The People Most Likely to Be Interested May Not Be Able to See This Today

Dateline: Direct to Video

A fairly freakish Nor'easter hits the East Coast and takes out power in at least 200,000 New Jersey homes, but I manage to post this video anyway.



Make of this what you will. Many trees and even more branches were falling all over roads, and presumably a lot of them took out powerlines too. Friends have been calling to see if I could store some of their stuff in my refrigerator if the outages persist as long as they're being told they might. PSE&G is telling customers they might not get power back before Halloween ends.

Expect some more insulin supplies getting trashed. If I'd stocked up last week, though, I just know I would have lost power here too. Reminder to self, check out which stores lose power for more than several hours, this happened a few months back with the flooding to the north of Princeton as well.

Remind me again, why do I waste time with YouTube?

Dateline: My Vimeo Home

Stunning and something YouTube might support in another 4 years, if bogus 4K doesn't do it for them. The video below is not mine, mainly because I've been spending far too much time self-destructing. Now that my eyesight is probably going, maybe it's time for a change?

Moving Portraits from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

I think the answer to the original question, "Wny do I waste time with YouTube?" must be similar to the motives of rubber-neckers on the highway and other forms of schadenfreude, which certainly doesn't leave me feeling any better about myself, but then, what can you do?

It all depends on how you look at it

Dateline: Moscow burning

What a difference editorial prejudice can make.  Both of these pictures are associated with stories on the record death rate in Moscow, thanks to summer heat and wildfire smog.

Unhappy news.  This pic appears with the 

Huffington Post rendition of the standard AP story.

Happy news.  This pastoral image nicely 

crops out the sky and accompanies a Terence

Neilan story that may be a rewrite of AP
on behalf of AOL.

I'm thinking there needs to be a song.  it could just be that the Philly Folk Festival is happening in less than two weeks and I'm wondering why I hadn't gone at all in the years I lived closer.

Oh, I remember now.  Someone couldn't let me out of their sight and wanted me around all the time while most of their time was spent working with clever, interesting people and mine was spent in isolation waiting for the scraps.

But this is definitely not about me.

Partisan transparency: Learning from the Astroturf

Here's a first take on a remix. It's been awhile since I've done one of these, and this one is still pretty rough. Desperate times call for...

Sarapocalypse (Remix) from B Unis on Vimeo.

Let me know what you think. Looking for a different mode of political commentary, and hoping to find something that works. I might even start speaking at some point. It's been a few very strange years of this vow of virtual silence.

Tonight is About Fear

Tonight's show (starting at 9:30 Eastern) is all about fear. Appropriate for Friday the 13th, especially when my daughter told me earlier about the people killing themselves in anticipation of 2012 (the year, not the movie).

Tune in on my stream or find me at the Velvet, in Second Life.

Stills on a related note:


Freezeframe of the Apocalypse by *ebbixx on deviantART


Nothing actually comes after. It's a trick.