Last March, we were just mad about saffron, and featured
b&w (that’s grayscale to you younguns) photos of The Gates,
the wonderful art event in NYC’s Central Park, created by
Christo and Jeanne Claude. Each image posted was linked to
a full-color photo taken by lawyer Arthur J. Giacalone, of East
Aurora, New York (my brother).
“GatesSkylineG”
larger in full color
If you’d like a glimpse of orange rather than (or in addition to)
green today, why not check out our tribute to The Gates, which
also includes haiku by George Swede.
Meanwhile, our resident-realist Honored Guest
poet, Ed Markowski, sent an email today that says:
“let’s inject a little more reality into the st. paddy’s day
festivities…”
the 8th day
of a week long bender…
st. patrick’s day
st. patrick’s day
the rainbow ends
where no one ever goes
st. patrick’s day
our pot filled
with watery broth
st. patrick’s day
the foreman hands out
pink slips
the spare change
jangling in my pockets…
st. patrick’s day
potluck
and I have conducted a debate of sorts this week on whether
the courts should make more user-friendly information available
to applicants in Probate Court, so that those who wish may appear
pro se (that is, without a lawyer). See our original March 13 post,
probate and pro se: whose court is it?, which has several updates
linking to and responding to Joel’s thoughts.
editor of his first act of “civil disobedience”, which occurred on St.
Patrick’s Day in 1964, when I was a high school freshman. My
home-room treacher, Mr. McCarthy, announced on March 16th
that anyone who wears anything orange on St. Patrick’s Day
would receive detention. which we called “jug” at McQuaid Jesuit
High School, in Rochester, New York. That seemed awfully unfair
and arbitrary to my 13-year-old psyche, so I wore a one-inch wide,
neon-orange tie on March 17th, with a little fear in my heart.
The result was, fatefully, my first detention, and I had to spend some
time In Jug after class that day. I wonder what I learned from that?
I never committed any wardrobe infractions thereafter. However, as
editor in chief of the school newspaper, a couple years later, I sure
did point out unfairness, arbitrariness, and foolishness rather frequently.
That kind of behavior can be addictive.
its Readers Choice poll participants chose the weblog AlbanyEye as the
Best Local Blog here in the New York Capital Region. I want to say hello
from across the county line here in Schenectady and send my congratu-
lations. AlbanyEye‘s tagline is “Casting its unflinching gaze at Capital
Region media since 2004.”
which David Weinberger explains why he loves you and your weblog,
but he can’t promise to read everything you post — and absolves you
from the responsibility to keep up with all he writes on his site. Click to
listen to “Reading Blogs Is a Time-Consuming Endeavor,” March 17, 2006.
