Vlog Moskow: January 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

Chicago's Post Office Murals

During the great depression
Many post offices built
as part of Roosevelt's New Deal
were decorated with murals
of the "American scene."
Several survive in Chicago

The Morgan Park Post Office
is far south
at 1805 W MONTEREY AVE
in chicago's Morgan park neighborhood
It's a red brick building
on a stone base
with stone entryway & cornice
Inside there is a mural titled:
Father Marquette – 1674
The painting by artist J. Theodore Johnson
depicts father Jacques Marquette
with native chicagoans
smoking a peace pipe
Marquette was a french jesuit
and the first european to winter in Chicago

The Forest Park Post Office
is just west of Chicago
near the DesPlaines river
at 417 Desplaines Ave
Its a lackluster brick and stone building
But inside is a wonderful painting
Titled: The White Fawn
Painted in 1940 by artist Miriam McKinnie
it depicts a local 1880s excursion boat
called the White Fawn
that took sightseers
up and down the Des Plaines River

The Uptown Station Post office
is in Chicago's uptown neighborhood
at 4850 N Broadway
between Foster and Lawrence
It's a beautiful grey brick and stone building
With eagles flanking
soaring bronze doors
Inside are two ceramic tile murals
depicting poet Carl Sandburg
and architech Louis Sullivan
by artist Henry Varnum Poor

The Lakeview post office
in Chicago's Lakeview Neighborhood
at 1343 W Irving Park
is a brick building
with rounded corners
and double high stainless windows
Inside is the classic New Deal mural
titled Chicago: Epoch of a great city
and it's a great mural
with scenes from the stockyards
from industry
from science
The Great Chicago Fire
and the phoenix rising from the ashes.
Oh, and that's the artist throwing the switch
Harry Sternberg painted himself into this
must see mural

Pioneers like Marquette
Boats on the Des Plaines
the poet Carl Sandburg
the architech Louis Sullivan
and the rise of the great city of chicago
are all depicted in Chicago's Post Office Murals

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Monday, January 20, 2014

Richard Sherman - LOB - Legion of Boom - Rant

So who is Richard Sherman?
If you saw the Niners Seahawk game
He's the Seahawk cornerback
who went off on Micheal Crabtree
in front of a stunned Erin Andrews

Richard Sherman said:
When you try me with a sorry reciever like Crabtree
that's what you are going to get
Don't you ever talk about me
Don't you open your mouth about the best
Or I'm gonna shut it for you real quick

I was like
What is this?
Professional wrestling
Then I was like, LOB?
What the what?
Well sometimes in football
part of a team is so good
they get a name
Like back in the day
Pittsburg had the Steel Curtain
Now Seattle has the Legion of Boom
And they have a spokesman
Richard Sherman

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Friday, January 17, 2014

All Time Rivalries

On the radio this morning
Mike and Mike were talking about rivalries
Kind of ironic cause Greeney and Golic
are kind of rivals themselves
Kind of like a David & Goliath
Cept in this case
Goliath is more likeable than David
they were talking about
the big game this week
New England vs Denver
More on that in a bit
People love a great rivalry
How about Ali vs Frasier
Back when I was a kid
those were three must see fights
ending with the thriller in manilla
Then there's Coke vs Pepsi
I'm ok with either
as long as it's a pepsi
I'm just saying
iPhone vs Android
I love my ZTE Android
my hands are too big for an iPhone
I'm just saying
Ok so who's the better quarterback
Brady or Manning
We'll see this weekend
When New England goes to Denver
for the AFC Championship
I'm going with Denver in Denver
Doesn't mean that Brady's better than Manning
I'm just saying

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Wagers, Breakfast & Superbowl Prediction

Every year I get in a football pool
It's a confidence pool
Each week, I pick winners of every game
and assign points
based on my confidence of the pick
Pretty sure the team will win
High points
Not so sure a team will win
Low points
So at the beginning of the season
I made a side bet with this fella winny
I took the lead in week one
and had him all season
after 16 weeks
with 14 to 16 games a week
thousands of points
on the last week
he catches me
and beats me by three points
three points
so breakfast at sparky's was on me
sparky's is up in Skokie
It's a breakfast and lunch kind of place
I had been eyeballing the place for years
I'd drive past and say to myself
I've gotta try that place sometime
I had the breakfast special
So did Winny
For this year's outdoor superbowl
I'm picking Denver and San Francisco
with San Francisco winning in the cold.
Manning sucks outdoors
and did you see Kapernick in Greenbay?

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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Ten Things That Might Disappear In Our Lifetime

1. The Post Office
No way
Man that's un-american
I've got envelopes
I've got stamps
I send letters
I pay bills by Mail

2. The Cheque
No way again
I've got a checkbook
I write checks
I think some tea party banker started this roumor

3. The Newspaper
Ok - This one I kind of agree with
I get most of my news from yahoo twitter or buzzfeed

4. The Book
I loaded the kindle app on my tablet
Downloaded a book
Hated it
Went out and got the book

5. The Land Line Telephone
Yep - I agree with this one
My homephone is magicjack internet phone
only 19.95 a year
And I've got my kick ass ZTE Andriod phone
Yeah - land lines are history

6. Music
Nope - I don't agree with this one
Maybe the music industry will change or die
But you can't party without tunes

7. Television
Not a chance
Programing now is better than ever
TV's are better than ever
and people are dumber than ever
so it all just fits

8. The "Things" That You Own
Well this one is kind of goofy
it's refering to data
Things are moving away to the cloud
Which is fine
Just means I can get my shit from anywhere

9. Joined Handwriting

I guess some schools no longer teach kids how to write by hand
Gotta admit if I'm writing something
Im punching some keys
Unless it's my grocery list
that I do by hand

10. Privacy

Yeah not shit
I completely agree with this one
The Goverment listens to my phone
Hackers probably have all my info from my Target card
and facebook has been weirding me out lately
They keep surveying me on place I've been months ago
How do they know that I love Sabatinos

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Friday, January 10, 2014

Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime - Original Chain Email

Note: This is the original email content, some of which I agree with, some, not so much.

Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime

This is USA oriented, but Canada & the rest will not be far behind..

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come.

1. The Post Office

Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably

no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep

the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Cheque

Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheque by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process cheques. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the

cheque. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

3. The Newspaper

The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has

caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4. The Book

You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.

5. The Land Line Telephone

Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes

6. Music

This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death.

Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem.

The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing.

Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book,"Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."

7. Television

Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

8. The "Things" That You Own

Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet.

If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access

your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?"

Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

9. Joined Handwriting

Already gone in some schools who no longer teach "joined handwriting" because nearly everything is done now on computers or keyboards of some type (pun not intended)

10. Privacy

If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway.. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built

into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are,right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a

zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.

All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories".

Rodman being Rodman - apologizes after CNN rant

Dennis Rodman is in the news again

He issued an apology after a recent rant on CNN
It seems The north koreans are holding american Kenneth Bae
Rodman is friends with north korean leader Kim Jon Un
During an interview
CNN's Chris Cuomo suggested Rodman might inquire about Kenneth Bae.
Evidently Rodman felt that it was none of his business, and he went off.
NBA commisioner David Stern tweeted
in many instances sports can be helpful in bridging cultural divides
this instance is not one of them
Lighten up David Stern
I think it's just Rodman being Rodman

See the Youtube video: http://youtu.be/LJo5pBSo1lY

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