apocolyptic rantings

high priestess alice tarot

2009-09-10T19:07:52Z

high priestess alice tarot

alice star tarot/rose flapper

2009-05-30T23:47:52Z

helluva time getting a good pic.
the star is always nude in the old tarot decks. she pours water, half on land, half in the water(pool of tears). a bird watches from a bush while seven stars glow.
cool that she has many of the same tattoos as i've been doing on jeremy's sleeve.

with home-made walnut paint

i kinda burnt out on the beatles but once in a while~ this is their last performance.

shuttin' down the huntington west va studio tomorrow, not sure where i'll plug in next. i'm checking out options.

more alice sleeve/Confront Rumsfeld/17 Arrested

2009-05-25T21:26:32Z

mixed 2 photos for alice sleeve so his arm looks really wide. tweedledee and dum last night, also the dodo but got to get a better pic of him.

there coming to take me away
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heart of the beast parade in minneapolis may day

Seventeen Arrested Saturday; Six Remain in Jail for Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

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MAY 24, 2009
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Rep. Hechler: Keep Hellraising!

Seventeen Arrested Saturday; Six Remain in Jail for Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Coal Sludge Impoundments; $2000 Cash Bail ‘Unprecedented”

COAL RIVER VALLEY, W.Va.— Seventeen volunteers were arrested Saturday in a three-part civil disobedience action in the continuing movement to end mountaintop removal. Six are still in the Southern Regional Jail as their supporters try to raise the $2,000 cash-only bail a Raleigh County magistrate says is needed for their release.

“This is an unprecedented and extremely punitive bail situation,” Mountain Justice volunteer Ivan Stiefel said. “We can’t even use a bondsman. We need $18,000 cash, on a holiday weekend, to get everyone out of jail. We are asking everyone to go to mountainjustice.org and respond to this outrage by donating to our legal fund.”

Allies of those arrested plan to hold vigils outside the magistrate’s office until they are all released.

The civil disobedience actions were carried out by community members, Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero volunteers, and others. Former Congressman Ken Hechler, 94, was among those protesting at noon yesterday at the gate to the Massey Energy’s Marfork Coal facility, where the massive Brushy Fork coal sludge dam is built. He tried to cross onto Massey Energy property in solidarity, but the West Virginia State Police refused to arrest him. They did, however, arrest seven others who crossed onto Massey property. Four remain in the Southern Regional Jail.

In the week leading up to these actions, many of the same volunteers helped people in Mingo County clear their homes of debris from the recent floods. In one of the first actions Saturday, before dawn, eight people walked onto the Patriot Coal-owned section of the 12,000-acre-plus Kayford Mountain mountaintop removal site. After hanging a banner reading “Never Again!” on the grill of a giant dump truck, they locked themselves to guardrails and the driveshaft of the truck. State Police took the eight to the Madison County Courthouse, where they were charged with trespass and conspiracy and released for future court appearances.

“We locked down at the Kayford mountaintop removal site with mud from the Mingo County floods on our boots, and now, with the dusty remains of Kayford Mountain on our boots, we stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers still jailed for their actions to oppose mountaintop removal” the Kayford Eight Mountain Justice volunteers said.

Also before dawn Saturday, two women donned hazmat suits and respirators and boated onto the 8-billion-gallon Brushy Fork toxic coal slurry lake to unfurl a 60-foot floating banner reading, “No more toxic sludge!” They were charged with trespass and littering, and both remain in the Southern Regional Jail, with $2000 cash needed for their release.

“This is absurd. How can you litter on a giant toxic waste dump?” asked volunteer Cente Rosa. “Massey Energy has a permit to blast within 100 feet of this impoundment, which sits atop a honeycomb of abandoned deep mines. That’s the criminal activity!”

For more information, photos, or to find out how you can help, please visit the following sites:

http://climategroundzero.org/

http://mountainjustice.org/

Civil Disobedience at WV Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Impoundment Sites

From: nicole(READY)
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Date: May 23, 2009 2:55 PM

nicole(READY)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 2009
10:52 AM
CONTACT: It’s Getting Hot In Here
Sludge Watch Collective 304-854-7372

Breaking: Civil Disobedience at WV Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Impoundment Sites

COAL RIVER VALLEY, WV - May 23 - Activists are engaged in two separate civil disobedience actions this morning as part of the continuing campaign to end mountaintop removal. 9 people have locked themselves to mining equipment on a Patriot Coal mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain and another team of activists has spread a 20×60 foot banner on the surface of Massey Energy's Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment near Pettus, W.Va. The activists are part of a coalition that includes Mountain Justice, Climate Ground Zero and concerned individuals.

At noon today, more protesters are expected to converge at the gate to the Brushy Fork dam with hundreds of pairs of shoes to represent the number of immediate deaths should the dam fail.

More details to follow. Video, still images and breaking news will be posted continually to www.mountainjustice.org.

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It’s Getting Hot in Here is the voice of a growing movement, a collection of voices from the student and youth leaders of the global movement to stop global warming. Originally created by youth leaders to allow youth to report from the International Climate Negotiations in Montreal, It’s Getting Hot in Here has since grown into a global online community, with over 100 writers from countries around the world.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/23

Obama's EPA clears new mountaintop removal mining permit
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Subject: Obama's EPA clears new mountaintop removal mining permits

Obama's EPA clears 42 of 48 new mountaintop removal mining permits

Read the article here:

wvgazette.com/News/200905150759

Join the campaign to Stop Mountaintop Removal:

www.ilovemountains.org/category/news/page3

Desiree and Medea Confront Rumsfeld
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nicole(READY)

Desiree and Medea Confront Rumsfeld
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2009-05-13 02:40.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42560

margot painting, alice sleeve and other tattoos in progress

2009-05-11T19:03:16Z

margot in white w/black walnut paint

blake tat. color next.

blake and jeremy play guitar and drums in my son's band. they had a great show the other night and i got some pics.

jeremy alice sleeve. coming along.

the queen is still shiney from last week.

good crowd!

more here~ http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.vi
ewPicture&friendID=44850132&albumId=2597628

josh.

http://fernandofalcone.com.ar/

i got a good tat shop offer but i would have to hitch to akron on my last $50. hitching can go smooth or really suck. wish i had more $$$. i need tattoo equipment pretty bad.

kissenger/atenco/nafta flu/vardo/maypole, etc

2009-05-08T03:59:13Z

henry kissinger for serial killer fascist assholes

my neighbors have lots of eggs this season

vintage girl w/walnut paint

The most ingenious bike I've ever seen - and the glory of mastering it.

Slaughterama 2008 (a bike hacker festival thrown by CUTTHROATS RVA) on Belle Isle in Richmond, VA. Music by The Catalyst, also of Richmond, VA.

first time i've ever found molly moochers(morels). funny, i was taking really long walks to go crap so i could look for em. and one day it was rainy i went to the outhouse and there they were, right in front of me as i did my business! do they really bring $100 a quart?

rat bikes across the ohio river. on saturday the bus doesn't run to the flea market in procterville ohio so i gotta ride my bicycle. but the east bridge has no bike lane and barely a wall with big wind blowing! highly dangerous! i found out the 6th street bridge has a nice lane.

can we make a vardo out of this? the main wagon structure is in pretty good shape and there is lots of construction ideas on the web. it would be cool to get an art grant for environmental circus puppet show tattoo shop to get us going tho.

corey's band playing again friday!

they used to do maypoles in school, you don't see it any more except the rare new-age pagans. i guess that's fair, i don't want christian crap taught to our kids.
we need more irish celtic beltane heritage festivals around here~ god knows these west virginians have the irish heritage!

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now my dang sound card is dead. somebody buy some art so i can have sound again!

How “The NAFTA Flu” Exploded

Smithfield Foods Fled US Environmental Laws to Open a Gigantic Pig Farm in Mexico, and All We Got Was this Lousy Swine Flu

By Al Giordano
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
April 29, 2009
US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the “swine flu” outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5. The daily La Jornada reported:
Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pig farms, and the open-air contamination is already generating an epidemic of respiratory infections in the town of La Gloria, in the Perote Valley, according to Town Administrator Bertha Crisóstomo López.

The town has 3,000 inhabitants, hundreds of whom reported severe flu symptoms in March.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting from Mexico, has identified a La Gloria child who contracted the first case of identified “swine flu” in February as “patient zero,” five-year-old Edgar Hernández, now a survivor of the disease.
By April 15 – nine days before Mexican federal authorities of the regime of President Felipe Calderon acknowledged any problem at all – the local daily newspaper, Marcha, reported that a company called Carroll Ranches was “the cause of the epidemic.”
La Jornada columnist Julio Hernández López connects the corporate dots to explain how the Virginia-based Smithfield Foods came to Mexico: In 1985, Smithfield Foods received what was, at the time, the most expensive fine in history – $12.6 million – for violating the US Clean Water Act at its pig facilities near the Pagan River in Smithfield, Virginia, a tributary that flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The company, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dumped hog waste into the river.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue57/article3512.html

The Other Campaign NY Shuts Down Mexican Consulate While Demanding Freedom for Atenco Prisoners

Mexican Mexican Consulate Shuts Down in Face of Protest from The Other Campaign New York Demanding Freedom for Political Prisoners of Atenco

http://www.narconews.com/Issue57/article3518.html

the violence of 2006 kicked off in atenco mexico on mother's day when local flower vendors were ejected due to a walmart coming in. the massive police invasion was very violent, with two protesters dead and a slew of rapes reported by the police. to date no police have been prosecuted yet many citizens are still in jail.

Criminals For Gun Control (Very Funny)
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Criminals For Gun Control (Very Funny)

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soul party in serbia/empress tarot painting/new mcgee alice

2009-04-22T02:45:30Z

i was painting it to warm up to do a tat on jeremy's alice sleeve. i'd like to tattoo it bigger now. no camera for alice sleeve yet.

One of the best shows I’ve ever seen SSP didn’t stay on the stage for a minute, marching into the audience. At one point they even marched out the door into a small supermarket, with everyone dancing and parading behind!
A profound thing when you’re acoustic but loud.
They took 3 of my requests, rare songs I had no idea they knew. The woman isn’t always with them, so it was great they had her to do a bitchin “ederlezi”.+
Slavic Soul Party

Teknocheck Collision - MTV Video

Slavic Soul Party at the Air conditioned bar in Venice http://www.slavicsoulparty.com

The Return of Alice

http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/02/20/alice-sequel/

helen art benefit!/kids paint giant penis/new corey tat

2009-04-09T01:47:51Z

night of the living dead poster girl tat i did on corey. still a little flakey so i'll replace this as i get a better pic.

more trajedy for helen, her cabin burns to the ground!

we had a work party at helen's over the weekend. worked on her sister's cabin, which helen may have to stay in til we get her a new cabin built.
she came to our neighborhood in the 80's and started building her cabin the same time i started ours. almost complete, her balcony lacked a railing, leading to the tragic accident that has left her paralyzed.
always the rowdiest fun person around, her accident gave even more edge to her terse humor. i bought my first kz1000 motorcycle from helen, who had a lot more hotrod stories of her time on it than i ever notched on my belt.
recently she's had a real full force brewery going at her place, quite the beer arteest. i was planning on drawing her beer label.

here's the gazette front page article from last saturday~

Hamlin woman rebuilding home after fire

HAMLIN, W.Va. - More than 20 years ago, Helen Hervey built a one-room log cabin for herself in Lincoln County. Two weeks ago, she watched her home burn to the ground.
With family and friends by her side, and despite being confined to a wheelchair, she is starting again from scratch.
"2009 is the new 1987," she said.
Hervey, 49, settled in West Virginia in the early 1980s. Originally from Cleveland, she traveled the country on her motorcycle. The friends she made brought her to Lincoln County in the early 1980s, and inspired her to settle in the area.
"I wanted to live the simple life, or at least what I thought was simple," she said. "I was just flabbergasted that, here it was in the 1980s, and there were people living out in the woods, growing their own food [and living off the land]."
She began looking for property, and in 1985, she purchased 50 acres outside Hamlin for $5,000.
"After I perused the country, West Virginia was the best place to settle," she said. "It's very hard to communicate to people just how beautiful [this state] is."

http://www.sundaygazettemail.com/News/200904040007

i'm donating this piece for a benefit art action

http://artistsforhelen.blogspot.com/

kids paint giant penis on his roof to fool with google earth
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haaa

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Subject: Teen paints giant penis on his parents' roof

Teen paints giant penis on his parents' roof
Article from: The Advertiser

DAVID MURRAY, LONDON

March 25, 2009 11:15am

A STUDENT has some scrubbing to do after his parents discovered he'd painted an 18m-long penis on their roof to get his home noticed on Google Earth.Rory McInnes, 18, decided to make his family home stand out after watching a documentary about Google Earth.Armed with a tin of white paint, he climbed on top of the $2 million home in Berkshire, south east England, and set to work.His artwork remained unnoticed for 12 months until a helicopter pilot spotted it and swooped down low so his passengers could take photos.Dad Andy thought it was a prank call when a British newspaper contacted him about the painting this week."It's an April Fool's joke, right? There's no way there's a 60ft phallus on top of my house,'' Mr McInnes told The Sun.He confronted his four children, finding his answers when he reached Rory over the phone in Brazil.Part-way through gap-year travels, Rory could not hold back his laughter as he confessed: "Oh, so you've found it then.The image has been compared to the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 55m-high naked figure carved into the hill at Dorset which is said to attract couples seeking to have children.Mum Clare said: "We don't want any more children, so the idea of sleeping under a giant fertility symbol is rather worrying.Mr McInnes added: "We don't want to lie in bed at night and hear couples at it above us."When Rory gets home he will be given a scrubbing brush and white spirit and he can go and scrub it off.

encore vid~

dryad and tree circus/Tim Burton alice/trillion dollars

2009-03-19T23:18:47Z

dryad and tree circus

bigger here~

http://cannibol.deviantart.com/art/dryad-and-tree-circus-116425278

Axel N. Erlandson (1884-1964)
“You would think that as the trees grow, the formation would change. But they don’t. This chair will remain about the same height. The legs, arms and back will get larger in circumference but the shape will remain about the same.”

No other figure today or in known history went so far in demonstrating the potential that trees have to offer to the art of arborsculpture. With only a fourth grade education and a strong will to teach himself, Axel Erlandson’s work “set the bar” for all aspiring arborsculptors.
http://www.arborsmith.com/treecircus.html

for your viewing pleasure~~~~ONE TRILLION DOLLERS!!!!

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Subject: for your viewing pleasure~~~~ONE TRILLION DOLLERS!!!!

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.

We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.

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Ladies and gentlemen... I "give" you $1 trillion dollars...

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)

So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.

http://www. pagetutor. com/trillion/index. html

Robyn over at http://artpropelled.blogspot.com/

introduced me to the photographic work of Hans Silvester, and to the exquisite adornment of the people of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia...and they were simply too beautiful not to share here!

You can see more of his images here... http://www.xarj.net/2008/omo-tribes-ethi..opia-body-painting/

Prime foto dell'Alice di Tim Burton!

http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7064&Itemid=91

First photos of Tim Burton's Alice

As promised, the scans of the Disney magazine in which the first images of Tim Buton's Alice in Wonderland have arrived: here is Alice and some concept images!

Yesterday we told you about the new Disney tri-annual magazine, D23, and the fact that on there are the very first official images of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Today we show you the scans of these images, obviously inviting you to procure the magazine yourself (even if it is hard to come by in the USA, we imagine).

It deals with two conceptual designs and in the first photo is Mia Wasikowska in the role of Alice. The conceptual designs show a few moments in the film: tea with the Mad Hatter (note also the presence of the Cheshire Cat), performed in the film by Johnny Depp, and the scene where Alice shrinks, in the beginning of the book.

Adapted by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King) from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (the two famous novels by Lewis Carroll) for Walt Disney Pictures, the film's two lead performers are Mia Wasikowska in the role of Alice and Johnny Depp in the role of the Mad Hatter.

... The film will be released March 5, 2010 (scheduled for US release on this date as well via IMDB).

Bruce Lee ping pong

Let the Right One In (2008)

Låt den rätte komma in

Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Let The Right One In is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm...

Lasciami entrare - clip

this scene took me by surprise, as did the whole movie, Let the Right One In.

my river is being killed/the worst of my nightmares

2009-02-23T04:10:49Z

me and my son at my cabin back in the 80's

moving back into my old neighborhood in west virginia, i find the worst of my nightmares is realized. when i left in the late 80's we had fought and won to keep strip mining out of our county, tho there was a mine at the head of our watershed and they started a damn up above us on the mud river. oh how nice, a local recreation area for fishing and boating! yeah, right. more like an excuse to pollute more, and remediate flooding the mine would cause.

last year i was thinking to move back and checked out the area on my favorite new technology, google satellite maps! a little south over ther county border and...holey mackerel!!!! the stripmine is humongous!!!! 20 square miles of moonscape!!!

so i find my dying watershed has even been in the news this past season. the carbon global warming controversy hits home quite literally. the battle has been on. they've been allowed to dump the selenium and the mine plans to qudruple again.

guess i'm not just going to get to kick back with my garden and goats as i start getting a frost of grey in my beard.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr gives perhaps the most significant and compelling testimony on mountaintop removal mining I have ever seen, and I hope you will take 10 minutes to watch him describe in his own words - and the words of his late father - exactly what is happening to the Appalachian Mountains.

http://www. ilovemountains. org

“This assessment is validated by the finding of selenium- induced deformities in newly hatched fish collected from Upper Mud River Reservoir in 2007. Clearly, the Mud River ecosystem is a tinderbox on the brink of a major toxic event. It is essential to reduce waterborne selenium concentrations before reproductive toxicity spirals out of control and fish populations collapse. The warning signs are evident. Now is the time to take action.
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http://wvhighlands. org/wv_voice/?p=645

Selenium in Mud River…..

Selenium, a byproduct of Coal mining, is being found in alarming levels in the Mud River…. thus poisoning the native fish population.
From the Associated Press:
“Selenium pollution from a Boone County mining operation is poisoning fish in the Mud River, leading to serious deformities, according to a biologist’s report.
A. Dennis Lemly prepared his report on behalf of lawyers working for environmental groups suing Hobet Mining Inc. over the discharge of selenium into the Mud River and its tributaries.
Lemly’s report, filed April 18 in U.S. District Court in Huntington, found fish specimens with two eyes on one side of the head and others with curved spines.
“The Mud River ecosystem is on the brink of a major toxic event,” Lemly wrote in the report. “If waterborne selenium concentrations are not reduced, reproductive toxicity will spiral out of control and fish populations will collapse.”
The trouble is not only with the fish population. Selenium, as well as a frightening array of other heavy metals, is showing up in well water across the coalfields. And again, our state’s DEP is taking the low road and being non-commital. From the same article:
“The state Department of Environmental Protection, which is not a party to the federal lawsuit, believes something is wrong with the fish, but is not sure of the cause.”
So, let’s see….. official reports from water biologists say there is too much selenium from the Coal operations leaking into the water. And these same experts say that this selenium is poisoning the fish. If the WVDEP doesn’t accept that, then they better get on the ball and do their own testing and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! The residents of rural Appalachia do not have access to public water. It is a crime when an industry can come in and pollute their water with no repercussions. If the fish are being affected, our bodies are being affected, too. Clean Water should be a basic American right….. but it is not so in the Coalfields. People are literally being poisoned. To read some of their stories, go here.
Again, we all need to continue to hound our representatives to support The Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 2169. There is not a single WV Representative co-sponsoring the Act. Imagine that! Continue to call and you can also arrange a meeting with them or an office aide. Remember…. WE elected them and they are OUR paid employees. They are obligated to hear us and vote according to the people they represent, not vote according to who is funding their campaign. Don’t be intimidated or let them brush you off.
And also remember that it is EVERYONE”S water. Our planet shares water. And many of these creeks and rivers that are being polluted with mining waste are the headwaters to much of the East Coast’s drinking water supplies. It affects everyone.

http://endmtr. com/2008/04/28/selenium-in-mud-river/

http://www. boonestandard. com/main. asp?Search=1&ArticleID=1395&SectionID=17&SubSectionID=&S=1

http://www. appalachian-center. org/media/2008/04_27. html

http://www. ohvec. org/newsletters/woc_2008_09/article_05. html

Hobet permit doesn't limit selenium
By Ken Ward Jr.
Staff writer
CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- The Manchin administration approved a new Hobet Mining permit that does not include limits on the mine's discharge of selenium, a pollutant that a top expert says is already pushing the Mud River watershed "to the brink of a major toxic event."
Environmental groups alleged Thursday that the permit, approved in May 2007, violates a federally approved plan aimed at cleaning up selenium problems in the Guyandotte River and tributaries including the Mud.
In a letter, lawyers Derek Teaney and Joe Lovett of the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment urged state Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman to add selenium limits to the Hobet permit.
Teaney and Lovett are already in federal court trying to block the Hobet 22 operation. Their clients, including the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and the Sierra Club, are concerned the new Hobet mine will make the selenium problem in the area worse.

http://wvgazette. com/News/200808141235

Eight More Arrests Following Second Wave of Citizen Protest at Toxic Coal Sludge Lake and Mountaintop Removal Site
Massey Energy blasting would endanger community, destroy permanent renewable energy potential
PETTUS, W. Va. - February 3 - This morning five activists, who had chained themselves to a bulldozer and an excavator, and one videographer were arrested for trespassing at a mountaintop removal site. By afternoon, dozens of local residents, friends and supporters from throughout Appalachia converged at the mine's gate. Eight more citizens were arrested in the afternoon action.
The latest wave of protesters, trained in and committed to non-violence, delivered a letter to mine company officials. The letter, ultimately intended for Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, insists that Massey cease the mountaintop removal operation on Coal River Mountain. (A copy of the letter is posted at http://climategroundzero. com/gate_letter. pdf).
Blasting for part of the operation could begin at any time, very close to a nine-billion-gallon toxic coal waste sludge dam called the Brushy Fork Impoundment. Blasting would occur above underground mines close to the dam and the lake of toxic coal waste it impounds.
Instead of mountaintop removal, residents and their supporters are advocating for a wind farm on the site as a safe alternative for cleaner energy and long-term jobs (www. coalriverwind. org).
"I fear for my friends and all the people living below this coal sludge dam," said Gary Anderson, who lives on the mountain near the site. "Blasting beside the dam, over underground mines, could decimate the valley for miles. The 'experts' said that the Buffalo Creek sludge dam was safe, but it failed. They said that the TVA sludge dam was safe, but it failed. Massey is setting up an even greater catastrophe here."

http://www. commondreams. org/newswire/2009/02/03-12

March 17, 2007
Coal silo protest
13 arrested in governor’s office
By Staff, wire reports
Police arrested 13 protesters Friday afternoon who occupied Gov. Joe Manchin’s reception area to protest Massey Energy’s plan to build a coal silo near a Raleigh County elementary school.
The demonstrators were handcuffed and carried to police vehicles after they refused orders to clear a security area in the back of the governor’s reception area, police said.
Ed Wiley, a Raleigh County grandfather who walked 455 miles from his home in Raleigh County to Washington, D.C., last fall to draw attention to pollution near Marsh Fork Elementary School, was among those arrested.
Several protesters refused to walk, and were carried and dragged by State Police troopers and Capitol police.
“I was surprised,” said Kim Teplitzky, a demonstrator who remained in the Capitol after the arrests.

http://www. sludgesafety. org/news/2007/03_17. html

More than thirty years ago, one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history occurred in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. Negligent strip mining and heavy rain produced a raging flood. In a matter of minutes, 118 were dead and over 4,000 people were left homeless. Seven were never found.

http://appalshop. org/buffalo/stream. php

Northern Ireland Environment minister's comments

I actually just shouted at the TV when this news story came on...

http://news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7878399. stm

In a nutshell, the Northern Ireland Environment minister, Sammy Wilson, has decided to block a government advertisement campaign on climate change, because he, an MP not a scientist, doesn't believe that humans contribute to climate change. The advertisements urged people to reduce energy consumption and cut carbon dioxide output, but Minister Sammy Wilson claimed the adverts were part of an "insidious propaganda campaign". WTF????

I think he should be sacked for this. His comments in the interview i just saw were laughable.

Make history March 2, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

Be part of the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history.

You know there is a climate crisis. You know we have to solve it. It’s time to take our action to the next level.

With a new administration and a new Congress, we have a window of opportunity. But we have to open it — together.

On March 2, join thousands of people in a multi-generational act of civil disobedience at the Capitol Power Plant — a plant that powers Congress with dirty energy and symbolizes a past that cannot be our future. Let’s use this as a rallying cry for a clean energy economy that will protect the health of our families, our climate, and our future.

new work-walnut homemade paint!/BambooBicycle/Etta James

2009-02-09T07:28:13Z

a tad of watercolor with the homemade black walnut paint.

black walnut paint vintage girl. there's a couple good walnut trees not too far from here.

gypsy girl. the walnuts are tastey too!

black walnut bedouin girl.

put a pot of the hulls on my woodsove.then strain it. i need to add denatured alcohol so the jar of paint doesnt mold. it's got blue fuzz on it now, heh.

found this carousel girl in a pad laying around. from 07.

watercolor vintage girl.

The bicycle is one of the worlds most brilliant inventions. It is hard to find a disadvantage (to the bicycle) - except the material it is made from. Light bicycles are made from aluminum, which is one of the most resource demanding materials that exist. My bicycles are made of grass, he says.

Load testing a bamboo cargo bike:

http://www. instructables. com/id/How-to-Build-a-Bamboo-Bicycle/

http://www. attis. nu/

i've been a huge fan of etta james since i heard the rockin' the house live album from 1957. she brings the party to orgasm after orgasm in that gig like nothing i've ever heard. janice owes alot to her.

by the 60's she lost much of her growl, but still did some great love songs. she spent a decade on smack and fought obesity, but has outlived many contemporaries.
beyonce did a good job in the cadillac records movie, it missed her early intence growl but still comes thru.

vince gives 2 thumbs up!

Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records - All I Could Do Was Cry

Etta James, in "Something got a hold on me", Live, New York , 1966.
not quite the rockin' the house energy(she has a much better audience), but still brilliant.

..

ETTA JAMES, KEITH RICHARDS ROBERT CRAY-Hoochie Coochie Gal

Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records - I'd Rather Go Blind

Banjaras - Sand, Sensuality and Color

Gypsies of the Thar, sinuous amongst the sand dunes - a fantastically vibrant Gatlif clip

Latcho Drom - Balada Conducatorolui

Fragmento de la película Latcho Drom, con el violinista de Taraf de haidouks

happy imbolc full moon!

my work in great art book with gieger and others

2009-02-01T03:15:18Z

Gothic Art Now

Jasmine Becket-Griffith

For the first time ever, Gothic Art Now brings the very best in dark artwork into the light in one visually stunning volume. Showcasing artists from across the globe, Gothic Art Now reveals their exciting and dynamic new images in this unique collection. Artists expose the tricks of their trade, providing inspiration and insight into how they created their artwork - including work from hot new talents to legendary names such as H. R. Giger. From conventional media such as paint and pencil to stained-glass and digital creations, this book covers a wide range of artforms, demonstrating that this dark genre contains far more colour, diversity and skill than most would ever have imagined.

i'm glad jasmine gave a disclaimer to the term "gothic art" in the books forward. it's a great collection of cool art i'm proud to have a piece in it. wish i could of sent her all the pieces she was asking to put in it.

'Gothic Art Now' Book!

in other news i went to get my scanner out of storage to scan new art and it's smashed, damn! gotta get and hook up another ground rod to be able to connect my electric.

yay! amy!

HUMANWINE- Pique

not only great performers with an aware activist bent these guys are also photogenic. watch into the video a bit to see a good shot of holly's delicious chin and neck tat.

www. myspace. com/humanwine

www.myspace.com/ericroset

my west virginiaa cabin/skate deck/happy new year!

2009-01-03T04:54:49Z

home sweet home

chicken coop up the hill.

needs some work

eatin alot of deer meat.

k. i gotta get my electric on before i have internet again. it's back to rustic livin'. i've collected enough oil lamps to read at night, but not enough to paint yet. started a couple watercolors on these short days.
it's a mile hike up(and i mean up!) to my place, most of my stuff i packed in. no water pump so i haul drinking water from a spring a half mile away, and i carry wash water from my pond.
ahhhh, the life. i should have a horse before long, i picked this place because jim is trying to get his horse equiptment back together, plows, wagons, buggies, etc.
not to mention this great cabin!

My art on skate deck at my tattoo spot in huntington.
http://www. beercityrecords. com/

Kenneth Lay:Alive in Paraguay..Max Keiser covers

A short film by Mark Ryden and Marion Peck

happy new year!!!

shoe guy, my son corey's tat i did.

2008-12-19T04:22:58Z

they caught the shoe guy!

tattoo i did on my kid corey. this is all one sitting!!! he did great!

i still can't get my stuff into the backwoods cabin till the roads freeze hard or dry out, so i'm at the mercy of hospitality in huntington. i've seen west va winters stay mushy all winter.

dayodead opening/burning bush/pics and video!

2008-10-27T22:32:18Z

burning bush in the yard. how biblical!

pics of this years deceased in the window with cheshire pumpkin and red riding hood puppet.

costumes! drumming! trick or treats! bunches more pics here

raw power reagan years

2008-10-03T21:14:49Z

art for raw power retrospection, it's supposed to be on a skateboard too. that's ollie north as bonzo the monkey.

yup, i'm folding up my studio in kent, going to be vagabonding a bit and internet might be real limited. i'm hoping to end up where i can grow food. i still need to sell art on the internet so don't be shy. sorry if my bulletins get scarce tho.

yup, i'm folding up my studio in kent, going to be vagabonding a bit and internet might be real limited. i'm hoping to end up where i can grow food. i still need to sell art on the internet so don't be shy. sorry if my bulletins get scarce tho.

National Geographic Wild Chronicles : Giant Catfish

From: Shari
Date: Sep 27, 2008 10:23 PM

La Campanella 2008/08/25 Recital（WMV）

René AUBRY. FLOPPIENNCO*

Homer Simpson -vs- Diebold

Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind

From: B.Conscious
..

B. Conscious
Date: Sep 28, 2008 3:55 PM

Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

Source:
Diatribune and Daily Kos, March, 30, 2007
Title: “Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From NCLB”
Author: Mandevilla

Researchers: Alan Scher and Sam Burchard

Faculty Evaluator: Karen Grady, PhD

The architect of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), President Bush’s first senior education advisor, Sandy Kress, has turned the program, which has consistently proven disastrous in the realm of education, into a huge success in the realm of corporate profiteering. After ushering NCLB through the US House of Representatives in 2001 with no public hearings, Kress went from lawmaker—turning on spigots of federal funds—to lobbyist, tapping into those billions of dollars in federal funds for private investors well connected to the Bush administration.A statute that once promised equal access to public education to millions of American children now instead promises billions of dollars in profits to corporate clients through dubious processes of testing and assessment and “supplemental educational services.” NCLB—the Business Roundtable’s revision of Lyndon Johnson’s Education and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)—created a “high stakes testing” system through which the private sector could siphon federal education funds. The result has been windfall corporate profit. What was once a cottage industry has become a corporate giant. “Millions of dollars are being spent,” says Jack Jennings, director of the Center on Education Policy, “and nobody knows what’s happening.The wedding of big business and education benefits not only the interests of the Business Roundtable, a consortium of over 300 CEOs, but countless Bush family loyalists. Sandy Kress, chief architect of NCLB; Harold McGraw III, textbook publisher; Bill Bennett, former Reagan education secretary; and Neil Bush, the president’s youngest brother, have all cashed in on the Roundtable’s successful national implementation of “outcome-based education.” NCLB’s mandated system of state standards, state tests, and school sanctions has together transformed our public school system into a for-profit frenzy.Kress, former president of the Dallas School Board, began “A Draft Position for George W. Bush on K-12 Education” as early as 1999. Working successfully with then-Governor Bush in Texas for years, the Democrat bolstered bipartisan support behind the compassionate marketing promise to “leave no child behind” through the adoption of high state standards measuring school performance. Signed into law in early 2002, NCLB dramatically extended the federal role in public education, mandating annual testing of children in Grades 3 to 8, providing tutoring for children in persistently failing schools, and setting a twelve-year timetable for closing chronic gaps in student achievement. Having then crafted the legislation, Kress transitioned from public servant to corporate lobbyist, guiding clients to the troth of federal funds. By 2005 he had made upwards of $4 million from lobbying contracts.While the Business Roundtable maintains that the high-stakes tests administered nationwide hold schools accountable to “Adequate Yearly Progress,” NCLB has instead benefited the testing industry in the amount of between $1.9 and $5.3 billion a year. NCLB requires states to produce “interpretive, descriptive, and diagnostic reports,” all of which are provided at a price by members of the industry. Among these are the top four or five players in the textbook market, including the Big Three—McGraw-Hill, Houghton-Mifflin, and Harcourt General—who have, since the passage of NCLB, come to dominate the testing market. Identified by Wall Street analysts in the wake of the 2000 election as “Bush stocks,” all three represent owners like Harold McGraw III, who has longstanding ties to the Bush administration and the lobbying efforts of Sandy Kress.Other Kress clients, including Ignite! Learning, a company headed by Neil Bush, and K12 Inc., a for-profit enterprise owned by Bill Bennett, tailored themselves to vie for NCLB dollars.Under NCLB, as school districts receive federal funding they are required by law to hold 20 percent of those funds aside, anticipating that its schools will fail to meet its Annual Yearly Progress formula. When that “failure” is certified by test scores, the district is required to use those set-aside federal funds to pay supplemental education service (SES) providers. Ignite! has placed products in forty US school districts, and K12 offers a menu of services “as an option to traditional brick-and-mortar schools,” including computer-based “virtual academies,” that have qualified for over $4 million in federal grants. Under NCLB, supplemental educational services, whose results are being increasingly challenged, reap $2 billion annually.Nationally, there are over 1,800 approved providers of supplemental educational services, but little in the way of regulation. To the contrary, Michael Petrilli, former member of the Department of Education, purports, “We want as little regulation as possible so the market can be as vibrant as possible.” To that end, Kress is currently lobbying on behalf of another bipartisan coalition to win reauthorization of NCLB for another six years.
http://www. projectcensored. org/top-stories/articles/12-bush-profiteers-collect-billions-from-no-child-left-behind/

War Inc.

http://www. cnbc. com/id/15840232?video=702432999

goto

http://www. cnbc. com/id/15840232?video=702432999

Great Chernobyl Pictures

This woman in Russia has been going to towns and other areas around Chernobyl for some years now. She's got some great pictures as well as some from her friends. She calls one of her most recent trips "Pluto's Realm"
http://www. angelfire. com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/pluto1. html

Rosa Clemente's interview with WMNF and Pics...

http://www. wmnf. org/news_stories/6139
LISTEN TO THIS ENTIRE SHOW!
Rosa Clemente, Green Party VP candidate
09/23/08 Robert Lorei
Radioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show: listen to this show

Tags: Green Party, Rosa Clemente, Puerto Rican activist

Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Our guest today is Rosa Clemente, vice presidential candidate for the Green Party this year. She’s running with Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. Clemente is a Puerto Rican hip hop activist and journalist, born in New York and a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University.
In 2003, she helped form the first ever National Hip Hop Convention.She will be campaigning in St. Petersburg this weekend.
She joins us live now on the phone.
For more information, visit http://www. gp. org or http://www. inpdum. org or http://www. inpdum. org/convention2008/

NOTE FROM ANITA
***I attended the INPDUM Conference yesterday and met Rosa Clemente for the first time.You can see photos from this event here:
http://www. flickr. com/photos/anitastewart/
Check out PAGE 2 as all of the photos did not get on the first page.Anita Stewart
New Media/Virtual Outreach
McKinney/Clemente 2008

and i'll be back for dia de los muerte art show!

day o dead, michael hudson on the financial collapse

2008-09-18T16:07:31Z

6th annual day of the dead show! time flies!

US Economy (SSI) sacrificed to save WS Gamblers
on democracy now

Fed Res is acting like a Hedge Fund with Social Sec funds

Phil Gramm "front man for biggest crooks in the USA"

micheal hudson is good, he's been predicting the financial mess for a couple years and has been right on the money. i've been hearing him on kpfa's guns and butter which i listen to every wednesday at the kpfa site.

http://www. kpfa. org/archives/index. php?show=13

lots of his older interviews at his site
http://www. michael-hudson. com/

new show co-hosted with bonnie faulkner from guns and butter
http://www. flashpoints. net/

kpfa all day
https://radiotime. com/station/s_34653/KPFA_941. aspx

Tornado throws a bus in Poland (translation subtitles) / trąba powietrzn...

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=oRnavvW9U9g

3 armed baby born

The Tiger Lillies FREAKSHOW

Roll Up, Roll Up!

Brand new Tiger Lillies' album and show coming up....

Just a quick a peep:

Cynthia McKinney's got my vote..

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=Zbzm3s6Ikwo
Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential candidate, talks at a benefit for 9/11 First Responders, comparing 9/11 truthers with 1960s-era civil rights activists– who would stand their ground to do the right thing in spite of fire hoses, police abuse, intimidation, and etc.A disproportionate number of First Responders are ill as a result of the toxic conditions at the 9/11 site. The Gov’t does not acknowledge the toxic conditions nor is it offering significant support to the First Responders or their survivors.

One key to changing that is a House Bill HR 3543 providing such resources. Cynthia McKinney supports such legislation and would go beyond that.———–

Also, here is the encounter/interview with Cynthia McKinney by We Are Change Racine (Wisconsin), circa Sept. 5, 2008.McKinney praises We Are Change’s activism:

When Cynthia McKinney, Green Party presidential candidate and former congresswoman, came to town, We Are Change Racine (9/11 Truth) was invited to meet the “Truth Candidate.” The following day we saw her again at Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo.

Flashpoints' interview with Derrick Jensen
Author and environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen talks about the collapse of industrial capitalism and peak oil economy, and what it will take for people to resist the destructive urges of civilization and replace it with a culture of resistance.
Highly recommended.

http://www. kpfa. org/archives/index. php?arch=28400

swan bones

new painting-emperor alice tarot

2008-09-10T06:45:54Z

emperor alice tarot

the election season got me inspired. lewis carroll was subversive in his attitude toward royalty.

Brothers admit stealing parts from 244 corpses - CNN. com

Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones.
... The brothers allowed at least 244 corpses to be carved up without families' permission and without medical tests, prosecutors said. Skin, bones, tendons and other parts -- some of them diseased -- were then sold around the country for dental implants, knee and hip replacements, and other procedures.
Some bodies were only torsos by the time the hacking was done, said Assistant District Attorney Evangelia Manos.

http://www. cnn. com/2008/CRIME/09/02/philly. body. parts. ap/index. html?iref=mpstoryview

Taraf de Haidouks: Party in the Car

From: The Gypsy Chronicles
Date: Sep 4, 2008 4:15 PM

Translated lyrics in English / Best view Large Screen;0)
Taraf de Haidouks Link to Myspace of Taraf de Haidouks
http://www. myspace. com/tarafdehaidouksbandofgypsies

The best preserved mummy, 2 year old Rosalia Lombardo, died 1920:

TerryGilliam&MontyPythons

From: &
Date: Sep 4, 2008 8:49 PM

.RE: New oil painting.... George Carlin R.I.P

From: adam james chiodo INKTAILOR. COM
Date: Sep 4, 2008 8:47 PM

la Vie en Minut - di Cinedavinci & Altaluna

From: ALTALUNA
Date: Sep 7, 2008 10:28 AM

la Vie en Minut - di Cinedavinci & Altaluna

Monty Python's Flying Circus (cartoons)

"This is a photograph of Carrie L. Parsons, wife and three children murdered by Joseph Hamilton about two miles east of Success, MO on Friday October the 12, 1906. Parsons had sold his crop to young Hamilton. On the day of the murder Parsons loaded his Family and household effects in his wagon and started for Miller Co, MO when about two miles east of Success at what is known as the old Vance Place he was murdered this was about 2 o'clock in the day. The wagon was then driven into thicket of brush and left until about midnight that night when young Hamilton returned hitched up Drove to Piney River and threw all of the Bodies into the water two of the children was found by Fishing Party with in one hour after were thrown in. Hamilton was arrested two Days later trying to make his escape. He made a full confession of his crime. He was tried at the November term of Court and Sentenced to be Hanged ..he 21st. His Father came here and made quite an effort to have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment - but to no avail he was Hanged at 11 o'clock December 21st 1906 at Houston MO. Young Yamilton was 21 years old and a son of J. Bill Hamilton that is said to Preach at the New Church. This is a true likeness I was Present when it was Taken [signed] G.W.S"
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Article Date: December 22 1906

Article Description: Lad Executed for 5 Murders. Joda HAMILTON Expiates for
Terrible Crime Committed at Houston, Missouri

Houston, Mo., Dec. 21.--The execution here today of Joda HAMILTON, a 23-year-old
farmer boy, for the murder of five members of the family of Barney PARSONS, a farmer, was a horrible affair.

Two attempts were necessary before hanging proved successful. The first rope broke
at the first attempt. HAMILTON shot through the trap with a jerk and the spectators
were horrified to see the rope part. HAMILTON dropped to the ground and lay there
writhing in pain, partially conscious. He was picked up quickly and carried a second
time to the scaffold. The rope was hurriedly placed about the boy's neck and the
trap again sprung. This time it was successful.

The trap was sprung at 11:05. It required some time to repair the rope and it was
11:10 before the trap was sprung the second time. The attending physician expressed the belief that HAMILTON was fatally injured by the first fall and died before he dropped the second time. The body was turned over to HAMILTON'S father."

Pop surrealist Camille Rose Garcia has opened an astonishing show of paintings at New York's Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Garcia's psychedelic visions depict an interzone of the insane where charming entities enact a paranoiac's fairy tale.

http://jonathanlevinegallery. com/?method=Exhibit. ExhibitDescription&ExhibitID=07D2B1BA-115B-5562-AABAF78425376622

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=Hy_QH6j2SOg

NEW MOVIE TRAILORS - REVIVAL OF DARKNESS

From: Doom and Gloom Productions
Date: Sep 3, 2008 2:05 AM

FOX News Journalist in Civilian Massacre Coverup

by Grand Moff Texan

Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 12:20:45 PM PDT

We interrupt your steady diet of panic and process talk to bring you the following news from the outside world.

On August 21st, something happened in Nawabad, Afghanistan. Everyone but the Pentagon agrees: US forces killed 92 civilians, including about 60 children. The Pentagon insisted that its forces had attacked a Taliban meeting, killing 35 Taliban and seven civilians.

Now that there is video of the slaughter, however, the Pentagon is reopening the investigation it just closed. In doing so, the Pentagon revealed the name of their star witness, denying the massacre:

Oliver North.

more here

Michael Parenti presenting Capitalism's Apocalypse

Dr. Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer and one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. As author of 20 highly informative and entertaining books - his latest is Contrary Notions- and innumerable talks his ideas have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
This presentation, Capitalism Apocalypse, was in Oakland, California.
Learn more about Michael Parenti at www.michaelparenti.org/

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29169

http://www.raisingsandradio.org/

new painting for dia de los muerte/atenco/oaxaca~ madre/muert

2008-09-02T19:12:22Z

atenco/oaxaca~ madre/muerte

the violence of 2006 kicked off in atenco mexico on mother's day when local flower vendors were ejected due to a walmart coming in. the massive police invasion was very violent, with two protesters dead and a slew of rapes reported by the police. to date no police have been prosecuted yet many citizens are still in jail.
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/2006_civil_unrest_in_San_Salvador_Atenco

i find something profound in wal-mart's roll, and the wal-mart star reminds me of the chinese communist star, an irony in all the made in china crap that has turned our economy upside down. and the fascism that reminds one of tienamin square.

the summer saw a massive teachers strike in oaxaca mexico which culminated by fall when american journalist brad will was murdered, documenting his own grisly death on film~

this happened a couple days before day of the dead which gave a duality to the season i have been wanting to paint ever since, and in time for this year's dia de los muerte.

Brad Will Shooting

http://www. myspace. com/meiq

http://meiq. nce. buttobi. net/index. html

Betty Boop Cartoon Banned For Drug Use 1934

I Was Born Under a Wandering Star

From: Simon
Date: Aug 30, 2008 10:46 PM
Lee Marvin

http://www. myspace. com/octobereffigies

14 year old JennieMarie sings with Joplin's original band Big Brother And The Holding Company in Austin.

Jello Biafra at Open The Debates Rally at DNC in Denver 2008

From: circa..1967
Date: Aug 30, 2008 10:11 AM

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=QNsEuB9AQXw

..
EPA Sued for Bee Colony Collapse Cover-Up

========================================

Over the past two years, beekeepers have reported an alarming and potentially catastrophic loss of bees from their hives ranging anywhere from 30-90 percent. This "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD) isn't just a problem for beekeepers and farmers, but for consumers as well, since bee pollination is essential for crop production. The USDA claims that one out of every three mouthfuls of food is dependant on bee pollination. Experts have been researching CCD and have linked the die-off to a number of likely culprits. One of the likely killers is a new pesticide, clothianidin, approved by the EPA in 2003. Germany and France have banned this type of pesticide to protect their bee population. In the U.S., clothianidin was approved after Bayer CropScience, the chemical's maker, submitted required studies to the EPA regarding the chemical's impact on bees and the environment. Now the EPA is suspiciously and illegally refusing to release these public documents. To expose this cover-up and hopefully to save the bees, last week the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit against the agency.

Learn more here
http://salsa. democracyinaction. org/dia/track. jsp?v=2&c=AYxlVJTbemJ3Cz9FvRtMfEtI5tXfIA26

hula-hooping/Gypsy TV/my art on k.'s purses!/Ron English

2008-08-27T19:29:26Z

livvy purse

hula-hooping at gypsy raven

with aaron, tim, barry and chris jamming. me, tiara, kathryn hula-hooping. aleata on the camera. we whoop it up every friday.

alice strength tarot purse

alice death tarot apron

mex fey purse

print rack at the gypsy raven

detail of death tarot apron

Gypsy TV now online

From: The Gypsy Chronicles
Date: Aug 25, 2008 9:25 AM

READ ABOUT GYPSY TV in Balkan Beat it Magazine, here:

http://BalkanBeatit. com

Not only will you find Reviews, Films, Festivals and Gigs in BalkanBeat It magazine, but very interesting News and Articles you might not find anywhere else ~ such as the one on Gypsy TV .

I enjoyed the Video Bregovic Interview very much! Balkan Beat it Magazine

And you may have seen Balkan Beat It Magazine on
Myspace as well.

Tempory Website up :)
From: Caitlin.
Date: Aug 25, 2008 7:55 AM

Hello

I finally made a carbonmade website for contact etc for the time being whilst I make up a web site, located here
www. cworthingtonphoto. carbonmade. com

Popaganda - The Art And Crimes Of Ron English

From: Mariano
Date: Aug 26, 2008 1:00 AM

http://www. myspace. com/deviantmoon

The 'Other' Presidential Candidate - Cynthia McKinney

From: My Black America
Date: Aug 24, 2008 1:40 PM

The 'Other' Presidential Candidate - Cynthia McKinney

Free Gaza Movement: Breaking the Siege Video

Free Gaza Movement: WE BROKE THE SIEGE OF GAZA !!!

Date : 08-24-2008

On August 23, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement broke the Siege of Gaza. It was world news yesterday, thousands of people cried for joy, and there is an enourmous amount of footage and coverage. A press conference in Gaza is taking place now, on Sunday morning. Press release follows shortly on this website. Thanks to everybody who made this possible. And: this is certainly not the end of the story.
Below are some videos of the two boats arriving in Gaza. You need QuickTime to watch them.
http://freegaza. org/uploads/audio_video/freegaza_20080822. 1. mov
http://freegaza. org/uploads/audio_video/freegaza_20080822. 2. mov
http://freegaza. org/uploads/audio_video/freegaza_20080822. 3. mov
http://freegaza. org/uploads/audio_video/freegaza_20080822. 4. mov
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----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
Thanks! Kevin [Stop, Think, Act] Prosecute George Bush
Date: Aug 24, 2008 12:04 PM

Two boats carrying dozens of international activists sailed into the Gaza Strip in defiance of an Israeli blockade on Saturday

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=rFjjdUm81LA

FDA Plots to Mislead Consumers Over Irradiated Foods

Published on 23-08-2008
Source: Natural News

NaturalNews has learned that the FDA is intentionally plotting to deceive consumers over the labeling of irradiated foods, attempting to eliminate any requirement for informative labeling or replace the word "irradiated" with "pasteurized.

In a feature story published by NaturalNews yesterday, we stated that the FDA does not require foods to be labeled as irradiated. We received a lot of questions from readers about that point, with some stating the FDA does, in fact, require foods to be labeled when irradiated. This is not always correct: Most foods are not required to be labeled as irradiated. This story explains the FDA's food irradiation labeling policy in more detail and reveals the FDA's plot to deceive consumers by misleading them into thinking irradiated foods are NOT irradiated.

FDA Plots to Mislead Consumers Over Irradiated Foods

America invaded and occupied by Corporations

From: Che Arrajj
Date: Aug 24, 2008 10:47 AM

From: KIMBERLY~DELEGATE FOR RON PAUL
Date: Aug 23, 2008 8:54 PM

This man is so missed ;(

A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=tmEi_m0Z8hE

Is Water the next Monopoly Commodity for the Corporations1/5

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=-mdAJoqAb08

follow the link....

Cynthia McKinney at R-68 in Denver

From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 24, 2008 11:35 PM

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=hzoiIQSanx4

This was earlier today at the RECREATE 68 happenings in Denver.
PASS IT ON!

Protesters Chant *Fuc% Fox News* Live On Fox News!

Classic Fox Noise.They call we who are anti-royalist "FAR LEFT"...

It's the people vs. the Royalists (and the corporations that they hide behind).This is classic... and it is what is coming in our future.... I just hope we get Obama instead of McCain when we get out there for real in 09... a lot less blood shed then. We'll be a lot freer to protest without being hit with whatever sprays and potions Cheney and Rummy were using on people in 03.You'll be proud of these people... "I'm not talking to you!.. FUCK FOX NEWS!"

:)

- Corp

1: Steve ☮~alapoet~☠

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=GDGhs_LN7Fk

Two Years On, Atenco Still Hurts
Posted by Kristin Bricker - May 6, 2008 at 1:57 am

Two years ago, on May 3-4, 2006, federal, state, and municipal police violently invaded San Salvador Atenco, leaving two people dead and 218 people imprisoned. To date, only a handful of police have been prosecuted for very minor crimes, and many of those convicted have since been exonerated. However, sixteen activists remain imprisoned, some with life sentences.

The invasion incurred because a handful of Atenco residents attempted their yearly ritual of selling flowers in a local market before Mother's Day despite plans to build a Wal-Mart on that site. Police told them to leave the area despite a previous agreement with local authorities that they could sell flowers there, but only for the holiday. The Popular Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT), adherents to the Zapatistas' Other Campaign, arrived to support the flower vendors in resistance. The police attacked, and more adherents to the Zapatistas' Other Campaign arrived in Atenco shortly thereafter from surrounding states to support the FPDT, because an injury to one adherent to the Other Campaign is an injury to the entire Other Campaign.

Of the 47 women arrested during the police riot in Atenco, twenty-six report being mentally, physically, or sexually tortured during their detention. To date, no police officer has been convicted of torture or sexual abuse.

http://narcosphere. narconews. com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2008/05/two-years-on-atenco-still-hurts

pigs go wild on punk kid at DNC

Soothe is READY
Date: 25 Aug 2008, 07:36 PM

ARE YOU AWARE THAT THEY MADE IT ILLEGAL FOR PROTESTERS TO WEAR GAS MASKS??? WHY??? THIS IS WHY PROTESTERS WERE WEARING THE BANDANAS OVER THEIR FACES THAT FOX MADE SUCH A HUGE DEAL OUT OF...

SafetyJoe [Ron Paul 2008]
Date: 25 Aug 2008, 20:33

Police spray protesters in convention face-off
http://ap. google. com/article/ALeqM5hksHDv1i55R2qYI6dkmMm10uxZ0AD92PMG7G0

DNC breaking news: Cops use pepper spray in large downtown protest
http://www. fortcollinsnow. com/article/20080825/NEWS/1306561/1062&ParentProfile=1054

Protesters chant anarchists songs as they remain trapped
http://www. rockymountainnews. com/news/2008/aug/25/protesters-chant-anarchists-songs-they-remain-trap/

Cynthia at the Mercury Cafe/Denver/DNC
From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 26, 2008 11:50 AM

Don’t ignore Green Party
Presidential candidate McKinney speaks at Merc
Daniel Williams, DDN Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
http://www. thedenverdailynews. com/article. php?aID=1664

Barack Obama is not the only presidential candidate in Denver this week. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has also been in Denver since Sunday, and she spoke yesterday at the Mercury Café.McKinney spoke passionately to a capacity-plus crowd of supporters, and she wanted to make sure all of the Democrats downtown for the Democratic National Convention knew she was here.

DNC Funk the War Protest
From: circa.. 1967
Date: Aug 26, 2008 8:41 AM

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=6CLsVbD1ox4

Joe Cocker/Fun at Gypsy Raven/mad teaparty/El Caminito del Rey

2008-08-25T02:54:13Z

trea, aaron and friend, river

sorry for the crappy pics of the teaparty. i was apparently not on task like i should have been.

eric, julz and kate

julz dancing to slavic soul party!

opa cupa!

k. brought "alice" wine

and thanks everyone for the surprise b-day party!

Fun at Gypsy Raven Studio

me not doing great on hula-hoop

Birthday Greeting from Joe Cocker

Cabaret : 1984 Previously Banned Russian Animation

gadjo dilo> gypsy wedding & gypsy funeral & trailer

http://www. amazon. com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-8381757-9751211?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gadjo+dilo&x=0&y=0

WEDDING

FUNERAL

TRAILER

Sound TRACK / DVD
http://www. amazon. com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-8381757-9751211?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gadjo+dilo&x=0&y=0

Mike Shine Paints

http://www. shinelounge. com/

take a walk

El Caminito del Rey

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey

http://www. earthdream. co. uk/blog/2008/05/more-from-el-camino-del-rey-el-caminito. html

New Music Video for "POLICIA"
From: Pistolera
Date: Aug 19, 2008 2:27 PM

Pistolera's new music video for the song "Policía" from the new album "En Este Camino" is out now.

Directed by Haroun Ibn-Mock in Brooklyn, NY.
The video parodies the true story of when singer Sandra Velasquez was arrested at the airport for traveling with a bullet decorated guitar strap.

WATCH NOW:

Veruca Salt - I want it now

Vaudeville Queen - Aida Overton Walker

http://www. myspace. com/humanwine

Radio Interview with Cynthia McKinney on RadioActive Lunch

From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 18, 2008 10:39 AM

Here is a cool radio interview with Cynthia on the RadioActive Lunch, give it a few seconds to load...

http://radioactivelunch. com/index. php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=1
I spoke with 6 term Congresswoman and Green Party Presidential Nominee Cynthia McKinney about her transition to the Democratic Party, Green Party values, and Cynthia's commitment to the right to self determination, freedom, liberty, justice, accountability, and speaking truth to empower.
CLICK HERE to LISTEN:
http://radioactivelunch. com/Audio/Cynthia_McKinney_081308s. mp3

To Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente Supporters Everywhere!
From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 19, 2008 9:00 AM

Join the site that can spur you on to ACTION, get you networking with your locals so you can organize for Cynthia and Rosa and connect you with the campaign itself!

This is a SOCIAL NETWORK, so you need to go to the site, log in, create a profile, join your STATE GROUP and get some events and fundraisers going in your local area and state. If you are familiar with FACEBOOK and MYSPACE or any other SOCIAL NETWORK, this will only take you a few minutes. Be sure to come back every day to check out new info on Cynthia and Rosa, events, news, blogs, stories, etc.LET'S BE THE CHANGE!

See you there!
http://votetruth08. com/

Anita Stewart
New Media/Virtual Outreach
Cynthia McKinney for President 2008

..Rosanne Barr Goes Green! Since i will vote for a woman instead of a man any day - there is a woman running, I am going to vote for Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for President. The first woman in history to run as the nominee of a viable party is Cynthia McKinney of the green party. The green party is the future of America.

FKN NEWZ .....

From: Jody...
Date: Aug 21, 2008 8:59 PM

From: "FKN NEWZ"

REPOST

Q and A with Rosa Clemente!

From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 21, 2008 3:13 PM

http://blogs. vibe. com/jeffchang/2008/08/hip-hop-vp-a-qa-with-rosa-clemente/

Guns and Butter Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

http://www. kpfa. org/archives/index. php?arch=27949

anti-war diary
I expected a lot of abuse, posting this anti-Obama, anti-war diary on the popular, democratic party blog dailykos. Some of the comments though have been quite thoughtful.
elizabeth
http://www. dailykos. com/story/2008/8/20/82950/7588/619/570945

Where the Democratic Party has failed - Cynthia McKinney

From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 22, 2008 10:32 AM

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=GpYlQx2MLuw

It is not a question of PARTY anymore!

The Betrayal of America - Vincent Bugliosi

From: circa.. 1967
Date: Aug 22, 2008 10:11 AM

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=tD8HD0McNpU

opinions on art/Gary Baseman/new work/Flobots/Ella

2008-08-11T12:01:19Z

i lost my backpack with my watercolors so someone gave me an "acrylic pad". not as organic as watercolor but it will do as a mobile unit, i take a painting kit on hikes or to the river. good watercolor paper is expensive.

gueen of cups alice tarot

feel free to dress up for my artshow this saturday in akron at the red light gallery by louiji's

here we are last friday at the gypsy raven on hula-hoop day, me on left~

opinions on art

Gary Baseman окончательно подтвердил свое участие в фестивале,
помимо Санкт-Петербурга он посетит и Москву.

http://www. myspace. com/marmite_sue

Along the Cuyahoga

http://www. wcpn. org/index. php/WCPN/an/13000/

..

The Beast

beautiful documentary of the 'Kogi' tribe...... (",
From: Wilson Noble
Date: Aug 6, 2008 6:54 PM

check it out.... (",

in peace, love, light & service
abundant blessings to you

wlsn
(",
namaste
we are all one

to the stars & beyond....

"Handlebars" by the Flobots
From: jacob
Date: Aug 6, 2008 10:53 PM

Punk Vids
From: W. P. DunkeL
Date: Aug 7, 2008 3:17 PM

http://www. trans-alleghenylunaticasylum. com/

Ella Harper

Most sources indicate that Ella Harper was born in Hendersonville, Tennessee in 1873 – though there are some conflicting reports. What is not argued, however, is the fact that Ella was born with an unusual orthopedic condition resulting in knees that bent backwards. The nature of this unusual affliction is exceedingly rare and relatively unknown, however most modern medical types would classify her condition and a very advanced form of congenital genu recurvatum – also known as ‘back knee deformity’. Her unusually bent knees, coupled with her preference of walking on all fours resulted in her moniker of ‘The Camel Girl’.

In 1886, Ella was the star of W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, often appearing accompanied by a camel when presented to audiences and she was a feature in the newspapers of every town the circus visited. Those newspapers touted Ella as ‘the most wonderful freak of nature since the creation of the world’ and that her ‘counterpart never did exist’.

The back of Ella’s 1886 pitch card is far more modest in its information:

‘I am called the camel girl because my knees turn backward. I can walk best on my hands and feet as you see me in the picture. I have traveled considerably in the show business for the past four years and now, this is 1886 and I intend to quit the show business and go to school and fit myself for another occupation.’

It appears that Ella did indeed move on to other ventures and her $200 a week salary likely opened many doors for her. After 1886, no further references to Ella ‘The Camel Girl’ can be found.

http://www. thehumanmarvels. com/2006/05/ella-harper-camel-girl. html

8.8.08
From: germs
Date: Aug 8, 2008 3:01 AM

go see this.
What We Do Is Secret - Trailer

http://www. myspace. com/germsmovie

Cynthia speaks in Miami!
From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 8, 2008 9:03 AM

http://video. google. com/videoplay?docid=4461399253787467320&hl=en

See Rosa Clemente speak (Green Party's VP candidate)
From: Cynthia McKinney for President 2008/Green Party
Date: Aug 10, 2008 2:47 AM

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=mCt4tylFvS4

..

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=HxH1F52FaJI

madhatter teaparty art show/post mortem photo/alice strength

2008-07-22T05:07:50Z

my solo madhatter teaparty art show saturday august 16th at the red light gallery in akron.

trickswithhats

trickswithhats 2

This is a Petrolia post mortem photo by Robson . It was extremely expensive to have a photo taken during Victorian times. Only the wealthy could afford such a luxury. If a child or other loved one died it was a common practice to have a photo taken either alone or as in this case with the family especially if there was not yet a living likeness.If you look closely you can see a base behind the girls feet and a post would go up from that with clamps at the waist and neck and the clothing would be open at the back. The arms would have stiff wires running at the back to hold them in place. Also notice the strange placement of the hands. The pupils are painted on the closed eyelids.
It was not until after ca.1900 with Mr. Eastman's film process that photography became available inexpensively, as we know it today. Post mortems were very common in Victorian times and if you look closely at portraits from pre ca.1900 you may have one of these photos. This photo ca.1888

http://travelinghost.blogspot.com/2008/05/vince-packard.html

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://travelinghost.blogspot.com/2008/05/vince-packard.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvince%2Bpackard%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

http://www.flickr.com/people/triciajoy/

2 headed girl ...

This is a Petrolia post mortem photo by Robson . It was extremely expensive to have a photo taken during Victorian times. Only the wealthy could afford such a luxury.
If a child or other loved one died it was a common practice to have a photo taken either alone or as in this case with the family especially if there was not yet a living likeness. If you look closely you can see a base behind the girls feet and a post would go up from that with clamps at the waist and neck and the clothing would be open at the back. The arms would have stiff wires running at the back to hold them in place. Also notice the strange placement of the hands. The pupils are painted on the closed eyelids.

It was not until after ca.1900 with Mr. Eastman's film process that photography became available inexpensively, as we know it today. Post mortems were very common in Victorian times and if you look closely at portraits from pre ca.1900 you may have one of these photos. This photo ca.

1888

http://travelinghost. blogspot. com/2008/05/vince-packard. html

http://translate. google. com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://travelinghost. blogspot. com/2008/05/vince-packard. html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvince%2Bpackard%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

http://www. flickr. com/people/triciajoy/

Iran: All Out War or Economic Conquest", interview with author and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization, Michel Chossudovsky.

"
Guns and Butter Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
We discuss Iran's privatization program, U.S. war propaganda, Plan TYRANT, Congressional Resolution 362, the National Intelligence Estimate, dissent within the military, currency speculation, Russia, China, the police state and war agenda.
Visit his website at www. globalresearch. ca.

http://www. kpfa. org/archives/index. php?arch=27361

"The Writ of Habeas Corpus - The Right To Challenge Detention"
Guns and Butter
Interview with attorney and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner. On June 12, 2008, in an historic decision, Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruled that the Center's clients detained at Guantanamo have a constitutional right to file petitions for habeas corpus in U.S. federal court, challenging the lawfulness of their detention.

http://www. kpfa. org/archives/index. php?arch=27126

Red Cross finds Bush administration guilty of war crimes

Andrew McLemore
Raw Story
July 13, 2008

masquerade, monica, rachid, jimmy coffin

2008-07-08T15:37:04Z

beth and laura in my moon masks

k. found this amongst her vintage hunts. just a detail of an incredible pic.

some people know how to have a masquerade!

detail of photo k found

beth

aleata and tiara

new mask

monica of http://www. monicaroxburgh. com/ a great mask maker friend from oregon spends the afternoon(w/little bub)

aleata tiara and randy

aleata monica(w/little bub) tiara

beth randy laura after the shakespeare festival perormance

jimmy coffin

jimmy coffin nukes the crowd

jimmy coffin and really drunk guy

Rachid Taha

stop motion tests

"БОЛЬШОЙ ПОДЗЕМНЫЙ БАЛ" 2/2 Станислав Соколов

ॐ Masquerade Ball at Gypsy Raven

2008-07-04T15:52:00Z

Blodeuwedd

from Goddesses and Heroines Exerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan
[Used by permission.
This text is NOT included in the Goddess Oracle]
Arianhod, unwilling mother of the Welsh hero Llew Llaw Gyffes, laid a curse on him that he would never have a human wife. So two magicians made Blodewedd from nine kinds of wildflowers, among them meadowsweet, oak, broom, primrose, and cockle. The magicians piled blossom upon blossom to create "Flowerface.
"
The beautiful Blodewedd was also treacherous. She lived with Llew Llaw for a time. One day, though, she saw a band of hunters pass outside her window and, falling in love with one of them, plotted the death of her husband. Llew Llaw had a magical safeguard. He could be killed only under curious circumstances: in a bath by the side of a river, under a thatched roof over a caldron, while standing with one foot on a deer. Blodewedd set up those circumstances, daring Llew Llaw to stand in his only dangerous position. He took the dare and her hidden lover killed the king.

Blodewedd eventually was found out, captured by the magicians who created her, and turned into an owl. This strange legend, which parallels the Irish story of Blathmat and the Semitic Delilah, seems to record an ancient legend of the goddess, the clues to which are now lost. Some, like Robert Graves, see Blodewedd as a type of the May Queen, wedded ritually to the king who would eventually be sacrificed to her. Others see her as a flowery rebel, an image of women's opposition to patriarchal bondage. But it is also possible that the flower goddess of betrayal was simply the goddess of life and death, a form of the earth goddess who, like Ishtar or Cybele, both loved and devoured the living.

July 5 2008 Masquerade Ball at Gypsy Raven

free shakespeare, my masks and art, music, sideshow performance, stilt walkers, etc.!

Darger found a picture of the murdered child Elsie Paroubek in the newspaper, and treasured it. One day, the picture went missing. Darger’s angst over this loss was a catalyst for his writing. Darger bargained with God and performed many acts of penitence in an attempt to recover it, but it was never found. His feeling of powerlessness accentuated his God-like role in the story of the Vivian Girls, whose lives he toyed with as further bargaining chips. In his novel, In the Realms of the Unreal, Paroubek became a central character as Annie Aronburg, whose "assassination...was the most shocking child murder ever caused by the Glandelinian Government," and was the cause of the war.

Why was Paroubek’s picture so important to Darger? No one knows for sure. Biographer, John M. MacGregor has speculated that Darger may have been the culprit of her strangulation. (MacGregor later defended his psychoanalytic view of Darger, but denied that he accused him of murder). However, this theory is unsubstantiated and has been widely rebuffed.

A more likely explanation is that Darger must have been deeply moved by her plight, and probably connected his feelings about the loss of Paroubek’s picture to his feelings at the loss of his younger sister to adoption. His room was his world, and his pictures were his friends. By protecting and caring for this picture, Darger likely felt that he was literally protecting and caring for Paroubek.

this is going to make you freak

Giant squid found in Monterey Bay CA
From: metapsychic™ (Omi Oshun) the Blood
Date: Jun 26, 2008 6:17 PM

Giant squid found in Monterey Bay
By Kurtis Alexander - Sentinel staff writer
Article Launched: 06/25/2008 04:21:35 PM PDT

Shark researchers on a routine tagging trip in the Monterey Bay on Wednesday came upon what preliminary reports suggest is the fabled giant squid.

The fleshy remains of what's thought to be a 25-foot sea creature are a rare find, said squid experts who greeted the discovery at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor just before noon.

The giant squid, or Architeuthis, which can grow to 50 feet or more, is known to inhabit deep ocean waters, including the Monterey Bay, but don't often show up on the surface. Little is know about the habits of the creature.

Sean Van Sommeran and his crew with the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation found the dead animal about 20 miles offshore of Santa Cruz.

A necropsy is scheduled for Thursday, to positively identify the squid and assess more of its characteristics. Contact Kurtis Alexander at 706-3267 or kalexander@santacruzsentinel.com.

http://www. mercurynews. com/news/ci_9692827

ॐ

parade the circle pics and video! /chittlin show

2008-06-15T18:16:16Z

Parade the Circle/ our missing animals of ohio group

grace the swan princess

anne and grace

swan float

grace anne randy

amanda, steph, linx juggler and randy

elaine's porcupine mask

jim j, nikki bat, porcupine and sturgeon

nikki bat and porcupine

video here! some goo shots of us!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2
Music in the Meadow Concert Series. Jessica Lea Mayfield folk, soul and country music. Activities at 5:30 p.m., concert 6:30-8:30 p.m. Howe Meadow, 4060 Riverview Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Free. 216-524-1497.

http://www.vivacalaca.com/