Goldie's Back...

...(not like he EVER fell off!!)

Metalheadz, label.
Goldie, production.
Natalie Duncan, vocals.

Drum & Bass Sure Sounds Fine.

Colorlines. It's OK To Be Informed.

There's a fantastic daily that captures the nuances of social justice 'spot-on'.


Julianne Hing is a reporter who's writing is worth your reading time.

You can click the icon above or visit them in our Cold Crushes section.

"Honey my name's Slick Rick, not Foster Friess!"

You Couldn't Make This Isht Up.


John Amato Reports On The 'contraception' Comment...

Andrea Mitchell had on Rick Santorum's Super PAC money man Foster Friess this morning during her MSNBC telecast. Mitchell asked him about the potential problems Santorum could have with women voters because of his stance on contraception and women in the military. Foster's response was so stunning that it froze Andrea in her tracks.

Mitchell: Do you have any concerns with some of his comments on social issues, on contraception on women in combat and whether or not it would hurt his viability in a general election campaign were he to be the nominee?

Freiss: Well I get such a chuckle when these things come out. Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed, we have Jihadist camps set up in Latin America which Rick has been worried about and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex, I think it says something about our culture and maybe we need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on the real issues are.

This contraceptive thing, my gosh it's such inexpensive, back in my days we used Bayer aspirin for contraception, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

Mitchell: Um, excuse me I'm trying to catch my breath from that Mr. Friess, frankly....( Friess chuckles) ...

I'm speechless too. Why was Friess chuckling? He could use a ton of therapy sessions, not the country. Women have been continually degraded in this Republican primary season and ever since the GOP took back the House. How has the national dialogue on women's reproductive rights get so degraded now that now GOP supporters bring up "aspirin-between-the-knees" as a real method of contraception?

It's a mad house.


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Heritage Skate. Watching Rising Son. 2012

Summer, 1989

The SECOND memory that came to mind was when I worked at a small bakery in Berkeley back in 89’ when Jim Thiebaud came in. Just outside Christian Hosoi and Tony Hawk were in the car waiting in the parking lot....like it wasn’t nothing but a thang.

That brought back memories...of my time skating Milpitas in the early 80’s..it was like right there in Berkeley, GIANTS were outside. KINGS. At Gilman & Sante Fe.
Ill.

Winter, 2012

I was amazed at Steve Caballero’s vintage footy of back-in-the-dayness.
It’s the kind of thing that you would remember if you skated in Milpitas or San Jose in the early 80’s.
And seeing Gator was just straight up, crazy. He was my favorite skater then, well, until THAT happened.
Needless to say, life trumps skate skills- but soul cannot be extracted from pure skating.
If you do it, you know what I mean. Heck I STILL rock a deck and I’m going on sumpin’ frickin’ 3!!

It wasn’t the obvious objective of the film, but I FELT it.
I think Rising Son affirms that a bit.

So I’ll be throwing the decks in the Jeep. Today my son and I will skate. And I promise not to bring him to tears by demanding we quit after an hour...he’ll want to keep at it.
Today, I’ll want to too (if only fueled by pure nostalgia.)
Tooling around in a little town called Emeryville.

PS
I kind of tripped at the obvious omission of Tommy Guerrero in anything other than contest stats [...often as taking first place in Street.]


2012, ladies & gentlemen, is the year of Elan; elegance, truth in experience, living what you love and loving what you live.

We'll be shining on it.

-bwlp


photo’s by J. Grant Brittain with the exception of the RS movie cover.
Tony Hawk photo from connect.in.com, Steve Caballero circa 2011 from fox sports.

Pine Island Glacier: Yup. Both Poles Are Losing Ice.

Yup. Yup. North America out West has been pretty darned dry. And folks are yelping it up about Colorado's snowfalls. Mother Nature can do anything she wants; but the question is, "Will Mother Nature want to make up precipitation levels to make up for an unusually dry December through January?"

We'll see.

Meanwhile, ABC news is on some October 2011 news by reporting on the Pine Island Glacier for the masses. The other question is, "Why is mainstream America so late on global climate issues when we have world class publications like Orion dedicated to nature preservation or awareness of how 'nature bats last'?

This from NASA:

"In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extending for 19 miles (30 kilometers), the crack was 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep. Eventually, the crack will extend all the way across the glacier, and calve a giant iceberg that will cover about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers). This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NAS's Terra spacecraft was acquired Nov. 13, 2011, and covers an area of 27 by 32 miles (44 by 52 kilometers), and is located near 74.9 degrees south latitude, 101.1 degrees west longitude."

Wanna know more?
Check out the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs; which has funded an investigation of the ocean circulation and ocean-ice interaction in the seawater-filled cavity below Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.


btw: Orion Magazine has been a cold crush of ours for years. Catch up.