Friday 24 December 2010
and the bells have flown to Rome
Merry Christmas, peace on Earth and goodwill toward all--and thanks to everyone for visiting our blog. Seasons greetings!
catagories: graphic design, holidays and observances
Wednesday 22 December 2010
annus miribilis or choose your own adventure
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill and its terrible environmental legacy with the industry and consumer choices and policy that perpetuate these disasters.
The Health Care Reform initiatives in the US, that showed America's strange sort of envy at odds with the true aims of the effort.
US Mid-Term Elections and reversals of power, that was harrowing for what was sometimes characterised as a weary and disappointed electorate.
The US economy and world-wide economic crisis with the bailout and contributing factors that precipitated the collapse and wherein lies the blame and the lesson.
The devastating earthquake in Haiti and the recovery effort.
The popularity of the so-called "Tea Party" movement and its influences in US politics, part appeal to libertarianism and part to militantism.
The drama, tension, technological wonder and cooperation that led to the rescue of the trapped Chilean miners.
The US government leaking like a sieve in the most sensitive areas, call and response.
The ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the private toll war-making exacts.
catagories: ๐ก️, ๐ช️, ๐ฑ, environment, foreign policy, holidays and observances
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making a list, checking it twice
catagories: ๐ฅธ, graphic design
Tuesday 21 December 2010
gitty up, jingle horse, pick up your feet
The weather, save for all the daily headaches and tension that it is creating for commuters and travelers, is really remarkable and feels like a good and proper winter, as compared to years' past when the cold and annoyance came late. Routines are more chaotic and treacherous and spoiled plans can take on the taste of sour grapes, but for all that, an over-abundance of snow and ice should not give people license to humbug global warming and environmental initiatives.
Sunday 19 December 2010
thrones & dominions or santa claus conquers the martians
Saturday 18 December 2010
through the rude wind's wild lament and the bitter weather
Precipitation in the form of snow can be quite the contrarian for the weatherman. I suppose it seems to buck the forecast in part because it lingers and the upbuilding of the flurries, not like rain that's an event, welcome or unwelcome, that is mostly obligingly soaked up or siphoned off. Snow transfigures the landscape and the view from one's windows like quite nothing else, dark of night nor lushness of Spring in full bloom.
It is quieting, calming with its insistence, mounting and enduring, that invites one to consider all the millions, billions of particles of it, flakes buffeted and flocked or bullet-like projectiles something more cardinal than a cloud suspended or the water of rain drops, and something that seems just a bit outside of nature's cycle.
Thursday 16 December 2010
Torquemada oder keiner erwartet die spanische Inquisition
It is remarkable how the disclosure of a few uncomfortable realities, suspending plausible deniability, can spark even more surrounding an unlikely target of vitriol and sympathy. Though this lowest form of McCarthyism is left in the public’s eye to judge but certainly not to prosecute regardless of opinion and colourfastness of the case, the current theatre is by far mild compared to the private, invisible punishment that the known informants are enduring, and considering all the wrath and ire it seems that this taunt, venture, duty would have been undertaken with more contingencies.