Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

This is a test of an RSS feed . . . THIS IS ONLY A TEST.

Just putting this through here to check this blog's RSS feed, as I use www.bloglines.com to check and read the many, many blogs and regularly updated web pages I check in on, saving me mounds of time and allowing me to follow more blogs/pages than I could otherwise.

I check this blog in my reader as well to make sure it comes in, and for some reason the last three posts took forever to come through -- well actually, the last post ("Strange Minds Think Alike"), and the one two before that ("Radio Rick Is on the Air") came through, the one in between them ("Protecting Our Nation's Valuable Heritage") hasn't appeared in my Bloglines reader at all.

Just wondering if the post has appeared for anyone else in their readers (for use who use them). And looking to see how long this post takes to come through in my reader. Don't know what I'll do about anything if it's not working right, but I'm wondering.

And to make this entry something other than that, and now enjoying finally being able to add photos in here, some photos of signs that I've seen and liked.
First, from last week at the Moxie Festival in Lisbon Falls, ME, on two adjacent storefronts:



Across from a gas station I stopped at, somewhere between Binghampton, NY and Cleveland, OH, July, 2005:



Somewhere in Canada, where we stopped for lunch, between Ann Arbor, MI and Toronto:



and nighttime, Lake Geneva, WI, in a parking lot between our motel and the Dairy Queen (which turned out to be closed):



Now to see when this comes out in Bloglines -- of course, there could always be a problem with LiveJournal; I usually get a email whenever someone posts a comment, and that also didn't happen for the first of two comments I got yesterday . . .

The Passing of All Bastards . . .

Wesley Ellenwood, my video teacher at NYU, Summer '87 I believe, maybe '88, had a front page of The New York Times carefully framed and elegantly mounted in his office at 721 Broadway. It seemed like any other Times front page, with no BIG story immediately evident. If you looked close, you would see that the biggest story on the page had something to do with a Southern US Senator who was up on criminal charges and being kicked out of office, I believe. Damn me, but I can't remember who it was -- I keep wanting to say "Jesse Helms," but that doesn't make sense, historically. The Senator in question was from Wes's home state (a Carolina? seems right . . .). One day, I noticed this for the first time -- he may have just put it up that week -- and asked why he had had that page framed. Wes slowly regarded the page, looked me in the eye and quietly said,

"The passing of all bastards should be carefully noted and prominently recorded."

To be carefully noted
(premature, to be sure, as passing has not yet occurred and the bastards may yet avoid it),
here follows a link
(courtesy of talkingpointsmemo.com)
that I include here in the spirit of "prominent" recording
(at least adding to the sheer quantity of web pages noting the news)
and for, hopefully, your enjoyment . . .

Valerie Plame Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson IV file a civil suit against I. Lewis (a/k/a/ "Scooter") Libby Jr., Karl C. Rove, Richard B. Cheney, and unknown John Does 1-10 for violations of the First and Fifth Amendments, Civil Rights Conspiracy, Failure to Prevent Civil Rights Violations, Public Disclosure of Private Facts, and Civil Conspiracy

(. . . exhale . . . smile . . . cross fingers . . .)

In less important links, if your blog reader, like mine, for some reason completely skipped my entry from yesterday about Our Government's list of potential terrorist targets ("Protecting Our Nation's Valuable Heritage"), here it is.