Archives: March 2006
Sun Mar 26, 2006
Horses Protest Tree Murder
Someone directed me to this short documentary that might have been just being the record of the usual taking down of ancient trees to build a new road. But then wild horses appear. Very moving.
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Sat Mar 18, 2006
Visions of the Net
There's a great documentary about ARPAnet at google that all the net geeks are watching. I love how visionary the founders of the Net were, especially how they got it at the very beginning that the Net is about society, not technology. More...
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Mon Mar 13, 2006
Brokeback Mountain: Additional Episodes
I had a dream last night where I got to see new scenes from Brokeback Mountain. More...
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Sat Mar 11, 2006
The Other Bay View School
A friend of mine has a son at Bayview school, and I mentioned to her that the modern school buildings replaced an earlier one. She had no idea. Here's a postcard view of the Bay View school that stood at Bay and Mission for nearly 50 years. It was demolished in 1958 and the site is now a parking lot behind a sound wall. More...
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Wed Mar 08, 2006
Santa Cruz's Lower Plaza, 1915
I found another neat postcard on eBay the other day and thought I'd share. This one is a view down Pacific Avenue about 100 years ago. More...
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Sun Mar 05, 2006
New Beginning for the Hidden Court
I live near an old motel called the Hidden Court. In the 1970s it became notorious and stayed that way until last December when the last tenent was relocated. I've written about it before, and found this postcard of it from the 1930s when it was a "motor court." More...
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Support Gay Marriage: Send Me to Barbados!
I've been trying to figure out how to pay for the cruise with my uncles to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Some friends have suggested I just start asking strangers to help me out. You know, posting on GLBT message boards and blogs that it is my uncle's dream to have me with them, and if they want to support gay marriage in a real way, please send $10 to my paypal address. (lindarosewood@earthlink.net). But I have a problem. More...
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