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The Gillard government goes into its final two weeks of Parliament for the year having to deal with a range of "wedge" issues from the left raised by the Coalition and the Greens, a situation that makes the political task of defining what it stands for more difficult.
Proposals to re-regulate or just differently regulate banks and the need to deal with the High Court's decision last week on asylum seekers, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, are just some of the things confronting the Prime Minister and her government in the Parliament.
It is also confronted by a series of equally difficult decisions that cabinet cannot defer indefinitely, led by the contentious question of what it does about the carve-up of rights to show sport on free-to-air and pay television.
These are just the really obvious questions: the last two weeks of Parliament tend to become a mad scramble to finalise a range of cabinet and parliamentary decisions, some of which haven't even hit the headlines yet.
The politics of banks is one getting more complex by the moment, as all political parties try to outdo each other in tapping into the public anger over recent interest rate rises.
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Yesterday, the Greens raised the stakes once again, signalling legislation to ensure banks not move their rates by more than movements in official rates.
No one thinks the Greens' push has any chance of success, but it illustrates the extent to which issues on the left are now the hot ones for competition in federal politics.
It may be that the rising cacophony of proposals for dealing with the banks – and the fact that most public anger is now directed at the banks and not the government – may give it a little more breathing space before it releases its own package of measures on bank competition next month.
But the plethora of problematic issues on the left side of politics is a difficulty for a Labor Party facing both internal and external criticism that it doesn't stand for anything.
Labor's task in this term is not just to prove to voters that it is a competent government but to define what it believes in.
In the meantime, its relationship with the Greens works. But both parties know they need to have developed considerable product differentiation by the time of the next election, and for Labor that will mean a strategic courting of the right and left.
Last week's High Court decision on asylum seekers was actually overturning policy originally put in place by the Coalition. But that hasn't stopped the opposition from using the court's decision to attack Labor for its current strategy.
It is Labor that is left holding a policy which the court has said denies people natural justice.
While MPs and senators will be allowed to vote according to their conscience on senator
Labor's current position against same-sex marriage was determined at its national conference.
Whatever else is happening to Labor, it is not an issue where its MPs and senators really have a choice in how they vote against a Greens motion on the issue. They can only grit their teeth as the minor party wedges them on the issue.
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The man is an Oscar-winner, a cult hero, Hollywood royalty, a humanitarian, a musician, a photographer, a father of three; heck, he's even the voice-over pitchman for Hyundai and Duracell. Yet I'm pretty sure his pulse rate has never registered above 60.
"I've got a lot of slacker in me," Bridges told me two years ago, during a bowling-alley interview in Dallas. "I consider myself kind of a lazy guy, but when I look back, I've done a bunch of stuff."
He's done a bunch since then, too. Like winning a Best Actor Academy Award last year for his portrayal of washed-up country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart. This holiday movie season, he'll star in two of the biggest potential blockbusters, TRON: Legacy (a reboot of/sequel to the 1982 classic, in which he'll reprise his role as the video-game designer Kevin Flynn) and a remake of True Grit, which reteams him with the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski), and which finds him playing the part that won John Wayne an Oscar.
At 60, Bridges has never been hotter, which makes his visit to Fort Worth this weekend one for the ages. He'll be honored with the Lone Star International Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. He'll also stick around to introduce three of his most memorable films: The Last Picture Show (director Peter Bogdanovich will be in attendance), The Big Lebowski and Crazy Heart. And on Saturday night, Bridges will strap on the acoustic guitar for a festival after-party/concert at 8.0 with Crazy Heart collaborator and Fort Worth boy T Bone Burnett.
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His portrayal of Jeffrey Lebowski, a lover of fine rugs, fine weed, White Russians, whale songs and, above all else, bowling, gave rise to one of the most beloved and quoted characters to ever appear on film: a bathrobe-wearing slacker king who is more popular today than he was when The Big Lebowski was released in 1998.
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The Amazon Kindle 2.5.2 software update was released today for US and international Kindle and Kindle DX readers. You can download it from the Amazon Kindle Software Updates page or wait until it is delivered wirelessly to your Kindle automatically over the next few weeks. I tried the manual process on my own Kindle and the installation was pretty painless, just copying a file over and telling the Kindle to start the software update. Continue reading 'Amazon Kindle 2.5 in Pictures'
I want to become a better writer. So when I saw Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals, tweeting last month that Richard A. Lanham's book Revising Prose was "the best book on writing & editing I've ever read", I had to get myself a copy. I was not disappointed. Continue reading '8 Simple Steps To Improve Your Writing'
When a monitoring or reporting tool reaches a certain level of sophistication, it needs to be able to report on itself as well. The db2top tool has a large number of configurable options, so it is fortunate that there is a screen that lets us see the present value of each such option. In today's post, we will look at the Display Settings screen. Continue reading 'db2top Display Settings'
The db2top tool, on each of its various screens, presents a subset of the full capabilities of the DB2 snapshot monitor. In this post, we'll see how you can use the native snapshot feature to gain access to the full snapshot. Continue reading 'db2top Native Snapshot'
IBM released DB2 for LUW 9.7.2 recently and, along with numerous quality improvements, there were a number of interesting new features. In today's post, I will talk about the "default parameters in UDFs" feature and how that helped me shrink the amount of code I needed to write for one of my UDFs. Continue reading 'New in DB2 for LUW 9.7.2: UDF default parameters'
What good is a tool if you can't customize it to your liking? Fortunately, db2top is quite customizable. In today's post, we will look at how you can customize the order in which columns are presented for the majority of those screens in db2top that present their information in a table.
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In Curt Cotner's recent blog post, What's new in statement-level performance metrics, he wrote about the popularity among customers of Optim Performance Manager (OPM)'s ability to create and visualize histograms of statement costs. In this post, I'm going to take a look at histograms in general, examine some histograms that are new in DB2 for LUW as of version 9.5, and provide some resources that can show you how to make use of histograms yourself. Continue reading 'Histograms'


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We are at Camp No Limits Missouri and Jordan wanted to show you what she can do!! Tying her shoe!
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- June 25, 2012 at 11:15 am
Nice work, Jordan. I remember when my daughter, Marisa, first learned to tie her shoes!
What a great feeling…..joy, excitement, relief!!! Nothing can stop them!
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That observation comes from a prominent state legislator, who prefers anonymity because he is backing another candidate. Little more than 24 hours before the voters in tiny Dixville Notch enjoy their quadrennial burst of fame as they cast their ballots at midnight, New Hampshire Democrats still appear tentative about their electoral decisions.
This is a primary in which voters still have their "ors" in the water. Ask virtually anyone whom they favor, and you will get an answer followed by a hesitant "or" augmented with the name of a second candidate. Kerry's strength in the polls is premised less on a passionate embrace of his candidacy than on the reality that he is a reassuring enough figure that comparatively few voters have definitely rejected him.
Also aiding Kerry here in New Hampshire, a state where most voters have long been familiar with him from Boston television, is the political message that all Democrats carried out of the Iowa caucuses. Negative advertising killed Dick Gephardt's presidential bid and transformed Dean from a seeming sure shot to a shot-in-the-foot. Now the candidates are suddenly abiding by the dictum set down by Thumper the rabbit's mother in Bambi: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." No one, of course, has taken a vow of silence, but not even the once-combative Dean dares unleash a frontal assault on Kerry.
The run-up to the New Hampshire primary represents the last moment on the political calendar when candidates respond to audience questions simply because their interrogators are interested voters. With 17 separate primaries and caucuses scheduled for February, any day now individual voters will be reduced to a faceless blur. But here in New Hampshire, the transaction between candidate and voter has not yet degenerated to the level of pure television sound bite.
Kerry spoke to the kind of overflow crowd at Dartmouth College on Saturday night that befits a front-runner. But while the Massachusetts senator's stump speech was familiar, the tenor of the questions afterward was revealing. Kerry was repeatedly quizzed about the issue causing the most anguish among primary voters: Who can best defeat George W. Bush in November?
Kerry is keenly aware of his best-student-in-the-class penchant for long-winded answers. Ranking right up there on his list of New Year's resolutions was probably the word "brevity." But when the opening questioner at Dartmouth pointedly asked whether the Democrats intended to write off the South in the election against Bush, Kerry couldn't resist rambling on for more than four minutes in response.
The senator began by quoting one of his rivals (clearly John Edwards from North Carolina) as correctly observing that voters in the South "want to be treated like the rest of the country." Then Kerry headed off in the opposite direction by pointing out those elements on his résumé that would particularly play well below the Mason-Dixonline: "I have done things that matter to people in the South both culturally and otherwise."
His litany started with his military service in Vietnam, his work with veterans and his stint as a prosecutor. But then Kerry, so anxious to prove that he wasn't another unelectable Massachusetts liberal, started stretching his point by stressing his support of the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction legislation and his legislative work on behalf of the Clinton-era program to federally fund an additional 100,000 police officers.
OK, Kerry may protest a bit too much. And it is no secret that the Bush White House is eager to run against a candidate, war hero though he may be, who once served as Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor. But a current 30-year-old voter was probably worrying about pimples and popularity, rather than politics, back in 1988 when the hapless Dukakis was trounced by George H.W. Bush. And that same voter wasn't even born in 1972 when Massachusetts was the only state in the union that George McGovern carried. While Kerry's 20-year voting record in the Senate provides more than enough grist for Republican attack ads, a Boston ZIP code alone may not be the divisive symbol it was during the 1980s.
A student questioner at Dartmouth, who identified himself as a government major, wondered why no senator since John Kennedy in 1960 had been elected president. Kerry, who had obviously thought about this problem, offered the innovative answer that veteran legislators Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford had all made it to the White House by way of the vice presidency. In a courageous gambit for a Democrat on the eve of a break-through primary, Kerry even offered tempered and historically accurate praise of Nixon: "You may not like what he did obviously in Vietnam and Watergate. But domestically as president he was known to have done good things like sign the EPA into existence."
Moments later, Kerry finally hit the nub of the question when he thanked the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire for molding him into a "sharper, tighter candidate" and "getting rid of the Washington-ese." This, of course, was said by a presidential contender who had just used the acronym EPA as insider shorthand for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Despite such momentary backsliding, Kerry is a far more adroit candidate than he was just a few months ago. That is why he remains the probable safe harbor here for Democrats single-mindedly obsessed with victory in November.
Walter Shapiro's column appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Following the allegations of murder of his neighbor Gregory Faull, Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has decided to help finding the actual murderer, and has started blogging for the same. Faull was shot dead on Saturday, 10 November, for which police wanted to interview McAfee as a material witness. But McAfee said he doesn't trust the authorities, whom he alleged poisoned his dogs and wish to kill him.
McAfee established a blog named The Hinterland, which has been confirmed authentic by Chad Essley, one of his friends. He wrote a criticizing post on his blog about the systematic roundup of his friends and associates, since Faull's homicide. He also wrote that the police arrested his housekeeper, his British bodyguard, the bodyguard's wife, a taxi driver who ferried McAfee away from his property, and McAfee's best friend in Belize. As all this caused enough of trouble to McAfee, later he came up with another post stating,
"I also needed to do my own investigation, since the police only seemed to be investigating my whereabouts. My safety is contingent on the truth being discovered. I today announced on NBC Television that I am offering a $25,000 reward for the capture of the person or persons responsible for Mr. Faul's [sic] murder."
He also said that he watched the police dig up his four dogs that had been poisoned and buried; they cut off the heads and re-buried the bodies. Further expressing his views, he wrote,
"If I am captured, this blog will continue. I have pre-written enough material to keep this blog alive for at least a year. In addition, the administrator, Chad, will continue to monitor comments. He will administer the reward and post any information received. In truth my continued involvement from this point is irrelevant."
As of now, both McAfee and Samantha, his 20-year-old girlfriend are on the run, claiming harassment by police, but continue to keep the blog updates of the activities. Over the past few years, McAfee's behavior had grown very peculiar. He had distanced himself from expatriates and began hanging around some of the most notoriously known gangsters of Belize. May be this is the reason that authorities want to investigate with him.


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by Jeff Emanuel, Senior Fellow
Photograph by Jeff Emanuel
At left: Julia Featheringill, assistant manager of digital imaging and photography in the Harvard Library's Preservation and Imaging department, scans a portion of MS Typ 41, a French historical and genealogical scroll completed in 1461 CE.
At right: Featheringill tests the coloration of the original scroll with a spectrophotometer and checks the result against the new digital image to ensure an exact match. Imaging is a division of Harvard Library's Preservation Services, and the documents handled there are digitized to archival standards.
MS Typ 41 is being digitized for use in "The Book: Histories Across Time and Space," a modular learning experience currently in development at HarvardX that will include lessons taught by faculty from across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This particular manuscript will be featured in a module titled "Scrolls in the Age of the Book," taught by Thomas F. Kelly, Harvard's Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music.
Jeff Emanuel, Senior Fellow at HarvardX and CHS Fellow in Aegean Archaeology and Prehistory at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, is director of production and instructional/curricular design for The Book: Histories Across Time and Space.


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After a safety issue with the historic sign sparked a scare among South Pasadena's Rialto Theatre advocates, the group is ready to move forward in restoration efforts - this time with money and a concrete plan behind them.
Property Lessee Landmark Theatres agreed last month to reinforce the sign's structure rather than take it down after the city's building official said it had become a safety hazard.
Scott Feldmann, South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce president, said Landmark's willingness to fix the sign is good news, and means preservationists can continue to work toward bringing it and theater back to their former glory.
"Wouldn't it be great if we could fix it up and relight it?" Feldmann said. "I'm hoping it would call attention to the theater and give people an indication that yes, things are being done and maybe it would spark a revitalization of the entire theater."
Feldmann said finding funding to refurbish the Rialto has become even more difficult since the demise of redevelopment agencies, which have provided the foundation for a number of historic theater renovations across the state.
Now, preservation groups must find other means, like grants or private donors, to get the project moving. To refurbish the sign, Feldmann and the chamber applied Friday for a $30,000 matching grant from the Route 66 Corridor Restoration Program, with a letter of recommendation from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Pasadena).
In addition, the Friends of the Rialto group has begun a fundraising campaign to secure an $8,000 contract with a historic theater consultant to create a business plan for the theater's restoration and reopening, Project Director Escott Norton said.
"Once we have this plan in place our intent is to approach the owners and the lease holders to see if we can move forward," Norton said. "The first step is we have to have a business plan, otherwise we just sound like a bunch of dreamers."
But even with funding, Feldmann said the ultimate feasibility of a full restoration comes down to Landmark and the private property owners' willingness to transfer the lease or put down the money themselves.
"Unless those two take on themselves to rehabilitate it or sell it to someone else, nothing is going to happen, honestly," Feldmann said. "The chamber ... can't do theater operations but what we can do is do some matchmaking."
Though the city can't pay for the restoration, it has shown support for the project. To try to provide incentives for groups to do the renovation, the city's Cultural Heritage Commission has created a two-member subcommittee to create a list of ways to pay for it.
The City Council is also set to approve a similar two-member committee, made up of Council members Bob Joe and Richard Schneider.
Commission member John Lesak said though the restoration effort has been going on for a while, the recent events have garnered an increased in interest, support and hope for the project.
"I think this has brought the Rialto back to the public forefront and I think that's a good thing," he said. "It's a big milestone to be able to keep the sign on there and have everybody at the table, because all the groups haven't been at the table for a long time."
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CM Destination Weekend - San Antonio, Texas!
May 27th - May 30th 2011 San Antonio TX Its a CM Event TEXAS STYLE! Please come and join us for a weekend of fun, fellowship and prayer in San Antonio, Texas over Memorial Weekend....6459 views 40 comments 20 guests
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Its a CM Event TEXAS STYLE! Please come and join us for a weekend of fun, fellowship and prayer in San Antonio, Texas over Memorial Weekend. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. I look forward to meeting all of you!
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Local CM Members - Those living near or in San Antonio You are welcome to join one or all of the events this weekend and are welcome to bring friends. If you plan on attending any of the events, please click Attending on this page.
If you would like to attend Saturdays SeaWorld event and/or the Dinner Boat Cruise on Sunday, you will additionally need to register here:
*** CM Gents Two (2) CM gents are seeking an additional room mate for the entire weekend. The event price will be $299 per person and will include all that is listed below. Please email me if you are interested.
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7pm Meet and Greet at the Hotel. Hors doeuvres will be served and well have some meet and greet activities to get to know each other better.
Saturday, May 28th
8am Pray the rosary together
9am Breakfast at the hotel (included in the event price)
10am Seaworld Excursion! SeaWorld has shows all day, exhibits, amusement park rides and a waterpark. ( included in the event price)
6:30 Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy together
7pm Authentic Tex-Mex Dinner on the Riverwalk, shopping, taking in the live music and tour the river walk on the boat taxi during the evening.
And if youre up to it. A confetti egg fight. A must-do in San Antonio on the Riverwalk.
9pm Texas style two-step dancing and time for the mechanical bull.
Sunday, May 29th
8am Pray the rosary together
8:30 Breakfast at the hotel (included in the cost)
10am Mass at the beautiful San Fernando Cathedral.
San Fernando Cathedral was founded in 1731 and is the oldest, continuously functioning religious community in the State of Texas. The Cathedral building has the added distinction of being the oldest standing church building in Texas, and for all of its more than 275 years, has been serving the people of the Archdiocese and San Antonio
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12pm Texas style BBQ for Lunch! Yeehaw! Lets get our giddy up on!
2pm Start with the Alamo and tour the missions of San Antonio
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Woo HOO! Cant wait to meet my chat room buddies and hang aroudn the best ppl in the world :))
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I won't be able to make it - like I had previous hoped. I have unexpected family coming in from out of town. Enjoy!
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Some Thoughts On Poetry Readings: Part Three (Legendary Gigs)
I was there at the Six Gallery in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg read Howl for the first time. (I suggested the venue.)
And I was there at that baseball stadium in Minneapolis where T.S. Eliot spoke before a crowd of 14,000 strong – or so the pundits who still dream of a general audience for poetry like to remind us. (Eliot came on stage late, to ensure a riled-up crowd, a showman's trick I suggested, a trick later mastered by Led Zeppelin.)
And I was there at the Margaret Atwood reading where Irving Layton fell asleep. (He didn't really fall asleep; he reportedly yelled at Atwood, "Your reading is so boring it's putting me to sleep!" I write "reportedly" because I was the one asleep; that's me on the recordings, not Layton, snoring through the tape hiss, the bootlegged room tone.)
I was there.
I was not there when Bob Dylan went electric at Manchester's Free Trade Hall. (As a result of not being there, I didn't get to hear first-hand the folk purist in the audience, who, feeling betrayed by Dylan's aesthetic shift, famously cried, "Judas!")
But I was there when Robert Lowell went confessional (I cried, "Satan!", cleverly evoking his Miltonic stuff) and I was there when Adrienne Rich went free verse (I cried, "'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers!'", hoping she would read her early stuff).
And I was there in 1911 when Pound presented some of his poetry to an audience of one – Ford Madox Hueffer – causing the audience to roll on the floor in mock dismay, a roll, Pound later claimed, saved him three years of artistic development. (I suggested the roll.)
So which famous – or maybe not so famous – poetry readings do you wish you had attended? And what advice would you have offered the reader(s)?
(This post is dedicated to, and after a song by, LCD Soundsystem.)
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Any reading by Joseph Massey…
I hear he's a bit of a nutcase, if not an entertainer.
I was there wihen Gary Snyder read excerpts from Turtle Island to the ghost of Li-Po on top of a mountain in Northern California.
I told him to keep going, even as the ghost, laughing, rolled up the hill into the clouds.
But I WAS there when Alice Notley read from Descent of Allette at the University of Pittsburgh Frick Fine arts building, and I lost my memory. I want Alice Notely to come back……come back?
I can't think of any great readings I wish I'd seen, but Dylan Thomas and I were the ones who broke up the fistfight between Jackson Pollock and E.E. Cummings at Uwe's Bar & Grill out on Long Island back in '52.
Beat this. Blood sugar.
It happened as I was reading from the poetry of the mystical Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz. I got back up and finished with three paramedics in the room.
I went to hear Yevtushenko read at McCarter Theatre in Princeton in the early seventies. There was a bomb scare, and we all had to leave the building.
Some dream readings would be:
H.D. – "Helen in Egypt" – excerpt here:
Jackie Kay – "There's Trouble For Maw Broon"
Virginia Woolf – two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928 – here's an excerpt from an interview-
I don't mind mentioning that even though Jackson was almost twenty years older, he trounced Ed pretty good. Gave him a bloody nose. Poor Dylan died that very next year, but he was in good form that night. He had Jackson in a headlock until Lee intervened.
Eliot didn't give a poetry reading in Minneapolis in 1956 — it was a lecture on modernism. And wasn't it at Williams Arena (U of M basketball stadium), not a baseball stadium?
Jane and Mary, thanks for the suggestions. And Mary, I appreciate the links.
Bill and Gary, thanks for sustaining the fantastical nature of the post.
Ron, many thanks for your useful clarifications. Given my Dylan and Pound examples – and the subtitle "Legendary Gigs" – I hope it's not entirely unclear I'm defining 'poetry reading' pretty loosely (if also sloppily). But, for what it's worth, I was aware of the lecture, and did take care to write, "Eliot spoke" (italics mine, of course), to leave room to suggest something other than a poetry reading. But thanks for clarifying. As for the baseball stadium, I'm going, for what it's worth, on Craig Raine in The Guardian, but if he's wrong, and it sounds like he may be, the error only speaks to the mythology surrounding this near-mythical event.
Fantastical, you say?
Ed had to leave for Boston the next morning and Dylan had a reading at Columbia that night, so we had to drive them all the way back to NYC from Oyster Bay. They argued the entire way. We ended up sleeping on the floor of Dylan's room at the Chelsea.
What started the fight was Lee Krasner insinuating that Ed was being less than moral because he was out flirting in the bar while his wife was back home in Massachusetts. Ed got a little snotty with Lee and Jackson took exception (one to talk, eh?).
Now, as I'm sure most know, Cummings was a very prolific painter himself. He may actually have produced more paintings than poems. The fisticuffs started after Cummings told Pollock that he could make a better painting than him just by pissing in the snow.
Poor Ed got a bloody nose for that one.
The next morning we got Ed to Idlewild on time, but Dylan had learned that Hemingway was in town. He wanted to meet him and was planning to challenge him to a drinking contest. So, we all ran over to the Waldorf to find Hemingway and who did we run into in the lobby but Frank Fitzgerald. He and Ernest were in town for some big meeting with Scribner's.
We never saw Hemingway, but Dylan did introduce us to another guy he met in the bar named Ezra.
So here we are in the bar at the Waldorf-Astoria, all pretty much snockered at 10:00 am on a Monday morning. The place was deserted. Thomas and Pound got into a loud debate about on one thing or another. Scott and I actually moved to another table so the barkeeps wouldn't think that we were associated with them.
And who walks in but Jackson Pollock, still pissed off and looking for Cummings. He remembers Dylan's headlock, though, and confronts him. Scott leans over and whispers "Look how red his face is. See, he's clenching his fists.". "Who?" I replied. Scott lifted his head towards the table.
There, standing right behind Jackson, is Papa himself. All he said was "Are you bothering my guests?".
That very moment, thankfully, Willem de Kooning spies Pollock and come up to say hello and starts shaking his hand. Ernest looked up at the ceiling and shook his head, then went over to the bar to get a beer.
Scott looked at me and said "Close call."
i was in Coleman's Hatch and Stone Cottage with Pound and Yeats.
Heard Willy bellowing in chant the day Eliot walked up the unpaved
lane, came South from the crossroads by a parish church, to meet
our trio standing by birch and heath in a place of retreat for deer
and swine the Venerable Bede wrote of and Thomas Pentecost's
"healthy waste of huts and dens/ where human nature seldom ends"
written in the nineteenth century. Then turning to the nothingness
who should come upon us but the magi with their painted stones
bones bleached to cerelium hue and in the distance, Five Hundred
Acre wood, leery louts with stick on smiles and fresh tatoos on cold
arms revealing an amulet, a charm to keep the djin at bay beyond
the trees and in the fields where Jack and Al had Cassidy bent
intonating Blake's Tirel and Songs of Innocence and Experience
as Ginsey howled and Corso mainlined in moonlight his heroin
Ah ! peace it was when gathered there, the party in hieretic pose
declaiming verse from every age, conferring wreaths and sending
out upon the roads sweet and sour voices singing of the Highness
where all spumes fold and flit into one thought of reality Homer
had woven and Hesiod wrought for poets who claim Theogony
as their own true form of anima mundi and God, fashioning us.
Restaurant poetry reading stories:
I was working in the restaurant with Edna St Vincent Millay's sister when the young Millay read "Renascence" there and won the scholarship support from Caroline Dow that changed her life.
I was in the audience when Vachel Lindsay read aloud the poems that Langston Hughes, working as a busboy in the hotel where Lindsay was staying, had left next to his dinner plate that evening. I was an early part of the nationwide buzz that resulted.
And I really WAS in the audience to hear what was probably one of Agha Shahid Ali's last readings. I'd give a lot to hear Shahid again–his reading was a gourmet experience.
I used to hang out with the Gawain-Poet (her name was Brooklyn, by the way; I don't remember her last name!) and listen to her read "Sir Gawain" to the Earl of Chester. That was a party!
Li Bai and Du Fu were a blast to listen to too. We three seldom got together, as you know, so it was always a treat.
A reading I'm sorry to have missed: The recitation of Nasi's long sound-poem as described in David Antin's poem "the structuralist." (Does anybody know Nasi's name, by the way? Fascinating character — maybe Antin invented him.)
As I turned out, Hemingway was a big fan of Dylan's and quite pleased to meet him. We got a big table and things went pretty smooth for a while. Ernest took Dylan up on his challenge. I don't recall how many rounds went by but by eight o'clock we were all goners. Dylan was standing on a table giving an impromptu poetry reading, Pollock was unconscious on the floor (he preferred scotch to beer), and I had forgotten what my name was.
We would probably had been there all night if the cops hadn't shown up when the hotel people called the ambulance. Apparently, Ezra had called Hemingway something on the order of a "chickenshit liberal" and Papa laid him out right there. Lee and Scott dragged Pollock up to Scott's room to sleep it off while Dylan and I high-tailed it back to the Chelsea.
The next day Dylan was livid! The newspaper story mentioned everybody except him.
How could Jackson have been 20 years older than Ed, as you say?
E.E. Cummings would have been nearly 60 in 1952. Are you saying Jackson Pollock was almost 80 years old in 1952?
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Please forgive me. I am old. It was a long time ago and I got things a little mixed up. I guess it wasn't such a fair fight, after all (which would explain why Dylan had such a time with Jackson). Jackson was only forty then and Ed was fifty-eight. But fifty-eight isn't all that old, you know. I had more than one tussle at that age. Hell, Franz Wright is only fifty-six. Dylan was thirty-nine that year and I was still basically just a kid at twenty-two.
Do you want to hear about what happened when Zelda flew in?
Wait, am I the only other LCD Soundsystem fan here?
At any rate, Zelda arrived unannounced and unexpected. She had read about the Waldorf brouhaha in the paper in Alabama and took the next flight out of Montgomery.
She went looking for Scott and the fireworks started when she found him…alone in the bar with Denise Levertov. It was an odd thing, though, because Scott had already been dead for twelve years and Zelda for four.
Dylan and Hemingway swore off the drink that same day.
you must be losing your edge, Michael…….
I had a feeling Scott and Zelda were gone by that time, and I was going to say something. Great writers are only great when we don't see them; otherwise they roll around in the filth like all of us.
I was there when John Ashbery and James Merrill argued about the nature of the double sestina. The air was positively electric with excitement.
I was there when Lord Herbert of Cherbury wrote his sonnet to Black Beauty. I suggested the spark/dark rhyme.
I was there when President Eisenhower sat on a park bench reciting dirty limericks of his own composition.
I was sitting next to Miss Marianne Moore when Drysdale pitched his perfect game.
I saved Hart Crane from getting his nose broken by a tough man in uniform.
I was there when someone made the mistake of calling Cummings "Ed." (He was Estlin to his friends.)
I was there when Hecht and Hollander invented the double dactyl. I contributed the crucial word "sesquipedalian" to one of their efforts.
"I was there when someone made the mistake of calling Cummings "Ed." (He was Estlin to his friends.)"
I beg to differ. Cummings idolized his father and was quite proud to be called Edward. Can you cite a reference?
My girlfriend and I hailed a taxi after one of Ashbery's readings at the 92nd Street Y circa 1980, but then Ashbery showed up and took the taxi from us. We didn't mind, much.
My girlfriend (same one) introduced me to Elizabeth Bishop after she gave a reading at Bennington circa 1977-78. I shook hands with Elizabeth Bishop.
These are true stories.
Allen Ginsberg, Hall Building, Concordia, Montreal circa 1995. Theatre full to capacity, overflowing onto de Maisonneuve. Someone hooked speakers up out in the lobby because people would not disperse. A big stage, wee spotlight,squeezebox and no texts that I recall, Ginsberg had us in the palm of his hand for well over an hour. Amazing. He read like he was hearing every word for the first time himself. A strategy that keeps on giving.
I was there in 1947 or 1948 when André Breton read some very bad verses from a collection of Paul Éluard's to a young Odysseas Elytis. With fire and brimstone, Breton finished by throwing the book across the room, uncomfortably close to Elytis' head. I caught it and in doing so touched the back of Elytis' left ear, which led to a meeting of eyes and a moment of quiet confusion (Elytis hadn't even realised I was there, camouflaged as I was against Breton's idiosyncratic collection of objects). Later, at Bar Sertà in the Arcades, we agreed and lamented that, despite being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979, he would never be properly translated into English and that his reputation would suffer because of this.
But are not the two subtexts to this (a la LCD):
1. I'm losing my edge.
2. You don't know what you really want.
Me, I'm North American scum.
Yeah, I've learned how few Harriet posters keep up on contemporary dance music! They're losing their edge!
Thanks to all for the stories – esp. Gary and his serialized episodes. Wonderful, radio-ready stuff.
And thanks to those LCD fans, Michaels R. and G., and Nick, none of whom have lost their edge.
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My husband Bruce & I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary at Blueberry Hill Inn Block Island,RI. Owned by Toni. We took the ferry over from Port Judith, RI & the ferry ride was very romantic, it was at night and the moon and stars were shining bright. Our first time ever going to Block Island.
Once we got to the island we took a taxi to the Inn. The owners greeted us with friendly faces..We had a room on the 2nd floor that shared a bathroom and a common room with 1 other guest bedroom,which we didn't mind..They served a full breakfast prepared by the owners themselves every morning and afternoon tea & cookies. The house also has a carriage house for families with children and another room above the garage...
The house has a full front porch with chairs and swings that you can enjoy your morning coffee on. The lawn was well manicured along with swings for the children and a hammock you can take an afternoon nap on.The gardens were full with beautiful flowers. There's also a walking path that you can into town or to the nearby beach. There's alot of places to see on Block Island, (light houses, bluffs, movies, festivals, picnics, beaches, restaurants, shops, boatrides, plays, tours of the other homes on the Island, just to name a few). I do recommend you bring your car over on the ferry to the Island. Unless you don't mind renting bicycles, or walking or you can even rent mopeds to ride.
P.S.Just found out that this is no longer a B&B, it's on the list for Summer Homes to rent.
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We met up in the lobby and wandered out into central Manhattan. We took a long route round to Times Square, which was actually only a block from our hotel, and after a few photos in the daylight we made our way to the first deli on our tour - start as you mean to go on at Stage Deli
Jeff and Helena were amazed at the size of some of the sandwiches - and Jeff is from the U.S so you think he'd be used to it! The cakes were also three times the size, but we decided to try the sandwiches first and see how we got on!
Matt went for the 'Rudi Giuliani' which is corned beef, pastrami, cheese and Russian dressing. He seemed to like it as it didn't last too long, and gave the overall sandwich a very respectable 9/10 - not bad for a contender! We also tried some of their cheesecake (when in New York and all that) which was big and quite hefty, so lucky we only had one piece between us. I feel we will need some serious walking tomorrow to recover from this meal!
Now it was dark we took a walk back through Times Square for more photos. Matt and I were starting to feel really tired from our flight so we walked back to the hotel, via the theatre where Jeff and Helena were going to see 'Spiderman - the stage show'! They said it was different, but they quite enjoyed it!


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The Oxford English Dictionary has 50 words with first citations from 1995. In that year, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established; Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168; the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 5,000 for the first time; securities broker Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Barings Bank through illegal and high-risk speculation; the cult Aum Shinrikyo released Sarin nerve agent in the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and injuring over 5,000; computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI; O. J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges; and Pixar released Toy Story, the first all-CG feature-length film.
The words of 1995:
ADSL, n. The Among the New Words column has this initialism for asynchronous digital subscriber line from 1995, although the OED records it from 1991, and the shorter DSL goes back to 1981.
avatar, n. This word for the manifestation of a Hindu god entered English from Sanskrit back in the eighteenth century, but it wasn't until the late-twentieth century that the worlds of computing and science fiction took up avatar, using it to refer to a graphical representation of a person in a computer-generated environment. Among the New Words dates it to 1995, but the OED has the computer sense of avatar going back to 1986.
badly sourced, adj. This one is a journalistic euphemism for "false, inaccurate."
battle rattle, n. This rhyming reduplication is military slang, referring to the gear that soldiers carry.
Bridezilla, n. Bridezillas are not a creation of American reality television programming. The term refers to a woman who becomes socially intolerable due to the stress of wedding planning. (There's a 2003 citation in the OED for groomzilla, but the term for the male counterpart has never really caught on.) The OED also records the -zilla combining form from 1978; it's from Godzilla, of course.
chicken-pox party, n. This one ranks pretty high in the scale of really bad ideas. A chicken-pox party is one where healthy children are deliberately brought into contact with children already infected with chicken pox so that they may contract the disease at a time that's convenient for the parents.
courtesy call, n. Another euphemism, this one is an unsolicited telephone call by a salesperson.
crawler, n. A crawler is a program used by a search engine to identify sites. Among the New Words has this sense from 1995, although the OED antedates it by a year. (Cf. spider)
crunk, adj. and n.2 A hip-hop adjective, something that's crunk is "exciting, fun."
cybersquatter, n. This term appears in the OED in 1995 in the sense of "a person who posts antagonistic messages to a computer discussion forum, a troll," but that appears to be a nonce usage. The more common sense, that of "a person who registers the URL of a well-known name in order to sell it later" appears in 1996.
ego-surf, v. (also ego-surfing, n.) By 1995 people were already searching the internet for references to themselves.
e-tailer, n. (also e-tailing, n.) The internet was becoming a place of commerce by 1995.
e-ticket, n. (also e-ticketing, n.) And even airlines started booking seats via the internet.
extranet, n. Between an intranet and the internet there can be an extranet. Extranets are corporate networks that include outside users, often customers.
hacktivist, n. This blend of hacker and activist appears in the Village Voice in 1995.
hyperlink, n. (also hyperlink, v.) another Among the New Words entry that the OED antedates; this time to 1988.
internet telephone, n. Long before Skype existed, people were using the internet to get around long-distance telephone charges.
legacy, adj. The sense of this word used by the computing industry refers to old software and hardware that is so integral to the operation of an organization that it cannot be easily replaced. Among the New Words pegs it to 1995, but the OED has antedated it to 1989.
Macarena, n. In the "what were we thinking" category, the dance craze swept the world in 1995.
meatspace, n. This computing slang retronym for the physical world arises to distinguish it from cyberspace.
meta tag, n. Websites started incorporating meta tags, lines of code containing key words to help search engines categorize the page. Because they are subject to abuse, few search engines use them anymore.
metadata, n. Among the New Words has this from 1995, but the OED antedates it all the way to 1979. Metadata is data that describes other data, such as the date a file was last accessed or updated.
MILF, n. This one is an acronym for mother/mom I'd like to fuck, referring to a sexually attractive older woman, usually of early middle age, and not necessarily a mother.
M-theory, n. This name for a unifying theory in superstring physics was coined in 1995. The M is for membrane. (I'm not going to attempt to describe the theory, as I will only get it wrong.)
net computer, n. Also seen as internet computer, this term applies to minimally capable computers designed for email and web surfing. (Cf. thin client.)
new media, n. Among the New Words has this term from 1995, but the OED records new media from way back in 1960.
portal, n. Another one antedated in the OED, which has the computing sense of portal from 1990, referring to a server or web site that provides access to the internet.
Propecia, n. This brand name for the anti-baldness drug finasteride was trademarked in 1995.
roofie, n. A drug of a different sort, this is the slang name for Rohypnol, a tranquilizer used as a date-rape drug.
shovel-ready, adj. This adjective popped to the fore with the U. S. government's response to the 2008 financial crisis, but the term referring to a project that can be started immediately upon receipt of funding dates to 1995.
sildenafil, n. Yet another drug that panders to baser instincts of men hit the market in 1995. Sildenafil is better known by its brand name, Viagra, a name which appears in 1996.
Silicon Alley, n. A play on the more famous Silicon Valley of California, Silicon Alley refers to the high-tech and internet firms operating out of lower Manhattan during the dotcom boom.
spider, n. A spider is a program used by a search engine to identify sites. Among the New Words has this sense from 1995, although the OED antedates it to 1993. (Cf. crawler)
thin client, n. Among the New Words has this one from 1995, but the OED has it from 1992. A thin client is a "dumb" terminal on a network, one that has little or no processing capability of its own. (Cf. network computer.)
viral marketing, n. This new name for word-of-mouth marketing, updated to use the technologies of the internet age, went big in the mid-1990s, but the OED traces it back to 1989.
walking piñata, n. This wonderfully evocative phrase refers to a person subjected to relentless derision and scorn.
Webaholic, n. As early as 1995, internet addiction was being recognized as a problem.
webcam, n. Interestingly, the earliest references to webcams are to a helmet-mounted model, but as they proliferated, the desktop webcam became the standard.
webcast, v. (also webcast, n. and webcasting, n.) Clearly, video was the big innovation for the web in 1995.
wiki, n. From the Hawaiian wiki, "quick," this type of wiki is a web page that can be edited by its users. Wikipedia is perhaps the most famous wiki, but it is only one of millions.
Y2K, n. An abbreviation for year 2000, this term came to represent the host of computing problems anticipated with the rollover from the 1900s to the 2000s.
These words are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, based on that dictionary's earliest citation for that word. I've also taken words from the Among the New Words column in the journal American Speech; and in many cases these words have been antedated by the OED. Of course, that does not necessarily mean the word was coined in the given year; it only means that is the earliest date the big dictionary has for the word. In many cases, these words can and have been antedated. My selection is not scientific or systematic; it is based on what I think is interesting; sometimes they are words that appear earlier or later than I would have thought; others have a particular historical affiliation for that year or represent some historical trend; and others are just odd words. I'm avoiding back-formations and variations on existing words. Again, be warned that the coining of a word does not necessarily coincide with the invention of a concept. Often, there will be older words that express the same sense.
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"It is after you have mustered your industrial army into service," I said, "that I should
expect the chief difficulty to arise, for there its analogy with a military army must cease.
Soldiers have all the same thing, and a very simple thing, to do, namely, to practice the
manual of arms, to march and stand guard. But the industrial army must learn and follow
two or three hundred diverse trades and avocations. What administrative talent can be
equal to determining wisely what trade or business every individual in a great nation shall
"The administration has nothing to do with determining that point."
"Who does determine it, then?" I asked.
"Every man for himself in accordance with his natural aptitude, the utmost pains being
taken to enable him to find out what his natural aptitude really is. The principle on which
our industrial army is organized is that a man's natural endowments, mental and physical,
determine what he can work at most profitably to the nation and most satisfactorily to
himself. While the obligation of service in some form is not to be evaded, voluntary
election, subject only to necessary regulation, is depended on to determine the particular
sort of service every man is to render. As an individual's satisfaction during his term of
service depends on his having an occupation to his taste, parents and teachers watch from
early years for indications of special aptitudes in children. A thorough study of the
National industrial system, with the history and rudiments of all the great trades, is an
essential part of our educational system. While manual training is not allowed to
encroach on the general intellectual culture to which our schools are devoted, it is carried
far enough to give our youth, in addition to their theoretical knowledge of the national
industries, mechanical and agricultural, a certain familiarity with their tools and methods.
Our schools are constantly visiting our workshops, and often are taken on long excursions
to inspect particular industrial enterprises. In your day a man was not ashamed to be
grossly ignorant of all trades except his own, but such ignorance would not be consistent
with our idea of placing every one in a position to select intelligently the occupation for
which he has most taste. Usually long before he is mustered into service a young man has
found out the pursuit he wants to follow, has acquired a great deal of knowledge about it,
and is waiting impatiently the time when he can enlist in its ranks."
"Surely," I said, "it can hardly be that the number of volunteers for any trade is exactly
the number needed in that trade. It must be generally either under or over the demand."
"The supply of volunteers is always expected to fully equal the demand," replied Dr.
Leete. "It is the business of the administration to see that this is the case. The rate of
volunteering for each trade is closely watched. If there be a noticeably greater excess of
volunteers over men needed in any trade, it is inferred that the trade offers greater
attractions than others. On the other hand, if the number of volunteers for a trade tends to


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Patrick O'Connell is a long, lean drink of a man with liquid brown eyes, a mane of gray, wavy, shoulder-length hair and a smile that lights up his face. He's the director of Visual AIDS, the group behind Day Without Art/Night Without Light as well as the Red Ribbon Project. We meet in the cozy Chelsea loft that Visual AIDS calls home.
"We're an odd organization in terms of the history and the model we used," says O'Connell. "In 1988, a number of us were meeting constantly at memorial services and funerals, and the conversation started revolving around the impact AIDS has had on the arts. A core group started meeting very informally on a monthly basis."
The proverbial light bulb went off when someone at a meeting suggested an arts version of the Vietnam Moratorium day. "We worked all our phones," says O'Connell, calling museums and galleries, "saying if we asked you to close down for one day could you do this? We thought of it as a general strike. Most major institutions said, 'We can't close down, we're state agencies,' but they ran with it as a metaphor."
Nationwide, more than 1,100 arts organizations -- all the major institutions in every significant city -- shrouded their canvases and covered their sculptures in memory of the artists (and everyone else) who had died of AIDS.
"The first time gave the media a different way of talking about AIDS," O'Connell says. "It was very exciting. The enormous success of that first Day Without Art in 1989 forced us to reassess whether we would be an informal collective doing projects or we were going to become an organization." The arts community rallied and offered individual fellowships from Art Matters Inc. to O'Connell and Alexander Gray. Suddenly O'Connell had a new job.
When O'Connell talks about his current job, it's as if Glinda the Good Witch had granted his wishes. "I have this terrific job. It's amazing to work with this many brilliant, committed people. I've always wanted to work with artists."
Wish again: "My boyfriend [Jimmy Morrow] is the best boyfriend in the world." O'Connell is HIV positive, Jimmy is negative. That's kind of a miracle. My life is full of them. Sometimes you think when you're HIV positive, well maybe you'll be dating but you really won't be seeing anybody because who wants to get involved with someone who might get sick? Well, Jimmy's friend died. He's been down this road before. We made a decision to go forward."
As the originator of the Red Ribbon Project, Visual AIDS turned a simple piece of cloth ino the most widespread symbol of AIDS. "We're a programming organization. We're trying to understand the impact AIDS has had on the arts not just by presenting the artists' response to AIDS, but by asking what we can do with that? I think that success is seen with the ribbon project. We created this public participatory artwork that has, in two-and-a-half years, become this international icon," says O'Connell.
If O'Connell seems passionately committed, it's a natural reaction, a way of fighting back against the loss. He calculates that from close friends to mere professional acquaintances, he can list some 900 people he has known who have died from AIDS, but he insists this is not unusual. "I can live with the fact that like my grandmother, who just died at the age of 96, I am almost stripped and bereft of contemporaries who remember me as young and cute and vibrant. Part of our definition is the reflection we get from our friends. It's painful that that is all gone."
He seems particularly proud that his organization has "provided a way for the art community to heal itself, to mourn and to go into a process of healing. We have helped stretch the terms of responsibility for cultural institutions."
Visual AIDS continues to reassure a whole community by saying: "This is appropriate, and it's your responsibility to educate your public." Patrick O'Connell is out there doing his part, visually.
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Patrick O'Connell's visual world
Patrick O'Connell is a long, lean drink of a man with liquid brown eyes, a mane of gray, wavy, shoulder-length hair and a smile that lights up his face. He's the director of Visual AIDS, the group behind Day Without Art/Night Without Light as well as the Red Ribbon Project. We meet in the cozy Chelsea loft that Visual AIDS calls home.


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A former Infosys executive is challenging the IT outsourcing industry's billing model by charging for results instead of basing fees on time and labour put in by the armies of staff working for India's big firms.
Outcomes-based billing, growing as a share of revenue across the industry and pursued most aggressively by iGate CEO Phaneesh Murthy, is meant to appeal to clients with less-certain budgets in a tough economy.
If the services don't deliver an agreed-upon result, such as reducing the cost of processing a loan or cutting the reject rate in an auto parts factory, the customer pays less. But the strategy also boosts profit margins for IT companies, raising questions about which model is better for customers.
Murthy has been an outspoken critic of the industry's traditional billing model, known as time-and-material. In a marketing campaign, iGate dismissed the model as a "criminal" practice that has "swindled" billions from large companies.
IGate took out an advertisement in The Economist magazine in January that read, "If this ad does not deliver results, we're not paying The Economist", marking a rare foray into mainstream media for an outsourcer.


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School of Rock Music Midwest All Star Tour: Mayor Smashes Guitar; SOLD OUT In Kansas City
The School of Rock Music Midwest All Star Tour kicked off July 17 in Frisco Texas. The Mayor welcomed the All Stars to the stage by smashing a Gibson guitar. The musicians will perform July 18 at the Riot Room in Kansas City MO to a sold out crowd.
The All Stars headlined a day of music in Frisco Texas as the community celebrated the opening of a new performance venue in town. What was once the City Hall building is now Rock City. The music celebration began at 10:00 am with an Open House for rockers of all ages to tour the venue and the new School of Rock Music located adjacent to the venue. At 4:00pm "Rockstravaganza"
200 people were on hand in Frisco TX to rock to the classic tunes performed by these tremendously talented teen musicians (13-18 years old) . "They are the best and brightest students from the School of Rock Music's 55+ locations nationwide,"
The band performs again Saturday, July 18 at The Riot Room in Kansas City MO to a SOLD OUT SHOW!
Then it's on to St. Paul MN July 19 where they'll perform at O'Garas Garage. Doors open at 6:30 and the music starts at 7:00. Tickets for the St. Paul show are only available at the door.
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