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| sept 5 - oct 20 | oct 21 - oct 24 | oct 27 - nov 6

8 nov | Webpage update redux | Okay, here's one of the images I did while enroute to Sacramento:
Phoenix, AZ Airport

7 nov | Webpage update | It's around 930 (2130 hours) in Sacramento. I am at a local Kinko's trying to access my e-mail, printing out last minute stuff for the workshop I am doing, and websurfing. I'm certain Bruce and David and Dierdre can appreciate this. I can just hear them saying "it figures!." By the way, I have a couple of images that I can put up, two small watercolors rendered on the trip to Sacto. I'll try getting them up later in the week.

In my defense, the hotel staff told me it was practically across the street. And for an information junkie, being across from Kinkos in a strange city is ...you get the picture. Better go now.

Traveling | Well, finally arrived in Sacramento. One of the folks coming from Hartford, Jim, came along with me to drive to the hotel and with me for the ride. We took a pleasant drive along a "levee raised road" (so the sign said) watching the highway in the distance. Even then we had to go round about to get headed in what we thought the reight way to go (we could see the skyscrapers) We found ourselves in downtown Sacto smack in the middle of rush hour. Naturally, two guys in a car are gonna ask for directions, right?

Well, Jim and I joked about this before I finally broke down and stopped two mounted police and a couple of bumblebee guides (so called because of their black & yellow jackets/aprons).

So yes, maybe someone is right. We have to turn in our bonafide "Guy" cards. Not as bad as the woman in the commerical who checks into the GPS (Global Positioning) program in the car, but, we's busted. We actually asked directions...andtook a map which she used to show us how to get to our hotel ...way out of town by the way.

But the ride was pleasant, and we were accompanied by music from Jon Serrie's Ixlandia, and we found where we were looking for just as sundown arrived.

Joe Coleman's Engagement Party | And in NYC last week, Joe Coleman finally formally announced. Joe Coleman is one really bizarre character and his engagement party, replete with blood-soaked strippers, supposed satan worshippers and with sheep and a llama roaming about, lived up to his repuatation. His wife "a major dominatrix" so the gossips say (I wouldn't know personally). Their wedding is to be held, I'm told at the museum for Outsider Art in Baltimore in the future. Good fortune to them both. P.S. I really can't adequately describe Joe's paintins ...no wait, when I first saw a couple of them it was like seeing a meld of Rick Griffin (and other deadhead era poster artists) and Hiermoneous Bosch. You get the picture? Look for his work on exhibit some time but don't go on a full stomach if you are a queasy type. (He doesn't need the money, but you can be sure that John Ashcroft and Jesse Helms, wouldn't appreciate his work, either.)

Voting | Weird. After spending so much time getting people registered to vote, getting them to vote (some going to the polls; others by supervised balloting; and another set who had their ballots mailed to them. Some snafus on the way including some last minute scheduling add-ons after we found 21 ballots missing. The long of it was they were found, and the folks were able to participate || All that said, while right now the pundits guessing and the gamblers hedging their bets, I find myself disconcertingly detached about the whoe affair.

Have to pay heed to the comments riased by someone on a discussion group I'm on. He speculated that an economic downturn is inevitable sooner or later, further speculating that if the GOP gets in the likelyhood may be sooner than later. However, he continued, no matter who gets in they would be blamed for it and wold most likely end up a one-term president.

I'm not so sure I want to look at it like that, but, it does raise a different slant on the matter.

I also tend to agree with the setiments expressed in a recent editon of Boondocks, where the two young brothers ask why would Nader voters be to blame for a Bush win (not certain about this as I type away) if they were voting for someone who was actually smarter?

Is it, one wonders, that voters who go to elect a thoughtful candidate are, themselves, stupid? There's a failure in thoe logic there and good for Boondocks to make not of it.

One race I am watching is Ashcroft's. Poetic justice for him to lose to a deal man. (and on the conspiracy theory side, could it be possible that Pittsburgh scoin Scairfe has money there somewhere in the mix? Was the plane crash on purpose? C'mon guys, no harm in asking the Vince Foster question in reverse, eh? Only this time ask the folks who bankrolled Paula Jones, etc ad nauseum. Who has character questions now, and what connections (if any) has Bush to Scairfe? ...yeah I know I'm misspelling his name, but you get the idea ...and if someone sends me the correct spelling I'll change it.

aug 27-sep 1 | sept 5 - oct 20 | oct 21 - oct 24 | oct 27 - nov 6

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~Will Brady

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"Short Notes" was the title of a column I wrote while working for a newspaper in the Adirondack Mountains some years ago. The format was similar to what you'll find here, except augmented with pictures and maps. The subject matter shall sometimes be personal, at other times comments on events or situations of which I am aware. Comments, suggestions welcomed but not always acted upon.

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