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B'mor
Baltimore: Five children were orphaned when their father, a Baltimore policeman, was gun downed while investigating a year old homicide case on Tuesday, November 15. There is no known suspect for the shooting, or motive, but coincidentally, the officer was scheduled to testify before the Grand Jury the next day regarding the bribery investigation of eight Baltimore police officers. Consequential to the shooting, the neighborhood of the crime scene has been cordoned off by the police. Residents only are permitted to enter and exit, and they must present identification.
A Lot
There's a lot going on
Without you.
Orphans
Oh, there's aliens out there
On other worlds, no doubt,
Who can read minds,
Mine even,
But what thought can I mine,
What glittering gem,
What immortal gold,
Dig up
To pique their interest,
To lure their greed.
Some infancy of Cicero
We reside in
Maybe they recall,
Having moved on.
Maybe I could tell
If they do listen,
"Come back, visit,
This knowing you're there
And not here
Is unbearable,
A solitude of mind
Empty as stopped time."
Haven't
So, Fish,
You haven't wings,
And you, Bird,
Haven't fins.
So sea is you,
And air is you.
What haven't I
Without you?
Visa Versa
I was made
To run towards you,
And you from me,
And visa versa.
DolphinWords
DolphinWords
Notes: B'mor references a real story that is unfolding in Baltimore...I found it having taken an interest in Baltimore having finished up watching amazon channel HBO movieseriesThe Wire2003-2008...a refrain in the movie is the murder rate count...the mayor and other politicians want the rate to go down, for altruistic reasons, and too to get elected and stay in office...their target is like 275 or so, but in the progress of the show, it keeps creeping up...the show is a Pilgrims Progress mixed in with Dante in Hell and the usual cable-free-of-censorship stuff...I thought the other day to google Baltimore's murder rate just to see how things are now, and it is over 300...that was the other day, then I thought of the vacant row houses depicted, and how they came about, and looking that up, found the murder story...it could be right out of The Wire...the row houses are interesting...they started in Europe like in the thirteenth century...but thinking on this, in early times, like ancient Rome, dwellings in crowded towns had adjoining walls, which is what distinguishes a row house...what distinguishes apartments is that they are stacked...Rome had those too...I have this simple minded theory that city dwellers are victims of their architecture...or some such...I've looked, but can't re-find the bit I found about ancient India when and where a king insisted each house have a garden and space around it..."One with a garden and a library has everything."--Cicero...One should get some sort of civic service award for sitting through the 60 hours of The Wire...I feel like I've been to Baltimore, and it's a place I hadn't a clue about earlier...I've never been to the mid-Atlantic area...closest would be New Jersey...I'm trying to think if I got all six journalism things in B'mor...B'mor is the town's dwellers own nickname...when where what how...brb...why...just five...I took one class...the last episode of The Wire brings in a journalism theme...the setting the newsroom of the Baltimore Sun...brb...
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What we know: a rundown of police accounts of Detective Sean Suiter's killing
The killing of Baltimore homicide Det. Sean Suiter on Nov. 15 remains unsolved, and police have yet to identify a suspect. Here is a rundown of information released by police. • Suiter and another homicide detective, whom police have declined to identify, visited the 900 block of Bennett Place...
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I was taught, or figured it out from book study, that a newspaper story has an upside down format...everything that can be is jammed into the first sentence, and so on in the first paragraph, which is brief as possible...the following paragraphs, brief units in themselves, fill the first out in descending order...the descending order is the 'algorithm' of journalism...and it happens because of limited space and the speed with which things are done...editors are never sure what will make the paper, and its layout, and they want to be able to trim stories from the bottom up if need be...hmmph...'trim this, mthrfkr!' --Omar from The Wire paraphrased...
well, I've done my daily ink early, and have time to catch up some on the notes...brb...currently, a google search of 'Pylos Combat Agate' runs over 14 google pages...and all clustered around early November when the story came out, and when I did my post about it...I went through a lot of them trying to see if anyone in the stories, or in the comments, found like I did the cylinder seal from grave three at Mycenae with an image just like it...no luck at all, and the search a very much in-ones-face of how one story is replicated around the world...this is happening to all news stores, the Baltimore one too, which doesn't have anything like 14 or more google pages...brb...from search: Baltimore murder
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The B'mor story doesn't have a distinctive tag for searching, so after a couple google pages it blends into things, diffuses...a few more days and it will be gone entirely, or very difficult to dig out of the web...'drilling down' is a common term for trying to get at things with web searches...Cicero mentions that citizens without history are like children...brb..."To ignore what occurred before you is to always remain a child."...a corollary might be: "To keep someone an infant, take away history."--me...Cicero's quotes are spot on...H.L. Mencken is a hack..."On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."...most all he goes on about is tweaking someone's nose...and The Wire dotes on him, and has the self same literary airs. and ends with a quote emblazoned on the Sun's newsroom's wall...brb...
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“...as I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more convinced that I had more fun doing news reporting than in any other enterprise. It is really the life of kings.”
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-09-29-the-life-of-kings-david-simon-the-genius-grant-and-journalism/#.WhpCQWeWxjo
(see that link for how "The Wire" came to be...)
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anyway, where was I, oh!, I found another seal that looks like the battle agate (search that too!)...maybe I still have link...brb...
well, I've done my daily ink early, and have time to catch up some on the notes...brb...currently, a google search of 'Pylos Combat Agate' runs over 14 google pages...and all clustered around early November when the story came out, and when I did my post about it...I went through a lot of them trying to see if anyone in the stories, or in the comments, found like I did the cylinder seal from grave three at Mycenae with an image just like it...no luck at all, and the search a very much in-ones-face of how one story is replicated around the world...this is happening to all news stores, the Baltimore one too, which doesn't have anything like 14 or more google pages...brb...from search: Baltimore murder
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Top stories
The B'mor story doesn't have a distinctive tag for searching, so after a couple google pages it blends into things, diffuses...a few more days and it will be gone entirely, or very difficult to dig out of the web...'drilling down' is a common term for trying to get at things with web searches...Cicero mentions that citizens without history are like children...brb..."To ignore what occurred before you is to always remain a child."...a corollary might be: "To keep someone an infant, take away history."--me...Cicero's quotes are spot on...H.L. Mencken is a hack..."On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."...most all he goes on about is tweaking someone's nose...and The Wire dotes on him, and has the self same literary airs. and ends with a quote emblazoned on the Sun's newsroom's wall...brb...
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“...as I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more convinced that I had more fun doing news reporting than in any other enterprise. It is really the life of kings.”
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-09-29-the-life-of-kings-david-simon-the-genius-grant-and-journalism/#.WhpCQWeWxjo
(see that link for how "The Wire" came to be...)
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anyway, where was I, oh!, I found another seal that looks like the battle agate (search that too!)...maybe I still have link...brb...
http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2017/11/otitwo-pics-not-mine-notes111017.html
...these ancient miniatures gave the artists a kind of freedom from the artistic conventions of their times...they had to come up with different depictions to make things read at such a small scale...and that scale lends itself to abstraction as a consequence...look at what happens to the warrior's gear, especially the belt...these seals are an ongoing thoughtHobby of mine...have been for years...Robert Graves goes on about the ancient iconography...myth has categories...too...want to do a post up about the gold rings they are finding...for sometime...this post has gotten too long!
:)
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