02/17/09 - Croquet

	MOVIE - Fired Up, Medea Meets Jason ART - High Jazz, Alvin Ailey -high- LOCAL - Eco-home Tour -aia-
	U.S. - Generals FRANCE - Newpapers are hurting -npr- WEB - Green bridge -oregonlive-

Scanned pics from what used to be an annual party in Piedmont Park. The first pic is '93 - The GLG Grand (now "The Four Seasons") is complete...in a subsequent pic, there is still a construction crane over the site in 1992.

MOVIE NEWS - "Fired Up" & "Tyler Perry's Medea Goes to Jail" are released this Friday. The producers may be "Fired Up", I'm not. Tyler Perry's favorite drag character goes up against Box Office #1 "Friday the 13th". I'm rooting for Jason.

2/21, 8:00 PM - Instead of all that mess, check-out the Japanese Film Fest at the High "Hula Girls".

2/22, 8:00 PM, ABC - The gay Oscars. Watch the Academy Awards on ABC and root for Sean Penn in "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire". -oscars-

ART NEWS - 2/19-22 Alvin Ailey at the Fox

2/20 - Friday Jazz -high-

LOCAL NEWS - Eco-home Tour -aia- Check out the free tour of a Edgewood Avenue LEED home, Saturday, 2/21, 2-5:00 PM

U.S. NEWS - Generals - I got to thinking - when listening to the success and failure of various Obama Adminstration appointments - just how many "generals" are there in our government?

Office of the Adjutant-General
Office of the Inspector-General
Offfice of the Judge-Advocate-General
Office of the Quartermaster General
Office of the Commissary-General of Subsistence
Office of the Surgeon-General
Office of the Paymaster-General

Office of the Postmaster-General

The Attorney-General
The Solicitor-General

With the Economic Stimulus package in place to help prop up commerce, look for "General Electric General" and "General Motors General" -usgov-

FRANCE NEWS - Newpapers are hurting -npr- Sarkozy thinks that giving a free paper subscription to every 18 year-old in the country will get them "hooked" on newsprint. This article points out that spending more money on subscriptions does nothing to reduce the high cost of publication & distribution in a socialized industry.

WEB NEWS - Green bridge -oregonlive-

Bad Perm, Good Cause -Jenny Haigh Fundraiser-