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November 24, 2009
 

Women Religious Not Complying With Vatican Study

via ncronline.org

An excellent example of non-cooperation with abusive power.

The vast majority of U.S. women religious are not complying with a Vatican request to answer questions in a document of inquiry that is part of a three-year study of the congregations. Leaders of congregations, instead, are leaving questions unanswered or sending in letters or copies of their communities' constitutions.

"There's been almost universal resistance," said one women religious familiar with the responses compiled by the congregation leaders. "We are saying 'enough!' In my 40 years in religious life I have never seen such unanimity."

 

 

More at NCR Online

 

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November 24, 2009
 

oh look! more rain.

Sent from my iPhone

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November 23, 2009
 

Ecology of Absence: The Railton Residence Reopens

via ecoabsence.blogspot.com

Workforce housing in downtown Saint Louis returns. The Salvation Army's $14 million rehabilitation of the Railton Residence, built in 1928 as the Robert E. Lee Hotel, has transformed 221 SRO rooms into 102 suites. The Salvation Army has owned the building since 1939.

More photos at Ecology of Absence.

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November 23, 2009
 

Dimpled Back

I’m finding that I’m rather taken with the playgirl.com shot of Levi Johnston’s ass lower back. 

Those dimples are cute.


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November 23, 2009
 

R.I.P. Don Voegeli

Voegeli, Donald Joseph 

Donald Joseph Voegeli, age 89, passed away peacefully Saturday, November 21, 2009, surrounded by his children, at Attic Angel Health Center, in Middleton. Arrangement are pending for a Memorial Celebration of Donald's life to be held on Monday, February 8, 2010, what would have been his 90th birthday. A full obituary will follow. 

Don Voegeli taught in the music department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  In the early 1970s, he wrote the theme music for All Things Considered.

  
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November 23, 2009
 

Open Carl's Mic

photo: Antony Nagelmann media.npr.org

 

BB+H

That's all it ever said on the roadmap. BB+H: Billboard and Headlines. In the language of 1980s Morning Edition, a Billboard was a sentence fragment meant to promote an upcoming interview or story, a tease. You can't imagine the thought that went into those sentence fragments.

Production Assistants hid out in edit booths scattered around the second floor of NPR's M Street Headquarters, the sole inhabitants of a square glass office building in the middle of the night. We were a hearty band, fueled by caffeine and the desire for more sleep. The conversations ranged from our lack of sleep to what our last meal consisted of, and what it was called. (What do you call the meal you eat at Midnight before going to work?)

And in the middle of us, near the window overlooking M Street and the CBS offices across the street, sat the steadiest man I know: Carl Kasell. Unflappable. Seemingly incapable of guile. Bringer of News at one minute past the wee hour.

And our job was to craft the BB before his H.

"Down the runway in a size 16... first these headlines from Carl Kasell."

We typed it. Bob read it. We all went home once the sun came up and tried to get some sleep.

 

NPR's Carl Kasell Leaving Newscasts

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November 22, 2009
 

Keith Jarrett: Hymn of Remembrance

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November 22, 2009
 

Night Funeral in Harlem

Photo: Barettbw on Flickr


      Night funeral
     In Harlem:

     Where did they get
     Them two fine cars?

Insurance man, he did not pay--
His insurance lapsed the other day--
Yet they got a satin box
for his head to lay.

     Night funeral
     In Harlem:

     Who was it sent
     That wreath of flowers?

Them flowers came
from that poor boy's friends--
They'll want flowers, too,
When they meet their ends.

     Night funeral 
     in Harlem:

     Who preached that
     Black boy to his grave?

Old preacher man
Preached that boy away--
Charged Five Dollars
His girl friend had to pay.

     Night funeral
     In Harlem:

When it was all over
And the lid shut on his head
and the organ had done played 
and the last prayers been said 
and six pallbearers
Carried him out for dead
And off down Lenox Avenue
That long black hearse done sped,
     The street light 
     At his corner
     Shined just like a tear--
That boy that they was mournin'
Was so dear, so dear
To them folks that brought the flowers,
To that girl who paid the preacher man--
It was all their tears that made
     That poor boy's
     Funeral grand.

     Night funeral
     In Harlem.

—Langston Hughes

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November 22, 2009
 

Marty, Jerry, J'Ann, & Jim

                 
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November 22, 2009
 

Finding Finding Neverland

Somehow, I missed the movie "Finding Neverland" when it was released in 2004. In fact, I had never even heard of it until this weekend. But, I watched it last night and was really impressed by it. 

It tells the story of playwright J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) and his experience writing the play "Peter Pan" after meeting four children and their mother (Kate Winslet) in a London park in 1903.

I found the depiction of the relationship between Barrie and the kids to be quite touching: a relationship that nurtures and restores hope and imagination.

But, what I found really wonderful about the film is its visual style, especially how it intercuts a fantasy world of the narrative and the reality of the individuals in the process of creating that very narrative. Check out this scene of Barrie and the family onboard Captain Hook's pirate ship – both in reality (in the country, by a pond) and in the fantasy world of London theater, with all its stagecraft and theatrics.

And there are good performances from Julie Christie as the children's grandmother and Dustin Hoffman as Barrie's producer.

 

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