Spring Springs Up
Not going to the Los Angeles Regional Burning Man event Bequinox this weekend? Me neither — life got complicated and I sold my ticket.
Fortunately the Spring Equinox will go on! On the West Coast, spring arrives on Friday March 20 at 3:45p. And there’s a new moon at 2:36am and an eclipse–which you can see if you are located in the central Atlantic Ocean, Greenland or Siberia!
Even if you can’t see it, you might feel the effects of the eclipse–it’s a good time for reflection about that which is in the shadow. And with the new moon and the first day of spring coinciding with the eclipse, it’s an especially good time to consider where and how you want to grow in the coming year/s.
Around Ventura CA, here are three events to join: Thursday a dance in Ojai, Friday a seance and circle at City Hall, and Saturday’s workshops and music at Art City Gardens. Details follow. Read more…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
St Patrick’s Day Chocolate by Jean-Michel Carre of Chocolats du CaliBressan
Irish Proverb : There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be!
Happy St Patty’s day! May the luck of the Irish be yours today and every day, friend!
Pictured: Limited Edition Chocolate for St Patrick’s Day by Jean-Michel Carre, owner of Chocolats du CaliBressan: dark chocolate & Starry Night stout ganache in a dark chocolate shamrock. Beer from Island Brewing Company. This month’s special is available 4193 Carpinteria Ave Suite 4 Carpinteria, California (805) 684-6900 or at their store in Santa Barbara or by mail order.
For St Pat’s Day I discovered that 2012 Precedent zinfandel pairs well with corned beef and cabbage! More about this discovery in a blog post to come.
March Madness for Zinfandel on #WineStudio
Lift your glass for zin!
This month, Wine Studio is all in for zin! Zinfandel that is… after all, it is lent!
For the final four Tuesdays in March, Wine Studio, which hosts a weekly virtual tasting on Tuesday nights from 6-7pm, will focus on
The Translational Role of Winemaker through a Single Grape
“Zinfandel has been the archenstone for the California wine scene since the mid 1800s,” writes Wine Studio, but what has “remained constant throughout its turbulent history is its adaptability. The grape is planted all over California and represents the full gamut of wine descriptions depending on where it’s planted.”
Each week features a small production winery with a unique take on zinfandel.
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53 Interesting Facts About The Number 53 #10: Julius Caesar’s Success in 53 B.C., 1953
When I tell people I am writing 53 posts with interesting facts about the number 53, what immediately comes to mind is Read more…
Today is March 14, 2015–also known as PI DAY because numerically it’s
3.1415
and twice today it gets even better!
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Wild and Scenic Fest’s “Edge of Impossible”
No surprise, tonight’s Wild and Scenic Film Festival program was awesome. And I’m sure Read more…
6th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival arrives to awe and inspire in Ventura tomorrow Friday March 13 and Saturday March 14 at the Poinsettia Pavilion on Foothill Road in Ventura.
Hosted by the Ventura Hillsides Conservancy, the film festival celebrates outdoor adventures and human interactions with nature–and serves as a membership drive. Join or renew at the $50 level and get four tickets to the show. Individual tickets are $10 each–if any are left. Read more…
Wrecking Crew Gets Wide Release March 13
Finally, after years of waiting, The Wrecking Crew, a truly great musical documentary, is being released in theaters on March 13.
The Wrecking Crew may have been the greatest band there ever was, and yet it was never really a band at all, writes Ron Wells.
For this Wrecking Crew was the name given to the fantastic studio musicians living and working in Los Angeles in the the 1960’s when rock and roll was really beginning to take off. The songs they worked on are an iPod full of hits that is the sound track for everyone who grew up during this period, or even for those who grew up much later and have still heard the music played on radio, television, or even YouTube.
ACLU Sues NSA; Books Tackle Surveillance
Thank you for your childhood.
Did you know that every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message? Whether anyone has done anything wrong or not? And that the NSA can hold on to your email for three years and or longer? Or that the NSA records EVERY single phone call made in TWO countries?
- What’s next?
- Are we headed to a dystopia future as depicted in 1984 or The Giver?
- If so, how fast? Are we really safer when we give up our privacy?
As we know from Edward Snowden and the documentary CitizenFour, the NSA has already invaded our privacy far more than most people know or are comfortable with.
According to the ACLU, the NSA routinely seizes and copies the communications of millions of ordinary Americans: Read more…
Surveillance States Place Us In Prison
“Humans can be manipulated to obey. As information and communications technology creates a surveillance state, I’m worried that fear of terrorism will create a system where police officers and soldiers will obey the computer-generated decisions that appear on their optical head-mounted displays,” writes John Twelve Hawks in his Salon.com essay “New surveillance states have placed us in an invisible prison”
In “New surveillance states have placed us in an invisible prison,” John Twelve Hawks discusses Edward Snowden’s terrifying revelations about how the National Security Agency and Great Britain’s GCHQ use spy technology on all citizens and how various corporations monitor our activities as well in order to market more efficiently to us.
Edward Snowden’s story has been told effectively in the Oscar winning documentary CitizenFour (reviewed here; watch here.
“Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security,” Twelve Hawks writes.
“Thoughtful women and men on every point of the political spectrum are beginning to realize that surveillance technology has shifted the balance of power between institutions and individuals.
“So what are we supposed to do?” he asks. “How can we avoid becoming just another bar-coded object tracked within a World of Things?”
Twelve Hawks argues we need to stand up and fight against it before it is too late:
“The new surveillance states have placed us in an invisible prison,” Twelve Hawks concludes. “If we wish to break free, we need only to step forward and open the door.”
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