http://bornfamous.com [...but not really] Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:28:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friend Mary Beth is back. Yay! http://bornfamous.com/2008/12/28/the-quiltr-returns/ http://bornfamous.com/2008/12/22/helloooo-mr-president/ My friend Naiades went to New Orleans and took some great photos, including this one: I want my balcony to look like this some day. So beautiful. But it does look a lot better than that photo you see at the top of this site. That was taken over a year ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/12/20/green-dreams/ This is the place I revisit in my dreams over and over, the place I think of as home. View Larger Map We lived above what was then a linoleum store on the corner of Washington and Broadway, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The black door on the right was a hideous mint green with ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/12/13/home-2/ I've never met him and I probably never will, but I consider this man my guru: http://bornfamous.com/2008/12/02/my-teacher-bo-lozoff/ Imagine a White House Web site where the home page isn’t just a static collection of transcripts and press releases, but a window into the roiling intellectual foment of the West Wing. Imagine a White House Web site where staffers maintain blogs in which they write about who they are ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/11/25/its-time-for-a-wiki-white-house/ What a concept: our next President actually wants to hear our suggestions. So I submitted the following on his web site, Change.gov. Why don't you try it too? Two things really concern me as I listen to and read all the talk about energy and the environment: 1. Why aren't we talking ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/11/21/ch-ch-ch-changin/ This is what I want to see in my city, San Diego. Edible City Trailer 1 from East Bay Pictures on Vimeo. Edible City is a documentary film that explores the issues of food justice, security, and sovereignty through a comprehensive view of urban farming in the Bay Area - a ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/11/21/the-edible-city/ I'm sure you've already seen this, but I put it here so I can watch it again and again. I'm in love with this man and his family. http://bornfamous.com/2008/11/04/yes-we-did/ http://bornfamous.com/2008/11/04/did-you-vote-yet/ My one and only commenter [and a good friend], Divya, likes this theme, and so do I. Although I liked the other one too, and the old one. But I bore easily. So this is what it is. Until I get bored again. Hope you like it too. http://bornfamous.com/2008/10/22/its-unanimous/ What I really want to know is, what do you think of this new Wordpress theme? I can't decide. http://bornfamous.com/2008/10/17/but-enough-with-politics-and-the-economy/ I am so alarmed by the way things are going in our country right now that blogging about what's going on in my life feels irrelevant. Forget about the economy and politics for a second and ask yourself why this crisis happened so close to the election. Think about it. Then ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/10/08/naomi-wolf-wants-das-to-arrest-the-president/ "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/10/02/something-to-think-about/ McCain and the POW Cover-up The "war hero" candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam By Sydney H. Schanberg September 18, 2008 John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about ... http://bornfamous.com/2008/09/27/where-is-oliver-stone-when-you-need-him/