encountered some 6 y.o. digital files hiding in the seat cushions of my laptop. one of them
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
God’s Poem Writer
Bumped into God’s Poem Writer, Harry Jerome Arnold, Saturday. He is still writing, pursuing his ministry, trying to explain that there are consequences for behaving badly…
Anyone with a small publishing firm is encouraged to contact Harry. He has a catalog of poems on the subject. He is not looking for riches, he is working to warn people. There is love and there is fire.
A fragment, more of his work is visible here.
occupy charlottesville
Kayla Crawford works on her sign “save my future” in advance of Occupy Charlottesville’s general assembly meeting Saturday in McGuffey Park.
Pond
Independent candidate for Charlottesville City Council, Bob Fenwick, addresses news media following his endorsement by the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club.
NOLA
“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Ignatius J. Reilly, economic advice to candidates “A new cart, a new start.”
Bourbon Street, dawn
Always the morning after.
Other than this street, the French Quarter is a very walkable area. The width of the streets reasonable. Designed for people, not firetrucks.
label: City
Southern Candidate, NOLA List
Ice, money, cigarette, po boy, fried rice, egg roll, fresh meat, cold cut, pick 3, cold beer, liquor, soft drink.
Great list! With the removal of pick 3 and the addition of world peace I’m voting for Vicky’s Supermarket, if the Republicans will just go ahead and nominate.
Jim Lehrer-Tension City
PBS NewsHour executive editor Jim Lehrer was in Charlottesville speaking at UVA’s Miller Center about his book, Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain.
Over a twenty year period Lehrer talked to all the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates with three exceptions about their debate experiences.
Lehrer arranged the interviews well after the moment of decision, the elections, had passed. He said, bottom line “They loved talking about it, they were like a bunch of bus drivers sitting around talking about driving… in fact Bill Clinton, if he had his way, he’d still be talking about it.”
Lehrer said “George H.W. Bush was the most fun to interview because he hates this stuff.” Bush senior evidently not afraid to stray from politically correct answers. Lehrer recounted Bush’s response regarding the watch incident.
Lehrer fielded 40 minutes of questions from the audience.
q: Of the debates you’ve moderated, which candidate do you think gave the best performance?
Communicating in the world of today
Lehrer mentioned local boy Th. Jefferson. in relation to the first amendment. Later in his remarks, Lehrer wondered whether Jefferson could be elected now. Stronger than wondered…
Thomas Jefferson would have played hell getting elected as president of the United States if he were running now because…
Gerald L. Baliles, 65th Governor of Virginia, former Chairman of the board of PBS and current director of the Miller Center closed out the question period pointing out that the Miller Center and the NewsHour both started 36 years ago and that both are dedicated to civil discourse.
Despite having eaten dinner with Jim Lehrer in the room for twenty years there are lots of things I didn’t know about him. He has written many books and he is a bus enthusiast.
committee design
Picnic tables under Interstate 610. Yes, there is good shade under the bridge. But, it is mighty noisy and the automobile dust raining down doesn’t improve the taste of sandwiches. What were the planners thinking?
Maybe we can do this in Charlottesville in our park after we build a road through it, a picnic area for trolls?