Up With The Mooses

Democracy +1+1+1

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:00:13 +0000

Katie sporting her spiffy I Voted sticker!

Katie voted for the first time today in the Minnesota primary elections. She registered at the polling place (one of the churches up the street) and cast her first ballot for governor, congress, county board and District Court judge. Mom and Dad went along with her, as did little sister. Then we all went out to Buffalo Wild Wings and Coldstone to celebrate. Nothing says democracy-American-style like wings and ice cream. Ain’t it grand?

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I Voted for the Wrong Candidate Today…

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:38:34 +0000

I shoulda voted for ol’ Basil. Hope my Dad did. Forget Governor, this guy needs to be the next President. Basil in 2012!

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Ithaca Tour

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:13:55 +0000

Here are some photos from our visit to Robert Treman State Park in Ithaca on our way to eat at the famous Moosewood vegetarian restaurant and to visit Cornell University (Jesse’s first college visit as she begins high school). After the visit to Cornell, Jesse is even more sure she wants to go there to study psychology. College recruiters, let the bidding war begin…

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Thriving Ivory Concert

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:46:34 +0000

Jesse, Katie and Allie enjoyed a free outdoor concert by Thriving Ivory at the Hard Rock Cafe in Niagara Falls, NY, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Jesse is a huge Thriving Ivory fan and had the chance to meet with the lead singer, Clayton Stroope, and guitarist, Drew Cribley, before the show.

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More Pix From NY

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0000

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admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:32:24 +0000

Something you don't see every day in Minnesota

Jesse and Allie wanted to get their picture taken with one of the “Amish Xing” signs that proliferate in Western New York. We tried to find an Amish restaurant for lunch, but the one I remembered from the old days had closed. Instead, we dined on mammoth slices of real New York pizza in downtown Geneva.

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Reunion

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:22:12 +0000

Here are some pictures of the girls reconnecting with old friends from New York at Long Acre Farms in our old neighborhood near Rochester.

Katie and her friend, Ryan

Taylor, Tori and Jesse

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Heh. Get it?

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:17:35 +0000

Trademark infringement?

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End of an Era

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:06:47 +0000

Sitting here in the home of Kodak and catching up on some work by the Seneca River. Came across the following story and felt a twinge of nostalgia:

Rochester, N.Y. (AP) — What should a photographer shoot when he’s entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with the fabled film’s richly saturated colors, shied away. But Robert De Niro stood in for the world of filmmaking.

Betting its future on digital photography, Kodak discontinued the slide and motion-picture film with a production run last August in which a master sheet nearly a mile long was cut up into more than 20,000 rolls.

McCurry requested the final 36-exposure strip. After nine months of planning, he embarked in June on a six-week odyssey. Trailing him was a TV crew from National Geographic Channel, which plans to broadcast a one-hour documentary early next year.

Read the rest of the article here.

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New Entrepreneurs

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:02:30 +0000

New-U participants at NAJA

Check out veteran American Indian journalist Jodi Rave’s take on journalists as entrepreneurs, featuring the New-U project she and I participated in at the Native American Journalists Association convention in St. Paul last week.

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