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Geometry — next to McQueen's, Freeland
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Stairway to heaven — next to McQueen's, Freeland
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The last series was taken waiting for the tow truck to pick my car up and deliver it to McQueen's to be fixed. This series was taken around McQueen's while waiting for Zoe to pick me up.
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Pizza orders to go— Harry's Gay 90s Pizza, Freeland
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Ice and air — at the Texaco, Freeland
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Tote boxes — behind the Texaco, Freeland
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Two blue — at the Texaco, Freeland
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Panoramio
There is only one word for this: toofuckingcool! Mike Golby turned me on to this. I uploaded all the pictures in my image archive and located them on a map. And you can stick them in blog posts. Some areas are in higher resolution than others. If you run out of resolution you can switch to a map. Click on the icons. Zoom. Have a good time. The top one is Freeland and the bottom one is Oak Harbor.
update: It was late when I put this post up and I fogot to give a link to my pictures with the map view.
Gordon Coale's Panoramio
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Emco — at the Texaco, Freeland
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reflections on paris
Here are a couple of pieces on aspects of the recent incarceration of Paris Hilton. This says something about the state of this country. And it isn't just Paris. If it wasn't Paris it would be some other poor soul.
Nick Ut, Exactly 35 Years Later
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When word broke a few minutes ago that Paris Hilton was headed back to jail, we were stunned. Not because Paris was back in custody, but because the Associated Press photo of her crying in the back of a police cruiser was taken by the one and only Nick Ut. Nick, of course, was the photographer who shot young Kim Phuc, the girl wounded during a napalm attack near the village of Trang Bang, thus creating one of the iconic images of the Vietnam War.
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Just to note how funny life (and careers) can be, get this: Nick made his famous war image on June 8, 1972. Who would have imagined that 35 years (to the day) later he'd be photographing an unhappy hotel heiress being shipped off to jail and getting front-page coverage for doing so?
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Paris Hilton & Iraqi Prisoners
by Juan Cole
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American cable news has been fixated on the jailing of socialite Paris Hilton for the past week, on grounds that she twice violated the probation sentence she earlier received for drunk driving. They interrupted coverage of world leaders at the G8. They briefly spliced in Gates's decision not to reappoint Peter Pace as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. A new frenzy broke out with every tiny twist . She was brave, she was weeping, she was mentally fragile. She was released, she was rejailed, she shouted it was unfair and cried, she was undergoing psychiatric evaluation.
Just for a little perspective, we could consider the news from Iraq on Saturday. Incoming mortar fire from guerrillas hit Bucca prison, killing 6 inmates and wounding 50.
The US military is holding 19000 Iraqis, 16000 of them at Bucca. Although most are guerrillas or their helpers, a lot of them were picked up because they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Once arrested, an inmate often cannot clear himself for months or years. I don't think they have access to attorneys. No one cares if they are depressed. At Abu Ghraib earlier on, some inmates were systematically tortured. It is unlear if all such practices have ceased.
Some Iraqi women have been held in this way. Some were essentially hostages, taken to make them reveal where their husbands or fathers were or to guarantee their good behavior. Their reputations were shot, since Iraqis think Americans are sex fiends and wouldn't trust the virtue of a woman who had been in their custody. The unmarried among them are likely doomed to be spinsters.
American television never mentions that the US has 19000 Iraqis in jail, or that some have been women, or that some are innocent, or how they feel about being in prison.
So is Paris Hilton being given special treatment by our media? We all are, folks.
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robyn's trip to washington
I now have the pictures for Friday of Robyn's Trip to Washington up. Only Saturday left to go.
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