Bonequinha Blog

So far this December...

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:56:51 GMT

1) Curious Creatures (pics)
2) we will miss you (pics)
3) conscientious objector (and shopper)
4) skies (pics)
5) 3rd St. Graffwalk (pics)
6) will you take a picture of me? (pics)
7) Interests
8) Hotel des Arts (pics)
9) willing into existence
10) Graffiti Cathedral (pics)
11) o what a fantastic saturday night

Last of November

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:51:17 GMT

1) Haunted Hospital (pics)
2) Madness

snora berfday pix

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:55:33 GMT

http://www.winterjade.com/gallery
Click on Birthdays
Click on "Snora Berfday"

Best to use anything but Internet Explorer.

november nearly over

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:54:24 GMT

so far this November:

1) Halloween in the Castro
2) more art shows, particularly Day of the Dead exhibitions in galleries:

3) Clarion Alley Street Festival
4) More street art
5) etc.
6) etc.
7) etc.: by the way, Brian Fisher won his first gold at his Jiu-Jitsu tournament last weekend!

it's been a while

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:43:39 GMT

haven't posted here in a long time...

for what it's worth, here's October, which was characterised by lots of picture-taking, particularly of local street fairs and other public art locales, and most especially obsessing over street art/ graffiti pieces...

in october there was also the run-up to the november elections, and the focus of this Voter X party was to be informed -- in Cali/SF we had a couple dozen local propositions and state initiatives to vote for...

also in october: halloween, and a show to set the tone...

clicking on the October link above will get you all the posts for the month...

Snora's birthday

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:48:23 GMT

...is today.

Make sure to wish Scrapplequeen many happy returns, y'all!

Republican owned Media group airing agitprop 2 weeks before election

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:19:48 GMT

(I'm not entirely sure if I have any livejournal friends who are Republican; even if you were... well... not sure what to say...)

If you lean left/ and/ or are sick of this administration/ sick of Republicans and have some time and are in the Rochester-Syracuse-Buffalo area...

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We apparently have this law -- The U.S. Broadcasting Regulatory Rule, aka the "Equal Time Rule." Simply put,

...the equal opportunity provision of the Communications Act requires radio and television stations and cable systems which originate their own programming to treat legally qualified political candidates equally when it comes to selling or giving away air time. Simply put, a station which sells or gives one minute to Candidate A must sell or give the same amount of time with the same audience potential to all other candidates for the particular office.

Furthermore, federal election law "prohibits public corporations and labor unions from airing "electioneering communication" sixty days before an election."

We also have a media conglomerate like the Sinclair Broadcast Group, who owns 62 stations and has a reach of a quarter of all US households. We have Sinclair executives maxing out personal and soft-money contributions to Bush-Cheney and the RNC; indeed in the 2004 election cycle 97-98% of its contributions have gone to Repub candidates. It ranks 12th among among top radio and TV station group contributors.

So when a station like this mandates that all 62 of its affiliates pre-empt prime-time programming and air, without interruption, a 45-minute-long Anti-Kerry Swift-Boat Liar screed, 2 weeks before an election, how can that not be a violation of the law? How can that be the actions of a responsible corporate citizen interested in democracy? I guess it's really easy to forget what the word means when you have friends like Shrub to rub your back...

What you can do -- hit them where they hurt worst -- their pocketbooks. The amazing folks over at Kos and Talking Points Memo provide great resources, such as a database to find out who advertises with Sinclair affiliates, company directories to figure out who the sales associates are for the affiliates, etc ... Find out if you live in a Sinclair media market. (Those in Rochester, Syracuse & Buffalo, esp.) Watch TeeVee and use your TiVo (I know a growing number of you out there...) and find out which local advertisers buy time on the affiliates' stations. Call those advertisers and express your strong displeasure with the actions of the parent company. To help, click here or here for some sample talking points/ letters/ emails. Fire away.

Hi again

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:02:42 GMT

1) I shoulda known better
2) Fall
3) O great glorious weekend (pictures)
4) Hail to the idiot
5) Park Chalet on Sunday (pictures)
6) Hoo-boy
7) Prince
8) Halibut with Sambal Vinaigrette
9) a few things i misssed this weekend
10) Classy
11) The Emperor Has No Clothes
12) Hum de ho
13) Why am I not surprised #554
14) Rincon Park (pictures)
15) Fondue
16) Speaking
17) Time
18) Ferry Building Marketplace
19) Arizona
20) I {heart} Josh Marshall
21) Blurbs (and why not to believe the latest Gallup poll...)

first posts of september

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 05:59:44 GMT

1) Sudan
2) A Safer America
3) 2223 Restaurant & Bar

2 weeks' worth

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 05:57:53 GMT

1) this sucks
2) summer in SF
3) blue store, red store, or, why you should shop at costco & boycott wal-mart
4) Photo Friday: tranquility
5) attack of the ists
6) Selective Vets with Not So Swift Memories (with apologies to Swiftee)
7) vanilla ice
8) IMBB 7: dumplings
9) Weekend pictures
10) Give it up, Larry
11) Good job, James
12) Tsunami Sushi
13) Little Saigon Food court
14) Decisions, decisions...
15) Seafood Paradise
16) (part of a) weekend wrapup in pictures
17) Sunday
18) Family Party

So far this August

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:38:21 GMT

1) One week old: thoughts on the Democratic National Convention...
2) Why 1884 is relevant today
3) Longing
4) Some silly (political) things today
5) Are we ashamed yet?
6) All sanity depends on this...
7) We've said it before, and ...
8) Food articles du jour
9) Stir fried szechuan eggplant
10) Oceanic
11) Alemany Farmer's Market
12) A simple supper
13) (Not so) Swift Vets for Bush
14) Happy anny to me...
15) Hate in SF
16) Joe Corsi is "sorry."
17) More on hate (unfortunately)

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:22:54 GMT

Once again it's been a while... been busy with work...not much time to post.
1) Guttermouth VP: the New Yorker strikes Again.
2) Cliff House/ Sutro Baths
3) "Only" 94
4) It was simply beautiful
5) Bouchon
6) Bad CC!
7) Deep Sushi
8) Grrrr...
9) Nuremberg Defense
10) Y.A.P.B. (yet another new photoblog)
11) I am Camembert! (silly food quiz)
12) Silly food quiz #2
13) Chateaubriand & Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes with Caramelised Shallots
14) Hooray
15) UnSociable

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:27:44 GMT

From Delectation
1) Decadent Brunch
2) Prawns Thermidor
3) The Elemental Odes
4) Brian's Beef Bourguignonne
5) Easy noodle soup
6) Pea Sprouts
7) The Atis
8) IMBB 6: Grilling & BBQing (Grilled Halibut, Scallops & Baby Bok Choy with Garlic Black Bean Sauce)</a>
9) Almond and Mixed-Berry Shortcakes

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:27:29 GMT

1) Costco rocks
2) Theme Thursday: "cotton"
3) More on Abu Ghraib
4) Tired
5) Meet my new photo blog: Simulacrum.
6) Movable Type v. Blogger
7) Iran

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:20:54 GMT

1) Veeps on the Brain
2) John Edwards
3) Bad day turned not so bad
4) Goddess
5) awesomeness
6) July Surprise
7) Theme Thursday: "wings" (photos)
8) Photo Friday: "cool" (photos)
9) Stinson Beach (more photos)
10) I have a New Food Blog
11) Hyphen swing 2 bling party
12) CIA Failures
13) Saturday Strangeness
14) Pablo Neruda Centennial
15) unFair & unBalanced

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 07:46:07 GMT

1) Khan Toke Thai House
2) Worst. Ad. Ever.
3) A little out of sorts
4) Ron Reagan Jr. interview
5) Theme Thursday: cliche
6) More Khalidi, and an analysis
7) Photo Friday: theme - Father
8) The Fourth at the Fillmore Jazz Festival
9) My favourite at the festival
10) 3rd posting about the 4th

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:15:03 GMT

1) Photo Friday: theme - Fashion
2) IMBB update: more fishy recipes
3) Yes, and???: on the torture scandal
4) Humboldt Batizado
5) pictures from the weekend
6) New WaPo Poll
7) Theme Thursday: Eye-catcher
8) Noodle Pie
9) The Abyss
10) Fahrenheit 9/11
11) Photo Friday: theme - Clouds
12) Lamb Chops with Zuchinni-Onion Marmalade: recipes
13) Iraq Handover

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:00:17 GMT

1) Photo Friday: Journey
2) Fish on my mind (pictures)
3) Prominent DC Shrink Diagnoses Bush to be a Paranoid, Sadistic Meglomaniac (are you really that surprised?)
4) Goodbye, Luanda
5) Wacko
6) I don't get it
7) Theme Thursday: Bend
8) What a day
9) Is my Blog Burning? --> Fish: (cooking, food)

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:02:12 GMT

1) So we have mice
2) best of the blogosphere on torture, and the administration's obfuscation thereof
3) Mus Musculus update
4) Canguru's Batizado
5) Sometimes the universerse has the most perfect sense of irony
6) small update

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:59:40 GMT

1) Painfully Beautiful
2) South Dakota
3) A request
4) Links of the day
5) Body Moving (capoeira)
6) Bushido: the Way of the Armchair Warrior
7) Fandango Potter Puppets (thanks, Kate!)
8) The Invisibles
9) Photo Friday: theme - Landscape
10) Where did the weekend...
11) Squeak!
12) Blech
13) Photos

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:15:57 GMT

1) Memorial Day Weekend Capoeira
2) Sudan
3) No way I'm giving up Carbs! ... Except...
4) The Honourable Ambassador Joseph Wilson
5) Things Fall Apart
6) Returns
7) Photo Friday: theme - Black & White
8) The Year of the Pea (food related)
9) To Napoleon (cooking-related)

Wed, 26 May 2004 17:44:32 GMT

May 24-26

1) More later
2) Incompetence
3) Thoughts on Thuh Speach
4) Yikes

Wed, 26 May 2004 17:42:28 GMT

May 17th
1) Photo Friday: theme - 'Parts'
2) Photo Shoot Sunday
3) Small, small world
4) Black hole

May 18th
1) Emerging
2) Snores' OSDF pix

May 19th
1) From Swing to Bling
2) First charge
3) CYA mode

May 20th
1) Out of touch
2) V.S.

May 21st
1) Ascension
2) MORE! Abuse and Torture at Camp 'Redemption'

May 22nd
Internal

May 23rd
1) Photo Friday: theme - 'Macro'
2) Is My Blog Burning? (cooking pictures)
3) No more toys

Tue, 18 May 2004 19:56:05 GMT

Wow... it's been a while since I last cross-posted here. have been busy... work a bit stressful, the OSDF has come and gone... if people are curious at all you can take a peek here and scroll through the page o' posts, see if anything strikes your fancy ...

Mon, 03 May 2004 21:54:09 GMT

1) Saturday morning
2) Photo Friday: theme = Natural
3) Quannum World
4) Cooking Sunday (pictures)
5) Prince tix
6) International Law & War Crimes