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don't askNorman Mailer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote compellingly about sex and violence, conflict and politics, love and war, and whose tempestuous personal life complemented the turbulence of his prose, died of kidney failure Saturday in New York. He was 84.
Described as "novelist, journalist, film-maker and relentlessly tendentious controversialist"
don't ask 
surprised".and if youre going to San Francisco...."
"...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize, the first for an African-American woman, for her novel The Color Purple, which was made into an internationally popular film and is now a Broadway musical co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Her other best-selling novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages, include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. Her most recent fiction work, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart, was published in 2004. An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker has been a participant in many of the major movements of planetary changes in the last half-century, among them, the Civil Rights Movement in the South and the Women's Movement. Her advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed has, in the words of her biographer, Evelyn C. White, "spanned the globe."
November 14, 2007
Omni San Francisco Hotel
500 California Street at Montgomery
Registration/Reception: 5pm
Program: 6pm
Book Signing: 7-7:30pm
http://www.imow.org/exhibits/events.php
celebratoryJust a reminder...in the spirit of Mariah Carey I will no longer be posting for a while
watch this space forfurther updates of my not posting any more blog entries
Meanwhile..
Thirty-two miners were killed in a coal mine gas leak in southwest China's Guizhou Province and three others are missing
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKSP12650820071109
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A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep..
...over time, the Buddha's nose turned black and curls of hair began to fall from its head.
The culprit, it turned out, was the region's growing number of coal-fired power plants
Coal's Other Victim: China's History
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It takes five to 10 days for the pollution from China's coal-fired plants to make its way to the United States
World's Coal Dependency Hits Environment
loudAND DID YOU KNOW TH@
Japan Street in San Francisco no longer exisits?
Germany street either.!
Somebody should get a petition going!
Click here if you wanna know what I mean if you know I mean.
Gotta be at least one sushi bar there now one would tend to think.
You think?
energeticEye on the ball dept.
New camera angles around tennis courts allow the matches to be seen in a breathtaking new light - check out some of the highlights.
http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5027276-5007150,00.html
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Anybody going to be in or plan to visit Detroit next month?
"Detroit is a car manufacturing center. I think what we're looking at is not something that can be done in a normal way. . . . It needs an Internet approach, a Google approach."
How Silicon Valley could become the Detroit of electric cars
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Having eliminated more than 44,000 jobs, Ford Motor Co. is on track with its turnaround plan but looking to cut more jobs in the face of a softening auto market.
Silicone Valley anyone?
But heres a new incentive to visit Detroit other than Russian hockey players @ Joe Louis arena, and the Pistons ..and all the other things associated with Motor City.
Think: a wine list with more than 100 different wines, available in several different pour sizes, a full bar, cheeses from Italy, France and Spain, Italian-style paninis, caviars, hand-made chocolates and other small-plate dishes.
hungry
I am announcing I am refraining from further blog entries as I no longer know who I am posting for or who my audience is.
say, does this oufit make me look...
tough?
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Posting from a library, the venerable institution owing a debt to A. Carnegie, in which as a patron of the arts one long lost lonely
Elvis A. Presley once attributed to have said gave him :" licence to dream" , and in the spirit of Mariah Cary (whom Im sure has many more lost items in the stacks than on loan)....
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...Machs Kick Butt Blog Cafe is temporarily closed
BUT, I promise to be back to be more or less in your face
...like a San Francisco treat..new and improved.
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Isn't it funny all the things you find along the way when you are searching for something else?
But remember this the next time your on an Interstate and can't find El Camino Real.
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Anyway, that little blip of the future goes with a hat tip
to Ad Gabber: a Social Network For the Ad Industry .
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While savoring the delight of a bite of premium dark chocolate, have you ever wondered what it might feel like, what it might look like, to actually be in the center of the sensuous, ebony morsel?
Personalize a holiday-themed snow globe on
http://www.ShareSomethingSweet.com
into an e-card.
For the first 20,000 e-cards sent, Ferrero will donate $1 each to Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading organizations working to end childhood hunger in America and a co-beneficiary of SWEET, together with the Food Bank of New York City.
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With the holiday season and colder weather rapidly approaching, Consumer Reports tested 10 popular hot chocolates. Topping the list and rated Excellent were Ghirardelli Double Chocolate and Cacao Reserve Mayan Blend by Hershey's
Meanwhile..chaos Pakistan
Last Tuesday the owner of Geo, Pakistan's largest television station, sent an email to his senior editors.
"I have received [a] threatening telephone call last night from ISI," wrote Mir Shakil ur Rahman, referring to the powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency. "They have taken me to a house in Islamabad."
Mr Rahman did not describe what happened at the spy safe house, but the following sentence suggested it was not pleasant. "I would like to advise you to please follow the laws specially [sic] the newly promulgated law."
He also attached an email from "Sabir".
"Pakistan Army is the backbone of Pakistan, don't try to damage it, if u do, u and your family who have looted billions would be hunted down like rats," it read. "It will just take a few hundred people to smash ur studios, offices, vans."
News media feels force of Musharraf crackdown
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But hey have you had a chance to slow down enough to hear about the recent oil spill in San Fran? Like nearly 60,oo gallons. For those of who have difficulty imagining the scope of such a spill, jsut imagine: THATS A LOT! Should we worry for the ducks? Try not we worry.....
you know
in 1847 some guy named Lick (Lick?) left Peru for San Francisco, taking 600 pounds of his neighbor Ghirardelli’s Chocolate with him.
Luck of the draw, he had a good neighbor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardelli_Chocolate_Company
Funny, how life does goes on
..and on
cheekyThis little pussy of a blogger banned me from posting on his blog-lol.
Below are my comments to his little mini-rant on our Constitutional protection of the values we espouse
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He writes:
"In other words, there is absolutely no need to waste Canadian tax dollars on them -- not even a penny!"
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So I take it you would feel the same way then, my
fellow Canadian, when it comes down to paying
for the corrupt Afghan judiciary, yah?
Seeing how youre such a wise penny pinching Canadian
why dont we cut off all aid altogether until they
get their "accountablity" shit together?
I am referring to our country paying the police in cold hard CASH rather than the Afghan provinces who were supposed to disperse the funds but keep it for themselves.
That we would provide training and expertise (yes your tax dollars at work) so that people can be tortured without
benefit of trial is to epitomise despicability and
work in opposite towards the goals we are trying to achieve?
OR did you forget our soldiers are there for a reason other than to die so that Afghans can be tortured?
a-ok
Back when the original Bladerunner came out..it actually lost money.
Thats what happens when you release a film to compete
against a green martian who loves M&M's that children flock to.
By this I mean to refer to a movie called: . E.T.
But few movie goers today would have trouble recognizing the name Sir.! Ridley Scott
as being synonomous to one the best reputations in the business
for delivering top notch sure-fire entertainment.
Meanwhile here in the virtual world of reality, more eye
catching headlines destined to make table top and dinner
conversations irresistably more endearing....
cannabis replacing opium poppies in Afghanistan.
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But I'll tel yuh this...heres a real must have for Vancouverites on
that evening winter stroll down Granville Street, jah?
Meanwhile, I do not think such a faux art neveau would be of
much benefit at my present locale..
nice contrast though.....
Click here if you are drop dead tired of reading about
new Michael "Yawn" Mann films (Alex Litvinenko spy thrills anyone?)
in the works!
Still SuperNatural Beautiful BC...at night when the stars are out
OKAY, I am joking (kinda seriously not really)
