June 26th - Day of Action to Restore Law and Justice
It’s 0′dark hundred. Generally unfamiliar with this part of the day, I’m making a trial run for tomorrow’s journey to Washington DC. The bus leaves at 3 a.m. and I still need to get my sign and tee shirt together.
I’m off to fight for the restoration of Habeus [...]
June 25, 2007
Categories: Politics, Social Justice . Tags: ACLU, Amnesty International, Geneva Convention, Habeas Corpus, Human Rights Watch, Torture . Author: Kim S. Clune . Comments: 1 Comment
The Big, Boring Picture
Being an avid genealogist, I have scanned and catalogued every existing photograph, document, and memory, audio tapes of my paternal grandfather and great grandmother, and 1920’s video of my maternal family. The amount of data has far exceeded the capacity of my computer and required housing on a 300 gig external hard drive. [...]
June 19, 2007
Categories: Daily Drivel, Film . Tags: 8mm Film, DVD, genealogy . Author: Kim S. Clune . Comments: 2 Comments
The bees are back. To add insult to injury, after the Shock and Awe Campaign had proven impotent, we have been struck on our home turf once more.
Last month, I lifted the cover off the pristine white box of our wedding album and… screamed. There, curled up front and center, snuggled into the cover, was [...]
June 11, 2007
Categories: Daily Drivel . Tags: mouse, wedding album . Author: Kim S. Clune . Comments: No Comments
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
-Annie Lennox, David Stewart
I haven’t seen the weather forecast yet, but I can see out the window and across the valley. Call me old fashioned, but this serves better than television. Distant memory reminds me that when the underside [...]
June 4, 2007
Categories: Daily Drivel . Tags: carpenter bees, exterminator . Author: Kim S. Clune . Comments: No Comments
Mother Nature went all rock and roll on us yesterday. At about 4:00, she turned off the sun, kicked her wind machine into high gear, and threw sheets of driving rain and hail into the mix. Illuminating her concoction, she split the dark sky with the white hot glow of lightning bolts strobing clear across Rensselaer County. A [...]
June 1, 2007
Categories: Daily Drivel . Tags: lightning, power outage, Slow Jed's Mud House, technology . Author: Kim S. Clune . Comments: No Comments