country living

drove to coweta county today to visit with cathi, who was visiting with her sister who has an excellent farmlet in the wilds of coweta county---picked a bunch of blueberries and feasted my eyes on zinnias and butterflies

gustav

gustav is huge---we can see its effects in the sky up here

tropical weather

the tropical waves blowing off the west coast of africa are sometimes the genesis of cape verde hurricanes, which can be the worst for the east coast of the u.s.---giant heat engines

atlanta rocking

tech students are back in all their falling-down drunkeness, of which taco mac downstairs gives ample opportunity to witness---dragon-con downtown, one of the nation's largest book fairs in decatur, and black gay pride---there was some enormous party across the street and peachtree was still a big ol' mess at 3 in the morning---and people say there's nothing to do in atlanta over labor day weekend ---class-a people watching if nothing else

palinesque

that's some scary decor there

tornado update

still not cleaned up from the tornado at oakland, but the bag mill is back up, if not entirely finished----

big weather

retardlicans

so he picked a corrupt beauty queen, anti-science, anti-choice, who thinks it's a good idea to teach creationism in the schools and want to drill, drill, drill in anwr and everywhere else---what a dumass if he thinks this is the woman who might draw in the mythical hordes of disappointed hillary supporters----andrewsullivan is scathing:

Think about how the key factor in this decision was not who could defend this country were something dreadful happen to McCain in office but how to tread as much on Obama's convention bounce and use women's equality as a wedge issue among Democrats because it might secure a few points here or there. Oh, and everyone would be surprised. And even Rove would be annoyed.

a lovely day in the neighborhood

juniper street

the city has finally done something it should have done a long time ago: allow parking along juniper except during rush hour----that is a huge addition to available parking, which is sorely needed on the weekends especially

decatur

decatur has turned into such a pleasant little town----what had been that godawful wasteland of w. ponce is now actually a nice and interesting place to walk----

gene pool

Both US presidential hopeful Barack Obama and running mate Joseph Biden are descended from shoemakers who emigrated from Ireland within five weeks of each other, a researcher said Friday.

obamania

pat buchannan, fer crissakes, was absolutely overwhelmed by the speech---they had to cut him off as he was going on and on about it being the greatest speech ever---olberman and the rest of them has their mouths hanging open in sheer shock at what they were hearing from pat

and from chuck todd: "[republicans] don't know how to react to this. They may as well have been speechless. I don't know if the Republican Party is looking forward to following this show."

big weather

the republicans are all freaked out that hurricane gustav is gonna hit new orleans while they're having their damn convention and ruin the vibe---

tech

tech's first game is tonight, against jacksonville state----and dragon con is downtown---will be a fun weekend

living history

i wish i could say that i remember 28 August 1963, but i don’t—---22 November i remember, but not the march on washington and king’s speech, although I’ve listened to it many times—----but from the beginning I’ve understood the civil rights movement, something about being queer does that to you—---and after I started thinking, whenever that happened, the “colored” and “whites only” signs all over and jc niggering all the time just didn’t seem right----one of my earliest memories of all that is standing in front of the water fountains at rich’s and wondering what would happen if i actually drank from a “colored” water fountain----a negro president and people gay marrying each other i never dreamed, and here it is all happening [maybe]

mlk

but who the hell thought it would be a good idea to have fat-ass mlk III and his crazy bigot of a sister bernice to speak---i guess he can't help not having his father's voice, but he's trying to turn this into a king thing, not obama----this is embarassing

denver

john lewis is speaking----old-school civil rights is in total ecstasy right now---free at last . . . .

language

Yuchi is spoken in Oklahoma, USA, by just five people all aged over 75. Yuchi is an isolate language (that is, it cannot be shown to be related to any other language spoken on earth). Their own name for themselves is Tsoyaha, meaning "Children of the Sun". Yuchi nouns have 10 genders, indicated by word endings: six for Yuchi people (depending on kinship relations to the person speaking), one for non-Yuchis and animals, and three for inanimate objects (horizontal, vertical, and round). Efforts are now under way to document the language with sound and video recordings, and to revitalise it by teaching it to children.

the yuchi pre-dated the cherokee in north georgia----

the clintons

bill and hill have more than redeemed themselves as true blue democrats tonight----bill was classic---even sullivan was impressed----