If you have the opportunity to see a performance by Kodo, by all means take it. Amazing…
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Anybody still awake on the left coast or elsewhere?
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If you have the opportunity to see a performance by Kodo, by all means take it. Amazing…
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Anybody still awake on the left coast or elsewhere?
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Elia
Anonymous has just released its first batch of BofA emails.
the site is down from all the traffic but here’s a rundown of what we’ve got so far: http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-hackers-bank-of-america-wikileaks-emails-documents-2011-3
they say more’s coming
Mary G
I’m here but about to go to bed. I am just sick about Japan. I played music all evening to calm myself down but just read an article in the NYT that undid all that and more.
asiangrrlMN
I’m up. Having lunch. Moping around.
TheOtherWa
The B of A emails make me happy. After all the death and destruction in Japan, I needed something to cheer me up. Let’s hope they’re worth more than just a little embarrassment for them.
Ronc99
Amazing video — thanks for sharing, Anne.
Ruckus
Still here. Just feeling a little sorry for the human race and all those other beings we affect right now. We seem to be in era of major assholes being in charge or at least in the way in many places around the globe and mother nature is letting us know that she is still fully in charge.
It’s sort of depressing actually.
I asked on a prior thread what someone could do about politics if they had no extra money and very little free time. I didn’t get an answer but I would bet there are many in my position who would also like to help in some way.
Anyone? Bueller?
Comrade Mary
Yep. Up. Tired. Deadlines. Not enough time to finish. ARGH!
catdevotee
I’m in southwestern Oregon. We had a small tsunami following the Japan earthquake. It destroyed most of the port in our harbor, which is the mainstay of area’s economy. What keeps the area alive economically is fishing – commercial, sustenance, and recreational (including the many fishing tourists).
Thank the gods we had few fatalities, but we will have a terrible economic burden here for years to come. There is already a 17% unemployment rate in this county.
Then today we had a big storm with unusually high winds. A giant fir branch was blown into our roof, with about 5 inches intruding into our living room ceiling. It is currently dripping rain-water into a pan I placed on the living room floor.
opie_jeanne
I’m still up, in SoCal near Lake Arrowhead in a tiny cabin we own. The snow from the big storm two weeks ago is nearly gone, but another may hit us next weekend. Just in time for us to head home to Seattle.
opie_jeanne
@catdevotee: That’s terrible. A leaky roof is really a miserable thing.
Wile E. Quixote
Still up here in Burien. My body clock thinks it’s 11:30.
opie_jeanne
You know that Tea Party protest scheduled for today? The one where they would drive to a highway and pull over and park for an hour? I have looked everywhere for coverage and even Fox didn’t bother so it must have been pitiful.
Ran across several webpages urging their members (3 to 5 members on most of them) to participate, and mostly there were complaints that they hadn’t had enough time to get organized. They had this info for a month and they couldn’t figure out how to do this one little thing that wasn’t arranged for them by Fox or one of the other entities scheduling their nonsense for them. Some movement.
Joey Maloney
I’m awake on the left coast. Of the Mediterranean. It’s mid-morning and I just filed my taxes. Did you know if you live abroad your first fifty-some thousand dollars of income is excluded from Federal taxes? That’s regardless of whether it comes from a US or foreign company and whether or not you pay foreign taxes on it.
I am pleased.
Tattoosydney
Cesar Milan is evil. I hadn’t realized just how awful he was because i have never watched him.
In the episode I saw, he was “training” a sweet boxer that was aggressive to strangers. At no point did he give the poor doggy any positive affirmation – not a pat, not a “good boy”. Just “do what I say”.
Then, he was trying to cure the dog of charging a gate if there was anyone on the other side. His training method was to poke and karate chop the dog in the neck, in between strong jerks on its chain.
It made me very happy to imagine my poor, slightly fucked-in-the-head and overprotective, but perfectly behaved doggy who, if Cesar Milan poked him in his neck, would take a big bite out of Cesar Milan’s stomach.
Dickhead
Anne Laurie
@Ronc99: Even more amazing in person. Here in Boston (Symphony Hall), a handful of people and a bunch of extremely acoustic instruments in an otherwise bare stage-box kept a couple thousand totebaggers & their kulcha-exposed offspring enthralled for two hours plus. Kodo even got us rhythmically-challenged white people clapping in harmony.
Also, if one has ever desired the kind of gluteal definition that permits performing with one’s back turned to a roomful of strangers whilst wearing only a g-string… apparently taiko drumming is the way to achieve this goal.
Were I to turn travelling groupie in my old age, this group is the one I would follow. If the future is going to require all of us to manage our communal lives with a whole lot of Less, it’s reassuring to know that joy can be achieved with a relatively low carbon footprint.
Xenos
Just sitting down to work here… it is 9:20 am!
Suffern ACE
@Tattoosydney: Cesar Milan is in part one of the reasons I can’t sleep tonight. Trying to figure out how to train a puppy for city life so that a friend doesn’t make a mistake and give up on his new pup too early. Puppy = happy. Owner = frazzled mess.
JenJen
Still awake. Watching NHK World TV (in English) on UStream. So much better than CNN.
Although to CNN’s credit, they’re live at this hour with international coverage from their Hong Kong affiliate.
@opie_jeanne: I had completely forgotten about that! Good money says the drive-n-stop protesters have forgotten all about it as well.
demkat620
I’m up. Having coffee then it’s off to work.
I am taking a couple of days off this week. Taking the kids away for a few days. This Japan disaster is just awful. It just keeps getting worse. How does a society rebuild from something like this? Devastated isn’t even the word to describe it.
lostinube
NHK says that the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Station has lost it’s cooling ability.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/14_35.html
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Suffern ACE:
All I know is that strong leadership plus lots of patting and playing (plus in our case, anti anxiety drugs) = happy dog that wants to be obedient, while poking in the neck = dog that does what it is told because it is scared.
Incidentally the boxer kept eyeing off the veins in Cesar’s neck when he had it leashed so close to him it couldn’t move away from him in a little interlude where it was supposed to be staring over his shoulder adoringly.
Phyllis
Been to bed, was up an hour earlier than usual. Thanks to DST, this will probably be my routine for the next few days. Sometimes I wish I could be one of those blissfully ignorant folks who are able to tune out the news, the real world and/or anything that doesn’t relate to their little piece of it.
SFAW
Apropos of nothing in particular, but since this is (theoretically) open: apparently, Owsley has died in car crash in Australia. Police have not confirmed it, but his family has. (Or so says one of the “news” feeds I read.)
Normally, I might write “Boy, does that name bring back memories”, but I’m not sure I’d want those memories brung back.
deminoz
I am in aust — still working at 9:30pm on Monday. Partner is in thailand on business. I am desperate to do something to help japan….kicked the issue up to aust execs of my global company to pay attention. The whole world reached out to australia during floods ….we need to reciprocate. Sad that I have to ask/tell them to do something.
David Bangkoker
Awake in Thailand. Don’t have much to contribute (certainly I have nothing to say about Japan that’s not been said far, far better already).
stuckinred
Up in Georgia!
stuckinred
@SFAW: Wow,Kid Charlemagne.
El Cid
PBS’ Ombudsman is not too happy with NPR wetting its pants over yet another bullshit video from pimp-notpimp-boy:
Xenos
@stuckinred: This is making me feel very old. Just last week it took me about half an hour to explain that song to my 11 year old son. I might as well have been discussing the Mohegan-Narragansett war – no way for him to relate to it.
SFAW
Was that the war between tribes to see whose casino would go where?
As far as explaining it to your son: “Learn by doing”. (No, I’m not serious, in case there was any doubt.)
SFAW
OK, WTF? Moderation? Now what?
Platonicspoof
A tweet from the Kyodo news agency on this Japan Times page says
Thirty minutes ago.
Looking for Kyodo site now.
Platonicspoof
This is the extent of the story at the Kyodo page:
stuckinred
@Xenos: I guess sometimes it’s good not to have kids.
lostinube
NHK is talking about reactor No. 2.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
DBrown
Also, other reactors unrelated to this plant have had problems and one is running on its back-up pump. Great.
So two reactors at the troubled plant have partial melt downs and both have had very serious hydrogen explosions – so much for our safe american designed reactors. Who’d think that an earthquake would ever hit … wait, everyone has considered this and designed for “worst case”. Either we are all being lied to and no earthquake hit japan (probably just a terrorist attack) or we have been mislead by fools who have no fucking idea of what they are talking about who design, build and operate nuclear plants … I wonder which of these statements is true … must be terrorist because I and my fellow americans are not that stupid … .
Sorry for the attitude but this is both the last thing these poor people need and we need to hear as we gear up to face AGW – so if we want nuke power, either we 1) take these risks which are 100% likely to occur if anything like an earthquake hits us or 2)Build the far, far ,far safer Candu reactor that doesn’t give a shit if it cracks open and spills all its cooling fluid; it won’t melt down (of course radioactive gases would be nasty … oh, well, can’t have everything!)
waldenpond
I’ve seen Kodo. It’s a great show. The mass of medium and the large drums vibrate the building. Your clothes, arms, feet, knees vibrate. Very talented young people. The small bamboo drums are like listening to a rain storm…. each one has a slightly different sound and they perform very complicated pieces.
asiangrrlMN
@SFAW: You said the place where there is gambling. That is very bad.
@Ruckus: Gah. Wish I had a helpful answer. All I can think of is crap like making sure everyone you know votes and is well-informed and such.
@opie_jeanne: Thanks for letting me know. I was looking for any coverage of the event, and I couldn’t find any. Idiots.
TattooSydney, hi, hon. Good to see ya. Never have seen Cesar Milan, and I aim to keep it that way.
opie_jeanne
@asiangrrlMN: I found one single site that claimed they had 50 people (can’t remember if that meant 50 vehicles) that was going to stop on I 90, but I had no idea where on I 90 because they gave no specific info. LOL. I 90 spans the US.
We were on the freeways in SoCal yesterday and didn’t notice a single vehicle pulled over.
They quite literally couldn’t organize a two-car parade.
opie_jeanne
@asiangrrlMN: I found one single site that claimed they had 50 people (can’t remember if that meant 50 vehicles) that was going to stop on I 90, but I had no idea where on I 90 because they gave no specific info. LOL. I 90 spans the US.
We were on the freeways in SoCal yesterday and didn’t notice a single vehicle pulled over.
They quite literally couldn’t organize a two-car parade.
cckids
Well, I ended up having to drive on the hiways all over Vegas/Henderson yesterday to kid’s functions (one more month, he’ll have his own license yay). Saw 2 separate episodes of 2 cars pulled over, but one was a fender-bender, one was a breakdown & good samaritan combo. No “protest” in Sin City. WTF?
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