tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82078583708890357112024-03-12T17:18:16.273-07:00citizen koanclapping in the forest since late '08ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.comBlogger503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-82826282729878134122015-01-13T11:34:00.001-08:002015-01-13T11:34:30.971-08:00so long, and thanks for all the fishI think it's time to acknowledge the obvious.<br />
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This is an ex-blog. It's not pinin' for the fjords. It's joined the choir invisible.<br />
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Thanks to those loyal souls who dropped by back when things appeared here every now and then. It was fun. (Until it wasn't.)<br />
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New things are brewing.ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-42980471659845777552013-12-26T20:50:00.000-08:002013-12-26T20:50:09.755-08:00best movie ever<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/72RqpItxd8M?rel=0" width="400"></iframe>ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-87038493725662291812013-09-29T22:50:00.001-07:002013-09-29T22:50:32.472-07:00submitted without comment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-38133488882083131152013-08-13T23:25:00.001-07:002013-08-13T23:25:28.314-07:00the empressYet another year has passed, which means it must once more be time for another tarot card. (Actually, it means a lot more than that, but this is about the card.)<br />
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(Just coincidentally, this also appears to be my 500th post.)ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-38499427026999793132013-07-20T13:59:00.001-07:002013-07-20T14:00:36.262-07:00tweet of the day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(Just to get off of the soul-sucking subject of politics for a minute.)ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-77808275743984323162013-06-09T13:38:00.003-07:002013-06-09T13:38:54.454-07:00and digby says<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"By the way, those who are also blithely claiming that Glenn Greenwald can never return to the United States or his home in Rio now are confirming why we should be concerned about all this. Last I heard we still have a First Amendment that protects both Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press. If we believe in those things we should believe that it absolutely protects Greenwald and allows him to travel freely in his own country. If it doesn't we have bigger problems than this NSA spying."</blockquote>
ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-7722663210360091762013-06-08T20:46:00.002-07:002013-06-08T20:46:58.132-07:00nothing lite about itFrom Maureen Dowd's (yes, Maureen Dowd's) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-peeping-president-obama.html?_r=0" target="_blank">column today</a> on the confirmation of what I (and a lot of others) have been saying for years about our surveillance state:<br />
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"Back in 2007, Obama said he would not want to run an administration that was “Bush-Cheney lite.” He doesn’t have to worry. With prisoners denied due process at Gitmo starving themselves, with the C.I.A. not always aware who it’s killing with drones, with an overzealous approach to leaks, and with the government’s secret domestic spy business swelling, there’s nothing lite about it."</blockquote>
Read the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-peeping-president-obama.html?_r=0" target="_blank">whole thing</a>.<br />
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And mad props to Glenn Greenwald and the incredibly heroic person who has provided him with the information we've been reading about these last few days (and will no doubt continue to read about in the days to come).ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-70471459396802478222013-06-03T20:51:00.001-07:002013-06-03T20:51:46.529-07:00album cover of the monthOr maybe of the year. Or forever.<br />
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Just sayin'.ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-17190396292904260212013-04-23T21:29:00.000-07:002013-04-23T21:29:34.303-07:00now more than ever<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8207858370889035711"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e225/mr-ahclem/blog/damned.jpg" /></a>ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-30820322710212310812013-04-23T21:27:00.000-07:002013-04-23T21:27:08.506-07:00not necessarily deadBut not necessarily not dead.<br />
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Was out with my camera for the express purpose of just taking pictures for the first time in well over two years. I take this as a good sign. (Click image to embiggen.)ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-72872448189394531122012-09-01T23:02:00.001-07:002012-09-01T23:02:49.058-07:00high priestessIt's that time of year again.<br />
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Elisabetta Cassari - Self Portrait - 1989.<br />
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A footnote from Frank Jensen's 1990 Manteia article, <i><a href="http://www.manteia-online.dk/articles/ar01-cassari.htm" target="_blank">The Strange Tarot World of Elisabetta Cassari</a></i>:<br />
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***) I attempted to contact Elisabetta Cassari several times during the last few years, but in vain. I have not been able to locate her. Not even Vito Arienti shortly before his death, knew her present address, nor did other people I contacted. Unconfirmed rumors say, that Cassari left Italy and moved to France or Spain (likely the latter since she speaks Spanish). If anyone knows about her current whereabouts, I'll be pleased to learn about them!</blockquote>ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-33210343941394154012012-07-03T21:32:00.002-07:002012-07-03T21:32:37.163-07:00mouseoverI have, for reasons not entirely clear, started yet another tumblr. It's <a href="http://altwords.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-45928124363421646422012-06-24T20:43:00.000-07:002012-06-24T20:43:27.002-07:00cruisin'<a href="http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e225/mr-ahclem/blog/?action=view&current=cruisin_600.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e225/mr-ahclem/blog/cruisin_600.jpg" /></a>ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-60846125508149195342012-06-09T16:30:00.000-07:002012-06-09T16:30:00.247-07:00a good couple of weeks for the sun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Just a few weeks after the partial eclipse, we get the last transit of Venus for another hundred years or so. Seeing that it was definitely my last chance for one, I got my telescope out of the garage for the first time in quite a few years, attached a solar filter, and caught the sun pretty much mid-transit. On a lark, I decided to see what would happen if I held my phone up to the eyepiece and tried snapping a picture. This is the result. </div>
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It wasn't all that long ago (in geologic time, at least) when it would have taken an elaborate astrophotography rig to get a shot like this. We truly live in the future.ahclemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01014593842648563551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207858370889035711.post-37466591456861788672012-05-20T19:28:00.000-07:002012-05-20T19:29:40.234-07:00eclipseIn the palm of my hand.<br />
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