Memorial Day Euclid O.

Argos hopped in with Corey Russell (L), Principal Euclid High, before the parade.

Pikachu we saw in the lot only.

WW II jeep, marked after the teevee show, Hogan's Heroes, Stalag 13.

Walking before the parade.

Fire Department salutes passing veteran units.

Man holding SHADE sign, woman holding TREE sign.

The group passed out these cards.

Euclid Dems

The fifes were playing The Minstrel Boy.

 

Buick Eight

Chemistry teacher? S Sulfur + Ar Argon + Ca Calcium + Sm Samarium may occur periodically

flying geese, or musical notes

part of the Euclid Historical Society

Chevrolet

2023 Miscellany #8 — lake, dog, wood

Wednesday, 24 May, was the last of a few evenings that the smoke haze from distant western Canada was visible, and the sky was this color about an hour before sunset. The next day, a more northerly wind came and cleared the sky here.

Argos by Lake Erie in Lakewood O.

Went to see the sun fall into the lake, too cloudy near the horizon, the Alberta smoke made sunspots visible.

Dogwood is beautiful.

The crosswalks at E. 30th & Payne are painted with dragon scales, for the Asian (Chinese) businesses. The paint wears off quickly, i should have posted a foto earlier.

Ever wondered how you get a pointy nosed dog, some oak trees have snout sharpeners; Argos was investigating.

Florida 451, Republican controlled states 451

The Republican Party is a fascist organisation. It has empowered its adherents to have books removed from school, and public libraries. The threshold is one such fascist to begin the process of removal. Florida is one of the hot spots for this. They have made teachers, and librarians suspects and scapegoats. Broward County has made an option for a library card to look like supra. Immediately, a Republican legislator threatened them retaliation in cutting funding. This party does not tolerate non-compliance, and is vindictive, and will seek vengeance.

 I snapped supra in 2013, it was a rare instance of good graffiti. It was on a remaining building of Joseph Feiss clothing factory in Cleveland. Since then the building has been converted into a school.

„Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.“  — Heinrich Heine

When the nazi-fascists came to power in Germany in 1933, they orchestrated bonfires of books. Many intellectuals left the country. In 1934, in Paris, the exiles created a Library of the Burned Books. The German fascists burned books in occupied countries, e.g. a large majority of school libraries in Poland were destroyed, and books burned. This was part of cultural genocide.

God awful English on local teevee "news"

Orwell taught us about newspeak, Holmes taught us about verbicide, but local news uses their own stable of knackered clichés, dishonest euphemisms, irritating and trite nonsense. What the bloody hell do they teach in journalism schools? Ted Baxter would be an improvement. Here is a list of stupid and maddening words and phrases:

☐ tight knit (this is the most trite)

☐ the unthinkable (this is the most stupid)

☐ "even" used as a conjunctive before a third item

☐ officer involved shooting

☐ check it out

☐ (variations of) both sides

☐ (verb) to perfection

☐ (i/we/the station) reached out

A special subsection is for sports talk:

• dinger
• goes yard
  
• good guys
• edge rusher
• walk off
  

2023 Miscellany #7 — more good fotos

school field trip, water lesson, West Creek Metropark Parma

Man and his greyhound walking to Wendy Park Cleveland.

Molly, Mount Vernon Ohio

verticality, 125' Hildebrandt chimney, Cleveland

Clark Field Cleveland with steel mill in background, and Local 894 laborer

The mounds of gravel rock will be the drainage level under artificial turf for the José Ramírez baseball field. This complex has new playground equipment, new asphalt paths, eventual dog park, some more athletic and hiking grounds. It is all reclaimed industrial waste land.

Lancaster O.

 

The first, and last good Republican that came out of Georgia was General Sherman. He was born in Lancaster Ohio, and his family home is a museum. He was one of eleven children. His father died of typhoid fever, when the boy was nine. He went to live with the Ewings. They were Catholic, and he was baptised (for the second time) as William, perhaps on St. William's Day. His father gave him the name Tecumseh, he was called 'Cump'. He himself, was not religious, his wife was. Their son, Tom became a Jesuit.

Not every house is guarded by such a gun. Don't expect Johnny Rebs to attack here. This gun is safe, the bore is welded with a plug, which also saves the bore from becoming a trash container.

Nearby is a second cannon, in the distance is statue of William Tecumseh Sherman by Mike Major, 2000.

Another of Lancaster's favorite sons is the first famous comic strip cartoonist, Richard Outcault. First it was the Yellow Kid 1895, and then Buster Brown and his dog Tige 1902.

Since 1899, Lancaster has had this replica by J.W. Fiske & Co. of a fountain from the village of Étain, in the department of the Meuse in Lorraine, near the border of Belgium, and Luxembourg. Étain is by Verdun.

This was photographed during a grey day, between intermittent drizzle. This 26½' fountain is across from city hall.

A lizard by Ric Leichliter, and local high school art students, stands between the fountain and city hall.

Saint Mary of the Assumption has recently been declared a minor basilica. It has not received the ombrellino/umbraculum yet, it is a red and yellow silk umbrella that marks the rank of a minor basilica. This is the 7th basilica in Ohio.

Granville, Columbus & Mt. Vernon

Victoria Woodhull Clock. Robbins-Hunter Museum. Granville O.

This is a real curiosity. Victoria Woodhull *1838, 1927† was quite an American celebrity in her day. Her life history would make a fine picaresque novel. She was born in nearby Homer. Her childhood was troubled, and perhaps, quite abusive. Her father was a scoundrel. She married soon after her 15th birthday, a drunken scoundrel who was a backwoods physician.

 

She was a mesmerist, a medium, a Christian socialist, and a spiritualist. She and a sister became stockbrokers on Wall Street, and made Cornelius Vanderbilt richer. The sisters then had a weekly paper, that had much writing on feminism. It also printed the first English translation of Marx's Communist Manifesto.

 

In 1872 she was the presidential nominee of the Equal Rights Party. She was shy of the constitutional requirement of being 35 years old. She, her sister, and her second husband were arrested before election day. The paper, besides endorsing free love, criticised the hypocrisy and adultery of famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher. The charge was on publishing an obscene paper. This scandal prompted the Comstock Laws of 1873. In America, as in much of the world, exposing the bad acts of the powerful is treated more harshly, than the those that committed the bad acts.

Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877. His eldest son, Billy then became the richest man in the US. Victoria knew things, Billy paid her to leave the country. She continued on in England.

O, the clock...well, the first time i saw it was in winter. In winter she does not come out. I was in Granville, Tuesday just before 6 o'clock in the latest of the afternoon. I saw the time. Steps away, there was a small restaurant, and won of the workers stepped out. I asked about the clock, he said there had been an electric outage that day. My nephew went into the library, which faces the clock. He was told that she does not come out hourly, but erratically. While i was still talking to the restaurant fellow, the clock made a gentle chime. The doors opened, and she moved to the railing, and then moved back and the doors closed. It was that quick. It is the only memorial/monument to the first female candidate to run for the presidency of the United States. It is sort of a cuckoo clock.

First rose of summer, seen 16 May at Columbus Park of Roses, 'Perle d'Or'.

Pat Belisle & Chris Saylor. "Annabelle".  2009. Chadwick Arboretum.  

This steel sculpture is at the agricultural school in the state's capital. It is at summer session, there are hundreds, nay thousands of empty parking spaces; but the campus parking police is very active. Like every Ohio college campus that i have seen in recent years, there is no place for a visitor to park a car.

Lisa McLymont mural. parking lot wall @ a defunct computer repair shop, Columbus O.

front window of shop supra

Claude Cormier. Dog Fountain. 2019. Mount Vernon.

 It is much better, when the water is active. I last saw it a little over two years ago, it was winter. [click and see]

Karma likes fountains. She, at first, was unsure of the depth.

2023 Miscellany #6 — Cultural Gardens

Peony tulips in the Italian Garden under the gaze of Dante.

tulips in the Lithuanian allotment

Argos waits for Karma to pass through the portal. This is Argos' first appearance.

Argos and Karma and dogwood, now to the wolfbane

Walking the hounds yesternoon in Shakespeare Garden, and saw this note. Funny, Charles III was defeated at Culloden. He must be approaching Mathusala.

Lawson's was sold off in America in 1985. Their buildings remain occupied, and whatever adhesive they used for their lettering must have been something. A few of the walls have been painted, many have smaller signs affixed to the bricks. This one, near the gardens, on St. Clair has not been so done.