Bradley's Blog:Jason Bradley is a freelance writer, editor, and blogger. Jason blogs about transportation, hobbies, travel, and other random topics.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Superior Surf Report: 8-10 ft. waves in the forecast for south shore of Superior/WAVES 5 TO 7 FT BUILDING TO 8 TO 10 FT.
WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING TONIGHT NW WIND 20 TO 25 KT BECOMING N WITH GALES TO AROUND 35 KT LATE IN THE EVENING...THEN DECREASING TO 20 TO 25 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS EARLY IN THE EVENING. A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS THROUGH THE NIGHT. WAVES 5 TO 7 FT BUILDING TO 8 TO 10 FT. FRIDAY N WIND 15 TO 20 KT BECOMING NW 5 TO 10 KT. A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE MORNING. WAVES 7 TO 9 FT SUBSIDING TO 3 TO 5 FT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED. FRIDAY NIGHT N WIND 5 TO 10 KT BECOMING NE LATE IN THE EVENING...THEN BECOMING E AFTER MIDNIGHT BECOMING S LATE. MOSTLY CLEAR. WAVES 2 TO 4 FT SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 3 FT IN THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SATURDAY S WIND 5 TO 10 KT. MOSTLY SUNNY. WAVES 2 FT OR LESS. KK
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Reminded of Wilco watching Austin City Limits: Handshake Drugs
I was chewin' gum for something to do
The blinds were being pulled down on the dew
Inside, out of love, what a laugh
I was looking for you
Saxophones started blowing me down
I was buried in sound
Taxicabs were driving me around
To the handshake drugs I bought downtown
To the handshake drugs I bought downtown
They were translated poorly, I felt like a clown
I looked like someone I used to know
I felt alright
And if I ever was myself
I wasn't that night
Oh it's okay for you to say
What you want from me
I believe that's the only
Way for me to be, exactly
What you want me to be
Oh it's okay for you to say
What you want from me
I believe that's the only
Way for me to be
Exactly what you want me to be
Oh I was chewin' gum for something to do
The blinds were being pulled down on the dew
Inside, out of love, what a laugh
I was looking for you
Saxophones started blowin' me down
I was buried in sound
The taxicabs were driving me around
To the handshake drugs I bought downtown
To the handshake drugs I bought downtown
Oh it's okay for you to say
What you want from me
I believe that's the only
Way for me to be
Exactly what do you want me to be?
Exactly what do you want me to be?
Felt like a clown
They were translating poorly
I looked like someone
I used to know
And if I ever was myself,
I wasn't that night
Exactly what do you want me to be?
Exactly what do you want me to be?
Friday, October 24, 2014
Weekend nearshore forecast Lake Superior
LSZ142-143-250400- TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN- SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN- 336 PM CDT FRI OCT 24 2014 SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY TONIGHT W WIND 5 TO 10 KT INCREASING TO AROUND 15 KT WITH HIGHER GUSTS LATE THIS EVENING. MOSTLY CLEAR. WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. SATURDAY W WIND 15 TO 20 KT. SUNNY. WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED. SATURDAY NIGHT W WIND 10 TO 15 KT DECREASING TO 5 TO 10 KT IN THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. MOSTLY CLEAR. WAVES 2 FT OR LESS.
sunset photos from tonight (for Amrie)
Cleaning and Burning leaves. Red pine needles kill the yard, and we get a lotta leaves!
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Navajo Hogans
White Buffalo video
Degrees in Folklore and Mythology/Harvard Folklore program link
Find graduate programs in Mythology and Folklore at the following http://www.folkstory.com/gradpgms.html
Harvard Committee on Folklore
http://folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/
Harvard Committee on Folklore
http://folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/
Good News from Finland newsletter
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Newsletter # 42
Finnish companies have received this week a positive feedback climate actions. Finnair is the only airline thatwas chosen to Climate Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) 2014 Index to the best category . Also , Fortum ranked in the top of that same index , and also the world's leading companies in the carbon dioxide emissions pricing promotion. Also read his column , which explains how Finland is displayed Berlin. Sunny weekend!
720 Degrees solved the indoor air quality controlFinnish startupyritys 720 Degrees has developed a cloud-based service, indoor air quality control analytics tool, which is implemented in the wireless network and the air quality is measured by means of sensors. Data collection will be ...
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Forendo big Pharma a license agreement with the United StatesThe Turku-based drug development Forendo Pharma has made a licensing agreement with the American pharmaceutical company Apricus Biosciences. The agreement covers the Forendo Pharma developed fispemifene drug development and sales. Fispemifene in the men's ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Red Green Leaf blower from the show:
This is my kind of ingenuity.
Today, I used tarps to complete my first leaf removal job, and with some wire, duct tape, and dumb luck things go okay....some of the time:
Today, I used tarps to complete my first leaf removal job, and with some wire, duct tape, and dumb luck things go okay....some of the time:
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Surfing Colorado video
standing wave in Colorado video: I need to find one in MN. Or, move closer to ocean or Mother Superior(Lake)
Spiritual Balance: Zen quotes
My summer plane video and quotes: via ramaquotes.com
Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner inZen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.
When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.
Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny.
A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Sunsets for daughter: Lake Pictures
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| October sunset |
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| same night. |
These are some photos of Hartley Lake in Northern Minnesota. I took them in October and part of my reason for taking the pictures was to share them with my daughter. I also like to take pictures of the beautiful colors that seem to originate in the western sky during the short fall evenings. I like this time of night best when the sun has just disappeared, but there are still some lines of light lingering in the West.
Picture update for Amrie! Some pictures of Fall
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| no wind...calm and 60F: reflection was brilliant! |
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| Hartley Lake leaves |
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| Last night's campfire |
Monday, October 13, 2014
Things behind the sun: Nick Drake
lyrics from nickdrake.com
Things Behind The Sun
Please beware of them that stare
They’ll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you’ve seen what they have been
To win the earth just won’t seem worth
Your night or your day
Who’ll hear what I say?
Look around you find the ground
Is not so far from where you are
But don’t be too wise
For down below they never grow
They’re always tired and charms are hired
From out of their eyes
Never surprise
Take your time and you’ll be fine
And say a prayer for people there
Who live on the floor
And if you see what’s meant to be
Don’t name the day or try to say
It happened before
Don’t be shy you learn to fly
And see the sun when day is done
If only you see
Just what you are beneath a star
That came to stay one rainy day
In autumn for free
Yes, be what you’ll be
Please beware of them that stare
They’ll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you’ve seen what they have been
To win the earth just won’t seem worth
Your night or your day
Who’ll hear what I say
Open up the broken cup
Let goodly sin and sunshine in
Yes that’s today
And open wide the hymns you hide
You’ll find renown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you’ll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people round your head
Who say everything’s been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain
These are the lyrics as recorded by Nick and have been compiled in this format by Bryter Music, the Nick Drake estate. Our thanks go to them for permission to reproduce the lyrics on this site.
Nick Drake : Free Ride video
"Free Ride"
I know you
I care too
I see through
All of the pictures that you keep on the wall
All of the people that will come to the ball
But hear me calling, won't you give me
A free ride?
Hear me calling, won't you give me
A free ride?
I know too
What you do
When you're through
Counting the cattle as they go by the door
Keeping the carpet that's so thick on the floor
But hear me calling, won't you give me
A free ride?
Hear me calling, won't you give me
A free ride?
I know you
I care too
I see through
All of the pictures that you keep on the wall
All of the people that will come to the ball
But hear me calling, won't you give me
A free ride?
Hear me calling, won't you give me
A free ride?
Nick Drake: Place to Be
Nick Drake-Obscure and brilliant poet, who live Jim Morrison, died too young, in my humble opinion.
When I was younger, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older see it face to face
And now I'm older gotta get up clean the place.
And I was green, greener than the hill
Where the flowers grew and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be.
And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day is done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you.
Here is a favorite song. "Place to Be" Love of my life introduced me to these songs: Thanks Jolene!
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older see it face to face
And now I'm older gotta get up clean the place.
And I was green, greener than the hill
Where the flowers grew and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be.
And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day is done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
prairie homestead picture
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
society Into the Wild Soundtrack Eddie Vedder
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won't be free
Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
When you want more than you have, you think you need
And when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space
Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me
There's those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keepin score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda like you're startin' from the top
And you can't do that
Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
I hope you're not lonely without me
Society, have mercy on me
I hope you're not angry if I disagree
Society, you're crazy indeed
I hope you're not lonely without me
Monday, October 6, 2014
Tom Robbins Quote on hide and seek
"How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding--escaping encounters, avoiding surprises, protecting their property, ignoring their fantasies, restricting their feelings, sitting out the Pan pipe hootchy-kootch of experience--maybe those people, people who won't talk to rednecks, or if they're rednecks won't talk to intellectuals, people who're afraid to get their shoes muddy or their noses wet, afraid to eat what they crave, afraid to drink Mexican water, afraid to bet a long shot to win, afraid to hitchhike, jaywalk, honky-tonk, cogitate, osculate, levitate, rock it, bop it, sock it, or bark at the moon, maybe such people are simply inauthentic, and maybe the jackleg humanist who says differently is due to have his tongue fried on the hot slabs of Liar's Hell. Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth not the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas."
True Detective - The Secret Fate of All Life scene
True Detective - The Secret Fate of All Life scene
Rust Cohle - Philosophy of Pessimism (True Detective)
Rust Cohle - Philosophy of Pessimism (True Detective)
crazy hippies playing good music/blank tapes again
Driving through Colorado, saw some hippies trying to fit a chair into the back of their converted school bus.
don't ever get old-the blank tapes
ANemone
Lyrics:
i
i think i know how i feel
cause i
i only play it for-real
you should be picking me up
instead you're dragging me down
flying over my head
you're landing all over town
you
you know that i try
try to tell you the truth
oh baby don't make me cry
you should be picking me up
instead you're dragging me down
now i'm missing you more
cause baby you're not around
now that you're not around
i
i want to know how it feels
cause i
i only play act for-real
you should be picking me up
instead your dragging me down
i could be giving you love
but you're not around
now that you're not around
now that you're not around
glad that you're not around.
Minnesota Conservation links for teacher via MN DNR
Jason Bradley
Professor
FW 696 BV: Option B: Resource Reference Guide: MN DNR teaching materials
3 October 2014
Description and use of the resources guide:
Resource Guide for teaching conservation from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Teaching Resources from MN DNR: used with permission from: http://dnr.state.mn.us/education/teachers/activities/index.html
Teaching activities
Activities you can download and use in the classroom.
Forests
Geology, soil, mining
Plants
Prairies
Wildfire
Field trip ideas
Outdoor classrooms
School Forests
Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Magazine Young Naturalist articles with teachers guides
Young Naturalist resources from the Minnesota DNR
used with permission from:http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/young-naturalists.html
Download Stories and Teacher's Guides
Niches for Everyone Story Teachers guide
Raptors in the Neighborhood Story Teachers guide
The Young Naturalists Story Teachers guide
Chirp, Croak, Snore: Story Teachers guide
Awesome Opossums: Story Teachers guide
Beetlemania!: Story Teachers guide
Splash: Story Teachers guide
Hundreds and Thousands and Millions of Fish: Story Teachers guide
Night Fliers: Story Teachers guide
Big, Bold, and Blue: Story Teachers guide
Ask a Rock: Story Teachers guide
Who is Alces alces?: Story Teachers guide
Ojibwe Lifeways: Story Teachers guide
Little Habitats on the Prairies: Story Teachers guide
Fish in the Zone: Story Teachers guide
How Do Birds Fly?: Story Teachers guide
Fabulous Fox Family: Story Teachers guide
Two Eastern Screech-Owls: Story Teachers guide
Wild Ideas, Wild Inventions: Story Teachers guide
Agate Hounds: Story Teachers guide
Minnesota's Wild Anglers: Story Teachers guide
Northern Saw-Whet Owl 10-583: Story Teachers guide
The Greatest of Feet: Story Teachers guide
Who Was George Bonga?: Story Teachers guide
Learn to Hunt: Story Teachers guide
Why is a Bluebird Blue?: Story Teachers guide
Life of a Pike: Story Teachers guide
Let's Find Out!: Story Teachers guide
Forest Builders: Story Teachers guide
Nature's Alphabet: Story Teachers guide
Have Fun Painting Ducks: Story Teachers guide
Nature's Recyclers: Story Teachers guide
Let's Make a Fishing Pole: Story Teachers guide
Sugar From Trees: Story Teachers guide
Ubiquitous Conifers: Story Teachers guide
Sweat Pads, Logging Berries, and Blackjack: Story Teachers guide
Tree Guardians: Story Teachers guide
A Most Amazing River: Story Teachers guide
Spring-to-Life Ponds: Story Teachers guide
The Magic of Morphing: Story Teachers guide
Who's That Navigator?: Story Teachers guide
The World From a Stump: Story Teachers guide
Counting Critters: Story Teachers guide
What's in a Bird Song?: Story Teachers guide
Ants: Story Teachers guide
See more after the jump:
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Interview with author Tom Robbins on Tibetan Peach Pie his memoir
From Seattle Post Intel newspaper:
Take a tour of Tom Robbins' house -- and life -- with Mary Ann Gwinn
Take a tour of Tom Robbins' house -- and life -- with Mary Ann Gwinn
Tom Robbins, the hyperimaginative author of “Another Roadside Attraction,” “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Still Life with Woodpecker,” discusses his new memoir, “Tibetan Peach Pie.”
By Mary Ann Gwinn
Seattle Times book editor
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Author Tom Robbins in his La Conner home, which he says is the oldest house in the Skagit Valley city. Robbins has written his memoir, “Tibetan Peach Pie.”
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Lit Life
By way of an introduction, writer Tom Robbinsgives visitors tours of his house. Built by a Norwegian carpenter and said by Robbins to be the oldest in La Conner, Skagit County, it’s now called the Villa de Jungle Girl (aka The House of Thrills).
Over the years it’s expanded, room by room, and filled up with art. There are painted carnival banners emblazoned with freaks, geeks and alligators. There’s a parlor where his wife, Alexa d’Avalon, gives psychic readings. There’s a shrine to the Jungle Girl herself — a lamentably short-lived comics character from the 1940s. A copy of “Finnegan’s Wake” (Robbins says he’s been reading it for 20 years, and is one-third the way through) sits on his nightstand.
This visitor, a reader of Robbins’ hyperimaginative, wickedly funny and philosophical novels, wouldn’t have expected less. More surprising was his study, a subdued sanctum with an old wooden desk and a sofa stacked with inscribed yellow legal pads — Robbins, who turns 82 next month, writes out his books longhand before turning them over to an assistant. It’s here that the author of “Another Roadside Attraction,” “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Still Life with Woodpecker” settled down to discuss his new memoir, “Tibetan Peach Pie” (Ecco, $27.99).
Q. You have been quoted as saying that you would never write a memoir. And yet, here we are, discussing your memoir. What happened?
A. I have a prejudice against memoirs, because too often the memoirist uses them as a platform to air old grievances, and or as a wailing wall to broadcast pain and distress to anyone who will listen ...
The women in my life, my wife, my assistant, my agent, my yoga teacher, my Pilates instructor, my sisters, were pestering me to write down some of the stories to which I have subjected them over the years ... I sent them to my editor in New York, thinking that he would say, well, Tom, this is kind of charming, but there’s no market for this sort of thing. He fired back immediately and offered me a contract.
Q. Did you enjoy writing it?
A. I did ... As a journalist, you are in a sturdy, well-maintained motor launch, with a compass and charts to steer by and a lifeboat and a support team in your home port. As a novelist, you’re in a dinghy, a little kind of sloop ... forced to navigate only by the stars that sparkle in your imagination ... Emotionally, it (writing a memoir) was more rewarding.
Q. Had you written about your childhood before? The chapters that talk about North Carolina and your family really spoke to me. It seems like so long ago.
A. It was long ago! I will turn 82 in July.
Q. And yet, you’re a bridge from that time until now.
A. It was a marvelous place to grow up. I would leave home in the morning after breakfast and not show up until dinnertime ...
Its effect on me as a writer came from the South itself. There’s more languor there than in northern climes. When you live in a fast-paced, competitive environment, you’re less inclined to daydream, or to engage in long conversations, in which language is used for its own sake. As a kid I was exposed to snake handlers, gypsies, moonshiners, and eccentric old men who were great storytellers.
Q. You have a lot of preachers in your family.
A.Both my grandfathers were preachers….(one grandfather) was a cabinet maker during the week, and on Sundays he would literally ride a mule into those hollers, as they called the valleys, and preach to people who were too far removed from civilization to have a church.
Q. So, you listened to a lot of sermons growing up?
A. Not by choice.
Q. You worked in the newspaper business before you became a novelist. (Robbins worked both as an art critic for The Seattle Times and on the copy desk of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
A. I liked it. I particularly liked working on the copy desk. ... It was like playing Scrabble, a word game.
Q. I’m guessing it was a better job to have as you worked on your novel.
A. It didn’t drain off the narrative energy that writing actual articles did. I tell people who are studying to write — don’t get a job that involves language. Or writing ... Because you will usurp all your literary energy, even if you’re writing about an ax murder.
Q. You were a late bloomer as a novelist (Robbins published his first novel at age 39).
A. I had been determined to be a writer of fiction from the age of 5, but there were periods in my late teens and 20s when I had just given up on the dream ... My best friend in Virginia was encouraging me to be another Faulkner. As much as I admire Faulkner, I did not want to be another Faulkner. I wanted to be me.
Q. You write about transformation as a theme in your books, starting with the way your hometown, Blowing Rock, N.C., changed each year from a backwater small town to a summertime destination for wealthy tourists.
A. There are certain epiphanies and experiences, if one continues to grow in one’s life, the epiphany can be so dramatic and so deep that it can actually transform the way you think. I experienced a kind of transformation in the town I lived in. The first of June, it would transform from this little downtrodden hillbilly town into something rather exquisite. ….
I learned early on that things can change rather dramatically in a short period of time, almost in the blink of an eye. Which I find the best argument I can raise against suicide.
Q. You write about how you have been given this gift of imagination, which has helped you become a very successful author. Where do you think imagination comes from?
A. I used to think that all children were born with imagination, until I began raising my son (Robbins has three children from different marriages). ... I’ve met kids 4, 5 years old who have no imagination whatsoever.
So ... I think it comes from fairies ... certain children are visited by a fairy in their cradle, and are tapped on their forehead with a small but luminous wand. After that, even all the forces in our culture, and there are many, are unable to totally subdue it.
Mary Ann Gwinn: 206-464-2357 or mgwinn@seattletimes.com. Gwinn appears every Tuesday on TVW's "Well Read," discussing books with host Terry Tazioli (go to www.tvw.org/shows/well-read for archived episodes). On Twitter @gwinnma.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Red Fez: Great publication!
https://www.redfez.net/
I really enjoy this online writing and art publication. Their editors are very helpful, and have gave me some great feedback. Check out their site at the link above. peace
I really enjoy this online writing and art publication. Their editors are very helpful, and have gave me some great feedback. Check out their site at the link above. peace
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