Gray’s birthday party in the basement.
Category: culture
hooverville
I caught the last hour of speechifying before Charlottesville City Council by the Occupiers. Peace, love and social transformation. Justice! Drunks cured by love and community, abandoning the bottle. The group coming together in support of one another. Liminality and communitas having their beautiful, tumultuous day down in Lee Park. Council’s recommendation is to somehow institutionalize, let the people keep caring for each other and free-speaking, but do it elsewhere. The Rutherford Institute is in the mix. Maybe Charlottesville will get its own Speakers Corner?
Obamaville?
The best suggestion was to occupy the Landmark, the skeletonized ghost hotel on the Downtown Mall.
changeless change
encampment
Occupy Charlottesville folk at the feet of old trooper, R.E. Lee. This not a bivouac, rather, a convenient place to camp.
We, the people are of all colors, classes, and beliefs. We realize we’re the ones with the power to check institutionalized greed. We saw the Arab Spring. We saw Occupy Wall Street. We stood up. Every day, we’re creating change globally and face to face. We’re demonstrating for socioeconomic justice and feeding whoever comes by hungry. We have no leader. We are developing solutions together. We are the 99%.–Occupy Charlottesville
Elvii
There are many differing types of Elvis impersonator. Most fall under the following main types which are:
• Look-alikes who concentrate more on visual elements of Elvis fashion and style using accessories such as wigs, costumes and jewelry.
• Sound alikes who concentrate on changing their voice to sing or talk like Elvis.
• Combination who try to use a combination of both the visual and aural methods listed above.–Wikipedia
flying
chewing tobacco on airplane, the OOF fellow in background, spitting in a jar…
summer reading
In the middle of a desert “somewhere south of nowhere,” to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time.–Wikipedia
Has Don ever written a user friendly novel?
northside, route 161
Little Powell
Ambrose Powell Hill Jr., Richmond, Virginia
Polar Bears and Liberty
US district court for the western district of Virginia held session at Monticello today and naturalized a group of new US citizens.
There were a lot of Coca-Cola bottles and logos in evidence.
citizens attended to sing and celebrate
local and network tv on hand to document the crazy salad.
We walked to Monticello past the homeless camps of Albemarle County and the beautiful remains of Mr. Jefferson’s liriodendron tulipifera.
Las Vegas
Reminded me of Hyde Park, Speakers Corner, standing on a box. That is where the similarity ends. This fellow was not speaking.
We have several ordinances in CHO which would discourage the appearance of this mobile advertising.
The fellow on the box, I am unsure of his message.