Tuesday January 24, 2006
Winter Tuesday linkiage
- Holy crap: Jim DeFede will be on the Joe Cooper show today.
- In Miami Sun Post, Omar has a pretty good article about Terence Riley.
- The hunger strike is over, but probably not much will change with wet foot/dry foot.
- Jason goes to Viscaya.
- Patrick digs Kafka’s.
- It is absolutely beyond me to follow the arguments, but contrast this view with John’s comments in response to this Herald article.
- Miami New Times’ website has gotten its long-needed redesign. I’m not getting into any testing at all right now, but just from a glance, it looks like they went in the right direction; the site looks like a website that knows like it knows what it’s doing, not like a pale reflection of a print publication.
- This deserved a full post from Steve, but alas. A man scaled the radio tower behind the Miami Herald building to find out the truth from the government about his brother’s disappearance in 1962 “from the government’s secret war against Cuba.” What to say, but “holy shit.” He hung an POW/MIA flag and an upside-down USA flag and hung out for awhile.
- Kyle reviews art, while Franklin studies business. Next up: cats running around with dogs?
- Everglades restoration has sort of fallen off many people’s radars over the last few years, but there are people working on it, and there are problems.
- In case I forget, a talk with the ACLU, Miami’s police chief, and the Herald’s executive editor at Books and Books next Monday. Wow!
- It may be silly for me to link to Michael Lewis every damned week, but here I go again. One of the brighter bulbs in this marquee we call a city.
- Is anyone friends with Jipsy? Tell her to ditch that fake cooljunkie crap and come write for my blog!
- The Human Services Coalition is having their fundraiser Wednesday. The Spam Allstars are playing, if that’s an incentive.
- Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston interviewed at Eve.
- A particularly great photo album from Overtown USA
- wtf?
- God grant us the temperament to enjoy a 2,000 mile birdwatching trail.
- Speaking of God, thank Him for this: The Miami Intermodal Center is being scaled back before construction even starts.
- Miami City Commission meeting this Thursday, 9 am [PDF link]. Christian says: “skip work, come to this!”
- Thanks to Matt Helmick, a Critical Miami fan from Spokane, Washington, for a prod towards getting the archives fixed.
Hell of a post. This may be the linking/update post of the year.(We do have 11 more months to go.)
FTAA: We now have leftist governments that oppose the FTAA in Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and lead candidate in Peru is Chavez’s buddy Ollanta Humala. (Toledo terms out April.) I mean that would leave us with Columbia as the only nation in South America that supports the EXISTENCE of FTAA, much less a Miami HQ. (Trinidad had been the front runner.)Rest my case.
Of the same mind- Michael Lewis, whom I had dismissed as a spineless shill is representin’! Books and Books- Timoney, ACLU and (spit, phooey)Feidler?(not sure with the link). Books and Books keeps coming thru with great speakers. Sunpost might be the new New Times, Rebecca and Omar get finger snaps. Overtown US pics and blog, more snaps.
Not sure about-Defede went bad, became a hack (look at his blatantly unfair coverage Alvarez/Morales mayoral contest. Karma.) MIC being scaled back is GOOD? Don’t understand Alesh? Cuz it is a giant slush fund in the making?
Sorry, John; you got to the post before all the kinks were out. The Books and Books link is fixed now.
I’ve always loved the sun post, even back before they had Rebecca and Omar (who are both great). Their web site gives me the fucking fits, though, because any new article has a different link then it will have when it goes into the archives. That is so fucking 1998; it means my links to their stories either break after a week, or I have to go back and search through their archives and edit my old stories. That makes me link to them much less then I otherwise might. Boy oh boy do they need to fix that.
And yes, the Overtown Blog, which I didn’t link to directly, is an eye-opener. I still have no idea what the MIC is for, but I wish they’d ditch it, and do as I say.
hey cheers for quoting me, it’s my first miami mention. my head is swelling with pride :)
Hey I know Jipsy!