IN A GOOD PLACE

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Tim Hetherington was the still photo and cinematographer for the documentary/movie Restrepo.  A story about a platoon of soldiers in an isolated valley outpost in Afghanistan.  He also shot amazing photos in Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan and many places that were dangerous, full of conflict, and a rich environment for the possibility of making and taking moving images.  He was killed in 2011 by a mortar explosion while on location in one of those dangerous locations.

 

this photo was the last image found in his camera after his death

 

GOT NO ISSUES ???

TEXAS TAN LINE

(my friend mike shared this with me)

NEW SCHOOL

(WITH FLAT SCREEN TV'S REFLECTED IN SUN GLASS LENSES)

GOT ISSUES ???

OLD SCHOOL

GOING STEADY

GOOD NEWS

COWBOYS AND INDIANS

It was saturday morning and I just finished a big bowl of kellogg's sugar corn pops and was ready to meet the fellas to play cowboys and indians.  We were free to do battle until our mom's called us for lunch.  The cowboys were to be me,  the twins that lived across the street, Jimmy and Johnny McDowell, and Paul James from around the corner.  My mom and dad just gave me a  Stallion .38 cap gun and holster with a fan tail hammer for quick fanning firing and I was excited to try it out on the indians.  We did rock, scissor, paper after school on friday to figure out who was going to be a cowboy or an indian. The losers that became the indians were Ronnie LaRusso from next door, and the Roady brothers from the next block.  We were all in Mrs. Welsh's third grade and were best friends.  We gathered together in my carport and decided where to build a fort and who would attack who first.  Absolute parental off-limits was a newly dug canal a couple of blocks away.  All of us had been punished for falling prey to the seeming magnetic tractor beam pull of the canal.  It was a perfect place to lob rocks and watch the ka-plunk splashes.  Our parents warned that the banks were steep with loose dirt that went straight into deep, dark water.  We were scared but not that scared.  Ronnie LaRusso wanted us all to attack each other from opposite sides of the canal.  It was pretty far from bank to bank so we didn't think we could throw a rock that far to hit anyone...and the ka-plunk sound of missing rock bombs pretty much decided for us.  We went to the canal but lied to our parents and said we were going to build a fort in the vacant field by the the junior high school at the end of the block.  The cowboys took position on one side of the canal and waited for the indians.  As soon as Ronnie LaRusso picked up a rock and threw it at us, he started to sink into the sand and slide down the steep bank into the canal.  It was all in slow motion.  He was in the water before we knew it.  I slid down the bank with Paul but we were afraid to go in the water since it didn't look like there was anyplace shallow enough to stand.  I yelled to the McDowell twins to go get help and the other guys started to scream and look for a branch or something to throw out to Ronnie.  He was screaming for help and we kept telling him to hang on.  It wasn't too long before Ronnie just quit fighting and went under.  We never saw him again.  The McDowell twins ran all the way home to get help instead of going to houses right across the street from the canal.  By the time some parents got there, it was too late.  The police came and dragged the canal and found Ronnie's body dressed like an indian. It was the first time that any of us ever saw a dead person.  I think of that day and Ronnie La Russo every time i get in the water.  I ended up on the high school swim team, a certified SCUBA diver, and a lifeguard for many years.... and i am certain I did all of that because I was afraid to jump into that canal almost sixty years ago to save my friend.  

UNIQUE DELIVERY

BABY BLUE

SWAK

ALLSTARS

MONA LISA

HAAAVARD

"I'D RATHER ENTRUST THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE FIRST 400 PEOPLE LISTED IN THE BOSTON TELEPHONE DIRECTORY THAN TO THE FACULTY OF HARVARD"

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

SESQUIPEDALIAN

SUI GENERIS

PRIVATE JOKE

YIPES, STRIPES !!!

2013

"DURING TIMES OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH BECOMES A REVOLUTIONARY ACT"

George Orwell

24 CARAT

FRESH START

SATURDAY IS A GREAT DAY..

THE THREE AMIGOS

THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

I downloaded and studied the criminal complaint filed yesterday against the three friends of boston bombing suspect number two.  The talking heads have had a field day with the facts alleged and sworn to in the affidavit by an FBI agent that constitutes the probable cause for the arrest of the three friends.  I am surprised by the impromptu press conference and later  interviews with the major networks and cable news channels by lawyers for two of the friends.  It is my experience that nothing good comes of standing in front of a bank of microphones and making statements of fact and outlining what your defense will be for the public.  Many questions were screamed out to the two lawyers about the facts alleged in the complaint.  No one asked about whether the actions of the three friends in destroying evidence and not contacting authorities led, directly or indirectly, to the subsequent carjacking and later murder of the MIT campus policeman.  The State of Massachusetts has not filed state murder charges yet and I think that the actions or inactions of the three friends at the very least aided and abetted the two bombing suspect buddies in the carjacking and later murder of the MIT campus policeman.  It is because of this possibility of future state murder charges or federal conspiracy charges that I would not be giving press conferences answering questions about factual matters and possible defenses.  The press coverage (positive or negative) is only good for the lawyer's career and future business, and rarely ever provides assistance to the client's defense. 

OOHHH BOY..