I was having a conversation with about the Occupy movement came up. My friend said something to the effect that instead of occupation what the young folks should do is collectively buy stocks in corporations and effect change from within the system.Now, I might be misinterpreting his words or not understanding conceptually what he meant. But I'm going with what I think I heard which is something to the effect of "there can be no change by what they are doing, get into the system and fight."It is not a bad suggestion. Not a good one either....
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Hey Where Is Poetry In Plain Sight?
Posted on 7:42 AM by Unknown
Well yeah, there is a story about that. The poetry readings generally happen at a branch of the Pasadena Public Library. That branch is undergoing renovations. Currently the folks are meeting at Maui Wowie, accross the street from Pasadena City College.This is a good thing. Visually. And I like the smoothies.But from an audio standpoint it is a mess. You can hear the blender. You can hear the radio pumping out top 6 hits. You can barely hear the poets.There is no audio cleaner in the world that can handle that kind of background noise. The renovation...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Libraries and Occupations - Then and Now
Posted on 1:32 PM by Unknown
The library nerd in me loves that this video even exists. Matthew Battles is an author and librarian. His book, "Library: An Unquiet History" talks about how libraries constantly are re-invented for the needs of the time. In this video, Battles talks about the 19th century Chartist movement paved the path toward the public library system we have today. Toward the end of the video Battles makes the point about how the camp libraries of the Occupy movement will also shape how we share information in the days to come.For more info on the book: WorldCat...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
TOWS NY and Words From Jay Smooth
Posted on 8:42 PM by Unknown
I pay attention to what Jay Smooth has to say. Brother can post once every three months and it is all right with me because when he does hit record it makes sense to me. I've been trying to write my own thoughts but I can yank three pages of them cuz Mr. Smooth has scope out part of the signal.Case in point about Occupy Wall Street New York:Especially the part about the ringers. The guy from American Spectator that started the ruckus at the Air and Space Museum and all the media pundits, pundi, pontificates and those that cannot see non-scripted...
Monday, October 17, 2011
OWSLA or Los Angeles Has A Financial District?
Posted on 5:33 AM by Unknown
Los Angeles is a place of contradictions. Thousands of them. Los Angeles does have a kinda sorta Wall Street but the traders have to wake up early to play with the east coast markets. They, I heard told, do not necessarily walk around in gray pinstripe uniforms, er suits.Los Angeles does have towers of banks and financial institutions that are far up in the sky. Far away from commuters, the homeless population, vendors wanting to buy gold and silver and the other teaming masses. So no, this march will have no impact on them at all. Still,...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Two Thoughts and Then I'm Outside for the Day
Posted on 8:36 AM by Unknown
Got an e-mail from Barnes and Noble about buying Borders customer data. Thing is, I opted out of Borders e-mail long before the bankruptcy. What I forgot was that I was a Border's member. It appears I can have a limited free membership into the BN premium club until I would have to pay in 2012.I don't want to pay BN an advance on the books I may or many not purchase. I didn't want to do that before the Nook and I don't want to do it now. I have another e-mail from Writer's Digest talking about them helping me to bulk up for NaNoWriMo, if...
Sunday, October 9, 2011
To The Person That Almost Ran Me Over
Posted on 9:04 PM by Unknown
It is a known fact that there are chunks of Los Angeles that are automotive incompetent to drive a car. There are cities with reputations of having distracted, uncaring and flat out unskilled drivers.There are also people that transcend geography that have a tendency to piss off 8 out of 10 pedestrians. Now I don't want to cast all those who drive BMWs and Mercedes in a bad light. But I would swear that it is part of the code of automotive arrogance that allow almost hitting pedestrians is a badge of honor.A few minuets ago I was bringing my laundry...
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