View larger image We feel it is our personal obligation to help you gear up and get ready for a high tech President As Dan Froomkin tells us: Here's the status quo: A president who has overt contempt for...
Posted in Dakota on December 17, 2008 08:47 PM
we fear you missed Dennis Kucinich waking up America at the DNC we hope Nancy was paying attention this time the media wasn't Photo note: Flags and double triangles -- notice the light penetrating the field of stars on...
Posted in Dakota on August 27, 2008 09:54 PM
View larger image all of us here at dakota are imagining what it will be like to have an American president with a moral compass ethical standards a high IQ coherent speech and thought processes empathy for others son...
Posted in Dakota on June 5, 2008 07:07 AM
View larger image Since today is Earth Day all of us here at Dakota thought we'd pass along a lovely visual meditation from the HeartMath Institute whoever they may be and use the opportunity to publish one of the...
Posted in Dakota on April 22, 2008 06:57 AM
today the wise ones asked me how I used the blaze the fire the heat of rage I have at the sight of all of what is happening and what has happened and what is going to happen and...
Posted in Dakota on November 8, 2007 06:36 PM
View larger image it's eerie and abnormal when the lesser cosmos bloom far into October no doubt the greater cosmos is terribly awry Photo note: Clear light and double triangles couldn't hurt...
Posted in Dakota on October 21, 2007 09:15 PM
View larger image Shankar Vedantam, a columnist for the Washington Post explained on NPR's "On The Media" that "Good myths die hard. Recent psychological studies suggest journalists' attempts to set the record straight may in fact be perpetuating falsehoods"....
Posted in Dakota on September 19, 2007 07:14 AM
View larger image Gonzo is gonzo, as ' twere. Lest we break out the champagne prematurely, consider that he resigned just in time for the Bushie Special - yet another recess appointment -- thus avoiding the necessity of an...
Posted in Dakota on August 27, 2007 11:11 PM
larger birds or indications thereof gray skies clapboard shingle roofs larger wires strings windows triangles seem to make a summer set of sorts larger but we must mark Chertoff's words "It's important as we go into the summer season,...
Posted in Dakota on July 12, 2007 07:07 AM
View larger image The editors at The Washington Post, god bless their fickle little hearts, have finally sanctioned some excellent investigative reporting in a four part series exposing Dick Cheney and his evil, lawless transgressions as vice president. Here...
Posted in Dakota on June 25, 2007 09:15 PM
View larger image Michael Goldhaber of Wired predicts that the "currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention".... a few select words which will give you an opportunity to spend yours: Yet, ours is not truly an...
Posted in Dakota on April 4, 2007 07:14 PM
View larger image This is practically the only picture that I took in China that I like. The juxstaposition between old and new, the robotic tower with the ubiquitous blue and white advertisement that's painted on country walls and...
Posted in Dakota on March 22, 2007 08:15 AM
View larger image Perhaps, due to your busy schedule, you have missed the The Coolest 8 Year Old Girl In The World on YouTube, rebutting Bill O'Reilly's comments about the etiology of violence. Bill was evidently not amused. In...
Posted in Dakota on December 7, 2006 09:13 PM
View larger image While we eagerly await Karl Rove's October Surprise, we might as well have a little fun. Bush's approval ratings are up again given falling gas prices (a highly suspicious coincidence) and relentless 9/11 flame fanning --...
Posted in Dakota on September 24, 2006 06:10 AM
View larger image I awoke this morning with my nightie in a knot, as NPR annnounced that the theme of President Bush's speech to the UN will be "using democracy as a weapon in the war against terror". Guess...
Posted in Dakota on September 19, 2006 06:20 AM
View larger image Our esteemed leader is, once again, kowtowing to his discriminating (not in the tasteful sense) voter base -- the folks that think fascism is a family value. He's out there whipping up fear and loathing toward...
Posted in Dakota on June 5, 2006 10:37 PM
View larger image Here's the latest bird flu summary from Revere, the esteemed, necessairily anonymous, epidemiologist over at Effect Measure. AND there is the tiniest bit of good news which isn't included in Revere's update. Two studies have found...
Posted in Dakota on March 27, 2006 08:46 PM
for the record same damn crooked bush one day later up against a brick wall this time Photo note: I never saw this bush before, I swear, and then two in two days in different places. This shot has...
Posted in Dakota on March 20, 2006 08:32 PM
View larger image bigger and dirtier View encrypted message with dendrites with fowl I'm in an inconsolable baby place on the most beautiful day since October. Waaaaa....aaaH, having awakened at four with stuck chi in my liver and spleen...
Posted in Dakota on March 10, 2006 01:59 PM
View larger image Metaphorophotographically speaking, this shot speaks to the diminishing relevance of the newspaper these days. Not only is it overshadowed, it's all wrapped up in green plastic. Plastic for ecologically unsound, toxic-- green plastic for hypocrisy. Reality...
Posted in Dakota on March 5, 2006 06:35 AM
A mystical photo taken in May transformed completely by the light of the day consider it mystical any old way Photo note: Man, look at that segmented circle, the plethora of triangles -- if this isn't sacred geometry, I'm...
Posted in Dakota on March 4, 2006 06:55 AM
View larger image Yesterday, the Fickle Finger of Fate (a phrase of my childhood-- oh, I do hope I don't date myself) picked me up and hurled me down the back stairs, flipping me entirely around so that I...
Posted in Dakota on February 19, 2006 06:58 AM
View image step back Just some shots I've taken in the past few days. First, a flower-- single, from a dehydrated hydrangea, persistant iin a veritable field of triangles. Anyone who hangs around here much knows about the Big...
Posted in Dakota on January 15, 2006 07:51 AM
View larger image I saw "Syriana" last night. It was the kind of movie with a plot so complex that one only grasps it hours after viewing. That is, if one has been lucky enough to see it with...
Posted in Dakota on December 29, 2005 06:27 AM
View larger image A terrible storm this morning (are we surprised? thank goodness it's only sleet, changing to rain) precludes a long slippery drive north to my ladies group. Thus I am left to my own devices, which rarely...
Posted in Dakota on December 16, 2005 02:16 PM
View larger image Even though I haven't been beating you over the head with avian flu awareness facts for the past few days (though I have been known to brush lightly upon the subject ), I can no longer...
Posted in Dakota on November 22, 2005 07:29 PM
View larger image A simple pre Halloween greeting to all of you! If we were so inspired, we could consider the shot from a metaphorophotographic viewpoint, as well. Three pumpkins sit prominently on a stand at the lowest level...
Posted in Dakota on October 29, 2005 06:39 AM
View larger image In my forays into Avian Flu Lit, I stumbled across a term that is new to me, but probably not to epidemiologists -- "social distancing". I find it a kinder, gentler way to introduce the concept...
Posted in Dakota on October 20, 2005 06:44 AM
View larger image Higher Self: Dakota, my dear, we haven't touched upon sacred geometry in many months. In fact we seem to have left the esoteric behind entirely, to focus on the mundane. Sometimes, when viewing the mundane, one...
Posted in Dakota on September 21, 2005 12:24 PM
View larger image In the aftermath of the London subway bombings, the commissioner of public transport in our fair city has issued some suggestions to citizens with regard to reporting of suspicious behavior. Two things that worried me were...
Posted in Dakota on July 13, 2005 06:16 PM
Ah...h..hh the patriots were out in full force this week. We begin this photo essay with a flag in double triangle, surrounded by many triangles, for those of us who are into symbolism even though we were not able...
Posted in Dakota on July 5, 2005 06:00 PM
View image The gourmand in the family appeared on Easter bearing two succulent ducklings, plucked, drawn, quartered and prepared to perfection as per Cook's Illustrated . As if that wasn't enough in the spectacular dining department, we were graced...
Posted in Dakota on March 29, 2005 06:00 AM
View larger image I was horrified to learn that a major source of my childhood terror has been set to music. "Shockheaded Peter" , the musical, is currently unnerving audiences in New York, after a long and successful London...
Posted in Dakota on February 28, 2005 08:29 PM
View larger image While attending to a radiator, look what I missed, or rather, look what 's out there that I simply wasn't seeing. This is both a metaphorophoto, and a metamorphophoto, particular categories in photosymbolism (that I just...
Posted in Dakota on February 20, 2005 09:37 AM
View larger image All this time I have been writing in order to separate my photographs so that they don't overlap on the screen, only to discover that everyone's computer is different, and the format I have so carefully...
Posted in Dakota on November 30, 2004 06:59 AM
This is the first in a photo series entitled My New Black Driveway in Autumn asphalt , an artistic asset for the amateur Photo note: Leaf in triangles, photosymbolism and all that. I am the only person on God's...
Posted in Dakota on November 26, 2004 07:00 AM
This is a sprinkler, sprinkling at dawn. See that blade of crab grass on the left? (Lest you think I have been in outer space ). You probably think that anyway....and it's not as if I feel resistant to...
Posted in Dakota on August 20, 2004 11:37 AM
View larger image Do those of you who have been following the double triangle series , feel ready for a new shape ? Ready or not , concentric circles seem to be popping up here and there, so we...
Posted in Dakota on August 20, 2004 11:37 AM
View larger image Sick of photosymbolism yet? As usual, I have a few more of these to go. Upon viewing this picture, ask yourself the same questions you were asked about the prior entry. Opted out of that challenge...
Posted in Dakota on August 19, 2004 02:07 PM
View image For those of you who clicked Dakota yesterday, and thought that you had accessed an Olympian sports blog, never fear, we are back to airy-fairy as you can see. Remember I am reading "The DaVinci Code" ,...
Posted in Dakota on August 19, 2004 06:33 AM
View image I'm having a bit of trouble with my restart button - the internal one that is. Although I imagine I must have things to write about, I can't think what they are, or they seem too complicated,...
Posted in Dakota on August 17, 2004 06:37 AM
View image And here is our plastic slide, overturned at dawn, revealing six luminous triangles, or a hexagon. How's that for photosymbolism ? Can you tell I'm finally reading "The DaVinci Code" ? So far (given my short attention...
Posted in Dakota on August 16, 2004 09:08 AM