Bright Moments

happy birthday!!!

happy birthday!!!

how about it jim?

from some rag: Hilton must begin her prison sentence by June 5. Frank Griffin, a co-owner of the Bauer-Griffin photo agency, told the Los Angeles Times that photos of Hilton could be worth up to 500,000 dollars. "People will try to get the photo any way they can. Wardens, guards, anyone working inside will most probably get the photo," Griffin told the paper. "Paris finding Jesus in a foetal position with a half-eaten bologna sandwich would probably get 200,000 dollars." The same photo might fetch 500,000 dollars "if you could see the tears," Griffin added. However the real cash bonanza could fall into the lap of Hilton's cellmate, if she has one. "The big money is in being her roommate," Griffin said. The famously ubiquitous Hilton has kept a low profile since her jail sentence was handed down. Hilton's psychiatrist said in court documents filed this week she is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" by the May 4 hearing and is not fit to take part in a civil trial brought against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff.

make sure you get in with the right bunch of skaters!

The downside, in my opinion, is the cluttering of the board. give me a break! Why do you think we need a classical subforum? All discussion of classical music is in one thread! Why don't you start separate threads in existing forums like Artists or Recommendations? Nah, we need a Classical forum! Give me a break. well most of the voters agree with me! and you are NOT going to steal THIS election away from me!!!

amazing talent in this thread!

The downside, in my opinion, is the cluttering of the board. give me a break!

what's the downside to having a classical music forum? i see none.

i want this!!!

I'd hardly call a total of 40 votes representative. hey you don't use the franchise and you can't be heard to complain! Who says I didn't?? And if you think I didn't, why did you tell me I could change my vote, here?? i wasn't referring to "you" i was referring to those whom you think are not being "represented" by the 41 who DID vote!

I'd hardly call a total of 40 votes representative. hey you don't use the franchise and you can't be heard to complain!

well jim, it looks like all of the votes are in! what say ye?

thats what i was looking for!!!

happy birthday!!!!

happy birthday!!!

interesting line up - anybody hear this one?

i guess when jim says so!

Not possible, even if I wanted to. By the way, nice picture of Jacqueline du Pré. she's my favorite!

i came accross this on the web and thought that i would share! Flo Kennedy Flo Kennedy, who called herself "radicalism’s rudest mouth," died in New York on December 21, 2000 at the age of 84. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1916, one of 5 daughters, in a mostly white, very poor neighborhood. As a little girl, she saw her father, Wiley, stand up to the Klu Klux Klan who stood in front of their home, a shack, by getting a gun and threatening to shoot. Unable to go to college immediately after high school, she ran a hat shop in Kansas City and when the local Coca-Cola bottler refused to hire black truck-drivers she helped organize a boycott. In 1942 she enrolled as a pre-law student at New York City’s Columbia University. She graduated with an A average, but still couldn’t get into law school -- because she was a woman they said, but Flo suspected it was because she was black. The threat of a lawsuit won her admittance in 1948, one of eight women, and the first African American admitted to Columbia law school. She went into her own practice in 1953. Flo represented former Black Panther H. Rapp Brown. She became the lawyer for the Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker estates, and successfully fought to recoup lost royalties. But she was so disillusioned with the law after that battle that she gave up her practice and became a full time activist. She was married for a short time in the 1950’s to science fiction author Charlie Dudley Dye, but they divorced and Flo never remarried or had children. In 1966 Kennedy founded the Media Workshop to combat racism in the news media and advertising. She founded the feminist party which nominated black Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York for president in 1972. She led various boycotts during the 60’s and 70’s and was arrested at CBS headquarters for refusing to leave the building. She helped stage a "pee-in" at Harvard University to protest the lack of women’s restrooms. In 1969, she was a member of the legal team which was instrumental in liberalizing the New York State Abortion laws. (She was co-author of Abortion Rap). In 1981 she wrote an influential handbook on sex harassment, Sex Discrimination in Employment: An Analysis and Guide for Practitioner and Student. In 1979 she was a featured speaker at the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, where she infamously changed the words to an old standard to sing "Nothing could be sweeter than to find out that Anita [bryant] is a lesbian." In 1997, after 2 strokes and other health problems, she still pressed a sexual harassment case against the National Urban League, one of the largest civil rights groups in the country. Well, fortunately Flo wasn’t a poet (though she did write an autobiography, "Color Me Flo"), so we won’t be violating our no-poetry rule. But she was one of the most acerbically witty feminist loudmouths of our time, so here are some memorable quotes: "The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea." "Always do direct action. If you are lying in a ditch with a truck on your ankles, you don’t send somebody out to find out how much it weighs – you get it off." "I don’t know why anybody would want to give anybody else a blow job, but in my opinion, it is not for me or the church or anybody else, to tell people which of these rather unaesthetic activities they ought to be involved in." "Sports is one of the major preoccupations of our society -- I call it ‘jockocracy’ -- and it is fascinating to note the preoccupations of our society with balls. Tennis balls, footballs, basketballs -- there shouldn’t be a season without some balls to focus on." "If men got pregnant, abortion would be sacrament." (This tribute was largely cribbed from one by Robin Tyler, who was apparently a friend of hers.)

hans - feel free to change your vote!

because his reel - to - reel broke?