Oh, my GOD!! This Canadian band, The McDades, played at the Chicago Celtic Fest earlier today. This crappy cameraphone image does not do them justice. The music they play is just… so assured and totally off the scale (not the musical one, the incredibly ****in’ cool one). As you can probably tell, I pretty much took pictures with my cameraphone all day, but this is the only one that I really regret is not a much better quality image (okay, the one of Buckingham Fountain could be a little better, too). I’ll be getting a better cameraphone in a few…
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These guys were pretty good at the end – they went off the rails into Celtic jazz on their last piece, very fast and very dramatic. The harper broke a string and played on as if the Devil himself was goading him. After the big finish he leaned over into the mike and announced “Thank you. And yes, it was the G string that broke,” to an even bigger round of applause. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0030.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 6.18pm PST
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These guys (didn’t catch the group’s name) were pretty good, but not quite up to the level of play we heard in Seattle from the Irish Piper’s Club. Still, they were good and the fiddlin’ women did great on the one song we heard. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0029.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 6.00pm PST
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0027.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 4.58pm PST
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Aids walk chicago By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 4.35pm PST
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Bush to Offer Hurricane Aid Package – Yahoo! News Rather than speak before a live audience, Bush planned to stand alone and broadcast his message directly into the camera from the evacuated city’s historic Jackson Square, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity since the site had not been announced. The square and its most famed landmark, the St. Louis Cathedral, were on high enough ground to avoid flooding but did not escape damage from Katrina’s 145-mph winds. Two massive oak trees outside the 278-year-old cathedral came out by the roots, ripping out a 30-foot section…
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The other day, we went to the cluster of big-box stores over on Barrington Road where many of our simple needs may be met: Home Despot, Staples, and up until 2 years ago when Stuey died, pet supplies at PetSmart. David had some errands to run at the other stores, and I decided to loiter with intent at the PetSmart, where I knew there would be some cats in their Adoption Center. Last weekend’s visit to a similar pet place near our hotel in Salt Lake started up a powerful hankering; it had been nearly two years since I’d even…
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Just saw this on the box at lunch: Michael Brown just resigned from FEMA. Well, we saw that coming. UPDATE: “The focus has got to be on FEMA, what the people are trying to do down there,” Brown told The Associated Press. His decision was not a surprise. Brown was abruptly recalled to Washington on Friday, a clear vote of no confidence from his superiors at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security. Brown had been roundly criticized for FEMA’s bearish response to the hurricane, which has caused political problem for Bush and fellow Republicans. “I’m turning in…
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A young Nicaraguan man named Alvaro R. Morales Villa documented the New Orleans he has grown to love in an amazing, amazing, amazing series of photos at this Kodakgallery.com slide show. If you love good photographs that tell a compelling story, go to the site, change the settings to “5 second delay” (the longest, as there’s some text to read) and click “slideshow.” Because the young man spent so much time going around documenting New Orleans “before” and “after,” he inevitably fell in with journalists. The story he tells in pictures is incredible, but at some point he has to…
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These are the eleven Republicans who voted against the $51.8 billion Katrina aid bill. Remember, the National Republican Congressional Committee issued a press release attacking 65 Democrats (like Utah’s Rep Jim Matheson) for voting against this bill, when actually they voted for the final version (they had voted against some procedural action on it earlier in the day, but the NRCC couldn’t be bothered to correct its release). These eleven congressmen, Republican conservatives all, just voted against the $51 billion package ( H. R. 3673) for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Horrible human beings, all. Rep. Joe Barton – TX…