the existential supermarket of the soul

relics of disquiet,

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:12:43 GMT

One day a week I volunteer at the Rochester museum and science center. Primarily what I have been doing the last couple of months is taking photographs of acquisition items that are going to be stored.
This has given me the opportunity to see some weird stuff from a veterans disturbing collection of Nazi memorabilia to assorted collections of bottles from a Rochester factory.
Today i found something that took the cake. I was photographing a collection of assorted WW1 Photographs, cavalrymen jumping over fences, fort sports teams, mess halls, enrollment papers, and then on the bottom of the stack of photographs, mounted on battered brown cardboard, there it was.

The picture was from the outcome from the battle of Bud Dajo in the Filipino Insurrection, There is an article about it with another copy of the same photograph from the national archives here, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/03/12/what_happened_at_bud_dajo/

just remember

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:30:58 GMT

you do not mess with the Manhunter

i just dont understand it.

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:55:32 GMT

what kind of person puts a morris chair made out of quarter sawn oak out by the side of the road, I dont care if it is water damaged and the boards have separated in a couple of places, I dont care that the springs are gone, Its frickin oak, everything else can be fixed.

is this better?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:56:57 GMT

get that thing outta my face

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:54:22 GMT

and other assorted kipple,

oakenshield

staff

well why not...

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:15:19 GMT

Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

the closest closest closest book is Confederates in the attic by Tony Horwitz, and follows thusly

" Hair. Bits of wood. Blood Stained clothing. The Kindergarten was beginning to feel less like a museum then a saints reliquary. "

and because it was almost as close, and cause i am a meme rule breaker, thats just how i roll, page 56 from the dark side of the moon, a collection of short stories by Alfred Bester

" I
must
go
back
but
not
to
jump; no, not even to jump better. I Have no control over self, speech, love, fate, I must compensate always
But I try anyway.
Quae Nocent Docent. Translation follows: Things that injure, teach.

Fun with votesmart .org

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:11:27 GMT

John Sydney McCain,

Professional Experience:
Senate Navy Liaison, 1977-1981
Captain, United States Navy, Vietnam, 1958-1981
Beer Distributor.

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so it rained today

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:57 GMT

boom goes the dynmite

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:13:55 GMT

from july 3

Just Remember

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:38:17 GMT

so call me crazy

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:42:58 GMT

but am i the only person in the world who thinks there is an outside chance that John McCain taps Joe Lieberman as his VP Canadate.

it is stuff like this that makes the history enthusiast in me weep.

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:27:06 GMT

So today at the place of my employment I was approached by one of my managers. He asked me "Hey? Do you know what June 6th is?"

"Of course," I replied " It is the the 64th anniversary of D-day."

"Really?" he Replied "I was just going to remind you that it is Our eat well live well rally where we are all going to pledge to live better healthier lives."

Because as everyone knows, a corporate healthy living program is more important then the anniversary of the Normandy invasion which signaled the beginning of the end of the Nazi Scourge.

I guess i just dont make a good little cooperate drone.

there must be some kind of way outta here said the joker to the theif

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:03:01 GMT

sick and diggin,
bought a weeping cherry tree a couple of weeks ago at the Lowe's, it was three bucks and marked down cause it resembled nothing more then a stick with some leafy bits on the top. for three bucks could I loose? so in the pasty week i started digging up a large hump of dirt that has been in the backyard ever since we moved here some 20 years ago. Why is it there? Dammed if i know but if you hear me screaming like a little girl, its because there was a body under there. However if there is a body then all kinds of forensic people would come and dig my hole for me ...sweet.

so i dug a hole and plopped my stick in the ground. we will see if it lives. Now i have a big dirt circle in the middle of the hill with a stick in the middle, what to do with it next, I dunno?

anyway, the first four episodes of the new season of Battlestar Galactica should have just finished converting so i think i am going to go and kill 4 hours watching.

so what did i do this weekend,

Tue, 20 May 2008 01:11:04 GMT

javabean came to visit on her way home from school, and on the way home sunday we stopped at letchworth. pictures to follow when photobucket stops being wonkey.

But tonight i wish to share with you the most enlightening, the most meaningful thing that we did yesterday.

want a hint...

thats right

PICTURES OF INAPPROPRIATE GNOMES AT SHENEWANA HALL!!!!!!!!

Thank you and good night

I cannot hold my peace any more

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:44:37 GMT

like i ever did...

I just have to say it, The Hobbit in 2 movies. Really?
I say this because i just finished re reading the Hobbit, and if any book cries out for single movie treatment it is the hobbit. but we will be getting 2, from the people who brought us pointless wolf attacks and cowardly Theodan and screwed up understanding of elven immortality.But lets not rant on my own thoughts of the weakness of the two towers.

But the second movie is going to cover all that stuff that happens between the hobbit anf the Lord of the Rings, the inter testemental period if you will.

really?
All that stuff?

* 2951 - Estel, later known as Aragorn, comes of age and is told about his heritage; the Corsairs of Umbar officially ally themselves with Mordor and destroy great monument commemorating Ar-Pharazôn's victory over Sauron
* 2953 - Last meeting of the White Council.
* 2956 - Aragorn first meets Gandalf the Grey
* 2957-2980 - Aragorn as Thorongil serves in the armies of King Thengel of Rohan, and Steward Ecthelion II of Gondor
* 2980 - Arwen pledges her hand in marriage to Aragorn; Frodo Baggins loses both of his parents in a boating accident; Aragorn, in the service of the Steward of Gondor Ecthelion II leads a taskforce south and kills the Captain of the Haven, ruler of Umbar; Samwise Gamgee born;[14] Théoden, son of Thengel, becomes seventeenth king of Rohan after the death of his father.
* 2989 - Frodo Baggins comes under the guardianship of Bilbo Baggins; a company of Dwarves, led by Balin, try to recolonize Moria
* 2994 - Balin is killed; the dwarf-colony in Moria is destroyed
* 3001 - Bilbo Baggins turns 111, passes the One Ring on to Frodo Baggins, and leaves the Shire. From now on Aragorn and Gandalf intermittently hunt Gollum

So I edited out all the births and deaths, pretty much Aragorn comes of age and goes off to fight, and Balin returns to Moria, And Aragorn hunts gollum, but that really hapens during the time covered in the lord of the rings. Nothing that is not pretty sufficiently covered in the movie/ books.I could conceivably see the battle between the white council and the Necromancer pushed into here, but that is neither here nor there.

So at what point does this become overblown fan fic. well financed fan fic but fan fic none the less, and where does it end.

Does the New shadow, Tolkien's abandoned sequel to the lo9rd of the rings get made, with the argument, yes well tolkien wrote a few pages before he abandoned it, so we can see his intent and we merely completed it.

Or does someone try to mine the Silimirillian, well probally not, because i think the tolkien family still holdes the rights to that.

The cinimatic lord of the rings walked a fine line between translation and desecration, and for the most part stayed on the translation side of the line, But when you come to the point that you are creating story whole cloth where nothing more then a scketchey outline exists, that would be desecration.

and therandom quote of the day

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:15:54 GMT

"And don't look back — something might be gaining on you."

--satchel paige

so i guess somthing will swim the canal

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:48:01 GMT

so while we were walking the dog yesterday we scared up a couple of deer

so i was downtown yesterday

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:15:13 GMT

looking north along the river towards the aquaduct

the aquaduct with the Rundell Library on the right

spanish american war memorial

as we approch the election season,

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:41:54 GMT

we must weigh the, well weighty weight bearing matter of upon who's shoulders we should cast the weight of the presidency,

but wait there is more,

I have to this point been completly undecided as to who i should endorse. It is an important decision that might effect all of 2 or three people.

I was thrown a rope of hope when i came upon this web sight. http://www.walken2008.com. Alas and woe, the rope of hope became a laughing snake of mockery when i discovered it was only a hoax.

However, my friends perhaps we have an answer,

courtesy of the Invincible Super Blog

cause really how much worse could cobra commander be then what we have now?

No country for old men

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:55:50 GMT

Wow,...
It is almost 24 hours since i watched it and Its still with me, It is so stark and dark and at the same time serenely horrid, that i wish i didn't send it back to netflicks so i can watch it again. I read somewhere that Ridly Scott is doing Blood Meridian, another book by cormac Mcarthy that mirrors the themes of No country for Old Men, Good luck Ridly, you are not going to be able to do better then this, all you will make is a pale imitation.

wow,

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:44:18 GMT

air force one is a bad bad bad bad movie, Wolfgang Peterson, there is cinematic blood on your hands

and the quote of the day..

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:23:37 GMT

So I am at my sisters and we are flipping through the channels, and we land on the pope's chrismas mass, and the following conversation ensues...

(My Brother In Law) Hey Bennie hows it going,
(my sister) you cant call him benny,
(My Brother In law) what do you want me to call him, Palpatine? see kids, heresy can be fun, mmmm sacralicious.

Great Blue Heron

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:05 GMT

subtitled, i really need to sit down and figure out the how to fiddle with the ISO controles on this thing, AND i understand why exactly justin luggs his tripod around everywhere.

So Justin, did that monopod actually work for you?

I lay my head on the rail road track and wait for the double e

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:38:42 GMT

So in the up and down fashion that seems to be prerequisite, it was a great and alternately bad weekend. I drove to Albany to see Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello with Javabean, And about 25 miles outside of buffalo my truck started sputtering. I pushed ahead and made it to Albany. By the time i stopped thick smoke was pouring out the engine.....

Needless to say i didnt drive the truck home. But it was a fantastic Show, Dylan was good, but in my opnion, Costello stole the show. The opening act, Amos lee was also fantastic.

So i got to ride the bus home and bit Adeu to my poor engine blown truck. But aside from that it was a great weekend. And it resulted in me getting a new car that actually has less then 50 thousand miles on it.

And just a side note. I am sitting here watching Murder She Wrote, and it occurs to me that Jessica Fletcher Must be the Angel of Death. If that women arrives in your town, RUN!!!!

sunset on the erie canal

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:28:46 GMT