tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58731832024-02-19T07:06:39.150-05:00Crackpot ChroniclesMainer, New Yawka, Beijinger, Californian, points between. News, views and ballyhoos that piqued my interest and caused me to sigh, cry, chuckle, groan or throw something.Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comBlogger516125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-87029958692245776432013-04-16T16:46:00.001-04:002013-04-16T19:41:50.956-04:00Boston
We're with you, Beantown. All the way. You've been our bravest heart since the birth of this great nation and we all live in your soul.
I'm a Sox fan this year.
Prayers for all the victims and their families, the medical and first responders, the marathoners and the spectators. And for we who live with your tragedy and your pain, for we also live in your inspiration and history.Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-66904499422094631112013-03-29T11:06:00.000-04:002013-03-29T11:06:27.586-04:00Paul Williams<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-45444367593974238712013-02-18T14:37:00.002-05:002013-02-18T14:39:19.022-05:00Happy Birthday YOKO.
It is an amazing experience being in the same lifetime as you.
All was born with your: love, activism, music, art, ART, ART.
Generosity, patronage, mother, wife, conscience, ART and you
still rock. ART.
Happy Birthday, Yoko Ono
(yeS)
PHOTO from The Guardian, UK, compositing and design by Ellen Sander. Creative Commons guidelines apply, use freely but cite Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-40807768814490353612013-02-15T14:48:00.000-05:002013-02-15T14:49:13.786-05:00Warm up the house, freeEnergy Saving tip: To warm up the house without turning the heat up:
1. Go outside and stay outside long enough to get a little chilled
2. Come back in. The house will feel much warmer
Brought to you by horse sense economics.Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-10809791241582909802013-02-14T10:49:00.000-05:002013-02-14T10:52:49.845-05:00Be My ValentineMy love is like a rose you give to me
and all those things that roses be
[e.s.]
I know I've been away from CC for a while. I was
unexpectedly appointed Poet Laureate of my city and have
been crazy busy ever since.
More soon.
Promise.
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Thank you for visiting Crackpot Chronicles! Find the light in even the darkest days. Propagate kindness. Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-89182075966018102232012-12-07T09:25:00.001-05:002012-12-08T10:54:57.362-05:00The Rolling Stones! Incorrigible. An excerpt from 21st Century Stones in The Rolling Stones: Incorrigible.
Ellen Sander's Classic Rock Readers (Kindle Edition)
They started out in the early 1960s as a blues cover band in London
clubs, doing what every other British band was doing. They are doing
now what none of them could ever do: A 50th anniversary series of major
concerts. A 50th anniversary. The Rolling Stones.
TheEllenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-86511067154135785712012-11-29T12:42:00.000-05:002012-11-29T13:30:33.176-05:00“A Christmas Carol”
--by Ellen Sander
Belfast, Maine
A poor child from the projects
writes a letter asking for a towel
so she doesn’t have to use her brothers’
already wet and cold.
Her mother cringes in shame
What she brings home is never enough.
I saw a shopkeeper beat a man senseless
for stealing a bunch of bananas.
What does he care that I’ll never go in there again?
He is angry. He can’t make it alone.
Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-25256255991754848792012-11-04T19:29:00.003-05:002012-11-05T09:11:48.273-05:00The obesity challenged lady gets ready to sing - Romney paid 0 Taxes for years: D.Kos, BloombergSo a November surprise. Daily Kos has sourced Bloomberg in a report revealing Romney paid no taxes from1996 until just recently. No wonder he didn't want to make his returns public!
"Using a tax shelter called a CRUT (charitable remainder unitrust) that was held by the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Mitt Romney was able to pay zero taxes (legally) every single year from 1996 Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-77190460932819570062012-10-29T16:06:00.000-04:002012-10-29T16:12:50.051-04:00Awaiting storm w Neil Young - Hurricane!
(neil younger)
Hurricane
I feel a deep intrigue and fascination, an energy that electrifies the core of my sensibilities. Fear is the little death. Rock is the resurrection: Neil Young.
All thought comes to a standstill in the face of this fiery and tattered execution, I become lost--or is it found--in this track.
Here I sit on the edge of a hurricane, the entire region Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-15813758845459629732012-10-25T21:40:00.001-04:002012-10-26T09:44:17.216-04:00Autumn in New York: CSN concert and Fine ArtIt was wonderful seeing CSN at The Beacon Theater in New York last weekend. It was, all things considered, amazing.
The lush and emotional performance, an almost 3 hour set with an intermission, in a packed house, was full of wonder and graceful endurance. They were supported by a great band. They didn't mince their politics. Crosby remarked that the founders of our Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-60566181941482727992012-10-25T19:53:00.002-04:002012-10-25T19:54:42.060-04:00Ellen Sander's Classic Rock ReadersDatabirds Studio Inc is pleased to announce the first three Kindle editions of Ellen Sander's Classic Rock Readers. Please check them out at Ellen Sander's Classic Rock Readers on Kindle
Or, use the links in the sidebar to your left. These are the first three volumes of what will eventually be about 12 Classic Rock Readers, which are annotated collections of magazine articles written during andEllenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-65835979429288395862012-10-08T20:38:00.000-04:002012-10-08T21:21:48.618-04:00Joni Mitchell memories
I was driving Stephen Stills to a CSN recording session, it must've been 1969, and the subject of Joni Mitchell came up. Nothing unusual about that, "everyone" was talking about her. "Every man within 50 feet falls in love with her." Stills let loose with that gravelly chortle and his sideways grin told me that he was probably one of them.
I had occasion to listen to a private Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-44830540518500859092012-10-02T14:49:00.001-04:002012-10-02T15:01:01.268-04:00Beck, Jeff. Beck breakBeck's Bolero, the fuzztone sweeps my skull clean of clutter and infuses it with energy, inspiration and wah wha pedal pushing daydreams. An urban song, full of traffic, soot, sinister turns and shady alleys of the soul.Turn the corner and get on New Ways Train Train, the tracks thrumming, the cars shuddering, the rattle of the rails chattering and a lonely horn blows through the Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-66144191812898863202012-09-21T12:39:00.001-04:002012-09-21T12:54:55.716-04:00Essence of U.S. Election Politics in Under an HourWhen Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown debate for the senate seat in Massachusetts (yesterday), they both make a good case for their side of the dichotomy of values emerging from the 2012 campaign. Warren (D), a consumer rights and corporate responsibility warrior, acquits herself admirably in the face of some hefty challenges from Scott (R), a moderate conservative, who won Ted Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-14502166110958566482012-09-17T22:04:00.000-04:002012-09-22T21:55:56.376-04:00Dylan Still Rocks My WorldGoogle Search for Bob Dylan new album: about 87,200,000 results.
Google search for "new iPhone" 7,970,000,000 results. For perspective, "Topless Kate" had 685,000,000 results.
When a new Dylan album came out, back in the day, it was the talk of the town, the town consisting of radio, publications and "buzz." No cellphones, no internet back then. Today the town has a much Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-35060630050266795072012-09-11T10:34:00.001-04:002012-09-11T10:34:10.915-04:00Musings 9-11-12
--- what fell out of my head as I awoke this morning.
That
is what I cherish about your heart, your courage, your scope of
reference. You can experience conflicted issues, embrace opposing
ideas, walk through a forest of contractions and some how find in them meaning. They are compatible by virtue of simultaneity, by confluence,
by the presence in your life of marvel and Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-53373945008412895712012-09-11T08:00:00.000-04:002012-09-11T12:38:10.036-04:00Bob Dylan's new Album, Tempest
Trust Bob Dylan to salve and brighten a day of mourning and bitter awakenings. Tempest is his best album in years, maybe decades.
Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-12063196568165457952011-12-24T15:46:00.001-05:002011-12-24T15:46:19.879-05:00joyeauxEllenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-38237045110689303742011-09-11T11:13:00.001-04:002011-09-11T11:13:41.373-04:00In gratitude. In memoriam.Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-66349457664152680752011-02-21T22:20:00.002-05:002011-02-21T22:29:44.123-05:00Tough love techI was at the Hutchinson Center branch of the University of Maine last week and I urgently wanted to keep up with the news in the Mideast. I had on my person my cell phone and my iPod touch which is normally full of breaking news items from a wealth of sources, including pictures and live video. But the wifi went down for a while at the facility (and it's normally unavailable in some parts of theEllenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-21066905136311643552011-02-18T20:44:00.002-05:002013-02-15T14:50:00.724-05:00Horse Sense Economics 2.0Chocolate
The best day of the year to buy chocolate is the day after Valentine's Day. Every establishment that sold fine holiday boxed chocolates will have fresh stock at half price or less.
Chocolate does go on sale on other occasions, however, it is usually not fresh at that point. The peak freshness of chocolate doesn't last long. Day after Valentine chocolate is almost always fresh.Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-89956868164656717672011-02-16T07:50:00.004-05:002011-02-21T22:33:24.248-05:00The smartest show(s) on TV - news & newstalkMorning Joe on MSNBC is the smartest weekday show on TV. Worthy of the crack of dawn time slot. The View used to be the smartest weekday show on TV, but not any more. With each of the hosts having obviously more compelling professional interests, they've gone totally daytime. The Situation Room on CNN is a contender, but whenever Wolf Blitzer takes a day off they put a cupcake (intended as a Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-68875211723731204342011-02-11T19:35:00.002-05:002011-02-11T19:51:55.190-05:00Egypt's peaceful people's coupI wrote the previous post on Egypt's populist uprising before violence broke out, but that violence, by pro-Mubarak thugs trying to provoke a fiasco, failed. The protests remained peaceful through even Mubarak announcing yesterday that he wouldn't resign. But by today, he finally got it; he was done, stick a fork in it. Sweet: Swiss banks are freezing any assets they can ascribe to him. While Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873183.post-56081965141301008182011-02-01T15:26:00.003-05:002011-02-01T19:28:28.810-05:00EgyptIt's phenomenal what the Egyptian people have done peacefully and without the electronic connectivity that their tottering government has deprived them of. Even though the repercussions of the Egyptian uprising are unsettling, particularly in the case of Israel's security, it's a phenomenon that is hard not to admire and support. You go, Egypt! Claim your destiny! I am reminded of being a Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422774571021407032noreply@blogger.com