This NPR story about an Indie Rock club and arts movie house that nurtured a creative boom in Omaha - and therefore a business and housing boom brought me back to our earlier conversation: at the end of the story they talked about how much money the two businesses had been instrumental in bringing into the community and then they said, "but don't worry, they're still broke." (Or words to that effect.)
That is the maddening thing - that the arts leads to a boom which bypasses the originators and then, often, forces them to leave that community.
NYT NEWS ALERT: John Edwards Is Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Campaign Funds Case, the A.P. Reports
I knew, but then he lives down the street from me, in a "green" fugly tower that is contributing to the rapid gentrification of my neighborhood and btw is bankrupt (the tower), and he apparently hangs at the hipster bar on the block. Fucking slimeball. I never liked him.
Yay Gud! Great news.
Yay, Gud!!! That is so exciting!
Congratulations, Gud!
This Wondermark is simply hilarious: [link]
The next one is quite excellent too. [link]
Sarah Palin's version of Paul Revere's ride:
He who warned, uh, the…the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and um by makin’ sure that as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warnin’ shots and bells that uh we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free…and we were gonna be armed.
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The artist with the tiny Klein bottle also makes a heart in a jar: [link]
"I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."
I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in the rest of him.
You know, it does not behoove you to act like the fix to the technical problem was so obvious that I should have found it myself. What that really means is that it was so obvious that you shouldn't have made it in the first place and kept me off the network for almost an hour this morning.
Fridays are so weird in my office. With 5/4/9, all the accrued leave and job travel no one is here. There are ten empty offices to my left. Hellooooooo, anybody here?
