Wildlife: A huge Bald Eagle is hunting over all three Foy's Lakes. The Ospreys have migrated from their nests too.



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Weather: Autumn has officially begun. The days are warm, and the nights approach freezing -- time to pick some more tomatos!

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Media Watch: A nice movie on IFC about "Punk and Attitude," at least those are the keywords of it's title. If I wasn't still sick with the flu, I might research more of the details. This film is one of the few to trace what we call "Punk Rock" to it's origins in the garage bands of the 60's, plus important archetypes like MC5, New York Dolls, and the Stooges before the scene publically emerged from the Bowery of New York and the council houses of London in the mid-70's.
It acts as an oral history, since it is mostly interviews with players and on-the-scene witnesses, with fragmented film and video clips. It kind of stops at 1980, and finishes in the early 90's with a sketch of the sad Nirvana story, but it does mention that Punk endured on the road throughout the 80's, and developed the massive audience which later bought the records of Kurt Cobain, Soundgarden etc.
There was one glaring exception among the interviewees -- Robert Smith and/or other members of the Cure weren't in the film, nor was their band mentioned, but nothing's ever perfect.
Book TV -- An ass-kissing 'appreciation' of Jesse Helms, that vile boil on the backside of racist politics this morning. You bet I turned it off -- that guy can buy all the sychophants he wants -- too bad C-SPAN's one of them. You can see Karl Rove's vile 'conservative' octopus-ink permeating every news channel -- let's hope that the public learns to hate the smell and taste of that poison.
Yesterday C-SPAN showed speeches from a book festival in Washington DC for a welcome change -- Fred Roberts showed more personality than I'd ever seen him display, speaking about tracing his family to Poland and writing a book about his experience. Robert McNeil had an interesting subject: Do You Speak American? but his speech was mostly autobiography -- interesting to some degree, but not what I hoped to hear. Oh well.