I’m pretty sure I just saw Brigid Kelly of the Hamilton County Young Democrats and former Cincinnati Councilmember Minette Cooper on CSPAN just now. Is one of the feed cameras camping out in the Ohio delegation?
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Well, the Clayton County School District lost its accreditation.
I have chastised the board in the past for trying to turn it into a racial issue, and I now do the same to the many racist commenters on this article.
And on today of all days - the 45th anniversary of the “I Have A Dream” speech and the day a black man accepts a major party’s nomination for President - well, y’all should be ashamed.
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During dinner at the Landmark Diner tonight, one of the TVs was playing CNN’s coverage of the DNC. The captioning was on, and I thoroughly enjoy live closed captioning. They get close, but not too close, to what is actually being said.
Case in point: At one point, one of the talking heads something about “Tensions continue to fuel hatred in Georgia and Russia.” The captioner typed it as “Tenses continue to fuel hatred…”
This made me laugh, for reasons only nerds will appreciate. “You just can’t trust future imperfect! It stirs up hate!”
Well, English majors laugh.
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Is it just me, or do Tom Daschle’s glasses make him look like David Letterman?
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I just now got a comment on an old (three weeks or more) blog post from the target (it was one of the Cleti from back in Cincinnati). I’m not linking; you’ll have to find it.
You see, it’s a series of tubes. Or something like that. Now get off my lawn.
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Good on Fulton County Schools for having the second-highest SAT average in the state.
Now let’s stop putting so much freakin’ weight on the SAT. All it measures is how well someone will do their first year of college.
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So we were down at Perk Place in Hapeville earlier this evening, and there is what appears to be some sort of backdrop from a high school theatre production - a stylized cartoon couple dancing. They’re dressed in an odd combination of 20s and 70s - for some reason I thought of the film version of The Great Gatsby.
One of the arms on the guy seemed short, and one of the girl’s legs was cut off. It appeared to be the kind of backdrop that was right up against the left edge of the stage, so there was no need to have a complete leg.
The discussion of this led to the following band name:
Thalidomide Dating Service
Enjoy.
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I left home this morning around 7:20am (I like to make sure I have at least 30 minutes at the office before class, and I have an 8:25 class), so I missed all this.
Jawa Girl was awakened at 8:15am today by the tornado sirens. Apparently there was rotation over the Camp Creek Marketplace, not too far from here. So down to the basement she went, with all four animals in tow. After a few minutes, she came up. No damage here, fortunately; I don’t believe this particular twister touched down. Still, it was crazy.
Then there’s the little matter of the air traffic control issue…
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If any of my readers are in the Los Angeles area on September 1 or the Omaha area on September 11, you can hear a (very short) piece of mine.
I submitted a short duo for violin and cello called Escapade to the Microscore Project, and it was accepted. So…
Monday, September 1 - the wulf, 8pm.
Thursday, September 11 - Strauss Performing Arts Center, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 7:30pm. $10. Part of ARTSaha!.
I should get a recording of the Omaha performance - if permission is granted, I’ll post it.
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As I mentioned in class, today would have been the 90th birthday of Leonard Bernstein. No one did more to promote American music in the 20th century than Lenny.
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Can we just let the Bigfoot thing die already?
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For the citizens of Clayton County, the biggest waiting game is not whom the presidential candidates choose as their running mates or who the Falcons will take in the next NFL draft.
The waiting comes to an end on Thursday. And while there may be aspects of this that are racial (more general about white flight et al, not the specifics of this case), this is not the time to bring race into the discussion. To do so is to cheapen those who actually have experienced racism.
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in case my new readers don’t know, I’m something of a Civil War buff. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview with Prof. David Williams of Valdosta State University.
And to Prof. Williams: If you have any family that emigrated from Orange County, North Carolina in the late 1790s/early 1800s, we may be distant cousins. My 3x-great grandfather, John R. Williams, was born there in 1805 or ‘06.
David Williams also happens to have been the name of my maternal grandfather (whom I’ve blogged about before; unfortunately, those pages were lost to the Tubes when I changed versions of Wordpress), so that was a nice surprise to see as well.
As far as the SCV*? Illegitimi non carborundum, Prof. Williams.
*when I see “SCV,” I don’t think of the Civil War. I think of Santa Clara Vanguard.
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I see the Capitalism Über Alles folks are at it again, trying to replace art with advertising.
Yeah! Do it! Why should art take up valuable commercial space?
But why stop there? Thousands of people visit the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC every year. And what do all those pairs of eyes see? Paintings and portraiture - none of which makes anyone money. (Besides, who cares about pictures of dead Presidents anyway? The only pictures of dead Presidents that matter are wallet-sized and green.) Imagine if we could get rid of all those pictures and replace them with ads! What self-respecting CEO wouldn’t take time from slashing jobs and health coverage to buy ad space there?
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