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EMusic EMusic has changed my life. Well...not really. But it certainly has expanded my music collection. Higgy was kind enough to mention one of my music spasms downloading music from EMusic and include a list of 10 worthy CDs he has downloaded from the same fountain of glorious music. I already had two in his list of 10 - Holy Modal Rounders and Thelonious Monk. I have written about the Holy Modal Rounders before. The Monk is excellent. As if all Monk isn't excellent. The top of his list had one I have been wanting but didn't know EMusic had - Tom Waits, Mule Variations. It was worth wanting. I am a big Dan Hicks fan and will be downloading Beatin' The Heat. EMusic has a lot of World Music which I love but I haven't known where to start. Higgy's selection of Henry Kaiser and David Lindsey, The Sweet Sunny North is cosmic. (Kaiser and Lindley also had two other excellent albums - A World Out Of Time and A World Out Of Time Volume 2 recorded in Madagascar.) There was one other that I have been looking at for a while. EMusic has 12 Susannah McCorkle albums. Higgy had downloaded No More Blues so I did too. This the first time I have really listened to McCorkle. What a voice! What a singer! I need more exclamation points! I will be downloading all the rest of Higgy's selections. There is a lot of press about the various schemes that the music industry is using to sell us music that they still want to control after we buy it. EMusic is selling access to straight MP3s. No strings attached. Download all you want. It's $14.99 a month if you sign up for 3 months and $9.99 a month if you sign up for a year. You won't find the lastest pop shit but that's not a bad thing. This place is full of absolute gems. Higgy first turned me onto EMusic by mentioning their collection (11 albums) of John Fahey which is worth a year's subscription all by itself. They have been a little weak in classical music but they just started putting up the first of 400 albums from Olympia which has a lot of Soviet Russia and Eastern European artists. Lots of Russian composers. I've been listening a lot to Peter Katin's Chopin: Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus in two discs, from Olympia. I use Real JukeBox to download from EMusic. I now have over 2,000 tracks. I put it on shuffle and I have a bigger playlist than most radio stations. If you are going to be listening to music on your computer, I would like to offer a suggestion: get rid of those excuse for speakers that are called computer speakers.
 Those are some 60s vintage KLH 17s. The pile of black on the left of the desk consists of tape deck, CD player, Hi-Fi VHS, with the receiver on top. My computer has a Live! Drive which gives me front mounted inputs and outputs to the Soundblaster Platinum sound card (SPDIF in and out, 1/4" in and out, and MIDI in and out). No wrestling with dust bunnies. I put the sound board where the telephone is when I do TestingTesting. I'm a freelance web developer so I spend a lot of time in front of those speakers. My main speakers are some 70's vintage Speakerlab Super Sevens on the other side of the half wall behind the desk. Check out some of the other music I have written about.
Langston Hughes February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967
Dream lives on A month after his high school graduation, Langston Hughes boarded a train in Cleveland to visit his father in Mexico. He brooded about his unhappy relationship with his parents, but he also pondered his future. He wanted not only to be a writer, but in particular "to write stories about Negroes, so true that people in far-away lands would read them - even after I was dead," he would write later in an autobiography. When the train reached the Mississippi River at St. Louis, the beauty of the great big muddy waters touched something in him. According to biographer Arnold Rampersad, Hughes pulled an envelope from his pocket and began to write. Soon he had a poem. It began:
"I've known rivers: My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young,
At 18, Hughes (1902-'67) had written "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," one of the signature poems of a career during which, despite spells of poverty, loneliness and other woes, some self-inflicted, he accomplished nearly everything he dreamed of doing. many thanks to Higgy's page James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Teacher Resource File
Phishing
phishcast internet radio
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Weblogs Tom Tomorrow now has a blog. thanks to Blowback
World Economic Forum Sites with good links on the New York activities. New York City Independent Media Center thanks to BookNotes thanks to random walks
BRAWL ERUPTS AT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM WEIGH-IN The weigh-in for the World Economic Forum today devolved into a mass brawl as heavyweights such as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates suddenly lunged at (and allegedly bit) a top AOL executive, while other world leaders and business titans talked economic trash while posing for the cameras. Afterward, a defensive W.E.F. President Klaus Schwab defended the forum, which annually brings together 3,000 of the world's most elite businesspeople, politicians, religious leaders, and, for some reason, entertainers. However, he conceded he might consider canceling the opening weigh-in, particularly in light of last year's melee at Davos, Switzerland, which began when British Petroleum CEO Sir John Browne taunted Bank of France governor Jean-Claude Trichet with shouts of, "You're going down! You're going down! I want to eat your children!"
 the W.E.F. weigh-in. This year's forum theme: "Leadership in Fragile Times: a Vision for a Shared Future."
State of the Union
George Bush's delusion Such is the inevitable way, perhaps, of a hard-hearted, cynical world. But when George Bush, president of the very nation that was targeted, follows suit and begins to exploit and manipulate the September 11 tragedy for political advantage, alarm bells must ring out loud. Yet this is exactly what Mr Bush's first state of the union address unabashedly set out to do. All US policy, both international and domestic, is now framed in terms of last autumn's emergency; all measures, however partisan and divisive, are justified in the name of patriotic unity and solidarity; all misgiving and dissent must be overridden for the sake of America's "just cause". Mr Bush, in his black-and-white way, has clearly convinced himself that in what he calls the "decisive decade in the history of liberty", his duty, mission and calling is to direct the triumph of good over evil at home and abroad. "America will lead by defending liberty and justice because they are right and true and unchanging for all people everywhere," he declared.
This is a premise fortified by falsehoods and underpinned by a delusion. The principal falsehood is that the policies Mr Bush now advocates are dictated by an ongoing terrorist menace. They are not. Primarily they are the products of conservative Republicanism, set dangerously loose in September 11's aftermath. There is nothing new, after all, in the idea of Iran, Iraq and North Korea representing an "axis of evil"; the American right has been gunning for them for years. There is nothing new about the ballistic threat. Mr Bush has long wanted missile defences ; now he uses September 11 to justify his plan. When Mr Bush speaks of "tens of thousands of dangerous killers schooled in the methods of murder... spread throughout the world like ticking bombs, set to go off without warning", he is not only being irresponsibly alarmist; he is also disingenuously justifying the whopping $48bn defence budget increase he always dreamed of. thanks to wood s lot
ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best."
War Against Some Terrorists
A Questionable Strategy AS THE UNITED STATES completes its military mission in Afghanistan, it is turning to Southeast Asia, convinced that the region is riddled with terrorists. The approaching campaign to weed out Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks, while regarded as necessary by Southeast Asian governments, is causing them considerable apprehension.
Still smarting from the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. and buoyed by their swift demolition of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the Americans are opening a second front in their global war on terrorism. Initially, they'll send more than 650 troops to the southern Philippines to train local forces and join them on patrols against Muslim rebels. The fear is that the U.S. will lack the patience and subtlety needed to end the regional terrorist menace without destabilizing fragile administrations thanks to wood s lot
Government Gangsterism at Work
Unbridled legal hypocrisy is a recurring theme of the ideologically- impoverished Bush imperium. When it suits their immediate aims, the Bushies wield the law like a club. As soon as the law proves inconvenient, however, they chuck it out the window like a gum wrapper. thanks to wood s lot
Enron Enron, not Sept. 11, will change everything It was a shocking event. With incredible speed, our perception of the world and of ourselves changed. It seemed that before we had lived in a kind of blind innocence, with no sense of the real dangers that lurked. Now we had experienced a rude awakening, which changed everything.
No, I'm not talking about Sept. 11; I'm talking about the Enron scandal. ATONING FOR MISTAKES, ANDERSEN FINALLY DOES RIGHT THING, CHANGES COMPANY NAME In a strong sign that Arthur Andersen finally understands the extent of the trouble it has caused and is willing to do something about it, company executives today announced the firm has changed its name. Executives of the new firm, Probitium, revealed the change prior to testimony before the U.S. House Energy subcommittee investigating the Enron collapse. Committee members, however, quickly became incensed when Probitium CEO Joseph Berardino, who until the previous day had held the same position at Andersen, refused to discuss Andersen's involvement. "Arthur Andersen may have acted improperly, but it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the behavior of another company," he said. "Perhaps you should talk to them." "We are talking to them," said an angry Rep. Jim Greenwood, R-Pa. "They're you!"
"No no, not at all," Berardino explained. "We're Probitium. The Power of Probity3."TM
Israel/Palestine
Arafat under fire IT IS not the Israeli tanks penning him into his presidential compound that worry Yasser Arafat but the bullets being fired at him from Washington. In the past week, the Bush administration has rounded vigorously on the Palestinian leader—Vice- President Dick Cheney all but calling him a liar for denying his involvement in an attempt to smuggle in Iranian arms—and has gone a long way towards an unreserved acceptance of Israel’s policy. Israeli actions which the Americans might once have called “provocative” or even “excessive” are now deemed legitimate acts of self- defence.
This partisanship has rattled everyone, including America’s closest friends. Breaking their long silence on Mr Arafat’s internment in Ramallah, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the European Union have all pointed out to the United States that the Palestinians have an elected leader, and that Mr Arafat is he. The American response is mealy-mouthed. “As far as whether Chairman Arafat has the ability or the authority, as leader of the Palestinian Authority, we have said he needs to exercise leadership and exercise the authority that he has,” said the State Department on January 28th. The state rejoices, the nation bleeds
Remember the Labor Party's election commercial that just a year ago depicted an apocalyptic scenario of security anarchy, despair, the crumbling of policy and a huge wave of terror expected after Ariel Sharon comes into power? Even from within the degenerating situation of the days of Ehud Barak as prime minister, this horrific vision seemed exaggerated and impossible at the time. Yet today - one year after the election - this same prophecy looks in retrospect like a pastoral idyll.
Palestinians Hail a Heroine; Israelis See Rising Threat It is in the national interest for Knesset Speaker Avraham (Avrum) Burg to go to Ramallah, with or without the blessing of the Shin Bet security service. It is to be hoped that Burg will have the courage and the determination required to overcome the coalition, which is mobilizing to torpedo the visit - the coalition of petty accounting (Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer), refusal (Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the settlers) and incitement (the entire right wing).
If the initiative is indeed implemented, Burg's speech to the Palestinian Legislative Council, in the midst of these dark days, will be a turning point. There are times when one has to take responsibility, even if this entails a radical step: The civil society must rise up against rulers who send their people plunging into the abyss. The task is terribly onerous because the Oslo accords have been effectively annulled, the settlements are expanding, and the occupation will slowly but surely cause the delegitimization of the Zionist movement. Indeed, we have reached the point at which Zionism has ceased to be associated with freedom, liberty and national rebirth, and has become synonymous with occupation, suppression and the deprivation of human rights. This is our image not only in the eyes of large parts of world public opinion, but also among many of the second and third generation of native Israelis, those for whom Sharon's parents established Kfar Malal.
The rift in Israeli society is becoming deeper. The refusal to serve in the territories is an expression of legitimate moral protest by soldiers and officers who will not hesitate to lay down their lives if the homeland is in danger, but who are unwilling to put on hobnail boots and serve in a colonial army. In the eyes of those young men, human beings are moral creatures who know that there are values that transcend orders issued by the government. The individual citizen is beginning to make his opinions known, and there can be no better symptom of the health of Israeli society. Choosing to serve a higher cause In the letter, the reservists said that, although they believe in the state and have often fought for it on the front lines, they no longer intend to "take part in the war for the peace of the settlements." "We will not continue to fight beyond the Green Line in order to rule, to expel, to destroy, to blockade, to assassinate, to starve, and to humiliate an entire people," they wrote.
Amit Mashiah, a reserve sergeant who also signed the letter, explained, "We are patriots. Most of us are at the end of our 20s and the beginning of our 30s. We did what we were told, and now we see things as they are. There is a lim
So many links, so little time This is a post about a post at Higgy's page which was about a post at my page. He listed some of his favorite music found at EMusic. I want to post about his post of my post (some incredible music) but it is to late to do it justice...tommorrow.
World Economic Forum This is going to be interesting.
Keepers of the Flame
Schmooze Operators
Law of the Fist Police say they'll enforce no-mask rule against World Forum protesters
State of the Union I avoided Shrub's State of the Union address. I tried to read it later but I found myself yelling at the monitor which I know isn't real productive but it did make me feel a little better. Not better enough to read the whole fucking speach! Now, there I go again. I was going to put some links about this insult to intelligence here but Craig, at Booknotes has some excellent State of the Union links. More than I can handle.
Enron When the Business of Business Is Politics . . .
Houston, we have a problem
George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane O'Neill's and Evans's admission that they "did nothing" when Enron told them of the company's shell game and impending collapse is reason enough for you and yours to hit the Beltway and never return to that sacred trust we call Our American Government. They are proud of "doing nothing?" By doing nothing, millions of Americans have been swindled. Tens of thousands have lost their jobs. Thousands more have lost their savings and their retirement. Yet your cabinet secretaries gloat over what a "good job" you and they did by "doing nothing." Let me ask you this: If someone was setting a house on fire, and they called you to help them set it on fire, and you said no you wouldn't help them -- BUT then you also DIDN'T call 911 and inform the police that someone was going to burn down a house, do you think you would have committed a crime?
Of course you would have! You had prior knowledge and then you knowingly and purposefully HID this information from the authorities and the people living in the house! You only admitted that you knew a house was going to be torched when you were confronted by the police. Are you complicit? Yes! Are you an accessory? Yes! Who would even think of going around boasting, "Hey, look what a great guy I am -- a friend of mine told me he was going to commit an act of arson, and then I decided NOT to tell ANYONE about it!! all three thanks to also not found in nature
Israel/Palestine
Israel Considers Making a Fortress of Jerusalem Rightist ex-generals propose massive invasion of territories The Minister of Justice and the very dangerous lunatic subversives
Dov Tamari (former Brigadier-General, presently social science researcher): This line of argument, used by Mubarak on innumerable occasions with Israeli and Egyptian interlocutors, says the current violence will spill over and ignite the streets of Amman, Cairo, and Riyadh, leading to a massive conflict with apocalyptic consequences for the region and the world.
By mouthing this argument, Mubarak is propagating what diplomatic officials in Israel refer to as Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's "Samson option." The Samson option, named after the Biblical figure who brought the walls tumbling down, is the Palestinian nuclear option, without the bomb.
Letter From Israel
Easier to kill, harder to judge
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Well, time for one blog. It's been snowing lightly all day. We had about an inch and a half by this morning. The temperature rose and it seemed to be melting faster than it was snowing. The melting had stopped by this evening and it's been snowing a steady, light snow since.
Welcome to snowcrystals.net! This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes, and how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures appear, quite literally, out of thin air. The many facets of snow crystals are described here, along with our attempts to understand their formation. thanks to MetaFilter They have some of the best snowflake pictures I have ever seen.
It's been a day of deadlines which is a pain. But it also means a day of billable hours. That's good! I finally got Zoe's pictures up of Monday night's TT show with Beverly Graham. Check out the pictures and listen to the show (RealAudio). Now maybe I can get back to blogging. Maybe I will go to bed first.
Beverly's show was great last night. She was supposed to arrive 45 minutes early to set up. She got lost and was there 15 minutes before the show started. Set up 7 musicians with a minimal sound check and away we went. Good show. After the show I couldn't get the sound into the computer to do the archive. I was at the point of throwing the monitor through the window. It wouldn't have accomplished anything but I would have felt much better. This morning I attacked it with a fresh mind and it turned out to be the connection with the receiver. Bev's archive is up and the pictures of the show will be added later. I also woke up to snow this morning.
  I don't think I will be riding today.
TestingTesting I should stop slacking off with this blog and get to work. As the notice in the yellow box above notes, I do a live music webcast from my living room called TestingTesting every other Monday night. And tonight is the night. I need to finish testing the RealAudio link and start moving furniture around so that we can fit everyone into my small living room. There will be 7 musicians and one spoken word performer. It will be at 7pm (pacific) so click on in. The TestingTesting site has the show times for other time zones. Maybe I will sneak in some work from paying customers too. Maybe.
Updated Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence in American When things get so balled up that the people of a country have to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are on the level, and not trying to put nothing over on nobody.
All we got to say on this proposition is this: first, you and me is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; second, nobody ain’t got no right to take away none of our rights; third, every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time however he likes, so long as he don’t interfere with nobody else. That any government that don’t give a man these rights ain’t worth a damn; also, people ought to choose the kind of goverment they want themselves, and nobody else ought to have no say in the matter. thanks to Shou?
Corporatism "There are elements of cultish behavior in Enron," asserts Dave Arnott, management professor at Dallas Baptist University. Arnott is author of Corporate Cults, which describes how some companies take over their workers' lives, using methods similar to those employed by traditional cults. The book identifies other all-consuming organizations as corporate cults. They include Southwest Airlines, Microsoft and Nike (where some employees had the swoosh logo tattooed onto their ankles).
Cults share three basic traits, according to Arnott. (1) They demand complete devotion of their followers, (2) they have a charismatic leader, and (3) they foster separation from the community. Enron scores on all three. thanks to MetaFilter leaving wisdom behind: corporate mentality seizes national consciousness A pumped-up corporate definition of intelligence is making headway in US society. CEOs are regarded as experts on political and sociological change, and excellence in public education is defined in terms of its service to the private sector. Equating intelligence with conformity to corporate values is not a new concept, but the extent to which wisdom is being confused with business savvy is an increasingly insidious trend.
A popular magazine recently surveyed "some of the smartest people we know" and their choice of intellectual luminaries consisted primarily of Fortune 500 CEOs. When asked to devise post-September 11 paths to peace and prosperity, respondents such as Disney CEO Michael Eisner offered, "America is hated not because of our ideology, but because of our freedom, our lifestyle and our products . . . so the solution is to make our things available around the world." Ogilvy & Mather CEO Shelly Lazarus discussed the "interesting marketing challenge" of stimulating US consumer demand in the current economic slump: "What people are saying is, 'You know what? I just don't feel like going out,' ... and we've got to tell them, 'That's what the terrorists want. I don't care if you feel like it or not - go buy a bra.'" In other words, recession, inequity and poverty are nothing that Goofy dolls and underwires can't fix; throw money at a problem and it will magically disappear. thanks to wood s lot
Blind Justice Beverley Lumpkin: Halls of Justice About three weeks ago, I received a tip. The attorney general was fed up with having his picture taken during events in the Great Hall in front of semi-nude statues. He had ordered massive draperies to conceal the offending figures. But initially not only could the story not be confirmed — it was strongly denied.
As some of you may know the Justice Department building was constructed during the 1930s as a WPA project, completed in 1934. The artwork and fittings were strongly influenced by the Art Deco movement. Much of the ornamentation in the building is made of aluminum, apparently a big Art Deco feature.
Well, I guess this is a lot of background to get to the point: the draperies have in fact been ordered. Minnie Lou and her mate now can only be imagined. The draperies installed last week at a cost of just over $8,000. thanks to The Village Voice
Israel/Palestine
Mortal combat Mr Arafat is also talking about death—his own. “Please God, give me the honour of being one of Jerusalem’s martyrs,” he told a delegation of Palestinians on January 26th. It was the second time he had used the word “martyrdom” in less than a week. For Israel such language is merely a nod to the Palestinian factions to wreak their vengeance within its cities. But Palestinians detect a darker meaning.
“When Arafat invokes martyrdom it means he is readying people for his final battle,” says an aide who has been with the Palestinian leader for 30 years. “And if America closes all doors on him, he will let the ground burn so that everything will be destroyed. And then the world’s choice will be clear: either deal with him as the chosen leader of his people or allow Ariel Sharon to kill him”. As hope dies in epidemic of terror, hawks break ranks, resurrect separation concept
Sharon's OK Corral
The enemy within
Transportation How to tell if your ass is too small thanks to DANGEROUSMETA!
Australia
AUSTRALIA GETS DRUNK, WAKES UP IN NORTH ATLANTIC
After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itself in the middle of the North Atlantic.
Faith-based Economics
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES FAITH-BASED ECONOMICS: "ERASING THE STAIN OF THE CLINTON SURPLUS"
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Yesterday I was proud to announce that my administration's next budget will include $48 billion in defense and military spending to keep America safe. At the same time, it remains our intention to aggressively push forward with the almost unimaginably large pre-9/11 tax cuts for America's whitest and wealthiest. These two seemingly contradictory strategies make up the philosophical foundation of my new "Faith-Based Economics" program, the particulars of which were dictated to Billy Graham by God himself, and have already been proven divinely effective by miraculously erasing the sickening and immoral stain of the Clinton economic surplus. thanks to wood s lot
Red-shafted Northern Flicker A couple of mornings ago I was having my morning cup of coffee and looking out my back windows at Honeymoon Lake. I find it somehow soothing just looking at the water. It's always different depending on the quality of the light, the strength of the wind, and the time of year. I saw a bird on my lawn that I had never seen before. It was very dilligently pecking at the ground with a long, thin, black beak. Just pecking away. I quickly grabbed my binoculars, grabbed a quick look and started flipping through pages of the bird book. It didn't take long to find.
This beautiful species was first described by Mr. SWAINSON from Mexican specimens. The extent of its distribution is as yet imperfectly known, especially toward the north. My friend Mr. NUTTALL states, that "among the narrow belt of forest which borders Lorimie's Fork of the Platte, we met with the Mexican Colaptes, and never scarcely lost sight of it to the shores of the Pacific. Its manners in all respects are so entirely similar to those of the common species, that the same description applies to both. It is, however, always a much shyer bird, and frequents the ground less. In the breeding season it utters the same echoing note of whittoe, whittoe, whittoe; the males at the same time dodging after, and pursuing each other in jealousy and anger. They also burrow into the oak or pine trees, and lay white eggs, after the manner of the whole family. How far they proceed to the north I am unable to say." Mr. TOWNSEND informs me that it is known to the Chinook Indians by the name of A-Koptil-Kow, and in regard to habits is similar to Picus auratus, the male equally partaking of the task of incubation. Picture and text by John James Audubon. This is a bird that has different races. I didn't know birds did that. There are two populations, red-shafted on the west coast and yellow-shafted on the east coast, separated by the Great Plains. Audubon had an earlier bird he classified as the Golden-winged Woodpecker. They are both considered to be a Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus. The red and yellow refers to the colors under the wings and tail. The Northern Flicker is also the state bird of Alabama. You wouldn't think a good Confederate state like Alabama would pick a "northern" bird, would you? Well, they didn't. It's old name is Yellowhammer (for the yellow-shafted race on the east coast.) It is classified as a woodpecker but it does most of its pecking in the ground and some pecking on rotten logs. It loves ants and beetle babies.
Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
 This is actually a Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker. The one I saw was pretty much like this except the black cheek mark was red. Check out someof the other birds at Honeymoon Lake.
I'm back Running after a 2 year old and a 3 year old is not for the faint of heart. I survived until Jenny and Katie showed up at noon. Zoe actually came over around 11, which took some of the pressure off me to entertain them. We all went down to Langley and had lunch at Mike's Place. Zoe and I said our goodbyes to Jenny, Katie, Robyn and Mikey and went next door and got in line, at the Clyed Theater, for Lord of the Rings. It's been 30 years since I read Lord of the Rings so I probably have forgotten a lot but I was blown away, to say the least.
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