tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328271162023-11-16T19:41:22.950+01:00the REAL greytomorrowDesign Shmesign -- the report from the Rome office.Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-65803317476524599852012-10-12T09:12:00.002+02:002012-10-12T09:12:14.959+02:00An important messageIt's been months since i've written anything here, it's true, but i'm back with an important message:
DON'T VOTE ROMNEY
There's a sizeable section of the working-to-middle class that are under the general impression that having a multimillionaire in office will somehow help them become multimillionaires by association. That will not happen. Wolves do not not teach sheep how to eat like wolves, Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-4739947002978504632012-01-28T10:34:00.000+01:002012-01-28T12:02:14.976+01:00Michigan voted 50th most intelligent state...voted by a panel of one...me.
Most Michiganders support paying 6% Michigan sales tax for online purchases, poll shows. Proves that most Michigan citizens actually believe in paying for things you shouldn't have to. Maybe the American 0.1%-1% should be paying more than 14% of income tax on their earnings, like most of the middle class (right-leaning or not) is paying out. Let's see what that Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-89269854891554271272012-01-22T20:06:00.000+01:002012-01-22T20:09:28.086+01:00I'm so rudeA belated but sincere Happy 2012 to you all.
Just saw this article about Mitt Romney on the site i read far too often (why, The Detroit Free Press' RSS feed). It seems to confirm a lot of suspicions not just about Romney but the whole shrinking middle class/1%/economic crisis polemic we all are dealing with. And somebody actually had the nerve to ask me last year, did a poor man ever give you a Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-28609217907699111032011-11-18T08:33:00.001+01:002011-11-18T10:45:32.708+01:00We're all waterBenetton, scoppia caso internazionale - Vaticano minaccia azioni legali, Obama irritato
(Benetton creates international scandal - Vatican threatens legal action, Obama not amused)
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In other news, violent clash between student protesters and police in Milan yesterday. The Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-47988429853245196462011-11-13T09:46:00.004+01:002011-11-13T10:09:39.490+01:00Eye Candy
ROSA from Jesús Orellana on Vimeo.
Evelyn Evelyn "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn" Music Video from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.
And...
Happy Birthday, Joey Tomorrow! “I ain't got the time/For your peace of mind!"Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-70858671018291877392011-11-12T01:31:00.005+01:002011-11-12T01:38:18.043+01:00Gang of fourVivendi buys EMI for $1,900,000,000.00. Now all recorded music is owned, for the most part, by one of four companies (Vivendi, Sony, Warner and BMG). Almost every recording label is a subsidiary of these four conglomerates.Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-18448375864836698772011-11-04T14:37:00.005+01:002011-11-04T14:48:01.841+01:00Art imitates artphoto © respective ownerSeparated at birth?Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-30212733401710587642011-10-15T18:52:00.006+02:002011-10-16T12:10:58.124+02:00BOOM!, Part II: Indignati18:28:02 – smoke from the exploded Carabinieri van (maria?) in piazza San Giovanni, photographed from the roof of the Rome office.Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-1608153606091611802011-09-26T07:58:00.003+02:002011-09-26T20:44:54.806+02:00Whether you like it or notStill here, still alive. Working working working... general VFX and the like for a couple of films, of which one i did the opening titles (AmeriQua), plus other dancing baloney graphic things for italian TV and not.Be back later...Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-7196251877965375112011-09-11T17:24:00.002+02:002011-09-11T17:24:42.106+02:00BOOM!Did i scare ya?Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-45411632880617343102011-08-01T08:22:00.005+02:002011-08-01T08:57:24.833+02:00DuPont ImprelisSimple Google search for the single word "Imprelis", DuPont's chemical herbicide.As of 1 August 2011, eight of the ten displayed hyperlinks are not marketing/product pages.From Michigan State University: What to do with Imprelis-affected treesAlso from Michigan State: Imprelis herbicide may injure evergreensFrom Mother Earth News: Imprelis, another deadly herbicide, this time from DuPontIf Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-55494532074929464632011-07-27T09:27:00.006+02:002011-07-27T13:44:24.516+02:00Joey"I'm filling up your H...ehm, SD card...heh heh heh...""Thanks!...and killing the battery all at the same time."Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-65248326471682916932011-07-24T21:18:00.005+02:002011-08-01T20:06:16.686+02:00Strike terror into their heartsI realize i'm coming in late on this but...On 18 May 2011 here at Rome's Termini Station, a statue of Pope John Paul II was inaugurated to not a small amount of controversy and various polemics. I'll leave the search up to you if yr really interested. "Google is your friend," said the idiot who keeps a blog on Google's servers.Strangely enough, even though i pass near Termini quite frequently (i Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-56535263304132127802011-07-23T09:42:00.007+02:002011-07-23T11:07:15.726+02:00Selected photosGrey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-49225695992360163512011-07-21T07:43:00.002+02:002011-07-21T07:56:51.315+02:00I dreamt......of a song last night/this morning. Upon waking i had the phrase "...hide your madness in jar..." repeating in my head. My brain ran through its semi-vast index of songs, artists and lyrics...and nothing. For some reason i kept thinking it was something off of the "White Album," specifically Dear Prudence, but i knew that was wrong (for some reason i kept playing the Siouxsie and The Banshees Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-38306435754831281172011-07-20T07:58:00.004+02:002011-07-20T08:22:12.786+02:00Hard newsFLASH! -- This just in from the Detroit Free Press website...Detroit bomb squad investigates suspicious garbage bag, finds it's just garbageAnd just in case, as in the past, the article "Symes", here's a screenshot of the page...DFP Staff, i'm sure that Pulitzer is being giftwrapped as we speak! I have got to stop reading the Free Press so often.Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-9215487989359780502011-07-19T04:24:00.006+02:002011-07-23T08:36:58.643+02:00Borders Group in liquidationI just read that Borders Group has filed for liquidation in US Bankruptcy Court yesterday (via the Detroit Free Press). Which i find sad. I remember i loved going to Borders bookstore. I mean it was always a near-religious experience for me. Seriously. I can't explain why. It's not as if it was the first bookstore i'd ever encountered (that would probably be recently-defunct mall staple B. DaltonGrey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-28642702758924947332011-07-16T04:45:00.003+02:002011-07-16T05:05:52.214+02:00I did not know that!As the late Johnny Carson used to say. According to this article on the Detroit Free Press' website, Detroit's People Mover, well, moves about 3,500 riders daily...5,000-6,000 on weekends and even more during special events. (emphasis mine)Nine tells me (as well as our friend Wikipedia) it costs 50¢ to ride. 50 cents! That's nothing! According to Wikipedia, ...in fiscal year 1999-2000, the city Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-4906998025374800822011-07-06T14:22:00.003+02:002011-07-06T14:27:42.788+02:00CookiesDirect Hit Warning: heavy geekiness ahead.Okay, there're utmas and phpbbs and apaches, and a plethora of others but...what the hell is this?!...Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-31079698777565391432011-06-02T20:17:00.018+02:002011-07-20T08:24:27.687+02:00(No subject)Listening to: Pete and The Pirates...a lot!According to the Detroit Free Press' site, today's most popular non-sports-related articles are...Police: Man bites off wife's eyelid, chases her with steak knife in domestic disputeFeral cat population in metro Detroit overwhelms animal welfare groups, residentsKwame Kilpatrick autobiography goes on preorder...what, i gotta add one of my smart-ass Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-75086569329323160602011-05-23T07:47:00.005+02:002011-05-24T09:09:52.304+02:00Adventures in Gardening #2Thai peppers from plants I grew from seed. They're about as big as two joints of yr pinky...but, as opposed to my Habaneros, that's about as big as they're supposed be!Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-3457762624437637702011-05-22T08:42:00.005+02:002011-05-22T14:23:49.970+02:00Is this thing on?The Fast's LP The Fast For Sale must have had just come out recently (at the time, 1980) and Frankie says to me, "Didja know that there was a third brother?" And me, "No, really?" "Yeah," sez Frankie in his great gravelly Boston tenor, "Cal Zone!"I pissed my pants laughin' at that one...and strangely enough, i still do every time i think about it. But i'm like that with certain jokes.Gee, FrankieGrey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-65539741921183342152011-05-22T00:32:00.008+02:002011-05-23T07:21:09.232+02:00Grasping at strawsHey, we're still here! The mother of all idiots and madmen is always pregnant. Here's the only Rapture i know...Anyway, floating around on the squinternet is a page of a collection of various punk rock records, sub-divided by regions. Well, look what's on the New York page (ya gotta jump down to Jetz...well, hell, now i gave it away!).I would guess that the single came out May 3, 1980 because ofGrey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-89875316407961953472011-05-20T22:18:00.009+02:002011-05-23T10:06:47.930+02:00Adventures in GardeningBefore i continue i must apologize for the lousy quality of these photos.These are two ripe Habanero peppers. Or at least i believe they are Habaneros (they could be Scotch Bonnets), as they actually are imported from somewhere in Africa, and that's the most information i can glean from the Bengalis i buy them from at the world-famous Piazza Vittorio market here in Rome.These two babies are Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32827116.post-14053038040059650292011-05-15T07:46:00.007+02:002011-05-15T18:58:49.248+02:00Not nostalgiaThanks, Boogie Woogie Flu!Grey Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419810674577374734noreply@blogger.com0