we've come a long way baby!

STEAMPUNK makes the hartford courant
rather shocking............

Steampunk Bedecks Contemporary Techno In Victorian Togs
By WILLIAM WEIR | Courant Staff Writer
What would happen if the future went as early science-fiction writer Jules Verne had imagined it? It would look a lot like Steampunk.

It's a term that has been getting a lot of play lately. So what is it?

The curious science-fiction offshoot has been around for some time as a genre of fiction and has since expanded into its own subculture. Even before the term was coined, there was the 1960s TV show "The Wild Wild West" and its 1999 movie version, which mixed its traditional Western setting with flying machines, mechanical spiders and other outlandish contraptions.

Steampunk is essentially a blend of the futuristic with the steam-powered past, a way of melding modern technology with the opulence of long ago. In most cases, "the past" is represented by an elaborate 19th-century Victorian style. Top hats and motorbike goggles are common fashion accessories, as are cellphones refashioned to look like antique items from an alternate history.........

a very pretty bike

sunflower blogging

brian measured the biggest one (brian is at a minium 6'2"). it's 11 FEET TALL. that's one big sunflower

the half door

mateo's new sweatband

pattern over at the reformed pirate

flowers out my car window

on the way home from work tuesday while stopped at a light

vote N O in november

from NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut

This November, the Connecticut ballot will include the question, "Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the state?" Voters will be asked to vote “yes” or “no”.

The Family Institute of Connecticut, the state’s leading anti-choice group, is pushing for a “Yes” vote, with the intention of using a Constitutional Convention to ban abortion.

NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut is urging all members to Vote “NO” in order to squash this back-door approach at pushing an anti-choice agenda!

Our state’s legislators appoint delegates to the convention, and therefore have full control over who attends. These appointed delegates decide what will be proposed to the constitution. Many people fear that lobbyists, representatives from special interest groups, and party insiders will be appointed to the Constitutional Convention in order to move a radical, anti-choice agenda.

Please Vote No!

The state constitution has been amended 30 times since 1974--without holding a convention. We can make changes to the constitution without holding a taxpayer-funded convention during tight fiscal times!

If you would like more information or to get involved, please visit http://www.ctvoteno.org

andy thibault

at the cool justice report reminds us

ELIZABETH THOMAS at Hill-Stead

In honor of the publication of her new collection of poems, From the Front of the Classroom, Hill-Stead is pleased to host a reading and book signing with author, performer and educator Elizabeth Thomas.

Taking the reader through her childhood, young adulthood and marriage to her passionate involvement with teaching and poetry, this collection reveals the rich inner life that has made Elizabeth Thomas such an inspiration.

"In a culture that expects results from its educators, Elizabeth Thomas has found a way to make a unique connection in her book, as in her classroom," comments former student Alex Lopez. Jeff Ostroff, Principal at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School, says the poems "resonate with life so that the poet in all of us may sing.".......

Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Sunday, September 7, 3–5 pm
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT

see, i TOLD you they had flowers!

i like the composition of these. especially the one that is REALLY blue and REALLY green. the contrast is good

the half door

attention attention: i got some bullshite email

about some bullshite (i can ONLY imagine it's bullshite because when i clicked on some links all i got were pictures of WHITE PEOPLE. nothing wrong with white people but c'mon, not ONE speaker of color on the list? anyway, i'm not familiar with MOST of the organizations the speakers are affiliated with EXCEPT the minutemen project. and NO, i'm NOT going to link to it OR anything else i am going to rant about. when i clicked on the minutemen link i got a blurb about their president and founder, jim gilchrist WHO IS A BIG BUD OF JEROME CORSI. yes, THE jerome steamin' pile o' crap corsi. apparently the cute couple are planning a visit to the dnc.) organization or event called the connecticut "liberty" forum. one of it's sponsors is WDRC. i am highly recommending everyone BOYCOTT WDRC. it certainly doesn't effect me because i don't listen to it any damn way. i am SO effing mad right now. HOW DARE THEY USE THE WORD LIBERTY.

now as i said, i've not heard of MOST (if not all) of the rest of the organizations represented at this "liberty" forum. perhaps there is a good man or woman among them. i don't know and i sure NEVER WILL KNOW.

hey judy a. (who sent me the email) GET MY NAME OFF OF YOUR EFFING LIST. I AM NOT A RACIST. I AM NOT A HOMOPHOBE. I AM NOT WANTING TO BE AFFILIATED WITH ANYONE WHO HAS SOMEONE LIKE GILCHRIST AS A FEATURED SPEAKER.