tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56986392011-04-21T17:52:29.310-07:00schwelo's museI live, I have no time, give no account,
knowing that I must account for time,
& that the time must come
to give account.
--Miguel de Guevarra shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1085608007325281502004-05-26T14:08:00.000-07:002004-05-26T16:44:01.196-07:00Back in August 1993 a little movie called "The Panama Deception" was released by a group called the Empowerment Project. It detailed the story behind the US's invasion of Panama in December of 1989. If you recall, George Bush Sr. was the President at the time, and had a previously established relationship with General Manuel Noriega during his tenure as the head of the CIA prior to being shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1085193353011650842004-05-21T19:29:00.000-07:002004-05-26T19:03:52.750-07:00When I first heard about what had happened at Abu Ghraib, my heart sank like a stone. My sense of sadness about the occupation peaked & I hit a mental wall. What have we done, I thought, we can't come back from this. I felt very sympathetic toward the prisoners. Whether they are terrorists, insurgents, or innocent, nothing justifies this kind of sadism. As human beings, we are all effected shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1084843251254732592004-05-17T18:06:00.000-07:002004-05-17T18:22:36.700-07:00WAITING FOR THE INTERURBAN (click)
There's a statue here in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood of a group of people waiting for the bus. This statue has a special history of being dressed up for different holidays or occasions. This is sometimes done in secret and in this way, the people seem to have a life of their own that is reflected back to us through this form of guerrilla art. Well shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1084510534795486852004-05-13T21:50:00.000-07:002004-05-14T10:10:17.480-07:00Where is the love, I ask, where is the courage, the hope?
dragging our heels in the dirt over his grave
so all will know we are righteous
how can we pray when the layers of shadows
point their fingers at the dead
how can we laugh
when we are turned
brother against brother
how can we free those we hold captive
how can we be free
when we clench these guns and iron bars so tightly
they cannot shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1083024502139091292004-04-26T17:08:00.000-07:002004-04-26T17:11:25.733-07:00Woke up to this today.
It's representational people. Wait how does that saying go? No adulation without...no, that's not it...shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1082947925735112972004-04-25T19:52:00.000-07:002004-04-25T20:18:59.686-07:00I noticed that a few mendiken souls have found this page because of a post about Pablo Neruda that I wrote awhile back (September 11, 2003). This post is for the next one that comes along, it's an excerpt from Neruda's Memoirs that describes the state of his apartment when he returned to Spain following the civil war. Throughout the Memoirs he slips from the narrative into these poetic shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1082780900239553722004-04-23T21:28:00.000-07:002004-04-23T21:33:28.670-07:00What the hey'all is going on when expressing a desire for peace is considered hateful speech?
I must be in Wonderland because I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that line of thinking.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1082760498232074702004-04-23T15:48:00.000-07:002004-04-23T15:54:41.590-07:00War Prayer
I've had a feeling in my gut about this war that's starting to turn into bile. I feel betrayed by my government and leadership for the escalating violence in Iraq. I feel helpless to do anything to change what is happening...especially knowing that it is not over & that many more people will be killed & injured...orphaned, widowed, maimed, scarred, disfigured. It just gets uglier shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1082157134339901472004-04-16T16:12:00.000-07:002004-04-20T12:19:01.343-07:00Here's a first person account by an English activist who took some medical supplies into Fallujah. It sounds like the cease fire was violated by Americans.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1081479682034586822004-04-08T20:01:00.000-07:002004-04-08T20:10:48.450-07:00I was happy to find Raed resurface with his own blog. I've been reading up the last few days. His writing is very informative of the current situation in Iraq. I was afraid that he'd done something crazy like quit blogging, but it seems he just needed his own space to let his voice be heard.
I think that Salam thinks Raed's views are too radical...at least for his blog. Anyway, that's whatshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1080107174017860852004-03-23T21:46:00.000-08:002004-03-24T11:24:47.390-08:00Ahhhhhh...blogular decompression complete...I feel much better, don't you? Nothin' like a little sabbatical from that reactical realm that is the internet. Sometimes it confounds me how many opinions that are available to be absorbed. I get saturated long before I feel like I've really learned anything. Then there's the effort required in having opinions, thoughts, poetry, ideas to put out shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1077323148836795472004-02-20T16:25:00.000-08:002004-02-20T16:29:06.170-08:00I'm Jaques Lacan...which 20th Century theorist are you?shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1076112640378741782004-02-06T16:10:00.000-08:002004-02-06T16:12:23.746-08:00Now here's something you just don't see everyday.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1076019175359520002004-02-05T14:12:00.000-08:002004-02-05T15:58:00.810-08:00Got ten minutes?
This is one of the coolest things I've seen come across Atom in a long time. By a guy named Evan Mathers.
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1076011901872711942004-02-05T12:11:00.000-08:002004-02-05T12:19:49.373-08:00What's next? Rogaine?
(The weird thing is that the law was already on the books. So just how long has this been going on? It's an outrage!)shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1076011694887135602004-02-05T12:08:00.000-08:002004-02-05T12:14:35.233-08:00Ohhhh, I thought he said cabbages...
(via DB)shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075923313308078292004-02-04T11:35:00.000-08:002004-02-04T12:49:03.780-08:00DEFINING MARRIAGE...BUT IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL?
Sometimes I catch myself coming under the somnambulistic spell of political happenings, until the figurative pinch comes that wakes me from my slumber. This happened recently in the form of a reminder from an outspoken friend of mine that the Defense of Marriage Act covers powers not explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution, & is thereforeshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075858576517029582004-02-03T17:36:00.000-08:002004-02-03T21:02:29.843-08:00OR WOULD YOU RATHER BE A HORSE'S ASS?
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
-H. L. Mencken
Tim Eyman has come forward with a new tax initiative that proposes to cut property taxes by 25% (I-864). I went to visit his website to see if I could find a copy of the initiative, but all I found was a big fat cash register ready to take donations to support shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075769500414560392004-02-02T16:51:00.000-08:002004-02-02T16:58:23.640-08:00IT'S ALWAYS THE JUG PLAYERS
One thing you learn, if you spend any amount of time around blues musicians, is that jug players are some of the most enigmatic people that you're ever going to meet. Playing jug means allowing yourself to be cast in a supportive role, but most jug players are multi-instrumentalists & are much more talented than they're usually given credit for. Playing the jug shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075590295755058722004-01-31T15:04:00.000-08:002004-01-31T15:06:33.153-08:00The Two Things about parenting are:
1) there's no such thing as too much affection
2) it's not so much what you say, as it is what you doshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075497525851461952004-01-30T13:18:00.000-08:002004-01-30T13:20:21.996-08:00No, no, hella-no!
(hat tip to Dave Barry)shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075495481501643372004-01-30T12:44:00.000-08:002004-01-30T13:22:22.826-08:00HAGGIS ANYONE?
(hat tip to b3ta)shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075486320828322052004-01-30T10:12:00.000-08:002004-01-30T13:11:08.826-08:00TEFLON MAN VS DR MAGNETRON REVISITED
Now that Kerry has been established as the front-runner in this campaign, the figurative (explicative deleted) has really started to fly. This week, we've seen everything from botox injections to voting records thrown his way, & so far, he's doing a pretty good job of deflecting any negative fallout.
A kinder, gentler Dean, on the other hand, is starting shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075422389057864832004-01-29T16:26:00.000-08:002004-01-29T17:51:37.936-08:00SEATTLE & THE NEW PROHIBITION
I recently read Radley Balko's article "Criminalization Doesn't Cure Booze, Drug Use", & it got me thinking about the designation of Alcohol Impact Areas in Seattle. AIA's are an example of regulation that selectively infringes on people's rights under the law. Enacted in the name of public safety & commerce, an AIA in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075314160358495262004-01-28T10:22:00.000-08:002004-01-29T11:46:47.950-08:00I guess I hit a wall this morning when I turned to the Drudge Report & saw that Matt was more interested in whether or not Sen. Kerry has had botox injections than some more substantial analysis of the campaign. Some mornings I wonder why I even bother, but it's like an addiction, I have to know about the 50 ton whale that exploded on the streets of Taiwan. It's like trying not to look at a carshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075268708664569832004-01-27T21:45:00.000-08:002004-01-27T21:46:42.030-08:00Now I know I'm not a miserable failure. Why? Because Google says so.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075250648398458152004-01-27T16:44:00.000-08:002004-01-28T09:47:51.670-08:00SUGGESTED READING
Here's a few things I came across today that I thought were worthwhile:
International human rights organization Human Rights Watch released it's annual report yesterday which stated in part that "the rule of law has not arrived and Iraq is still beset by the legacy of human rights abuses of the former government, as well as new ones that have emerged under the occupation," & shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075158280194914992004-01-26T15:04:00.000-08:002004-01-26T15:06:33.403-08:00JUSTIFIABLE CAUSE
In his State of the Union speech Bush said that the Kay report "identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations." Today, Ashcroft said, "past use of “evil chemistry” and “evil biology” justified U.S. actions."
So if "past use" & "related activities" are enough to shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1075093206981569972004-01-25T21:00:00.000-08:002004-01-25T21:01:38.716-08:00The sand, it's alive.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074905882384839112004-01-23T16:58:00.000-08:002004-01-23T19:36:23.983-08:00BUDGET SCHMUDGET
Sometimes I really have to wonder if I'm on the same planet as our dear leader...oh wait, I'm not.
Anyway, I came across this article while looking for information on the Pentagon Budget. It does a good job of explaining away some of the prevailing misconceptions about the military budget, for example:
"...while the public perception is that military operations in Afghanistanshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074902561542939942004-01-23T16:02:00.000-08:002004-01-23T16:04:11.043-08:00A moment of silence please to honor the passing of one of the great heroes of children's television: Bob Keeshan, better known as Capt. Kangaroo, passed away today.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074901906736969862004-01-23T15:51:00.000-08:002004-01-23T18:09:44.013-08:00That must be one helluva glitch.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074899811224318822004-01-23T15:16:00.000-08:002004-01-28T11:29:19.450-08:00Further proof that GW Bush is a Teflon (see Jan 22 post) candidate? Pat Robertson says "God has told him" Bush will be elected in November. But wait, there's more:
"The Lord has just blessed him," Robertson said of Bush. "I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God'sshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074899732316476992004-01-23T15:15:00.000-08:002004-01-23T15:21:31.293-08:00Selective campaigning paid off for Kerry in Iowa. While his surge at the end would have indicated this, I hadn't read any analysis of why this occurred until now.
*Thanks to Tom Schaller on the Daily Kos.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074803213708650662004-01-22T12:26:00.000-08:002004-01-23T12:58:51.890-08:00Teflon Man vs Dr. Magnetron: who is the candidate of the future?
As a subtext to our ongoing conversation about the battle to secure the Democratic nomination, my husband & I have been discussing the phenomenon of teflon vs magnetic candidates -- the manner in which some people seem to be able to deflect potentially damaging scandals or political skeletons, while others are brought down by shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074543377223802052004-01-19T12:16:00.000-08:002004-01-19T12:17:42.403-08:00Mars 'Grand Canyon' snapped by Beagle mother ship.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074483035266756922004-01-18T19:30:00.000-08:002004-01-18T20:43:15.513-08:00I met this artist today. His name is Richard "Dick" Tracy, & he has filled his yard with art. He took us on a tour of the sculptures in his yard. Amazing doesn't even begin to describe it. It's a work in progress. He talked about how the rain & weather improve his pieces, & about how they get better to a certain point before they start to lose their character. It reminded me of the Balineseshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074298601974077692004-01-16T16:16:00.000-08:002004-01-16T16:18:04.436-08:00It's colder in Boston than it is on Mars.
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074296328958979662004-01-16T15:38:00.000-08:002004-01-16T15:46:57.466-08:00Surrealist Claymation Spectacular: "like Wallace & Grommit directed by David Cronenberg" (courtesy of B3TA).shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074291489184409672004-01-16T14:18:00.000-08:002004-01-16T14:23:02.216-08:00BBC honors John Cage with a performance of his "seminal work" 4'33"...including a link to an impromptu performance by the Guardian's own orchestra. Videos of the BBC's performance will also be aired in Britain.
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074287252780473862004-01-16T13:07:00.000-08:002004-01-16T15:36:37.966-08:00Proud Americans...can you say caucas?
Who wants to party at Neverland Ranch?
Still think it's a two party system?
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074226726541437642004-01-15T20:18:00.000-08:002004-01-16T12:57:31.280-08:00SIM CITY
Winner of the Phillip K. Dick award for philosophical incongruence is EA.
Apparently the simulated newspaper run by philosophy professor Peter Ludlow was turning up too much dirt on the underage players, so he was evicted from their imaginary society.
Imagine, a world where the basest human instincts rule, & they don't welcome full disclosure?
So whose responsibility is it if ashannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074225883211533442004-01-15T20:04:00.000-08:002004-01-15T20:25:38.030-08:00Hoo-ha of the day. I'll give you a hint...streakers!shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1074057531469075312004-01-13T21:18:00.000-08:002004-01-13T21:20:11.076-08:00While I had to laugh out loud at John Stewart's description of the Pathfinder mission (who wouldn't want to spend billions of dollars to get better pictures of a bunch of rocks?), I'm still a closet space junky & the panoramic photo is too friggin' cool.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1073972023880201172004-01-12T21:33:00.000-08:002004-01-12T21:35:36.263-08:00Return of the Rocket
I think we all saw this coming.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1073971053340814692004-01-12T21:17:00.000-08:002004-01-12T21:19:13.123-08:00Charlie Hustler
Pete Rose bet on baseball? I don't believe it.
Wait, I do believe it. I don't believe him.
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1072904351620664872003-12-31T12:59:00.000-08:002003-12-31T13:04:50.890-08:00Tony Coleman Rules
I happened to catch a drum seminar with Tony about a month ago at Donn Bennett Drum Studio, & it was evident by the way he answered questions & joked around, that he had a genuine interest in the youngest members of the audience. He's a regular guy who has a talent & interest in passing the music along. With the hits our schools have taken in their budgets for music & the shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1072891172128437302003-12-31T09:19:00.000-08:002003-12-31T09:21:53.780-08:00The ongoing connection between art & terrorism.
I was reminded of the infamous Jason Sprinkle & his Westlake Mall hi-jinks this morning when I read this piece about Antonio Rosano's "The clock that doesn't tell very good time (& may apparently look like a bomb).
Of course there is a difference between making art & enacting a bomb threat, as Sprinkle learned in the wake of his little stunt.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1072298936572910642003-12-24T12:48:00.000-08:002003-12-25T08:30:49.233-08:00FELIZ NAVIDAD
Now I don't want to give everyone the idea that all this blog is about is war & death & capitalist greed & self-hate. I'm not one of those narcissistic nihilists who spend their lives ripping everything for not being utopic & PC. On the other hand, it gets to me how our country can repeatedly enact foreign policies which wreak havoc on the civilian populations of the countries weshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1072287395659697662003-12-24T09:36:00.000-08:002003-12-24T09:39:18.530-08:00Latest theory...Saddam only thought that he had WMDs.
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1072225873897076792003-12-23T16:31:00.000-08:002003-12-24T09:48:06.903-08:00THE MANY THEORIES OF SADDAM
A week later his capture has not brought any resolution, as the theories (& rumors) about it's timing & the source of the US "intelligence" abound.
So, do you pick the story behind door #1, door #2, or door #3?
The blond who snared Saddam (sounds like a comic book or a bad thriller)
or
Kurds say they captured Saddam (no one gives them enough credit)
or
Saddam shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1071779576460002003-12-18T12:32:00.000-08:002003-12-18T12:35:18.106-08:00Now this is what I'm talking about.
Somehow I find it fitting that this article appeared on the same day of the Ridgeway sentencing.
shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1068079402485859552003-11-05T16:43:00.000-08:002003-12-18T12:35:32.733-08:00THE GREEN RIVER KILLER: closing the case on Gary Ridgeway
I thought that when I looked at his face, that I would be able to see something. Something evil, something dangerous, or at least a little off. Something that would reveal how this man was able to strangle 48 women (most were teenagers actually, the youngest was just fourteen) & elude police for nearly twenty years. But the creepiest shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1067936918164705042003-11-04T01:08:00.000-08:002003-11-05T16:46:22.880-08:00DARWIN AWARD WINNER: 11-3-03
It's a wild animal, stoopid.
(Okay, that may have been a little harsh.)shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1067818629846669552003-11-02T16:17:00.000-08:002003-11-02T16:19:37.466-08:00THE OCCUPATION: Day 182
As the number of dead in Iraq continues to rise, I find myself shaking my head at the lack of planning & foresight that our current administration & military advisors put into the "liberation" of Iraq. Notice, I say "dead", not "soldiers", because this would exclude the number of civilians who have been killed by coalition forces, or who have died as the result of the shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1064878847508531562003-09-29T16:40:00.000-07:002003-10-16T15:20:58.470-07:00THE BLUES: Part I
I was watching the PBS special the Blues last night. Corey Harris, the host of the program had traveled to Mali to meet with Ali Farka Toure. Ali Farka Toure was explaining how he came to be a musician. His family was nobility, and therefore they were not allowed to be artists. The griots would come by their house & play music, & he was inspired by that, & got the idea to shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1063496031264754532003-09-13T16:33:00.000-07:002003-10-16T15:23:50.390-07:00THE MAN IN BLACK: February 26, 1932-September 12, 2003
I'm listening to "I'm Leaving Now" (the version with Merle Haggard) as I begin to write this entry. This song & several more I heard on the radio last night have taken on new meaning in light of his passing. The thing that impressed me the most about Johnny Cash was the authority with which he spoke. Both in interviews & when he sang, shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1063307568998351682003-09-11T12:12:00.000-07:002003-09-11T22:36:15.970-07:00Reflections on 9/11: Pablo Neruda & the politics of hope
It was Neruda who taught me about faith, consciousness (political & imaginative), & perseverance. He wrote that we must continue to believe in a better world, because by doing so, we preserve the idea & therefore the possibility of one. He also taught me about the illusion of nations, that it is really class which divides & rules our shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1062611116372459422003-09-03T10:45:00.000-07:002003-09-05T14:05:07.730-07:00"We're all just sheep, who quote needlessly from the past, whine endlessly about the present, and dream stupidly about the future."
Lately, I've been roaming the world of blogs...grazing, so to speak, & ruminating on the various opinions & styles I have encountered. This particular post got stuck in my craw. Maybe it's the intoxicating use of adverbs, but I find this statement as attractive asshannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1062540264353050832003-09-02T15:04:00.000-07:002003-09-04T11:23:06.050-07:00Blog-o-rama! I came across this wonderful blog today, a collaborative effort intent on raising democratic consciousness.
Open Source Politics
For further reading, check out Veiled4Allah's discussion "Imagine the America you want to live in". shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1062454849810737952003-09-01T15:20:00.000-07:002003-09-02T14:51:48.286-07:00Sometimes a leap of faith is required
in order to become
the person you hope to be.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1061838072734733642003-08-25T12:01:00.000-07:002003-09-04T11:55:14.876-07:00I went to see my friend Virginia this weekend. She is in her eighties & still lives alone in the house she shared with her husband, who passed away some time ago. She lives on several wooded acres on the Kitsap peninsula, and has been running a hatchery on her property for the last thirty years along with a biologist & members of the Suquamish tribe. She has also purchased some of the shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698639.post-1061494143288218752003-08-21T12:29:00.000-07:002003-09-04T11:55:56.463-07:00First I just want to give it up to Salam Pax. His blog is the main reason that I am starting this one. I just find his whole attitude & humanity inspiring, & hope that he is able to stay safe & keep writing.shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06695223621818891455noreply@blogger.com