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I really appreciate the fact that Michael Moore is out there taking a stand against so many things that are screwed up in this country. But this speech struck me as even more tragic than his books and movies and TV shows.
Here's the tragedy: Moore has a tremendous talent for raising consciousness and he could really use it to fix things if he'd focus on one or two of the big issues that so many Americans of all religious, political and social stripes would become enraged about, if they simply learned the facts about these matters. Moore could educate all sorts of people and bring them together to fix these overarching problems.
Instead he pontificates about every issue under the sun. Every one of these strongly-worded yet tangential opinions alienates a group of people. Before long he's wasting his breath and preaching to the choir, to the small circle of people who consider themselves to be radical old-school liberal Democrats. Sure, he gets them all fired up, but that small circle tends to be all fired up anyway. Moore convinces everyone else on the planet not to take him seriously.
I love the guy but he saddens me. Michael Moore has so much potential to enlighten so many people, but it's drifting away because he won't focus.
Here's today's sunset from my roof.
San Francisco takes up the left half of the horizon and the Golden Gate Bridge is just to the left of the sun, which is setting over the Marin Headlands. But with such poor photo quality, I could be in New Jersey for all you know...
This is the Hearst Mining Building, home of the new Berkeley Institute of Design.
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This is a shot of Mie of taking a shot of me; both shots were simultaneously uploaded to our respective web logs. She happens to have the same phonecam that I do.
(Why are we both so red?)
Mie is a Tokyo blog celebrity who recently moved to San Francisco. Her site http://kokochi.com is definitely worth a look.
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They say this grove of Australian Eucalyptus on the Berkeley campus is the tallest stand of hardwood trees in North America.
I give you Ouchy the Clown.
In most towns, merely being a clown DJ will make you stand out. And in most towns, merely being an exhibitionist bondage performer will make you stand out.
In San Francisco, you'll need to combine the two. Then you might stand out from all the other freaks, on a slow night. If you're lucky.
By the way, Ouchy is a trained corporate meeting facilitator.
I finally made it to Berkeley's Valley Life Sciences library, and here's what greeted me on the way in.
