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EG Wow said...
This is extremely attractive.
Louis Temporale said...
I really admire BNS for maintaining these images in almost new condition
Yes they were designed by Fredrick Winkler in smaller scale, but they were
expanded and Sculpted in stone by Louis Temporale R.C.A. as was all the other
exterior Bas-Reliefs which are numerous. The interior wall Bas-Relief inside the
main banking hall of the BNS is also interesting. It was modelled smaller scale in plaster
by Jacobine Jones and was expanded to massive scale and relief and Sculpted in Situ
by Louis Temporale R.C.A.
Accolades must be given to BNS for their preservation measures, unlike other corporate
entities that do not maintain their Heritage properties!!
09 May 2009
Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio?
It's sucks being a sports fanatic these days. When I was growing up, I
only wanted to be a few things for a living, and one of them was
sports reporting in general, but radio talk show host in particular. I
loved listening to those talking heads, pontificate about their chosen
stories of the day. But more importantly, I loved sports for their
purity. I've had this illusion that the battlefield of sports was a
place where warriors, fucking warriors went to battle, using their God
given abilities to win the war. In short, I felt sports was the place
where cheating was frowned upon, and a place where the will and the
heart of a champion could outweigh any physical or skill set
discrepencies...apparently I was wrong, as wrong as I could have
But as odd as this sounds, it's not that Man Ram, Barry, A-Rod,
Clemens, Giambi, etc. have all been directly busted, admitted, or has
been essentially blacklisted from baseball that depresses me. It's not
that the Olympics isthe pinnacle of cheating and ofuscation. It's not
even that . It's that the nature of the game, the bullshit they've
been spoonfeeding us, has become so common, so standard operating
procedure, that I have stopped caring. I found myself saying, to
someone talking about A-Rod and his steroid "admissions", I found
myself saying, to a receptive audience, that I don't care, and if he
was honest, nobody else would care. And it's true. It's some absolute
bullshit that it's true, but that doesn't make it any LESS true. The
fact that it has stopped mattering to me kills me inside. I want to
stop watching, stop paying attention to sports, and start thinking
about it like I think of Boxing (which isn't really a sport anymore,
as it's literally just to steal money from bettors in the most rigged
sporting event since the CCNY basketball program in 1950- sorry to
burst your bubble). The fact that I just shrug my shoulders when I
hear about Manny, that I feel nothing when I consider my guy, Kelvin
Sampson, is essentially banned from coaching and I think nothing of
it, even thinking he got done a little dirty (for cheating!!), that
the idea of dishonesty is something I should accept, like that being
pulled over for Driving While Black is acceptable or that I should
stay silent in the face of oppression. With the same vigilance I fight
those things, I need to fight for the purity in the things I love.
I just don't know how...
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Friday I'm in love
* I've closed the requests on drabbles & flashfic and I'll get writing as soon as my box of wine has cooled. Lots of good stuff there, thanks, guys! I don't promise to write everything but I'll get to as much as I can. (BTW if you didn't actually give me a prompt with your fandom/pairing, I won't be writing it -- that'...
* I did a small flist cut. For the most part, just some people who weren't reading me anyhow, one or two people whose volume I can't keep up with, and everyone posting Twitter digests. (I do have a strange feeling I accidentally removed someone I didn't mean to -- if you're shocked and dismayed, please email me.)
* And just to remind you: it's always okay to drop me if you don't want to read me. Unless you tell me otherwise, I'll assume you'd still have a beer with me if we met up at a con.
* Why am I not in my pyjamas already? Mmm, jammies.
* Why is InuKai the best pairing in the history of ever?
* What are you drinking tonight at this point of the day or night, depending on where you live and what time you actually read this post? I have Naked Grape Pinot Grigio.
* I like cheese and my iPhone and you. ♥
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I'm drinking tea this morning. But I'd still have a beer with you at a con.
I've been entering all these competitions to win an ipod touch (can't afford the phone plan) and all these other bastards keep winning. Don't these people know how much I NEED one?
Please forgive my timezone-centrism. But beer is for breakfast too.
Is there some way to fix the contests? Because the Touch really is pretty sweet. Just like you. :)
I am this close to cut everyone posting those stupid Twitter digests too. :|
I like beer more than I like robots. ♥
Beer + robots = sweet Bender love
I refuse to post Twitter digests, because people who have me on their flists and their Twitter lists would surely find it redundant and those who don't have Twitter would surely find it infuriating. Twitter digests confuse me generally.
Glad to still be here. :)
And, um, I'm drinking diet Coke. My life is so hardcore. (And it's 2am here, so that's a bad plan right there!)
Yeah, they don't seem to add much to my LJ experience.
Diet Coke at 2 am is definitely living on the edge!
drabbles wot wot??????
twitter. *shivers* ew. but I am still offended at being cut, Hal.
mmmm, jammies.
I am drinking licorice peppermint tea.
Did you miss the drabble post? It's one of those ones where I promise to write everybody fic and then get drunk and pass out instead.
If your Tweets weren't always about Toma, I might have kept you.
For my drinking pursuits, I went with a mango theme: martini and margarita. They tasted mostly the same, to be honest. And now I shall go put my own jammies on.
Mango sounds delightful! Especially with added alcohol. :)
For me, it's because they never fail to make me happy, in any way, shape, or form. ^_^
I am drinking cinnamon & apple tea. It's yummy.
That sounds good right about now!
and everyone posting Twitter digests.
I cracked up. I wish I had the balls to do this.
I was surprised at myself but it had to be done.
I had a lovely Riesling from I don't know where with dinner--I was having too much fun talking to my friends to make a note of the name, unfortunately.
Don't have an iphone but I do have an ipod touch I love very much. XD
This is where the iPhone wins over the Touch -- I just snap a pic of the label so I'll remember the wine.
at that time I was having lemon flavored vodka + freshly squeezed orange juice (and by freshly squeezed I mean: me+ orange+knife)
Oh... I haven't been around lately and didn't see you asked for prompts... ;_;
But that's okay. I saw you had very good ones already asked^^
I think they'll be fun to work on. :)
I'm drinking water because I'm boring. I missed the drabble request, but I'll be happy just to see what you come up with.
The dog is napping on me - what a great idea.
also: I don't understand Twitter. :(
Edited at 2008-09-06 09:59 pm (UTC)