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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
My mother cried
When president Kennedy died
She said it was the communists
But we knew better
We were born
Born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
—The Police, "Born in the Fifties"
Jackie Kennedy
cradles her husband after bullets shot by snipers on the grassy knoll
blew half his head off. This act of war against the United States, of high treason, changed the
course of American history. The assassination, and the failure of our
country's leaders to bring the killers to justice was, and remains, the
central fact, the darkness at the core of our American Republic.
I was in eighth grade when John Kennedy was killed. I remember
standing in the cafeteria with the whole student body as a teacher told
us that John Kennedy was dead in Dallas. I will never forget
that day, the shock, the sadness: who among us of my generation will? We loved John Kennedy and
the great promise of America, for all Americans, not
just the few, that he embodied. If you were not there, you cannot
really know how exciting it was—the killers killed so much more than a
man that day.
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Sunday, 19 November 2006 |
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ZOGG - Say it loud and there's music
playing.
Say it soft and it's almost like preying ...
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Sunday, 19 November 2006 |
A retro kanga look this season.
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Saturday, 18 November 2006 |
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The Montgomery Block one month
after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906.
The Bank Exchange sits
behind locked iron doors at the corner. A.P. Giannini's Bank of
Italy, which was to change its name to the Bank of America and
eventually become the world's largest, then occupied offices to
the right.
The following comes to us from the
Transamerica Corporation and the California Historical
Society, from a booklet originally entitled
"Secrets of Pisco
Punch Revealed: Being a true account of the recovery of San
Francisco's Long Lost Favorite of Favorites," by William
Bronson.
In the post Gold Rush days, a bar was a
very important place.
And the Bank Exchange was one of the most
important drinking establishments in San
Francisco. Located in the Montgomery and Washington Streets
corner of the famed Montgomery Block, the Bank Exchange was
the place leading bankers met to transact business in the
absence of an official stock exchange. Its proximity to the
waterfront attracted the leaders of commerce, and from the
first day the Bank Exchange’s swinging doors opened in
1853, the leading sea captains, miners, lawyers and
politicians came to discuss affairs of the day,
while partaking of liquid refreshments.
No history of the social life of San
Francisco would be complete without mention of the Bank
Exchange, a barroom that opened in 1854, survived the
Earthquake and Fire of 1906, and continued to thrive with
everwidening fame until its doors were closed forever
by Prohibition.
The principal foundation for its renown
was Pisco Punch, a mixture which, it was said, went down like
nectar and came back with the kick of a Missouri mule. Another
description is credited to Oliver Perry Stidger who for many
years managed the affairs of the Montgomery Block, that fabled
building in which the Bank Exchange was located. He likened
Pisco Punch to the scimitar of Harroun whose edge was so fine
that after a slash a man walked on unaware that his head had
been severed from his body until his knees gave way and
he fell to the ground dead.
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Saturday, 18 November 2006 |
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Associated Press
LONDON - A 22-year-old man suffered
internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had
inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday.
The incident took place Sunday, when
Britain celebrated Bonfire Night, traditionally marked with
fireworks to celebrate the Guy Fawkes’ gunpowder plot to blow
up Parliament in the 17th century.
The man suffered burns and other
unspecified internal injuries in the incident in Sunderland, 275
miles north of London.
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