Orion the Hunter - 2/18/09
It’s kind of cloudy tonight so I just took a quick widefield shot of Orion before the clouds cut me off. I really like widefield shots....
Claudia and Jacob are just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside. We were excited to photograph their wedding last weekend at the Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando. The Ritz The GlitzClaudia's ceremony shoesClaudia's dancin'...
This is such an interesting quote by Jefferson.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the...
I mentioned Tuesday that some of Obama’s Cabinet appointments were undervetted. Very true, and the tax problems that some of them have are serious. They are no more or less serious than the ones that
Sarah Palin has.
I hope...
John Wilson has the scoop:
City Council members were told Tuesday that city pension funds saw a loss in value of over 30 percent due to declining stock values.
Frank Hamilton, who oversees the city fire and police pension program, said...
James Hooper, along with late partner Rob Gauntlett, earned the award in recognition of their 180 Degrees: Pole to Pole, Manpowered project. Relying solely on human and wind power, the trek took them 26,000 miles over 409 days from the...
Behind every good man is a strong woman. Well, the woman behind Andraé is Cheryl McGary. The youngest daughter of a minister, Cheryl was born and raised in Georgia. She graduated from high school with honors and she received her Bachelors of...
We had to learn and we had to teach the despairing men that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life,...
I posted this over at Acton: The $787 billion economic stimulus President Obama signed into law this week rightly recognizes that spending stimulates the economy. That measure, however, misses the mark: It is targeted, demand-driven consumer spending is the engine that...
View the full list of semi-finalists.
Local chef, Daniel Lindley of St. John’s Restarurant and The Meeting Place fame, has been nominated for Best Chef in the Southeast by the James Beard Foundation. Details on the upcoming jury process:
The finalists...
The City of Chattanooga’s Department of Education, Arts & Culture debuted its “WhatIsArt2Me.org” video message from Mayor Littlefield today.
WhatIsArt2Me.org is part of the Allied Arts’ 2009 campaign “to help raise awareness of the impact of the arts on Chattanooga.”
So…
What is...
Is this socialism? Is our government doing the right thing? Can we "stimulate" our economy out of this mess? Can we spend our way back into growth? Only time will tell, but in my opinion the fact that we are...
As of this post, the baby’s not here yet. So, I thought I’d write about a name that had serious consideration for Son #2 - Kermit Roosevelt Crumley.
Kermit Roosevelt was the 2nd son of President Teddy Roosevelt. Kermit displayed many...
Aren’t you glad millions of other people have been killed or maimed trying to find Osama bin Laden? Sadly, the intelligence community had him in their scope just before the 9-11 attacks. From Vanity Fair’s interview with...
Someone please explain this to me. When the school board voted to renew/extend Scales contract, I lost count of the number of times he or one of his cronies mentioned the increasing graduation rate under his watch.'“Dr. Scales believes in...
I have made no secret through the years of my long and frequently recurring battle with depression. I am sweeping back that tide with a broom this week so I thought I’d post something I’ve been thinking about for some...
Photo credit: Christopher Klapp
ChattUp, a gathering for Chattanooga’s social media fans, is back this Thursday night for an evening of art and conversation at the Hunter Museum of American Art. Loosely inspired by Lesley Dill’s “I Heard a Voice” exhibition—the Hunter’s...
Rain{ a pensieve }
Compelled by gravity and God, hers is an earthward descent,blinding or invisible, a presence both welcomed and not.Steady drumbeat, fitful tap, Creation's percussion.Her drench brings life to thirsty ground,but over zealous she pours destruction.Falling on Summer's...
I'm in California for a few days.Hertz gave me a Toyota Prius, which is cool since I'm thinking of buying one, so far I've gotten nearly 55 MPG's...nice.Got a good deal on a one of my favorite movies on Blu...
Is there already a word for it when you intentionally reword a sentence so that certain key words are placed together inside a single hyperlink?
If not, I propose “linkstruct” as in, “I am linkstructing this sentence to make a google...
The other night I went to Rhythm and Brews where Telepath was playing. They had been described to me on the way over as “New Age hiphop,” a description which I could only envision as Enya with cornrows rapping about...
Emmie moved to her own domain today. The site is still very much in the development stages, but if you’re looking for her, head over to Spider Stories....
I’ve moved my blog off of Chattablogs and here onto my personal website, Spider Stories. I started this website in high school to showcase my art (at the time I was going to be a genius artist/comics writer when I...
Part 1: Guatemala Land of Impunity - some statistics to get the ball rolling on the discussion 1. 98% of all homicide cases remain in impunity. 2. 6,338 homicides in 2008 (+137% from 1999) 3. 3% of the National Civil Police resources are...
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