- Over the Rhine DVD<img src="http://www.montage-productions.com/images/sectionImgs/featuredProject/02Taft07_Thumb.jpg" align="left" border="1"><a href="http://www.montage-productions.com/featuredProject.html#">Montage Productions is producing a DVD documentary about Over the Rhine</a> set for release in December. Lots of Quicktime video clips and stills on the site. Needless to say I'll be getting it as soon as it comes out.<br /><br />55ElsewheredanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- IR flash logoI made a Lazyweb Flash request to Steve and he came through. He dominates the blog today! Flash movie embedded beyond:<br /><br /><embed src="integration/IR-logo.swf" height=100 width=400 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="autohigh" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" loop="false"></embed>54ImaginingdanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.mcarecords.com/artistmain.asp?artistname=Legends of Rodeo&artistid=364">MCA Records | Legends of Rodeo | Main</a> LOR gets a new site<br /><br />53LinksdanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/books/nonfiction/monkey_think_monkey_do.htm">Chuck Palahniuk - monkey think monkey do</a> <em>What's coming is a million new reasons not to live your life. You can deny your possibility to success and blame it on something else. You can fight against everything - Margaret Thatcher, property owners, the urge to open that door mid-flight, God... everything you pretend keeps you down. You can live Kierkegaard's inauthentic life. Or you can make what Kierkegaard called your Leap of Faith, where you stop living as a reaction and start living as a force for what you say should be. What's coming is a million new reasons to go ahead.</em><br /><br />52LinksdanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/lullaby/story.html">the story behind lullaby</a> by chuck palahniuk<br /><br />51LinksdanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- my great non-sweatshop jacketSo there is quite a saga (someday going on the activism page in a much more clear format, but in the meantime this is kinda the grain silo of this here bread factory) going on with my new made-in-the-USA jacket.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.carhartt.com/products/loaders/finder.cgi?routine=detail&id=43&start=0&type=type&cat=c&lot="><img src="http://www.carhartt.com/images/products/productline/normal/C03.jpg" align="left" alt="like this one but all black" border="1" style="border-color:#cccccc;"></a>The jacket, for those of you who missed it in passing a few weeks ago (I'm not even going to bother finding the post in the archives myself), is a <a href="http://www.carhartt.com">Carhartt</a> (that's Carhart<strong>t</strong>). Carhartt, in the US, is primarily worn by blue-collar workers, construction workers, and the like. You have to search to find a dealer, and once you do they probably won't stock any jackets at least; you'll have to order it on faith. I did and I'm very happy. It is like the one <a href="http://www.carhartt.com/products/loaders/finder.cgi?routine=detail&id=43&start=0&type=type&cat=c&lot=">pictured (left)</a> except all black. The thing is <em>warm</em> and <em>tough</em>, two important features for Sarajevo. I also got some Carhartt jeans, <img src="http://discountworkwear.com/GRAPHICS/carhartt-logo2.jpg" align="right" border="1" style="border-color:#cccccc;" vspace="5" hspace="5">but be careful--the place I was at only had one pair that were made in the US...they have moved most of their jeans production to Mexico. The jeans are really fantastic too, though.<br />
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All of that was going to wait until the activism/intelligent consumption page went up sometime this summer, but it is all backstory for this:<br />
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<a href="http://www.carhartt.de">Carhartt Europe</a><br />
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Steve sent me an email regarding my original post and was like, "Oh, yeah, Carhartt is a big brand over here," ...skaters and club kids and all that. I was like, "GET OUT!" It's still hard to believe...but somehow folks over in Europe turned the whole non-brand into a huge-brand. Not at all what I was going for--I was more attracted by the idea of it being a blue-collar non-brand than I am by the fact that it is a big brand in my favorite continent...but I guess this proves I'm a European at heart--I know what's cool without even trying! Ha ha.<br />
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Only problem--since the two Carhartt divisions are SO seperate, are the Carhartt clothes you buy in Europe made in decent conditions or are they made in China or one of 100 Pacific islands where no-one cares about workers? <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">Steve</a> did some field research for me in London, and the tags did not indicate place of manufacture! This is something I have never encountered in the US, and now I'm wondering if this is a law in the US, that you must indicate where a garment was made. He also pointed me to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,905245,00.html">this guardian article</a> about human rights violations in US territories...although I have seen tags indicating territories (as opposed to just "made in the US" it says "made in the US {insert territory name here}") and have stayed clear of them as much as possible.<br />
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So the verdict is still out on Carhartt Europe; but for those in the US, if you want some clear-conscience jeans or jackets check out the Carhartt site and find a dealer near you. Just check the tag!!!<br />
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See also: <a href="http://www.redwingshoes.com/">Red Wings</a>, the made-in-USA boots that I got; really like them too!<br />
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<a href="http://www.camper.com/ingles/index2.html">Campers</a> (english site), made-in-Spain (last time I checked) shoes that I also have and really like!<br />
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More non-sweatshop brands to come when I get that activism page done...50CommentdanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- <blockquote>I'd like to sit<br />
On a bar stool in heaven<br />
Right next to Christ.<br />
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We'd share a jug of beer<br />
And a packet of smokes<br />
(although I doubt he'd inhale)<br />
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I think I'd tell him<br />
About fast cars on open roads<br />
8th birthday parties<br />
And Arsenal's disappointing away form<br />
I hope he'd tell me<br />
About his favourite star<br />
Why sheep exist<br />
And how he thought of photosynthesis<br />
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By the second jug<br />
We'd move to sit by the fire<br />
Have a couple of cigars<br />
And a packet of peanuts<br />
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I think I'd get angry<br />
And ask Him<br />
About rape and HIV and Hiroshima and cot-death<br />
Then he'd get even angrier<br />
And ask Me<br />
About rape and HIV and Hiroshima and cot-death<br />
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And then<br />
Then maybe we'd sit quietly<br />
And sup our pints<br />
The fire would burn<br />
The logs would crackle<br />
And the world would turn<br />
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After a while I'd tell him a story<br />
He'd tell me a joke<br />
And we'd play a few games of dominoes.</blockquote>I heard this poem read at a <a href="http://www.thedfgcorporation.co.uk/">dfg</a> performance at the last <a href="http://www.greenbelt.org.uk">greenbelt</a> and loved it (along with the rest of their performance which also includes music and drama...tons and tons of high british drama!). I particularly like the "I think I'd get angry..." verse... (via <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">Steve</a>)<br /><br />49QuotabledanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- stanza online installs<a href="http://www.thecentralcity.co.uk/">thecentralcity.co.uk</a> is a v cul online art exhibit integrating visuals, text, electronic music, and shockwave interactions. Its breadth is quite...quite. Can't really get through everything in one sitting, or at least I couldn't. Also check out <a href="http://www.stanza.co.uk/">the artist's site</a> as well for more of everything. Very cul even with the cul-for-about-10-seconds bg music. (via <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">Steve</a>)<br /><br />48ElsewheredanielSun, March 02, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-fin-nuke27.html">If you are a customer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., your automobile will no longer be covered for damages related to a nuclear attack or radioactive contamination.</a><br /><br />47LinksdanielSat, March 01, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.centcom.mil/galleries/leaflets/showleaflets.asp">CENTCOM Leaflet Gallery</a> woo hoo propaganda!<br /><br />46LinksdanielSat, March 01, 2003publish
- <blockquote>Street food vendors have special "Crusaders Only" menu.</blockquote>--From a secret source in an Arab country<br /><br />45QuotabledanielSat, March 01, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/middleeast/27NATI.html?ex=1046926800&en=74fe320ad64356c6&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE">U.S. Diplomat Resigns, Protesting 'Our Fervent Pursuit of War'</a><br /><br />44ElsewheredanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.willcalhoun.com/news.shtml">Will Calhoun News</a> Living Colour is back together<br /><br />43LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3906/point_the_iraq_invasion.html">Point-Counterpoint</a> <em>what they never seem to say is exactly how much oil we're talking about. Don't you think that's pertinent information? Are we talking a gallon of oil for every 10 gallons of blood? Or is it more like 30 gallons of oil for every pint of blood? Because if it's the latter, maybe a blood-oil exchange would be a good idea.</em><br /><br />42LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://philringnalda.com/blog/2003/02/i_cant_get_rid_of_this_license.php">I can't get rid of this license</a> <br /><br />41LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.cafeimpala.com/downloadbookE.html">On a Small Bridge in Iraq</a> <br /><br />40LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.thrownaskew.com/music/GaryJules-MadWorld.mp3">Mad World mp3</a> <br /><br />39LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://people.advanced.org/~jaron/">Jaron Lanier's Homepage</a> very smart guy.<br /><br />38LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://socialstudies.com/itemimages/FE511V.JPG">Mikey likes it</a> <br /><br />37LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.edge.org/">Edge</a> <br /><br />36LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.monkhouse.blogspot.com/2003_02_01_monkhouse_archive.html#89438200">Jesus is like "Kick that little pagan's ass!!"</a> <br /><br />35LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2782235.stm">Milosevic 'praised paramilitaries'</a> <br /><br />34LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=127&e=7&u=/030211/7/38rtp.html">Student Loans are for Suckers</a> <br /><br />33LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.thedfgcorporation.co.uk/">the dfg corp.</a> <br /><br />32LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.octoberproject.net/">October Project</a> <br /><br />31LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- my last cycling team<img src="http://store6.yimg.com/I/velogear_1730_1366342" width=248 height=234 align=left border=0 hspace=0 vspace=0><a href="http://store.yahoo.com/velogear/unofar.html">University of Arizona Team Jersey</a> at Velogear dot com. The newest jersey I have is the 1997 UofA team jersey. That is the last year I raced. The year before that I went to National Collegiate Track Cycling Championships. I think I got last. But it was still cool. Cold, actually...it was in Seattle.<br /><br />30ElsewheredanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/ARG/archive/plachy/plachy.html">Repros: Photographs by Sylvia Plachy</a> this is the mother of the actor who played the main character in <em>The Pianist</em>. i think the person with spiky hair is he.<br /><br />29LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.dallaspeacecenter.org/quiz.htm">the "War on Iraq" IQ Test</a> <br /><br />28LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://oriononline.org/pages/om/03-1om/Duncan.html">Orion Magazine > David James Duncan</a> <em>on the post-9/11 struggle to teach creative writing<br />
while awaiting the further annihilation of Iraq</em><br /><br />27LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.renewal.org.au/object/">object not found</a> <br /><br />26LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.eslmusic.com/">Official Website of Thievery Corporation and Eighteenth Street Lounge Music</a> <br /><br />25LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.localsixteen.com/">LocalSixteen</a> <br /><br />24LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/">Zeldman</a> got a redesign<br /><br />23LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- 100 stories<a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/11/introducing_100_stories.html">Introducing 100 stories [dive into mark]</a><blockquote>They are not syndicated. They are not categorized. They are not archived in reverse chronological order.<br /><br />
They are not memes. They are not content. They do not conform to the latest standards.<br /><br />
They are not comment-enabled. They are not trackback-enabled. They are not licensed under a Creative Commons license.<br /><br />
They are all original. They are all interrelated. Some of them are over 80 years old.<br /><br />
They are <a href="http://diveintomark.org/100/">100 stories of unfamous people</a>.</blockquote><br /><br />22ElsewheredanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://dsonline.computer.org/0301/d/w1lind.htm">If you were wondering how Amazon makes their spot-on recommendations</a> hint: it's damn compliated!<br /><br />21LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/12/here_we_go_again.html">Here we go again</a> <em>it looks like you're suing M&#36;...</em><br /><br />20LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.forta.com/cf/tips/syndhowto.cfm">Forta.com - ColdFusion Resources - Tip-of-the-Day</a> um, ever hear of RSS?<br /><br />19LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <blockquote>Most explanations either spare the interesting details and assume I'm an idiot ("Electricity makes the car go!") or is so full of confusing people, places, dates, and jargon that it's unreadable ("Kristof Elect created the first cyclatonic megatactor in 1927.").</blockquote><a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000834">Aaron Swartz</a><br /><br />18QuotabledanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.digitalsucks.com/">Digital Sucks</a> <br /><br />17LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- steal this codeI've been hard on Blogger on this blog in the past, but the fact remains that I still use Blogger for <a href="http://sevenmagazine.org">seven</a>, <a href="/miriam">miriam</a>, and <a href="http://christianpornmachine.com">cpm</a>. Not that I want to use it, but the fact that I still am speaks to something besides just inertia.<br />
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Anyway, today I decided I wanted a SWM bookmarklet. So I copied Blogger's, tweaked it a tad, created an abridged create form from the current SWM standard one, and <em>wala</em>, I have a bookmarklet. Thank you Blogger.<br />
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Tsunami of link posts forthcoming.<br />
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Update: Don't get mad at Blogger when your bookmarklet doesn't work. I understand now. Still, I must say mine seems to be working much better than Blogger's ever did!<br /><br />16DesignDanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2736275.stm">Sarajevo to reinstall assassin memorial</a> <br /><br />15LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <blockquote>At some point, common human decency has to walk in, look around, nod, and begin kicking ass.<br />
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...I hope you will remember to be kind to the poor, even when they are annoying and unattractive, and to those who do not have as much power as you, and even more than kind, <i>fair,</i> and even more than fair, <i>generous.</i> Because whether you believe in Jesus or Allah or no one, whether you believe in a strong market economy or collective farms, there's ideology, and then there's decency, and if you can't have decency, then fuck ideology...</blockquote><a href="http://ftrain.com/luckyducky.html">Paul Ford</a><br /><br />14QuotabledanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <blockquote>If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble... I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the way it's got to be.</blockquote>
- Gov. George Bush, from the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec00/for-policy_10-12.html">Presidential Debate, October 12, 2000</a><br /><br />13QuotabledanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/">shaking hands with Saddam Hussein</a><br /><br />12LinksdanielFri, February 28, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/02/27/plavsic/index.html">The woman once dubbed Bosnia's "Iron Lady" has been sentenced to 11 years after pleading guilty to war crimes at the U.N. tribunal at the Hague.</a><br /><br />11LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- Ergodic literature<blockquote>"Ergodic" is being used here to mean literature where "nontrivial effort is required to allow the reader to traverse the text".</blockquote> <br /><br /><blockquote>In other words, literature where the reader is either encouraged or forced to actively participate in the progress of the text. In The Unfortunates, famously, the 'novel' is a sheaf of 32 sections in a box. The reader is instructed to shuffle them into any order desired before reading. I've never seen Landscape Painted with Tea, but Pavic's prior novel, The Dictionary of the Khazars, is presented as a set of encyclopaediae, with readers encouraged to follow the cross-references as fancy takes them.</blockquote> --more at <a href="http://www.rereviewed.com/rs/archives/000190.html">Playing ergodic literature</a><br />
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and via that link, <a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/cybertext/Ergodic.html">Introduction: Ergodic Literature</a> by <a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/default.html">Espen Aarseth</a> <br />
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all found via <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2003_02_23_archive.shtml#90382385">this interconnected post</a>, a thread that started <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2003_02_16_archive.shtml#90351400">here</a>10ElsewheredanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/obituaries/27WEB-ROGE.html">Fred Rogers, Host of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' Dies at 74</a><br /><br />9LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=2003_02_01_archive.inc#002645">it's hard to tell, when you spot someone talking as they walk alone down the street, whether they're using a headset for their cell phone or </a><a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=blog_2002_12_02.xml&id_pass=11">they're an unstable homeless person talking to themselves</a> good of u to notice<br /><br />8LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.textism.com/index.php?id=686">when the palpable rush of a connection to the business of the web (then as now about as rush-inducing as a connection to the business of the telephone) could have value-added street cred</a><br /><br />7LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://sullywatch.blogspot.com/">sullywatch</a><br /><br />6LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/20030225.html#123532">I comment on Russell Beatties blog too</a><br /><br />5LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004187.html">I fearfully comment on Ben H's site 2</a><br /><br />4LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004183.html">I comment on Ben H's site 1</a><br /><br />3LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/education/26SHIR.html?ex=1047279738&ei=1&en=37a8bf0bb4ed9b17">sent home from school on Feb. 17 for wearing a T-shirt with a picture of President Bush and the words "International Terrorist."</a><br /><br />2LinksdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish
- Tom Conlon show last nightHow can words express?<br /><br />The feelings of comfort, love, understanding, grace, peace that come from this music, this man's music and not only his music but his person, his being, his aura, his presence. He is a person touched with the divine and like most with such a gift, unknown and unappreciated by far too many.<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0435i.jpg"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0435i_w.jpg" alt="i messed with most of these shots in photoshop. i liked the way they looked pixelated just a bit" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /><font color="#cccccc" size="1">click pics for full view</font><br /><br />
As you might know, it snowed a little bit yesterday. Not too much in the end, despite my complaining, and it did not snow overnight and it is not snowing now as the weatherpeople had sternly warned. There were plenty of people on the road driving to their surburban home from their city job last night, but not many found the courage of spirit to then make it out to a humble and god-breathed performance in a venue just a little too clean and a little too big to contain the few dusty souls that gathered to bask in the glow...<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0437.gif"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0437_w.gif" alt="close up" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
Those who did not know of this man were pleasantly surprised, enraptured with the ease with which Tom captured our ears in such a short time.<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0443.gif"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0443_w.gif" alt="this shot has been done already i know...tom in a common chanteuse pose" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br /><a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0438.gif"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0438_w.gif" alt="extreme close up" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
Alas, the time was short, much too short, for we could have sat much longer, eyes closed, the angels attending to our pores, Jesus surely sitting right there, present on an evening when so many would not make the effort...<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0448.jpg"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0448_w.jpg" alt="my favorite no.1" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
We sat and talked afterward with Tom and our new friend Blaine, who drove an hour to come to the show. That Tom opened for the headlining band was a farce, they playing too loudly for us, sitting way in the back at the tables by the coffee bar, to really hear each other well. It was almost bizarre to be sitting there with him on that cold night in a near-empty coffee joint with cheesy pop music blaring...if Over the Rhine is like a special club, Tom the most sickenly sweet secret that you want to share with everyone...<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0449.jpg"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0449_w.gif" alt="my favorite no.2" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
I really would have preferred to be in the loft of Common Grounds, who dissed us like a last second prom date, or maybe at least our apartment, all sitting on the floor (since we have no couch), listening and talking softly...<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0450.gif"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0450_w.gif" alt="my favorite no.3" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
Tom's take from last night was, in his words and no doubt accurate if even exaggerated, was enough to pay for the gas it took to divert from I-95. (He's on his way to a tour of the southern states, starting in Georgia. He should be in South Carolina right now, in fact. He got on the road as we said goodbye after evening's end.)<br /> <br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0452.jpg"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0452_w.jpg" alt="it may look like he is giving some kind of lecture in this shot, but really he is just asking me how my camera works...i was being sneaky and taking no-flash shots without warning" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
We gave him a token amount of money, not even enough to make up for what he should have made at the show, maybe enough to pay for the gas to South Carolina. Tom makes me wish I was independently wealthy, so I could finance his art indefinitely, make him famous, the next Bono but without the pretension. But then I realize that doesn't have to do with anything that matters, that it wouldn't make Tom happier or enrich his art or our experience...Tom has been blessed, and blesses us, with things not made of this earth, of a transcendence known to only so few...<br /><br />
<a href="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0456.jpg"><img src="images/tom_conlon_feb03/DSCN0456_w.jpg" alt="me in my usual earnest pose...the other shot where i am smiling, tom's eyes are half-closed, so i went with this one despite the fact i look like i wasn't having a good time, which isn't true! also: photoshop does wonders for pale faces!" border="7" style="border-color: #cccccc" width="300" height="100"></a><br /> <br />
more: <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/may02/conlon.html">transcript of an interview i did with Tom last year</a> ... <a href="http://www.tomconlonmusic.com">Tom's website</a> ... <a href="http://www.christianpornmachine.com/media/Tom_Conlon-Country_Dog_City_Boy-(11)-Wake_Me.mp3">Tom Conlon - Wake Me (6.8M mp3)</a>
1ImaginingdanielThu, February 27, 2003publish