George Takei

George Takei was in the Japanese internment camps in the American West. In them were also people of Japanese descent who were taken out of 17 other countries. America, under Ronald Reagan finally recompensed the Japanese-Americans about $25,000 for the injustice that was admitted to being "racism". The others, many apparently kept in Texas, have not been recompensed. Many young people were in the camps and one of the current President's men was in them he relates. One of the highest decorated units in WWII were Japanese-Americans in Italy, nisei, my dad who served there called them which is title about which generation of immigrant one belongs to. They weren't allowed to own property in California. In the "Battle of the Bulge" (a monument just opened in Ontario, New York outside Syracuse, NY) one particular "nisei" unit lost over 900 men rescuing 500 "lost Texans" that decision still argued over in military strategy. Isn't everyone who's been associated with "the final frontier" homosexual, "back to feeling their old self again?" I think George Takei of an American asset and whatever spin we project more of the same stupidity that gets us into wars.

Re: "Reclaiming the Frame"

According to a National Archives article, the first "White House Press Secretary" was Cabinet member George B. Cortelyou, of New York, (early Con-Ed CEO also) descended from the French surveyor hired by the Dutch to survey Brooklyn. He invited the press into the White House after President William McKinley was shot at the Panamerican Exposition in Buffalo, NY, Mr. Cortelyou had been standing next to him. As the press was told the condition of McKinley by Cortelyou and the tradition started they said. However, in their purview of them, they left out the first woman White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers, who in the Clinton administration was White House Press Secretary for three years, strangely omitted from the article. Some historians have remarked, that since George B. Cortelyou held three (3) Cabinet posts during a particularly trying time, the assassination, the Spanish American War, etc., he remained in the Cabinet under Theodore Roosevelt (told on the eighth day after the shooting, in North Creek, NY by telegram that he was President, where nearby he had been climbing in the Adirondacks) that his papers (he died in Huntington, NY in 1940) should be reviewed by historians so far overlooked. He began teaching shorthand in NYC schools, then became Chairman of the Republican Party. I may be related to him by marriage or lack thereof.

Rare Frank Zappa Video Out Just In Time For Halloween

"It seems that, in lieu of a New York Halloween show in 1982, Zappa resolved instead to create a television special that would prove to be of immense interest to his hardcore fans. So the ‘Dub Room Special’ was shown on Halloween 1982 at the Ritz in New York City.� I saw him Halloween (and his band) at Stony Brook University back in 1980 or 1981. I guess it was better than having to choose the following year, when some might have want's to see him back there, where I once on Halloweens past had seen the "Grateful Dead" and "Sha-Na-Na".

Back to Slate

RE: Whistleblowers in government From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date: Oct 25 2005 8:20AM Sorry to impugn Suffolk County I guess. It was Nassau County and they say, of course, its not true. But it goes back to the case about the ADA who in Louisiana thought to query her fellow employees and was fired. I met a Greek-American woman, a future Suffolk County ADA, who helped train "Seattle Slew" the famous racehorse, maybe I'll ask her someday. Her father was a Russian specialist in WWII, then a lawyer, then a judge. He used to like to cook in his spare time at the "White House" (sauerbraten?) restaurant in Coram, NY out on Long Island. I was best man at her sister's wedding, she's a folk-singer friend of Mrs. Woodie Guthrie, who has a small apartment at the Dakota, and heard sadly the shots that killed John Lennon she told me.

F Troop in Wales

The director of "F Troop" later directed TV's M*A*S*H. Interesting article in the national website of Wales. I once worked in Mississippi with a woman from Penalt, near Monmouth (and the river Wye) in Wales, Mary Fitzherbert, who also once lived in Uruguay.

Fact Follows Fiction Follows Spin Follows... Huh?

Well, she's the Senator in my state, NY and was at the Watergate hearings with Liz Holtzman, the only women "on board". What I've seen of the show, CIC, a term used in only one "Hollywooden" film that I know of, in "Sitting Bull" (whereby he is promised to meet with the CIC, and that didn't happen. He was played by Iron Eyes Cody, a famous spokesperson for a cleaner roadside America, a tear running down his face in full headdress and who I met at the Choctaw Pow-wow near Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1979. The town, with hoses and police dogs on civil rights demonstrations on the TV, became a photo-op for candidate Ronald Reagan sitting in a rocking chair, I mean, so how "left" can Hollywood actually be, beyond the public voices of those in a very "private" industry?). The "CIC" episode I saw showed international intervention which is what I've heard a President is supposed to be about, "foreign policy" (according to Randi Rhodes on, "Air America" which I think is where the "left" sort of meets). Marilyn Monroe's erstwhile gift of an engraved Rolex watch to President JFK went for $120,000 in Connecticut yesterday, she a supporter of his foreign policy, which brings us around again to do we have to Arthur Milleresque go through these "witch hunts" over and over and over again? The blackman, the Jewish actress and the black "pop star" hunt, their roles maybe are the same, just tried in another era.

Book details artist's Civil War interviews

NEW YORK -- Late in his life, artist James Edward Kelly tried to publish his memoirs, a book that would have featured his colorful interviews with the many Civil War figures who posed for him. But by then, the Great Depression had set in and publishers told him no one was interested in a war long past... The book, "Generals in Bronze," comes out Nov. 1, and is already generating tremendous buzz in the world of Civil War buffs... One general told Kelly how Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's drinking had led him to resign as a captain in 1854. The account claims that Grant remarked: "I'll make my mark yet. I don't propose to remain in the gutter."... Kelly, born in New York in 1855, had demonstrated an aptitude for art early in life. His work appeared in publications including Scribner's and Harper's. Five of his bronze reliefs adorn the Monmouth Battle Monument in Freehold, N.J... The artist died at age 77 in 1933. He had no known survivors. When Styple looked for Kelly's grave in St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx, he found that it was unmarked."

Hillbilly Well Drillin'

From "The History of Oil Well Drilling" by J.E. Brantly Copyright 1971 Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bacharach writes anti-war lyrics

"Bacharach won three Oscars and six Grammys and co-wrote more than 50 chart hits including What the World Needs Now is Love, Make It Easy On Yourself and Alfie."

Kevin Spacey started this site...

www.triggerstreet.com

Tai Scosh

There is also a large number of films being shown in NYC at the Japan Society to promote understanding between our nations. What did happen? And why? On the one hand, every ship in the Nippon Navy and others had been sunk a few months before we dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima (and 12 of our own POW's) on the other hand we have the justification of it "we estimate we would have lost 1 million Americans" (? who else?) invading the main islands. We had already fire-bombed Tokyo and other cites, (I read Yoko Ono, also a known art filmmaker, attending "Peer School" was forced to go begging in streets for food as a result of the firebombing of Tokyo, at a Tokyo newspaper trivia site). The Emperor's white samurai sword was stolen in the 1970's and returned in the 1990's by a mis-treated veteran, to the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island, in New York, just outside the city. I also read, despite the lack of research by both countries, that there was to be an official declaration of war, the translation of which was held up by a long hot Sunday eulogy service according to a researcher in Japan. Two weeks later, Germany declared war on the U.S., (some of the Hiroshima bomb from Nazi Germany) a few weeks later my granduncle Leman Urquhart, then captain of the "City of Atlanta" was torpedoed off Cape Hatteras, traveling to Savannah, GA from NYC, with the loss of 42 or 43 lives. It is good we can share films to discuss, across our differences.

What? The Beatles were totally movie stars!

Sir Paul McCartney was "chuffed" that Liverpool was recently selected as a "world class cultural city". I'm sure "the lads" had something to do with it. Sorry George and John didn't get to see it, though there is a statue of John at the airport. Back in the 19th century those that earned their livlihood on the sea used to have an expression "See you in Liverpool" as invariably many ships landed there and people crossed paths, some started from the "Black Ball" line, run by the Quakers, out of the port of New York, carrying mail and cotton for the looms there, through Liverpool, England. The H.M.S. Titanic's homeport was Liverpool, sorry she never "made" New York. In some ways the Beatles films were all some of us had connected to those, people in our lives, who were still or lost at sea. Also, East Liverpool, Ohio was an important ceramic artists center for many of the ceramics kiln-fired in the United States before American mass produced ceramics overwhelmed it, lately there a fight over a PCB incinerator next to a school. Cinematical

Cinematical Seven: Spookiest movie houses:

Your comments: Whatever house Dr. Paul Holliston (Rock Hudson) lived in "Embryo" (1976 Tagline: "From Embryo to woman in 4 and a half weeks." Reissued as "Created To Kill") and that Dr. Joyce Brothers, scary stuff. The only thing that kept me awake through it at the all night horror movie drive-in marathon was that beauty Barbara Carrera, "created to kill". And Diane Ladd, wow, would she have a career after that...what a career. And that Roddy McDowell guy...he's usually not scary? (later played Father Stone on the TV "Martian Chronicles".) Where were the monsters?

BAGnewsNotes: Your Turn: They Don't Mug Like They Used To

"A few years ago it came to the world's attention that the key to the Bastille used to hang on George Washington's wall when it was stolen on tour (in Australia?). I hope our election wasn't in Ohio, stolen that is. I don't like the stories and reports I hear from there. I hope we get the key back, and then the White House."

Comments by author georgejmyersjr

L' Argent de poche, (1976) ("Small Change") Times they are a changing, 21 October 2005 7/10 I read this film was actually a documentary/social psychology film. At the time, or the time it relates to, France was going coeducational after many years of different classes for boys and girls (see the psychiatrist Lacan, Foucault's "History of Sexuality" volumes, etc. English attributes sex to "French" for some subconscious reason, does it not?) and the film, which I saw at a University, was much better than "Goodbye Mr. Chips" or "The Lady Vanishes". The toddler falling out the window unhurt makes the film even seem surreal, like a long patriarchal myth, an enjoyable one though, (for a change, no?) I enjoyed it as a wonderful story, a chance to go to France for a couple of hours and "meet you at Mao".

EFF: Is Your Printer Spying On You?

EFF: Is Your Printer Spying On You? "Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias," right?"

New York City: John Lennon - Gadling

"The Dakota is where I was told Woodie Guthrie's widow also lived in a small apartment. A folk-singer friend, daughter of a judge and life-long elementary school teacher, had been visiting with her to get Woodie's papers published. She said, sadly, that Mrs. Guthrie heard the shots from her small apartment that night that killed John Lennon. The Dakota I read is/was also frequented by former President Clinton when he was in town, a friend of the building association, he was an admirer of John Lennon. One magazine piece about Lennon, I recall while working in A&S nights furniture warehouse delivery in DUMBO, was how he was enjoying being a house Dad, and used to wake up and write down or record ideas he had for artworks."

Is that Haight or the corner of Jackson and Hyde?

It looks a little like the Village, of yore, "Panama Red" or an "Acapulco Gold" ice cream cone's all you need. Corners stenciled with "Castrate Rapists"? That was the West Village. Big "Zum Zum" serving Bavarian fast food on Washington Square Park, near NYU, serving Hell and Dunkel beer, by Restaurant Associates, they do museums and the US Open now I read. East Village I guess it was called, near the Fillmore East back before there were officially 40,000 casualties on a black armband in white lettering, of those that died in Southeast Asia.

Toast to Edward Rutsch who would have been 69

Yes, and I think he would have enyoyed the North Creek Railroad Museum in North Creek, NY, with an active roundhouse (it stops there now and only goes to Riparius, NY but once hauled titanium out of the Adirondacks, the old McIntyre Iron Mine and the "ghost town" of Adirondac in the foothills of Mt. Marcy (Tahawas) received $500,000 for historic interpretation and preservation. After the Civil War it was shown on maps going to Ogdensburg, NY and Sackett's Harbor, NY. I remember going to the City of Paterson, NJ that he had worked on where the locomotives had once been made and he had worked on the water races and railroad features. The town was designed originally by the planner of Washington, D.C. L'Enfant, finished by Colt of the gun manufacturing history it's been written. A salute, though one by the "Peacemaker" built by the Haddersley Forge on the west side on NYC "for free" to Mount Vernon, exploded killed many (two Cabinet members and one Senator Gardiner, of Gardiners Island the last surviving "manor" in North America" among them) throwing the recent widower President Tyler below decks into the arms of nineteen year old Julia Gardiner, below decks having some champagne (or vice versa) she becoming the future First Lady. The siege of Richmond, Virginia ceased to allow her safe passage through the lines back to NYC when ex-President Tyler died in Richmond and she left. She lived on Staten Island for many years after. A salute, "The First Salute" a good book by Barbara W. Tuchman. In it Washington watched the combined French/American troops cross the Hudson River to eventually defeat General Cornwalis (Admiral Cornwalis was in NYC harbor) from a wooden tower according to her research. George Myers (he said he wouldn't hold it against me if I worked for Greenhouse)

So where were the spiders?

Seen "War of the Worlds" (Spoiler: Cruise kills Robbins) Rockefeller Center in 2001...

It's not a girl in a flatbed Ford

It's a Chevrolet Brasil pickup truck, a trek from Manaus, Brazil to the "Motor City" Detroit, Michigan. Great pictures it's in Brazilian Portuguese however which I once studied in Buffalo, NY (there's quite a few in Toronto, Canada) but I gave my dictionary away as a wedding gift to the Page's who went to live in Rio, where Mr. Grimm worked for the defense company EDO, selling the Brazilians the tools of radar and sonar. I think they've joined since with the space antenna company of astronaut Neil Armstrong's company. Mr. Page's dad worked on the Grumman assembled Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) project.

BAGnewsNotes: If They All Do It...

"'Elvis is king' - John Lennon Elvis's head was darker on Mexican printed albums, not sure why. A black social anthropologist, who inadvertantly moved into an apartment just occupied by a Black Panther activist (I've attended a lecture at CUNY of the Grey (? or gray) Panthers) hence why he had that funny feeling he was being followed around in 'The Loop' in Chicago, told me some people are 'urples' so black they are purple, in the parlance of the black bourgeois. (Bourgeois Charters Provides fishing on the bayous of South Louisiana. Source: Google)"

BAGnewsNotes: Portrait Of Evil or Evil of Portrait (Saddam)

Interesting photo of Salvador Dali. A painting of his, of the crucifiction, hastily drawn, sick that day in NYC, hung at Riker's Island, the prison built on household solid waste in 1903, currently a motor causeway to it from Queens where before a ferry from the Bronx went to it, cases from there still heard in the Bronx, but was stolen, replaced, by the prison guards! Dali once sold hand water color "Alice in Wonderlands" in Walden Books for $800 (ca. 1972). I wonder, about the war trials at Nuremberg, which set the precedent for people who in the military, under orders, are now since that trial, supposed to refuse the order if it is against humanity and perhaps international treaty. I was told the "I was just following orders" no longer applies after the trial of the Nazis and the investigation by Airey Neave (of MI9) of the Krupp industrial conglomerate, who died from a mercury tilt car bomb leaving a garage, just prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher, who just turned 80, (granted an honorary Ph.D. at nearby Manhattanville College, how to cure college apathy they said, having her) he said to be the architect of her coming to power in Great Britain. His wife was elevated to Baroness. I read the account of the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials from the perspective of the American Junior Prosecutor, I think whose book came out about that time and I think the responsibility issue was brought up by him. I wonder if Saddam was.

Scotty gets "beamed up"

The actor who played "Scotty" on "Star Trek" is being sent into space this December 6, 2005, his ashes that is. Gene Roddenberry's are still there too, though reported to have been crashed into the Moon looking for water. This site I found very interesting and informative. I like time-lines keeps me on my toes with those "bing dates" some I've never even heard of. My great whatever father Alexander Urquhart arrived from Scotland in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1803. This castle site was for sale, once, their National Trust bought it instead. Attributed to Sir Thomas Urquhart, who translated the great French satirist Francois Rabelais, ("Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)") and wrote other literature and science treatises. He died in Italy I read, laughed to death when he heard that Charles II had been restored to the throne after the failure of Oliver Cromwell's son. Local legend has Urquhart's ghost laughing around this castle he may have blown up defending the Crown. http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/drumnadrochit/urquhart/index.html

The dogs of war...

"Over 20 years ago I visited a Latvian-American intercampus fellowship (Buffalo/Stony Brook) woman grad student in the Belmont section of the Bronx, NY. Mt. Carmel, its also called and today still has the "Little Italy" of the Bronx, and other ethnics, including a mosque today. I live near a 'Bronx Moslem Center', in what was one of CWA's offices (Communications Workers of America) on Rhinelander Ave. There was someone then handing out literature then that showed four skulls, the wild wolf and two others between and the modern canid or dog, an evolution to show why Muslims don't like dogs in the 'City of God' because of the wildness they represent. It might be also be compared w/ bovids or pigs, which are known in 5 or 6 generations to revert to wild boar. Marvin Harris, an anthropologist, also pointed out that, pigs as a resource, require a lot of water and shade or they burn-up in the sun, hence the possible functional reason for the proscription against them in the Middle East (in, 'Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches'. He taught at Columbia University and wrote 'The Rise of Anthropological Theory' a large tome used in some anthropology classes, used in the two I had with Marvin Opler. His brother Morris I later found out, had two out of his three briefs read by the Supreme Court over the rights of Japanese-Americans in internments during WWII. He had studied the Apache for the U of Chicago Ph.D. Marvin Opler was an 'honorary Navaho' and taught in the Psychiatry Dept. and the Anthropology Dept. as then NY State University at Buffalo). The dog might be a 'flash point' though we cheer when they save Hollywood, though left behind in New Orleans as were the service dogs in Vietnam."

BAGnewsNotes: Extreme Home Make Over: Iraq Edition

Posted by: George Myers, Jr. | Oct 17, 2005 at 06:25 AM: "I goggles.com and looked at some of the equipment costs. Headgear for 'night vision' (aptly named, does not work near dawn or dusk only thermal imaging does used in fires and even archaeology, buried stones hold heat, or what the Swedes have invented gated-laser imaging for terrestrial and underwater remote sensing, probably to guard the 'caves' their navy is kept in since WWII. Recently we've joined up, 'Svensk testad' (Volvo motto) they run their Stirling engine sub off California, we try to 'hear' it) about $4-$5000. William Shatner wore one doing a border patrol on horseback, after trying to save the huge fish, the whale-shark (40'+ fish eats krill only like a whale, though a fish) so I think some of the photos were taken at night, with the infrared helmet attachment. I spent many a day looking through an infrared transit, which can bounce off prism mirrors thousands of feet for engineers (and in space?). After CBS news reported Irak (Sp.) overwhelmingly for their Constitution, and I read Associated Press says overwhelming numbers of Sunnis turned out against, ABC news last night reported two provinces against, which are geographically large. I think part of this is over who controls the Mosul oil fields, where the ancient city of Nuzi was dug up in the 1930's by Starr of Harvard, part of Mitanni, near Kirkuk, and where the Ency. Britanica reports 'catholics' from 300 AD onward, and if the Kurds, who live in 3 or four countries on Iraq's borders, have autonomy in Iraq. One of my former archaeology professors at Stony Brook University, as reported, is trying to secure funds to rebuild Iraq's archaeology collections, by training Iraqis, and getting no commitments beyond a short term one year deal."

Batteries Not Included

email to the NY Times #5380 "The Small Screen" I thought I'd throw in here a memory of Jerry Orbach. I was working in archaeology on the lot that coincidentally is where Steven Spielberg filmed "Batteries Not Included" at the time the design for the lot was for the Housing Police Headquarters for everyone below 42nd Street. Anyway, across the street was a community garden, the Latin Kings said to have met in the old school, and the set was gone, though it looked like a building. It was between 9th and 10th streets and 2nd and 3rd Ave I think around the corner from the "Castillo de Jaguar" where we used to lunch. There was a picket line, the City had gone around the unions to begin work on the lot which was also to be half affordable housing, affordable in this case means they hire anyone for whatever. Near Tompkins Square, it had some of that old NYC "charm" especially when the former Mayor announced they were going to trash all the gardens. Bette Middler began by buying some of them and the people w/ $ bought them all I think. The Devine Mrs. M (hope she gets another elephant on her birthday) recently received an award from the LI Parks Commission. Well where I worked on 16th and 3rd they did this "Law and Order" episode in the restaurant, papered all the windows to make it night, a photographer stabbed in the back upstairs where we worked almost. The trailer down on 10th street was where I saw Mr. Orbach, they were using the "candy store" on the corner for a scene. I would like to thank the cast and crew for that special "shot in the arm" their presence and show has always meant to me, from St. Rita's down in the South Bronx originally, where Mr. Sliwa said you had two choices be a cop or a priest. Mr. Orbach showed many of us what that's like as does Mr. Noth, the cop part I mean. On the "Batteries Not Included" site, we found some old Civil War era water control features, that once almost or was the shore just before. In it, were 12 or so chamber pots (or thunder buckets, King George II visage appeared at the bottom of some not these) and an interesting coinage, abolitionist coins, that were circulated among the "small change" of the day, reminding people to abolish slavery. There were also a number of clay marbles, marbles pretty popular in NY I imagine, though with sewers one might be always "loosing them".

Iraq Elects a Constitution

My voting machine in the Bronx has been broken for three Presidential elections (the curtain neither opens nor closes w/ the pulling of the lever) and I heard on Cable voting place worker orientation, a voter would have to go to a judge, if the voter thought his or her vote wasn't counted. I wrote my Congressman suggesting that many voters ought to do that. The order of jury duty used to follow the ballot. I wonder if juries are from voting records there in Iraq as they once were here in the Bronx, NY, where Mick Jagger was once a "copy" defendant, and a part of Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities" was filmed on it's courthouse steps. Mr. Wolfe once spoke with Reverend Abernathy in a talk about the origins of urban riots in America, what they thought the cause was, in Buffalo, NY.

Blakes 7 flew in the "Liberator"

BAGnewsNotes: The troops in Italy were often called Liberators too. The Partisans got to Mussolini, dressed as a woman to escape capture and hung him from a light pole, my father saw. The word makes me a little nervous. There were reports that 19 out of 20 rockets misfired at the Panzers (tanks) in northern Italy, and fortunately those 81 mm mortar troops, which my father was perhaps one of, could hit the tanks with mortar fire. I can't see the parallel in Iraq myself, but I guess the son of a US Army "Black Panther" soldier (their arm patch) might see things differently. I just hope we can come up with better slides too, that one, in a sandy park looks no good, maybe made from some sort of palace? (Mussolini had one, where well, nasty things went on its reported)

Snowball!

2005 Sep 5 The Superdome and Convention Center were finally evacuated, but evacuees were not allowed to take their pets with them. “Snowball!� cried a little boy after police took away his dog. “Snowball!� - Harpers.org is the website of Harper's Magazine, an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts published continuously from 1850.

Whistleblowers in government

Parallel universe? The NY Nassau County DA's office has a lawsuit by a former ADA who now teaches public school in Harlem. She has sued on "sexism" charges as to procedure for advancement within the administration of ADA work. "Whistleblows" can be a lot more economically and politically cost-saving, when one considers that "sexism" cases are far from "frivolous" and actual suits can tie up the courts. Though maybe they should be, and then forced to hear the third brief Morris Opler (his Chicago U. Ph.D. on the Apache) wrote on the rights of people in internments, the Supreme Court only hearing two. What of the "Japanese" wrested out of 17 other countries and interned and perhaps interred in the camps? And speaking of "whistleblowers", what about the government contracts 'whistleblower' who flagged the lack of review of long term contracts the that Haliburton was involved with? Improper reviews of long term contracts, over a certain period are supposed to be subject to re-review she said. And they weren't, more "magna carte blank check", than government oversight. Which leads this all back to the GAO suing for the 'energy committee' minutes in the first year of the previous four years of George Walker Bush's presidency, and the White House's refusal to cooperate with its own executive branch of accounting administration, the GAO, the Government Accounting Office, which prepares the President's budget for the Congress. Whatever the courts decide I hope there are enough safeguards to keep that woman around. Across from Campobello Island, where FDR lived in Canada, is the "Whistle" on Grand Manan Island, N.B. a Canadian cousin's family of mine once manned before it was automated. The "Whistle" there, where right whales keep a nursery, is also a very loud foghorn warning ships and boats away from the rocks. "Whistleblowing" should be considered an important aspect of democracy, corruption the rocks it may, yet again, crash to ruins without.

Spielberg on the future of cinema: "Dude, I've already invented it"

I thought I saw it too, at once Buffalo State College. Ken Jacobs put on a live performance piece in a lecture hall. There were three or four rear projection screens, on one he projected a red/green projector of some sort, and at one point in the performance, with 3D glasses on in the audience, his son rode a tricycle in front of the projector, projected onto the rear projection screen, and a monstrous image of a tot on tricycle loomed out over the crowd. It was to commemorate the American composer Charles Ives, the Connecticut insurance businessman in "Lost Doll Found" Ironically while boiling his vinyl record in a 35mm film can, water splashed out and I thought we'd be electrocuted by the small record player found in most schools. There was a film festival in Buffalo, NY that summer (1974) trying to be the "Hollywood of the East" (former President Monroe is buried in the Hollywood Cemetery, Virginia, after being removed from the secular marble vaults across from the current Anthology Film Archives, in a former courthouse, near Second Ave, and Second Street in Manhattan, NYC which when it was being built also encountered a former cemetery thought moved.) So if Spielberg invented it, will the insurance industry cover it? I mean if someone sued for "Side Effects"? (nice book by Woody Allen).

BAGnewsNotes: Bush City

BAGnewsNotes: Bush City: "As a fan of the 'Whole Earth Catalog,' occasional reader of 'alternative' magazines, a worker under greenhouses in winter on archaeology sites, and once having a friend who helped design 'instant structures' for the military, I am a little upset that many of the designs for exactly this kind of situation have not been implemented. One design for India, for example was a building with a large bladder in the roof (built with rammed earth, or hay bales and some steel) which uncovered in the day warmed up and covered at night kept the building warm at night, also supplying gravity fed water for drinking and washing. I have seen other proposals for emergency shelters that are designed with amazing innovation (i.e. made from plastic coated cardboard). Apparently, the 'response' (500 millions (?) for Haliburton clean-up contracts on Federal property storm cleanups, previously arranged down there before the hurricanes) is the least 'creative' anyway, using whatever can be had practically."

Fw: Cinematical: favorite documentaries

Fw: Cinematical: favorite documentaries > Your comments: 1. Dr. Zimbardo's Social Psychology experiment, where students become jailors and prisoners, getting out of control. > >2. "Titicut Follies" about the now closed asylum. Looks like Guantanamo, complete with nose tube feeding. > >3. My own attempt to film a marble "tide pool" (new word entry in Webster's they wouldn't redefine calumny for me "blacken"?) at the bottom of a 28 foot tide. Krill and shrimp and stuff like that, in 300 million old white rock. Right whale nursery nearby, and "near" where I once picked dulse in the Bay of Fundy. > >4. The company "documentary" of the "jet pack" shown in Paul Sharits course, "Experimental Film Analysis" at the Gerald O'Grady Media Center on Bailey Ave., in the English Dept. at Buffalo University, in Buffalo, NY, down the street from UB and Frank Sinatra Jr's haunt. I lived around the corner for awhile. Guy flies under a bridge through a stream and out the other side(?). > >5. Same location, a Harvard Medical School documentary. Opens with pigeons with percents of their brains removed. Then on to an open skull live human who is "probed" in his brain with an electric stimuli(?) eliciting a response, i.e., arm raises, speech starts and stops, can't recall what else, hey, it was 1973. >---------------- 1) Artist "Madonna" bought the rights to the film Zimbardo made according to recent report I read online. 3) The ligthing with a handheld super 8mm didn't allow the definition of the the little caves and caverns to appear in the film showing the tiny organisms (Paul Klee at Bauhaus) swimming in and out as a show cast into the pool caused them to evade the shadow perhaps some sort of "intelligence" preserving them. So it became a large whitish circle without closeups. Splicing that stuff was tough. Maybe if I had an optical printer like Mr. Sharits and I think Hollis Frampton, though he worked mostly in 16mm. 4) Buffalo, NY is also home to Bell hovercraft developments and also had a very "modern" looking cetrifuge trainer for astronauts, the capsule more aerodynamic than others one usually sees. I'm still wondering if that guy actually flew through the small overpass on steam. (4/29/07)

BAGnewsNotes: Practically Obvious

One of the results, according to a group who were/are mapping every camera on the island of Manhattan, of the 1993 basement parking lot bombing at the World Trade Center, was the proliferation of cameras everywhere downtown. They were sold as a solution to the problem, that the group, found especially wanting after 9/11/01. Apparently I just came across a site of Community Boards in New York City, which listed all the locations of cameras in NYC, apparently maintained by the Community Board government in NYC. At one time I was oddly stymied by one camera and one operator at Washington Square Park! Which while that was there, at sidewalk level, in the basement of an adjoining building to the park, real surveillance and arrests were being made, from reportedly "eyewitness" accounts of alleged drug transactions. Your rights, the surveillance as the "other imp" let out of the bottle (the first one, I grew up, was the "imp" of nuclear fission) are perhaps ensured anyway? I'm not a lawyer, perhaps video does not serve as testimony, though, in over 3000 NYC undercover drug buys by unaware undercover cops taped by their superiors, be the only time it would be admissible? I remember reading the "Phillipinos of Yesteryears" by one of their Supreme Court justices. In an addendum, is applicable Muslim law, parts of the Philippines, settled by them, after all Indonesia is cited as the largest % of Muslims in the general population in the world. In the case of divorce of a woman, their law requires three witnesses to infidelity. One guy with a camera wouldn't do I think. One case, in NYC, a robbery (and rape?) at an ATM, resulted in the wrong person's headshot plastered all over the front page of the newspapers. The simple sequence of the transactions of the ATM had been misread. I wonder if that guy sued. We see more and more television journalism becoming dangerously close to affronting the ideas of justice it seems, associating crime and persons names between commercials. Especially, I think, if the commercial is a slick "Comet" ad, in our stars.

Camp Security, York County, PA - One of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2005

Camp Security, York, County PA "Only a handful of prisoner-of-war camps were established during the Revolutionary War, and today Camp Security is the only one of these sites that remains largely untouched. Between 1781 and the end of the war in 1783, more than 1,500 captured British soldiers and their families were confined at Camp Security, which included both a prison stockade and a “village� of log huts."

BAGnewsNotes: St. Rita's Ongoing

I would like to thank Janet for reminding me of the Chernobyl site by Kiev resident Elena Filatova, which I haven't been to in a while, though my former boss, an archaeologist was during and after their White House siege, putting Mr. Yeltsin in power. It is hauntingly similar, when a disaster strikes, but ours will not be uninhabitable for at least 500 years in some places. I may be jaded coming from the St. Rita's Parish in the South Bronx, NYC, where the church is a basement, its vaulted ceiling the top of the first floor, as I remember it, a $1 a month to attend, where many buildings were being demolished there, in the footprint of the Janes and Kirtland Foundry which built and assembled the US Capitol dome, the "hat box" prior replaced in the Lincoln Administration (allowed to leak by Republicans in the last administration), the wrecking ball still allowed there and outlawed in Manhattan, though I've seen evidence of symbolic "balls". It is a terror of another sort when government is not prepared to, as a former mayor of a California city, (Irvine? he was thrown out of a Presidential debate here in the Bronx, sued the police and lost) stated in his platform, to use the military to respond to disasters and not as Executive branch expeditions.

Protect Our Oceans from Overfishing Petition

I think it is important to protect our oceans from overfishing because...(3,310) fishing has been stopped in Newfoundland, first settled in the 16th c. by Sir Gilbert. Americans paid Greenlanders not to fish sea salmon, to fish their rivers again, had dams removed, or 'ladders' built, even blown up. Didn't work. International cooperation in treaty must come soon, (once a marine technology student)." I recall that a former "Stars and Stripes" reporter, who started an organization trying to get the US and the countries of the world to cooperate in international fishing treaties, fish know no borders, was based near where I worked for 5 years, near 16th St. and Third Ave. in Manhattan next to the Quaker School on Stuyvesant Square. They have since put a statue of Antonin Dvorak, found neglected on a rooftop midtown, near to Peter Stuyvesant's, as he had lived nearby, composing the "New World Symphony" in a building torn down to be a Beth Israel Hospital Aids Hospice in a preservation fight. He has since been exhumed and reburied in the Czech Republic I think.

Steinberger.com

New "State of the Instrument" guitar that is. "A part of the Gibson family of brands". The chairman of Educational Administration (for future school principals, etc.) at Buffalo U., was R. Oliver Gibson, Ph.D., from Nova Scotia, once the head of our small college, I helped him move from Main St. to the 'burbs of Amherst, NY, a couple of years before Anthony Burgess taught there. They used to take the boat to Nova Scotia from Portland, Maine every major holiday, driving on for the cruise. Now there's "The Cat" from Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia carries a couple of hundred cars, does 80 miles an hour I think, made in Australia. I saw an report on an "electric" guitar, it had "Firewire", each string had its own large communication channel.

News & Star: Marilyn Manson's Squeeze Teese drawers' draw

A CORSET worn by burlesque artist Dita Von Teese, rock singer Marilyn Manson’s betrothed, is on display at Shambellie House Museum of Costume, at Dumfries, as part of the ‘Hidden Secrets: Fashionable Underwear from 1850 to the Present Day’ exhibition.

Sailcat's (Muscle Shoals) "We'll See the World from my Harley"

Campus Motors in Centereach, NY once upon a time was a small Kawasaki dealer. A friends uncle had a 1968 W1 650 (though the pipes looked like a W2) and with more than a few kids and a small accident on the LIE (Long Island Expressway 495, "world's longest parking lot") his wife said it was it or her. I bought it from him as most of my friends were bike nuts with Bridgestone 350cc (2 strokes) or a Kawasaki 175cc (2 stroke dirt bike) or a Velocette (from the other bike shop down the road, guy had the Kawasaki 500 three cylinder stroke 2) I thought to buy Kawasaki (Kawasaki Heavy Industries it became built many of New York City's more recent subway cars, also Bombardier, and now someone in Sao Paolo, Brazil where I'd probably have a "Turuna" (Honda? I have a guitar from there w/ same name). Anyway I bought it drove it to Cleveland, picked up Deedee, then to Buffalo, NY (they wouldn't let me on the super-highway w/o a 4" tire) back to Cleveland and back out on Long Island in six days in October, nearly froze, the speed limits back in 1970 were 75 mph on Route 80 in Pennsylvania. I sold the red motorcycle eventually, after fighting an 80 in a 30 mph ticket, though I got arrested for it over a snafu, found an abandoned 650cc 1956 Ariel in Ithaca, NY tried to take it and a passenger to Canada after restoring it sort of, lost 4th gear and with my friend in a machine shop to cut the shaft grafted a Norton Atlas transmission into the Ariel, took it to Buffalo, NY where I then went to school, and it disappeared in a snowstorm, probably plowed into a drift somewhere. When I went back to school for my degree in Anthropology at Stony Brook on Long Island I found a 6" extension 1968 TT chopper with a twisted chrome trident sissy bar and short handlebars, a small light, which I attached a Hurst shifter arm to it as a kickstand as when I bought it a milk crate was holding it up by the high pipes, and it would have been hard carrying the milk crate around to hold the bike up, once they extended the fork, I guess the center stand became useless. I worked a Gym Security as work-study and used to park it up at the gym on the epoxy nut and bolt Hurst shifter. It had a peanut tank, a barely a light, one of those fog-lamp sized bits of lamp for daylight running. I eventually sold it too, I still have the primary chain I broke on Labor Day. Anyway, just as I was looking at a wonderful restoration on eBay, which was way away in Maine (I'm in the Bronx, NY) out came the Retro Kawasaki 650cc. I had to laugh it was such an "out of the blue" thing for them to do. I wish I had the time and money I would have bought one maybe. I had driven it and a girlfriend to the May Day Demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC too. I am walking the bike around, and the guy Steve, with the 500 and the Velocette walks up to me out of the large crowd, asks if he could borrow the bike for a minute. I say yes, he goes tear-assing all over by the pools and the monuments comes back and hands me back my 1968 650cc W1 Kawasaki motorcycle! Steve Bogert, if your reading this, that's OK, we were young, and slept behind a tree that night. That's this Chautauqua anyway. ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance")

Sword of Surrender

The "sword of surrender" a plain white samurai sword is in the museum at the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy, behind a huge P2 brass propeller, troops carriers in WWII my grandfather served on (the USS General Buckner, he used to joke they built so many ships they ran out of Navy names and started using Army ones, this a cut in half ship then augmented, like the "M.S. Mount Washington" on Lake Winnepeasauki, NH where then Vice President George Bush asked from the upper deck for a moment of silent prayer at the Wolfeboro dockside as he went to be President while President Ronald Reagan was having his colon operated on under anesthesia. The Doles have a former judge's place there.) The sword was recently mysteriously replaced after its theft in the 1970's, the thief, having died of cancer, said he did it to draw attention to the plight of veterans who have been given short shrift by the government(s?) in a note left with it on the steps a year or two ago.

Martha Stewart on Georgica Pond

Preservation Online: Story of the Week. Sept. 30, 2005 won't you be my travertine... ("Guns and Roses" "...won't you be my serpentine." in "Welcome to the Jungle"?)

'Weird Al' Yankovic

Weird Al's eBay song and other important Microsoft Valuable Player (MVP) info. http://www.updatexp.com/ebay-song.html

Mick Jagger: Miers Looked "For A Judge…But She Couldn't Find One. And One day, She Woke Up And Looked In The Mirror�...

"I have to hand it to Mick, he's the only performer I know who could stand trial in the Bronx County Courthouse for supposedly stealing a Caribbean writer's song, and go on commenting on American politics. After all he went to the London School of Economics, though I read to study Literature and Arts? was it? Many of us listeners would have left out of American culture without the Rolling Stones to introduce us to other artists, which they certainly covered and also went on singing their own songs. Sort of sad, seeing bare mannikins, and empty storefronts in America, as they were in Buffalo, NY back in the 1970's." Letterman had a funny thing about President Bush looking around for another judge, he looked around the office, down the hall, in this office then this office...

BAGnewsNotes: Unleashing Hell Ironically

"Interesting the dynamic between what we feel about helicopters (downwash, move around, we'd rather have the Presidential one built by the English and the Italians rather than the 'father of helicopter' company, Sikorsky in Bridgeport, CT) and the photo, lowering troops with precision among power lines. I'm surprized it doesn't have four engines which is their long-term intent for 'air cavalry' after this one. Ospreys have made a return to Long Island, NY (and New England) rebounding from DDT weakening their shells, and many platform nests put up for them. They fly to South America in the winter. Maybe this is surreal, I never have been in the downwash of one, I worked next to Long Island Helicopters in Roosevelt Field, where Lindbergh took off for a solo flight to France, which used to fly into Manhattan, strangely 'waved off' by the former Mayor Giuliani and out of business before 9/11/01. I'm not sure why, kerosene vapors?"

Hello Grand Manan!

East-West Highway A Congressional High Priority "A Bangor Daily News story says the east-west highway from Calais to Watertown, N.Y., is now identified on a new Congressional High Priority Corridor map, unveiled Monday at the Bangor-based East-West Highway Association offices." Gee, then Fort Drum can defend Calais from the Ganong candy bars. Do they still make that special candy for Grand Manan, the sassafras drops, plain or chocolate covered? I read Calais, ME never got their promised powder from the US and during the War of 1812, St. Stephen lent the guys in Calais a bunch to celebrate the Fourth of July, even though we were supposed to be "hostiles". Last time I was there I was down to the Whistle to watch the fireworks over Eastport(?) from there on the Fourth of July. I guess FDR watched them too, perhaps, well the sunrise anyway, probably rose over Grand Manan. Kenneth Branagh got an Emmy for "Warm Springs" playing FDR. Wonder if he's been seen around your parts? He was Dr. Frankenstein, and Robert DeNiro the monster, in a more literary "Frankenstein" Tim Curry played the Dr. on an interactive CD where you wake up as the monster! Once upon a time they were going to build a railroad from North Creek, NY to Watertown and Sackett's Harbor, NY (where the US Navy started in the 1812 Unpleasantness. In fact if you looked at an 1867 map you might think its there) the only railroad built from there into the Adirondacks was to Tahawas in WWII, where it's reported there was "the world's largest titanium mine" that Henry Ford wanted to mine in the 1930's. The historic McIntyre Iron Works (1826) ("titaniferous magnetite" used to drive metallurgists crazy, thinking they'd found the other half of those nuts squirrels forget in the mix) and abandoned town of Adirondac, just got $500,000 for preservation and historical interpretation. I wonder where the road will go through? No more scary Route 9 over there, probably would be good for Route 1 traffic. Somewhere it will cross the abandoned cattle drive route north to Montreal from New England.

Group Of Congressional Republicans Wants “Bill Of Rights� In College Classrooms… | The Huffington Post

"I once attended a University that was attempting to implement 'residential education' and the new structures had reportedly been built around that model. The centers of student-oriented thematic education (math, visual and performing arts, nursing, history, premed, etc.) were also associated with dissent, a women's study college, the 'radical college', College E, each an alphabet letter, in original design, with student input as part of their creation. Perhaps if the Congress wants to insure the rights of students, it should begin by supporting residential education where like-minded students can actively challenge each other within a community of similar interests, provided by faculty. It seemed to work, meeting in a lounge for example with a moderator who introduced a different artist every week (i.e., Eric Bentley who taught drama at Columbia U., or an historian writing a book about 'Sex as seen through the White House' or the tympani player of the city Orchestra, etc.) would seem to safeguard dissenting opinion, politics, and/or religion. In that case the learning is brought to the student rather than the constant transportation required to see or hear a lecture. At least that was the idealism of 'residential education'."

Group Of Congressional Republicans Wants “Bill Of Rights� In College Classrooms… | The Huffington Post

"Sorry, I get carried away by this freedom. I went to school where William Kunstler defended a Blackfoot Maimonides hospital administrator when she sued the 'racist school district' for the teacher writing on her daughter's English paper, 'I have an uncle who says the Indians got what they deserved.' Same school district sued the NY State Education Dept. for the leveraging of school aid to property values, the inequality of it found 'constitutional'. We had the first Marine Corps JROTC in the nation, now 20,000 of them costing $1 billion a year, ('Defense Monitor' PBS, who asked, in mostly poor schools, are they worth it?). Sorry. I can't tell which professor was in the Armed Services, which may have been in the Peace Corps, etc., even if one asked they might not tell. Though I did know one who was in the Japanese internments, his brother Morris Opler filed three briefs, two which were heard by the Supreme Court about Japanese-American rights under the US Constitution, which New York, a Constitution, would not sign without a 'Bill of Rights'. Hope this post was better, I have to watch them dig up the Battery Park for archaeology remains, by law. Where's Mr. John Glenn's 'Bill of Patients Rights'? In the trash I guess."

Group Of Congressional Republicans Wants Bill Of Rights In College Classrooms | The Huffington Post

"So this means if my professor, an Army Reserve atomic cannonman (one in a roadside park in America is pointed at the Abilene, Texas homestead of former President Dwight David Eisenhower, once President of Columbia University) tells me that the one's in Europe are stupid because by the time they're fired their positions would be over-run and they would be dead, though got the shots off, I should run out the door thank 'God' and put a 'Bushes' sticker on my Dad's dairy cows? (Wet years stickers cause accidents, so litigious our country, it had Mick Jagger in the 'Bonfire of the Vanities' Bronx Courthouse. Impeach the Bushes! Ban the Bumpershooters! Bring the troops home, the Brits are! the Brits are! the Brits are coming home (Italians too)."

Inside Gotham

There's a statue of Horace Greeley (he lived in the town, Chappaqua, the Clintons, the former President and a current NY Senator live in) sitting in a couch in City Hall Park and a monument to Joseph Pulitzer there too. Underground in the park there, the poor were buried when there was an almshouse there.

Ryukoku University team to explore rare Buddhist ruins in Afghanistan

Once I signed a petition against the Taliban (Taleban at the BBC) destroying what's considered the furthest west monuments of Buddhism (Gandhi's birthday was just celebrated, a lawyer in South Africa once, I read) in Afghanistan. We had a graduate student from there in our Anthropology dept. at Stony Brook, actually about 70 students from around the world. Tough room. This will be a Japanese archaeology project that may last 10 years. I heard there was talk of trying to do an archaeology of Buddha's town. According to folklore he died from eating wild boar meat, if that helps, (there's three "decouped" boar's heads on the Urquhart clan shield, on another is a bare-chested woman who says, "Mean well, speak well, do well").

Alabam Slammer: Source to Stephanopoulos: Bush, Cheney Directly Involved In Leak

This is all the military's fault. If they hadn't let George W. Bush leave the Alabama Air Guard six months early to attend Harvard University (once College, founder lived next door to Shakespeare's place) for his 'Masters of Business Administration' we wouldn't have all these problems of a 'Beat the Devil' redux, (film with Bogart, Lorre, Lollabridgida (she's in Italian government service) et al, about vacuum cleaners and 'yellow cake' uranium in Africa.)

Source to Stephanopoulos: Bush, Cheney Directly Involved In Leak Scandal...The Huffington Post

One of the differences, in response to DeepThroat, is that in the Vietnam debacle, and I think because it was never declared a "war" by the Congress, and also even if at war, certain people associated with the United Nations are allowed within 25 miles of it to do its business, we had people from there able to protest here. I remember attending a smallish demonstration on Madison Avenue, in NYC, where a doctor and a nurse spoke about the "accidental" bombing of the hospital they worked in by our planes. At the time it was also considered by some to be "Madison Avenue's war" whatever that meant. I was just following a mimeograph piece of paper on the wall of the Student Union at Stony Brook University, eventually attended as a student and grad student, and observed different peoples concerns over the "war", i.e., the War Moratorium, the Mothers Against the War, Vietnam Veterans for Peace (Veterans For Peace, were building or rebuilding water supplies in Iraq before the invasion, according to their newsletter) and other groups, part of my anthropology "fieldwork" which helped me to understand the issues, i.e., a proposed "Westside Highway" in Buffalo, NY, never built, a subway there instead. The current Congress forgot to look right behind itself it seems and seems myopic when you consider all the prior people involved, generals, Secretaries of State, and other knowledgeable people, somehow appear to be placed outside the circle of leadership (no more 1000 points of light for you Georgie and Bess) as we go on without confirmation of any reasons, for starting this expeditionary "filabuster" (as we did in Iran in the 1930's?). Where's the alternative to opium the Taleban wanted? Well it was once the cash crop for a sunblocker, now found to be no good. In Iraq, where's the WMD, now turned into American "words of mass deception" reminding one of leaflets mistakenly dropped in Mogadishu, "We Are Here To Enslave You" screwed-up by "intelligence"?

Casino Royale

Interesting problems develop on this issue, I am not a spokesperson for anybody, just familiar with some of the events surrounding the problem. Many years ago, 150 Shinnecock, natives of the "East End" of Long Island, in the same vicinity as New York state's claimed oldest town, Southampton, (1638?) helped construct a 12 hole golf course, the first one in the US, according to the "Scotsman" newspaper in its online edition. Apparently, many of the "traps" it's reported, also contained burials of their ancestors, that particular large property itself I am not sure how it was obtained, it's "heritage" and much more property is currently being contested over an "unlawful" seizure in 1859, as stated in the suit. Further east, it's thought, the Montaukett land claims were negated in a Federal court, in 1910, I read. The Shinnecock case has been brought up against many parties (state highway, Southampton Town, Southampton College, the golf course, and other agencies) on their behalf by a casino operator, and asserts that they have had their land illegally taken, and the current dwellers and users have come onto their property illegally as defined by Federal treaty. Do they in this case take back and rebury the remains on the golf course under NAGPRA? This case went to the courts just a few months ago. The "Scotsman" referred to their current lands as a "plantation" where their labor came from to build the golf course, toward the end of the 19th century. It is a crossroads of American history, the first 12 hole golf course, etc. and a people who have never been cited in the over 400 years there, to have ever been involved in any skirmish or "war" with European settlers. Stony Brook University is currently considering buying the cash-strapped Southampton College from Long Island University to get its marine sciences programs closer to the ocean, and expand next door on the former Gyrodyne properties (once makers of remote naval sub-hunter helicopters), that property ironically once also in negotiation in part to become a golf course.