• 09:42 oh no i have 2 cups of tea and a cup of coffee to drink before they get cold! what to do? #
• 11:10 damn! why in this age of digital photography w/metadata do people still have their cams set to put burned-in dates on their photos?! dumb! #

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• 10:09 trying to collate results of Pan Left web survey. #
• 10:54 reading about indymedia.us and a dodgy gag order/subpoena from the DOJ... bit.ly/WfbOu #

• 14:54 reading abt GE seeling part of NBC 2 comcast: bit.ly/dsaiI #
• 15:43 thinking about how it's the 20th anniversary today of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Let's hope for the fall of the U.S./Mexico one soon. #
• 19:02 reading Linda Rondstadt going off about abuses of migrants. yes! right on Linda! bit.ly/2znD9v #

• 10:39 working on the All Souls Procession memorial "float" for Jack, our departed dog... #

detritus posted a photo:

making a float to honor our dog, Jack, who passed away this June. we'll be pulling it on our tandem bicycle in the All Souls Procession in Tucson november 8.

• 12:01 just got back from Desert Harvesters' mesquite pancake breakfast - this kind of thing makes me so happy to be a Dunbar-spring resident! #

• 09:21 sitting on the porch, eating raisin toast and drinking a homemade cafe au lait and blogging. #
• 10:53 the morning was going ok until i tried to actually DO anything. sigh. #

In the November issue of Harper's, the title story, "Final Edition," by Richard Rodriguez, is about "the twilight of the American newspaper."  He makes a touching and saddening case that we are truly losing something important to our social fabric with the recent closure of so much daily print media in this country.  He is persuasive in arguing that a lot of the fault lies with the newspaper industry itself and the greedy corporate entities that run it.

However, one of the most compelling points is a paragraph toward the end of the article: Read more>>>

• 07:45 a moment of zen: republican strategist on npr: "messaging and content are interrelated" #