Kirstin Kindler

Kirstin Kindler
Originally uploaded by Bromirski.

http://anaba.blogspot.com/2006/02/kirsten-kindler.html

wedding

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Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

wedding

wedding
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

jiyeun hong (via artkrush)

three floors up gallery

three floors up gallery
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

Flickr: Photos from colorblok

dec 2005 ultimate knoxville

you will get a disease

you will get a disease
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

nuclear power on west wing

finally- after what seems like a year of news stories about how nuclear power is necessary- a story about how it can go wrong. good west wing so far tonight.

snoozatron

like wallace, I woke up at 3 this morning. didn't find for several hours that I could watch wallace and grommet on-line. it's terriff.

Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print � Blog Archive � Al Gore Speech Audio Podcast

Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print � Blog Archive � Al Gore Speech Audio Podcast: "The speech which you will hear in this podcast was given today, January 16, 2006 by Vice President Albert Gore."

it's a great speech. one hour and six minutes.

Internet Archive: Details: The New Negro

stream or download this TV interview:
Internet Archive: Details: The New Negro: "The New Negro (1957)
Guests: King, Martin Luther with Waring, J. Waites
Theme: Race"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther_king

audio recording of his speeches "Why I oppose the war in Vietnam" (23 minutes) and "I have a dream" (16 minutes) are at this page:
http://www.wrybread.com/misc/vietnam/index.shtml

2005 Democracy Now show, mostly the vietnam speech:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/17/164233&mode=thread&tid=25
this year's show:
http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl

via artkrush

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

maybe the most useful thing I've ever found on internets (click title above for link)

"1. It fits easily in your back pocket or purse.
2. It's as cheap as one piece of paper (Because that's all it is!)
3. It opens like a book. Leading to easier to find, more organized notes.
4. The first page has a pouch, big enough to carry a business card!
5. Customizable with 'Mods' tailored to your needs.
6. It's free and fun!"

via artkrush

above made me think of Matt. Matt, you're needed.

below is another exercise by the same ppl:
Early in the morning on Monday, September 19, a Seattle Police Harbor Patrol boat came across a desert island floating in Lake Washington. On the island were foam rocks, a fake palm tree, a plastic crab and starfish, real coconuts, and three men in ripped-up business suits...

Jan. 7, 2006 sunrise

Jan. 7, 2006 sunrise
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

first day of classes today. odd, odd, odd. it still, now, with five out of six semesters finished, seems strange to me that I am in law school. but today wasn't bad. just odd. added oddness that I was there at nine in the morning, which I haven't been, not since spring of last year.

Anyway at nine was "conflict of laws," which is a whole (small) class about how you pick what law applies, and which is taught by an outgoing dean (he wants to teach more.) He's very enthusiastic and made eye contact with all students including me many times. He even made me talk, which it's my policy not to do in class, but it was like he forced me to talk.

Then at about eleven was "civil rights actions," a larger class taught by the guy that taught me criminal procedure 1, which is the most useful class I ever did take in law school so far. This professor's all about the thing he says is called "legal realism," which it seems means that if you're realistic, you see that law is all about politics. So, he says we'll spend a lot of time looking at who's on the supreme court (I'll start writing it as "scotus" soon, I promise) for each case, since the ideo-logy of each justice is The Thing.

today rode to get groceries via greenway to bi-lo on kingston. was a good ride. had to scoot running law professors outtamyway. also rode to market square tonight. returning home, brought bike in elevator. fellow elevatorer said was like I heart huckabees', which is a movie I remember reading of, um, but the elevatorer said, in that movie there was a guy wearing a suit riding a bike, and the suit was just like mine. so now a dam sure can't watch that movie. good thing I didn't want to nohow no not a whole lot.

The second ride was after I had to leave my apartment. The fire alarm went off, and when it goes off, you just can not be here. Loud noises, a mixture of a high-pitch, a siren, strobe lights. Six fire engines showed up for five minutes and then left. Then the evacuated crowd could get in line for the elevator to get back to dinner-time.

Ultimate Frisbee Strategy/Coaching

Ultimate Frisbee Strategy/Coaching: "A progression of reads is simply setting the order in which a player should look at a particular cut. For instance, in the Evil Plan Offense, upon receiving the disc a player should (1) look to hit the deep cutter, if that’s not there (2)look to hit the underneath continuation, if that’s not there (3) look to hit the break, if that’s not there (4) dump the frisbee."

Grades for fall 2005

Grades got published today. I'd been waiting to worry until I checked them, so, I was (good grief) shaking as I clicked the link for each class and scrolled through to find the grade given next to my anonymous number.

I passed everything. I am so happy.

Ended up doing about as well as I've done all along, if even closer to my average (nothing too close to failing). Good news.

lightning storms tonight

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Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

mitch hedberg

link click title above for video of (comedian) mitch hedberg on conan. hadn't heard of hedberg before learning of his death- via culturebully, which has many more links

Leah Hayes

ball point pen

via drawn

four by twelve

four by twelve
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

done.

walking to the city

didn't even think to ask about it, but T in NY had to walk across the bridge during the transit strike; above is a picture he took while walking

tonight's storm

042005 089_0005
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

christmas

042005 065
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

aerial_image_15

aerial_image_15
Originally uploaded by 3ric07.

need not add to this, except to point out that he's Barefoot.

the power and the glory/graham greene

"He couldn't see her in the darkness, but there were plenty of faces he could remember from the old days which fitted the voice. When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."

finished the book today.

sam gibbons

click title above for nyc gallery images

padronagens & afins

designs brazilian- click title above

Visual Arts in Atlanta : Road Trip!!

"For the new year, make the quick 200 mile trip to the Knoxville Museum of Art where work by new media artist Jim Campbell will be on display. We can all stay at my sister's house! Campbell uses new technology to transmit imagery with its basis in photography and video. Exciting and accessible, this show will likely prove to be a great introduction to new methods of image making and will challenge viewers notions of representation. I had dinner with KMA executive director Todd Smith last month who has some exiting plans for this ambitious museum."

Boston Legal

so, I stopped studying to watch boston legal. never seen a big show tell such stories about legal defense- much less, go on at length about the evils of the credit card bizness, and all of it done with humor. good stuff.

exams.

be done friday.

to bite the bill

to bite the bill
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

get-together for ultimate last night: game was, get the dollar in your mouth, but be touching the floor with only one foot.

maryville tn ultimate tournament

042005 0561
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

played ultimate all weekend. worn completely, happily, Out. Knoxville finished second to Berry College alums. Then we played in Knoxville.

Hillbilly Fever, Thursday nights on WDVX fm

Posted about it before, but gotta do it again now, because the show's on now, and It Is Great. Click post title for link to station.

While at it, will also plug last.fm. Maybe the best non-radio thing I've come across for online music.

Now must get back to writing the take-home exam that's due tomorrow.

On the Road manuscript on tour

Jack Kerouac typed On the Road on one 120-foot-long sheet of paper, which is now at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill. It leaves for California on December 17. I was a great big fan of the book when I was in high school.

An Object

This thing, that hath a code and not a core,
Hath set acquaintance where might be affections,
And nothing now
Disturbeth his reflections.

-Ezra Pound

BibliOdyssey (art from books)

via Drawn

chattanooga fire department

042005 028-11
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

my first visit to my little brother's work. he drove that truck that morning. they were putting out a brush fire. the truck holds 10,000 gallons of water.

BLDGBLOG

"The point is that tidal power kicks wind power's a**."
Antonio Sant'Elia, via BLDGBLOG

pictures of hong kong via polar inertia

nov 18 2005/ wall ave knoxville tn

nov 18 2005/ wall ave knoxville tn
Originally uploaded by bobby toe.

thanks to all yall that came over last night

nov 17 2005/ knoxville tn, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

I had much fun.

gorgeous. via flickr.

, originally uploaded by soulsister.

Paula Scher's Atlas of the World | Metropolis Magazine

(detail)
"'Paula Scher: The Maps'--on view at New York's Maya Stendhal Gallery until December 17 .... The exhibition presents twelve painstakingly detailed map paintings--of the United States, South America, Africa, Japan, and the world--spanning five to twelve feet in width and teeming with the neatly lettered names of countries, cities, and landmarks."

making creme brulee

making creme brulee, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

Creme Brulee

I used to make creme brulees when I worked at the Back Inn Cafe, which I stopped doing more than two years ago. Since then, I've made em once, about a year ago, and did it from memory, which led to disaster, though in the end was successful. I'm trying again tonight, since I'm having people over on Thursday night.

I've advertised halibut and sushi, which aren't hard, especially regarding the halibut, since I have a lot I caught while in Alaska. Creme brulee, though, even when I was making em regularly, would go wrong for no reason at all.

rec.sport.disc

good thread re: defense

dave baldwin ultimate tournament today in knoxville, tennessee

042005 15801, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

first game, lost to davidson. second game, beat UT.

dave baldwin ultimate tournament today in knoxville, tennessee

042005 1221, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

dave baldwin ultimate tournament today in knoxville, tennessee

042005 0971, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

finished recently

042005 00911, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

Knoxville Museum of Art

The KMA is a five minute walk from my apartment, and admission is free on Tuesdays between five and eight p.m. So, I went on Tuesday.

There are a few things there now that I like, like: paintings by Clare Rojas. An example:



















Another:

















Also now at the KMA is a roomful of dresses by Liz Collins. Her stuff there is I guess mostly, um, fuller than what's at her site, but, here's an example from her site:

Mr. Kaine's Victory (Washington Post article)

"LT. GOV. TIMOTHY M. Kaine's triumph in Virginia's gubernatorial race is a watershed -- the victory of a Southern Democrat who prevailed despite his principled opposition to the death penalty and his refusal to rule out new taxes." ...

UT downtown gallery

After taking the MPRE (ethics test, mandatory, like the bar exam) on Saturday, I walked downtown. Found the University's gallery on Gay Street was open. It's a small place, appropriately (I guess) spare, and well-lit. Didn't know it then, but was the last day for an exhibition by Eleanor Dickson. Some good drawings and a great photo of a snake-handler. Would post pictures but there don't seem to be any on-line. At least, a brief search didn't turn up anything, and I don't have an hour to look around.

The post title links to the gallery's somewhat frustrating site. Their hours are:
Wednesday-Friday 11:00am-6:00pm
Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm

and their address is buried in their site, but it is:
106 South Gay Street
Knoxville, TN

Artse

-Katie Rumble

Yesterday, went for a walk through Market Square, on my way to study somewhere other than my apartment. Stopped by this store, "bliss," and got, uh, snapped, so to speak. No pics at their site of what I saw at their store. Lots of gorgeous paintings.

What I saw reminded me of the "obsessive drawing" show going on now at the folk art museum in NYC, regarding which I posted earlier at here and here. But with the NYC show, I thought, when I saw that, OK, that's much more precise than what I do (for example), so I can aspire to that, and that's good because it's good to aspire to things.

But when I walked into this bliss store, I saw some stuff, made me think, like, whoa, someone's way ahead of me, being really good without being so precise about this um stuff. So I asked the people running the store, what's up with this. They said the people painted these things, they're from Australia, and they used to make these drawings in sand, but some do-gooder gave them some canvas and acrylic paint. Anyway- (and these images are from the Mbantua Gallery, which has many more pictures)-




















-Katie Kemarre

The O.C.

gives me language I can use!: "I'm not destitute, I'm discerning."

Versus

Today's forecast for Knoxville, Tennessee: low of 40, high of 72.
Today's forecast for Palmer, Alaska: low of 9, high of 19.
Knoxville wins.

ABC News: The Note: "Yada, Yada, Yada -- and So We Go"

Bush (41) "recalled that the Democratic chairman at the time, Robert Strauss, who was a friend of both Bush and Simpson, called and said the GOP job was like 'love with a gorilla.'

'I said, 'What are you talking about,'' Bush said. 'And he said, 'Well you can't stop until the gorilla wants to.' That's exactly how the job felt. Every time you turned around, there was some other scandal, some other exposure, some other thing that happened.'"

BLDGBLOG

"It's Tokyo's massive 'G-Cans Project,' a subterranean system of polished concrete viaducts built 'for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city.'"

I'd post the pictures, which are just tremendous, but I'd have to put them all up, which just wouldn't be right. Click title above

Everybodyfields, Dogs of War

Two nights ago, saw Dogs of War (above), and Everybodyfields (below). Good night of music. Knoxville's pretty good for that sort of thing, music.

Laptops

"I've used many brands, multiple models including HP, Compaq, Sony, IBM, Toshiba, Dell, Fujitsu and Sharp. If you plan to own this laptop for more than 3 years, I recommend IBM for the following reasons:
1. Easy upgrade, unlike other brands, you do not need a lot of drivers and special software to upgrade to newer Windows and IBM has excellent support to old models. Recovery is extremely easy, only one click.
2. The best keyboard, large, solid response and the unique IBM typewriterish click. " ...

More after the jump. Matches my experience with laptops in law school.

BLDGBLOG

"I'm left with speculation: If human beings actually do survive the next ten thousand years; if all this excavation not only continues but accelerates; if usable mineral deposits continue to be found, but only deeper and deeper beneath the earth's surface; then perhaps we might find that we've stripmined every continent below the waterline, returning the earth to the early Devonian, when warm, shallow seas covered most of the planet – only now, or then, the earth will be shelled by a new global city of interlocking excavation architectures – gantry cities, derrick towns, Constant's Babylon – " ...

my new at least second or third favorite blog. it's odd- they almost replace maganzines (still buy the occasional New Yorker and whatnot, but.)

botheringly complicated site for some wonderful pictures

This picture, this one right here, I'd like to have at the top, forever. But I might change my mind tomorrow.

"Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle (a French pastry chef/arts photography team) create landscapes out of food: mushrooms, kiwis, salads, ice cream, watermelons, cakes. Cauliflower, even. "

via, via

New Yorker article by John McPhee, one of my favorite authors

"After being switched to the right at the top of the loop, we started around it counterclockwise. Coal trains are so heavy that they are rounted throught the loop in alternate directions, to distribute the assault on the track. In the infield to our left were five hundred acres of Campbell County, Wyoming, fifty feet deep-- the million-ton reserve known at Plant Scherer as "the pile." CBTMMHS circumscribed the pile until-- close by Plant Scherer-- it stopped at the head of the unloading trestle, which extended before it between rows of bright lights. This train had left Wyoming five days ago. Plant Scherer would burn everything in it in less than eight hours."...

"Damon Woodson, a mechanical engineer at Plant Scherer who had worked in a nuclear power plant, said, 'I never really understood nuclear until I came here.' That million-ton pile on reserve in the train loop was equivalent to one truckful of mined uranium, he said. 'The way to go is nuclear if you want to have power. To get a million BTUs, fuel oil costs nine dollars, natural gas six dollars, coal a dollar-eighty-five, nuclear fifty cents. We'll see how it all turns out."

Alaskablawg

"The trial is set to start next Monday in Kotzebue, a town of about 3300 people north of the Arctic Circle. To anyone from Alaska reading this, it is no big secret which case this is. My client is a former police officer from Nome charged with murder of a local resident. The case was tried before in January and the trial ended in a hung jury. I wound up with it for the second trial and while I do not want to say that I am overwhelmed, I will say that this case has absolutely consumed my life." ...

This attorney worked in the other side of the building I was in this summer, when I interned for the Public Defender in Palmer, Alaska. His blog is excellent, as the above-linked post of his shows.

EconoCulture - Not Getting It On At CMJ

"Not Getting It On At CMJ
A memoir of awkward indie love—platonic style. Is there any other kind?"

I read a few reviews of the CMJ thing, this was the best.

Sleater-Kinney Blog

"Here we are in Knoxville, TN. Nice people abound. While getting coffee I inquired as to where a certain part of town was and a cute boy actually escorted me all the way there. But us Northwesterners are not cut out for this humidity."

So, found out today that Sleater-Kinney blog(s). Last entry is June 30, 2005, and they were here, and I wasn't.

Internet Archive: Details: Charade

"Charade (1963)
Delightful Hitchcock-like thriller starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn... This film is public domain due to the failure to put the then required copyright notice in the released print."

Good news! Good movie. Click above to stream or download.

via

Investing - The Dark Magic of Oil Sands - FORTUNE - Page

"The Dark Magic of Oil Sands
Canada's Alberta province has oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia's, but they're not a liquid asset. We visit Fort McMurray, the boomtown where oil-rich sands are mined-and a black-gold rush is on."

I remember reading- some time ago- about this stuff, about how Canada had oil that was then too expensive to extract. Seems times have changed.

via I forget where, sorry

Flying!

Came across a site for a company that sells build-it-yourself airplane kits. I'd love one like this or this or this. While I was looking, my favorite radio show, This American Life came on, and their story was/is about people who almost died in airplanes. It was meant to be. I want to be an airborn ranger.

Hoopty Rides: The Not Subtle Look of Dragsters

"A day at the Hot Rod Reunion is enough to make you consider selling all your worldly possessions and moving into a shotgun shack in outer San Berdoo. A one room, clapboard side house with a black and white TV, a round top refrigerator filled with biscuits, jam and Budweiser, a sagging sofa, a pedestal fan, a wood grain formica dinette with a single chair, jelly jar drinking glasses and NHRA membership. Because, if you had a top fuel, front engine rail in your garage, what else would matter?" ...

Good pictures of excellent activities, too.

dinner

dinner, originally uploaded by bobby toe.

KnoxNews: Local

"Tennessee’s logging industry is producing more lumber than at any time in the last 50 years, yet the amount of Volunteer state land covered in trees continues to increase. More of the state is covered in forests than at any time since the beginning of the 20th century." ...

Registration sucks. Quite the article though.

KnoxNews: Local

"An Arizona-based company is due to receive the bulk of any revenues collected from its automated traffic enforcement cameras, according to the terms of its proposed contract with the city of Knoxville." ...

registration sucks. so do automated traffic enforcement cameras.

KnoxNews: Columnists (re: the recent TVA land-swap deal on Nickajack Lake [reservoir])

"I have had, and continue to have, an ideological problem with the government taking private land via eminent domain for a public project and later selling it back to other private hands at incredibly increased prices. It is fundamentally and ethically wrong. No amount of spin will change that.

There's a classic joke about such foolishness. You've probably heard it, but I can't resist in this situation:" ...

I hate registration. "knoxnews" requires registration. good column though.

Spitzerism - New York Times

"As United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Giuliani saw white-collar crime as a product of personal immorality, and he went after the perpetrators with relish. Spitzer tends to see wrongdoing as the product of both moral failing and lousy incentives. In Spitzer's mind, the reason the power plants produced too much pollution wasn't that their owners were evil; it was that neither they nor their customers were forced to pay the cost of polluting. Spitzer wasn't looking to put the utility companies out of business. He just wanted the loophole closed." ...

Wonderful article in the NYT about Eliot Spitzer, who may well be the next governor of New York. And it's not just about him; it gets into a lot of stuff about democrats generally/in the past few years/since Clinton. Click post title to read. But you might have to register, which is so lame.

Football, Quarries and Spiders

Watched the UT football game on Saturday on TV with friends who live in South Knoxville. Their place borders some old abandoned quarries and caves, which are just wonderful places to explore. Wish my pictures of that stuff had turned out. Glad that at least the pictures of the spider came out OK.

bull riding

I rode a bull! Saw an ad in the Metropulse recently for this new place, "Electric Cowboy," with a picture of the bull in it. Was happy to find the place, and, in it, the bull, working and everything. 5$ for two rides. Short rides, in my case. Worth every cent. Glad I brought the camera. I've been wanting to ride an electric bull ever since I was a little boy. Might add that the "Electric Cowboy is a huge place, and the waitresses there wear assless chaps over their panties, which was a Wow. And Jimmy- that's your suit I'm wearing. Thanks for the suit. I like it.