Peter J. Crowley

Franklin Square Norwich Ct

Perception is reality, if there is such a thing as reality? Today thoughts and images ramblings.

Nimble Arts Brattleboro
Arbitrary Dates, 12/31/06 0r 1/1/07 Is there a difference? Does the New year make you wiser?
Richer? Full of promise or just hung over? Fifty two times a year it’s a new week do you resolve to change your life? Twelve times a year there is a new month. Is there a new you? “St. Peter don’t ya call cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the Company Store.”
Norwich small business took another hit today as Bee Bees Closed. Forty years [I think that’s how long they were there] at the Norwichtown Mall, No more Omlettes for me. I went and had one more took some photo’s chatted with the regulars. It was sad stiff upper lip and smile from waitresses but…. “how late are you open today?” “Till we run out of burgers sometime between 5 and 8pm” was the reply. The mall has new owners almost no tenents and a bulldozer to supersize it to a new and improved Vanilla Paradise. Latte Latte Grande. enjoy pjc

Uncle Kens Drive In Formerly in Willimantic, like Democracy it did not re-open, and the franchise in Iraq isn’t doing well for the poor in Iraq or Willimantic or anywhere in the USA.
But Exxon is doing quite nicely.
Todays news. Minimum wage hasn’t gone up in a decade? And now the Democans who were in power for four of those years are going to do something other than cast blame and have their dick’s licked. I’ll believe it when I see it! How much has the CEO pay rate increased in that decade? Maybe we can ask Senator Minotaur from Connecticut. You know him as the Senator without a party or whoever offers the most for HIM is where he votes. Don’t expect a straight answer for a war monger profiteer though. He and all the other Senators got raises in the last decade.

Just a couple things I viewed and read today. Does anyone feel a draft? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq
“And it’s one two three what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn next stop is Iran” [Originally from Country Joe and the Fish referring to Vietnam where we as a nation learned nothing]
Now to the Demrocracy Channel for a Congressional hearing. For those of you who don’t know the effects of Depleted Uranium, You do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA
Peace love [SPEND] in the most wonderful time of the year. Peace not just a sound byte, Make it possible. pjc

Photographic Art

First Yea Bernie http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061130/pl_nm/usa_politics_sanders_dc_1
Now if you think that you will find anything out from the “Free Press” in Amerika read this.
http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/multimedia/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003285440
and so evolution [can we still use that term?] continues projecting 1000 or more years into the future from a BBC report. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm
I know I should try and post more often but I wonder whos reading? Better yet who then finds their way to my site. Or how big will the Hummers be to carry these 7-8 ft highly evolved 120 year old Homelanders around in? Come on where are we going to put all these folks?
Well tomorrow is first Friday in Norwich and the Galleries will be open come on down and see the art and the new faces on the old buildings.
This is sort of a idle rambling post. That photo is supposed to be here but somehow it ends up at the top? Who am I to argue with artifical intelligence? My mom told me to never argue with an idiot because you have to stoop to their level and they have so much more experience at being an idiot you will always lose.
So back to the photo of the nice new facade and Door on The Fairhaven right here in downtown Norwich. The Wauregan is accepting tenents and soon the store fronts will fill with stores and the streets will swell with smiling people.
Now a new image printed on my last trip to Vt. where there is a great program called The In-Sight Photography Project that lets me use their darkroom. I try and impart a bit of knowledge on photography when I’m there. Check them out send them a buck or two an old camera film? Photo will most likely appear at top. Okay I guess it’s time to read the directions.
Well all for now any one have a darkroom around here? enjoy pjc