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18-22 dec |
christmas |
28 dec |
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Outsider Art Fair | Sanford Smith, Art Dealer and Impresario, is hosting the
9th annual fair at the Puck Building in New York City the weekened of 26-28 January 2001.
As usual, it promises to be an effusive display of raw talent. The premise of Outsider Art
goes back to before World War Two, when people (initially psychiatrists) began to recognize the
pure, unvarnished talent of some of "their" patients in expressing themselves is visual
and visionary ways.
Eight Mile River Watershed | A group of interested citizens have written to Senators Dodd and Lieberman
to ask their support by endorsing a study to consider the Connecticut's Eight Mile River
Watershed as a candidate for a wild and scenic river designation this next congressional
session. Given the Dubya's Cabinet nominees I remain skeptical of passage, but then, Governor Rowland has
been a surprizingly good supporter of open space issues since his second term was assured. So, maybe...
America's Grocery Stores | David Gwynne, perepetetic
and sardonic webmaster and host of PlanetSoma
and his journals, known the
OtherStream ( as in "...not the mainstream...), also has a third site about
Nortamericanos love of the Supermarket.
Did You Bring Bottles? is that site.
Gwynne's premise is simple, and I'll let him speak about it for himself:"You can learn an awful lot about a place by visiting its supermarkets. 
Now, Gwynne's take on this subject in intriguing. Sort of a cultural historian approach. While I
agree on his preference for older small versions of supermarkets, I gotta confess to enjoying the
megasuper stores as well. Just that they are, usually, much too far for me to drive to to consider
convenient. Besides, the three closest supermarkets are two IGAs (one an Adams IGA in Deep River,
the second an independent grocer in Higganum Center) and the Moodus Grist Mill Grocers. Two of these
stores are three aisle butcher shops with groceries; the Deep River Store has 6 aisles. ...big time, eh?
site updates | Well, updating some of the pages on rondak.org is no doubt long overdue, so this weekend I took to doing this. Alas, I was able to update only three pages: I expect this shall be increasingly important, especially since visits to the site have almost doubled in the past couple of weeks alone (the site was doing a healthy average of 700 to 900 weekly hits but since Christmas week it has done 1700 and almost 1500 in the past two weeks). Thanks to whomever has provided links to the pages. Sure can tell the difference. Furthermore, I've also applied to have the Corrections page added to the True Justice web ring. Wish me luck. |
18-22 dec |
christmas |
28 dec |
1-1-01 |
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