2022 Miscellany #18—more end year fotos

Burning River Brass, St. Wendelin Cleveland, tubist playing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". 

 

I have taken a lot of fotos, which i find interesting. Many did not find themselves placed with a complete essay. I still liked them, and end up placing themselves in pictorial grab bags. I received a new camera for Christmas, hopefully i will learn to use it.

Ohio City

Stan and Ollie. Independence O.

VW bug with horns

Ford Galaxie

in League Park Museum Cleveland 

Ethiopian Clowns were a barnstorming, and a Negro League team. Home fields were at Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and later Buffalo. Chiefly remembered as the Indianapolis Clowns, even when playing elsewhere. Hank Aaron played for them. They continued on, being the last Negro team. I wonder if there are people who object to the name.

One of the dragons on the roof of an outdoor shrine at Quan Âmm Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, Cleveland.

Some statues have added clothes, Jesus as Christ the King. In October a reredos went up at La Sagrada Familia Cleveland.

2022 Miscellany #17—end year fotos

Not among the regular Christmas lawn decorations

"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, only a hippopotamus will do". Sung by Gayla Peevey 1953.

Roberto Clemente Park Cleveland has had many new commemorations. This portrait has a glam rock touch, cf. Ziggy Stardust, KISS.

If you plant sunflowers really, really late. This is how they look on Thanksgiving, never have gone to seed.

Late turkey day morning, Lorain impoundment, ring billed gulls and phragamites.

Christmas Flowers, Rockefeller Greenhouse

squirrel, checkerboard, Lincoln Park Cleveland

Independence O.

stained glass plein air, Newburgh Heights O.

December dispatch from Birdtown

Madison Park Lakewood is on the edge of Birdtown. The streets are named: Lark, Thrush, Quail, Plover, and Robin.

This Santa may have been around for several decades. He sort of looks like the one that sold soda pop, maybe before the American television age.

a rebuttal from the Cleveland border

tilted at 90 degrees from situ, on a front porch

This was across the street from Lakewood. Everyday before election day there were stories about the high and increasing price of gas, what happened? Virtually no news coverage since November 8th.

[fotos taken 14 December]

last portrait Cassius

In seven years i have had three greyhounds. Two have died. They are supposed to be healthy dogs, and for dogs considered large, long lived. Not my two boys. Captain America just past five, and Cassius eight and a half. Captain had a sudden heart attack, i was told by a veterinary doctor. Cassius was diagnosed with bone cancer, and died ten days later. Both were seemingly in perfect health, until they were not.

All three were adopted from a rescue, and suffered with different worms. The last two hounds were very thin, and Karma had discolored fur, and still has intestinal issues. Captain had no physical ailments before sudden death. Cassius had a limp for a couple of weeks, and it was getting worse. Karma had stretched something, a few times, and had pain at that shoulder joint, i thought maybe Cassius might have something similar. After a few days, Karma would be back to normal; but Cassius' pain lingered, and the limp became a hop, but he did not cry, or wince. He was getting older. I have had arthritis in the heel for many years. He might have that. I knew that the one frequent illness that greyhounds had was bone cancer, and that was in my fears. Then one night he had seizures, and was in a lot of pain. When day dawned a trip to the animal hospital.  He had cancer, medicine arrested the pain for a couple of days, and then a steady, and accelerating decline. The dosage intervals were too long, and the pain and debilitation increased.

Karma is in the room with me now. She is related to Cassius. So often, i have been at home with only the hounds. What i must say, is they have a charm. With Cassius gone, i feel an emptiness. All dogs are meant to be good dogs. People are partial to some more than others. I can see why so many dogs are liked. Greyhounds are a very ancient breed. Eight thousand years ago they were in Egypt. They were carved on the monuments. They were favored by aristocracy for many centuries, millennia. They charmed.

Roses and Our Lady of Guadalupe

 

December 12th is the Feast of  Our Lady of Guadalupe.

 

 La Sagrada Familia Cleveland

 

Blessing, and incensing the roses. St. Juan Diego's tilma (cloak) had Castilian (Damask) roses that he gathered at the Virgin's command, from the usually barren Tepeyac hill. When he released the flowers before the archbishop, the tilma had her portrait upon it. This was the miracle of the roses on 12 December 1531.

Everyone received a rose after Mass.

 

art and signage west of Glenville

St. Clair & E. 72nd

middle section of the wide mural

Now, the city government calls the neighborhood west of Rockefeller Park, "St. Clair-Superior", after the two main avenues that lead downtown. This is west of Glenville. At different times, the city limits were at the streets now called "East 55th", and later "East 79th". Parts of the neighbourhood have been called Norwood, and Kirtland-Goodrich.

St. Clair near E.79th, small neon sign was for years to the left.

Right side of Hungarian archway, Cleveland Cultural Gardens, made by Rose Ironworks in 1938.

Tim Misny looks upon you from I-90.  

Catchy advertising does not have to be verbose or loud. Tim Misny has a successful law firm. I think it is the type Republicans have wanted to cripple, when they say 'tort reform', one that sues malpractice, accidents, personal injury, business gross negligence against people including death. Personal injury caused by the rich and powerful should get free passes.

 

This advertisement would be easily identified through most of northern Ohio. Some driving through, who are not locals might be creeped out. He had reduced his commercials to "You know what i do". Earlier commercials had the phrase "I'll make them pay". The commercials ended with this raised eyebrow stare. If he wanted to further minimalise, just the eye and eyebrow would appear.

change in signage

 

There is a billboard on Broadview where West Creek crosses below. This is up now, in the same spot where in May 2014 there was this second foto.

republican speak: free speech = lies, and hate speech

The convenient fallacy of journalists getting along is “both siderism”.  For the newsman it is job security. For the simple minded, and the partisan who does not want to admit the depth of his partisanship, it is an excuse to dismiss uncomfortable truths, by insisting all politicians lie.  Often there are just two sides: truth versus lies. This is advantageous for the lying side. It achieves equal ground, it does not deserve. Lie should be disqualified.

There are certain people if lies were extricated from their speech, their speech would be less than a strict Trappist. donald trump is a liar, but occasionally when it benefits him, or when it works as a brag, there comes a true statement. Orange Caligula referred to Calgary Alberta's Rafael Cruz as “Lyin' Ted Cruz”. There he was exactly correct, for Cruz twists every sentence. I wonder if Cruz was bathed in oil sands, the greasy smarminess would be as thick as La Brea tar.

Spanky Bonespurs is famous for saying, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?”.  His con man mendacity is accepted as gospel by trumpsters. His hubris of braggadocio transgression was said in certainty.  But the spew of lies are egregious, continuous, and virtually infinite. His successful campaign in 2015 began with, “[Mexico] are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.”.  Hate and lies.

The press aids and abets. There are certain Republicans that always lie, and rarely get called on it: Reince Priebus, Schlapp, Scalise, Kellyanne Conway, and nearly anyone who is given the microphone to speak the Repuke side. And they are aggressive in falsity, hypocrisy and ridiculousness are not avoided.  One reason is that if they were to speak the truth, it would turn away supporters. Another reason is that to advance in the party, ethics would hinder, perhaps forbid. The mainstream media's management and ownership are compromised, they have financial interests they cater to, and many agree with those interests. They also know the repukes cry often, and attack the press, and withhold access. This is effective pressure [blackmail] to have the media bend to them. In addition, the repukes, fascists, economic royalists, ultraconservatives have their shadow media, and they are willing to take a hit to get their propaganda out there. It is always power and money over conscience and truth. What is truth to be valued? What is a conscience?

It is good, and still too infrequent, that some of the press calls the trumpster election lies—“the big lie”. Those lies have seen success, and are part of the repuke brand and campaigns.

One current battle in this war is Twitter. A psychopath, repuke, billionaire wants to control a social media outlet. A number of lying, and hateful deplorables were banned for the damage they did to the public, and the country in their hate, lies, and sedition. Musk has welcomed them back. What gets one banned is to criticise him.

2022 Miscellany #16

WBWC 88.3 FM, Baldwin Wallace U [foto: jz]

Shakespeare's Casca and Cassius knives ready, room 177 Loomis Hall Baldwin Wallace. Very, quickly paced in 13 scenes. Actress, Emily Polcyn played Cassius. She was fantastic. [foto: jz]

a Caesarean cake [foto: jz]

part of a mural outside of a Lakewood saloon

On Detroit, in Cleveland, near La Sagrada Familia; replaces an earlier mural.

Statue in the style of buried Chinese terra cotta warriors of first Qin emperor of China, Qin Shihuang, c. 221-206 b.C., found in 1974; in front of a house on Florian in Cleveland.

John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cathedral Parma Christmas tree lot

Lincoln Park Cleveland O. on a cold November day

a personal greyhound (Cassius) in motion

screech owl in a sycamore, Red Lock on Towpath in Summit County

Gorilla surrounded by mini conveyor belts, Cleveland Zoo.

Giraffes may be the favorite animals of children.

why Cuyahoga Metroparks tax wins so easily

new work on the far eastern bit of Euclid Reservation, in or by Richmond Heights, six days before Election Day

Same day, deer looks at us, until the hounds bark.

Part of an old trail, that will connect with the new trail gets a picturesque fence, so that you do not fall into the creek below.

We met Miss Jane Marple who was snooping about for an investigation. We walked towards her to avoid a temporary Jehovah Witness pioneering and travelling book selling team. They had been setting up in public spots, before the virus came. The porch hopping was replaced by letters, and phone calls.

Two days later we were at Garfield Heights Metropark. Roosevelt's WPA did some great stone work here, nearly 90 years ago. As i have noted, so much was built under the New Deal that was good, well done, necessary, and would not have been done without it. America is still enjoying the fruit of those labors, and if Republicans remained in charge it would never have happened.

The metroparks manage properties well. They have taken over city, and state parks, and have improved them. Places that were avoided by thousands, are now being enjoyed by those thousands. They do something that is very rare in the USA—upkeep, and maintenance. The parks are clean from careless discarded trash that covers this country. They place trash bins, and doggy poop bag dispensers on pathways. They operate the Cleveland Zoo, and have nature programmes for the public. They cleaned, and keep Edgewater Beach clean, their stewardship of it was magnificent compared to prior management. Their tax levy comes around once in a decade, and is easily passed, because people see the value. Greater Cleveland has a bunch of failures, and bad conditions that are glossed over by hype and public relations bullshit, but these parks, and the public libraries are among the best in the nation.

Major landscaping is underway. A marsh is being replaced with a pond that was in place when the stone bridge and steps were put in.

Looking at the once, and future pond from the bridge.

said pond