Sunday, April 18, 2010

April 18: Expendable James Langergaard would've been 39 today

Posted by Mickey Z on 04/18 at 05:36 AM
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  1. James Langergaard, presente!

    Fiery Crack Dept: Is anyone else liking the volcano in Iceland? Nice to see the Earth asserting itself. Someone said “It’s angry about something. We should feed it some bankers and see if that helps.”

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  04/18  at  09:56 AM

  2. We need a simultaneous volcanic eruption on each continent...just to see what happens.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/18  at  09:58 AM

  3. Always being the skeptic, what appears as natural occurrences, I ask, is someone testing some kind of new, insane wmd?

    Posted by Joe of Maine from   on  04/18  at  10:53 AM

  4. I never met james but can only say that your post today reminds me of

    “To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die”

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  04/18  at  11:41 AM

  5. Happy birthday, James. 

    Is Pete’s Gun supposed to be an example of prose poetry?

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  04/18  at  11:43 AM

  6. Happy Birthday, James. Yes, he lives in our hearts.

    Zen...I was just going to leave a comment on one of your tulip photos, but it is SO good I couldn’t believe that it was taken with a normal camera? Great shot!

    Is the volcanic ash going to block enough sun rays to have an effect on global warming???

    During the night there was a rebroadcast on C-span2.  Cornell West had a live speaker-phone conversation with Mumia from death row.  Very interesting.

    Tech opinion wanted - how many here have clicked, so that Google can track your location when you are online?  Seems harmless to me but I am wondering if it can slow down an already slow computer?

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/18  at  12:15 PM

  7. Hello everyone...from sunny but brisk Astoria.

    Charles: I don’t know if it’s a prose poem but mostly, it’s just a case of not bothering to break the prose into verses.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/18  at  12:25 PM

  8. James ...

    The volcano is a fitting tribute to James and his work for bicycles and clean transport.

    It’s like a massive fuck you to flying and it’s teaching a valuable lesson, that our way of life is tied into certain technologies and without them we don’t have an alternative.

    And guess what ... sooner or later, we’ll need an alternative.

    Posted by Andy from Shanghai  on  04/18  at  01:04 PM

  9. joe, some say underground nuke tests in Nevada have contributed to earthquakes. I don’t know of anything comparable in Iceland.

    MZ, some wider volcanic activity might slow the madness, like the newly-forming Atlantic Garbage Patch. The Cascade range has active volcanos, but the kingpin is the Yellowstone Caldera: imagine a sizable part of Wyoming blasted into the sky. (That only works for me if Dick Cheney is at his ranch, hosting a meet with the Fracking Council of America.)

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  04/18  at  01:08 PM

  10. Zen...Interesting that you mention ‘fracking’.  That might be the next really big environmental issue.  I have been following the Marcellus case in upstate Pa and NY.  The latest is that the locals who are endangered have been told by the area politicians that they can’t do anything. They are claiming that it is a federal issue. Meantime, in other areas that have been ‘fracked’,
    the water coming out of the faucets can be set on fire!

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  04/18  at  01:38 PM

  11. There’s an Atlantic Garbage Patch?  Where is this occurring?

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  04/18  at  06:30 PM

  12. Now trust-funders don’t have to leave the East Coast to “study” the environment! Hand-wringing from 9-5, then cocktails in Hamilton, Bermuda. (I know, I know. I can’t help it.)

    http://tinyurl.com/yjj9msj

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  04/18  at  07:21 PM

  13. Thanks, everyone. A new post is now up.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  04/19  at  07:32 AM

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