In the actual wake of Harvey’s devastation and Irma’s forthcoming, it’s simple and hard to help all at the same time. Never in human history has it been easier to give financially in support. You can literally text it. Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt has raised over $28 Million. Which also happens to be his PR […]
Category: natural disaster
Two Minutes of Fame
I live directly in the Path of Totality (Greenville, SC), which I’m pretty sure is an Alice in Chains album. We’ve been a recently growing and popular destination for industry and the arts and cyclists and beards. Now even major galactic bodies are coming to see what all the buzz is about. So, I’d like […]
Deep Impact
So the government has announced a special operations exercise called Jade Helm 15. It will run from July 15 through September 15 of this year in various southwestern states, including Texas, New Mexico, and California. It will ostensibly involve tactical maneuvering of military personnel in civilian settings, like neighborhoods and homes. In this same basic […]
The Scarlett Red and Royal Blue
Written and performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced djclutch. Today’s blong here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/phillipines-1.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”How Do We Stay“]
Mayhem
What a week. First, no pun intended, but I’ve been way under the weather. Second, according to national news accounts a guy in a ski mask stole my SSN from the South Carolina Department of Revenue. Is that because it’s actually unseasonably cold in his apartment that he wears a ski mask or are cyber […]
Electric Bill
In honor of NBC’s coverage of the London Games, I recorded this entry yesterday but am offering it on tape delay only now. So, anytime that something happens to “half” of India, it’s a pretty big deal. Same with populations of “all the ocean creatures;” “all the women who watch ‘Chelsea Lately’;” and “all the […]
Reading Between the Lines
You do this long enough and your mind starts conjuring those paranoid murals of irrationality out of news articles, linked by pushpins and colored string and collaged clipped phrases, indicating that surely all the world’s events are connected. Gibson in Conspiracy Theory or Crowe in A Beautiful Mind. The Heat won the Championship. Deadly Colorado […]
Shrugging at Storms
A confluence of too many passions almost made my head explode tonight. So, I am an avid consumer of bloggingheads.tv, which pits in civil debate/discourse blogging and other professionally academic contributors. It is typically politically editorializing (a/k/a a hot poker in the eye for most). But, on Saturday, was posted this great exchange between Daniel […]
Wicked Witch
The midwest was devastated by storms this week. Joplin, Missouri in particular. 4 tornadoes turned the city into a literal landfill. The images cannot be believed. It looks impossible. This is an easy story not to pay attention to. Twisters are kind of whimsical lore. The bane of directional witches. Please look at the pictures. […]
Creek Don’t Rise
Towns in the midwest and south are being ravaged by the rising flood waters of the Mississippi river pushed over its basin. Livelihoods in the short and long term will be lost. The event threatens to revisit additional water damage on a Louisiana that’s had her share. In today’s song blog, I’ve reprised both a […]
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