june thunder on the west side

june flowers

read it!

an outstanding perspective on american history, making sense of the country right up to the present day --- or here is an excellent summary he wrote last fall re. the teabaggers

thinking large

Everyone knows that responsibility at work simply means thinking "How can I meet the company's goals better (or successfully pretend that I am)?" rather than thinking vain thoughts like "Should I even be doing this at all? Should the company be doing this at all?" The job's goals, techniques, and materials are defined by management; the history and internal requirements of the practice count for nothing.

the whole thing is some dense reading, but read it anyway

no shit!

the lloyd's bank turd, or coprolite as it is called in polite scientific company --- nine inches (!) of viking excrement unearthed in york in 1972, among the largest humanoid paleofeces ever found --- the study of material culture can be far ranging ----

your free enterprise system at work

just what juniper street needs more of: faceless parking garage

the yahoos rule

It was not a scientific problem or a financial one. It was linguistic. They discovered that they could not use the phrases "sea level rise" or "climate change" in requesting the study, in part because of objections from Republican colleagues and also for fear of stirring up conservative activists, some of whom believe such terms are liberal code words. On its website, for example, the Virginia tea party described the proposed "sea level rise" study this way: "More wasted tax dollars for more ridiculous studies designed to separate us from our money and control all land and water use."

if this storm had formed a little further out in the gulf, it woulda been a decent tropical storm

fearsome radar images down to the southwest this afternoon --- over 20" of rain in some places

ma wakes up for guinness --- she's not sleeping here, she's about to slip him some food

the lily pond at 3578 e. main is one of the place's many good features --- john has transformed the yard over the last three or four years ---

they really don't get much cuter than john's cocker spaniel puppies ---

almost done

urban walls

krog street

mindless graffiti is depressing --- and it's a fine line between trash and art sometimes ---

you have to be impressed that there has apparently been a conscious effort by the urban artistes to avoid the main girder and the underpass' construction date




and the changing walls of little five points

i'm not sure where the two units sitting on the sidewalk are gonna go --- delta credit union definitely wants to be noticed ---

payback

southern baptists like these give white people a bad name --- the teevee news focused on this image and mostly ignored what provoked it

 falafel!

el banco

but then she messed it up wishing the queen a happy birthday --- it's her coronation jubilee --- gah

interior del banco --- and they're getting seriously close at cafe agora