Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Monday, December 26, 2005

You never know what you'll find while searching the Web...

At http://tinyurl.com/ac4z4, I found cool graffiti stencils (too big to post here)...including one of the dividing wall in Israel.

Speaking of Israel, here’s something to look forward to in 2006:
vs.
http://tinyurl.com/bx549

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A look back at the NYC transit strike:
http://tinyurl.com/7buol

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34 years ago today...

In the sharpest escalation of the war since Operation Rolling Thunder ended in November 1968, U.S. fighter-bombers begin striking at North Vietnamese airfields, missile sites, antiaircraft emplacements, and supply facilities.

The intensified bombing spurred new antiwar protests in American. In New York, 15 antiwar veterans barricaded themselves inside the Statue of Liberty and flew the U.S. flag upside down from its crown.
(from History Channel website)

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Christine Hamm (http://chamm.blogspot.com), poet laureate of Astoria, has a new chapbook out. The Salt Daughter can be ordered here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/162125