MY COMMENTS…
1028 by Jeff Hess1026: Cats and Goblins
6 February 2010
6 February 2010
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog weather update I present: From My Dad.
6 February 2010
6 February 2010
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
When our deadlines are not arbitrary one of our own making, and when the time for flexibility has come and gone, then it”s time to Do It Anyway. p. 101
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
5 February 2010
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff Hess
Yesterday I wrote briefly about the squabble between Aung San Suu Kyi and her brother Aung San Suu Oo over repairing the family home where Suu Kyi has been held under house arrest. This morning I’m reading about another squabble involving a home: this time the memorial rest house of former United Nation’s Secretary General U Thant.
From Mizzima:
Burmese Buddhist monks have been stopped from being a part of the renovation work of the U Thant”s memorial rest house in Lumbini, Nepal by the Burmese embassy in capital Kathmandu.
Though two Burmese monks were keen to be part of the renovation of U Thant”s memorial rest house into a library and museum by the trustee, the Burmese embassy prevented them.
“The building is going to collapse so we consulted Burmese monks in Lumbini. We heard that officials of the Burmese embassy in Kathmandu came yesterday and yelled at them for involving themselves in our project,” Nepali abbot Decruiser Karet Thanmar who is spearheading the renovation project told Mizzima.
The abbot, who sojourns at the U Thant memorial rest house said, “The Burmese embassy here does not want Burmese monks to be involved. In their view, U Thant was a democrat so that they have no respect for him. Besides they do not want anything related to U Thant publicised”.
One of the monks staying at the Burmese golden monastery in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, and run by Burma Religious Affairs Department said that the Burmese authorities also stopped them from talking about the matter to anyone.
The reason behind the ban is still not clear and the Burmese embassy was not forthcoming with its comments.
Is there a cultural factor at work here or this just universal politics?
5 February 2010
ROLDO RIGHTS…
2000 by Jeff HessWe haven”t heard the next barrage of fireworks from the tiff among the Cleveland Foundation, the Gund Foundation and the Fund for Our Economic Future but I”m wondering how much big salaries have to do with the Cleveland Foundation”s desire for more control.
The Cleveland Foundation has sliced its hefty contribution to the Fund and says it will give individually to some of the same entities funded through the Fund for Our Economic Future.
Apparently, a major issue is where resources should be most concentrated. Cleveland Foundation suggests Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are Continue Reading »
5 February 2010
5 February 2010
ROLDO RIGHTS…
1137 by Jeff HessThe Republican Party has put the country into serious financial jeopardy. Now they blame others.
Two Republican wars, two Republican tax cuts mostly to the wealth and a Republican prescription drug benefiting drug companies – and NONE paid for by the party that now sees disaster in deficits.
What gall.
Of course, one of the leaders of the dire need to deal with the deficit is our own Sen. George Voinovich. His image burnished by the Plain Dealer and Steve Koff recently as so, so concerned about our profligate spending.
In a paean of praise, Koff recently credited Voinovich, who ends his career this year, with going out by working to “force Washington to deal with the national debt that could doom the nation”s shaky finances…”
Where have Voinovich and Koff been for eight years? Continue Reading »
5 February 2010
5 February 2010
5 February 2010
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog weather update I present: From My Dad.
5 February 2010
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
It”s common procedure for most of us to set little deadlines, to plan to finish a particular story by a particular date. Empires will not fall if we fail to do so. More often than not, nobody but us will know. Of course that”s generally punishment enough. Most of us who manage to function productively as free lancers tend to be quite hard on ourselves, demanding rather more than a boss would dare to demand, and beating ourselves up whenever our grasp falls short of our reach. p. 101
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
4 February 2010
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff HessTo paraphrase Tolstoy, badly, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, ever as fucked up as family. Consider Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Jimmy and Billy Carter and Sarah and Bristol Palin. Now we can add Aung San Suu Kyi and her brother Aung San Oo. Nothing is more important, nor more destructive, than family.
From the Taiwan Times:
A lawyer for Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi says a court in Yangon will hear testimony next week on a dispute between the detained opposition leader and her brother over efforts to renovate her lakeside home.
Suu Kyi was forced to suspend repairs on her house in December after her estranged brother Aung San Oo lodged his objections. Her brother, an American citizen, has long fought for partial ownership of the home and its nearly 2-acre (1-hectare) plot.
The dilapidated, two-story home serves as an unofficial prison for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who stays there under house arrest. She has been detained 14 of the past 20 years.
Suu Kyi’s lawyer Nyan Win said the Yangon Division Court has agreed to hear the case Feb. 10.
Dilapidated? How come no one has ever mentioned this?
4 February 2010
4 February 2010
MY COMMENTS…
1108 by Jeff Hess4 February 2010
RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…
0948 by Jeff Hess
at Thornton Park Recreation Center.
Aren’t we trying to move into sustainable energy?
Can’t a wind turbine and a solar collector be a better alternative to an oil well?
Both would provide a great educational opportunity for the children of Shaker Heights.
But no, lets go backwards, while you are at it, bring back the Shakers…
They could make really cool baskets to sell.
4 February 2010
WHAT THEY SAY…
0749 by Jeff HessBeing black isn’t just about being singled out for a particular fate, it’s about a disproportionate chance that you will suffer a particular fate.
4 February 2010
RUT ROH…
0656 by Jeff HessOne student said teenagers had lost interest in blogging because they needed to type quickly and “people don’t find reading that fun.”
4 February 2010
4 February 2010
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog weather update I present: From My Dad.
