Glendale, CA 2008

07.29.08 @ 20:56PDT Monday, July 28th

words fall short

07.28.08 @ 01:29PDT Sunday, July 27th

Benjamin Barber


"Capitalism has put democracy in trouble.
Because capitalism has tried to persuade us
that being a private consumer is enough.
That a citizen is nothing more than a consumer.
That voting means spending your dollars spreading
around your private prejudices, your private preferences.
Not reaching public judgments.
Not finding common ground.
Not making decisions about the social consequences of
private judgments, but just making the private judgments.
And letting it fall where it will."

07.27.08 @ 10:19PDT Thursday, July 24th

more is not.


more is not better.
better is better.

07.24.08 @ 12:06PDT Wednesday, July 23rd

Donald Graves: Expert

07.23.08 @ 10:49PDT Thursday, July 17th

Happy birthday Phyllis!


"Never go to bed mad - Stay up and fight."




Happy birthday to Phyllis Diller, who is 91 today.

07.17.08 @ 20:57PDT Saturday, July 12th

Hemingway

"Never confuse movement with action."
-Ernest Hemingway-

07.12.08 @ 02:31PDT Friday, July 11th

A. Schiller



Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving time in Sing Sing prison
in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in his cell.

On his body they found seven regular straight pins whose heads
measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.17 millimeters
in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was found that the tiny
etchings seen on the heads of the pins were the words to The
Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and 254 letters long.

Of the seven pins, six were silver and one was gold - the gold pin's
prayer was flawless and a true masterpiece. Schiller had spent the
last 25 years of his life creating the pins, using a tool too small to
be seen by the naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 separate
carving strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his artwork.

07.11.08 @ 00:50PDT Friday, July 4th

today in history...

Jul 4 1054

A supernova suddenly appears in the constellation Taurus.
It is so bright that for the first 23 days it is visible during the day.
Then it gradually fades away, finally disappearing after a year or so.
Today the remnants of this star are the Crab Nebula.

07.04.08 @ 10:43PDT

07.04.08 @ 10:31PDT Wednesday, July 2nd

don s. davis

07.02.08 @ 02:06PDT