Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
People, we now have Real Solutions bumper stickers. If you want one, I would like you to have one. E-mail pieandcoffee@gmail.com.
These are the bumper stickers that’s gonna make the people sway, and rock, and clap their hands to the beat, and get up and dance, in an area that will be big enough for them to do it in.
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On the first working day after an insulting blog post about the Barbara Haller website appeared on the lynne4district4 blog, the Haller website was revised! How’s that for service?
Here’s a classic from the old site:
Note that even though the last five entries are blanks, Haller gets a green check for each, and “Lynn Simond” (perhaps a veiled reference to opponent Lynne Simonds) gets a red cross. Nihilism represent!
Not that Simonds’s website, or any sitting councilor’s website, is much better. The only good one I know of is Joff Smith’s.
Three questions:
Time was, McDonald’s coffee was mostly famous for being really hot. I went there today with Bruce to catch up on java developments.
Niniane, child prodigy and an old friend of the Pie and Coffee gang, is working out of Google’s China office and blogging about it.
Worcester Movies Weekly: Nobody else in town seems to be doing the web + print thing as well as this publication.
I picked up this month-old copy today. Problem: there’s no mention of the date until page 6! Presumably they’ve fixed this since then.
I have another article about local media at the Worcester Activist blog, now more or less “launched.” They also have an events calendar, wiki directory of organizations, and a place to post comments about T&G articles.
MassResistance Watch comments on an event where gay marriage foes kept drifting into the pro-gay-marriage area:
I guess I could understand the Vote on Marriage people wanting to sit on our side since their side had Larry Cirignano . . . .
Why does Cory Doctorow hate America? Interview via Bruce Sterling:
The American lifestyle frankly sucks. The media is generally shit. The food stinks.
There’s a huge rally on Thursday, Jan 11, 2007, in Washington, DC to close down the Guantanamo prison.
People are driving down from Worcester early Wednesday morning. To see about a ride, contact Scott at theresecw@gmail.com.
Yesterday I was at the first Lincoln Square peace vigil of 2007. This vigil has been held weekly in Worcester since 9-11-01.
The current schedule is Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30.
Response was very positive, as it has been for the past year or two. One young Latino man stopped his car, pointed at us, smiled, and said: “I was in the army. I love you people!”
A couple updates from the Christmas T&G.
Larry Cirignano, the Catholic Citizenship executive director who pushed a protester to the ground during a Dec. 16 anti-gay marriage rally here, will appear before a clerk magistrate on Feb. 20 on a charge of assault and battery.
Also, there’s a settlement of the lawsuit against the Library for its lending policy towards the homeless. For more info, see our podcast with all the background you’d ever want.
I’m not sure how a couple of legal stories end up in Monday’s paper. Wouldn’t these announcements have come out on Friday?
In this nativity scene, a very old Joseph holds a lantern.
My grandparents bought this olive wood nativity scene in the Holy Land, back in the day. Joseph has a walking stick. There’s one shepherd, in the background, holding a sheep. No shepherd’s crooks.
The sheep on the left side of this beautiful nativity scene seems to be standing on its front legs, trying to kick Joseph in the knee.
The dove on Joseph’s crook is a nice touch. It’s only in the last three days that I’ve realized that Joseph is often depicted in nativity scenes holding a shepherd’s crook. Is this supposed to be some piece of gear he found lying around the barn?
M Iafrate has a nice version of the Christmas carol “Hardrock, Coco, and Joe” (mp3).
WCCA funding battle: This week Worcester Magazine and the Telegram & Gazette came out in support of WCCA, Worcester’s public access cable station. WoMag: “Public access television is both often boring and fundamentally important; and WCCA has distinguished itself in the breadth and accessibility of its offerings at its three-studio Main Street location.”
Hospitality: Catholic Worker opens in Erie.
City Council pay raise: Worth quoting in full:
Official Vote to approve 9-3. Voting against Lukes, Rosen and Palmieri. Watching the meeting tonight District Councilor Haller mentioned that she had spoken to people throughout to the Distict and received “overwhelming” support in favor of the pay raise.
Larry Cirignano flip-out: Telegram says, “Police have filed a criminal complaint against the executive director of Boston-based Catholic Citizenship on allegations he pushed a female counter-demonstrator to the ground during an anti-gay marriage rally Saturday outside City Hall.” Bay Windows has one of the longest stories out there. Additional details from BlueMassGroup’s David, Michael Ball, Edge Boston, and probably a dozen other blogs.
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