Archives: March 2007
Fri Mar 30, 2007
Photos Finally
I bought a little do-dad that connects iPhoto to flickr, and was therefore able to upload some photos from my cruise of the Windward Islands. You can see all my photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/moremadonnalessjesus/
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Sat Mar 24, 2007
Weirdos
Recently, I mused that I wanted to learn more about the orgins of a cartoon that was on my art car. Stuart has found the source: the LA band The Weirdos.
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Benefits
When I first started working at UCSC, it was the best employeer in Santa Cruz, paying the highest wages and best benefits. In the early 1990s, the HR policies changed drastically and the foundation was laid for the wage structure that has led to the compensation gap between the lowest and highest-paid employees. In Bruce Bratton's blog this week, you can read the compensation plan for New Leaf Market, a locally-owned natural foods grocery store. Some people believe that New Leaf is threatended by Whole Foods, which is moving into the old Albertson's on Soquel. I actually think that Whole Foods is more of a competitor to Safeway than New Leaf. But no one can touch their employee benefits. More...
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Sun Mar 18, 2007
Downtown Changes
Two pieces of news from Christina Waters. "The Garage" bar is the new home of Oswalds, and... More...
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Public Art
This little dog statue now guards the entrance to the Communications building at UCSC. More...
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Sat Mar 17, 2007
Californian Indian Rock Art
A friend of mine posted his photos of Indian rock art in California. I wish the he had longer descriptions.
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Thu Mar 15, 2007
I'm Pretty Sure This is the End for Me and Hilary
Hilary Clinton would not say in public that homosexuals are not immoral. Between this and the fake drawl, we're through.
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Pagan Holiday Woes
For the first time in many years, I'm getting together with some friends to celebrate Vernal Equinox. I've been busy at work, and I haven't been putting myself in a place of mystery and sacred play. But this article in The Onion made me happy. As Chas Clifton said, we're mainstream now, and worthy of parody.
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Tue Mar 13, 2007
Sweet Love
...via Your Daily Lesbian Moment, we found the videos of two young lesbians who love each other. This is the best lesbian recruitment video I've ever seen. After the link to the vids were posted, one of the women, Danielle, posted their story. It will probably make you tear up, so therefore I'd say it is NSFW. More...
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Sun Mar 11, 2007
What is Web 2.0?
If you know someone who doesn't know what "Web 2.0" means, you might forward them this link to a video that explains it. I don't mind a breath of fresh boosterism every now and then in a world of fear. Tech never meets its promise, (beginning when Prometheus gave humans fire) but I like being here in this time and watching culture change under my feet.
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Sat Mar 10, 2007
Hidden Images
I had never seen anything like this before. An object with a microphotograph hidden in it that can only be seen with the embedded lens. The lenses and photographs were often combined with souvenirs or rosaries. Sometimes, they are jewelry, like this ring. I learned that these are called "stanhopes." (The Earl of Stanhope invented the lens.) Everything you'd want to know about stanhopes can be found at stanhopes.info, naturally. More...
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Why Do We Believe?
Yesterday I had another of a continuing conversations with a friend of mine about The Secret and why people need to believe in God, god, or a higher power. We enter these conversations from different perspectives because she is comfortable being and atheist and simply lives a moral and fulfilling life based on being aware and living in rectitude. I am nearly there, but I explore consciousness through meditation and ritual and find those experiences something I call mystery, but not diety. More...
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Local Media Freedom
On April 30, the last newspaper will be printed in Santa Cruz. The Sentinel has been printed in Santa Cruz for 151 years. Newspapers don't need to be printed locally, but the printing of them is lovely to watch, like a kinetic sculpture or a moving train. More...
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Thu Mar 08, 2007
Lost and Serling
Wired has an interview with J.J. Abrams, the creator of Lost . He is inspired by Rod Serling. More...
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Mon Mar 05, 2007
A Word for It
via SusieBright.com, a short article by Harriet Lerner, "Psychic Genital Mutilation." This is a subject I've thought a lot about. My mom was a nurse and had three children after me. We knew vagina, vulva, and labia, fallopian tube and ovary. But she didn't teach us "clitoris." This article gave me yet another reason to not apologize for never attending a performance of "The Vagina Monologues," so I was able to start the week feeling quite smug. More...
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Sun Mar 04, 2007
Breast Cancer and the Kitchen Sink
I just had to share. While looking for a wisteria shower curtain, I came across this: Pink Ribbon Sink Drain Strainer. Buy-it-now for $9.99 plus $3.50 shipping. More...
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Sat Mar 03, 2007
Wild Turkeys
I've heard that there are wild turkeys in Santa Cruz, but I hadn't seen them before. More...
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Fri Mar 02, 2007
Historic Fresno
My sister sent me a link to Historic Fresno a site that I'll explore before the next time I visit. The neighborhood I know the best is called The Tower District, named for a movie theatre, but it includes neighborhoods developed 1915-1930s between Fresno High (1922) and the "Normal School, now Fresno City College (1915). I spent a many, many hours walking around those neighborhoods being a teenager. It's the neighborhood most like Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
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Thu Mar 01, 2007
Those You'll Never See Again
Dan Savage's prose is again, this week, poetry. More...
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Snow in Santa Cruz
The Sentinel has a collection of Shmuel Thaler's photos of yesterday's snow. I love his photographs. Did you see the three ducks? He always captures the right moment.
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