June 2010
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Karmadale After Blog
Based on nearly 7 years of the Carbondaley Dispatch blog about Carbondale, Illinois, Karmadale After Blog is about how blogging improved the author’s personal life — and that of his community. With 64 paper pages of text and photos, this blook will include a DVD disc containing THE COMPLETE TEXT, as well as hundreds of additional IMAGES of places, events and people of Southern...
July 2009
2 posts
postcard from the edgy →
it’s been a busy summer, and more fun since leaving greyhound, though i’ll miss some of my colleagues from those days. … the pics at right offer a random depiction of some of highlights so…
How I partially spent my summer vacation →
Enjoying my rediscovered freedom to spend mornings doing “whatever” — not having to open the Greyhound ticket office at 9:30 anymore. For instance, I could attend yesterday’s ribbon…
June 2009
3 posts
sight for poor eyes →
Somone asks what I’ll be doing when my run with Greyhound is done. Simple: continue what I’ve been doing — morning drives for Blue Star Lines, finishing my blook, selling my own books,…
counting the days →
Only 18 days until my Greyhound adventure ends: June 30 will be my last day. Not that I’m counting the days, or anything. I plan to train the staff at the BP gas station (905 E. Main, across from…
Haven't you heard? →
In a letter to supporters, reprinted on the Team Brad website, Mayor Brad Cole announces his intention to seek statewide office on the Republican ticket. Which office, he doesn’t say. Whatever one…
May 2009
9 posts
Tweet from Woodlawn Cemetery →
Along with a couple hundred other folks in C’dale, I attended the annual Memorial Day service at Woodlawn Cemetery, where the first-ever such observance was held in 1866 …
Tweet from Pickles Alley →
Bicycling to work yesterday … down Main St. on the south sidewalk … three fire engines passed by at an alarming rate, so I stopped and sent a “tweet” from my Blackberry — at the entrance…
beesy beesy →
Experimenting with a new look for summer… Will be adding more photos to the mix, too.
City: No time for twitter just yet →
Back from visit to City Hall re: the City’s communications response. Picked up paper copies of #12 & #13 Mayoral updates on recovery. The city’s tech guy, Mark Jones, told me he was too busy to tweet…
Storm damage on Springer St. →
Civics 3G →
so i went to city yesterday and it was busy with food stamp recipients because the M’boro office was w/out power, and people needed to take care of business, so Mayor Cole offered the use of the…
all thumbs →
Looking out my window see no Ameren truck, They knocked off at 8 or so last night, and so Day 6 w/out power begins. As a result, I’m becoming more profish w/Blackberry keypad thumbing; Wanted to…
If a tree falls on Springer St and nobody hears... →
Reading in the Dazette that there was a storm here on Friday—which explains the 100 mph wind and heavy rain a little after 1:00 pm! I captured some of it on video from my upstairs porch door and…
April 2009
7 posts
Who's your cabbie? →
Met two Ace Taxi cab drivers today at the Bus Place, Dave (pictured) and Pat, who filled me in on prices… $4 anywhere in town….plus $4 extra per extra stop, and $2 per 5 minuetes if…
Giving it the old collage try →
Yesterday, I went to Marberry Arboretum and snapped a few photos. There will be chapter on the Arboretum and other local green spots in my blook, Karmadale After Blog. Does anyone know…
Where's the tea? →
The local “Tea Party” was pretty well attended by mostly older people. Jeff Trexler, Secy of the local (newly formed) Constitution Party, opened the gathering with a prayer, the everyone…
Bye bye (buy) Bytelife →
Yesterday, I pulled the plug on Carbondale Bytelife since no one was posting to it, and my hands are full with other projects and blogs. All 839 posts have been archived, and will be published…
March 2009
7 posts
Of Taxes Taxis and Taxonomies →
A commenter to my previous post “Doug Law” asked if I paid taxes. Of course! I also have proof of insurance and registration, and valid license. But since I usually always ride bicycle, the license…
What's so funny? →
Choose one: … Clerks at Old National Bank (Schnuck’s branch) are laughing at: a) my favorite Charity, b) the balance of my bank account, or c) Zathos45 little tweets. ;-)From …
February 2009
33 posts
Tough times for local PR profession →
Yesterday, walkin’ with my sidekick The Jokir, we snapped a photo at the traffic island at Mill and Illinois (‘Millinois’, as I call it). For fun, I stood there as if I was holding a sign,…
renewing 3 underused domains, giving each another year to develp, or let em go: holdthesausage.com, muchmoremedia.net, onthesquareonline.com
geekin’ it, updating writer friend’s .html site and local art biz .asp. …on top of that, I need a Drupal pal to help w/ www.shawneenet.net
Since I prob’ly won’t make it back to Ft.Collins 4 Bruce Cockburn / Joan Osborne on E-Town, finding radio stream: http://tinyurl.com/cb6wnw
Bruce Cockburn & Joan Osborne will perform 2GETHER on E town radio show’s next foray to Ft Collins. Wish I cld go. http://bit.ly/3ICk
Shower of people perform Shower The People, just 3 weeks ago. … I’m not a big JT fan, but this version rocks!… ♫ http://blip.fm/~20ens
First heard on Greater Antilles Sampler circa 1979. Haunting vocal, tune & lyrics: http://tinyurl.com/csvuvg ….. ♫ http://blip.fm/~20ezq
Shakespeare authorship, anyone? - Much Ado About Something (Excerpts Frontline doc) http://bit.ly/38uA88 … Marlowe Lives! ;-)
“hear the drumming of the surf and I have to dance/ Stepping to the rhythm of circumstance.” Lyrics to Cockburn… ♫ http://blip.fm/~1zr0q
Colbert “Nails ‘Em” - Amtrak’s Photo Contest: “cleverest ruse since their so-called ‘timetable’.” (Homeland Insecurity). http://bit.ly/xXZ
“I need someone to set a pick for me on the free-throw line of life.” Love the game; love this Cheech & Chong s… ♫ http://blip.fm/~1zh56
Not a band named “Jack Kerouac,” but the Beat Gen author of “On The Road.” This long poem was culled from five … ♫ http://blip.fm/~1zhks
http://twitpic.com/1brz8 - Greeley Central frosh coach Jared Marshall pumps team vs Fossil Ridge y’day as @Chris0802 reaches 4 his LG ph …
At Fossil Ridge School in Ft Collins watching son’s Greeley Central team go down in defeat 60-42. Staying for a second game vs same school.