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Warren S.: "Putrid lives" speak for yourself...
Simple fact: child abuse is wrong, it's illegal, and children suffer for it well into their adult lives. Nowadays it's illegal to see it and NOT report it.
Maybe you...... Ed "Class of 60": I guess there are some people that look in the mirror and don't like what they see. They blame everyone but the person in the mirror for their miserable putrid lives. They look...... Peter: This is a tale explaining the manner in which my way of life was rotated along a Y axis until it reached a position roughly 180 degrees from that which it started If I could...... kms: My life got flipped turned upside down. I want to type this up and tell you all about how I came to the town called Bellaire.
In Cabrini Green, where I grew up and played on...... EvilGentleman: Hehe, it kept their maintenance guy busy for two days. The last two photos were taken thru my rear view mirror because he saw me taking the 5th pic and started glaring at me like...... janet: Hi Alma--Sorry, the name Rubin is not familiar (though I knew a Judy Kessler). But I certainly remember the fish store! (Thanks for reminding me that one needed to walk up a couple of...... Peter: not one but two {NY} shirts, heh... the shot with the frayed wire is cool... there are a few stainless steel fences like the one in that shot in my neighborhood... one of them is...... marie: you mentioned one main reason Saskatoon did not make cut was because there were no distinguishing features. I often sit in car or walk along Spadina viewing our skyline in wonder at the very...... Rudy: FROM THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE - March 18, 2008:
As of April 14, 2008, large trucks with more than two axles will no longer be allowed to travel through the Washburn Tunnel. Lately, large trucks often scrape...... Re: Cody: Sounds like you're pretty self centered. As long as everything is fine for you and your family and business, that's all that counts isn't it? What about all the underprivileged people in your...... jack: odin,do your best for our government, it is hard workers that keep this country plodding along, forget about your shadow, it will always be there beneath you, remember you are the human made in the...... janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the...... janet: I moved from St. Johns Place between Schenectady & Troy to St. Johns & Albany in early 50's and boarded IRT to Manhattan at Kingston. Wish I could remember Famous Restaurant on Schenectady,...... Carrie : Just curious...why are so many of you complaining and not doing anything to change your situation? I posted something to that effect the other day, but for some reason, it's been deleted. For...... Rita A: I think that Aretha Franklin sang at Towne Hill on Bedford Avenue, but the only thing I recall about the Franklin Manor was the blue tinted mirrors in front. If you recall swimming in the...... BigRock: well i just made a mop with " Etch Bath " and is it suposed to come out all brownish? last time i used one, it came out clear and dried perfect. but now im...... jack: nice idea, mirror bed, you can see the back side of the person you are sleeping with, and in case anyone is dropping in on you and your lying face down you can see them...... jack: pink mobile, right now i.m developing a mountain bike with a radio, tv, reclining seat, futon, mirrors, radar alert, toilet (very important for those long hauls) reversibile pedals, reversibile seat (in case you want to...... laterallateral: I believe this is part of summer "street art" exhibit. Any of you remember the mirrored tunnels they had set up along Mont-Royal Ave. last year?... christine: congratulations jack. the whole life is like a mirror, your own thoughts, ideas and actions are continuously reflecting on your reality.
that is why some people experience life in general and in this case the other...... procyon: [[img:21411]]
obscured by sunglasses, dirt on / spaces in the mirror telescope, and hair that did not like the uncharacteristically rainy arizona weather one bit.
jeeff, what is yours from?... EvilGentleman: Hawkeye, your point has validity, but without this post, we would know so less about each other. For example, Catherine's fondness of "Hello, Kitty" (Oh, wait... Catherine = Cat... I get it now), Benji's full...... EvilGentleman: The owners of the bar had considered launching a lawsuit against the Montreal Mirror for the slanderous lies in this article. [[http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/022207/news2.html]]
The allegations about the rooms upstairs really caught all of us who frequent the...... Armstrong: I just got a two bedroom railroad in one of the big old brick tenements on Starr Street right on the park. I'm excited. I've lived in Bushwick since 2000 and I love...... Josh: I have been in Oslo several times over the past years and have liked it less every time. Norway has become fantastically wealthy, and this wealth has mirrored itself in a cultural vulgarity which...... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... Mark: The sound mirrors feature heavily in various projects by art / music / film group Disinformation - the "Antiphony" double CD (packaging features sound mirror photos by Julian Hills from 1996) and "Antiphony Video Supplement"...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: You may see an old man in the mirror, but the young man is alive and well in your stories. Keep telling us about him and he'll live forever.... roland: i'm wearing my hat today, but now i feel it is rubbish without a plastic tiara on top.
when i was young i thought the song "the sun has got his hat on" was...... anon (80.71.109.94): If I'm not mistaken, the LOVE artist is Richard England. The sculpture is intentionally inverted so that its mirror image would appear correctly in the water behind it (you can just see part of a...... Peter: WOAH... the shots of the mirror arrays... totally rad. id really love to see more of this sort of stuff if you ever get the chance.... GGP: topsoil + mirror-guts....... Cazy: for the people who were playing spot the hot person in toronto.... try to look outside the dressing room mirror!! cause you probally got ugly written all over you!!! From T.O. and proud of it!!...... Selig: wow. i'm slow. it's a mirror. great shots. thru the window ey?... ksedge: wow, i'm in shock. i can't believe this is actually true. they could at least build a little structure around it. or, i've heard in some places in europe they have public bathrooms with two...... karlo: Shamie,if you profess to be a Republican,then why ape the people you say are your enemies? 'Fuck the shankill' is not a part of the Republican agenda,yet people like yourself only serve to feed the...... Chris Erb: benji you bastard! You have your dream camera in your hands!
I finally found my camera's user manual and found it has a bunch of features I didn't know it had. One of those...... EvilGentleman: I have also been experimenting with taking hool-style photos using car mirrors while parked on the side of a busy street, since it is exponentially less likely that the subjects will become aware of the...... groovehouse: Mile marker 1 on Spur 529! LOL!!! I don't know the mile marker... but I will tell you this. In order to take this photo, one has about a one minute window of opportunity to...... EvilGentleman: You forgot to mention the mile marker. Actually, you are almost as bad as me for overdescribing things, but better safe than sorry.
By the way, great shot, especially considering that it was taken from a...... EvilGentleman: Banks in NDG tend to get robbed a lot, so they prefer to keep their glass clean. Had you been running with a money bag when you hit the glass, you would have wound up...... jeeff: fyi: these are all photos from my office & kitchen. when i looked at the thumbnails i detected patterns as i moved through the room and paused to take multiple exposures of some things....... anon (belf-cache-1.server.ntli.net): A Belfast man called Karlo: 12th Apr 2006 - 00:37 GMT
i feel i must say something to at least let people know there are those of us that live in Belfast who DO posess a...... A Poet in Philadelphia: Having lived in Belfast several times, I can agree wholeheartedly with the above comment that the change begins with the person in the mirror. And having lived in the US for most of my...... Jamie: bloody national trust. i'm sure the sounds mirrors featured in a movie, but i can't think what... Concerned HP'er!: Is it necessary to blast the bass thumping radio at 6:00 AM? Is it necessary to hang out on corners and deal drugs? Is it necessary to live in public/low income housing and...... elaine: i think access may have become more restricted in the era of 'rave'.
stonehenge is a bit similar, you can get close, but there are a lot of fences and sentry boxes and whatnot. national trust...... EvilGentleman: Based on the pictures in the link, I am guessing they restricted access to the area due to the disrespectful things some visitors carved into the concrete, like the swastika on the 20-foot mirror. Truly...... GGP: these are really cool. i love the idea: sound mirror. all sorts of associations there.... Culture Club: Can I get a few examples of the HP culture that everyone is so keen on holding onto? I don't see it. If there was so much pride you wouldn't let people treat the neighborhood...... A Belfast man called Karlo: i feel i must say something to at least let people know there are those of us that live in Belfast who DO posess a bit of wit,understanding and compassion..it really is quite sad to...... GGP: I like the security mirror on the pole--HERE AT THE CLEVELAND VIBRATOR COMPANY, WE ARE WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVE! ... Houston?: Gotta love Houston! They have this amazing public washroom. It has mirrors on the outside, and when you go inside, it is completely see through. Must be really strange to pee in...... Elicar: If America has almost closed her borders, Canada has opened hers. Not only do we accept qualified immigrants with open arms, we have legislated that certain groups be given (more) equal chances in the public...... Peter: i also like that first one of the met's glass curtain-wall. i didnt see you take that one yesterday...
infallibly, every summer, while their wives peruse the art, dirty old european tourists gather on the other...... jack: nice light. but is that a true reflection in the mirror or is there another doppler world in there that we think is only our reflection but in reality on the other side they...... GGP: i had pet snails once; they escaped and slithered behind my bedroom mirror.... EvilGentleman: I am assuming this is looking up, unless someone went to a lot of trouble to install the mirrors required to create a skylight on the floor. (A floorlight, perhaps?)... elaine: thanks cat
huzzah! jamie! - yes, they are ALL, HORRIBLY very much self portraits (not the mirrory kind)... Elicar: Opps...I missed three comments as I was making mine.
Yes Grange, they had washrooms then...perhaps not as modern as what we have now, but the distillery has been modernized... I did take a picture of one...... EvilGentleman: Thanks Laura, you just reminded me of:
14 - Speeders who appear in your rear-view mirror flashing their headlights doing twice the speed limit... The Jury is STILL out on Evil Gentleman: I have no idea what your moral values are, and whether yours clash with mine, or even whether, collectively, ours clash with the next community's. Long ago, the competing ideals of clashes of moral values,...... Raoul Davachi: I'm a bike courier, and I am so god damn tired of people in cars, or worse, people in suits walking on sidewalks who think they rule the world. I was talking to the...... The Jury is out on Evil Gentleman: You sound like a pretty self-righteous guy. I very much like your idea about protecting women and children. I definitely like and support that. It's an honourable position to take, no doubt. But, this begs...... EvilGentleman: re: Canadian Citizen 19:22
You did not fully read my post, did you? I explicitly said I do NOT beat up men if I just 'learned' a man beat up a woman, unless the guy said...... EvilGentleman: As a motorist who loves long drives as well as a person who loves cycling, I find the comments pitting motorists on one side vs. cyclists on the other to be totally missing the point...... Roy: I've had a similar situation, with similar results (except that no women were involved).
I clipped a mirror on accident with handlebars, mirror got folded in but undamaged. I wasn't quite aware that...... Chucky: the guy is a turd for throwing garbage on the street, BUT he didn't throw the garbage at her, so why the hell did she go out of her way to pick up the garbage...... T K#3: Humboldt Park has more "Latino vs. White" racism than most anywhere I've been (except for some parts of France which I've been to! This is due mostly to the tight integration of neighborhoods and individual...... jeeff: using the JEDI ([[http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi]]) i couldn't find the word, but i found some other interesting ones on the subject of beauty:
##kyakusenbi## (n) beauty of leg lines
##kyoukasuigetsu## (n) flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon...... elaine: fab. instant visual holiday. those two pictures belong together so well. black trees mirror black sands. i love the californian outdoors. i was driving up the coast on the one a couple of winters ago...... Peter: lol: [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16464049&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=dumb-dumber-dumbest--name_page.html]]... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Hool according to Cat:
1. The figure in black mirroring the pose of the person in the foreground explores the concept of other paths not taken.
2. The shadow person menacing the lady translates into the...... TheManTheDeveloper: I drove through the area this summer and saw the wrecking ball actually swinging into them to knock it down. It was cool to see. It was was weird, you could actually look...... elaine: yeah babe. come and pick me up. but lissen, we got dungeness to do yet, and the martello towers and the sound mirrors.
i have been trying to get jeeff over by promising to take...... jeeff: hm, if you flip that photo the traffic flows the wrong way, unless it's a one-way street (tho i do remember a lot of those in manhattan). maybe the sign is meant to be...... elaine: yeah, i like that one as well jamie, while mirrory buildings reflecting other mirrory buildings has a pleasing swimmingpool feel, it can get overwhelming if that's all there is, this has a weird cut and...... Laura : I like the shot with the mirror... BZZZP: that dash with you in the mirror is haute.... Peter: wow, this is really cool! mirrored, symmetric {subway} maps. nice... thanks for posting :)... jeeff: ah shit i didn't even realize - a semicircle! mirrored ceilings are the way to go.... fuzzytank: woah was that from inside a volks wagon cti? or golf? or rabbit? i mean pick one dependin on what country your in but it looks like their mirrors.... elaine: see, bloody bastards, national trust, what they did was ignore the sound mirrors for 50 years or so quite happily, then they seem to have got some money to look after them, and have interpreted...... Jamie: Hey no worries lady, we all go off on one sometime. Especially us arty-farty types. ##Angry Detractor##. Go to Dungeness and snap me some photos of the sound mirrors and all will be forgiven.... elaine: way.
yes, and actually this would make a really good cycling or even slightly ambitious walking holiday. I have meant to do it for some time. I have seen many of them, some are provate houses,...... elaine: I know, imagine my disappointment to discover they've been mothballed. There is another one we can get to, but it's little like the round ones, not the big one. You're supposed to be able to...... hasslehoff: photos at: [[http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/dungeness.html]]
ive never seen or heard of these installations before. they look almost post-apoalyptic.... elaine: there are also very very exciting installations called sound mirrors, which they made expensively and redundantly just before radar was invented/discovered (doh). they are big and concrete and face france or so. there is...... hasslehoff: i love eddie izzard. the way he goes off on a tangent, and often in french. if you didn't speak french you'd be like "this is shit" but he cracks me up. in a way...... elaine: and you thought the thread in the 'found note' commentary was obscure? this is fucking bonkers!
I laughed like a drain at the 'death march' holiday, very resonant. I think once you have that as a...... elaine: Re: the SUV filter. I applaud this device, is there an online shop I can get one at?
That lady will have a crick in her neck when she wakes up, and I'm feeling her...... elaine: Re: Mirrored Ooooooh! wiggly! and what about the rusty looking one? liking that theyre all different and a bit scruffy in the perfect thing, wouldn't be nearly so good if they were the same and...... Marc: Re: Texas 5am
"oh dallas you shine with an evil light..
don't you know that god stays up all night?
how'd you turn a billion steers
into buildings made of mirrors?
why'm i drawn to you tonite?"
-silver jews... vietnamese baby: Re: eye of the storm
She look scandinavia. But she lie on back alltime. She count feathers on ceiling or wicker Ikea chair. That what go on in head. Also old lace an mirrors. That what...... Michael-Ann: Re: Moscow Postcard 2
Quite splendid! I love how the cloud formations mirror the curve of the bulkhead...what a fantastic photo!... sine: dude your art is fucking amazing...
my only critique is shouldn't the kanji reflected in the window be reversed...like a mirror image? ...
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