stephenthomasrussellmartin

June 20, 2009

2009-06-28T17:08:00.000-04:00

Banana!

2008-11-04T01:37:00.001-03:00

Banana!
Originally uploaded by knoxjimbo

a bike polo bike

2008-06-20T23:56:00.002-04:00

How is she doing that?

2008-06-20T23:05:00.002-04:00

xkcd, the best web comic

2008-03-03T19:49:00.002-03:00

The Two Mayors

2008-02-23T15:06:00.001-03:00

The Two Mayors
Originally uploaded by rharring49

Library of Congress photos on Flickr

2008-01-22T01:30:00.000-03:00

The Library of Congress has posted about 3,000 pictures on Flickr, and there are many excellences. link

Ship versus ship: The United States versus Iran

2008-01-21T14:31:00.001-03:00

In all the coverage I'd read about the recent confrontations between our and Iranian ships, I only saw pictures of the Iranian ships. So, here are the American ships involved in the January 6, 2008 confrontation:

USS Ingraham, link
U.S. Navy Frigate
453 feet long

USS Hopper, link
U.S. Navy Guided-Missile Destroyer
505 feet long

Port Royal, link
U.S. Navy Guided-Missile Cruiser
567 feet long

A picture of one of Iran's patrol boats, five of which were involved:

link to NYTimes story

Island Home Airport, from where I flew today

2008-01-06T20:20:00.001-03:00

Katie bought me a flying lesson for Christmas. Today, I took the lesson. From Knoxville we flew to Gatlinburg and back. Flying is the most fun, ever.

Morningside Park!

2008-01-06T20:18:00.001-03:00

Dad, me, my brothers

2007-12-31T20:09:00.000-03:00

Dad

2007-12-31T20:07:00.001-03:00

Morningside Park: Ultimate Frisbee on Sundays at 2:00

2007-11-13T19:29:00.000-03:00

View Larger Map

My new website

2007-10-08T18:09:00.000-04:00

stephentrmartin.com - Knoxville Bankruptcy

It's very basic, now, and still needs editing. It's a baby.

Girls in their Summer Clothes

2007-10-08T11:04:00.000-04:00

While cleaning out my email inbox, I finally listened to a song I'd been sent. Link. In this message there were also a dozen or so comments.

So I finally downloaded the song and listened to it and deleted it. Then I read some of the comments, thought: "that can't be right, that was Bruce Springsteen?" So then I went and found the original post so I could verify. True! Good to know! So, I have undeleted the song. Interesting song. I like them both so much. I'd even like to hear Mr. Merritt return the favor, now.

The current campaign for Presidency

2007-10-04T11:28:00.000-04:00

"this is the first election since 1928 in which neither the sitting president nor the sitting vice president has sought their party's nomination." Link

It will be Giuliani versus Clinton. Clinton will beat him. Democrats are excited to vote, and don't have huge problems with Clinton. Republicans are not excited to vote, and have major problems with Giuliani.

On Persuasion

2007-10-03T11:27:00.000-04:00

"I think the object of the game is to get out of the mindset of "getting people to do something" and instead just create a really nice, really open invitation." Link

Swearing In

2007-09-28T23:02:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Katie for taking pictures.

new documentary on lawyers

2007-09-27T21:38:00.000-04:00

Worth a look, but repeats (in one of the four trailers) the usual poster children for ridiculous lawsuits, even the McDonald's coffee suit. Link

For more (better) information on the McDonald's suit: Link

Today was my last day working in Oak Ridge. It was a great place for me, but it is time for me to hang my hat in another place, namely: Knoxville. I'm on my own, now. (Not completely on my own though, as I have some good support.)

Noncitizens and illegal immigrants will be denied

2007-09-25T19:09:00.000-04:00

emergency Medicaid coverage for chemotherapy. Link

The President used to (occasionally) speak Spanish. He doesn't do that anymore.

I'll be sworn in

2007-09-24T21:28:00.000-04:00

on Friday. I will then be licensed to practice law in Tennessee.

Tennessee's next execution

2007-09-24T20:50:00.000-04:00

was set for Wednesday, September 26, 2007.

Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger barred the state from executing inmates under the state’s four-month-old lethal injection procedure. Link

Tennessee just asked the State Supreme Court to postpone the execution. The Court granted that request. Link

Update: the execution has been reset for January 8, 2007.

We don't kill people

2007-09-14T21:23:00.000-04:00

Boyd's death sentence was upheld by the Tennessee Supreme Court in January 1998 when the justices dismissed his claim that prosecutors improperly cited the murder itself as an aggravating factor to support their call for the death penalty. Link

"I've always taken the position that I'm not trying to be the 13th juror; I'm trying to be a backstop," Bredesen told The Associated Press on Friday. "The judicial system just kind of broke down." Link

Gov. Bredesen just commuted a death sentence to life in prison without parole. The crime was committed in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel in 1986.

We kill people.

2007-09-12T10:54:00.000-04:00

At 1:15 a.m. [this morning] a cable was screwed into the base of the electric chair. Link

Update:
"Everybody left in the execution room at this point. Everything was still. Nobody said a word. Then we heard the whir of the exhaust fan in the death chamber. Five seconds later: BANG! A loud electrical noise." Link

Knoxville bikes

2007-09-10T23:36:00.000-04:00

Article in Knoxville Voice:

"Stephen Martin moved to Knoxville in 2004 to attend law school and says it took him awhile to feel at home in his new city — until he started riding his bike to school from his home in the Fort." ...

Praxis at Shawn Adams

2007-09-03T11:07:00.000-04:00

I played with team "Praxis" on Saturday and Sunday. We were in Chattanooga for the 14th Annual Shawn Adams Memorial Spirit of the Game Ultimate Tournament. Meredith took this picture, and I think it's great. There are many more good pictures in her portfolio, linked above via the title of this post ( the title is immediately above the group picture.)

Below are the two pictures I like of the few I took.

on offense, getting the disc

on offense, getting the disc

the next step

2007-08-29T12:02:00.000-04:00

I took the MPRE two weeks ago. I will find whether I passed it in the next couple of weeks. If I've passed the MPRE, I look forward to starting out solo in October.

Today I visited criminal court, where I found a former classmate who's been taking appointments for a few months. He showed me around a bit and had some encouraging advice. I'm excited and nervous/worried.

I passed the bar!

2007-06-13T17:02:00.000-04:00

Now, to find a job.

you-might-be-studying-for-bar-if

2007-01-31T02:10:00.000-03:00

"Punch-lines to your jokes involve words like "loquitur," or "remainderman," or "estoppel," or phrases like "and then I said 'Sca-lee-a? I hardly know ya!'""

what do you like about knoxville? 19

2006-12-20T17:58:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville? 18

2006-12-20T17:46:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville?

2006-12-20T15:55:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville?

2006-12-20T15:48:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville?

2006-12-20T15:34:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville?

2006-12-20T15:22:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville?

2006-12-20T15:21:00.000-03:00

what do you like about knoxville?

2006-12-20T15:19:00.000-03:00

after the race

2006-11-26T22:48:00.000-03:00

after the race
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

game of foot down

busternut 2 went well. about 60 people raced.

prizes:
pinata bull head: sean: first place
bmx pads (thanks greenlee's): tony: rode a bmx
streamers (thanks greenlee's): bernadette: fashion!
light-up grips: luke: travelled farthest (from NYC)
gift certificate for tune-up at greenlee's: seth: best sound system
gift certificate for tune-up at greenlee's: claire: gatekeeper
gift certificate for $10 at bliss: kelsey: youngest
gift certificate for $75 at harper's bike shop: brian: second place
gift certificate for $20 at harper's bike shop: rice: third place
gift certificate for $25 at tomato head: brad: last place
gift certificate for $25 at tomato head: hilary and david: gatekeepers
gift certificate for $25 at tomato head: julie: gatekeeper

election

2006-11-08T00:29:00.000-03:00

Today I worked as an election official. Tonight I'm home watching the results. Having worked at the poll sure does raise my interest in the results.

Pilot Light

2006-11-01T18:50:00.000-03:00

Picture 018
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

Last night's party

scene from my life

2006-10-23T12:47:00.000-03:00

Picture 015
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

next week will be my week on scene from my life. see http://www.scenefrommylife.com/

I'm excited!

Knoxville's been done there before. click and see.

buster love

2006-09-05T19:00:00.000-04:00

buster love
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

Dear MetroPulse,

2006-08-29T14:41:00.000-04:00

Thanks very much for your August 24 Street Talk article about the Busternut Alleycat (bike ride/race). Last night, about 90 riders participated! Among them were two tandems, a tallbike, streamers, sparklers, teams, and one helmet with one horn on it. Along the course, riders completed formidable challenges such as: writing letters to a stranger's grandmother, screenprinting, and push-ups.
Harper's bike shop team finished first, in about thirty minutes, so they won the coveted trophy known as "Buster." They will bring Buster back for the next alleycat. Most people finished the ride in about an hour. After the ride, we gave out prizes (including Tomato Head gift certificates and cookies) for style and stuff.
Your article helped make our event a success. Again, thanks.
P.S.- anyone who wants to hear about the next Busternut or similarly fun activities should email busternutknoxville@yahoo.com
also: results will be posted at: http://busternut.blogspot.com/
and: pictures will be posted at: http://flickr.com/photos/bobby_toe/

my replacement computer died

2006-08-23T13:53:00.000-04:00

but I'm almost done with moving!
but no computer means little posting for now.

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

2006-08-11T17:07:00.000-04:00

"What's all this then?

P.F. #1 has become born and grown and lived and shown its charity and, to quote Whitman, it will forever "be curious, not judgmental." It has not been solved. Near 200 contributions have been made, and near 10,000 people have gandered."

via

Boing Boing: Cato institute paper

2006-08-08T07:59:00.000-04:00

"Even in Israel, you're four times more likely to die in a car wreck than as a result of a terrorist attack. In the USA, you need to be more worried about lightning strikes than terrorism."

under my thumb

2006-08-05T14:24:00.000-04:00

a 004
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

summer league

2006-07-29T11:54:00.000-04:00

a 016
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

busternut alleycat spokecard

2006-07-28T12:50:00.000-04:00

busternut alleycat spokecard
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

printed at yee-haw a week ago

O PEIXE QUE COMIA ESTRELAS CADENTES from Os Gemeos

2006-07-28T12:41:00.000-04:00

via

visit with the fam last weekend

2006-07-28T11:57:00.000-04:00

finally got a replacement computer up and running, too.

I really graduated!

2006-07-28T11:54:00.000-04:00

prototype

2006-07-26T03:11:00.000-04:00

prototype
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

monday, aug. 28, 7 pm, market square. bring your bike.

on Sunday not taken by me

2006-07-19T23:34:00.000-04:00

on Sunday not taken by me
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

2006-07-19T23:32:00.000-04:00

last weekend, ordered/"won" a new old computer on ebay for cheap. I keep checking for when it will ship... shipping was initiated today. I hope it gets here very soon, that it works, and that I can get it set up and working without too much trouble.

2006-07-19T22:40:00.000-04:00

got a ride around a block in this thing on Sunday. Much fun.

Making Cities Work- BBC shows u can hear

2006-07-13T11:29:00.000-04:00

Manhattanhenge
Originally uploaded by Marcus Woollen.

for the first time ever, more people will live in cities, this year, more in cities than out of cities.

via.

also, the sunset lines up with manhattan's streets. it does this twice a year. today it does it. it did so in may, too.

iBook

2006-07-03T15:11:00.000-04:00

My computer broke. I'm lucky to get to use my friend's apple macintosh iBook. Haven't used an apple since college. Don't have familiarity with the machine to work on photos like I'm used to with my usual computer. So good though to get to borrow this one. This is how I look for jobs, these days, mostly.

squirt

2006-07-03T14:37:00.000-04:00

squirt
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

played with Knoxville at the smoky mountain ultimate tournament last weekend.

not taken by me

2006-06-25T18:27:00.000-04:00

not taken by me
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

in nashville on saturday for jj's wedding

Megillat Esther

2006-06-20T17:34:00.000-04:00

via
a small part of a big thing, from a post that is big with many big things that are good

garden

2006-06-19T22:04:00.000-04:00

garden
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

garden party last monday

aurel schmidt

2006-06-14T13:45:00.000-04:00

via

corndogs with windup

2006-06-13T11:25:00.000-04:00

corndogs with windup
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

taken at the poultry days festival last weekend in versailles, ohio. ver-SALES.

few days

2006-06-06T01:21:00.000-04:00

ocoee
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

weekend before last, rafted ocoee. above is a part of the ocoee. last weekend, went to chattanooga for brother's wedding reception. have not had time to process those pictures or write delicate pretty sentences that go together in a series to tell a story.

ok. last week, I sold my clarinet on ebay for $100 in five minutes. then I sold my guitar for what it went for in an ebay auction for $86. It's Xclnt.

and today I got all signed up that is I paid $1900 for a bar review class. in return I can study a few books for a while, then I have to return the books. the books are specially set for this bar exam. they are good and I will use them a lot.

gary, you asked me about new music. I don't have your email address. if you send me your email address I'll try and point you at a few things I'm hearing.

sassy ann's

2006-05-26T02:58:00.000-04:00

sassy ann's
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

In praise of quietness

2006-05-23T13:04:00.000-04:00

......... "* People who love quietness love life."

dawn latane

2006-05-14T20:02:00.000-04:00

via

west wing

2006-05-14T19:53:00.000-04:00

haven't watched in months but found out last one's tonight
it's on already must be an older one, but it's new to me
I don't miss TV, but it is such, such a good show

hooding law school- click here for webcast right

2006-05-12T18:56:00.000-04:00

so I guess sometimes you really do need to use the flash.
I graduated.
more at

B.I.K.E.

2006-05-11T10:20:00.000-04:00

screening today at bicycle film fest in NYC
trailer is here it's very, very

another one is M.A.S.H., re San Francisco bikers I think, go (warning:) straight to trailer here, it too is very

via

and another, though still re bikes, not part of that fest, and, it's mountain bikes, and slick, so, opposite, but, still.

picked up my gown today. pretty, no?

2006-05-10T15:58:00.000-04:00

four squares

2006-05-10T00:25:00.000-04:00

click title for more

white collar crime/advanced criminal law

2006-05-09T18:20:00.000-04:00

I took the exam this morning. I think that was my last law school exam. On Thursday I get a funny hat, and then I should be done.

?????????????????

2006-05-08T20:09:00.000-04:00

via (again)

banksy

2006-05-08T20:01:00.000-04:00

via, via

The Forgotten City

2006-05-07T23:33:00.000-04:00

When with my mother I was coming down
from the country the day of the hurricane,
trees were across the road and small branches
kept rattling on the roof of the car
There was ten feet or more of water
making the parkways impassible with wind
bringing more rain in sheets. Brown torrents
gushed up through new sluices in the
valley floor so that I had to take what road
I could find bearing to the south and west,
to get back to the city. I passed through
extraordinary places, as vivid as any
I ever saw where the storm had broken
the barrier and let through
a strange commonplace: Long, deserted avenues
with unrecognized names at the corners and
drunken looking people with completely
foreign manners. Monuments, institutions
and in one place a large body of water
startled me with an acre or more of hot
jets spouting up symmetrically over it. Parks.
I had no idea where I was and promised myself
I would some day go back to study this
curious and industrious people who lived
in these apartments, at these sharp
corners and turns of intersecting avenues
with so little apparent communication
with an outside world. How did they get
cut off this way from representation in our
newspapers and other means of publicity
when so near the metropolis, so closely
surrounded by the familiar and famous?

-W.C. Williams

cheese!

2006-05-07T22:07:00.000-04:00

this is the best chz, ever. I just had to tell you.

stef's sketches

2006-05-07T10:42:00.000-04:00

via drawn

video below

2006-05-04T10:14:00.001-04:00

is via wired's listening post

North Korea vs. South Korea

2006-05-04T10:00:00.000-04:00

via

prob u lem by jim woodring

2006-05-03T22:25:00.000-04:00

Cringe should be in Knoxville who's with me

2006-05-03T21:50:00.000-04:00

"Cringe is a monthly reading series hosted by Sarah Brown and Liz Schroeter at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom in Brooklyn. On the first Wednesday of each month, brave souls come forward and read aloud from their teenage diaries, journals, notes, letters, poems, abandoned rock operas, and other general representations of the crushing misery of their humiliating adolescence. It’s better and cheaper than therapy."

"A good test to determine whether or not your material is Cringe-worthy: when you read it to yourself, do you physically cringe? Then it’s funny."

for more, see here

via gothamist

Jacqui Stockdale in the art life

2006-05-03T06:12:00.000-04:00

link to the art life post is above

Art Gallery of Knoxville new new

2006-05-02T22:42:00.000-04:00

Ben Lindquist:
Outdoor Enthusiasts

First Friday: May 5 (6 -11pm)

Ben Lindquist is a contemporary painter, working through traditional
folk art and American Realism. With an arrangement of maquettes and
large-scale paintings, Lindquist illustrates a wonderfully perverse
and purposeful image of our relationship to the outdoors.

Meet the artist Friday night.

Please stop by Wednesday for our open video screening / meeting. No
particular video is scheduled for tomorrow night - but we will be
scheduling specific events /conversations soon. Feel free to suggest
meeting topics - we're happy to hear from you anytime.

Coming soon:
A Critical Reading Group (on Thursday nights)
The Dune Buggy Attack Battalion

-----
The Art Gallery of Knoxville
317 N Gay St.
Knoxville, TN 37917
ph.865-595-4401

lotte's sketchbook

2006-05-01T18:30:00.000-04:00

I could keep this at the top forever
click title for link it's an excellent blog of drawings

six perfections

2006-04-29T17:01:00.000-04:00

via bibliodyssey

tangerine

2006-04-23T19:52:00.000-04:00

I was not impressed. I threw out most of it. It tasted fake and gross.

flickr favorite

2006-04-23T19:45:00.000-04:00

Originally uploaded by Mr. Grey.

blood oranges (moro)

2006-04-22T11:21:00.000-04:00

At first taste, I got goosebumps. Scrunched my neck and arched my back. If you *ever* get a chance to eat these! I recommend.

friday pickup ultimate

2006-04-21T21:24:00.000-04:00

another is on flickr at here

townes movie

2006-04-20T19:37:00.000-04:00

just found out there's a new documentary re Townes Van Zandt, a favorite musician. check out the post at this blog for more about the man and the movie. And click on title, above, for the movie's site, which has a trailer.

Seems it's showing in Nashville starting today, stopping on the 26th, in the Nashville Film Festival. Otherwise it may be bought. Might make a good graduation present for somebody.

careerist poet

2006-04-20T19:20:00.000-04:00

seems like all posts (for this blog) were posted today.

update on 050206: seems the blog's disappeared
hope the picture doesn't disappear from here I like it like it

Tina Celona in OctopusMagazine#O7

2006-04-20T19:00:00.000-04:00

POP CORPSE

for Stephanie

When I’m older I write only once a week. The rest of the time I heal and drink juice cocktails and read and talk to people. This method seems to work for me and over time I even start to fart poems. The Corcoran asks me to do an exhibit of poems associated with infrared photographs of farts. I spend days matching poems to the right farts, finishing in just enough time to drive to Florida and see my great-uncle, my separated cousin, and her two babies.

A boy can be your boyfriend without actually being your boyfriend. On the way you stop to wander through Glen Echo Park. The ancient cries of fun echo and re-echo. Years later I remember holding your hand. My memory is unreliable.

Favorable notice in another paper. On the fire escape the man asked me if I had hyperthyroid condition. Offended, I insisted my thyroid was normal.

I realize that I have been as repressed in my poetry as I have been foolish in real life. When my writing goes well I attribute it to God. When I kissed you in the car I blamed myself. We were in the church for hours discussing our favorite cathedrals. There is always something I have not bothered to remember.

You are my secret best friend. I am a gas station attendant. When someone gives me a tip it is like I have done something great. I feel great as I pump gas.

OctopusMagazine#O7
one of the better-designed sites I've seen

must mention that haven't got the format right for blogger- I mean, the poem looks different as posted at octopus magazine number 07.

indie rock

2006-04-19T01:13:00.000-04:00

been listening to KEXP this evening and got some good indie, like whoa, not just butterglory but superchunk too

also, comments on some of the below photos don't seem to show. have to see if that's going to keep being the case.

beluga whales. I'm graduating soon.

a whale of a time

2006-04-19T00:52:00.000-04:00

a whale of a time
Originally uploaded by *Fly*.

Whale Jail

2006-04-19T00:47:00.001-04:00

Whale Jail
Originally uploaded by Slutnuts.

I wonder, I wonder if we have known each other, before, before

20060226111814 zire

2006-04-19T00:47:00.000-04:00

20060226111814 zire
Originally uploaded by intafon.

http://flickr.com/photos/intafon/125828116/
http://flickr.com/photos/intafon/125828116/

Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)

2006-04-19T00:45:00.001-04:00

Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)
Originally uploaded by Colour.

I'm on a tear

Beluga Whale

2006-04-19T00:45:00.000-04:00

Beluga Whale
Originally uploaded by p.m.graham.