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Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, CA was the location of the Toyota All-Star Shootout for the K&N Pro Series (formerly Camping World Series) last night.
225 laps split into 2 100 lap segments and finished up with a 25 lap segment.
The pole sitter was 16 year old Sergio Pena […]
NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown Tonight On SPEED – Line Up
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Alright, we are still weeks away from the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season but the Camping World East and West will be racing tonight at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. This should be a good race tonight. If memory serves me correctly last years was a pretty good […]
Michiganders Are Not To Happy With Felix Sabates
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I was driving home from work when I first head this story and to be honest I almost thought it was a joke. It wasn’t. The local talk show host that I was listening to wasn’t all the pleased about it and then he had the president […]
How Do You Know Your Ready For The 2010 NASCAR Season
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I am ready and obviously missing NASCAR.
Last week I ran to McDonald’s real quick for an early breakfast. I chose to go inside and get it to go instead of hitting the drive-thru.
Once I had my food and got in my car I started pulling around to […]
Quest for Immortality
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Quick: what images do you think of when you think of N.C. Wyeth?
“Dear Papa,” N.C. Wyeth wrote in 1909. “All that I have done in the past, and all that I could do in the future (in illustration) would be utterly forgotten in a preciously few years except […]
Dead Tech: Proportional Scale
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Before computers made it possible to scale things up or down by dragging a corner or typing in a number, the proportional scale was an indispensable studio tool.
It made it easy to calculate relative measurements when you needed to make enlargements or reductions.
It looks like a circular slide […]
Phone Doodles
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
My wife Jeanette doodled this face with a ballpoint pen while she was on the phone yesterday. She was talking the whole time and she said she wasn’t thinking about the doodle. “I don’t know where he came from. I have no idea.”
Just curious: What sort of doodles […]
“Genesis” Exhibition Opens Tomorrow
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Thursday evening at 7:30 the art museum of the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire will debut a new exhibit of the work of five author/illustrators.
The featured artists include Shaun Tan (The Arrival, above), William Joyce (Rolie Polie Olie and Dinosaur Bob), David Wiesner (Flotsam, Tuesday), Adam Rex […]
Useless Moon
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18×24″, oil on canvas, email me for more information
For the next couple of weeks I will be previewing my new paintings created for the upcoming show, Temptation6, at India Street Gallery. All with a bit of a twisted Valentine’s theme–minus the sugar coating. And starting […]
The Crying Game
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[?]Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
Whenever I hear the name of Turner Prize-winning artist, Chris Ofili, I unfortunately think of the old Monty Python joke: “What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!” For Americans who still remember Rudy Giuliani’s dung-inspired demagoguery in the mid-1990s, Ofili remains defined by that single […]
Relay for Life
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I’ve never tried to raise funds on this site, but I’ve never been involved in something as important to me and my family as the fight against cancer, specifically The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Please consider clicking through to my personal donation page and […]
“Reflections of Spring” ~ 16″h x 20″w Hudson River School A Painting a Day Landscapes by Connie Tom
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This is the first in a series of paintings on Spring. I have done so many on Autumn, I thought it was time to reflect the beauties of Spring with it’s emerging color and new life. I hope you enjoy this painting as much as I […]
“Sierra Nevadas” ~ 24″x30″ A Painting a Day Hudson River School California Landscapes Paintings by Connie Tom
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This was another intense study that I did of one of the Hudson River School masters, Albert Bierstadt that painted back in the 1800’s. He, Frederick E. Church, and Jasper Cropsey are my favorites had the most dramatic lighting, mood and atmosphere. I am very thankful […]
“Colorado Rockies Wildflowers III” ~ 22″x28″ A Painting a Day Hudson River School Colorado Landscapes Paintings by Connie Tom
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I love the mountains and I love wildflowers and evergreens in the Rocky Mountains. I hope you enjoy this painting as much as I enjoyed painting it! ~ Connie
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from […]
“Sunset Over Table Rock Lake, Branson, MO” ~ A Painting a Day Hudson River School Mountain Autumn Tree Landscape Paintings by Connie Tom
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This was an intense study I did of one of my beloved Hudson River School artists, Albert Bierstadt. I love the mood in this scene. This work pictures a panaramic view of a beautiful sunset over Table Rock Lake located in Branson, MO. I love the […]
Fox News Poll : Obama’s Leadership Puts Him At The Top Of The Class
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Fox News polls its audience on how President Barack Obama performed during his first year in the White House. More than 473,000 had voted when I did this screen capture :
I saw it on Fox News. It must be true.
This result will unlikely be reflected in […]
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From the New Yorker,13 stories by JD Salinger :
“A Perfect Day for Bannanafish” (January 31, 1948)
“Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” (March 20, 1948)
“Just Before the War with the Eskimos” (June 5, 1948)
“The Laughing Man” (March 19, 1949)
“For Esmé—With Love and Squalor” (April 8, 1950)
“Pretty Mouth and Green […]
CLAPTON TOUR DATES (W/JEFF BECK, ROGER DALTREY AND STEVE WINWOOD)
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Eric Clapton will go on an extensive tour this year, starting in March and running at least through mid-June. The dates will feature special guests guitarist and former bandmate Jeff Beck, Who frontman Roger Daltrey, and seminal blues-rock icon Steve Winwood. The three guests artists will appear on separate dates.
The Beatles: Rock & Roll History
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January 30, 1969: The Beatles played in front of an audience for the very last time.
The Fab Four played their final set in London on the roof of their Apple headquarters. The gig lasted less than 45 minutes before the police shut them down.
Fortunately, it […]
Marty Balin: Rock & Roll Birthday
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Happy Birthday to Marty Balin!
Marty is the silky smooth vocalist who co-founded of the Jefferson Airplane and helped to define the San Francisco sound. I fell in love with Marty’s voice the first time I heard him sing “Today” from Surrealistic Pillow, the Airplane’s second […]
US Ethanol Supply Up in November as Plants Boost Run Rates
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Total U.S. ethanol production jumped 636,000 bbl, or 45,884 bpd, to 23.592 million bbl, or 786,400 bpd, in November as plants boosted run rates by 6.08 percent to an average of 92.53 percent of operable capacity, according to a Telvent DTN analysis of its own data as […]
Cotton Swabs on Plastic Sticks
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The majority of cotton swabs these days are made using plastic for the stick. The packaging is also usually plastic. If you are looking for a greener alternative, I saw some organic cotton swabs with paper sticks and cardboard packaging at The Body Shop.
I did a bit of […]
Flashback: Jan 24 — 30 2009
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These posts are still relevant, so please comment!
BEST: Why the Peripheral Canal Will Happen
BEST: How Much Water Do Farmers Use? Not as much as you think. In this post (Farmers Don’t Use Much Water), I estimate that they “use” about 16 percent of developed water.
Pigouvian Tax Fail? A […]
That’s not a waterfall!
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This is a waterfall!
(Wangi Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia)
Travelblog: Salty Showers
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The showers on Nusa Lembongan (an island to the south of Bali, in Indonesia) are salty. So is the tap water. That’s because the “fresh” water comes from wells, and the aquifers that they draw on are being polluted with salt water. This salt water-intrusion is a recent […]
