Gerrard vs Olympiakos Goal

Manchester is up on Barcelona right now so it could be an all England final in the UEAFA cup. I'm hoping Liverpool will beat Chelsea tommorow to see Gerrard come up with a great goal under pressure as in the video above. A couple great days of football anyway to help me forget my pain as I recover from a trip to the dentist.

A clean city

New York City in the 70's

Love Kills ,1979 by Jill Freedman

BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/thecity/27jill.html

Black Lips Buried Alive

Wicked song. They are a tight playing band, the sound is perfect.

Mescaline and mini-bikes

Attack by Miguel Calderon

Esacape from Cacaville by Miguel Calderon

Bad Route by Miguel Calderon

The original of "Bad Route' is owned by movie director Wes Anderson. He borrowed "Attack" and used the two in his movie The Royal Tenenbaums.

Eli Cash - Intervention - Royal Tenenbaums

Eli Cash - Wildcat - Royal Tenenbaums

A Town named Almonte

An interesting story about how the small town next to the town I grew up in came to be named Almonte

An Unlikely Name

In a region where the early settlers' Irish, English and Scottish origins are prominent in the names of the communities they founded -- Lanark, Corkery, Glen Isle, Scotch Corners, Tatlock and the like -- it seems more than a little odd that our town should be named for a now-forgotten Mexican general.

American invasions of Canada around 1812 didn't help matters, nor did US military incursions into Mexico during the 1840s. Which is where General Juan Almonte enters the picture. The border skirmishes between Mexcio and America during this time were seen by Mexcians as a naked and unprovoked land-grab, and by worried Canadians as a cautionary tale -- proof positive that the American republic was ready and willing to use force against its neighbours to achieve its territorial aims.

So in the political climate of the day, the loyal British citizens of our town apparently felt General Almonte was an admirable public figure, and agreed upon the new name of Almonte -- which we pronounce "AL-mont" rather than the Spanish "al-MON-tay." And thus it remains 140 years later.

Edward Hopper

A great on-line exhibit of Hopper's Paintings at
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/introduction/index.shtm

Standing out looking in

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. "
Mark TwainUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)


Like myself, most people likely haven't heard the second part of that quote. I took this picture because I saw the guy in his dusty workboots, denim with a poppy pinned over his heart and a cup of Tims in his hand. He looks different than the rest of the people on the street by his clothes. How much does it describe who he is? Is it just his work uniform or more?

Caribou - Skunks - 2003

He was calling himself Manitoba when this came out but had to change the name.

Russian Orthodox Church

Archbishop Ioann, center, the chief Russian Orthodox priest in the Belgorod region, at a service in Stary Oskol last month. The Russian Orthodox church, which was widely persecuted under Communism, has grown in size and influence since the fall of the Soviet Union

I really like this picture in today's New York Times. There's something about it that makes it feel like the present but timeless as well(at least since the last millennium).

Read the whole story here

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/world/europe/24church.html?ref=world

Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)

Airport cafeteria

There's a tall strange looking guy sitting a couple tables away
He reminds me of a movie character who has switched bodies
Out of his knapsack, he pulls and eats Captain Crunch in handfuls
His general alien like appearance makes me lose my appetite

Before I leave

From the last words of prisoners executed by injection in Texas in the past fifteen years. Texas has executed 322 since 1990. Fifteen death-row inmates have been exonerated on the basis of new DNA evidence.

I just want to say I am not sad today or bitter with anybody. Like I've said from day one, I did not go in there and kill them, but I am no better than those that did.

Okay, I guess I'll address the Morgan family. Thirteen or fourteen years ago, I had a non-caring attitude. I'm sorry for shooting your son down at that robbery. I hope this brings you peace.

Sir, in honor of a true American hero, "Let's roll."

The only thing I want to say is that i appreciate the hospitality that you guys have shown me, and the respect. The last meal was really good. That is about it.

My request is that you get yourselves in church and pray for forgiveness, because you are murdering me. I did not kill anyone in my life. You are murdering me and I feel sorry for you. Get in church and get saved. I really don't know what esle to tell you.

You all brought me here to be exectued, not to make a speech.

Only the sky and green grass go on forever, and today is a good day to die.

Jill Greenberg: The Manipulator

Amazing and beautiful and a little bit freaky.

http://www.manipulator.com/

Google Maps Street View

This look pretty cool. I can't imagine where the technology will be even 5 years from now.

Little Deaths

By Felix Feneon, from Novels in Three Lines. In 1906, Feneon, who was born in 1861, wrote 1,220 brief items under the rubric News in Three Lines for the Paris daily newpaper Le Matin.



Scheid, of Dunkirk, fired three times at his

wife. Since he missed every shot, he decided to

aim at his mother-in-law, and connected.



In the vicinity of Noisy-sur-Ecole, M. Louis

Delillieau, seventy, dropped dead of sunstroke.

Quickly his dog Fido ate his head.



At the Trianon Palace, a visitor disrobed and

climbed into the imperial bed. It is disputed

whether he is, as he claims, Napolean IV.



Standing on her doorstep, modiste Rudlot, of

Malakoff, was chatting with a neighbour. With

an iron bar, her wild husband made her shut up.



There is no longer a God even for drunkards.

Kersilie, of Saint-Germain, who had mistaken

the window for the door, is dead.

Staring at the screen

Thoughts of animals pass through my brain

Prowling the city

Out looking for meat

A mountain lion

Chasing a man in a suit

On a busy downtown street

Marine Girls - Beach Party - 1981

I love the simplicity and unpolishedness, great music from the eighties.

The longest winter

I can't wait for sunshine and green grass. It's been quite a winter but I think it's time it finally ends.

Ambushed in Iraq

Preston Wheeler, a truck driver for KBR a subsidiary of Halliburton shot this amazing video of his truck convoy being ambushed in Iraq. The attack occurred after the U.S. military made a wrong turn down a dead-end street. Mr. Wheeler is lucky to be alive. Three KBR truck drivers were killed after U.S. troops apparently abandoned the truck drivers.

Running

I haven't really done much running lately. If it does suddenly happen and I'm sprinting a block or two all out to catch a bus or train, I reach the door, get on and I'm out of breath, my side and legs hurt a bit but there's also a great feeling coming from somewhere, it's hard to explain what it is exactly, but the pain is worth it(especially if you catch the train).