Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum

1974 BMW R90S

Favorite Poem Project

Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, founded the Favorite Poem Project shortly after the Library of Congress appointed him to the post in 1997. Since its launch, the Favorite Poem Project has been dedicated to celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry's role in Americans' lives.

During the one-year open call for submissions, 18,000 Americans wrote to the project volunteering to share their favorite poems — Americans from ages 5 to 97, from every state, of diverse occupations, kinds of education and backgrounds.

Poetry in Motion

Andy Warhol

there is no eye: music for photographs

There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs

Picasso, Bacon, Basquiat

As we manipulate, we touch and feel, as we look, we see;
as we listen, we hear. - John Dewey

Francis Bacon - recently revealed works from the estate

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Tony Shafrazi Gallery

aRTseEnsOHo

Swiss Army USB

The Swiss Memory USB has these features:

• The ultimate geek multi-tool
• USB storage in a beautiful Swiss Army knife design
• Integrated 64MB Flash Drive (detachable)
• Includes: Red LED light, ballpoint pen, knife, scissors, file with screwdriver, keyring
• USB powered, no external power supply required
• LED blinks to indicate read/write activity
• Works with Windows 98/SE/2000/ME/XP, MAC OS 9.x or above, Linux 2.4 or above
• USB 1.1/2.0 interface
• Legendary Swiss Army quality construction and materials
• Size: 2.4" length x .75" wide x .6" height
• Weight: 1.2 oz (33 g) 
  

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Arts & Letters Daily

The Chronicle of Higher Education Arts & Letters Daily is a guide to some of the best writing on the Web.



Check out the Chronicle of Higher Education Colloquy - a moderated discussion of topics relevant to education.

Bloglines Top Blogs

Top Blogs and Newest Blogs.

Watts Wacker

Watts Wacker is a futurist who spoke at the Akron Round Table this week. His Recommended Reading list is an eclectic mix of business/management/re-visioning titles. His business is First Matter - read the company's Promise and newsletter, Matter on Fact, which has a cool Lexicon.

Wacker coinages from Speak the Future, by Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker, an excerpt from The 500-Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next.

Ani DiFranco Reads

This poster of Ani DiFranco holding Woody Guthrie: A Life, by Joe Klein, is from the American Library Association Celebrity Poster series by photographer Kimberly Butler.

Michael Moore Breaking News!

We saw Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight - Wow!  Read about it here Michael Moore Breaking News! or go straight to the Time Magazine article:
  

Ohio Poets and Writers

Ohio poets and authors on the Online Poetry Classroom - a program of the Academy of American Poets.
 
From Endangered Species by Robert Kinsley:
 
A Walk Along the Old Tracks Robert Kinsley

When I was young they had already been
abandoned for years
overgrown with sumac and sour apple,
the iron scrapped, the wood long
gone for other things.
In summer my father would send us along them
to fetch the cows from the back pasture,
a long walk to a far off place it seemed
for boys so young. Lost again for a moment
in that simple place,
I fling apples from a stick and look for snakes
in the gullies. There is
a music to the past, the sweet tones
of perfect octaves
even though we know it was never so.
My father had to sell the farm in that near perfect time
and once old Al Shott killed a six foot rattler on the tracks.
"And when the trolly was running" he said, "you could jump
her as she went by and ride all the way to Cleveland,
and oh," he said, "what a time you could have there."  

Woody Guthrie's Birthday

Today is Woody's birthday - born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma. Check out more at the WOODY GUTHRIE FOUNDATION AND ARCHIVES.



Woody Guthrie Poster Text:

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim

Too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.

I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

I could hire out to the other side, the big money side. And get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you’ve not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve to death before I’d sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.

-Woody Guthrie

7th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival



Gibson's Woody Guthrie Banner Southern Jumbo

Thoughts on America

 

Terry Tempset Williams' piece in the March/April issue of Orion magazine deals with the notion of Ground Truthing as she encounters the arctic refuge.

DEMOCRACY INVITES US TO TAKE RISKS. It asks that we vacate the comfortable seat of certitude, remain pliable, and act, ultimately, on behalf of the common good.

Excerpted from Terry Tempest Williams' book The Open Space of Democracy in Orion Magazine's Thoughts on America Initiative.

The Thoughts on America Initiative supports the widest public dissemination of writing that directly and artfully engages the historic challenges of our time, and offers an alternative vision for a sane, sustainable, and peaceful existence.

Clapton in Cleveland

Saw Eric Clapton at the Gund last night - way beyond words. Click on photo for setlist and review of the Cleveland concert.
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Robert Randolph and the Family Band opened.



Blackie Sold! Read about the sale of Clapton's guitars at Christie's to benefit the Crossroads Center.

More about Clapton at EricClapton.com.

Together We'll Make History

The Kerry-Edwards team is taking a line from an old Foreigner tune - Feels Like the First Time - for their lastest campaign slogan - Together We'll Make History.



Feels Like The First Time
Foreigner

I would climb any mountain
Sail across the stormy sea
If that's what it takes me, baby
To show how much you mean to me

And I guess that it's just the woman in you
That brings out the man in me
I know I can't help myself
You're all in the world to me

Chorus
It feels like the first time
Feels like the very first time
It feels like the first time
It feels like the very first time

I have waited a lifetime
Spent my time so foolishly
But now that I found you
Together we'll make history

And I know it must be the woman in you
That brings out the man in me
I know I can't help myself
You're all my eyes can see

And it feels like the first time
Like it never did before
Feels like the first time
Like we've opened up the door
Feels like the first time
Like it never will again, never again

It feels like the first time
Feels like the very first time
It feels like the first time
It feels like the very first time

Open up the door
Won't you open up the door

Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Stephen Shore

Travels With Walker, Robert and Andy - Stephen Shore follows the photographic legacy of Walker Evans and Robert Frank in Uncommon Places.



West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974.



Sugar Bowl Restaurant, Gaylord, Michigan, July 7, 1973.

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