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[ Thursday, January 29, 2009 13:52 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Tread Marks

Section:

Coming Attractions

Summary:

Today, Rochester is in the grip of winter cold, ice, and snow.

Main:

In the fields and on the hills there some strange tracks and tread marks that are distorted by wind and drift.  Who? What? Why? are among the questions that come to mind. Perhaps folks like Frost, Buckley, and Updike would have some sensible answers.

Stay tuned for much more on the recently deported John Updike. Charlie Rose, the New Yorker and several publishing firms are ready to do reviews, retrospectives and reruns of the author and his writings.  The BUF triumvirate were know among their peers as sharing the gift of writing fast. And they passed on to their editors polished pieces on the first pass.

Meanwhile, many of us that remain are content to make up new lyrics to old tunes.

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[ Tuesday, January 27, 2009 13:35 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Thoughts

Section:

TV

Summary:

DTV and HDTV is on the horizon. The subsidized converter box program has run out of money and federal legislation is pending which may delay the mandatory conversion date of 17 February for six months.

Main:

Apparently, an estimated 6-7 million analog TV viewers in the U.S. have not and may never not make the digital conversion.  Will 6 months and another round of funding “Economic Stimulus” federal funding convince or enable the unwilling? Time will tell.  Some are convinced that the Betamax VCR format will make a comeback in the marketplace.

Meanwhile:

*  94/100 Senators are now available to cast confirmation votes on the floor of their wing of the Capitol Building.

**  In the middle east and Palestine there appears to be a temporary TV or exhaustion time out.

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[ Tuesday, January 20, 2009 14:16 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Obama Nation

Section:

Politics

Summary:

On this Presidential Inaugural Day, the nation and the world was poised and ready to receive the message from the steps of the capitol in Washington, D.C.

What was seen and heard was both inspirational and cause for an acute case of whiplash.  On the one hand we were challenged to dream big, think big, and act big—rationalize the health care system, reform higher education, fund federal grants, fix the potholes, .... On the other hand we were warned that shared sacrifice, reduced expectations of entitlements, and reformation of money politics and pork barrel legislation were part the marching orders on day one.

Main:

Well now.  Who payed for the estimated $50 megabucks one day lovefest in D.C.?  Think about it people.  Alexander and Feinstein were outstanding performers.

Meanwhile, have a nice day and take in the latest movie from Clint Eastwood, Grand Torino.

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[ Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:56 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: The Music of Good Poetry

Section:

Arts and Culture

Summary:

“Poetry withers and dies out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.” (Ezra Pound - American Poet and Critic)

Main:

Some believe that poetry is just “what ever”.  Others beg to differ and dare to suggest that poet is not an infinitely plastic ART form, and shares with most music some sense of form.  Granted that some poets or more informed by music than other; and that some musical composers or more poetic than others.

And then there is the fortuitous construct of the magically marrige of works, music and movement in the form of dance. Yes, the Little girls, Emma and Tessa do got rhythm.

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[ Thursday, January 08, 2009 08:26 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Snow in Hawaii?

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[ Tuesday, January 06, 2009 07:29 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: California Dreamin

Section:

Travel

Summary:

Tiffany Fisk of Captain Cook and Kealakekua Hawaii recently had a memory return visit to Santa Barbara and Northern California.  These beach photographs are now part of her growing memory bank.

Main:




Tiff is a water babe without fear and without peer.  In this case she is creating with a critical eye cast to capture the forms and functions of some southern California shore and channel critters, both real and imaginary.

Now, how much fun is that to be out among the surfers, sailors, and sea gulls of the channel In the mid Holiday Season.

The good news continues to roll in like the river of morning spring fog under the Golden Gate to spread foam like over the waters of the outer San Francisco Bay.

* Damon Fisk is now a law partner in the San Francisco office of DuaneMorris.

* Tanya Fisk has started her outreach mission in southern India.

* Jon and Erika Little are back to their parenting routine at the homestead on Summit Dr. in western upstate NY.

* Gabe and Samantha Schlumberger of NYC are first time parents of a new daughter.

* Tiffany is safely returned to Hawaii. And Grandma Janet is preparing for a new year at SRJC.

Meanwhile, a 70 years young Leon E. Panetta of Carmel, CA , a one day horse ride up the coast from Santa Barbara, has been nominated to the post of CIA Director by the incoming Obama administration.  Incoming Select Senate Intelligence Sub-Committee Chairwoman,  CA (D). Senator, Dianne Feinstein was among the many who were not consulted.  Along with the withdrawn Gov Richardson Cabinet nomination and the mess in Illinois , there have been several serious transition slip ups on the road to the White House steps. The Clinton-Clinton tag team confirmation hearings will attract both heat and light from the 4th estate.

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