I just have to have some music on the weekend, so here’s another video for today. I hope you’ll find this one not only aurally engaging, but visually moving. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces : Moonlight Melody
The half note of moon
composes a sonata
on high tension lines [Read more…]
Evangelicals Nashville Statement Promises Hell for Homosexuals
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
Sigh. Just when the country could use some healing, here comes the hateful, vengeful, medieval and distinctly unholy Nashville Statement, a 14-point manifesto on “Biblical sexuality” released Tuesday by 150 evidently godless evangelical Christians of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW).
Convening earlier in August in Nashville, the CBMW affirmed their belief that “homosexual or transgender self-conception” is a sin and abomination, a ruinous “departure from Christian faithfulness and witness,” as is premarital sex. The only okay sex is married sex, between (duh) a man and woman. Any of you doing any of that other sketchy stuff: Sorry, but also not. Hell awaits you, as it should. [Read more…]
Running on Thoughts and Gasoline
Heading west in my car on University Ave.
tuned in to 88.3
in the heart of North Park, just past the emptied dollar Arab store
(a “for lease” sign posted, probably another craft brewery in the making)
and approaching that no-name street,
I see an average American four-door has its wheel aggressively cranked
to enter my lane.
Driven by a greybeard waving two American Flags
— a big one on a post welded to the front right, and a small one on the left rear.
A TRUMP decal in white letters on a red background.
No blue in it.
Is that purposeful?
Does it mean blue states don’t count? [Read more…]
Competing Proposals on Short Term Vacation Rentals Vie for City Council Approval
For two years now the City Council of San Diego has been debating what to do about short term vacation rentals. They’ll continue this debate at another hearing on the matter, October 23rd, the 6th hearing in those two years.
At that hearing, the city planning department will probably present draft alternative measures based on three options it released in March of this year, plus it will hopefully address new draft ordinances – one by Councilwoman Barbara Bry and one by Councilman Chris Cate.
Bry’s proposal – the most promising – was released last week after a weekend of Op-Ed pieces in the San Diego Union-Tribune by her and by her colleagues Lorie Zapf and Cate. Zapf, of course, represents District 2 including OB. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces : Umbra
Of the three shadows
only umbra hoards all light
dispenses darkness [Read more…]
We Can Display Our Patriotism In Many Ways
Colin Kaepernick remains a free agent and we need to continue to press the question “Why is that?”
Dave Zirin writes “The truth is ugly as sin. The NFL is denying Colin Kaepernick employment not because he isn’t “good enough” but because he is being shut out for the crime of using his platform to protest the killing of black kids by police. This makes the league’s right-wing billionaire owners’ silk boxers bunch up. NFL owners don’t make pariahs out of players who beat women or face accusations of murder.” [Read more…]
La Vuelta Car Cruise End of Summer Cultural Festival to Highlight El Barrio
Logan Avenue Consortium Doing Good Work on the Avenue
Change is coming to Barrio Logan. Some of it good, and some of it bad. But what hasn’t changed is this working class community’s cultural ethos rooted in its history.
Hipster galleries may have opened selling thousand-dollar bongs and tours of the neighborhood, but there are still people and organizations doing solid work trying to keep barrio culture alive. Groups like the Logan Avenue Consortium (LAC).
The LAC promotes Barrio Art Crawl and organizes the bi-weekly summertime La Vuelta Car Cruise that has been a hit among the lowrider set. They also support each member’s endeavors from the weekly Latin Jazz Jam to the Logan Avenue Flea Market to the various events that take place at many of the different cultural spaces along Logan Avenue. [Read more…]
Dick Gregory, In Memoriam | Video Worth Watching
A pioneer comedian Dick Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) passed away Saturday at the age of 84. An ardent civil rights activist as well as anti-war political activist, Gregory will be missed.
Democracy Now! has posted a video feature “Dick Gregory In His Own Words: Remembering the Pioneering Comedian and Civil Rights Activist” culled from appearances on the program. During the 2002 interview Amy Goodman thanks him for helping to get Democracy Now! on the air nationally, in his capacity as a new member of the Pacifica National board.
Here’s a video clip that’s featured in a Digby Hullabaloo post by Denis Hartley that is taken from a 2014 appearance on the Arsenio Hall show. In it, Dick tells his version of how he broke the color barrier of late night TV during an appearance on the Tonight Starring Jack Parr show.
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Solar Eclipse Day in San Diego! | Video Worth Watching
Unless you have recently arrived on planet earth it has been impossible to miss the months long build up to the solar eclipse which will trace a path across the United States from sea to shining sea. While San Diego is outside of the path of the total eclipse, we’ll still experience a 60% eclipse here.
Our partial eclipse begins around 9am, when the moon touches the sun’s edge. The maximum eclipse is around 10:20 am and it’s all over around 11:46 am. [Read more…]
Music for a Transit of Mercury | Video Worth Watching
A propos of the solar eclipse coming tomorrow, here’s a video set to music of another relatively rare solar phenomenon: a transit of Mercury. About 13 times per century Mercury passes between the earth and the sun. That small black dot you see moving across the face of the sun in this video is the planet Mercury. The most recent occurrence of a transit was a little over a year ago on May 9th, 2016, from 4:12 am – 11:42 am PDT. The orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory obtained an uninterrupted vista, recording it not only in optical light but also in bands of ultraviolet light. Featured here is a composite movie of the crossing set to music.
Credit for this video goes to: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein; the images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. Credit for the music: Encompass by Mark Petrie. [Read more…]
Time to Take Five | Video Worth Watching
Has this been a crazy week or what?!? Ready for a little break? I think it’s time to Take Five …
Paul Desmond (alto sax), Joe Morello (drums), Eugene Wright (bass) and Dave Brubeck (piano) – Live in Belgium 1964 [Read more…]
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