, because I like the video and it was shot on a iPhone4. It also has a filter on the video by the 8MM Vintage Camera app (application to the old schoolers). Can a woman be seduced by technology? This one can. Johnny is right nice looking, don't get me wrong, but I was really was looking at how the app performed....
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Ellen Snortland Video and Taking A Risk
Posted on 10:44 AM by Unknown
Ellen Snortland is a well known columnist at the Pasadena Weekly. She writes about being able to defend yourself, reproductive issues and the concerns of a being a woman in these times. This video has none of that. Ellen took a comedy class and this is the graduation performance. I'm posting it because I am about to cross another age marker known as a birthday. I need mentors. I need women my age saying they want to get laid. Let it be known that here is joy to be found in the larger Padumpadumps region of the mature body.I'm really posting this...
Friday, March 18, 2011
A Understandable Explanation About Fukushima Reactor
Posted on 12:45 PM by Unknown
Professor Martyn Poliakoff is at the University of Nottingham does a great job of explaining science topics to N00bs like me.I've been watching the Periodic Table videos for a long time. This is a video of what is going on with the reactor, the problems about using salt water to cool things down and what is the deal with iodine tablets.The professor does a really good job of explaining what is going on with the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan. I don't know about you but every other thought is about that reactor.When I'm not succeeding about...
Ship of Fools on the Finally Friday Freakout
Posted on 11:55 AM by Unknown
It is my weekend. I haven't seen the complete movie Ship of Fools in years. I don't even remember this scene. Looking at it now I can tell you Oskar is hot.I like it even better that he is hot for Simone. That woman was radiant. You would be took if you had Oskar looking at you like that.Sorry, I've used up all the intellect I had allocated for the day. Just a cinematic memory of when men were courtly even when they wanted to jump your bones.Even if those bones had padding.That is a...
Update on the PBS and NPR Funding
Posted on 10:49 AM by Unknown
Most of you know that I am a Contributing Editor at BlogHer. It is a challenge when I have to fit in writing, research and the day job. All this and poetry videos too. In January I wrote a post about do we still need the Public Broadcasting System. So much has happened regarding attacks on PBS and governmental jockeying of resources.Back in the day our favorite sweater dude, Fred Rogers made a heart felt plea to Congress to fund public television. Watch the full episode. See more Mister Rogers.No lie, I miss this dude. I miss what he represented...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Poetry In Plain Sight - Eleanor Higgins
Posted on 12:00 PM by Unknown
About two weeks ago Eleanor and I were sitting on the library bench talking about stuff. We were outside appreciating the beautiful weather. Eleanor was at Cal State Northridge University during the Northridge quake.The Internet was just still in the GOPHER space, e-mail was king and if you had 56k you were doing pretty good. After the Northridge quake Eleanor told me about folks teaching in their cars and communicating via e-mail. Buildings were destroyed. Everything changed.We joked about that old erroneous meme about warm weather and earthquakes....
Friday, March 11, 2011
Metropolis (1927) on the Finally Friday Freakout
Posted on 6:27 PM by Unknown
I'm branching out the Freakout to include movies I want to view, remember or are inspired by the craft of film making. I still haven't seen this movie, shame on me.This is a restored and enhanced version of the great 1927 silent movie distributed by Kino.This is what I call future-casting. Lemme see, wealthy upper class folks enjoying life and culture? Yep. Labor class works and is drained of individuality? Yep.Mass revolt, destruction and creation of new world view? Sounds about right. I've got to make some time to learn about Fritz Lang. I make...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Poetry In Plain Sight - Ajarae
Posted on 7:05 PM by Unknown
It is the last few hours of International Women's Day. I didn't make it to a bridge. It was all I could do not to sneeze. There are some power winds blowing. These are not my beloved Santa Ana winds. There is no warmth in the wind blowing outside, just forces of nature. Sometimes the forces gang up on you. You need reinforcements. You might have to reach for a book of poems to brace yourself up. These are two short inspirational poems from Ajarea to help stoke the inner light.For more information on the doing of the San Gabriel poetry community...
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Another View About HarperCollins e-Book License
Posted on 9:35 AM by Unknown
I'm not sure we are gonna make it to 2012. This year is frisky enough as it is. Mercy! The latest thing to get me all twisty is the HarperCollins e-book flap. In a nutshell, HarperCollins wants to change the buying terms for e-books for libraries. Instead of one book, one reader one purchase they want to change to a license model.For example, if a library has an e-book that they lend to library users they can only do that 26 times per book. After that time the library would have to pony up for another license for the next 26 readers.So let's say...
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Do You Want to Gather Bridge on March 8th?
Posted on 5:50 AM by Unknown
March 8, 2011 is International Day of the Women. I can tell you this year has been kinda rough on women and girls and we are only in month 3. Various state and federal proposals to remove pre-school, funding for Planned Parenthood, de-funding PBS and NPR, criminalizing women who have miscarriages and on and on and on. And that is trivial, so trivial when compared to unarmed women being shot while protesting in the Ivory Coast. Yes, it is bad when unarmed men get shot too. Here is a thought; y'all can keep the guns and we melt down the bullets....
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Johnny Guitar - The Film I Missed That I Shouldn't Have
Posted on 4:40 PM by Unknown
This is a school of my own making by the way. Citizen Kane, Forbidden Planet Pressburger and Powell movies and just about anybody's film noir. I may have heard about the movie Johnny Guitar but if I knew that Joan Crawford was in it I would have passed it by. Independent of her reported personal life I just don't cotton to her as a film star. She is the rough rider. Crawford is either bullet tough or spooky. Not seeing this movie was a big mistake. Huge. This is one quirky kick-ass movie. It is not a woman's film. This is a film that has women...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Poetry in Plain Sight - Angel Uriel Perales
Posted on 4:36 PM by Unknown
You learn something every day. If you are open to it. I learned that I should not open my big mouth when I am riled up. I need space to figure out is it me or is it the situation. Most times it is me.Again. I keep failing the lesson and it is repeated. Just like the month of January. All the things I wanted to do in the prior year are hoovering like a specter going "Gotcha" before they fade into this years mission. January is the mark of the end and the beginning. This is a poem by Angel Uriel Perales called January Dawn. When I looked up Angel's...
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