Jul 02 2008
 Muse in the Morning |
–Katharine Lee Bates
–1913
It’s a great song. But times have changed…
State of the Onion XX
America the Ugly
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Jul 02 2008
{Soon to be a Midnight Thought in Burning the Midnight Oil, also available in Blue and Yellow}
I have been reading the commentary in recent transit oriented posts on Matthew Yglesias’ blog (explicit links below the fold) … well, I’ll admit it, skimming the commentary of the troll that tries to sidetrack any transit posting by Yglesias … and as far as I can tell, the idea of the Great American Suburban Retrofit (detailed links below the fold) just has not sunk in at all … not even a little bit.
Instead its the usual “big city transit user saying we all need to live in walkable big cities” versus “happy suburbanite lecturing on how we not only don’t all live in Big Eastern Seaboard Cities, but many of use don’t want” … kind of talking past each other.
So Once More Into the Breach: We can Retrofit American Suburbia to make it Far Easier to Use Public Transit and offer Walkable Communities as a Suburban Option … without necessarily abandoning the suburbs and everyone moving to the closest big city.
Join me for a design challenge, below the fold.
Jul 02 2008
I went outside last night to regain some calm…lose some ire…
& watch a little star TV.
I sat gazing up at the little twinkling lights, O so far away…
Watching the winds passage as it hurried thru the pines
letting my mind wander where it would
this phrase & that popped into my brain
going round & round again
then out came a fairy carrying a tiny lantern
my mind stopped & watched her instead
she twirled off to join her friends
they danced above my fields
and as I watched I began to hear
the symphony
frogs down at the pond croooaking
crickets all around chirruping
an owl in the distance who-hooing
a whip-poor-will began his nightly performance
a dog on the hill behind me joined in for a bit
I began to discern different voices
and heard
all sang their own song
then listened
it was astounding
Jul 02 2008
Casting the Beauty Platform Diaires
NB. Most link collections like these look back. This one looks ahead to diaries posted following this one.
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Utsukushikereba sore de ii Ishikawa Chiaki As long as its beautiful, its fine (Lady Elwin’s Translation) ~the countless flowers enveloped in light everyone wishes for me to be pure, but I stopped making promises with the future even if I take a break from this selfish destiny the countless flowers enveloped in light is this the dream’s continuation? I stopped making promises with the future |
… but of course, with translations, YMMV … this is the translation done by the fans of the anime that used this as an opening song:
