This an actual photo of ‘ol Abe from the Library of Congress’ project with Flickr. Awesome public domain photos of America, check it out!
Here’s some rare insight into the ’50s version of a record industry weasel….a phone call between a yet to be discovered Buddy Holly and the head of DECCA, the label that signed him but didn’t promote him (they didn’t like this new fangled Rock & Roll and wanted him to go country)…
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An awesome new website for having a conversation about local issues launched in Amherst today, it’s called Localocracy.
Localocracy gives you a non-partisan place where you can easily see what registered voters in town think about an issue, rank those opinions as helpful or not, and vote and comment on those issues yourself. Rather than having to surf through all those thousands comments on hundreds of blogs, or hang out at Matt’s barbershop or Rao’s, you can easily see the arguments for or against an issue on Localocracy.
Localocracy is using Amherst’s 3/23 election as a beta test and has just launched today. You can go and vote and comment on the override and all the candidates running for office in Amherst.
http://Localocracy.com - Be sure to Register at the top right side.
Here’s the company’s blog, written by the CEO, Conor Sullivan-White which talks more about how Localocracy works and their mission:
http://localocracy.posterous.com
Localocracy is a new, innovative Amherst-based startup coming out of all the entrepreneurial software companies launching in our town and valley (Some others are Dexrex, Happn.in, CookThink, GroundCrew, PleaseBringIt and of course Otalo). I’m on the board and have been working with Conor and his team to help solve this problem in our democracy - an easy way for folks to learn about issues facing their community and make their voices heard. They are a great team doing great things!
Check ‘em out!
The days had grown so dreary.
So, too, our hearts were most weary;
Then they backed up the Truck
While the crowd roared, “Yankees suck!”
And once again we were quite cheery.
-Hart Brachen
Overheard at UMass “My last roomate smelled so bad, I had to move out of there…”, “I’m making good money plowing”, “I’m not very social”
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Nice! Whole Foods is playing LedZep 2 in it’s entirety…now *that’s* my kind of elevator music!
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Oh no, our new Comcast service is down (just 1 week in)…what will the teenagers do? They’re freakin’ out! I’m liking Comcast already…
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We’re at the cafe & Z’s 12yo buddy asks for a coffee? Me: hmmm 12yo: my parents never let me Me:uh, no. 12yo: Guess I shouldn’t of said that
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CB has taken to saying to our boy cat Spike “That’s a good girl”…Thankfully we’re a welcoming household that’s ok with trans-gender cats..
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A nice Sunday afternoon with the house to myself with the music cranked to 11…got the bills all paid and 12 jars of yummy stock made…
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Very excited. CB’s orthodontics are COMPLETE. Terminado. Fini. Klaar. Finito. Hallelujah! …Now there’s just college tuition ahead of us…
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![Real life Roy Lichtenstein gal…most excellent.
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