tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post7064330309336253882..comments2024-01-01T18:48:00.179-07:00Comments on DADA'S DALLY: Sunday - Mesilla - Amy Goodman (or "Make Tacos Not War")Dadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-26576223099206855432009-04-25T22:50:00.000-06:002009-04-25T22:50:00.000-06:00damn....I am sooooo envious....wow....good for you...damn....I am sooooo envious....wow....good for you....( Helen Wheels met her this week too....damn she better come to Cleveland...oh that's right she did- and I was working ( waaaahhhhhhh )...<br /><br />she is wonderful......<br /><br />( hey Dada-email me- I have a project I want to discuss- art....project..)<br />;-)enigma4everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589997090173140019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-6849221232470867162009-04-25T18:04:00.000-06:002009-04-25T18:04:00.000-06:00abol: OK, to answer the easiest question first, "d...abol: OK, to answer the easiest question first, "did you find any good books?" <br /><br />Having recently discovered via an internet article I've been "Google-ized", i.e., the internet has facilitated my inability to attend to lengthly tomes. I haven't read a book in years (save for a Michael Moore but, lord knows, those aren't books in the classical sense of pages and pages of meat between two cloth covered cardboard covers. So, no. I didn't even look for a book. <br /><br />In fact, I just today returned my once renewed, two day overdue library book I swore I would complete (I made it 1/2 way thru! - sigh, oh well, I tried).<br /><br />Re the boys in green and implication of Texas as a foreign nation (we can only hope): But I am really pissed because I have advocated for a far safer world via secessions long before the tea baggers got hissy because they now must endure what we've had to contend with for the past 8 years (or 28 years as I believe).<br /><br />But yes, let us look foward to May, now only 5-6 days away, knowing this year holds more that just another memorial with -- instead -- a very very memorial day sometime at the end of the month.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-38355738569922717652009-04-25T17:37:00.000-06:002009-04-25T17:37:00.000-06:00sck01: Well, while Amy didn't get her GRP copy aut...sck01: Well, while Amy didn't get her GRP copy autographed, she signed her book you bought. While your remorse may be heavy at the moment -- that she didn't think to ask you to reciprocate -- it's not difficult to imagine a not too distant future day when you're desperate to stave off that inevitable move beneath a freeway bridge for shelter, that you try to hawk your Amy Goodman autographed book to everyone you pass on the destitute ladened streets....when, Lo and behold! - a wretched homeless person drops her head at your offer, picks up her shopping bag of worldly possessions and heads for home (Beneath the overpass of Exit 42 on NM I-10) - and you recognize her to be - Amy Goodman)!<br /><br />Don't you know she then wishes she'd had you autograph that copy of GRP you gave her back in April 09? It may have saved her a night (or two) of homelessness, or maybe at least got her a free cup of coffee from a sympathetic counter clerk at the last remaining McDonald's in Las Cruces? (Well, ok, so I'm prone to hyperbole. How about a free drink of water from that clerk?)Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-75076176127759861492009-04-25T17:09:00.000-06:002009-04-25T17:09:00.000-06:00xandtrek: How does Amy sign an online version of G...xandtrek: How does Amy sign an online version of Grass Roots Press -- the "wave" I suspect, until those offended (and in control) "pull the plug" on all independent journalists and their internet access.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-14283260770130235962009-04-23T22:53:00.000-06:002009-04-23T22:53:00.000-06:00Shouldn't Amy Goodman have asked the Editor and Pu...Shouldn't Amy Goodman have asked the Editor and Publisher of Grassroots Press for his autograph?xandtrekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05318470329603121429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-1641301008339110112009-04-23T22:30:00.000-06:002009-04-23T22:30:00.000-06:00Ah, how smitten are we lowly citizen bloggers and ...Ah, how smitten are we lowly citizen bloggers and journalists in the presence of the exalted Ms. Goodman! It did take a certain quantity of HDBC IPA to debrief And if times get really tough perhaps I can auction off my autographed front page of Grassroots Press on eBay.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16855646252378858019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-73779508552169900022009-04-23T14:49:00.000-06:002009-04-23T14:49:00.000-06:00well if you won't share your date with amy... tell...well if you won't share your date with amy... tell us about the drunken rowdiness at HDBC and it's aftermath... did you get stopped by the boys in green on your way back across the border to the soon-to-be foreign country of Texas?? are you going to need a passport to eat <A HREF="http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=401" REL="nofollow">tacos</A> at <A HREF="http://www.eskimo.com/~sockeye/nm/lamesachope.html" REL="nofollow">Chope's</A> in late May?<br /><br />did you find any good books?<br /><br />and from earlier & elsewhere, on the mac you might try <A HREF="http://www.getcreativeonamac.com/blog/mac-freeware/xpad-free-notepad-stickies-replacement-11/" REL="nofollow">Xpad</A> or <A HREF="http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html" REL="nofollow">Bean</A>. both are very fast and free (as in beer - at least the first round if iam there).a ball of Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796870923487172937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-73688714709964208942009-04-23T04:35:00.000-06:002009-04-23T04:35:00.000-06:00Gee, thanks eProf. "Aw shucks, tweren't nuthin!" ...Gee, thanks eProf. "Aw shucks, tweren't nuthin!" <br /><br />Actually, I'd intended to write more about what Amy had to say but, as I was sitting beside Border Explorer who was taking copious notes (and knowing the awesome reporter she is), I opted to just relax and "leave the driving to us" as the old saying used to tell us. <br /><br />Afterwards, I nodded in agreement with B.E. who said rather than write this up, she might just savor it as the wonderful personal experience that it was.<br /><br />Steve at Grassroots Press, however, really did a good job of capturing much of the message from Amy, so it pretty much worked for all of us.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-5077029587658945312009-04-22T21:28:00.000-06:002009-04-22T21:28:00.000-06:00You and Steve have done some great reporting on Ms...You and Steve have done some great reporting on Ms. Goodman's appearance in Mesilla. You prove the point that independent journalism is still breathing, if only barely. By the way, I read Glenn Greenwald every day on Salon.com. He's great and never fails to go deep and deeper into everything he reports on. So, thanks, Mr. Dada Reporter!eProf2https://www.blogger.com/profile/03977043251946962968noreply@blogger.com