No Gas Day today! March 31, 2011

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158856697501684

Facebook has done some pretty amazing things. Anything from reuniting lost loves and old friends to creating a revolution in oppressed countries. I want to see if we can organize an event to reach as many people as possible to have a day designated to boycott all gas stations across the planet.

I know this has been tried before, but not since Facebook has become the phenomenon that it has. So, send this event to everyone on your ...friends list, and let's see if we can start our own revolution, by letting these oil companies know we aren't going to stand for these prices!

Simply avoid all gas stations on March 31, 2011. And if you can go one step further, don't even drive that day. Why not let Facebook help us spread the word? However, don't forget your local mom and pop shop. Go IN and buy something that day. Make a point of it!

We're mad as hell, and are tired of watching the big oil companies laugh all the way to the bank while we all suffer. Let's do this!

Side note:
And since there seems to be so much confusion about what we are trying to do here, let me clarify now. This is NOT about thinking we are going to send gas prices plummeting downward because of this one day. This is about taking a stand, together, against greedy people whose commodity happens to affect ALL OTHER commodity's prices. What other commodity does that? Let's be the nation of innovators that we are and come up with something better!

And if you can, people that belong to organized groups, be it churches, bikers, or even a group of your friends, go and rally at one of your local government offices that day. Let your officials know enough is enough!

And while you are at it... Reduce, reuse, and recycle. :)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158856697501684

Thank you, Tim Burton, for my mother. And for Big Fish.

Thank you Tim Burton, for making Big Fish. I am just watching it now for the first time in a few years and it has struck me quite powerfully. I am getting back to the film soon, but I had to pause it and send off a letter to my mother, who I haven't spoken to in years.

It was your boot in my butt that got me to write.

Gratefully,

Douglas Whiting
San Francisco

Oh, here is the letter if you want: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19tStrRaAKQq6JIr-LlzNDDSKOWZ8VP6hSRexq8xFtZ8/edit?hl=en&authkey=CPP--lg

The view from here is great with all the storms rolling through. There are a lot more on my Picasa web page if you want. What I want now is a better camera and a tripod. I think you'll see what I mean.

If I do ever get to a camera upgrade, I can share a new realization: if I just slow down and stare, there is magic in the air. The movement of the clouds is hypnotic and enthralling. The tough thing is down-shifting enough to notice.

Kah-Peesh?

The East Wing

The East Wing is empty once again.

You who are about to rock
filled this little room
for a time

with bags of shoes and socks, 
dances, stories, sneezes
laughter and smiles, 
a hundred thoughts 
we will never know, 
and the promise of a new day


You filled this little room and then 
you took it

You let us show off our city that we love.
And gave us a thousand memories 
Good ones
Strong and FUNNY


We will miss having you here to feed and torment in the morning. 
It was fun dragging you out of bed,
calling to Carmen to bring the cold water


Take this little room with you. 
It is yours. 
Sitting full in your heart and your head
It is Bursting with Art, Music, Dance, Poetry, Games, Athletics
Good Energy of every kind


Just like it did for you 
and with you
when you were here in it


Now it lives both


full in your heart, and 
empty and still 
on the 11th floor
of a city that you now know

The East Wing is empty.

Sort of.

For Alexis and Alondra,

West Coast Sensors Still Show No Risk

West coast swans provide serene evidence of fundamental goodness and security of bay area. Auditor from California Bay Gull watches before endorsing report.

Despite our own retinue of nabobs clearing out the Iodine reserves, our Swan Patrol reports in to say that all is well and that we can get back to work.

https://picasaweb.google.com/commander1958/20110318?authkey=Gv1sRgCKyShamg7Ii1eg#5586132153766154610

DD out

EQ Tsunami Meltdown reaches Japantown

It could be that the recent fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field have affected Alexis's ability to shape-shift. Here she waffles in between human and child forms.

Wow. Two whole months with no good news. Sounds like a country I know.

Two guys -- farmer A and farmer B -- a LONG time ago, are leaning over the wall between their two properties talking about crops and stuff and A says,

"You know my boy didn't come home last night. I don't know what he has gotten himself into."

B : "That's too bad!"
A : "Maybe yes, maybe no."

While they are speaking, the young man rides up with several horses. It turns our he found a herd of wild horses and spent the night corralling them.

B : " Wow! That is great!"
A : "Maybe yes, maybe no."

The young man falls from one of the new horses and breaks his arm.

B : "Oh! Sorry! That is terrible!"
A : "Maybe yes, maybe no."

The government comes by to put the son in the army, but they leave him alone because he is injured.

B : "Wow! Great!"
A : "Maybe..."

Wow. Two whole months with no good news. Sounds like a country I know.

Okay, so link is at bottom and that was my take:

http://www.trueaspiration.com/2009/08/maybe-yes-maybe-no.html