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Lazy Afternoon is a Seurat afternoon with a lovely coloristic setting. Two alto flutes and a vibraphone set the shimmering mood.
James T. Maher, 1962
This week in Sacramento Current.
This is the last episode before the big election June 5, I like to think of it as the season finale. But sorry, no long summer break , we’ll be back next week with vote results and God knows what all.
We’ve been super-focused on the City, obviously, perhaps too much to the exclusion of everything else. The County Board of Supervisors controls a much bigger budget (and has much deeper deficits to deal with). The board oversees, sort of, the Sheriff, and District Attorney. And the county is where most of the social services come from–like public health, and mental health. Well, they used to provide that.
This week we talked to Gary Blenner and Jeff Kravitz, both running for County Supervisor–in District 4 (Folsom, Antelope, Bumfuck) and District 3 (Arden Arcade, Fair Oaks, Carmichael).
They are progressive democrats running against entrenched republicans, in conservative districts. But they’re fun to talk to, and they’re running real campaigns, as best they can.
This week in Sacramento Current.
Jonathan Rewers, mayoral candidate, Star Trek: Deep Space 9 fan, Republican
On Insight today. Marcos is not backing down, TV people. Also, his foot is going to be up your ass forever. Also, I got a little scared.
Sun City Girls: Space Prophet Dogon
This is so awesome I can’t stand it! Pin-hole photography onto objects. Endless possibilities.
PhotoGraphy – absolutely amazing deep-field pinhole photography technique by artist Shikai Tseng using the environment, time, light and a light-sensitive emulsion to print 2D images on 3D objects (via)
Hey, look at this cool SoundCloud thing. When did that happen?
While we’re on the subject.
I know I should have posted this three days ago. Still…
The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria”. (via defrost)
There’s more:
The ride’s seven inversions would inflict 10 g on its passengers for 60 seconds – causing g-force related symptoms starting with gray outthrough tunnel vision to black out and eventually g-LOC, g-force induced loss of consciousness.[3] Depending on the tolerance of an individual passenger to g-forces, the first or second inversion would cause cerebral anoxia, rendering the passengers brain dead.[citation needed] Subsequent inversions would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of passengers.[3]
The biggest danger online isn’t porn or scams or cyber-bullying. It’s the web’s power to seduce you into bottomless nostalgia. All the music and literature and pop culture that made an impression on you, ever, is available to you whenever.
Want to relive the summer of your junior year? Coming right up. I just came across some mp3s of an Atlanta band called 86 that was a big favorite of my friends and mine in high school. I hadn’t heard it in more than 20 years, and I guess it sounds pretty 80s now. And it basically squares with my memory of myself as a pretty mopey kid. But I still like it. Now, if only I had some LSD. But no, I guess I do have work tomorrow…
